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breaking news this hour here on our team international russia plans to send a second aid convoy to devastated eastern ukraine as a humanitarian situation there continues to deteriorate under constant bombardment by keeps forces. this as the ukrainian army drops more bombs people are forced to bury loved ones in their backyards cut off from cemeteries. and the u.k. and france are in a growing border rift as a french pour town is accused of becoming a refueling stop for thousands of illegal migrants hoping to get to britain. islamic state militant step up their recruitment campaign with young muslims from
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across the globe joining the extremist we report on the scale and the threat of the jihadist movement. to ban in moscow you're watching our t.v. national with marina joshie welcome to the program now russia is planning to send another aid convoy to ukraine as civilians there continue to face a humanitarian crisis and that's according to a statement by russia's foreign minister are just cost of joins us now with more on this run do give us the details of what the russian foreign minister had to say well it was not the first nor will it be the last humanitarian aid convoy which will be sent to ukraine and russia is ready to participate in any aid efforts that will be coming up with the official government in kiev the european union the red cross or whoever else is involved meanwhile this second humanitarian aid convoys
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should be sent to the east of ukraine no later than this week and the process. could be streamlined this time around. the few military in situation in ukraine the wars any slowdown or fate would violate international law so we would like to agree on the conditions for same in the second convoy on the same route with ukrainian authorities as soon as possible we're convinced it must be done this week so just like sergei lavrov said the second convoy will take exactly the same route and the authorities don't mind if the ukrainian border guards or anyone else would like to kompany this second humanitarian convoy but obstacles that ports are the first time around should not take place at all now sergey lavrov said the situation around the first convoy was not healthy at all from the get go russia was accused of violating
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ukraine's solver and see by crossing the border and sending the humanitarian aid to the shell shocked. now allegations that. because something other than a what's the one what it was initially represented not humanitarian aid that was not confirmed by anyone the ukraine special services the members of the international press or the red cross for that matter another first call boy spends about a week on the ukrainian russian border until it's called were checked and the spent less than twenty four hours in the guns can are now safely back in russia meanwhile the always see monitors are saying that humanitarian crisis continues to escalate in the east of the country and sergey lavrov stressed that's a rush is a ready to work with anyone in any format to start the cease fire in the survey crane and deescalate the situation there meanwhile direct talks between russian and
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ukrainian presidents might take place at an upcoming meeting in minsk in biller roofs where regional leaders and european commission members will be coming up to discuss various issues. thanks so much for bringing us the details wrong calls for supporting their. now dinny ask in a string ukraine has endured another twenty four hours of having shelling from the ukraine army rocket launchers have once again ripped entire neighborhoods apart at least two locals have been killed a hospital also came under fire in the center of deniece two buildings were damaged and you can see shattered glass everywhere locals say the hospital was fired at from a short distance and some patients were transported to nearby hospitals others were moved to the basement. to. see just moves were. over. but. this isn't the.
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right. for thousands of citizens of eastern ukraine shelling and bombing has become an everyday gruesome reality people now are learning to cope with their families and friends falling victim to caves of salt mostly your house a story this is a place where the living are among the did and way they did being buried among the living. under this mound of dirt lies the love of puddles life his wife through media. puzzle takes me to the place with the media was killed it's only a street away she was walking home when the missile hit.
