to pass through the straits to access the as all sea which by treaty between russia and ukraine ukraine does have every rights to use. and also there is of course this issue of the you know the sailors that russia now has in its. detention essentially that is another point of pressure against the ukrainian government rorik thank you the u.s. president's former campaign chief pullman afford has been accused of breaching a plea bargain with federal prosecutors special counsel robert muller as investigation into alleged russian meddling in the twenty sixteen elections as many lives to f.b.i. offices was expected to receive a lights a punishment for cooperating with the investigation and for faces at least a decade in prison on ten charges ranging from financial fraud to conspiracy to obstruct the course of justice. still to come here on al-jazeera also facing tear gas and resistance some of the american asylum seekers rethink their quest to reach the united states. get a welcome back to your international weather forecast well here across europe it has been quite messy around much of the r

it will further increase tensions with ukraine. in the name of international peace and security, russia must immediately seas 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 here i did what some of us normally do every morning. i searched through internet to find out what happened this day in history. and look what i found. exactly on this day, november 26, in 1939, the soviet army orchestrated an incident by shelling a village near the soviet-finish border. then the soviets claimed it was done by the finish side and use it as a pretext for the invasion on november 30. that's how the so-called winter war started which eventually led to the expulsion of the soviet union from the league of nations. interesting, isn't it? that is so to say about the unlearned lessons. mr. president, we have the convening of this briefing at the request of ukraine. i would like to sincerely thank the members of the security council for th

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 powerful russia. just over fifty years later as the russian swedish war was raging another ukrainian leader ivan mazeppa broke the union with russia when he switch

ukraine. sometimes i do feel like an outsider but not really because of being born in the united states. it isa being born in the united states. it is a little bit more about having a great amount of hope in what is happening in ukraine. working within the government, i am not a politician, i am a doctor is that pa rt politician, i am a doctor is that part of it sometimes does make me feel a bit different than the other ministers but would have a good working relationship. you can't really be in a government and not be a politician, at least be political in the end because day by day, you are not doctoring, you are wrestling with other branches of government to get stuff done politically. yes, we are. we are wrestling together. we have a pretty good team. what was important when i came into the ministry was that i brought in a tea m ministry was that i brought in a team with me so that we can get the work done they needed to change the healthcare work done they needed to change the healthca re

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. certainly 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. galaxian 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 b.-o. 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 th

for ukraine the prospect of not street to his cause for a long. nearly half of all russian natural gas destined for western europe passes through the country. whose whole lot in western ukraine lies at the border to slovakia and therefore to be. the former soviet republic ukraine has in recent years felt the brunt of russian ambitions following the gas dispute with moscow ukraine began purchasing gas from slovakia an e.u. member state a compressor station it was hot out was retrofitted to label what's called reverse flow gas that flows from ukraine into slovakia is then sent back through the pipeline in the opposite direction with this reimport procedure ukraine can avoid purchasing gas from its adversary chair. a lot of their wires reverse flow good for ukraine mainly because it serves the goal of energy independence on russian gas arrives in slovakia it's not russian anymore it's european. a lot of it's also has financial benefits ukraine can purchase reimported gas from the e.u. more cheaply than from russia if the engineers at the control stat

us special representative for ukraine negotiations is also a former u.s. ambassador to nato welcome to i just explain to us what the america's position in this latest outbreak of hostilities is well first off that this is an act of aggression by russia that these were ukraine vessels that are traveling peacefully seeking to go through the. straits to ukrainian port they were not allowed to go through they turned around. and as they turned around and they were attacked and then boarded by russians and as we just saw in the report russia confiscated the ships and rest of the sailors so both really good lacked it to begin with and then followed by another illegal act of attacking this vessel so when russia says it was a ukrainian act of provocation the u.s. response is not sure how this could be a provocation a sovereign state has a navy it's moving vessels from one of its ports to another one of its borders through its own waters the problem here is that russia has claimed to has taken crimea has claimed to annex it claims that the waters around crimea are n

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

well clearly she's in ukraine's capital kiev. there is absolutely no you shall like to go with your heart caricature anybody. now on the brink of a civil war at least seventy dead so far and the death toll rising it you can allude you. a new. one when you know. what we saw here today was a revolution. but it's going to have invested over five billion dollars to assist ukraine in these and other goals. will go to. nato has expanded into thirteen countries up to the borders of russia thirteen countries. focus has to be on not allowing ice into hot wall between ukraine and russia. that the. city would just look when the new. oh the the low such. ill . or low. elite cut. 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

