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russia promises to send another aid convoy to ukraine saying this time it won't get held up as the humanitarian situation in a conflict zone deteriorates. under 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. all the islamic state job to see a massive inflow of foreign fighters as they are global recruitment campaign gains momentum in western countries. and the border crisis breaks out between the u.k. and france as britain slams french planes to create
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a refueling stop for sounds of illegal migrants trying to cross the channel. is n.p.r. moscow watching our national with me joshua welcome to the program. 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 . 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 minutes erin situation in ukraine is getting towards any slowdown if they violate international law so would
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like to agree on the conditions for sending the second convoy on the same route with ukrainian authorities now soonest possible we're convinced it must be done this week now russia's initial humanitarian aid convoy was told that the russian ukrainian border for a week and that's despite the fact that all the necessary documentation was send so 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 off of violating ukraine's national sovereignty plus there were also other again 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
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all the ukrainian special services or the multiple members of the international press that were there at the border now the don't ask region in eastern ukraine has endured another twenty four hours of have a shelling from the ukrainian army rocket launchers have ripped entire neighborhoods apart at least two locals died when this apartment building came under fire you can see shattered windows entire flats burnt out from the inside. it was no thank. you let them do that for you to do it this is their right. if she was she would think she was. still. out there were three was a complete bitch but that i did just see it was. for the future but bright future was good much luck to you when you. didn't feel really. bad was more that you weren't up for sex and i did just after the war
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with the boss of the first forty so we're charging stuff right as my three did they give us a little shit review of someone else's suffering it's got its root. for thousands of citizens of recent 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 assault paula slayer has a story this is a place where the living among the good and way of the did to all being buried among the living. under this mound of dirt lies the love of puddles life his wife through media where. we were just through you. know this. 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. where
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the boys for if not at all they live it all to a park row while i was in school and why there's me up almost twenty young. media ten years ago he says god smiled down on him that day. the streets are ghostly quiet except for a few children who've braved the sunshine in between shelling residents hunkered down in sailors 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 before anything to. sway with. the symmetries about five kilometers away from the town of tosca it's
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a straight road to get there but it's a very difficult 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. or . 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 her with no access to the outside world he hasn't yet told her mother his did as the ukrainian army closes in terrified residents prepared to wait it out surrounded by the did. you see on t.v. shutoffs eastern ukraine. ukrainian president better version go has vowed to spend an additional three billion dollars on the military leave condoms say that the
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country's war chest is as good as empty since caves finances are in tatters now on the surface things may seem rosy after the international monetary fund granted ukraine a seventeen billion loan but the terms of the credits could create problems most importantly the national debt to g.d.p. ratio which should be no higher than sixty percent a figure itself forecasts will be surpassed by two thousand and fifteen and in fact it is expected to rise dramatically in just four years in july the ukraine economy shrank six and a half percent year on year on top of that ukraine has to repay nine billion dollars this year this when its currency is at an all time low economist jeffrey summers believes it's a catastrophe. we have this ever shrinking g.d.p. we have a loss of crimea horse lost production in the donbass region and the cost of the
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civil war itself so it's really quite a catastrophe i would say but the i.m.f. is regarding the ability of ukraine to pay bondholders or itself. not only is the country's g.d.p. fall eighty but its energy bill was increasing and this represents not only a worsening of its balance of payments decision 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 gas with a declining currency is all the latest video from ukraine is posted on our you tube channel were you can also see how independence day was marked in the country two parallel parades were held one in kiev the other in denouncing both featured ukrainian military vehicles though in markedly different ways as a display of might as trophy ranks each event alluded to the country's soviet past
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and the war against hitler. and in our website we report on possible reasons for game of silence about the whereabouts of a missing russian photojournalist understanding who disappeared in ukraine exactly three weeks ago. now french president francois hollande has accepted his government's resignation after the prime minister dissolved the cabinet money l.-a voles who was asked to form a new cabinet by tuesday and it comes out three rebellion over the president's economic policies on sunday the economy minister said that it was time to resist what he called germany's obsession with hysterically. this agreement between yours own countries has come on the back of very poor g.d.p. growth in recent months german chancellor angela merkel blamed your neighbors
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friends among them saying they were unable to deal with their high deficits but perhaps more all the worry is that what's happening back home now here is how german firms evaluate their business prospects well optimism out has been declining lately for months or taking an especially sharp downward turn at the end of august. sorry this is the wrong picture that we have read here well. the german finance ministry say the e.u. is economic woes are partly due to the sanctions against russia and alastair now michael ross joins us live now to discuss this are low michael do we have you on the phone line yes yes yes we do have you thank you so much for joining us here today so the question here is what's the reason for the year is a poor g.d.p.
