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what really matters. to your facebook. russia promises to send another aid convoy to grain saying this time it won't get held up as the humanitarian situation in the conflict zone the tear your rates. under kiev's constant bombardment locals in eastern ukraine resort to burying very loved ones in their own backyards as a journey to the cemetery is too dangerous to make. also islamic state john to see a massive in for foreign fighters as are global recruitment campaign gains momentum in western countries and. a border crisis breaks out between the u.k. and france as britain slams french plans to create a refusing to stop for thousands of illegal migrants trying to cross the channel.
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or national live from moscow with me marina joshing welcome. russia is planning to send another aid convoy to eastern ukraine as civilians there continue to battle a humanitarian crisis that's according to a statement by russia's foreign minister are just wrong cossar of has more on this . will continue participating in all efforts to deliver humanitarian aid to ukraine this second convoy with the russian humanitarian aid will head for the shell shocked southeast of the country this week. the few military institution in ukraine is getting wars any slowdown of fate would violate international law so would like to agree on the conditions for sending the second convoy on the same
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route with ukrainian authorities as soon as possible were convinced it must be done this week now russia's initial humanitarian aid convoy was stalled that the russian ukrainian border for a week and that's despite the fact that all the necessary documentation was sent to all parties involved along before a russian humanitarian aid convoy actually crossed the russian ukrainian border sergey lavrov said the situation around the humanitarian aid convoy to the ukraine was not healthy from the get go russia was accused by ukraine and by the west of violating ukraine's national sovereignty plus there were also other a geisha russian humanitarian aid might be actually something other than what many would represented those that a geisha as were by the ukraine along with their western allies while those indications were not confirmed by the international red cross all the ukrainian
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special services or the multiple members of the international press that were there at the border. now don't ask a string ukraine has endured another twenty four hours of heavy shelling from the korean army rocket launchers have ripped entire neighborhoods apart at least two locals have been killed a hospital also came under fire in the center of the city to buildings were damaged and you can see shattered glass everywhere locals say the building was fired at from a short distance and patients had to be relocated in spite of their conditions. it just moves. over. but. i mean. this is it. now for thousands of citizens of eastern ukraine shelling and bombing has become an
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everyday gruesome reality people now are learning to cope with their families and friends falling victim to caves assault always lior has a story this is a place where the living are among the good and where the 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 where the media was killed it's only a street away she was walking home when the missile hit. and what is up almost twenty young. have all metal ten
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years ago he says god smiled down on him that day. ruined their. work. 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 overnight looting the mood before anything at the stores. was. sway with you lynn. but. the symmetry is about five kilometers away from the town of soft toss 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 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 because from love for us.
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it's the for what they have us for whether it's. but the bodies are piling up and like pavol 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 the mother is 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 ukrainian president petro poroshenko has vowed to spend an additional three billion dollars on the military but leading economists say while the country's war chest is as good as empty as kenya's finances are in tatters one the service things may seem rosy after the international monetary fund granted ukraine a seventeen billion dollar loan but the terms of the loan could create problems most importantly the national debt to g.d.p.
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ratio should be no higher than sixty percent a figured out the i.m.f. itself forecast will be surpassed by two thousand and fifteen in fact it's expected to reach eighty seven percent in just four years and in july the ukrainian economy shrank six and a half for sands a year on year and that's compared with one point three percent in july twenty third team on top of that ukraine has to repay nine billion dollars in debt and this one is currency is at an all time low because jeffrey summers believes it's a catastrophe. we have this ever shrinking g.d.p. we have the loss of crimea horse the lost production in the donbass region and the cost of the civil war it so so it's really quite a catastrophe and i would say that the i.m.f. is kind of in denial regarding the ability of ukraine to pay bondholders or itself you know not 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
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you know what little there is left function and even less competitive even a higher energy costs moreover we have the situation or it has to pay for expensive gas with a declining currency is. now the conflict has racked the heartland of ukraine's economy that in the ask a region that's where the country's main g.d.p. driving plants and factories are based many of them have either been badly damaged or shot because it's too dangerous to work in a war zone much of the regional infrastructure has also been destroyed expert in global and financial markets patrick young 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 upheaval because that impacts on the economy and therefore it's incredibly difficult to get your statistics absolutely precise in such a time it's really
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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 dawn yes worried 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 the 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 and nobody now the latest video from ukraine is posted on our youtube channel where you can also see how independence day was marked in the.
