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in the series seventeen ninety and are watching and h c. the room. i was. still going to lie or deeds as the winter when i very telling. now wait for mom her journey is coming up for the next thirty minutes deepening tensions in eastern ukraine as government troops to retake the buildings from robust and protesters. note the massive surveillance europe's top court strikes down a directive on restoring people's private phone and internet data. this story is breaking down as he describes the woman at the shot and killed his girlfriend
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ukraine has lodged a counter offensive to keep control over its territory. on tuesday kiev recaptured and seized the building and one of the three cities in the country's east demanding independence for testers in the remaining strongholds have been flying the russian flag and say they want and when the country ukraine calls them terrorists and the us as they are agents sent by russia to de stabilize the country the very latest from our correspondent on the ground in just a moment but first to kiev where tempers had a breaking point on tuesday the detentions in eastern ukraine are having repercussions in kiev. fists flew in parliament as politicians blamed each other for worsening the country's crisis. ladies and gentlemen ukraine now finds itself in
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the middle of a war or our enemies ban treaty and then she turns two. the debate comes after production militants stormed the regional administration building in the eastern city of talk it over the weekend it's now under heavy surveillance by special security forces after authorities managed to clear them. but protesters still controls state buildings the nearby donetsk in the hunt for the government towards their holding dozens of hostages. washington says the protesters are paid outside agitators. us secretary of state john kerry worries. russia is looking to expand its borders russia is clear and unmistakable involvement in the stabilizing and engaging in separatist activities in the east of ukraine is more than deeply disturbing. no one should be folded believe me no one is full. by what could potentially be a contrived pretext for military intervention
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justice we saw in crimea russia is deflecting blame pointing his finger at the museum is huge. we are deeply convinced that the situation cannot be calm down or turned into national dialogue in the ukrainian authorities continue ignoring the interests of the southeastern regions of the country. kerry and the proper set to meet sometime next week along with ukrainian and eu representatives. but lavrov said so far no firm dates had been set. meanwhile progress and demonstrators including these protesters in the hunt continue to fight for referendums they say will pave the way from becom of russ part has sent military vehicles to look on airports been. our correspondent mark is rare is in the city of donetsk one of the stronghold as we just heard of these protesters mark is so what's the situation on the ground right now. well right now
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the situation seems to be quite easy christ day that we as this iam about ten thousand protesters in front of the administration burning here. right behind me on one of st de santos chrissy not done yet scum. they are listening to a southern russian news the kid they listening to um speeches about what the done yet so keep this republic is at the end of our heart to reach down into a hole in a referendum about the missive or any chief of the region and maybe unification with pressure. now both ukraine and the united states and that russia is behind all of this on to grasp what are your impressions there on the ground well we don't have any evidence fall of provoking terraces and from russia into a tiny ants come so far. and of course it all looks like the crime you see narnia but we did not see any on the russian troops on the va could say he and the city center so far and a lot of people i'm talking to
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him. it seems to be of various sincere about and wanted to join russia quite soon. now russia has warned ukraine against any sort of military measures against these protesters but as good as her date ukraine has launched a counter offensive so what is all about me. when fall we know so far umno we saw and heard about tommy's a special police forces about riot police forces are trying to force back to the pro russian protesters in the loading zone in the city's open hockey if anything it's going to hunt the situation in the two on sony one hundred and fifty km from here is quite tense as you mentioned in read your thoughts before they are the military vehicle it's that they're heading for the apple. um i can come from these reports but the situation is quite odd times over that because the media pro russian protests if they seized including off of the secrets of the center of the buildings it stuff is packed with weapons. so it's quite dangerous over that
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mark was ready to bury much for that insight. the russian intelligence service as well as being has confirmed the death of text in insurgent leader until tomorrow off from the fsb said it killed the islam as commander in a combat operation in january. one rough united local militant groups in the north caucasus and was blamed for a series of attacks in russia. over the past four years is thomas reported his death in him julie you ever feel like someone is watching you. all of us are a little bit more aware these days of our privacy interests of our personal data is being used especially in the wake of the nsa spying scandal. on tuesday privacy advocates want the big victory here in europe the bloc party's court says rules requiring companies to store citizen's personal phone and internet data are illegal. now the data was stored for up to two years and can be accessed by national police and intelligence agencies but
