yet unnamed plants outside of america by the end of twenty nineteen in the woods town ohio workers despaired not just for those being laid off but for the whole community for every one of our jobs they you know i've heard around seven jobs on the outside are. obviously impacted show you know not only not only the folks that are working in. the part supplying sector but look at the grocery stores right look at the restaurants the doctors' offices the hospitals g.m. says the layoffs on necessary to adapt to a changing us kamarck it sales of sedans are down a sales of s.u.v.s and trucks grew the company also says it will focus more on autonomous and electric vehicles it's been ten years since general motors was bailed out with taxpayer money a fact not lost on the united auto workers union which is about the decision will not go unchallenged g.m. has production decisions in light of employee concessions during the economic downturn and a taxpayer bailout from bankruptcy it said put profits before the working families

of this country whose personal sacrifices stood with g.m. during those dog days that these decisions are a slap in the face to the memory and recall of that historical american made bailout we must step away from the empty work of thinking of seeking simply the lowest labor cost on the planet g.m. exceeded expectations with better than expected third quarter earnings of two point five billion dollars boosting shareholder value and monday's announcement led to a further rise in its share price g.m. says it will save six billion dollars in cash as a result of the restructuring this is a bloated old trump he said his corporate tax cuts would help save the u.s. as manufacturing industry the president has repeatedly boasted about his role in g.m.'s future job creation and on monday he said he remains hopeful i'm not happy about it that car is not selling well so they'll put something else i have no doubt that it is not just that but something else they'd better but something else as a result of trump's economic policies the trade deficit is going to. nearly double

over the next five years it's going to cost millions of manufacturing jobs two of the plants affected are in swing states that ricky trump's victory in twenty sixteen the president's pitch to the american workers who voted for him is friend she every time see outers are on for a short break here al-jazeera when we come back going home the british academic jailed for life spying in the u.a.e. gets a presidential pardon and mexico takes action against asylum seekers trying to enter the u.s. more on that state's. by the sky nine information home. or off the coast of the italian riviera. hello again to welcome back to your international weather forecasts were here across china particularly down on the coast we've been seeing off and on rain for hong kong over the last couple of days and the trend is going to still be the same and that's all due to the slide of clouds right here now as we go towards tuesday

the clouds are going to stay just off the coast so that means the rains can stay off the coast as well so for hong kong it's going to be a partly cloudy day a twenty three degrees but by the time we get to wednesday here comes that rain again a little bit cooler a little bit heavier rain in your forecast that's going to extend all the way up towards taipei as well and then down here towards parts of vietnam further to the north though it is going to be dry temperatures into the mid to high teens for most locations while here in vietnam we did see a tropical storm make landfall that was usagi it is now weakened of course but we're still dealing with some rain expression on the coastal areas we did have some flooding flooding could still be a potential across much of that area over here towards on though mostly cloudy day for you in manila with a temperature of about thirty two degrees and then over here across parts of india well we're going to watch once system coming in off the levant right there that was a stronger brought heavy rain showers across iran what's going to be left is mostly clouds across much of the area particular up here towards the northwest so for new

delhi it is going to be a mostly cloudy day for you at twenty six and crush of clouds in the forecast at thirty one the weather sponsored by cat time meese. once welcomed now fear. dividing a nation. al-jazeera explores germany's long term economic strategy of pursuing immigrants from the arab world i feel more gentleman and syrian. how much money does a richer get those people with the things that it's been doing one german and american the new germans on al-jazeera.

welcome back a quick reminder our top stories here this hour u.s. secretary of state might on peo and secretary of defense jim mattis will both brief senators on wednesday on the latest developments relating to saudi arabia that comes as turkish police investigating the murder of journalism out ashaji searched google is just northwest of istanbul. ukraine's parliament has backed president petro poroshenko decision to impose martial law for thirty days after a flare up of tensions with russia on sunday russian forces on and seize three ukrainian boats of the coast of crimea. and u.s. can make a general motors is shutting down five manufacturing plants across north america fourteen thousand jobs will be lost u.s. president donald trump says he's not happy and has criticized the car. saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin sound man will travel to argentina for the g twenty summit later in the week human rights watch has filed a legal submission with the court's there to try to hold him accountable for