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growth there are several reasons but the main factor of course of the sanctions against russia when you take for example the big german companies almost every big german company has close business ties with russia it's specially those companies who are in the german docks the boards bomi to here in frankfurt and everybody is suffering more or less so at the end of the day we. not only psychological effect those sanctions but only a business effect and we have enough problems here in europe and especially in the eurozone sold this is something that we don't need and if you speak to the business leaders behind closed doors they are all against the sanctions. well angle of merkel says that her country is an example of how to combat high deficit so why our german business is becoming ever more gloomy about the future.
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it's very difficult with the euro of calls many people see a new euro crisis popping up in the next time we have problems in the. periphery of the eurozone france is in big difficulties so all the problems that we had before in do so called financial crisis they have not been solved the contrary is true their debt to have become even more so this is what we are facing no everybody is saying here that the next crisis the next financial crisis is due to come by the way not only in your but also in the united states of france as economy minister has been fired after criticizing germany as a staring policy does that mean alond will try to follow merkel's example.
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i don't think that france is able to follow my example the french government always promised things to do to make a storage but we know right know that austerity is not the solution to the crisis if you do the selfe of the euro or euro governments italy greece spain and so on we must admit that authority has not solved anything but made things even worse so it's no surprise that we have some resistance from france not all but on the other hand i mean spending money and making war debts is also not a solution so we are in a real dilemma here and when it comes back to russia and to the sanctions this is not does not helping us at all russia is a big huge market for european companies so it's very important that this market is functioning but at the moment we have many problems there and saw the crisis that
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we are facing here in the euro countries will become even worse. all right michael ross thanks so much for your analysis and more news is coming your way after the break to stay with us. but 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
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western media and in the halls of power russia will defend its national interest and also has its own red lines. i'm. a mac this is our to international michael brown the on our in the black teenager shot dad by a police officer in the u.s. city of ferguson will be buried today his death sparked two weeks of intense protests across the country calling for justice for now joins us live now for more on the situation there while marina has a peace return to ferguson. well
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things remain very calm and orderly outside of the friendly temple missionary baptist church where funeral services for michael brown have gone there were hundreds and hundreds of people lined up outside awaiting to get in to pay their respects we are told that up to five thousand people will be in attendance and many sick prominent civil rights leaders from around the country will also be here some giving speeches now michael brown is being laid to rest sixteen days after he was shot and killed by ferguson police officer jeremy wilson who now remains on leave of course that incident sparked a lot of clashes with police a lot of violence a lot of demonstrations because many in the community and throughout the country were very angered by the heavy handed police tactics that were used by what many call racially motivated policing throughout the country and of course the bigger story that began was the militarization of the u.s. local police force we saw rubber bullets and tear gas and flash grenades used
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against demonstrators that were coming out into the streets the past few days we've seen a calmer tone in the community and michael brown's father had appealed to the neighborhood to members of the community on sunday asking for a day of peace and calm with no violence for him to bury his son without any problems and it seems as though the community is honoring that request but we do know the ferguson ferguson organizers have issued a call for two days about action university students are planning a walkout later on monday where they will congregate publicly to show their solidarity with mike brown and other victims of police brutality on tuesday and the international actions will kick off throughout the rest of the week and this is where we will see citizens from around the world gathering at their local police stations and at u.s. embassies calling for the department of justice with establishing a concrete policy surrounding policing they will also. demonstrating against use of
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rubber bullets and tear gas the tear gas much of that's used in the us into other countries manufactured by the united states without it becoming other story in itself we do know in addition to the heavy turnout. for michael brown's funeral there will be real specials from the white house that are being said here we know that there is a local investigation going on for michael brown's death there's also a federal investigation so the fifth by the family has not received any answers and investigations are ongoing the family right now just once a day of peace so they can finally bury their son. for maria thanks very much for this a big important our reporting there. now 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 this could amount to a crime against humanity as a major city in iraq snorers that's been serving as
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a launch pad for the extremists advance on baghdad civilians have been desperately trying to flee this jihad is a stronghold. islamic state radicals are also managing to carry out a successful global recruitment campaign that's according to the latest report from a syrian human rights watchdog well last month six thousand man joined the jihad is some of them from western nations and it's not just adults the extremists 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 now these lawmakers state has been increasingly turning to social networks one extremist posted images of a child decapitating adults in a reenactment of the american journalist execution. the caption urges followers to quote teach your children to cut next and of quote now let's discuss the story with
