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refuse to notice. faces change the world right. to picture. from around the. globe. to the. breaking news this hour russia plans to send a second aid convoy to devastated eastern ukraine as the humanitarian situation that continues to deteriorate under constant bombardment by kiev's forces. bases the ukrainian army dropped more bombs people are forced to bury loved ones in their backyards cut off from cemeteries. nobody uses statements in step up their recruitment campaign with young muslims from across the globe joining the
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extremists we report on the scale on the threat of the jihadist movement. in the u.k. and france when a growing border. is accused of becoming a refueling stop the thousands of illegal migrants hoping to get to britain. are you watching the international we're coming to you live from moscow it's now one pm here in the russian capital it's good to have you with us russia is planning to send another aid convoy to ukraine civilians that continue to face a humanitarian crisis that's according to a statement by russia's foreign minister. joins me now with more on this good to see that can you give us some details then of what russia's foreign minister. well first of all russia will continue participating in all of the aid efforts for the
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southeast of ukraine along with the official government in kiev the european union the red cross the always see and the rest of the parties involved meanwhile syria a lot of are upset that this second convoy convoy of humanitarian aid should be heading to a look gone to the east of ukraine very soon the scenario should be somewhat similar to the previous time however the process should be streamlined and should take much faster. the few military institution in ukraine the wars any slowdown of aid would violate international law so we would like to agree on the conditions for sending the second convoy on the same route with ukrainian authorities as soon as possible we're convinced it must be done this week while the first humanitarian convoy is already in low gonski a russian trucks that delivered to the humanitarian aid already back at their bases
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after spending more than a week in the waiting at the border and actually traveling sergey lavrov said that the whole situation around this humanitarian convoy was not healthy at all and the convoy was suspected of something all the time meanwhile the international press the always see their red cross all had access to this humanitarian convoy and the proles says should have been streamlined from the very beginning but obviously it was and now also spreads stress that russia continuously calls. it is ready to hold talks in regards to that in any given formats of the moment there are a couple of formats that are working that. the format involves the ukraine germany france and russia and there is a geneva format as well which involves ukraine the european union the united states and russia as well now all of those formats are calling for
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a cease fire as soon as possible also sergey lavrov mentioned that the upcoming meeting in minsk between the customs union the european commission and ukraine lateral meetings are scheduled and perhaps the presence of russian presence of ukraine could meet and talk. for a month thank you very much from across arrive reporting. don't yet going eastern ukraine has enjoyed another twenty four hours of heavy shelling from the ukrainian army rocket launches have once again rich in time neighborhoods apart and these two locals have been killed but also came under fire in the center of done yet two buildings were damaged and you can see shattered glass everywhere locals say the hospital was fired out from a short distance some patients were transported to nearby hospitals others were moved to the basement. just moves were.
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only. criticism. for thousands of citizens of eastern ukraine shelling and bombing has become an every day gruesome reality people now are learning to cope with their families and friends falling victim to chaos assault has the story. this is a place where the living are among the did and where the did are being buried among the living. under this mound of dirt lies the love of puddles life his wife that million where. we were just a. puddle takes me to the place we lived million was killed it's only a street away she was walking home when the missile hit. the.