alleged war crimes committed by saudi forces in yemen argentina's constitution recognizes universal jurisdiction for war crimes and torture kenneth roth executive director of human rights watch says the crown prince is attendance at the g. twenty summit in but as i was could make the argentine courts an avenue of redress for victims of abuse is unable to seek justice in yemen or saudi arabia where seventy whitson is the executive director of the middle east and north africa division with human rights watch she joins us live via skype from new walk just talk us through the argument that you and human rights watch are making to the argentina is to criminally investigate the saudi crown prince. what we're urging the origin time prosecutor to do is to investigate the extent to which haven't been some is himself complicit in possible work crimes as well as torture of saudi citizens given his role in the saudi government given his role as crown

prince given his role as minister defense and legally speaking though i mean is there precedence for this in argentina i mean we know that argentina has recognized universal jurisdiction in the past to pursue the war crimes of people like pinochet and franco well exactly those are two of the most famous presidents in the country in the country has very generous universal jurisdiction was because of the country's own experience living under tyranny with long decades of torture and abuse. the argentinean morning argentinean constitution has very strong measures in power and prosecutors to bring just these sorts of claims and the political fallout sara lee surrounding mom had been samana in the war in yemen and the killing of the saudi journalist. could not be more heated i suppose that is there any chance that this could actually be recognized by the courts in argentina and some kind of legal action be taken. well of course there's

a chance and it is up to the prosecutor to do to decide how to proceed with this investigation we are very hopeful there he will do a very careful and thorough examination of the facts of the evidence that has been presented not only of course by human rights watch but by various organs of the united nations including the panel of experts at the security council including the investigative commissions appointed by the un human rights council you clued in by the un high commissioner for human rights which have repeatedly found that the saudi led coalition has committed grave violations of international monetary many of which very strongly couldn't mount two were crimes for that reason alone there's an extremely strong basis for argentino to closely examine a very broad record of documentation and facts in this regard if they are fortunate enough to have the crown prince's in them and i suppose the worry is if

mom had been summoned does travel to argentina for the g twenty how much could this legal submission by human rights watch cause political embarrassment for the argentine government. well we hope it's not a source of political embarrassment but rather source of political pride for the argentinean people that they hold very important keys for potential accountability you know the international community people around the world are desperate to see real accountability of people who are getting away with terrible crimes and this is a great opportunity for the argentinean people to stand as leaders in the world to show that they will not go like crimes like this go unpunished that they will seriously investigate them and prosecute them if possible so really what some thanks for talking to al jazeera. but a student accused of spying in the united arab emirates has been granted a presidential pardon and is on his way home to the u.k.

matthew hedges was sentenced to life imprisonment last week a surprise verdict which threatened to create a serious diplomatic spat between abu dhabi and london and reports seven months after his arrest matthew hedges is going home his wife daniella surprised and delighted by the news it's overwhelming. of course the laid out about it but also it's the kind of thing that no one ever prepares you for. no one ever prepared me. to face this situation let alone celebrate so. i can answer it with certainty i can't say i'm happy to have him back on the plan for matthew's return a winter barbecue we had it postponed from the spring so hopefully we'll just get to catch up on some sleep and have our winter barbecue that the announcement of the presidential pardon came as an early morning news conference in the u.a.e. capital abu dhabi.

and. that's being seen as a diplomatic compromise the u.a.e. stands by the court's conviction for espionage based on the postgraduate students research work on the u.a.e. security strategies the british government disagrees but when mr hedges freedom the compromise is something london is prepared to live with we've made it very clear for a number of months now that we see no basis in these allegations they reflect on that they've taken the action that they can which means that matthew hedges is going to be reunited with his family say the outcome enables both sides to save face but lessons must be learnt i hope that behind the scenes. some very careful thought is given to how such things can be involved in the future proper safeguards in the in

the legal process to review things an earlier date so it doesn't get down to the issues of pardons and clemency and the diplomatic fallout because nobody really wants to see that there's something all sides in this diplomatic route do want to see and that's matthew had just back home in the u.k. paul brennan al-jazeera london. yes president donald trump is campaigning in the state of mississippi on the eve of the special senate runoff vote he's holding two rallies there and to drum up support for a controversial republican senator smith who is facing a democratic challenger mike espy john hendren has more from the rally in mississippi. president journaled trump is in mississippi a race where there is a senate runoff and he came here to talk about all of the things that mississippians like about donald trump he's got a fifty six percent approval rate here in the latest polls but nevertheless smith the republican candidate for senate is struggling and she's struggling because of

