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headlines on r.t. russia promises to send another aid convoy to ukraine saying this time it will get held up as the humanitarian situation in the conflict zone worsens. under kiev's constant bombardment locals in eastern ukraine resort to burying their loved ones in their own backyards us the journey to the cemetery is too dangerous to make. also this hour islamic state jihad a see a massive inflow of foreign fighters and it's their global recruitment campaign gains momentum in western nations. on the border crisis breaks between the u.k. and france britain slams french plans to create a rift fueling stops for thousands of illegal migrants trying to cross the child.
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you're watching from in the world welcome to moscow onto our chief international my name's o'neill the donetsk region in eastern ukraine 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 and casualties are widespread across the region residential areas as well as at least one hospital in one church where among the recently hit targets. so was our ever was that i did come home and you but that i did you see what i. felt for you if you did right if you was to punch that doctor when you were filled. with the biceps insert forty so we're
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charging struck the right as marjorie did it does the work you really do don't see one thousand five hundred you. are going to shoot. a civilians continue to battle a humanitarian crisis russia plans to send another aid convoy to eastern ukraine that's according to a statement by russia's foreign minister or teacher among cos trip 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 towards any slowdown if they 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
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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 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 it was represented in the game 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 eastern ukraine shelling and bombing has become an every day a gruesome reality people are being forced to learn how to cope with their families and friends falling victim to kiev sold for more here is policy or this is
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a place where the living among the good and way they did being buried among the living. under this mound of lies the love of puzzles mind his wife media. we were. puffball takes me to the place with million was killed it's only a street away she was walking home when the missile hit. and i was. in the up almost any young. have all metal media ten years ago he says god smiled down on him that day really ruined their boards through.
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the streets quiet except for a few children who 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 for anything that a little bit of a geek with the prevailing sway with you leaving. but also don't. listen to trees about five kilometers away from the town of shaft tosk it's a straight road to get there but it's very difficult 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's seven a day many of whom never make it here. most. of us for one of them are but the bodies are piling up and like pavel residents
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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 surrounded by they did pull the c.r.t. shutoffs eastern. meanwhile ukrainian president petro poroshenko has advised 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 since kiev's finances are in tatters on the surface things may seem rosy after the international monetary fund granted ukraine a seventeen billion dollars loan but the terms of the credit could create problems most importantly the national debt to g.d.p. ratio should be no higher than sixty percent a figure that the i.m.f.
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itself forecasts will be surpassed by twenty fifteen in fact it's expected to rise dramatically in just four years in july ukrainian economy shrank six and a half percent year on year on top of that ukraine has to repay nine billion dollars this year at a time when its currency is at an all time low because mr 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 itself so it's really quite a catastrophe and i would say that the i.m.f. is in denial regarding the ability of ukraine to pay bondholders or itself. not only is the country's g.d.p. falling but its energy bill was 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 higher
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energy costs moreover we have the situation or it has to pay for expensive gas with a declining currency is the conflict wrecked the heartland of ukraine's economy they'd to net screech 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 shut because it's too dangerous to work in a war so much of the regional infrastructure is also being destroyed exploiting global financial markets patrick young say it's not even the riskiest investors want to take a chance and 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 are run were the industry is that really adds to the overall g.d.p. what's the news we hear out of ukraine all the time fighting warfare problems who's
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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. check our web site r t v dot com for the leaders don't think it's on ukraine there we report on the possible reasons for kiev silence about the whereabouts of the missing russian filled with journalist andrea stanton who disappeared in ukraine exactly three weeks ago. british politicians have lashed out at french plans to set up a refugee camp that would serve as a refutal wingstop 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 french port city of cali now the u.k. has a border checkpoint right there but the city authorities are complaining that britain
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is shifting its burden to france forcing the country to deal with the ever growing flow of migrants explains what's fueling the discontent on both sides of the channel. 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 had never in my life used to i come from the war to produce for example 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 some food provided for them by
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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 the lorries cali's mess says the town is so besieged by refugees that locals fear for their safety and investors and pulling out of the area so frustrated as natasha bouchard that she said she's willing to buy ferry tickets to send all the migrants over to britain she's even called for the u.k.'s border to be moved from its current location in the cali ferry terminal over to the port of dover. there is only one place in the world where country's borders are not physically located in their own country and those here in cali clearly doesn't work we are hostages of the decisions and the policies of the british government i'm demanding that the border is moved back to its own country
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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 the. ok 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 dinghies 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 time leaves from says responsibility if they reaching their shores and believes that they should maintain a responsibility golden triangle flood house was just there's a it's a problem that no one wants to have isn't it back in cali a dinner time is while
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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. according to french officials the migrant situation in the city is getting art of control callia police arrested over seven thousand illegal immigrants during the first six months of the year that's more than double the hold of last year more news coming away very shortly including the story of a mom for whom the sky well it wasn't a limit. those who want to get involved to stop isis in iraq are allied with isis in syria but we
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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. place. as russia in the west continue to drift apart into a new cold war russia's worldview of international politics is largely neglected in western media and in the halls of power russia will defend its national interest and also house its own red lines.