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ball. in the. malls or any young. ten years ago he says god smiled down on him that day real who are nearby. the streets are quiet except for a few children who've braved the sunshine in between shelling residents hunkered down in sale is as mortar and artillery fire rains down telephones are broken mobile phones almost never work and shops are boarded up and running looting the mood for anything that a little bit of the credit goes to the prevailing sway with you leaving. but also bones may be done. listen to trees about five kilometers away from the town of shaft tosk it's a straight road to get there but it's
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a very difficult be to take when you're coming under shelling. if gainey is a volunteer grave digger he says one hundred fifty people have died in the past three weeks that seven a day many of whom never make it here. most. of us for work of them are but the bodies are piling up and like pavel residents are dazed in shock he gives us his daughter's phone number and asks if we will call her with no access to the outside world he hasn't yet told her her mother is did as the ukrainian army closes in terrified residents prepared to wait it out surrounded by they did poorly see r.t. shutoffs eastern ukraine. with war waging in the a stew korean president petro poroshenko is vowing to boost military spending by three billion dollars but where will the money come from leading
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a columnist say kira's finances are in tatters and here are the figures on the surface things may seem rosy after the international monetary fund granted kiev a seventeen billion dollar loan but it did come with conditions most importantly the national debt to g.d.p. ratio should be no higher than sixty percent but it's now predicted to reach eighty seven percent in just four years time economic shrinkage in july is six and a half percent last year it was only one point three percent on top of that ukraine owes nine billion dollars in various debt payments this year this when its currency is at an all time low or economist jeffrey summers explains why he believes it's a catastrophe. we have the ever shrinking g.d.p. we have the loss of crimea horse the lost production from the donbass region and the cost of the civil war itself so it's really quite a catastrophe and i would say that the i.m.f. is in denial regarding the ability of ukraine to pay bondholders or itself. not
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only is the country's g.d.p. falling but its energy bill it's increasing and this represents not only a worsening of its balance of payments position but also makes ukrainian industry you know what little there is left function and even less competitive even higher energy costs moreover we have the situation or it has to pay for expensive gas with a declining currencies. well the conflict has wrecked the heartland of ukraine's economy down yet that's where the country's main plants and factories are based many of them have either been badly damaged or closed because it's too dangerous to work in a war zone much of the regional infrastructure has also been destroyed krycek spurting global financial markets patrick says no one would want to invest in ukraine's economy right now. the situation in ukraine is that obviously it's incredibly difficult when you've had some sort of an insurrection on the streets a revolution lots of art he evil because that impacts on the economy and therefore it's incredibly difficult to get your statistics absolutely precise in such
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a time it's really a tragedy for the people of ukraine what we see at the moment is in a colony that is on the verge of a death spiral we've all the asli see all of the sorts of terrible warfare that are happening within the borders of the country that's a tragedy because actually it's the eastern corner of the country around don yes we're in fact the industry is that really adds to the overall g.d.p. what's the news we hear out of ukraine all the time fighting warfare problems who's going to invest in the back of that nobody who's going to invest in economy where you don't have a clear rule of law where you cannot appreciably believe that your assets will not be in some way squandered taken away through bribery or indeed all right still and nobody kiev remain silent over the whereabouts of missing russian photo correspondent andre standing by ukraine's top human rights official expecting to be briefed on the case over the weekend stan and disappeared in ukraine three weeks
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ago there is a global movement calling for his release with several cities in argentina joining the campaign various rights groups and activists have launched an online appeal to key have to do everything possible to find him would post all the latest information and updates about stand in on our website r.t. dot com. french president francois hollande has accepted the government's resignation after the prime minister dissolved the cabinet. has been asked for my new cabinet on tuesday in line with the course for the country by the president it comes amid calls from french ministers for changes to the country's economic policies the economy minister said on sunday it's time to resist what he calls germany's obsession with austerity the prime minister's ratings have been extremely low recently while president hollande remains the most unpopular president in fifty years according to the latest poll.
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we were british politicians have lashed out at french plans to set up a refugee center up that could help thousands of migrants get to the u.k. they say it would actually magnet attracting even more desperate people trying to enter britain through the french port city of callaway now the u.k. has a border checkpoint there and city or thora sees a complaining they're being overrun by migrants trying to sneak into britain. takes a closer look at the growing rift. in the french quarter galle this has become a familiar sight destitute migrants the majority from east africa and the middle east have made the town their temporary home these makeshift tents on an industrial wasteland have been nicknamed the jungle. i have never seen in my life you see i come from the war to be loose for example in there for a life is a bit of gum disease estimates put the number of migrants here in cali one on the
