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company this is the. big stories of the last seven days one headlining today ten russian paratroopers have returned home after spending almost a week detained in ukraine the group was captured when they claimed they mistakenly crossed the border while on routine patrol. has been following this story. the talks were complicated and difficult but we can now confirm that all ten of russian paratroopers crossed over into ukraine are back inside russia the negotiations were easy but thankfully common sense prevailed and the guards are back with us the soldiers were patrolling the ukrainian russian border at night when they unintentionally crossed over into ukrainian territory it was a part of the border that is not signposted they were later detained by the ukrainian security services such border incidents are not uncommon and on several

occasions ukrainian soldiers have in fact crossed over into russia that russians never made much fanfare and as always and should that they are able to return safely back to ukraine there was an incident early in august when around some four hundred ukrainian servicemen appeal to the russian border guards for humanitarian colorado that would allow them to bring their injured and into russia at the same time it would allow them to stock up and food they'd run out of food they'd run out of ammunition they later returned to ukraine after they wounded had been treated inside russia also around three days ago some sixty three ukrainian servicemen so to shelter on the russian side of the border this was just state the shelling they later to also were turned back into ukraine international law expert xander kooris told us why he thinks. the poor russian servicemen in the media. craning government wanted to milk the incident for political publicist says they're trying to argue

and have been trying to argue for a long time that they're not really fighting the people of the eastern ukraine but that they're fighting the russian army so here they had ten russian actual ten actual russian soldiers and they were able to parade them and to put them on television and to show them as proof of the claim that they've been making for a long time that it is the russian army that they're fighting rather than their own the evidence does not look which was convincing that there are any russian troops there but of course one can have unconvincing evidence if people want to believe it and these ten russian soldiers unfortunately were if you like a gift from heaven in that respect. other developments betrayed and government forces have withdrawn from a village in the ganske region the rural communities been the focal point of intense fighting recently using see in these pictures witnesses said large numbers of ukrainian armored vehicles and tanks have been left many of the story in all

it's now been four months since kiev launched its military crackdown in the east since then it's now been officially admitted that almost eight hundred government troops have died more than two and a half thousand injured but care is being accused of a massive cover up and to government forces say up to fourteen thousand military service men have died and the casualties are being under reported on purpose in the last few days alone hundreds of government troops have reportedly been killed or taken prisoner in the turn of in a very skinny donetsk region their entire battalions found themselves surrounded during a counterattack by anti-government forces one of the commanders of those units accused kiev abandonment of them seems policy are again reporting on the growing frustration created. as the fighting intensifies and anti-government forces close in a call for help goes on on city reinforcements feel trapped between in troops or so

incoming it's not the first time kids soldiers feel abandoned everything they care needed to see if they didn't appear women most of them were released reality where a third of it was from a global level two ammo fuel across the dark limits were drawing but the only response grow you see i was one of the only route through imo it's very encouraging everyone to be much 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. by. five i. i was i was i. i. i was i i. was

frustration is growing among the troops is true but it then it's delicious i think that you will it look at the pictures even if it's that bad the government for the head of the interior ministry is locking horns with the leader of the radical nationalist right sector 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 yarrow with your bragging you have to see people who you led into illegal armed units you are turning the people who believed you into cannon fodder meanwhile losses on the battlefield are mounting. policy our teeth eastern ukraine. on the diplomatic side president post has shed some light in the way kong the behind the scenes diplomatic wrangling over ukraine in an interview with russian national media lottie's way of

a nationalist across let's hear more of what the president to say hi there mary and i say it's night give us some of the salient points then. so of course president putin was talking about ukraine i just came back now from mr newgrange where we were walking for one month to say the least and witnessed a very dramatic events there for you to speak and made this dangerous spread of barlow's in ukraine's east president putin has said that what is happening now there is a real tragedy but it isn't logic reaction of locals to the behavior of the authorities in kiev that in fact to communicate with its own citizens. how can anyone say it's ok to open fire with artillery and multiple rocket launchers on cities do you really expect people to do nothing and wait for their own deaths so what's happening now is a natural reaction by the people who live there and who are defending their rights