a number of gaffes she told a supporter and this was caught on camera that if she were invited to a public hanging she would be in the front row she has been shown wearing a confederate cap and musket you know facebook picture and she's joked about voter suppression saying maybe it should be harder for liberals to vote all of those things that made it possible for mike espy a democrat who once worked in bill clinton's administration to make a race of this and if he won he would be the first democrat to win the senate here in the state of mississippi since one thousand nine hundred eighty when he would be the first black man to win the senate seat for the state of mississippi since the reconstruction era after the civil war in one century or so in this runoff raise voters will go to the. she was day and whether labor history makes history or whether mississippi continues to vote republican as it has done for so many years it will be decided that. mexico has deported ninety eight sonam zeke is accused of

trying to breach the u.s. border at tijuana the sun you see drug border crossing into california was shut down temporarily until gas was fired in asylum seekers on sunday tempted to jump over the border fence from home and as more from tijuana. things have calmed down a fair bit there's been a bit more of a print police presence around the camp that we're at now this is a camp that's been set up in a sports complex it's been horridly turned into that but what authorities and we just spoke to the guys from the municipal government here who's running the camp and he said what he's really worried about the moment is the risk of infection setting in he's got about five thousand five hundred people here there's not really any space most of them are sleeping in tents or if they haven't got tents out in the open around the pavement outside the toilet situation they not managing to move that waste from the toilets quickly enough so all sorts of things here are really creating the perfect situation for some sort of illness that's one of the worries

for the authorities here you can see with just outside they can't now there's quite a few tents here this one is called him a right set up for the people here and then there's another one if we see just a bit over this way this is a tent from the u.n. and what they're doing is talking to people who actually want to go back home we talked to a few of those people and they said one of them was said i'm going to charge here i've had enough it gets too cold in the night and no one said i realize just how hard it's going to be to get over that border into the united states so for various different reasons a small number of people are starting to go home here has to be said there's even more arriving to the point when there's no space in the camp now they're sleeping out in the pavement so this isn't a situation here in the bottleneck really between mexico and the united states is going to go away any time soon the former president of the multis is on his thirteen year jail term by supreme court judges ahmed nasheed was sentenced three years ago after a trial condemned by many countries it was them all these first ever democratically

elected president until twenty twelve he's been in exile in sri lanka for the last two years the party he previously led unexpectedly won the general election last september. dozens of people have died in separatist violence in somalia at least eight people were killed in the capital mogadishu after a car bomb went off in a busy market earlier on monday fighters claimed responsibility for another attack which killed twenty people at a religious center in the northern city of new. india is marking ten years since the mumbai attacks commemoration ceremonies have been held across the city or one hundred sixty six people were killed in two thousand and eight over three days and ten gunmen from pakistan based group lashkar e tayyiba attacked hospitals hotels public buildings and a jewish center on sunday the u.s. offered a new five million dollar reward for the capture of those responsible for ordering the attack in southern new zealand a hundred forty five whales have died from being

stranded on a remote beach discovered the pilot whales on stewart island seventy five were already dead the others were put to sleep by the vets because of their poor health now the first of a spacecraft designed to study the in the depths of mars has successfully touched down on the red planet touchdown. passes scientists cheered as they watched the dramatic arrival of insight on mars following a six month journey through space the one billion dollar craft will unveil a plan its core structure and how it was formed billions of years ago where sarah curtis is a space journalist she says the insight mission will allow scientists to compare the internal structures of mars and earth for the very first time. i think what's so special about this mission is just a shame we know so much about space we live in a space age of humans living and working. in the international space station but actually we know so little light we can when it comes to that the bet planet molls

we send spacecraft that actually even though america and nasa had quite a good success rate traditionally around home for those spacecraft reality trying landing was a priest right so this mission is the first time going to do something we've never done before and it's i just think we saw the last of it the atmosphere is actually going to look into an all structure of the red planet and trying to understand more about it because malia pulled at the same time you think of miles as a capsule because it is a time capsule even because of its unique size and we don't know why miles and a star different that rocky planets that's the marriage distances from the sun but mars had a very different people join history to earth we want to learn more about the internal structure of models why it's so different how it came to form and in turn that will help us to understand more about how other rocky well such as our own planet and the other rocky welton all solar system tend to form.