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the european court of justice now says that it is a fundamental infringement of basic rights we lived in an age of comic tennessee one of my mobile phone landline or computers. political decisions themselves may not be recorded details like when and where they took place are also revealing. until now but they did to be stored for up to two years in the eu the european court of justice has got some japanese resistance to the regulation you can have a stadium in mineral reserves is no longer directed to know how to implement its win total were in danger of being penalized so there's no reason to quit the trough and you'll know this isn't what's in it gemini implemented the data retention directive in two thousand inmates. but it was an old by the country's constitutional court two years later on the basis of privacy concerns. now the directors been struck down the question is what will happen next. germany's
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interior minister supports data storage incense and circumstances. a couple of good moniker knitting like it's my fellow interior ministers the german association of the judge's view the retention of data necessary for investigating serious crimes. that is how the team for. the i love about this or the european court acknowledged that data retention often serves the interest but said it had to be kept in check. and our political correspondent peter craven told us earlier how this bowling going down in germany. well one full with jim and justice minister said the militarization of the day they responded to this ruling earlier today by saying that it was a watershed a huge opportunity time as she puts it for a rethink. time to get the right balance between freedom and security. that's an important common because it very much reflects the way many people here in jamaica likely to respond to this
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growling that people are very sensitive in germany about the surveillance because of the country's past because of the past and because of the khomeini school in east european bees jimmy and the spying in supplying instructions that the cab and people are very anxious about losing their right to privacy of them becoming wall critics call transparent citizens in their old home also that dudley sensitivity so well. because of the revelations which have in the last year or so that the nsa spying and surveillance activities. i should add however that there are very much to say leads to the story as we've seen little bit in the reports that there are members of my new imac course conservative policy especially the little one or the wing of the call to his view and the kind of things that this directive sent and is very useful tools in the battle against terrorism and organized crime they point to the fact that this directive was adopted in two thousand and six after the madrid attacks of two thousand and four the london attacks of two thousand and four life. sources say there are two summits to
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the argument. peter craven expedia day. time for some business is in protest on tuesday stock market action correspondent current these incentives this crap from the frankfurt stock exchange markets remain concerned about the situation in eastern ukraine and is for example further sanctions should be imposed on russia benjamin businesses would get a few bits as well. this is what people here at the exchange are concerned about the pope's address this now while putting in at the ending support season which is about to stop in the united states it the company's managed to talk. market expectations with the ending was quite least keep a couple of positive outlooks better than that there is potential again that stock prices can climb people here are convinced. i was reporting from frankfurt well as get a closer look at the market numbers now chile's to close slightly lower at ninety four ninety the euro stocks fifty finish the day down the choir for
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the centers across the atlantic the dow jones industrial is still trading and is pretty flat and on currency markets the euro is trading at one us dollar and thirty seven ninety seven. an athlete i had just mentioned there's been a lot of talk about what the impact could be in the ukraine crisis on the business world. the west as promised more sanctions on russia but other companies doing business there really all that nervous all at the world's biggest and best of hatred that is underway in hanover this week engineering firms that sell our products to russia. taking stock of the situation these visitors to the universe there are representing the ukrainian company whose factory is located near the russian border and at the expo there trying to find new buyers for their pressure gauges doesn't he opened this year here at the expo. checking the news from ukraine every half hour in keeping up to date with the situation. all these they were really concerned. this month. a
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couple of stalls away our russian manufacturers they're selling control systems for oil and gas firms none of the roughly thirty russian companies intending to hand over exco decided to cancel their trip. many russian firms are seeking western context. investors and know how here despite the political crisis. will you lose it i see the situation will stabilize soon and will be business as usual there will be problems i do. but if the crisis does escalate. some firms would be hit hard by tougher sanctions on russia. electronics for hawking has been doing business there for twenty five years. it makes connectors for joining electrical circuits. ponting would like to do more business and that our kids. a ban on selling to rush out would cost it dearly the miss ellis photo for putting a stop to business would cost tens of millions of people cost us the turnover equivalent of a small business. the names. no
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one and hannah for once the war in ukraine the crisis is making firms here in increasingly nervous other stories trying earnestly to mourn anti corruption campaigners on trial are facing order charges after they called for officials to publish details of their assets of all men are members of the new citizens movement a group working for reform within the chinese system is the latest in a series of similar trials that have been condensed by both the european union and united states. this is the main entrance to the court today jane jones from a moving car police stopped him. most of the building. china wants no publicity at the trial and presented a group of foreign diplomats from attending the way and change as she are accused of around thirty cases of organizing and staging street protests. it covers things like displaying banners and making speeches coming for officials to declare assets. the defense
