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the headlines on our t.v. russia promises to send another aid convoy to ukraine saying this time it won't get held the humanitarian situation in the conflict zone worsens. under kiev constant bombardment locals in eastern ukraine resort to burying their loved ones in their own backyards to journey to the cemetery is too dangerous to me. also this hour islamic state jihad a see a massive inflow of foreign fighters their global recruitment campaign gains momentum in western countries. on the border crisis breaks between the u.k. and france as britain slams french plans to create a rift fueling stop for thousands of illegal migrants trying to cross the channel.
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from moscow to the world this is r.t. international my name's union and welcome to the program the donetsk region in eastern ukraine has endured another twenty four hours of heavy shelling from the ukrainian army rocket launchers have ripped entire neighborhoods apart at least two locals died when this apartment building came under fire destruction on casualties are widespread across the region residential areas as well as least one hospital on one church were among the recently hit targets. she was the power of words that i did come home and you but did i did you feel what i. felt for you if you did that when i think it was good lunch then don't do it you wouldn't feel
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if you were going to. leave the bus upset certain story so what struck you struck the right was hard to be denatured was the real shit you got through the suffering . car going to. a civilians continue to battle a humanitarian crisis russia plans to send another aid convoy to eastern ukraine mounts according to a statement by russian foreign minister ortiz from costa of has been following the story. 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 awards any slowdown of aid 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 were convinced it must be done this week now russia's initial humanitarian aid convoy was told that the russian
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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 many 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 for thousands of citizens of
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eastern ukraine shelling and bombing has become an every day gruesome reality people are learning to cope with their families and friends falling victim to kiev's assault paulus leader story. this is a place where the living are among the did and where the did are being buried among the living. under this mound of dirt lies the love of puddles life his wife would million were. puzzled takes me to the place with a million was killed it's only a street away she was walking home when the missile hit. the. ball. in the.
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young. ten years ago he says god smiled down on him that day really. the streets are 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 are now eluding the mood for anything that a little bit of a geek will. sway with elian but also. done. listen to trees about five kilometers away from the town of chef tosk it's a straight world to get there but it's a very difficult be to take when you're coming under shelling. if gainey is a volunteer grave digger he says one hundred fifty people have died in the past
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three weeks that seven a day many of whom never make it here. from our three. of us for one of them are. but the bodies are piling up and like pavel residents are dazed in shock he gives us his daughter's phone number and asks if we will call her with no access to the outside world he hasn't told her her mother is did as the ukrainian army closes in terrified residents prepared to wait it out so rounded by they did pull the c.r.t. shutoffs eastern ukraine. meanwhile ukrainian president petro poroshenko has evolved to spend an additional three billion dollars on the military but leading economists say about the country's war chest is as good as empty since kiev's 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
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credit could create problems most importantly the national debt to g.d.p. ratio should be no higher than sixty percent as you can see well it's sixty two and that figure that the i.m.f. itself forecast will be surpassed by twenty fifteen in fact it's expected to rise dramatically in just four years in july the ukrainian economy shrank six and a half percent year in year on top of that ukraine has to repay nine billion dollars this year this when its currency is out an 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 in 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 you know not only is the country's g.d.p. falling but its energy bill is increasing and this represents not only
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a worsening of its balance of payments and station but also makes ukrainian industry you know what little there is left function and even less competitive even higher energy costs moreover we have the situation or it has to pay for expensive gas with a declining currency is. the conflict wreck the heartland if you cranes economy that the nets creech and that's where the country's main g.d.p. driving plants and factories are based that many of them have been badly damaged or shut because it's too dangerous to work in a war so much of the regional infrastructure has also been destroyed exporting global financial markets patrick young says no one would want to invest in ukraine's economy right now. it's really a tragedy for the people of ukraine and what we see at the moment is in a colony that is all 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 in
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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 up 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 of nobody. you can check our web site r t dot com for the latest updates on ukraine there are we also report on possible reasons for a kiev silence about the whereabouts of missing russian photojournalist understand who disappeared in ukraine exactly three weeks ago. i. british politicians have lost our french plans to set up a refugee camp that would serve as a refutal ing stop for thousands of migrants on their way to the u.k.
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they say it would act as a market attracting even more desperate people trying to enter britain through the french port city of cali the u.k. has a border checkpoint there 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 migrant worker explains what's fueling the discontent on both sides of the channel. in the french quarter of 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 had never in my life you see i come from the war to lose for example in there for the life is better than these 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
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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 been eight hundred try to get to the u.k. illegally each week stowed away in lorries cali's mess says the town is so the siege by refugees that locals fish for their safety and invest as a building out of the area so frustrated is natasha bouchard that she said she's willing to buy ferry tickets to send all the migrants eva to britain she's even called for the u.k.'s border to be moved from its current location in the cali ferry terminal to the port of. there is only one place in the world where countries 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
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british government i'm demanding that 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 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 we said this so many that we can tell he is from his responsibility if they reaching their shores and believes that they should maintain
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a responsibility to go and try no place else was just of those that 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 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. kalai and over. according to french officials the migrant situation the city is getting art of control calley a police arrested over seven thousand illegal immigrants during the first six months of the year that's more than double the whole of twenty thirty. more news coming away very shortly after a quick break. but
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those who want to get involved to stop isis in iraq are allied with isis in syria but we still should be doing everything we can to support the free syrian opposition who will continue to provide military assistance and advice to the iraqi government and kurdish forces as they battle these terrorists play. 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. i.