but i think a check of the headlines here this hour u.s. secretary of state mike pompei how and sect of defense jim mattis would both brief u.s. senators on wednesday on the latest developments relating to saudi arabia it comes as turkish police investigating the murder of the saudi journalists from alpha subject search to that as just northwest of istanbul mike hanna has more from washington d.c. . a number of senators say it's all very well to hear from the secretary of defense and the secretary of state but they really want to hear about the circumstances surrounding the murder of jamal khashoggi and the involvement of the crown prince of saudi arabia mohammed someone in that killing so there is still questions coming from senators they welcome the fact that they will get this briefing but that's the other question too is the briefing going to be about the murder of democracy audrey or is indeed the briefing going to be about why sanctions should not be imposed on saudi arabia ukraine's parliament has backed president petro poroshenko decision to

impose martial law for thirty days after a flare up of tensions with russia on sunday russian forces opened fire on and seize three ukrainian boats of the coast of crimea the crisis was discussed at an emergency session of the un security council christensen has more russia and the ukraine each gave details of their dueling versions of what happened in the current straight here on the international stage with russia accusing the ukraine of violating its borders and therefore international law and the ukrainians accusing the russians of provoking that actually firing on their ships when they were in retreat the russians did get some backing for their version of events from the chinese a couple other members of the council but the united states and the european members of the council stood squarely with the crane u.s. carmakers general motors is shutting down five manufacturing plants across north america fourteen thousand jobs will be lost u.s. president donald trump says he's not happy and has criticized the car giant.

mexico's deported ninety eight asylum seekers accused of trying to breach the u.s. border at tijuana a sunny sea drug border crossing into california was shut down temporarily until gas was fired at the asylum seekers on sunday as attempts to cross the border well those are the headlines the news continues here now jazeera to inside story stage and that's what. russia and ukraine crash off the coast of crimea shots are fired in the black sea three ukrainian navy posts a seized and taken as prisoners russia is accused of military aggression can this crisis be contained or will it escalate further this is inside story.

hello welcome to the program i'm adrian for the get a military confrontation between russia and ukraine has raised fears of a new and dangerous crisis relations between the countries still role after russia annexed crimea four years ago moscow has since been backing pro russia separatists in eastern ukraine where fighting continues sunday's incident in the black sea could spark a wider conflict a russian coast guard ship rammed the ukrainian navy tug and opened fire on two other ships several ukrainian sailors were wounded and more than twenty were taken prisoner the confrontation happened in the curch straits off the coast of crimea russia says the ukrainian naval vessels entered its waters illegally despite

a treaty which guarantees freedom of navigation ukraine causes an act of aggression and has put its military into combat readiness but president special says that ukraine doesn't plan to fight anyone. so. martial law is introduced in order to strengthen ukraine's defense capabilities amid increasing aggression and according to international law cold act of aggression by the russian federation martial law does not mean our refusal to resolve the issue of liberating ukrainian territory by political and diplomatic means we have intentions to keep at hearing to all international obligations including the minsk agreement from zero zero as worry chalons is following the situation from moscow. well with russia on blocking the current straits it does seem that moscow is trying to draw down the temperature of this crisis at least when it comes to the possibility of military clashes but you know the political and the diplomatic reverberations of this are still

continuing this has been the worst engagement between russian and ukrainian military since the dark days of two thousand and fourteen and two thousand and fifteen the annexation of crimea in the worst of the fighting in eastern ukraine. so that we have a situation where ukraine is calling for a u.n. security council meeting it's getting that later on monday and it is also considering in its parliament the imposition of martial law this would have numerous impacts on the ukrainian body politic it would mean that you can hold elections we do have threats of presidential elections actually coming up shuttle for the end of march you can't change a constitution under martial law you can't remove senior politicians including the president you can hold political rallies circular of the russian foreign minister is making much of this they're saying that that suggests that this whole thing was

orchestrated by ukraine as a kind of provocation to allow petro poroshenko whose figures are not particularly good at the moment to consolidate his control over the country now ukraine of course is saying that this was all along a blatant act of aggression by russia russia has impounded ukrainian ships it has in its custody ukrainian military personnel it blocks ukrainian access to the as all see 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 nato people in the european union to back it up a century on this and take it 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 joining us from moscow is grandison professor of international relations at the high school of economics in moscow from the hague via skype tell us cause you're ukraine expert and author of putin's war against ukraine and from a chilly here mikhail oh well esky associate professor of the department of

sociology and business school at the national university of kill or the hyla academy welcome gentlemen let's start with you glenn how dangerous a situation is this could it spiral out of control as either side prepared to escalate this. well the comfort conflict could become very dangerous quiet fast however i think it should be under control i think that there was some incentives especially from the ukrainian side to elevate tensions a little bit in order to i would argue create a provocation for a bit of an international incident however i think that a broader conflict with russia would not be in ukraine's interest. and now in the same side i don't think russia is an interesting either to see this conflict escalate so it's so i think it can be contained i think will be more used to ramp up pressure against russia. i would expect both the british and americans especially to if follow up on this issue tell us in the hague what's really going