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lawyers as the trial is a farce and nothing more than reflection. this little scene that they didn't cause any harm to society moreover the behaviors should be praised and encouraged. this is a very easy tasty junction it doesn't require much extra legal knowledge. they are clearly innocence. there isn't even a trace of it in a gauzy all the way. well after he gave that interview plainclothes police officers demanded to see the warriors ninety and there were scuffles can he refuse to show it. the chinese government has pledged to fight corruption but it's also a crackdown on dissidents campaigning against graft. twenty members of the new citizens' movements have been put on trial. the leader of the group she was young is one of china's most prominent rights activists. he was jailed for four years in january. one minute break
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coming up cost of the story is continued his testimony on tuesday describing the moment that he shot his girlfriend he said was a tragic as it was the rise of the regions in europe working to cut times more details after this break. went to study in germany. and you still have lots of questions. you'll find all you need to know about studying in germany here. information on courses admission requirements qualifications costs and much more. w don t use to intervene. the first port of call for anyone interested in studying in germany. i read it. when i took pics of me
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and peanut sauce the sauce the money. what a piece thanks to the new me fifteen union and the wound the cost of tickets to the wound from. hello again for over ukraine's future continues in previous ascension now a fact. other areas in europe are considering cutting ties is the seating from the countries they are part of europe's long simmering separatist movements are calling for their own referendums hoping that a majority in their regions vote in favor of independence against the central government. the names are famous for their team and tellers meniscus towels adults and children keep climbing onto each other shoulders in a vivid display of coordination in unity. but some catalan eons are feeling the urge to break away
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catalonia in spain strongest regional economy. many people there lament the transfer payments they pass on to the central government in madrid. they say the transfers are an unsustainable burden on their region. so they have been demonstrating for full independence. scotland is a step ahead of the catalogs in september and the country's people vote on independence. scotland has agreed with the rest of britain on holding a referendum. the government in london says it will respect the outcome. and so scotland's first minister has been trying to drum up support. the scottish independence to go for a strong economic growth in the north with the sailors would benefit everyone closest neighbors in the north of england more than anyone. the majority of scotland's five million people oppose independence but recent polls show
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the gap narrowing. activists point out that an independent scotland could decide without interference. how to spend the revenue from oil and gas production. some residents of northern italy's twenty regions. when scotland was ending. secessionist and then as an intentional and save the national government is seeking down the region's people. some twenty one billion euro as of anita's tax revenue is diverted daniel ichiro largely to plug holes in the budget calls for independence has been growing amid economic hard times last week special operations unit arrested twenty four secessionist in the region they had allegedly been planning to try the homemade tank under then a sustained st mark's square to proclaim benitez and attendance the separatists and gain visibility online referendum on independence from italy the majority in the region allegedly voted in favor many questions surround
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the polls accuracy. our correspondent pointed to a sixteen joins us now from brussels to about the rise of prosperous separatist regions in european countries who say they want about a boy and great to have you on the program. what is the official position of brussels visiting these regional independence movements. well there is no official position as such to the european commission should be paid on the bias of my major european affairs however having said that the prison of the commission told him i know but also on the prison of the european council hammond on the wrong way have clearly stated that he would be very difficult for any reason that would declare independence from the member state of the european union to be done readmitted to the union they had such regions to become that will become independent the states would then need to go to the old sense of becoming a member can i really like serbia
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macedonian other candidate countries. and boy and the secessionist movement is spreading across the continent doesn't bode very well for the future of the european union well that and the pens which weighed and he lifted the european union is always an outreach to regional autonomy and in a way and it fits its essence has encouraged the use of horizontal still fun to pick up lily and to contemplate independence because he would be. in their minds much he's here too the separate from from spain all of britain and then rejoined the european union where their interests would be preserved. and in terms of common trade policy in common foreign policy center. however i'm you know obviously there is no move to print it is there's no precedent it would be. it is has this thing isn't on top the territory. however it is actively discouraged from brussels. the idea of secession. and then one needs
