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i'm back. or since. lou we will . the journal of the tube lines or indeed of the neverland. eric really good standing with us your thoughts coming up in the next half hour. la rochelle with more sanctions on the cranny of christ as the united states faces a fresh round of the european union is expected to follow shortly. the kremlin retaliate with its own sanctions against the u s russian foreign ministry says the people of crimea and russia have spoken. and another day of searching for most of the malaysia airways flight is about to get underway on the coast of australia after possible
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debris was held on that light images. structured aussie eyes then crosses the keys to that every station of crimea of both the us and eu say they will hit the country with news as the eu says it will climb or travel bans and asset freezes but cool they will apply it to you is still being decided in other states meanwhile has already announced its new round of sanctions. president barack obama said they are targeting a number of advisors close to the russian president including vladimir putin's chief of staff. june is cast on ankle is shifting to a tougher line on the crimean issue she says russia still has time to talk but if it does not. europe is not afraid of precepts the summit in brussels started off on a
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light note. an uncharacteristically cheery chancellor medical personally fixed a little communication own cliques. but her demeanor belies the seriousness of the current political reality her tone towards russia is getting tougher. she says more sanctions are needed but the one to be the so that means extending visa bans and freezing accounts present and we will make it very clear that we are willing to enter his trade sanctions if there are any further escalation has been accepted as i'm still in intensive care. but the eu leaders still need to agree on veggie tales for once it's in britain. that's demanding a unified european approach russia has done is unacceptable and the countries of the european union need to speak with a clear and you might see boys but it's a difficult step for europe. the cypriot leaders said what many were thinking goes that he might be a witch queen of comedy in our own. energy security is europe's biggest worry
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europe is highly dependent on russian natural gas. over thirty percent of its natural gas imports are from russia this dependency doesn't make for a strong bargaining position. former soviet republics are leading calls for an even tougher stand against moscow. we need to talk about eleven sonata because the fed the us is still threatening the us would need to pause and with economic sanctions. european leaders have some way to go to establish a unified position and are facing some tough negotiations. all they are indeed our corresponding holes is covering the stalks for us in brussels we know what's it looking like right now there is as we just heard their cry a bit of differing opinions on how best to move forward. are we likely to see brussels line up completely fine the united states. well what seems to be karen bass and mind is that. the enemy
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is not going to get freaky are like dogs like the us have on them because then they will each spend a list of people are on hicks with travel bans and asset freezes we've already had that in the report. and but today i'm not dainty time keeping the team's crisis. secondly yet even there some individually days have passed that stand to be taken what's also play is that the eu has already called up an eu russia summit that was scheduled for june. ok now what are the differences then besides the one you mentioned are there any real differing of the paths on the way forward words they are there a general consensus on how to deal with the crimean issue well there is consensus on condemning russia's action and also i'm getting ready and to have fathom this is that what the factory team that works and will be individually eu countries are aware of that. and it would
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take their own decline in the city based decisions comp be taken lightly and ten there will probably can be a discussion about how to reduce the use of energy dependence on russia because as we've had in the report that's considerable and nbc is going to take a long time no cars the government talks on sanctions now underway in brussels nato thanks very much. for the latest from washington let's cross over town to mac's gold mine who joins us there max. um you know what about prague obama announcing an extension of sanctions against russian officials and a bank can you give us more on this latest round. yell you mentioned until one bag is on the sanction was now an obama also put the study individuals on that list at twenty thousand sound like a whole lot there but i do the americans are really trying to target obama is that saudi putin's inner circle here so they could for
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example workings of becker on there and the bank is only the seventeenth largest in russia but it's important in a different way because it mainly caters to government officials. so these individuals this pack of their assets are frozen they can to official business with the united states or with companies that are facing the united states the catfish we use the dollar so even if twenty doesn't sound like a whole lot. it does hurt care what about the future how far has brought obama willing to go. well she tried to say basically that does statement he made on thursday that this is the line. this is where the buck stops he's willing to go further than he has so far always willing to negotiate in front of diplomatic solution but he also outlined what the next step of the united states would be. he put in place another executive action that would enable him not to target individuals or institutions that hold key sectors of the russian