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fifteen minutes into the program welcome back it's said to invent to need a good imagination on the pile of junk for one russian man that combination helped him to attain heights others can only dream of but. reports on the journey of a lifetime. sir gay and his eight year old son took a flight to their holiday destination there'd be nothing exceptional about that word not for one thing you will 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. his spend over five years building and from scratch using mostly fiberglass plastic old machinery parts and his inexhaustible and from sarah ganim has sunny kita spent a total of twenty three hours in the sky traveling from the heart of siberia to the
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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 once it was i was always dreaming about it but his real passion for airplanes started back in ninety seven when russia introduced a new law that allows anyone to have a private plane for personal use so we didn't use the list but i had to overcome a number of challenges because it is a self made aircraft i had to obtain a special 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 and bishan reaches even further. one day we took a globe and decided we wanted to go to the equator if you draw
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a straight line from the city of soup to the equator you get to the most it's you this is the place we now dream of visiting together with my son there's only one thing standing in their way the himalayas sergei sas he needs to the engine to increase the flying out to change and as we've come to learn for him not even the sky's the limit might in a question are. and who would bet against them france's former economy minister whose criticism of state policy was followed by the sacking of the entire cabinet says he wants no part in the next government president has ordered his prime minister to form a new cabinet by tuesday yesterday the economy minister said it was high time to resist what he called germany's obsession with the sterett see this agreement between euro zone countries has come on the back of very poor regional g.d.p. growth in recent months german chancellor angela merkel blaine's euro neighbors
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front among them saying they are unable to deal with their high deficits but analysts say germany's a 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 talented but we know right now that austerity is not the solution to the crisis if you so you do this south of europe europe 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. pollution so we are in a real dilemma here. criticised in france merkel has got the support of the spanish prime minister but not of his people locals gathered to protest against the
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steroids and looking at the two leaders while they were out of the german chancellor at money out of the hole in santiago de compostela where they express their solidarity when it comes to promoting spending cuts. perhaps more of a worry for the german chancellor is what's happening back at home the business climate index is an early indicator of a country's economic development based on interviews with thousands of firms to evaluate their prospects and here's how german companies see their future optimism has been doing for months taking an especially sharp downward turn at the end of august to stand on its lowest level since july twenty third being on list say the trend suggests that a german economic downturn is possible in the near future. so plenty more stories for you online including anonymous strikes again group taken sides in the gaza conflict arguing it's really government websites were not on the
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park to dot com. if you ever wanted your own town it's your lucky day for sale at a bargain price the story can be found on our website. michael brought in the norm black teenager shot dead by a police officer in the u.s. city of ferguson was buried today his death sparked two weeks of intense protests across the country calling for justice. is in st louis where the funeral took place . sixteen days after michael brown was shot and killed the teenager is finally being laid to rest thousands of supporters came to the friendly temple missionary baptist church to pay their respects this of course is where the funeral services were held the services went on for more than two hours before the casket carrying michael brown's body was taken into the cemetery now the environment around here remains calm and orderly police dressed in regular uniform no riot gear michael
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brown's father did appeal to the community sunday asking for a day of peace and calm when he would bury his son but later on on monday community organizers are planning several events including one being a student walkouts a university students from throughout the country are expected to publicly gather in solidarity for mike brown and other victims of police brutality on tuesday there's an international call to action says it's it is the ferguson have launched a website called hands up united dot org that is where you can see dozens of events planned for embassies around the world while the death of michael brown of course caught the media's attention the international story came when it was the police's heavy handed tactics against protesters that were seen on television screens all over the world so while the michael brown's family and friends are finally getting