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to bear in mind that there is the sens is good. for every new member state to be admitted so that means the school conference on polenta would declare independence. everyone including spain and britain would have to agree with this go from being readmitted as the independent member state of the european union the lanterns stm brussels we appreciate your thoughts on the subject. now it's been a month since malaysian airlines flight seventy disappeared in the plane is thought to have crashed into the indian ocean. but there's still no certainty but the search for wreckage still ongoing. relatives of the passengers lit candles at a beijing hotel to remember their loved ones. the plane was on its way to the chinese capital from quality or when advantage what a time when so many of us walk around with gps enabled mobile phones in our pockets. it's hard to believe that it's huge airliner contest that is without a trace while
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researchers here in germany are working on ways in which that technological get to that never again plane like that can go missing. all kinds of commercial flights could potentially vanished from sight. ground based radar has a range of just four hundred kilometers the down to monitoring civil aviation are enormous. that's one reason why one three seventy and seemingly due to appear in my room one. tony hill ski and european bands from the german aerospace center the dl are in treatment are working on closing those gaps. using satellites. we make use of the front the planes mosul as a clean break to transmit deposition speed altitude and other useful information. and since that date is or was that we could record it impossible to stations on the ground. the green and
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researches experiment began a year ago with the launch of the european coal and the satellite equipped with a special antenna. altitude of eight hundred twenty km twelve b can receive so called ptsd signals the transponder system most commercial jets currently use my mom during that span the globe would require a whole fleet of satellites. a project costing billions the carrier is the family although the benefits you the park is that enables the airlines to operate small plane simultaneously. they can use on to one's roots that means they save fuel they do less damage to the environment. the benefits mysterious take a flight ending three seventy could be the driving force behind change. theoretically the european problem the satellite could have picked up the signals from the malaysia airlines boeing it was busy scanning and different part of the earth
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at the time. well it's been another dramatic day in the trial of oscar the story is in south africa. he'll start today described the moment he shot his girlfriend it was a testimony that everybody has been waiting to hear an emotional historian said that the shooting was a mistake he broke down the witness stand as he has questions the defendant walked into the courthouse for what would become a deal wrenching emotion. in a broken voice oscar the story is told accords going mad read the steam come out on their four month relationship of all expected him to the peace talks refused prosecutors betrayal of him as a gun obsessed heart and sing hymns income for a couple in love with a word about it but the good ten months of the hiccups relationships before. i was very keen in riga. i think if anything i was knitting more considered and she was at times. with me
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did a test takers but it's only because it was used historians also sought to explain text messages in which teams come said she was afraid of him. she admitted to having had felt insecure and jealous to order then the story is recounted for the courts the night that he shot his girlfriend at that point of this political committee that is the moment that we're in good terms there was the third minute instead the ancients month i thirst. his students are moments when it's all muscle needed to. to be done on that it needs to get much done the stories broke down in sobs after the testimony she said prompting the judge received us to adjourn the hearing for the day iran's president has begun
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an historic visit to britain it's the first official visit by an irish head of state as followers. and it follows the queen's trip to ireland three years ago. well the improved relations have been made possible by the ongoing peace process in northern island king and said it would be possible to wipe the slate clean about the past but he praised the current good relations between the island neighbors a royal welcome for michael d higgins on the steps of windsor castle. it's another sign of how far british irish relations have progressed in the past twenty years. that isn't cement a growing unease between the two countries the british army band played the irish national anthem and the grounds of the queen's main residence i know cheques then moved on to address both houses of the british parliament in westminster the peace process in northern ireland has a lot of
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close call between the two states. he sprays the progress made but said the work was not yet done for us. trent is in taking this in the progress of course a piece of northam. cos basically the road we travel the road in an act of creation because he is. dr government to shift responsibility to encourage and support those who need to complete the journey of making peace and construct in june. games went on to say britain and ireland had attained a closeness and warmth that once seemed unachievable. he'll spend a total of four days can bring that's all we have time for the dream of wanting the eu
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toowong will the tree i gave them a fair chance. in ireland. i think you see something up. what is so great about this. i must say that in the united states two variants of your sons and daughters. twenty five million. in fact horror something which greeted the time. links between ireland and the united states are dong and enjoying the time between teaching us presidents same irish heritage toasted keen on screen are repugnant. however president reagan and kennedy descendants were trying to immigrate to the united states
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