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economy and that would release date. ok so this might not be the end all mac spokesman for us max thanks a lot. ukraine will never cease to fight for the liberation of crimea as long as that might take those words adopted a resolution by members of ukraine's parliament the strongly worded message is intended for moscow and comes after tea and had to admit defeat and pull back its troops from crimea. on thursday russia formalized its annexation of crimea once again here's the very latest. it's a formality with huge political consequences. russia's parliament the state duma has endorsed the inclusion of crimea in the russian federation. the weather when it's appropriate for you will ensure that the inhabitants of crime yet can become russian citizens with all the attendant rights and privileges due to union says the circumstances. russian president letterman putin met with the un secretary general in moscow. one ki moon has
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this to say about the situation in ukraine. and they did that with the decision of the nine muses. i can tie but to tell you the time keep the cell phone to call him the situation. i'm bored. you know creating. porcelain russia. i was facing. one of the more she puts on the leadership country during the next three issues and cruel one. russia is not in a mood to compromise and is moving ahead quickly with the administrative takeover of crimea. officials are handing out russian passports demand is high. moscow's actions are popular among creamy as russian majority and are also pushing on with the takeover of military assets. gunmen seized three ukrainian warships and importance of the skilful shots were fired on the corvette man its key no injuries have been reported ukraine says its forces are
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under threat across the peninsula. and for more let's bring in our correspondent is standing by for us in moscow. marcus where some of the sunshine for us actually take rainy a little more about what's going on with the ships and is the situation escalated seems to be becoming more dangerous for ukrainian troops were based there when i need to be honest we have to do this with information on what show was just going on on the crimean peninsula according to those ships than those we heard a new report that the message is very obvious moscow wants to get to the ukrainian troops out of the crimean peninsula. and we have so far there are quite a terrifying news here in moscow this weekend last week we saw the dark stay in our mobilization offer as russian troops and right next to the ukrainian border. i was to maneuver a son in the fall is the man next to the crimean peninsula so the message is very chio and
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ukrainians that kids should not think that the minute that military threat from moscow's over on the race of the right to protect them calmer and compatriots in ukraine on these and they hold up the pressure. i'm all for military intervention we're talking about the for tat sanctions between moscow and the united states it is the view from moscow who exactly are they targeting in the united states and what has been the reaction in moscow just briefly the recent be very fierce and very determined to oma and said the deputy of tory ministers to hear the echo of the state for the first time ever that i would assume that some russia is ready to raise the stakes in international issues such as that the nuclear talks in iran all this is during crises. i feel like the stakes are indeed raise marcus ran thinking very much for that update. do levin is now afghan officials say that three gunmen have been killed after
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they opened fire at a luxury hotel in kabul. another gunman is said to be trapped there is no other reports of injuries. witnesses say the attack began in the restaurant of the serena hotel is considered one of doubles most secure world titles and is home to many un staff and international diplomats or in afghanistan to monitor the club selections. the attack came after cole attack earlier today and all of us. the last ten police officers in the student dad. european union has reached a provisional deal on how to shield taxpayers from future bank balance compromise came after all my awesome team. eu governments and the yukon and other mechanism to wind down insolvent banks is another key step toward establishing the european banking will win a european banking union rather than wildwood is the great europe much closer together and the agreement will be put to a vote in the european parliament next
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month when the bank of cyprus came close to collapse in twenty thirteen private and commercial depositors with over one hundred thousand euros faced huge losses. but european taxpayers footed the rest of the massive bill now european authorities want to shield taxpayers from any future bank sector and stability. the second pillar of banking union ensures that shareholders creditors and depositors bear the brunt of any future bank failures. eu leaders have already agreed that the ecb will begin policing one hundred thirty major eurozone banks this november. now if shareholders can cover an ailing banks costs fifty five billion euro bank sector funded single resolution mechanism will be used. the srs board will also decide that the bank has to be wound down. in an emergency the decision will be taken by the resolution fund's board within twenty four hours in cooperation with the european commission there are now far fewer people involved in
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the decision. but critics point out that an affected country has the right to veto the closure of any of its banks. the third pillar of banking union has yet to be decided upon. that is the cross border guarantee of bank deposits. that's because well capitalized. german banks in particular are worried it might end up finding zombie banks. eu leaders have managed to reach a hard fought compromise just in time for the eu parliamentary elections in may. cyber attacks on how the markets reacted too well the news on thursday. stefan wolf has a wrap up from the frankfurt stock exchange many facts of this banking union have been discussed here on the frankfurt old today. bank shareholders are not contented german banks might step in the us than expected to see if a foreign banks get into trouble on the other hand critics say that in fifty five billion euros. maybe not enough to say one single bank. if there is again the banking crisis
