Eraf Dolph covering mine Steve Benoong, you're watching Israeli News Live as the world is heating up. It is a very serious situation going on in Crimea as well as another part of the region there over in Syria. Iran, the Persian Gulf as well as even not too far from our own country, Venezuela. And we're looking this evening as we're just kind of weighing in on some things here as the year is wrapping up now. Russia, also the breakaway republics of Luhansk and Donets there are claiming that Ukraine is going to launch some type of offensive there and the very near next couple of days here is what they were anticipating there. Now every time that this is brought out publicly and exposed nothing seems to ever happen. But at this time now even the video you're seeing running on the screen and behind you here this is Russian military in Crimea headed towards the northern border according to some reports there. And it seems like the convoy just never seems to end one one group of military vehicles after another after another after another as you can see we're only halfway through it and they're still rolling towards the northern border there. So Russia definitely not taking any chances on what's going on but then again you got to ask yourself the question is the possibility that Russia may be planning on the strike first themselves as President Putin has put it in the past there. If it looks like you're going to get into a fight do the first punch about the best way to win that fight and you know maybe exactly what's going on Putin is getting ready. And besides that we know that it's come out we've reported this over the last few days there Russia is moved in more fighters more bombers into Crimea they have also rebuilt an airport there inside of there I'm going to go and take it off there it's just going to keep on running you're going to see this just like a miles and miles of military hard where headed towards the northern border we'll just pause it for right now move on to other issues that are happening there. Southfront is reporting Russia restricts maritime traffic in the southeast of Crimea due to naval drills and in those Russian naval drills they have been seen and firing the anti ship missiles as part of that drill. So one thing is going on and also as I mentioned Russia reconstructed a military airfield near Sevastopol Crimea and they're going to station 25 issue 25s and issue 30s both bombers and fighters. There not to mention as Ukraine was reporting here a couple of weeks back they believe the Russian moved in upwards to 100 aircraft additional aircraft to the region there. We have all that happening there we have also the Russian fighter jets landing in Crimea they were coming in according to to Reuters there they had reported this on there in that the planes had actually came in already and we're landing in there. They show a lot of different footages there of the planes coming in to Crimea and landing at the air strip there now the reconstructed air strip is longer than the one before it is going to be able to do both commercial and military aircraft and so it's just a matter of what's going to happen. You can see the aircraft they're flying by the Kirch bridge there Russian aircraft coming down showing their presence military presence there in where the Kirch bridge is which is kind of the straight for the sea of a soft and you know very very technical very very difficult position right there in that part of the world a flash point sure enough wondering who's going to strike first or will the situation calm down let's hope it does calm down. I did notice one thing I thought was interesting as well though Russia excuse me Crimea the Ukrainian government sorry Ukrainian government had made a statement the other day they had a ceasefire for Christmas Eve and there was to be no shot being fired during that time and I noticed that Ukraine actually said Russia kept the ceasefire without one single incident. That just makes you wonder if Russia can keep a ceasefire like that then who really is the one that violates the ceasefires in the first place. Sometimes we overlook the obvious also another issue as I said things going on around the world the Caribbean see we reported this all rushing excuse me already but the Daily Mail Russia analysis plan to set up its first ever military base in the Caribbean the country's largest presence in the region since the Cuban missile crisis in 1962. It's supposed to be a 10 year contract that they're going to set up with the Venezuelan president there and from what we understand now that deal has been signed and Russia is getting ready to deploy their bombers there to Venezuela to the island off of Venezuela is north or in coast there but then right there in the Caribbean sea and of course within striking distance of the United States. Now again it's not much difference in what we have the United States we have a lot of bases that are when striking distance of Russia as well especially on the western border any eastern border because we have military in Japan we have military in Germany we have military in Ukraine we have military in Poland and now we're talking about doing a permanent base in Poland as well. So you can't blame Russia it's kind of like tip for tat you do it okay then we'll show we can do it as well of course the United States is one that mainly has all the bases around the world. Then comes the other issue and that is after the pull out of American forces of Syria one of the things that we were stating that we believe was definitely coming is that it was opening up the door in order for an Israeli strike on Iran and one reason why so many are trying to second guess President Trump's of troop withdrawal. Troop withdrawal from Syria may be a cover and it may actually be because there is fixing to be a strike on Iran especially if there is an intention to draw Russia's attention towards Ukraine get the get Kiev to start something with Russia there we can Russia's presence in Syria in order to be able to take on Iran and of course Iran inside a Syria and as well as take out Bashar al-Assad because with Russia moving all of its military assets to Crimea. And also to southern parts of Russia there to fight a war with Ukraine also that could be backed up by NATO forces there that would weaken the Syrian country down with less assets there and of course not only could they take out Iran but they could also finish off Bashar al-Assad while they have the opportunity. And of course we're seeing now that our tea is reporting no threat but ready to respond the presence of the US carrier and the Persian Gulf and significant. This was right after we had heard that the President was going to have that particular fleet leave that area as well and return back to base we reported that the other day but this particular strike group has entered into the Persian Gulf and is planning on being there undisclosed amount of time and I can I help but wonder if that's not possible. Or if that's not part of an attack group ready to launch an attack on Iran. So we'll have to wait to see how that's going to go on right now everybody's kind of downplaying this but remains to be seen. Speaking of Iran though parliament of Iran rejects a motion to ban marriage of girls under 13. That's just sick. How sick can a country get when they will allow old men to marry little girls less than 13 years of age 13 to begin with is ridiculous. She should at least be 18 or 21 to be able to get married but no child marriage is still legal in Iran watch I'm sure it's not just Iran either I'm sure Saudi Arabia price and pretty sinister rules as well and a lot of other Arab countries in Middle East no doubt. So it's really a big problem in the Middle East when it comes to this child marriages and stuff and it's very much a shame that the little girls are look down upon they are basically they they look at them as almost as if they're cattle. What a shame. I'm Steve Benin you're watching Israeli News Live consider supporting the broadcast we appreciate your help you can write to us at the address below the screen here if you'd like to donate that way or you can do so online Israeli news live dot org. Thank you for watching. Arab tof and a world of inshalom there is no peace.