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ukraine's president petro poroshenko accuses russia all be invading ukraine moscow says all reports of russian troops on ukrainian ground power falls. hundreds of besiege of the presidential administration in central kiev for the second day in a row demanding the president impeached as the army suffers major losses in the rest of the east. the us government is after some three hundred american support should be fighting with islamic state jihad as in iraq and syria will be looking into why the group is enjoying such a wide ranging appeal. and it's only once negotiations over
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trade deal between the e.u. and us to be made public that's concerns grow the boss calls it potentially gives corporations. from moscow wellcome this is our team to the national you're with me. ukraine's president has said russia's invading east ukraine although the statement has already been rejected by moscow the strong rhetoric comes amid a powerful counter offensive by anti government forces in ukraine's restive eastern regions but militias have managed to gain more ground live now to our policy who is in the area paula so some very strong accusations from the ukrainian leader. well let me just tell you that in the last few minutes as we've been waiting to
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cross live to you and number of grad missiles have hit the next city center what you see behind me is huge columns of smoke where these missiles have struck what we are hearing are strong words from the ukrainian president petro poroshenko he has accused russia of invading ukraine he has canceled a trip to turkey he's also calling for an emergency meeting of the united nations security council. but there were visible today because of the escalation of the situation in the donetsk region and because of the factual invasion of ukrainian territory by the russian army i have decided to cancel my visit to turkey. now there is a rally that is taking place in kids as makes these comments people are demanding and protesting against the authorities calling for the dismissal of the country's defense minister russia has repeatedly denied that it is providing any kind of
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military assistance or troops to the antique here of protesters here in eastern ukraine but what is particularly interesting is the timing of publishing because comments they come as the ukrainian military suffers defeat after defeat it needs to be pointed out that these anti-government fighters have been on the offensive for quite some time and all reclaiming captured towns at the same time it's not the first time we're hearing these kind of claims what we do know is that for some time the anti government forces have said that they have received assistance but from russian volunteers take a listen. most of the book there were three to four thousand of them among us many of them have already left home even more still here least some have been killed many of those russian volunteers a former soldier. now a few days ago there were ten russian soldiers who mistakenly crossed over the
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russian ukrainian border into ukrainian territory the incident happened at night and while at a part of the border where there are very few signposts the same allegations different allegations were put forward that russian paratroopers who were allegedly killed in ukraine had their absolutely every day in this civil russian cities now of the president the russian president's office says it is looking into these allegations but there hasn't been any kind of independent verification at this stage it is important also to note that on several different occasions there have been ukrainian troops who have crossed over into russia they have been seeking some kind of assistance and then they've always returned back to ukraine. keep safe for we'll be back with you in the near to again in a little while of policy there in the news reporting for us and following developments there right who were well some of the fiercest fighting has been underway in the town of in the region ukraine's power national guard
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that's fighting alongside the army was surrounded they by anti government militias now these pictures we're showing you have been posted online by the national guard in greek portably suffered serious losses the fighters have now been surrounded for almost a week by calls to organize a safe corridor to evacuate the injured from the area that had no support from here . more pictures coming now live pictures here we've been getting from central kiev where hundreds have gathered in front of the presidential administration building for the second day in a row have been demanding the impeachment of the president over what they're calling the ongoing slaughter of troops in libya. amid the recent gains by the anti government militias it appears to be having an effect on more role among ukraine's armed forces all right let's go back to policy
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who's in east ukraine for us again paula we've seen that black plume of smoke coming behind you what more do we know. well what we do know is that debate's city center has been hit this is a part of the city where there are office apartments and residential homes we're still waiting to get an immediate word of what to buildings have been hit behind me but we're talking less than a kilometer from the hotel where many of the journalists are staying and where this live position is coming to you from throughout the day there have been a number of incoming grad missiles we've been hearing them almost by the hour so it was just a matter of time until a number of targets were again hit when we talk about the my role of people here these kind of attacks are just making people inside eastern ukraine more and more angry and it's certainly justifying amongst the anti-government fighters the reason why they've taken to the frontline but it's very different kind of my role that we