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their opportunity to say goodbye to to make peace with what has happened they are still waiting for answers surrounding the events of his death and of course most importantly accountability. fighters from the islamic states 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 kind of money to a crime against humanity is a major city in iraq's new with sunscreen serving as a launch pad for the extremists advance on baghdad so the. in something desperately trying to flee this jihad a stronghold. the islamic state rather kills 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 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
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the radicals islamic state has been increasingly turning to social networks one extremist posted images of a child to capitated a door in a reenactment of the american journalist execution the caption urges followers to quote teach your children to cut next canada as all to become one of the recruitment centers for the islamic state militants that's according to a local mom who cleans the islamists are infiltrating universities and mosques across the country. you have the isis. you know recruitment into rescue or has been very successful and they have a very successful user group comediennes europeans americans i says it's good getting good through the end i think we had. people that are. again has been fighting gear that nobody's you know hundreds and thousands of people from best in war who are fighting b.s. i don't garrido was created in of gravity. and you can see you know oh we're going
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to destruction and cross and get it all around or similarly isis is worse. and they are not going to stay just in sudan and. everybody is going to we're. here and there are not going to stay in syria and iran believe me. take a look at some more headlines from around the world more casualties have been reported after a fresh round of it's really are strikes that targeted different areas including two mosques in gaza israel sees these were being used to store weapons and this meeting places for militants warning not the offensive could continue into september over twenty one hundred palestinians have been killed since the operations began including almost five hundred children. that's got to get out of there the north a lot. of the. citizens
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of the caucuses republican of up cassy about elected 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 i said the former head of state for the president elect said after the result was announced. the other wished to see me. i think the results show that we've found common ground with the people who are they want they want to normal life major economic and political changes are our first priority. spreading wildfires are broken out in northern california after the central part of the region was hit by a large earthquake firefighters are struggling to contain the blaze and meet gusty winds and extremely dry conditions some one hundred fifty homes have already been evacuated while another five hundred lie in the fire's path.
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formula one superstar and reigning champion sebastian vettel has become the first pro to race run the russian city of sochi is brand new motor sport truck his mission was to test the track with the first ever three that's scheduled to take place this october metal behind the wheel of a premium class sports car instead of his typical f one vehicle he praised the the race circuit also sharing is the excitement over the opportunity wrists right next to the venue's of the twenty fourteen winter olympics. ok on the way sophie shevardnadze talks to a former child soldier about his gruesome childhood. in genetics what you do next vulgarize ation of darwin science and punishment for an
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uncommitted crying i was never the least to learn from believing in eighty feebleminded 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 she did for years rarely discussed. until now i'd really rather not talk about that right. we think of why we figure there are no. rules and beaches. 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 to know about. through all
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today lost his mother in a fighting in sudan and became a soldier at the age of seven the kindness of strangers and music helped him overcome his childhood in extreme violence job is now a wall famous hip hop artist and he's here today to share his extraordinary story with us. there are three hundred thousand child soldiers in the world most of them for a. drug war deprived of families forced to kill. children good soldiers. and what happens if they do. a manual joel child soldier turned hip hop artists welcome it's great to have you on our show today i just want to go back and remind our viewers where you start.
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