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the. school and what is the. one young. couple made through ten years ago he says god smiled down on him that day. the streets are quiet except for a few children who've braved the sunshine in between shelling residents hunkered down in cell 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 of the need is a little bit of a geek. sway with you lynn. but this was. done. the symmetry is about five kilometers away from the town of soft tosk it's a straight road to get there but it's a very difficult view to take when you're coming under shelling. if gainey is
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a volunteer grave digger he says one hundred and fifty people have died in the past three weeks that seven a day many of whom never make it here. yes book for love for us most. of us for whether it's. but the bodies are piling up and like puzzle 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 told her mother his did as the ukrainian army closes in terrified residents prepared to wait it out surrounded by they did poorly c.r.t. shutoffs eastern ukraine. now with war waging in the east ukrainian president better version is vowing to boost military spending by three billion dollars but where will the money come from the economists say give us our finances are in
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tatters and here's why well on a surface things may seem rosy after the international monetary fund granted cave seventeen billion dollar loan buy it came with conditions most importantly the national debt to g.d.p. ratio should be no higher than sixty percent it's now predicted to reach eighty seven percent in just four years konami shrinkage in july is six and a half per se and and last year was only one point three percent on top of that ukraine owes nine billion dollars in various dep a mince this year this when its currency is at an all time low because jeffrey summers explains why he believes it's a catastrophe. we have this 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. 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 where it has to pay for expensive gas with a declining currencies. the company has racked the heartland of ukraine's economy is that and ask region and 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 and much of the regional infrastructure has also been destroyed expert in global and financial markets patrick young says no one with one to invest in ukraine's economy right now through the situation in ukraine is that obviously it's incredibly difficult when you have some sort of an insurrection on the streets a revolution lots of upheaval because that impacts on the economy and therefore
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it's incredibly difficult to get your statistics absolutely precise in such 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 are run were 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 nobody who's going to invest in a call to me 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 a nobody now all the latest video from ukraine is posted on our you tube channel where you can also see how independence day was marked in. anti-government forces
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displayed destroyed armored vehicles and rocket launchers the army used to attack the city they also let captured ukrainian soldiers through the city center. and that our website where report of remained silent on the world balance of missing russian photojournalist understand who disappeared in ukraine three weeks ago. french president francois hollande has accepted the government's resignation after the prime minister dissolved the cabinet manual balsa has been asked to form a new cabinet on tuesday in line with a course set for the country by the president and it comes amid calls for french ministers for changes to the country's economic policies the economy ministers said on sunday it's time to resist what he calls germany's obsession with
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a stereo the prime minister's ratings have been extremely low recently while president alond remains the most unpopular president in fifty years according to the latest poll. british politicians have lashed out at french plans to set up a refugee center that could help thousands of my grants get to the u.k. they say it would act as a magnet attracting even more desperate people trying to answer britain through the french port city of a well the u.k. has a border checkpoint there and city authorities are complaining they're being overrun by migrants trying to sneak into britain takes a closer look at the growing rift. in a french court of galle this has become a familiar sight destitute migrants the majority from east africa and the middle
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east have made the town that temporary home these makeshift tents on an industrial wasteland have been nicknamed the jungle. i had never seen in my life you see i come from the wall to produce for example in there for the life is better gum disease estimates put the number of migrants here in cali one of the hoff thousand of 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 hundreds try to get to the u.k. illegally each week stowed away in the lorries 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
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for weeks or months before they even have lodging cali's mess says the town is so besieged by refugees that locals fear for their safety and it best is a pulling out of the area so frustrated as natasha bouchard that she said she's willing to buy 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 place 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 can. 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 here in
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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 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 the locals in dover tell us that they've already had enough he said there's so many that we can tell he is from his responsibility if they reaching their shores and believes that they should maintain a responsibility to go in from the flooded house was just simply is that it's a problem that no one wants to have isn't back in cali dinner time is while they
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hear 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. all the minor into two asian kelly is growing increasingly or steering the first six months of this year over seven thousand illegal immigrants were arrested there and that's more than double the previous year. well coming up on our team international you don't need a fortune to live a jet said life a bit later in the program get the story of one man who made his dreams fly literally plus. as britain's canines become some of the fattest in the world we look at why it's a dog's life in the u.k. this and more after the break.
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those who want to get involved to stop isis in iraq are allied with isis in syria 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 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.