on here is this russian aggression unfinished business political move or maneuvering by ukraine's president i think credibility i guess for most those already blaming ukraine for this military aggression when we see from the video clips of this a russian ship that hit the ukrainian not the other way around but there are i think two two to three reasons for this the for this incident first of all russian leaders including not even a poutine. very afraid of developments in ukraine because really creating slipping out from that control russian soft power russian influence in ukraine is practically collapsed since two thousand and fourteen and the latest example of that is the drive to have independence for the ukraine not stop shirt from the russian orthodox church this was so severely seen in moscow that they called a meeting of the russian security council secondly they are desperate to try to

undermine president petro poroshenko because he they see putting sees the push on course the only one with whom they cannot do a deal on the eastern ukraine and it's because of that that they want to try to undermine him with the upcoming elections in march of next year they're going to do the opposite they're going to actually probably make can be like that but that's always russia's case that they don't understand ukraine so i think there's more going on here then they meet psionics not just the quick case of all russia made a kind of a mistake russia is seeing ukraine slip away and russian leaders are angry they don't know what to do about it well let's put that straight back to glenn glenn is russia trying to undermine petro poroshenko ahead of ukraine's presidential election. no shank was already polling quite poorly i think the people who'd vote for him now is in the single digits so

he's far from the favorite and if anything i think this crisis would help him to rise up the polls even possibly now establishing martial law. setting it to favor himself or at least to boost his own popularity indure things so i see this as being favoring his presidency rather than undermining it by showing him that he's able to stand up against russia and also getting the support of the americans and the british i would point out however that it's not really clear what has happened so far. all we know is that. the laws which are supposed to determine who who can control this water says of course linked to the sovereignty of crimea now given that russia considers crimea to be part of russian territory and ukraine believes as part of ukraine they will both refer to the un convention on the law of the sea in order to claim a right of the territorial waters now luckily we have the two thousand and three agreement which establishes how this should behave themselves in this waters and

the rules are that they have to report to port in the crimean port of curch and get permission from the russian argument is that the ukrainian vessels which were sent in did not follow this rules and for this reason they were intercepted and the ukrainians sent and warships immediately so from their perspective they argue that this was a provocation however we simply at this point don't know the russians have said that they will release the tapes and the evidence however in the west it appears to both governments and western media has already laid the verdict and almost as the nature of law instinctively blames russia whenever there is a crisis between ukraine or any other country in russia so i think for the real evidence we have to wait and see though the cato. crane said that it had given advance notice of the route being taken by its vessels russia says ukraine didn't notify the bit of violence and that the vessels were never gauging in

a dangerous man a clash was engineer to create a sense of crisis to support the president in kiev who's telling the truth. you know what at the end of the day russia has lost all credibility with respect to telling the truth and most viewers of yours unfortunately are probably forgotten now we have an ongoing war with russia the last four years four years we've had daily artillery attacks we've had daily attacks by tanks we've had daily sniper fire we've had daily casualties and daily deaths unfortunately that's left the news and now suddenly we have this naval incident and it's going back into the news of course that makes sense because even the fact that ukraine has finally reacted in such a way that it brings out into the into the open what in fact is the reality and the reality is that there is a war and that russia is the aggressor. that there are. two hours ago submitted a decree to parliament declaring martial law parliament will be in session in

approximately half an hour and i would expect that there's going to be a lot of discussion tonight as to that law on basically a war measures act but ukraine is currently in a state of mobilization and it has been for the last four years but in reality what we now have is we have a i guess a legal recognition of the reality of four and a half years of war now that four and a half years of war has been quite successful from the ukrainian standpoint meaning that we've only lost seven percent of our territory but nevertheless daily casualties and over ten thousand dead this is just one more episode in that saga mccain of president bush who says that that the two ports on the coast of the sea of as a key to ukraine's economy why is that. well it's not just those two ports it's generally access to the sea which is key to the cranes cranes economy was obviously is important but those two ports are key for access to exporting of metal

a little bit of grain also but primarily it's the metallurgical industry of the southeast so we're looking at iron steel various other faires various metal. aggregates that are being that are being exported from the from the port of money you put it and the port of new both of those being rather important and for the last three weeks russia has been harassing ukrainian ships going into that into those ports asking them for additional permissions to go through carriage and in fact has been delaying for days up to. transit and shipments and as a result of that. i mean trade is suffering and in a scenario where the ukrainian economy is not exactly in the greatest of shape anyway it's better than it was four years ago but nevertheless still recovering those types of delay tactics are obviously seen as very very very aggressive on the ukrainian side and and quite frankly now we've had an explanation from the from the

