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russia promises to send another aid convoy to a crane saying this time it won't get held up as the humanitarian situation in the conflict zone deteriorates. turkey has constant bombardment locals in eastern ukraine resort to burying their loved ones in their own backyards as a journey to the cemetery is too dangerous to make. also islamic state to see a massive inflow of foreign fighters as their global recruitment campaign gains momentum in western countries. and border crisis breaks out between the u.k. and france as britain slams french plans to create a refueling stop for thousands of illegal migrants trying to cross the channel.
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which are national coming to you live from moscow with me marina joshing 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 arches among koester of has more on this. russia 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 or fate would violate international law so 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 now russia's initial humanitarian aid convoy was told that the
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russian ukrainian border for a week and that's despite the fact that all the necessary documentation was send to all parties involved long 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 allegations that russian humanitarian aid might be actually something other than what they would represent those allegations were by the ukraine along with their western allies while those indications were not confirmed by the international red cross all the ukrainian special services or the multiple members of the international press that were there at the border. now that is going to strain
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ukraine has endured another twenty four hours of having shelling from the ukraine army rocket launchers have ripped entire neighborhoods apart at least two locals have been killed. hospital also came under fire in the center of the city two buildings were damaged could see shattered glass everywhere locals say the building was fired out from a short distance patients had to be relocated in spite of their conditions. it. was it just moves. doesn't actually ever. but. i mean. this is it. is. just the right now 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 a salt polis leader has a story this is a place where the living are among the did and where the did being buried among the
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living. under this mound of dirt lies the love of puddles life his wife through media where. the. puzzle takes me to the place with media was killed it's only a street away she was walking home when the missile hit. and what is the up almost going young. couple made to media ten years ago he says god small down on him that day. the streets are quiet except for a few children who've braved the sunshine in between shelling residents hunkered
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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 when i lived in the mood for anything that a little bit of a geek was the plea deal in this way with you lynn. but consider. the symmetries about five kilometers away from the town of shah 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 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 in this book for love for us the most. of us for one of them are 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
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her with no access to the outside world he hasn't yet told her the mother is did as the ukrainian army closes in terrified residents prepared to wait it out surrounded by they did pull a c.r.t. shop towards eastern ukraine. ukrainian president petro poroshenko has vowed to spend an additional three billion dollars on the military but leading economists say that the country's war chest is as good as empty as caves finances are in tatters on the surface things may seem rosy after the international monetary fund granted ukraine seventeen billion dollar loan but the terms of the loan could create problems most importantly the national debt to g.d.p. ratio should be no higher than sixty per cent a figure that the i.m.f. itself forecast will be surpassed by twenty fifteen in fact it's expected to reach eighty seven percent and in just four years in july a great economy shrank six and
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a half percent a year on year that's compared with one point three percent in two thousand and thirteen on top of that ukraine has to repay nine billion dollars this year and all this when its currency is a all time low economist jeffrey summers 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 going to not 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 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
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gas with a declining currencies. the conflict has wrecked the heartland of ukraine's economy but in the ask region and 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 through 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 he evil 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 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 were the
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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 i'm nobody now all the latest video from ukraine is posted on our youtube channel where you can also see how independence day was marked in the country. two parallel parades were held there one in kiev the other into the both featured ukrainian military vehicles in markedly different ways as a display of might and as trophy wreckage each event alluded to the country's soviet past and the war against hitler. and on our
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website we report on possible reasons for cave silence about the worry about missing russian photo journalist andrew stanton 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 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 stereo money of ole's ratings are extremely low while president alondra manes most unpopular 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. they say it would act as a magnet attracting even more desperate people trying to enter britain through the
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french port of calais now the u.k. has a border chad point there but the city authorities are complaining that britain is shifting its burden to france forcing the country to deal with it after growing flow of migrants explains what's fueling the discontent on both shores of 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 that 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 produce for example in there for their 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
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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 for weeks or months before they even have lodging cali's mess says the town is so besieged by refugees that locals fear of 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
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ferry terminal over to the port of dover. there is only one place in the world where countries buddhism and physically located in their own country and that's 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 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 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
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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 to service so many that we can tell the kids from his responsibility if they reaching their shores and believes that they should maintain a responsibility to go from the flood to those sources of those it's a problem that no one wants to have isn't it back in cali 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. now according to french officials the migrant situation in the city is getting out of control palais police arrested over