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hearth thousand on these men women and children have been queuing up for the past two hours to get some food provided for them by a volunteer organization and for many of them this is the only meal they're going to get to eat all day the majority of the people we speak to tell us their aim is to make the journey across the english channel it's believed a hundred try to get to the u.k. illegally each week stowed away in lorries they're desperate to go to england you know they really that's what they want they don't want to stay here it's not a very nice place to stay and even if they ask for asylum many stay on the street for weeks or months before the bin have logic cali's mess says the town is so the scenes by refugees that locals fear for their safety and investors and pulling out of the area so frustrated as natasha bouchard that she said she's willing to buy
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ferry tickets to send all the migrants over to britain she's even called for the u.k.'s border to be moved from its current location in the cali ferry terminal over to the port of dover. there is only one police in the world where country's borders are not physically located in their own country and those here in cali clearly doesn't work we are hostages of the decisions and the policies of the british government i'm demanding that the border is moved back to its own kind. treat britain's borders should be in due were in the united kingdom it's not our job to control britain's borders kelly come to coop and they don't care how bad things are for us the u.k. government needs to start doing its job and not leaving it up to us to do it here in france. just twenty miles across the channel here in dover the u.k. hasn't exactly got its arms wide open the british government is so concerned over the migrants desperate attempts to make it to britain in deniz and makeshift
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vessels that a special fleet of border force boats has been assigned to patrol this coastline as for the suggestion to move the u.k.'s borders away from france the u.k. government has told us it's not in their plans locals in dover tell us that they've already had enough to service so many that we can tell he is from his responsibility if they reaching their shores and believes that they should maintain a responsibility golden triangle flood house was just that is that it's a problem that no one wants to have isn't it back in cali a dinner time is while they're here these men and women's lives are taken up by simple questions like where their next meal will come from or how they can get a shower all the authorities in france and britain continue to wash their hands of them. kalai and over well the migrant situation in cali is growing
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increasingly were strong the first six months of this year over seven thousand illegal immigrants were arrested that last more than double the previous year. coming up announcing international moments of the weeks of range the u.s. town of the past to pay its final respects to a teenager shot dead by police. plus the story of one man who made his dreams fly quite literally all coming up after the break. those who want to get involved to stop isis in iraq are allied with isis in syria but we still should be doing everything we can to support the free syrian opposition who will continue to provide military assistance and advice to the iraqi
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government and kurdish forces as they battle these terrorists. as russia and the west continue to drift apart into a new cold war russia's worldview of international politics is largely neglected in western media and in the halls of power russia will defend its national interest and also house its own red lines. they say the necessity is the mother of invention and one russian man that means in
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living the high life in a home made to play. never report on how his dream took flight. sir gay and his eight year old son took a flight to their holiday destination there'd be nothing exceptional about that word not for one thing you got a little i made the plane we flew in myself i know every single tiny part of it and of course it gives me great comfort i feel confident about it has spent over five years building and from scratch using mostly fiberglass plastic old machinery parts and has inexhaustible and yes i'm sara ganim has sunny kita spent a total of twenty three hours in the sky travelling from the heart of siberia to the coast of the black sea. i was born in a very remote area in a small village there were no roads there it was like living on an island once my father told me that when i grow up i would be able to build some type of
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cross-country vehicle that would get me anywhere i ever wanted i was always dreaming about it but his real passion for airplanes started back in ninety seven when russia introduced a new law that allows anyone to have a private plane for personal use so we can if i had to overcome a number of challenges because it is a self made aircraft i had to obtain a special certificate for the plane aviation experts had to acknowledge it is safe to operate so now i am a legal user of the flying space but the shaft cheek families and bishan reaches even further. one day we took a globe and decided we wanted to go to the equator if you draw a straight line from the city of sue good to the equator you get to the most leaves this is the place we now dream of visiting together with my son there is only one thing standing in their way in the himalayas sergei sas he needs to the engine to
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increase the flying out of twos and as we've come to learn for him not even the sky's the limit might in the question are. now from an on air to online on holocaust survivors lash out at israel for the on going military operation in gaza you can get the full story on our website. if you ever want to own your own town then it's your lucky day one is up for sale in canada at a bargain price the full story at r.t. don't call. islamic state militants waging war in iraq and syria have managed to carry out a successful global recruitment campaign that's according to the latest report from a syrian human rights watchdog now last month more than six thousand men join the jihadists some of them from western nations and it's not just adults the extremists don't mind having the young fight for them tonight this thirteen year old belgian boy earlier this year he traveled to syria with his older brother to fight alongside the radicals the united states has been increasingly turning to social