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witnessing amongst the ukrainian army and they're the mole is sinking amid accusations that ukrainian soldiers say they've been betrayed by the government on wednesday a group of ukrainian soldiers crossed over into russia seeking refuge take a look. as the function intensifies and anti government forces close in a coup for home goes on on food reinforcements bullcrap ukrainian troops are showing coming it's not the first time you have soldiers feel about. letting you go nuclear you have to go through women are forever one hundred three robin what a program from a black lab i'm sure you're almost there will of course but burke women were probably with them or women or screwdriver usually it was one of the regional i'm over very apparently was we watch it yet i'm going to. demand a lot yeah yeah i don't know i love. going to the land over there but then i did
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look at the doctor a lot when that was the job of a couple of the band that i don't. it's a far cry from the tough talk of ukrainian president petro poroshenko talking of a strong country and strong army instead its young and often inexperienced soldiers as suggested by an alleged conversation between a commander and a tank soldier leaked online. why was i was there i was i was was. i was i was frustration is growing among the troops who is there but it then you can feel that sense i think it's a little bit with the with the political dissidents that still live in fear is that they families think that it was a and you could be anything and it doesn't mean. it was any menu
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that was a chance like i was thinking it might. not and the government for the head of the interior ministry is locking horns with the need of the radical nationalist white sect a group which is taking part in the fighting in the country's east if our demands are not met will be forced to withdraw our battalions from the front line and launch a march on to kiev to carry out speedy reforms in the interior ministry jaros with your bragging you have to see people who you lead into illegal armed units you are turning the people who believed you into cannon fodder. meanwhile losses on the battlefield are mounting and here in the center of the near the ukrainian military defeat is on show the message is more than just symbolic a bad omen for the ukrainian soldiers encircled by softer french forces in the region of the nerds who fighting not only for their lives but for an army that they
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are accusing of betraying them and leaving them to die paula sphere r.t. eastern ukraine. the strong rhetoric by ukraine's president has sparked a storm of accusations against moscow in the media also under way right now in vienna is an emergency meeting of the. organization of security and cooperation in europe and reform is here with me in the studio words been spoken at the moment ukraine is the focus of a fierce debate an emergency meeting of the. vienna it's an organization which addresses security issues in europe and ukrainian ambassador has apparently told the meeting there is an open military invasion by russia something russia flatly denies while i've been reading the tweets from the u.s. ambassador who's at the meeting to you need to get the impression it is extremely heated russia has apparently complained about the insulting words used by daniel buyer and his response to that was the russian foreign ministry prefers kremlin crimes are discussed in polite language so it's clear no punches are being pulled
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in this emergency meeting of the u.s. see which is ongoing in the near future we do expect an emergency meeting to have the u.n. security council to be held that's being called by the ukrainian president and as you heard as i speak now mr poroshenko is addressing his own security council in kiev so a lot of heated high level talks are taking place at the moment over the crisis in ukraine and of course we'll keep across them for you. right also as we keep our viewers posted as to what comes out of those meetings and of course keeping an eye on there that meeting with poroshenko thank you very much andy now investigative journalist tony gosling says of the hysteria in the media is part of the peer pressure from the west psychological warfare i call it which is actually the public as well as the politicians. now the law is becoming a going and going to weeks ago rasmussen and here were completely lying about the idea of him showing
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a russian boy that was coming in to the east of ukraine it was just a plain simple life and you know the idea is to manipulate the public and if you keep repeating the same thing people think oh well more russians must be in there we keep hearing this even though if you actually look into it at the end it turns out to be a lot. it's been twenty four days since the disappearance of andre stan in the russian a veteran photo journalist went missing while covering cubes military operation in east ukraine moscow has been trying to locate the correspondence with voices of support coming from across the world kids however says it has no knowledge of stand ins whereabouts. i'll be back with more news after the shah break don't go away.
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differently here in syria. many of the members of congress of both parties have gone to syria in recent months. which is diddy's telling you you can. still be nice to syria it's going to be some other stuff. dramas that can be ignored. story others use in the same. places changing the world. to picture. from around the globe.