russians to capture actually three warships of the ukrainian navy. given the political and military pressures in pinch point between russia and crimea one has to wonder why on earth this hasn't happened before now. well. my previous colleague did mention that this is basically an unresolved issue remember that the two men's agreements in in two thousand and fourteen two thousand and fifteen did not include the question of the crimea that was because letting their putin said that the crimea is a done issue it's part of russian territory and therefore the minsk agreements only apply to eastern ukraine and of course he's been lying all along saying russian military not involved and he's in ukraine so it really the us all see crisis as of yesterday is very much linked to the end result question of the crimea and it was

a crisis that was inevitably going to happen why russia has done it now i think that i still go back to my points about russia is very afraid of this whole problem of ukraine slipping away but also yes of course this crisis is very much likely to help for a friend cause reelection chances but that does not mean to say that putin understands that the one thing we know since two thousand and fourteen is that russia that his people russian elites in moscow do not understand the way ukraine takes and functions they do they think of ukraine as a russian land a russian territory and therefore they don't quite get. the high levels of ukrainian patriotism and they don't understand how. putin had keeps on scoring own goals like in scott and ukraine this is going to be another one of those home goals

it's just going to help push and pull but that isn't the intention of course of saying so it is not likely to end and the west has to really get around the fact that yes we've got the minsk agreements on eastern ukraine but something needs to be done about the whole crimean question as well when i see you say shaking your head that you disagree with what with what taught us the same. no well i think there's a good explanations why this is happening exactly now that is ten days ago might bump a oh no you secretary of state met with the foreign minister of ukraine and. report was announced are a statement on the us ukrainian strategic partnership where the us called for solidarity in terms of confronting russia on the shipping routes in in the sea of us of and only five days ago the british announced that they were also going to set up a stronger presence now in the black sea so again from so i think it was

a good time for ukraine to get staged is probably cation. and again this i guess the sentiment in moscow is often a bit misrepresented brought because when the west backed the coup in two thousand and fourteen there and the russian government took place in ukraine there was indeed huge panic in russia you know all red lines have been broken by the west and there was something really needed to be done fast but if you get the feeling in moscow now the sentiments quite different to their interest is to bring tensions down and get a working relationship back on track so i don't see that there is any appetite for for at least instigating any conflict on the russian side and. again if you find in the russian leader until two thousand and fourteen who even argued that crimea should be brought back to russia's sovereignty it this implement any statements there because it was an issue until you had this western backed coup so i simply

don't see any russian interest in this but rather you see this is building up on the ukrainian western side that we've got both of up as of august both the hague and i think you have shaking their heads rolling their eyes. you want to come in then. well i mean. i'm sorry this junk western backed coup i was on the on the might done four or five years ago basically every day if it was western backed where's my payout it was in the west and the western backed about it this was a popular uprising against the russian backed corrupt crook and and supposin president but i mean at the end of the day who attacked ukraine why is it that you know you're calling it a ukrainian provocation ukraine has lost territory it is russia 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 percent voted for the anti russian. russian counted so at the end of the day. you know people rising up in the east one thing. i'm saying this is a question of ninety percent voting on we decided so unbelievably simplistic i mean you know you know is that i mean what i'm saying and i'm in britain. today we have a different opinion i mean come on. you know i mean i'm saying that under under president. hello carry on this are under president in a college there was an elder president down a college there was an effort in order to. balance these two interests between

population in the west to one of the greater freedom away from russia and population in the east wanted to be closer to russia and especially the compromise was to integrate closer with both the east and the west what i'm arguing is that unconstitutional coup that happens in the ukraine and back by the west it had a purpose that is here it was a popular uprising against the cry government i didn't get much hijacked and i want to get a suit and i want to get down in this in this single this one particular issue here you know you've been sitting there rolling your eyes for the last five minutes please tell me what you think. i want to watch you want one particular question tell us as well. does this have anything to do with the split between the ukrainian and russian russian orthodox churches is does that come into this this is a tool. yes of course because it's the sort of jewel in the crown in the

collapse of russian soft power russian influence in ukraine. the whole problem that russia has today is that russian policies towards ukraine russian aggression towards ukraine has undermined that of power it's rebounded to back against putin and so for example today our next year's elections no progress in candor that could can win and even get to the second round and no progress from party can win a majority in the ukrainian parliament why because sixteen percent of ukrainian voters twenty seven election districts are under russian occupation in the dumb bastard and crimea that's putting means fault so putin's own own policies towards ukraine are preventing what he would like to happen in ukraine which is pro russian people. coming back to power so he's very frustrated with the way ukraine is going to play with poroshenko was perfect was initiating the