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anti-government forces showed off destroyed armored vehicles and the rocket launchers that the army had used to attack the city and he also paraded captured ukrainian soldiers through the city center. and there are a web site we report of possible reasons for a key of silence about the word balance of missing russian photojournalist andree stan who disappeared in ukraine three weeks ago. french president francois hollande has accepted his government's resignation after the prime minister dissolved the cabinet manual valls was asked to form a new cabinet by tuesday and it comes after a rebellion over the president's economic policies the economy minister said on sunday that it was time to resist what he called germany's obsession with the
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sterett money of all his ratings are extremely low while president obama remains the most and popular president in fifty years british politicians have lashed out of french plans to set up a refugee camp that would serve as a refueling stop for thousands of migrants on their way to the u.k. and they say it would act as a magnet attracting even more desperate people trying to answer britain through the french port city of calais the u.k. has werder checkpoint there are but the city authorities are complaining that britain is shifting its burden to france forcing the country to deal with the ever growing flow of migrants are explains what's fuelling the discontent on both shores off the channel. 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
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wasteland have been nicknamed the jungle. i had never seen in my life you see i come from the war to produce for example in there for their life is a bit of gum disease estimates put the number of migrants here in cali one on the hoff 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 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 can have lodging cali's mess says the town is so besieged by refugees that locals fear for their safety and it best is falling 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 countries buddhism 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 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 would is 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 locals in dover tell us that they've already had enough to service so many that we can tally this from says responsibility if they reaching their shores and believes that they should maintain a responsibility to go join the flow to those questions of those 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
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where the 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. kelly and dave are. now according to french officials a migrant situation and the city is getting out of control calais police arrested over seven thousand illegal immigrants during the first six months of the year and that's more than double the previous year or two national more news is coming your way after the break including the story of a man for whom the sky was in the limit. 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
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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 has its own red lines. we think of why we think there are no. moral sand beaches.
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coconut palms gently swaying in the ocean breeze. and frank. white has a deep dark little secret a secret the u.s. government would like you know. through our labor. power the. group oh i did the daily search you to get all we're there. to. welcome back this is our national it's sad that to invent you need a good imagination and a pile of junk while for one russian man this combination helped him to attain heights others only dream about argentina caution or reports on the journey of his
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life. surrogate 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 get little i made a plane we flew in myself i know every single tiny parts 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 enthusiasm sarah ganim has sunny keita 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 ever wanted i was always dreaming about it but his real passion for airplanes started back in ninety seven
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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 have to acknowledge it is safe to operate so now i am a legal user of the flying space but the shaft cheek families ambition 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 multi-verse 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 obviate the engine to increase the flying out of twos and as we've come to learn for him not
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even the sky's the limit might in a question are. well we also have more stories for you own line r.t. dot com and on a most strikes again half of group has taken sides in the gaza conflict targeting israeli government websites more than that and r.t. dot com. and if you have or want your own town it's your lucky day once up for sale at a bargain price at stories and former. fighters from the islamic state have reportedly executed almost seven hundred inmates of a prison in the iraqi city of mosul the un human rights watchdog has already said that this could amount to a crime against humanity masoe was a major city in iraq's north that's been serving as a launching pad for the extremist advance on baghdad civilians have been desperately trying to flee this jihad is strong. now the islamic states
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radicals have also managed to carry out a successful global recruitment campaign that's according to the latest report from a syrian human rights watchdog last month more than six thousand man join digit hard as some of them from western nations and it's not just adults the extremists don't mind having the young fight for them to like this thirteen year old belgian boy earlier this year he traveled to syria with his older brother to fight alongside the radicals and the islamic state has been increasingly turning to social networks one extremist posted images of a child decapitating it to a dollar in a reenactment of the american and journalist execution the caption urges followers to teach your children to cut next. canada has also become one of the recruitment centers for the islamic state militants and that's according to a local imaam who claims the islamists are infiltrating into various cities and mosques across the country. you
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have the isis. recruitment in the rescuer has been very successful and they have very successfully the cruise ship canadians europeans americans i says it's digging dirt to the end for their computer. people are profiting from the game has been fighting there the numbers you know hundreds and thousands of people from best and war who are fighting via i don't garrido was created in a grimy style and you can see you know well what kind of destruction and atrocities the get it all around or similarly isis is worse than a qaida and they are not going to stay just in sudan there are going to come everybody have been overtaken. by events. and there are not going to stay in syria and iran believe me and i had lines in brief now from around the world.
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least two palestinians killed in a fresh round of israeli airstrikes that also targeted two mosques in gaza israel says one of them was used to store weapons while the other was a meeting point for militants the latest attacks came a day after israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu warned that the offensive in gaza could continue into september. fast spreading wildfires have broken out in north california after the central part of the region was hit by a large earthquake firefighters are struggling to contain the blaze amid gusty winds and an extremely dry conditions some one hundred fifty homes have been already been have been evacuated while another five hundred lie in the fire's path . the people of the caucuses republican of have voted for change by electing the main opposition candidate as their new president the country's leader will have to deal with
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a legacy of years of rampant corruption that's led to poverty and a shattered economy the snap elections were triggered by a wave of protests the spring that ousted former president. now in the u.k. dogs owners are said to be killing their paths with kindness with britain's canine is now among the most obese in the world and as are farm reports it's not just for at least 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 exercise and poor diet saw him in size to almost twice he's ideal weight for british cities will be sunny and goat's milk every morning. in the evening and oversee the treats of biscuits but i knew i was in 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
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the world a quick straw poll of our own helped explain why. give them chicken fillets. cheery sticks and if you can get their arms will actually over fist inches put in a ball through for the same results we don't think. 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 they love him dearly and generally say you're 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 courses of u.k. vets now have the city clinics chubby canines including bruce being put on
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a diet of wholesome food and exercise well fifty five kilograms proof he used to be known as rochester's 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 new norm but individual owners you can do something about it only quickly but again i think just like me to human obesity now it's got to the point of being so common that it's going to take a long time to do with. the proof so there's no looking back this smart 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. well fresh air and
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