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i. thank you. thanks for stay with us senior u.s. officials say they're tracking around three hundred americans now believed to be fighting with islamic state militants in syria and iraq washington fears they will pose a huge risk to u.s. security if they would turn and use the skills learned in war zones to carry out attacks at home this comes after a thirty three year old american who had joined the ranks of the g. hardest was confirmed dead by his family douglas mccain was killed over the weekend in syria of fighting members of another and to government group i am a chicken reports from washington. the u.s. president has diagnosed these lawmakers state rooting out a cancer why geisel won't be easy and won't be quick many are asking if the cancer could have been caught at an earlier stage when the islamic state group as part of
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the syrian opposition was gaining momentum in the country and when rich donors in gulf states were funding and arming the group but until recently the west seemed more preoccupied with toppling the syrian president we will work with like minded states to support the syrian opposition to hasten the day when assad falls but the european union has agreed to bring to an end a arms embargo on the syrian opposition we are constantly consulting with the opposition on how they can get organized so that. they're not splintered and divided in the face of the onslaught from the assad regime for years the white house tried to present a picture of the syrian opposition as consisting of quote former farmers and teachers some within the intelligence community had a really big red flag that was alarming the administration and elected officials
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that the problem in syria was bigger than anybody anticipated but the problem is that the elected officials chose to have a moment of dumb and dumber and hear what they wanted to hear so you had john mccain patrolling the streets of aleppo thinking that supporting the insurgents was a good idea one thing the west perhaps failed to see was the blurred lines between the moderate and the radical groups within the syrian opposition and isis until very recently was part of a broad sunni group in syria that was being supplied by the united states the extremist group makes use of modern technologies like no other radical organization they even use of valence drones to plan attacks on the syrian military the question arises whether the you. wes's misjudged the scale of extremism in syria as it focused all efforts on bringing down the syrian government you know because so much cooperation mary and all the help you got for being with us. for free
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the last america lost in afghanistan. the roost in syria also in charlotte when they come your way in which they call any of. these all mixed a group is now cheering about all the arms and money that they have seized both in iraq and in syria isis sympathizers are posting pictures on twitter in the u.s. cities with a message saying we are in your streets something that is typical of isis is this vicious sense of humor if you will they are big fans of social media and they have been using all the west can offer to spread what president obama called cancer in washington i'm going to shut down party. this let me say it is proving to have one of the most successful business models in the world of terrorism with assets worth an estimated two billion dollars a significant amount more than two million dollars a day reportedly comes from selling crude oil that goes to the kurds in iraq syria
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turkey and jordan smuggling and kidnapping is also a lucrative sideline ransom payments may have brought the group around ten million dollars in recent yes and islamic state even publishes corporate style annual reports to attract new sponsors as marina cost of us been finding out. pictures of mutilated corpses of the so-called infidels and photoshop images of western troops involved in flames these are just some of the growth task methods employed by the islamic state illustrated in glossy magazines and online and its attempt to spread its message a message that even al qaida is uncomfortable with visit hannity that is what was striking out can produce some remarkably good visual graphics but nothing on the scale of isis the photography is hyper real this islamic states markets and techniques are becoming increasingly more professional and widespread as its
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propaganda is found in different languages in news updates videos twitter accounts magazines and on t.v. the democratic they're targeting is you know they're relying on the ignorance of their distorting koran of course but they're also using various kinds of stylistic mannerisms which the youth are familiar with from the street from you tube from twitter and so forth in other words it has a very modern look and feel it feels like a media extravaganza but it's suffused with excitement now if we take a look at the cover of the islamic states latest magazine they will see that it's a play on a noah's ark and wish the message is it's either them or the flood and experts say there is controversy and fear to get more followers how are they doing that they are using hate propaganda by showing their ad with paradoxically as killing babies is they also. are i think
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a remarkably harsh in their language they present their enemy is indeed humanized terms of some kind of humanity just as the nazis did so they only use pejoratives like crusades while watson nations might be trying to bomb isis out of existence i says itself seems to have learned those bombs that can bridge social media and therefore its existence online grow stronger than ever merino cost of our reporting from london forty. italy has told the e.u. it wants the details of negotiations over a giant trade deal with the u.s. to be made public and a letter to his european partners italy says it would help dispel fears about what's going on behind closed doors let's have a look at what the tea terp agreement would mean for both sides now the transatlantic trade deal definitely looks tempting on paper the partnership would allow the removal of trade barriers and drag you differences which are seen to
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hinder the growth of the u.s. in economies would be washed away plus american that is collective g.d.p. would be boosted by two hundred forty five billion dollars but some critics say some parts of the puzzle just don't fit together they're worried corporations could hijack the interest of taxpayers passing any losses on to them if anything goes wrong investigative journalist john hillery says it's no accident that talks are being held in secret we've been told the details of the e.u. u.s. trade deal is completely secret i mean they put the thirty year old all the key documents that we would like to see well the first reason for the secrecy is because the european commission and the u.s. trade representative they know that if people really found out about what was going on in these negotiations they would be up in arms there is already a whole range across the whole of europe what we've already learned about the t.t.