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a seven thousand illegal immigrants joining the first six months of the year and that's more than double the previous year more news coming your way after the break including a story of a man for whom the sky wasn't 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 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
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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. welcome back this is r.t. international it's sad that to invent you need a good imagination and a pile of junk for one russian man this combination helped him to attain heights others only dream about art is what you know caution our reports on the journey of his life. surrogate and his eight year old son took
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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 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 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 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 use a little i had to overcome a number of challenges because it is a self made aircraft i had to take 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 lives this is the place we now dream of visiting together with my son there's only one thing standing in their way in the himalayas sergei sas he needs to the engine to increase the flying out to jews and as we've come to learn for him not even the sky's the limit might in a question are. and we also have more stories for you on the line and out of us
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strikes again the hacker group has taken sides in the gaza conflict targeting israeli government websites more than that at r.t. dot com. and if you ever wanted your own town it's sure a lucky day once up for sale at a bargain price that story in full on r t the. fighters from islamic state have reportedly executed almost seven hundred inmates of a prison in the rocky city of mosul the un human rights watchdog has already said this good amount to a crime against humanity was so is a major city in iraq's north that's been serving as a launchpad for the extremists advance on baghdad civilians have been desperately trying to flee this jihad a stronghold. of these lawmakers state radicals have also managed to carry out a successful global recruitment campaign that's according to the latest report from
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a syrian human rights watchdog last month more than six thousand man joined jihad is and some of them from western nations and it's not just adults they 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 a dall in a reenactment of the american journalist execution the caption urges followers to teach your children to cut next and of quote now canada has also become one of the recruitment centers for the islamic state militants and that's according to a local and mom who claims the islamist are infiltrating universities and mosques across the country. yes the isis campaign of record in the rescue workers
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has been very successful they have very successfully the group that canadians europeans americans isis is a big danger to be and i think the other war. people are from british britain has been fighting there the number is in the hundreds and thousands of people from best and war who are fighting the guy that was created in afghanistan and we can see now oh what kind of destruction and atrocities carried out around or similarly isis is worse than al qaeda and they are not going to stand just into the going to come every day have been overtaken. violence. and they are not going to stay in syria and iran believe me. and more headlines in brief from around the world now at least two palestinians have been 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
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a meeting point for militants the latest attacks came a day after israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu warned that the offensive on 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 extremely dry conditions some one hundred fifty homes have been already evacuated while another five hundred lie in the fire's path. eleven area results suggest that the people of the caucuses republic of cars have picked the main opposition candidate as their new president the country's leader will have to deal with the 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 this spring that ousted the former president and here's what the leader of the race told r.t. . yeah they wish to see me. i think the results show that we found common ground
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with people that are positive they want they want a normal life major economic and political changes our first priority. in the u.k. dog owners are said to be killing their paths with kindness with britain's canines now among the most obese in the world and as are cheese and farm reports it's not just for the pets of might need to look at their diets. bruce the boxer is fact and he's trying to shed some pounds that lack of exercise and poor 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 bony goes into he's in good company though research shows over half of britain's dogs are in fact obese that's up fifteen percent in four years that makes
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them some of the fattest in the world a quick straw poll of our own helped explain why. give them chicken fillets. cheese sticks and if you can get their arms will actually have of 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 it is their pets and they love him dearly and i generally say you came in 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 courses of u.k. vets now have the city clinics chubby canines including bruce being put on a diet of wholesome food and exercise well fifty five kilograms proof he used to be
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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 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 in society. there's no looking back the 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. alleyway entertainer national
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paedophile looks at the new face of a cold war but if you're watching us in the u.k. report on a rare medical condition that makes people age the majority. world . science technology innovation all the lives developments from around russia we've got the future covered gender trump and symbolizes the gender madness in swedish it could be near because i found this. project finest with seventy thousand euro to investigate the triumphant from a gender perspective. eugenics
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lets you do it next vulgarize ation of darwin science punishment for an uncommitted crying i was never the instrument for the innately 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 yet not going to now go to the point of death. for years rarely discussed until now i'd really rather not talk about that right. we think if we want to rethink your. beaches. coconut palms gently swaying in the ocean breeze. and frank. has
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to low and welcome across. 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 breadlines. to the world according to russia i'm joined by my guests ray mcgovern in washington he's a former cia analyst also in washington we have the boys from mali cheese they director of the rice institute for serbian studies and in london we cross to mark macaulay he is a specialist at.
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