and one of those who took up weapons first. president putin has also stressed that russia cannot be indifferent to what is happening now in ukraine because this country has many ties cultural commercial social with a big neighbor and also traditionally leans more towards russia than towards europe and he has said that this resistance against the european values historically alien to ukraine could be seen as the core of the conflict in ukraine. that was away and what exactly are these so-called european values supporting coups violent seizure of power and then crushing dissent with military might these what european values are now. i think it's time we reminded our western colleagues about their own ideals. president putin was talking after he met president poroshenko ukrainian leader in means care and he sat that they both

agreed on more humanitarian aid from russia to be sent to eastern ukraine pointing out that this is a very important step forward because winter is coming and it will be harder and harder with days for people there to survive through the cold or. from the cold and. a little sweet ukraine's president accused russia of invading his country the international media didn't leave anyone waiting to report about the media role in the story about a russian stealth operation as it was to nato to chime didn't publish a series of satellite images which purported to show what the military alliance close was russian armor in ukraine other pictures showed military activity in russia too near the ukrainian border which nato says is part of moscow's so-called destabilizing strategy we spoke to john nor sees executive director at the wrong paul institute for peace and prosperity this is his take he says the credibility of the images themselves is open to question here. well i think these were released by

the same they were taken by the same company that the u.s. had used to release its satellite information about m.h. seventeen the malaysian air flight the existence of guns by the rebels in ukraine and so i think it has very dubious credibility as a private firm i don't think it shows anything i don't think what most people in the west understand is that everyone on both sides with the exception of some ukrainians having american weapons but everyone is using russian weapons the line of russian tanks means nothing because we don't have the information to tell us where it came from as to whether russia has troops on its border it's inside its border you know there what business is all about if we had unrest on the border with mexico here in the u.s. you'd be sure we'd have a military presence there to make sure our borders were secure following the fate of the journalists caught up there as well human rights watch has again called on kiev for information about russian photojournalism stead it is missing in ukraine

since the start of august kevin says he's got no information about whereabouts the watchdogs deputy director for europe and central asia told us the rights the media workers are being violated in ukraine but both militia groups and the army adamantly authorities have a track record of detailing russian journalists. and the stories of the week just gone washington is leading the charge against anti islamic state militants urging other western nations to form a coalition against the jihadists in syria and iraq the u.s. is also stepped up air strikes against the group but next artie's going to teach you can report in the week it was the west of the course paved the way for radical islam to take hold in the first place. 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

a spot of 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 they 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

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 lysis 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 surveillance drones to plan attacks on the syrian military the question arises whether the you. us is misjudged the scale of extremism in syria as it focused all efforts on bringing down the syrian government you know so much cooperation. help your government being with me for free

the last night out the last minute spent there listening cereals and charlotte when they come if you wish to call any of. these let me state group is now hearing about all the arms and money that they have seized both in iraq and syria isis sympathizers are posting pictures on twitter in the us cities with a message saying we are in your streets something that is typical of isis is this vicious sense of humor if you well they're 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. so media savvy and rich to the islamic states money is to create with the most successful business models in the world of terrorism with states with estimated the think two billion dollars no reports just a significant amount of that around two million dollars daily comes from selling

oil to the kurds in neighboring countries smuggling kidnapping is also a lucrative sideline with ransom payments bringing in around i think ten million dollars in recent years but if want to check out the figures the publicly available the islamic state publishes a corporate style annual report to attract new sponsors the radical groups also social media savvy as we were just talking about and that's key to getting new militants to join their fight with more on his record. pictures of mutilated corpses of the so-called infidels and photoshop images of western troops involved in flames these are just some of the grotesque methods employed by the islamic state illustrated in glossy magazines and online and its attempt to spread its message a message that even al qaeda is uncomfortable with visit hannity those what was striking al qaeda can produce some remarkably good visual graphics but nothing on the scale of isis the photography is hyper real islamic states markets

and techniques are becoming increasingly more professional and widespread as its propaganda is found in different languages in news updates videos twitter accounts magazines and on t.v. the democratic they're targeting is you they're relying on the ignorance of youth distorting the qur'an 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 in which 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 adversary is paradoxically as killing babies is they also are i think 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 crusaders while watson nations might be trying to bomb isis out of existence. ices itself seems to have learned to those bombs that cam reach social media and therefore its existence online grow stronger than ever merino call survive reporting from london for art's sake heading into a quick break now but just off of that we look at the impact of the trade tussle between russia and europe coming up shortly.

