on the m.i. 6 website. they advertise for analysts who stay at home and analyze and field officers who go out into the field and recruit spies as agents for the united kingdom. he was in this jumbled interrogation and said he did both jobs. i happen to know because i spent many years studying british intelligence. analysts rarely, if ever, are asked to conduct field operations and certainly not attempt to recruit agents, which is a specialist task which takes many, many years of training. so, the evidence such as it was provided to us was, in my view, extremely inconclusive as proof of his role as an espionage agent of a british intelligence. but i should stress this. but the emirates say they have a lot of other matters of intelligence, electronic intercepts, analysis of his electronic device ands so on.
states, and there s nowhere for them to go. the reality is whether there is an agreement between mexico and the united states or not, they re staying there. mexico is sort of a waiting room for those people who want to apply for asylum. and we got in touch with the incoming mexican administration and they said we cannot make any agreements with the united states because, number one, we re not in power, first. number two, the president elect does not want to make mexico into a holding territory for those who would want to enter the united states. and so we have the situation where you have hundreds and hundreds of people in limbo and more are coming in. there was a group of another 250 that arrived sunday night to this part of mexico. i remember we heard from the interior minister reporting where she said that she does not want mexico to be another holding ground, a waiting room, essentially. but as you point out, there are so many people in mexico right now and more coming. that se
rafael romo, thank you so much. thank you. let s get some perspective on all of this now with scott lucas. scott a professor of international politics at the university of birmingham, also the founder of e.a. world view live this hour from birmingham. pleasure to have you on the show with us, scott. what happened on the border will say very different things to a divided nation. some will see desperate migrants fleeing persecution, mothers trying to shuttle their toddlers from teargas. others will see as the president describes it, as example of invasion, people who are not following the rules to enter the u.s. how significant is imagery like this in a bitter debate like the one that is playing out here? well, first, let s start with the facts. as you have been trying to do, and that is 500 people, thousands who have gathered in tijuana, moved towards the border. they didn t necessarily storm or rush the border. they weren t invading. they marched. now, they chose to go around
ships said to be shown here are being held at the crimea port in kerch. ukraine says the ships were planning to enter the strategic waterway, the kerch strait before they were fired on. russia closed the strailt sunday but state media reports it s now been reopened for civilian vessels, and this dramatic video comes from ukraine s minister of internal affairs. it appears to show a russian ship ramming a ukrainian tugboat on sunday. ukraine s president is furious and says he wants parliament to declare marshal law. let s turn to cnn s ivan watson who is monitoring all of this from hong kong. he joins us now live. so, ivan, you are very familiar with this region and what s been happening between russia and ukraine. explain to us where this is going and the impact so far of these increased tensions. reporter: rosemary, ukraine and russia, two neighbors, former soviet states that have been at odds for years, but now for perhaps one of the first
course, in abu dhabi. and the reason i say that is that from the perspective of the united arab emirates, the emirates, they had caught him red-handed and got a confession out of him, part of which they played us. the british argument right throughout this case, when it was kept under wraps for five months during which his family say that mr. hedges was kept in solitary confinement for a good deal of it, there was a negotiation that went on between the emirates and the british. the emirates wanted to approach this spy to spy, have it resolved between intelligence agencies, and the british pushed back on that firmly saying, no, he wasn t a spy. that is still the british position. it most certainly is not the emirates position. they played a series of videos, we weren t allowed to record them. the first one has a moment in which mr. hedges appears in court and asked by a member of the court, what was your rank in