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of the treatise in general has cost also of the monetary policy of the treasuries of kennedy on the president of the head to head to bed to interest rates might get hired in the middle of next year. and to this is something that has been discussed if paulson says some in this. this turned out to be very cautious today. i left the club so i got those market numbers for you now been a state in europe where germany's dax traders were cautious thousand staff on mentions it was up by just a quarter percent that nineteen ninety six the year stocks fifty was also higher by about four tenths of a percent closing at three thousand and eighty eight over in your trading is still underway for the dow jones industrial average ended higher by more than half a percent at sixteen thousand three hundred and sixteen the euro dollar is coming off of its high is twenty one year i will get to one dollars and thirty seven
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cents. we're going to a short break here in the journal still ahead for us the plight of refugees fleeing the violence between muslims and christians in the central african republic on the floor and stay with us each. so i used to watch. all the images. programs the whole package dw on the future. the media center on dw to see it. i use this to make sure she doesn't stop smoking. she uses a rather
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unique. ay ay. chile strictly to the expertise to help the eu. we do in the future held for life without tobacco. welcome back to the cell has the bloody fighting between muslims and christians in central african republic continues the united nations is warning that the crisis has reached a terrifying level rise united nations commissioner for human rights non ep laces children had been decapitated and have been reports of militia fighters engaging in countless thousands of people have been killed since last year in the ca are in our next report we visit a refugee camp overflowing with people desperate for sanctuary the cars made of old tin cans are among the few toys to children in the past or repeat you can
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the number one on the grounds of his church pastor david and demon has taken in more than forty thousand people. they fled in fear of muslims the lake of militias responsible for last year's reign of terror the dramatic situation. it holds. sometimes people have nothing to do that to forty three days and then to rise to the ball but most of like the fighters had fled the capital funky many families still don't dare leave the camp. they're still heavy fighting in the neighborhood around the church every night. a few kilometers away the last muslims of funky standby packed suitcases. they've taken refuge is an old painter at the airport. for them the present situation is even more dramatic because the monkey. the anti bill aka militia has now gained the upper hand has committed cruel acts of retaliation
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against the muslim population john met up with their children are among the victims. when the anti bill aka fighters took over her village. her husband had just enough money for his family to flee. he was forced to stay behind and skill that has been named one of my new i never know what will happen to us next i'm hit with my children and we have no money and don't know anyone has a mission to get the money so i can't go anywhere to get help to kidnap one of many. she can't leave anyway. christian and an honest and to outlaw bikers have set up roadblocks only a few hundred meters away. they want to eliminate all remaining muslims the militants can be identified by their machetes and their good luck charms. i was over and above. remember this is my protection that come up with that all these amulets protect me from
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the enemies but what's with the ball with them i can go into battle. the bottom of both. the malicious lies about weapons seem almost limitless. the commander of the african union troops proudly displays the weapons that have been seized so far you didn't win the game when the numbers as we speak this discount. but the general admits his six thousand soldiers still don't have control. two thousand french troops are already in the country to provide support. it's still not clear when the european union will send more troops to stop the killing in central africa ivory coast has agreed to transfer shouldered moved to the international criminal court to face charges of crimes against him while he was a close ally of acts has it wrong on both. and the leader of the notorious young patriot militia is wanted for oboe in the atrocities committed after a disputed election in ivory coast in twenty ten
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will join his former boss bad though who has been in the international criminal court's attention since twenty oh one ban the governor's main opposition party has filed corruption charges against president jacobs the less accusing him of corruption members of the democratic alliance filed eight separate charges against the president at a police station near his home on the charges stem from millions of euros worth of state money spent on renovating zoo was home the opposition says the work was a flagrant abuse of money and say bill taipans him and teach. another day of searching is about to get underway off the coast of australia following the biggest believe it yet for the missing malaysia airlines flight three seventeen. officials say they've discovered satellite imagery of two large objects floating in the ocean. not sure yet but those objects could be part of the missing right now so far as morning