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will come back to the program michael briny on norm block teenager shot dead by a police officer in the u.s. city of ferguson is being buried today his death sparked two weeks of intense protests across the country calling for justice report i is instantly this where the funeral is currently taking place. well 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 michael brown is being laid to rest sixteen days after he was shot and killed by ferguson police officer down wilson who now remains on leave of course that incident sparked a lot of clashes with police a lot of violence
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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 against demonstrators that were coming out into the streets we do know that 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 u.s. embassies investigations are ongoing the family right now just once a day of peace so they can finally bury their son. french president francois
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hollande has accepted his government's resignation off to the prime minister dissolve the cabinet. to form a new cabinet by traditionally comes off a rebellion over the president's economic policies on sunday the economy minister said it was time to resist what he called germany's obsession with austerity. this agreement between euro zone countries has come on the back of a very poor g.d.p. growth in recent months german chancellor angela merkel blames euro neighbors france among them saying that their own able to deal with their high deficits but analysts michael morales say's germany's austerity policy will not solve the problems. i don't think that france is able to follow my example to the french government always promised things to do to make us twenty but we know right now. is not the solution to the crisis if you see to the south of the euro europe
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governments italy greece spain and so on we must admit that authority has not solved anything but made things even worse but on the other hand i mean spending money and making more debts is also not a solution so we are in a real dilemma here. and perhaps more of a worry for the german chancellor is what's happening back at home your german firms evaluate their business prospects as you can see optimism has been declining for months taking in especially sharp don we're turn at the end of august to stand at its lowest level since july twenty third. it's said to invent you need a good imagination and a pile of junk for one russian man that combination helped him to attain heights others can only dream about ortiz medina caution of reports on the journey of a lifetime. surrogate and his eighty 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 a 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 as you see as i'm 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 if 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 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 even the sky's the limit might in a question are. so it seems when one's dreams do come true we also have more
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stories for you online right now anonymous strikes again there they have her group taken sides in the gaza conflict targeting is really government websites more all not. that you ever wanted your own time on it's your lucky day for sale at a bargain basement price story unfold on our website. 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 code amount to a crime against humanity is a major city in iraq's north that's been serving as a launching pad for the extremists advance on baghdad civilians have been desperately trying to flee this to how the strong. the 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 last month more than six thousand men join the jihad
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as some of them from western nations and it's not just adults the extremists don't mind having the young fight for them like this thirteen year old belgian boy earlier this year he traveled to syria with his older brother to fight alongside the radicals the islamic state has been increasingly turning to social networks one extremist posted images of the child to camp attending a door in a reenactment of the american journalist execution the caption urges followers to teach your children to cut next. canada has also become one of the equipment centers for the islamic state militants that's according to a local a man who claims the islamist start infiltrating universities and mosques right across the country. you have the isis. you know recruitment interestingly or has been very successful and they have very successfully the group can even europeans americans i says if being gets to the end of time for i think we had
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world. people are probably the game has been fighting gear that nobody's you know hundred thousands of people from best and lord who are fighting via i don't quite know was created in a grammy star. and you can see you know oh we're going to destruction and cross and get it all around or similarly i see this is worst kind of carved out and they are not going to stay just in sudan there are going to come everybody is going to we're. here and there are not going to stay in syria and iran believe me but let's continue the program with more headlines and brief from around the globe at least eight how estonians have been killed in a fresh round of this really are strikes that also targeted two mosques in gaza israel sees they were being used to store weapons on this meeting places for militants warning the offensive could continue into september or twenty one hundred
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palestinians have been killed since the operation started including almost five hundred children. that's got to get out of there the north a lot. of the. citizens of the caucuses republic of abkhazia have elected the main opposition candidate as their new president the country's leader will have to deal with 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 this spring that i said the former head of state here's what the president the results show that we found common ground with the people. they want they want to normal life major economic and political changes are our first priority. in the u.k. dog owners are said to be killing their pets with kindness with britain's canines no among the most obese in the world and sorties under former reports it's not just
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portly pets that might need to look at their diets. bruce the box is fact and he's trying to shed some pounds that lack of exercise import diet saw him ballooning size to almost twice he's ideal weight for british cities will be honey and goats milk. every morning and any dinner in the evening and obviously the few treats of biscuits boni 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 and makes them some of the fattest in the world a quick straw poll of our own helped explain why what treats to give them chicken fillets. cheery sticks and if you can get their arms will actually of of proficiency is put in the bathroom for the same results we don't get told. that julie jones is only too aware of the problem but says often dog owners aren't
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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 causes if you kate betts now have it the city clinics should be canines including bruce being put on 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
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individual owners you can do something about it early 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 andrey farmer farty london. on the way on r t peter guest discussed whether the world stands on the edge of a new cold war and cost the. world. science technology innovation all the latest developments from
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leave. below in welcome to cross talk we're all things considered i'm peter lavelle as russia and the west continue to drift apart into a new cold war well shows 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 bread lines. to cross 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 cry.

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