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networks when extremist posted images of a child the capitated adult in a reenactment of the american journalist execution the caption followers to and i quote teach your children to cut the next well canada has also become one of the recruitment centers for the islamic state militants that's according to a local a man who claims the islamists are infiltrating universities and mosques across the country. you have the isis. you know recruitment interest you are has been very successful and they have very successfully recruited comediennes europeans americans out is that going to be in their computer. again has to be in writing get their number you know hundreds and thousands of people from best in rural who are fighting again well garrido was created in a grimy style. and you can see you know all work great of destruction
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and atrocities carried all around who are similarly isis is worse now don't cry there and they are not going to stay just in sudan or are going to come everybody is going to work. here it and there are not going to stay in syria and iran believe me to more news now from around the world and three inmates have reportedly been beheaded in a prison riot in brazil and the seven hundred prisoners a said to have been involved in the uprising which is damaged much of the penitentiary the inmates took at least two guards hostage the dissatisfied about how the prison is controlled as well as about food and hygiene standards. the strongest quake in twenty five years to hit california has injured more than one hundred twenty people in six of them seriously a state of emergency has been declared after the strong earthquake hit the san francisco bay area there have been significant damage to buildings nearly seventy thousand homes have been left without power. and an opposition candidate has won
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the presidential election in the caucuses republic of abkhazia claiming more than half of the vote the country's new leader will have to deal with a legacy of years of rampant corruption snap elections took place after the country was hit with a wave of protests that forced the president to resign. now in the u.k. dog owners are said to be killing their pets with kindness with britain's canines now some of the fattest in the world and that is andrew farmer reports it's not just poorly pets that might need to look at their diets. bruce the boxer is fat and is trying to shed some pounds that lack of exercise and poured diet saw him balloon in size to almost twice his ideal weight these will be honey and goat's milk every morning and any dinner in the evening and obviously the few treats of biscuits only goes into he's in good company though research shows over half of britain's dogs
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are in fact obese that's up fifteen percent in four years that makes them some of the fattest in the world a quick straw poll of our own helped explain why. give them chicken fillets. cheery sticks and if you can get their hands on actually have a fish and chips put in the bathroom for the same results we don't get. julie jones is only too aware of the problem but says often dog owners aren't feeding their pet just one cup of tea is the human equivalent of eating a hamburger and being overweight consider fairly effect a dog's health is their pet and i love him dearly and i generally say you killing with love they get joint problems ok then they get heart problems and then there's difficulty of proving. but surgeries like julie's are offering help in fact three causes if you cave vets now have the city clinics chubby canines including bruce
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are being put on a diet of wholesome food and exercise well fifty five kilograms but the thing is he's not the only saggy dog story in the u.k. there are currently four million dogs that are overweight. and animal experts don't expect that figure to fall fast dogs are like their owners so the saying goes and with over sixty percent of britons now obese that is becoming the new norm individual and you can do something about it only quickly but again i think. just like be human to be sixty now it's got to the point of being so common that it's going to take a long time to deal with in society the three say there's no looking back this much is losing his guts as an impressive rate for him at least it's saying nothing tastes as good as slim failed. andry farmer. london well on the
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way on r.t.e. international sophie shevardnadze talks to a former child soldier about his gruesome childhood but if you're watching in the u.k.'s national times even going underground stay with us. eugenics but eugenics vulgarize ation of darwin science punishment for an uncommitted crying i was never the instrument for believing in eighty feebleminded still today for the few i don't know why. but i still don't know why genetic improvement through forced sterilization the basis for nazi ideology don't stop at just sterilizing yet again and now go to the point of death. for years rarely discussed until now really rather not talk about that right.
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we think about why we think there are. rules and beaches. coconut gently swaying in the ocean breeze. in fact. why it has a deep dark little secret a secret the u.s. government would like you to know about. to our way. well i did do a search. ok good all will be of. hello
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welcome to. shevardnadze what do you do when war robs you of your childhood my guest today lost his mother in a fighting in sudan and became a soldier at the age of seven the kindness of strangers and music helped him overcome his life a childhood steeped in extreme violence manual job is now a wall famous hip hop artist and he's here today to share his extraordinary story with us. there are three hundred thousand child soldiers in the
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world most of them for a. drug war drug a family forced to kill. children good soldiers how does one escape such a fate and what happens if they do. a manual joel child soldier turned hip hop artists welcome it's great to have you on our show today i just want to go back and remind our viewers where you started out you were only about seven years old when your mother was killed and the second sudanese civil war then you became a child soldier and were told that a k forty seven would be your only parent that it would be taking care of you from now on is this how you really felt that your life depended on this weapon to survive.

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