including of nato and even membership in the ukrainian constitution and constitution but change since for that and the question of the over the this is an explosion from moscow this is an earthquake from moscow the ukrainian ukrainian also docs parishes represent a third of the total of russian orthodox parishes russia loses a third of its parishes and they'd also lose is very important historically religious objectively like the mothership the case sense of fear is cathedral in kiev it loses its kind of power and influence in the also ducks world and and it's it's a step forward for ukrainian spiritual independence from moscow because the new ukrainian also got church which will be set up next month. will be of course not pro russian will be pro european and so all of this creates a real concerns in moscow that things in ukraine are not going its own way or i

just want finals on the question of all the crimea wasn't an issue until two thousand and fourteen i'm sorry but my colleague in moscow is obviously somebody also doesn't understand ukraine doesn't know ukraine history and throughout the one nine hundred ninety s. never mind of the putin under boris yeltsin the russian parliament both houses of the russian parliament. a territorial claims rights the crimea and against about this has been going on for thirty years very briefly glenn do you want to respond to that. well there if this is a reference that in one thousand nine hundred ninety ninety seven agreement it's worth noting that the blue cross agreement also suggested. the u.s. britain and russia would all respect the political autonomy while the territorial integrity of ukraine so i guess after the coup in two thousand and fourteen there was an interest that while this was considered to be broken by russia as well now i do agree though that this conflict us two dimensions on one hand you have two

different identities so well broadly to a dentist in ukraine there which never really harmonized which is why the country has been so divided in terms of how it explains its close relations with russia i mean half of the country the country arguing that this is. purely relink others arguing that they're essentially been historical brothers the same people so it is a conflict which has been taken over by foreign powers and i'm sorry i got to interrupt you there we're out of time many thanks indeed gentlemen for being with us professor glen decent of moscow told us you know in the hague and mikhail oh that is key in a very chilly here and thank you for watching doesn't get you can see the program any time just by visiting a website at al-jazeera dot com for further discussion join us on our facebook page at facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter i handle at a.j. inside story for me adrian finnegan for the whole team here it oh thanks for watching c n n

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a message that's deeply relevant. especially for a good thing and this is kind of all in all the right wing assault on our freedom to last questions and generally all freedom of expression and people you know are being taught it's like students teachers activists filmmakers writers base all of them have been intimidated the front of a respite and people are on the streets the protest has reached our doorstep sought in which as a weird legs all attempts to contradict something it's. well i'm down in jordan in doha with the top stories here in al-jazeera u.s. secretary of state mike pump alun second of defense jim mattis will brief u.s. senators on wednesday on the latest developments relating to saudi arabia it comes

as turkish police investigating the murder of the saudi journalist. searched to villas just northwest of istanbul mike hanna has more from washington d.c. a number of senators say it's all very well to hear from the secretary of defense and the secretary of state but they really want to hear about the circumstances surrounding the murder of jamal khashoggi and the involvement of the crown prince of saudi arabia mohammed someone in that killing so there is still questions coming from senators they welcome the fact that they will get this briefing but that's the other question too is the briefing going to be about the murder of democracy edgy or is indeed the briefing going to be about why sanctions should not be imposed on saudi arabia ukraine's parliament has backed president petro poroshenko decision to impose martial law for thirty days after a flare up of tensions with russia on sunday russian forces opened fire on and seize three ukrainian boats off the coast of crimea the crisis was discussed at an

emergency session of the u.n. security council christine salumi has met with russia and the ukraine each gave details of their dueling versions of what happened in the current straight here on the international stage with russia accusing the ukraine of violating its borders and therefore international law and the ukrainians accusing the russians of provoking that actually firing on their ships when they were in retreat the russians did get some backing for their version of events from the chinese and a couple other members of the council but the united states and the european members of the council stood squarely with the. u.s. comic a general motors is shutting down five plants across north america fourteen thousand jobs will be lost president trump says he's not happy as criticize the car giant. mexico is deported ninety eight asylum seekers accused of trying to breach the u.s. border to enter the san ysidro border crossing into california it was shut down temporarily a tear gas was fired at the asylum seekers on sunday as they attempted to jump over