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the country and don an activist and journalist who joins us live from london now mr chandan what do you personally think of the situation and specifically how much damage can this huge p.r. campaign of islamist have on the west in the europe for that matter as we know that they're opening up their centers in the u.k. and canada. well the propaganda from that death squads known as quote unquote isis is nothing but actually a reflection off the mainstream western foreign policy because western foreign policy is saying assad is a tyrant and used to be overthrown putin is a tyrant and he's to be overthrown and supported color revolutions that cetera china is a big problem you know libya before and the moment gadhafi needs to be overthrown and actually with libya and then with syria we've seen these exact death squads ally up openly together in the destruction of libya so we went in in the mainstream
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and still today that sympathetic voices in the mainstream who are reporting these death squads who are going from britain belgium france and other countries particularly belgium particularly britain and that's no coincidence because britain has been in that the forefront of developing this global entrapment strategy this global counterinsurgency strategy and the power can seem actually with the way they dealt with the death squads in the occupied six counties of northern ireland that annoyed if that's what is very similar basically proxies promoted by london washington and paris as enemies so it's developed this deceit and this fall off war and all of this mess but but actually you know the encouraging of children to enact these deprived acts is again a reflection of the mainstream because if you see a lot of these young men who are no doubt oppressed by the system in britain but being oppressed doesn't necessarily mean you go off and do this not what can be done you know what can be done to reverse this trend to change the situation to
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stop the spread i think there's two main things that people should really focus on first of all is to ally ally up with the effective and functional counterterrorism strategies which is not coming from london and washington but actually it's coming from moscow beijing damascus here the two it was coming from tripoli but it's no longer and from places. our g is it cetera these are countries that have viable counter terrorist strategy and the terrorism is being promoted by london and washington because who is in london and washington is main ally in the so-called war on terror is no other than the two pillars that actually promote and facilitate and fund these death squads which is which is that the gulf monarchies particularly saudi arabia on the contrary more nikki and on the other hand the pakistani military intelligence so there isn't just one just want to ask you one question briefly as we're running out of time you know the radical group is quite vocal in fact about you know what they want to do and they specifically threatened
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by saying i quote we take some western states for example spain do you think this is a real threat or is this a p.r. move very briefly if we could no this is this is this is pure p.r. nonsense and these people are promoted as enemies now you know these people will not go any way if they won't promote as enemies by the west in the west wasn't bombing them and washing them and i'm the same time supporting them in syria and libya so so there's no threat to spain by these people but there is a threat is it's possible that the british intelligence services will allow one of these people to conduct some terrorism in london just as they did under seven seven the british intelligence services stop all of these guys under heavy monitoring the phones the computers etc. it is a gun jammed on actives and journalist thank you so much for talking to us here and out here national. british politicians have lashed out at french plans to set up a refugee camp that would serve as
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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 answer britain through the french port city of kelly the u.k. has a border chap when they're out by to 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 just barely. explains what's hewing of discontent on both shores of the channel. the french border to 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 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 and therefore their life is better gum
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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 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 a pulling out of the area so frustrated as natasha bouchard that she said she's
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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 pull. of the british government i'm demanding the border is moved back to its own country 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 france are. just twenty miles across the channel here in the u.k. hasn't exactly got its arms wide open the british government is so concerned over
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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 we said there's so many that we can tell me this from says responsibility if they reaching their shores and believes that they should maintain a responsibility to go on from the flows of 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. and according to french officials the migrant situation in
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the city is getting out of control kalai police arrested over seven thousand illegal immigrants during the first six months of the year and that's more than double the previous year. all the way here on r.t. international so be sure not to talk to a former child soldier about his gruesome childhood. there's a media leave us so we leave the baby. by the seat motion security for your party visible. for shoes that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from it's all on politicking only on our t.v. . your friend posts a photo from
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