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and. welcome back this is arts and international necessity is the mother of invention as the saying goes and for one russian man that means living the high life in a homemade plane art is what he to question our reports on how his dreams to 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 will go to all of i made a 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
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inexhaustible a few c.d.'s from sarah 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 cross-country vehicle that would get me anywhere i have a once it was 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 didn't use the list but i had to overcome a number of challenges because it is a self made aircraft i had to obtain a special certification 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
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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 supes to the equator you get to the moldings you this is the place we now dream of visiting together with my son there's only one thing standing in their way the himalayas sergei sas he needs to the engine to increase the flying out to change and as we've come to learn for him not even the sky's the limit. and from on the air to online holocaust survivors lashed out at israel for the ongoing military operations in gaza have the full story on r.t. dot com. if you have a want to get our own town it's your lucky day once up for sale at a bargain dries that story is full on r.t. dot com. islamic state militants waging war in iraq and syria
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have managed to carry out a successful global recruitment campaign that's according to the latest report from a syrian human rights watchdog well last month more than six thousand man joined a jihad is some of them from western nations and it's not just adults the extreme is don't mind having the young fight for them too like this thirteen year old belgian boy earlier this year he traveled to syria with his older brother to fight alongside the radicals islamic state has been increasingly turning to social networks one extremist posted images of a child decapitating and dole reenactments of the american journalist execution the caption urged followers to teach your children to caught next. candidate has also become one of the recruitment centers for the islamic state militants and that's according to a local mom who claims that islamist are infiltrating universities and mosques
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across the country. you have the isis. you know recruitment universe you are has been very successful they have very successful due to group communes europeans americans and i say she's a good thing for their computer. their game has been barking deer their number you know hundreds and thousands of people from briston who are who are barking deer aren't garrido was created in a. and you can see you know oh we're going to destruction and atrocities created all around or similarly i see this is worse than a car there and they are not going to stay just in sudan there are going to come everybody is going to work. and there are not going to steer into you know believe me. and the islamic state has now added to its armory
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by capturing a key syrian air base after days of bloody fighting government forces fled to the base with four to five hundred dad on both sides extremists now have access to scores of military jets helicopters stang's and happier tillery it is also have a blow to president asad who has now lost complete control of iraq up province. three inmates have reportedly been be had it in a prison riot in brazil at least seven hundred prisoners are reported to be involved in the uprising which has damaged much of the penitentiary and the inmates took at least two guards hostage they are dissatisfied about how the prison is controlled as well as about food and hygiene their. now the strongest quake in twenty five years to hit california has injured over one hundred twenty people six of them seriously a state of emergency has been declared after the strong earthquake hit the san
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francisco bay area there has been significant damage to buildings nearly seventy thousand homes have been left without power. no opposition candidate has won the presidential election in the caucuses republican of a posse of claiming more than half the vote the country's new leader will have to deal with the legacy of years of rampant corruption the snap elections took place after the country was hit with a wave of protests that forced the president of the country at the time to resign. now in the u.k. dog owners are said to be killing their parents with kindness with britain's canines now some of the fattest in the world as are g.'s and a farm reports it's not just for the belly pads that might need to look at their diets. bruce the box is fact and he's trying to shed some pounds that arc of
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exercise import diet saw him believe in size to almost twice he's ideal weight these we'll be honey and goats milk every morning and any dinner in the evening and oversee the treats of disputes and truth he's in good company though research shows over half of britain's dogs are in fact obese so fifteen percent in four years makes them some of the fattest in the world a quick straw poll of our own helped explain why. give them chicken for the huge. and if you can get their arms or not so the of a big fish and chips put in a ball through for the same as us we don't think. he's 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 they love him dearly and generally say you're
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killing with love they get joint problems ok then they get heart problems and then this difficulty of proving. but surgeries like julie's are offering help in fact three causes if you cave vets now have it the city clinics chubby canines including bruce are being put on a diet of wholesome food and exercise well fifty five kilograms proof he used to be known as rock just as heavyweight boxer he's now down to forty nine 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 norm but individual owners you can do something about it only quickly but again i think just
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like with you going to be city now it's got to the point of being so common that it's going to take a long time to do with him to sign the brief so there's no looking back this much is losing his gut as an impressive rate for him at least it's nothing tastes as good as slim felix andry farmer farty london. fresh air and exercise will take care of excess weight that's for sure and on the way here and here the national backs guys are dive into the murky waters of the financial world and if you're watching us from the u.k. sophie shevardnadze talks to a former child soldier about his gruesome childhood say with. gender trump a simple as that the gender madness in swedish it could be near because i found this. project finest with seventy thousand euro
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to investigate the triumphant from a gender perspective. eugenics but you just vulgarized darwin science punishment for an uncommitted crying i was. a feeble minded 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. go to the point of death. for years rarely discussed. till now.
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good luck. to build. tim's mission to teach me. this is why you should care only. in the west continue to new cold war world view of international politics is largely neglected in western media and in the halls of power russia will defend its national interests and also how.

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