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

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

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

see certain rights themselves in saudi will close in ukraine say any move that ukraine makes is to extent going to be unpopular mosco so it's not so much about the personal chemistry between the leaders as that fundamental disconnect but angela merkel has expended a whole lot of diplomatic capital over the last five years in ukraine not just in minsk but also in terms of shoring up european sanctions against russia for indexation crimea that was something that was deeply unpopular with lots of european governments bots through her coordination they have prevailed in spite of all those challenges all right he did he is not calmly reporting for us live from kiev thank you nic. you're watching news still to come a possible breakthrough on the u.k. and the e.u. are reported to have reached an agreement on granting banks access to the single market their breath it. then we'll have the details on that story and the rest of your business headlines coming right up in one minute. how about taking a few risks you could even take a chance on love. don't expect happy ending. the church. it's. nothing

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

or ukraine but stupid china. that is a strategic problem. and i suspect that moscow and doesn't want to increase the fight with the policies. >> and what is different today and bring about a change for the better we have a russian president who maintains relations with those living standards and the russian people not put up with that so we have to we are not doomed in this spiral forever the with a strategic competition. >>. >> i completely agree. >> so it comes back to have a strategic interest with the left trajectory with rising china more? and if you distinguish between russian national interest? with that corrupt political economic system in russia. but what is a way maybe not after the election so it is personal. so with that form of putin's him it is real in the minds of the kremlin they saw at that as a threat that we need to take seriously it is deeply embedded not just what we hope for. >> we would love to talk to you 30 more minutes. >> when you get up i need your identity and the question. no stateme

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

waters ukraine, russia legally share. six members were injured and all 24 of them were detained and are still in russian custody. this attack marks significant escalation in russia's war against ukraine. it is the first time the kremlin has overtly used its armed forces against ukraine. several western countries, the european union and nato have condemned russia's aggression against ukraine but a comprehensive response has yet to take shape. we're gathering at a pretty important time on the heels of a nato formal minister discussion in brussels on this issue. but we also gather when there is a time of intense debate here in washington. there's a current debate happening inside the executive branch up on capitol hill about these events, about our response. and our intention today is to help inform that conversation and to shape these decisions. our panelists will surely touch on a response must take shape soon if russia's government is going to take this seriously. many of the experts you'll hear from today and many others

on ukraine, one comment. i think ukraine is one particular area where moscow is not happy. not happy where they currently stand in terms of policies. long to medium term they think they have good cards and decent hand. but suspect after this month we'll see movements on ukraine again. i don't know if new political gambit to engage the europeans like the peacekeeping proposal is. because europeans love process. give them process they'll work on it, doesn't matter if it leads to nowhere. i don't know if new campaign of unconventional warfare and state-sponsored terrorism. there's a tool kit left to do to ukraine, low cost, fairly low risk and could be consequential. i don't think they're happy and i suspect will be changes in coming here. >> briefly. >> i wouldn't be optimistic it's putin's last term. i have book from late 2000s saying there will be no third term, question mark. with benefit of hindsight, redundant. entering fifth term if you factor in de facto ruler for med ved yef. there's none. discredited. but successor, lot of people would miss the days of putin if he we

we need to take the next steps for ukraine for the allies around ukraine more militarily viable. it's not my word but i like it. a friend of mine said we need to make ukraine the type of porcupine that russia cannot swallow we need to sharpen those tools and capabilities so russia sees it is too expensive and it is very clear about cost and i would add to that with their soldiers this is what they've had to worry about and we need to make ukraine the porcupine. i happen to believe every nation has a right to defend itself. additionally in military measures before i became the yukon commander and during the time that you calm staff in the us bilateral sense with ukrainian military how to professionalize and improve ukrainian military forces we don't have to be hugely creative there has already been very creative staff work done that can be fallen back on to look at those things that we can do. that can lead ukraine to be that porcupine. we need to address the growing anti- access capabilities of crimea the picture is in the paper the last two days you should now cs 400 on crimea a