the border fence john holeman has more from tijuana. things have calmed down a fair bit there's been a bit more of a print police presence around the camp that we're at now this is a camp that's been set up in a sports complex it's been horridly turned into that but what authorities and we just spoke to the guys from the municipal government here who's running the camp and he said what he's really worried about the moment is the risk of infection setting in he's got about five thousand five hundred people here there's not really any space most of them are sleeping in tents or if they haven't got tents out in the open around the pavement outside the toilet situation they not managing to move that way from the toilets quickly enough so all sorts of things here are really creating the perfect situation for some sort of illness that's one of the worries for the authorities here you can see with just outside they can't now there's quite a few tents here this one is called human rights set up for the people here and

then there's another one if we see just a bit over this way this is a tent from the u.n. and what they're doing is talking to people who actually want to go back home we talked to a few of those people and they said one of them was said i'm going to charge here i've had enough it gets too cold in the night and no one said i realize just how hard it's going to be to get over that border into the united states so for various different reasons a small number of people are starting to go home here has to be said there's even more arriving to the point when there's no space in the camp now they're sleeping out in the pavement so this isn't a situation here in the bottleneck really between mexico and the united states is going to go away any time soon there's been two attacks in somalia at least eight people were killed in the capital mogadishu after a car bomb went off in a busy market earlier on monday al shabaab fighters claim responsibility for another attack which killed twenty people at a religious center in the northern city of qalqilya. on the first of a spacecraft designed to study the in the depths of mas how successful

a touchdown on the red planet. catch down compared to. now says insight wrote on bail of planets core structure was formed billions of years ago right those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after the new german stage of the selection by.

my name is wrong. i'm a newspaper editor and syrian asylum seeker in germany. i arrived in this country in two thousand and fourteen a new asylum law dictated that i should live in cologne and that evil german city that i've come to love. i'm one of nearly a million ethnic arabs who have come to germany since two thousand and fifteen feeling war and violence back home. initially we received a warm reception by the germans but what happened here in this square on new year's eve two thousand and fifteen when young men said to be arab were accused of robbing and attacking german women brought that welcoming to an end. german police encountered distraught women and girls or reported fights thefts and sexual

assaults against women by groups of male immigrants life here has not been the same since that night. there widespread calls to halt the entry of arab refugees and the party of chancellor angela merkel who championed the cause of refugees is losing votes in the polls. how do we stay here and how do we survive. learning german is my first essential task. arabs began coming to germany in the late one nine hundred fifty s. . there were nearly half a million arabs already here when the most recent influx began. why did they come here. were they welcomed. how did they survive. what has become of them.

i'm preoccupied with understanding the historical relationship between arabs and germany. klaus leg of a is a professor of cultural studies an advisor to the german government on islamic affairs the. new stand on some minutes from fits an illinois bed. and visits learn to put in charge of any ted are not done. clearly but seem to connect. after his defeat in world war two germany was occupied by foreign powers something many arab countries have experienced throughout history. stanzel the us. inspires on the. day mission to. the world and i'd need for to take them with a simple dick the kind of political content. this

can gain much on in keizer on and so fan it is and it also let us turn into a check of the. horse and. touch their comrades esther's funny business lloyd said he had taken. to the engineer of a. scam fitted the action. in one thousand nine hundred sixty the german academic exchange service opened its second foreign office of the post-war era in cairo egypt using the promise of free higher education germany specifically courted arab students for its universities with the aim of supplementing its ranks of white collar workers and professionals who had been decimated in the war. i met had come up to lead the shortly after i arrived here he lives in the suburbs

of cologne and the scene as a mentor to young arab journalists in the country. he came here to study economics and nine hundred fifty eight. million a lot of money i couldn't. use it for forty. different money. to move a lot of money if so very and fee yanni. fallon be the wiser that i would move along and fix. mine and it can't he met them and my him . being. moved so on but the philistine. the sort i'm. truly with. a demo. of money. was using i said the gemini at the end of i

want to be left to bet. but now there are a lot more of us here and most of the newcomers are not as well educated as those of high comes generation and it has no mom in the seat of the war in which the button is assigned. to syria in the story in most we did more than mad. that in a mirror of let. it be what our feet district. equipment some sixteen men mad who would. believe. that he. was to meet with them to make. the turn of the twentieth century germany was in colonial competition with france and england. as a result it created alliances with countries wishing to end french or british

colonial rule. in one thousand zero five the german cars or through. his support behind morocco's bid for independence and to underscore that position the kaiser made a state visit to morocco that year. germany lost eight million citizens to world war two and faced the post-war years with a severe manpower shortage. to rebuild germany needed men. agreements with countries across southern europe and by the mid one nine hundred sixty s. morocco and tunisia. shift sabri a german of tunis in descent had been a spiritual guide to many arabs who came from north africa since the one nine hundred sixty s. . on thought but let.