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dawns and the hunt to find the plane resumes. in what is the major international effort this norwegian freighter is now leading the hunt for missing flights three seventy. the st petersburg has now arrived in an area of the indian ocean to one of ten thousand km southwest of perth. it's where investigators checking satellite images spotted objects in the water the largest image of the same as the system being twenty four wickets. and this one cents more than that and then the number above the images i'm in the general area the aerial search was halted at nightfall and will resume again on friday morning several ships are on their way to join the effort the first reconnaissance aircraft in the area was unable to make the siding it's far from certain the objects are wreckage of the mh three seventy kg but malaysian authorities are treating it as a credible
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lead. school starts this fall we will continue. and that is why i say that it has retired to find you can crop and to beat the blackhawks. but instead the attendees must also show that we must never never give up hope. hope is all these families have they been waiting anxiously for two weeks for news of their loved ones. much like the bag on the bed rounded the ocean that title. the problem was a fun time. i still have to believe that all passengers are in life and well behaved and in good health. the mind relatives have lit candles for all the children women and men on board flight them each three seventeen. their fate remains uncertain. so why did mr joined on the studio by two men veteran he's an aviation expert
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welcome to the show could have you with us in this story has taken so many turns authorities are now saying that they have equal credible lead what you think. well they also were very careful saying we don't know if it is these parts the parts of the open or not. so we really have to fight these forests have to be savage and then identified to be going to the plane can be really have something. but i think most of this is due to be rude or inappropriate. the cornish nation policy of the malaysian authorities the government and off the alarm. and to this of course it's all rumor is that much space and does nothing which will help of the verses of the victims. now the search area and has announced a slightly but it is still a massive size to just give us a sense of how exactly this is all quart and a bit. what this assertion is nasa to looking at each new units korea cuba because this is roughly the size of the unites states of america
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and here we have to locate something which is sixty meters but sixty meters. um what they were most likely to notice the door and brought me to carry equipment intended to reach the research vessels such as is the way they were probably been the support of the submarines because we are running against time. umm most important is not find the black boxes the flight data recorder and a cough that was recorded. ghosts have fifteen are seeking a leverage of bacon on the pitch it. but the trees only last for thirty one days so we're in the twelve houses the plane disappeared. so we have seventeen days left to find time to locate the mother was he receives operation and immovable to face the same like we have seen but ethan's four seven which is to keep up in june two thousand and nine flight from brazil to paris to meet the atlantic to one u to locate the wreckage and in to rescue these boxes. and it costs twenty five million euros to spend with the governor have been so many theories as to what
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happened to this claim ranging from the latest the black hole to catastrophic fire to terrorism. what do you think was the most likely scenario but rather tend not to be speaking it is up high and as a chosen for him to be in my opinion on facts and on solid evidence that i can't resist is great check the point here is. there are two scenarios like a bomb. one is that it was catastrophic. the band going home. um and that therefore it is a gritty things that no hefty seen them and confirmed that happened or it was a criminal he was a kid. now i am always tends to think that god is trying to see a plane so before they can do a pretty things so maybe turns out that an act of terrorism is not an act of terrorism but rather terrorists. it was still waiting for the facts as you mentioned tim and ever and aviation expert thank you
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so very much. police in the us state of texas have discovered more than one hundred people being held against their will in a house in houston. the media is reporting that the man women and children were what american migrants be held by people smugglers and saudi money for bringing them across the border from mexico police came to visit downtown houston house after a tip off that human traffickers were holding illegal migrants captain they were looking for a twenty four year old woman and her two young children when they broke open a locked door there they found a lot more. and there's a hundred plus people claimed in tooele one's story fifteen or sixteen hundred ft ups squalid conditions dirty filthy conditions the woman and her children were among one hundred gt people held at the house houston has become a hub for smugglers bringing people into the united states. it's
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about six hours from the mexican border but has good highway lanes to the rest of the country houston police discover people held by traffickers on a regular basis. find this size is extraordinary the largest number of individuals and that spells that i've seen that we've encountered and probably the best five or six years but it's not a happy and for these migrants who came to the us looking for a better life. once they've been fingerprinted. most are likely to be deported. so as often as hear the gentle thank you very much for watching. remember there's more news here due to be at the top of the hours of tennis again. shea. and when
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