actions taken by ukraine could how best part of. none president situation with ukraine declaring martial law my country member 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 his control is the code straight and ukraine really has to abide by russian law even though they may not accept it 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 ratings because he will come out as a savior of the nation he will say i'm here and 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 military conflict they just want a conflict which will in fact increase the standing of the president and increase the sta

course of events for ukraine to take just quickly were you said you called it relatively minor naval skirmish the fact is still you've got ships ramming each other at sea which when russia and ukraine are involved i mean is there potential for this to get a whole lot worse. yeah i mean it could do it could be it depends how it's handled it is the most significant. open conflict between these two militaries since the days of two thousand and fourteen two thousand and fifteen but as i was saying in two thousand and fifteen there were much more serious ones and so. this is something that i think is militarily losing its steam russia has blocks the coast straits you do have commercial shipping that can now pass from the black sea into the sea of as of however the diplomatic ramifications of this are still pretty hot the political ramifications of it are pretty hot ukrainians looking around to see how much international support it can get for its side of this story russia and ukraine i don't think have the appetite for this to flare up into a full blown military engagement between them ru

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. galaxy and not to golf 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. galut 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 b.-o. 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

in ukraine a nationalistic political organization. or people's movement emerged in one nine hundred eighty nine due to this mild openness. they advocated for independence of ukraine from the u.s.s.r. and became an incubator for leaders of ukraine in nazi s. . in one thousand nine hundred one one of them new book founded svoboda an openly radical nationalist party preaching the good old principles of bondage era. per jew crane from the jews in russia ukraine for ukrainians and so on his statements got him fifth place in the simon vs and thought center top ten anti semitic world leader rankings of two thousand and twelve. it also sadly attracted numerous follow ups. dimitry are founded another extreme right organization treason or trident in one nine hundred ninety four. in april two thousand and thirteen became an assistant to a member of parliament from the opposition party who died. later that same year he would become the leader of the most radical ukrainian nazi group the right sector. andriy paro be would soon appear leading a who

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

now and kiev ukraine three destinations of major significance ukraine with its rich lands and resources was an important industrial and economic source for the u.s.s.r. to cut it off from the soviet union would strike a big blow indeed. for most of the soviet union the second world war was about fighting the invaders of their land. 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. galaxy and not to call 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 russi

procedure code of ukraine and i mean that's that's what ukraine needs to do and we and we also you know can call on ukraine's partners to ensure that this happens there's been so colorful us on this the u.s. state department asked about what they thought about what's happening in ukraine here with this journalist and how the know it spoke about it this is what she had to say let's listen. we understand that ukraine like a lot of other countries has been concerned about intense propaganda. when we talk with a lot of our allies and partners overseas they certainly have fallen victim and understand the influence and the reach of russian propaganda so we do understand ukraine's concerns about that. yeah but does that justify reading someone's home taking them into custody without much information what you think about the american response there. i think actually you cut her off i think that their continued with your general phrase about how they need to respect media freedoms ok i don't read the reader i think i read i think i read the readout and she you know she did can continue with a so

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. galaxy and not to golf 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 b.-o. 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

and prosperous and democratic ukraine. mccarthy writes in a city you know well it will slowly new democracy just go to. the with. some of them but obviously the funds had to keep coming and the conflict had to keep going. and more bloody and deadly was awarded so nice. as parties from both sides were using more sophisticated and lethal weapons. as well. well. delia you know. 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. 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

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.

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 reese. certainly 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. galaxy and not to call 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. galut 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 b.-o. 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 ac

in ukraine has ukraine has become the poorest per capita g.d.p. per capita country in europe and on the strength of that you tell them they're all crooks and there's a reason this is a result of this corrupt at least i wouldn't stand up and millions coroners you have president owning becoming part and we haven't sold you a chocolate business go even though he promised to do this well you have no illusions or you should have had no illusions about what you were getting into you gave in eighteen months and you called a movie ross you throw up your hands and then you walk out and not think is that when we started we both believe that he had the unique chance to become somebody else yes he had all this corrupt background sort of connections but on the other hand people came to mend it and we believe in this and he started quite well he brought some quite some young people he allowed us to have some autonomy he allowed us to create an enchanter corruption bureau he allowed to have transparent purchases their second kid allowed us to create a national t

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