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headlines on our t.v. russia promises to send another aid convoy to ukraine saying this time it won't get held up as the humanitarian situation in the conflict zone burson. under kiev's constant bombardment locals in eastern ukraine resort to burying their loved ones in their own backyards as the journey to the cemetery is too dangerous to. also this hour islamic state to see a massive inflow of foreign fighters as their global recruitment campaign gains momentum in western countries. on the border crisis bric side 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 child in .
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the sky levon pm this monday evening here in moscow you're watching international my names you know neil welcome to the program and we start with news just in ukraine's president petro poroshenko house announced he's dissolving the country's parliament the statement was published on his official twitter page explained his decision by saying and i quote most of the m.p.'s have been passing dictatorial laws targeting the my town activists a new parliament will be elected on october the twenty sixth he said. more of them are staying in the country to the next 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
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apartment building came under fire destruction and casualties are widespread across the region residential areas as well as at least one hospital and one church were among the recently hit targets. i was out there was that i think i'm going to but that i did you see what i. felt for you if you didn't. think it was just watch that you were. going to get. the biceps insert tori so we're charging stuff right as marjorie did they took the if you really got through all the stuff you really. are going to shoot through. a civilians continue to battle a humanitarian crisis russia plans to send another raid convoy to eastern ukraine that's according to a statement by russia's foreign minister or chief from cos tribe has been following this story for us. russia will continue participating in all efforts to deliver
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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 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
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humanitarian aid might be actually something other than what 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 gruesome reality people have been forced to learn how to cope with their families and friends falling victim to kiev to seoul for more here's paula sleeker this is a place where they're living among that did and way they did to 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 where luke million was killed it's only
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a street away she was walking home when the missile hit. and i. go by the. young. have all metal milia ten years ago he says god smiled down on him that day really ruin your career. the streets are quiet except for a few children who've braved the sunshine in between shelling residents hunkered down in sale is 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. sway with elian. but.
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the symmetry is about five kilometers away from the town of shah tosk it's 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 fifty people have died in the past three weeks that seven a day many of whom never make it here. for us most. of us for work 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 surrounded by they did poorly see r.t. shutoffs east. meanwhile ukrainian president petro poroshenko has vowed to spend an
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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 a seventeen billion dollar 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. itself forecasts 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 on year on top of that ukraine has to repay nine billion dollars this year on a time when its currency as 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 from the donbass region and
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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 decision 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 where it has to pay for expensive gas with a declining currency is. the conflict wreck the heartland of ukraine's economy that the nats krege and that's where the country's main g.d.p. driving factories are based many of them have either been badly damaged or shut because it's too dangerous to work in a war zone much of the regional infrastructure is also being destroyed exploiting global financial markets patrick young not even the riskiest investors want to take
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a chance on 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 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 out our website at r.t. dot com for the latest updates on the situation in ukraine there we also report on possible reasons for kiev silence about the whereabouts of missing russian
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photojournalist understand who disappeared in ukraine exactly three weeks ago. ten minutes into the hour british politicians have lashed out at french plans to set up a refugee camp that would serve as a refuse 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 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 migrants or explains what's fueling that discontent on both sides 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 has made the town that temporary home these makeshift tents on an industrial
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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 carrying 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 lorries alleyways mess says the town is so be seen 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
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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 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 britain's borders should be in do work 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 deniz and makeshift vessels that a special fleet of border force boats has been assigned to patrol this coastline as
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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 he is from his responsibility if they reaching their shores and believes that they should maintain a responsibility gold and join the flow of those sorts of those it's a problem that no one wants to have isn't it back in cali a dinner time is while they're here these men and women's lives are taken up by simple questions like 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. according to french officials the migrant situation in the city is getting out of control cali police arrested over seven
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thousand illegal immigrants during the first six months of the year that's more than double the whole of twenty thirteen more news coming away after a short break including the story of a man for whom the sky was not the limit. 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. place. 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. let's start again with a good old fashioned story it said that to invent you need a good imagination on a pile of junk for one russian man combination helping to attain heights others can only dream of by artie's medina caught some 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
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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 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 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
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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 attain a special certification 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 supes to the equator you get to the mall didn't 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 obviate 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. on the very best of luck to him moving on france's former economy minister whose criticism of state policy was
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followed by the sacking of the entire cabinet see it he wants no part in the next government president has ordered his prime minister to form a new cabinet by choose day yesterday the economy minister said it was high time to resist what he called germany's obsession with a sturdy disagreement 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 france among them saying they are unable to deal with their high deficits but analysts my comaroff say germany's austerity policy will not solve the problems. i don't think that france is able to follow my example the french government always promised things to do to make us twenty but we know right now that austerity is not the solution to the crisis if you see to the south of the euro
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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 making war debts is also not the solution so we are in a real dilemma here. criticised in france merkel has the support of the spanish prime minister but not of people locals gathered to protest against the start with some demonstrators clashing with police the german chancellor metz marianna rai and 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 home the business climate index is early indicator of a country's economic development based on interviews with agents of firms who have value with their prospects here so german companies see their future optimism has
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been doing for months taking an especially sharp dawn return at the end of august right here to stand on its lowest level since july twenty eighth thirteen say the trend suggests that a german economic downturn is possible in the near future. also plenty more stories for you online including anonymous strikes again the hucker group has taken sides in the gal's a conflict targeting israeli government websites moral majority dot com. if you ever wanted your own town it's your lucky day ones up for sale out a bargain price details coming found online. michael braun the 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 report i was instantly this were the funeral took place. sixteen days after michael brown was shot and killed the teenager is
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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 you know all 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 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
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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 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 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 mosul is a major city in iraq's north that's been serving as a launch pad for the extremists and found some civilians have been desperately
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trying to flee but to have a stronghold. 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 or some of them from western nations and it's not just adults they don't mind having the young fight for them either like this thirteen year old belgian boy earlier in the year he traveled to syria with his older brother to fight alongside the radicals now the islamic state has been increasingly turning to social networks one extremist posted images of a child to kalpa taking a toll in a reenactment of the american journalist james fawley's execution the caption urges followers to teach your children to cut next. that has also become one of the recruitment centers for the islamic state militants according to
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a local imam who claims the islamists are infiltrating universities on mosques right across the country. you have the isis. you know recruitment into rescue or has been very successful and they have very successfully recruited canadians europeans americans and i says if you're going to get through the end i think. your game has to be in writing gear that nobody's you know hundreds and thousands of people from breast and rural who are fighting via island garrido was created in . and you can see you know well what kind of destruction and cross if he's the get it all around or similarly isis is worse. and they are not going to stay just in sudan there are going to come every really know what. they are violence. and they are not going to stay in syria and iran believe me.
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ask more headlines and around the world not casualties have been reported after a fresh round of this really are strikes that targeted different areas including two mosques in israel ses they were being used to store weapons and as meeting places for militants warning of the offensive could continue into september over twenty one hundred palestinians have been killed since the operation started including almost five hundred. of ya that's got to get out of there the north a lot. of the couldn't. lot of well the city in the south has. been modoc county. citizens of the caucasus republic of the 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 at odds with the former head of the search for the president elect said after the result was unless you have the wish to see me. i
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think the results show that we've found common ground with the people who are positive they want order they want to normal life major economic and political changes our first priority. spreading wildfires have 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 made gusty winds on extremely dry conditions some one hundred fifty homes already being evacuated while another five hundred lie in the fires. for no 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 circuit with a first ever russian grand prix that scheduled to take place in october that both behind the wheel of a premium class sports car instead of a typical f one vehicle he praised the racetrack also sharing his excitement over
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