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trade negotiations so if people really could see the line by line you what is being because you are way behind closed doors don't be revolution history for example in germany there's a very very high awareness of teaching these new negotiations and people by and large are very very opposed to the greatest poll that we have seen suggests the fifty five percent of people in germany are against these new negotiations. we were across europe have been protesting over the last month about the deal in belgium police disperse the crowds using water cannons and in berlin activists staged a performance by lying on the ground with banners saying europe might be for sale but. last month so hundreds marching in london two against the planned reticulation after. everything from workers' rights to the environment.
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now some more news from around the globe schools across nigeria have been shut as the country tries to stop the deadly ebola outbreak the death toll has been rising dramatically and now the first death case outside the capital has been reported overall almost fifteen hundred deaths have already been recorded in the epidemic which has mostly had west african countries. we'd all been born as protesters took to the streets angered at the u. was a hedge funds that are demanding the absolute time government repay its bonds the country's economy is currently struggling defaulted on its debts last month the hedge funds have been branded vulture funds by argentine. protesters in support of a key issue yet many leaders have accused the government of corruption and asked for a decision to cut fuel subsidies should be reversed demonstrators about to continue their protests until the government resigned the capital has witnessed sit ins for
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a week now. germany's minister of agriculture has come up with his own way to fight russia's ban on the e.u. food imports one keeps food you know. schmich to urge your peers to eat more and can seem the extra products that would have been dismissed for russian supermarkets the embargo came after europe impose a sectorial sanctions on. russian banks and high tech industries. that may cause the european union up to seven billion a year were as well as put one hundred thirty thousand jobs said risk the european commission's one hundred twenty five million euro compensation is saying by many as only a drop in the ocean polish farmers dumped four tons of peppers in front of the e.u. parliament they say they harvest is going to waste and the e.u.
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is not doing enough to compensate protesters also handed out vegetables to the public in process. and say not from the international association for food protection believes people will need to eat more than just an apple a day. so this is the commercial we should tell you but we have to be realistic and straightforward about the fact is a huge amount of fruit and vegetables and it's difficult consume this amount of apples in all the worst case because they can be get from one year which is not possible with other vegetables it's impossible to eat twenty kilos of tomatoes a day so the slogan is clever the farmers want clear and quick solutions from the e.u. today the actions of the european commission are not enough producers are expecting more support in response as they send their products to the poor or food banks produces expect compensation for the products they have already spoiled the money provided today would not compensate the actual losses. that after the break the
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more on the economic and political situation in ukraine in a world apart. our famous partition twitting that off. foreign government is using excessive force against protesting citizens does this mean we're going to see yet another intervention to democratize their government into the dirt like in iraq or libya wait wait nothing is going to happen because that politician is russian but why is this so why can the police beat up or terrorize protesters in some countries but in others if you lift one finger you're going to get a nato lesson in human rights well the answer is simple this tweet and any attempts
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to intervene from do a member of what happened because unlike what they tell you in school might does it make right for young uns out there old grandpa kirby remembers the cold war and back when there were two great powers they had to at least behave well to woo people into believing that one side were the good guys now that's all gone the problem is they mano polar world that we live in heck if the us still had to deal with soviet or some other propaganda we would never see as much footage of flagrant police misconduct that we do now absolute power corrupts absolutely and the geo political monopoly that we all live in really isn't good for the average person in or outside of america especially if they want to protest but that's just my opinion . this thing that got america out of the depression with the security secretary three thirty four it was stored in order to wall street it was doing repricing
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it to do our very little doing going into world war two it was bringing. order what's up in europe the disintegration. order the wild west mentality of letting a bank like goldman sachs totally destroyed much like greece for a few quid. hello and welcome to worlds apart ukraine closer association of european union was supposed to be all about economy but instead it provoked
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a political rapture of the kind that the continent hasn't seen in decades can you really divorce politics from economy in the case of your brain to discuss that i'm now joined by john brown a former british politician and currently senior market strategist for europe pacific capital mr brown thank you very much for being here folks are it's very good to be with you well and mr brown the men's committing between putin and patrol produced a lot of media coverage but in practical terms and it didn't lead to much or at least much that we are aware of and here i think both of them are under extreme pressure from multiple sides to produce some sort of progress towards peace what are the chances in your view of them agreeing to anything constructive well i think it's a pretty macho sarge line at the moment. whether there are they're able to reach any form of the green.
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