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to. get is exactly ninety minutes past ten at night in a remote you without international program bahraini human rights activists mark. think the country's airport she was flying from europe to check on the dad he's also a campaigner who recently started a hunger strike indeed in protest of his own detention was a key figure in the bahraini opposition movement he spent two years in jail itself let's talk to him live but what's happening here and what the prospects are either thanks for being with us in london where. she's not been officially charged yet i gather what are the prospects for her being freed and why is she being held them while she went to bahrain to see her father as you know she's the bahraini with a donation nationality and she was not allowed to get in and this is the second

trying to go to bahrain and when she insisted she want to enter her country and to see her father she was detained and she was taken to cause thirty and now she is charged on attacking the police man or police woman and were stopped for seven days interrogation and then she would be taken before a court and fortunately this is the case for all of human rights different than bahrain or did have the authority her condition is very bad more human right defender to model bone hunger strike a lot of people were sentenced you moderate difference in the daily basis by the court that dominated by the ruling family. but mr dunn was sentenced for ten years did was to a woman activist for five years or more to do there were many people as i'm talking to you the court has been issuing centers are going to look at the model and so you say well you know we have thousands of early going to say are you saying you're doubting the validity of those charges the reason why she's being held the. you

know you are in a country that the judiciary is not an independent and has got a lot of criticism from the international community you would expect to see the judges who are going to fight one issue face that he's got a member of ruling family so you are in a country that does not respect human rights there judiciary system does not meet with international standards a lot of criticism by international human rights groups and their friend alike like united states and but they do it they don't care so far they were going and taking a lot of what i defended to court and using the court using the judicial system as a tool to attack human rights activists to attack photograph. people activists in the social media so we are in the most repressive regime now we are now we are willing to hold the life of our. who's in his hunger strike we are worried about this woman taking into consideration many women were tortured many men were there as i'm talking to you a lot of people in jail i've been tortured by the police in bahrain which is known

it has bad reputation and human rights as we've been reporting on it like the last couple of years as you're watching out to our viewers the you're talking to us of course from london are you worried if you yourself went back to bahrain you'd be in trouble. when i don't know i mean now i mean i wasn't trouble i just was released two months ago i was i spent my last my last two years in jail because of tweeting asking people to take part in a peaceful protest to release my friend i've had the whole idea was and i'm going to strike today and for that reason i spent my last two years in jail and many other hundreds of people thousands of people are in jail today because just to put this in their right and similarly right in gathering right writing writing criticizing people we have four thousand people today we have at least fifty thousand people who went in and out there during the first three years so we're talking about this than seven percent of my whole population where in jail for the

past three years just what i did thirty sizing the government or criticizing the prime minister who had been there for the past forty years or criticizing their king or criticizing them for ruling family so we have thousands of people that biggest person to do all the evidence in any country that's been time in jail it is a bahrain is the biggest countries that have a political prisoner it's just one of the feeling or the population of. just briefly a final quick thought about miriam's dad as well you mentioned just just now your friend in jail that he's in the middle of a hunger strike how far do you think he'll carry and how exactly do you think he's being treated by fact. well it's very serious and i know how serious is mr rugg the core of his very committed guy very respected guy at the regional level of international as a human rights defender he's a big and known well respected human rights writer a man no he's very serious in their normal condition he should not stay more than three to four weeks without food so that's why we are very much worried about him

we think he and all the human right different should be released as soon as possible ok bill thanks for being with us noble rodger president of the bahrain center for human rights pre-shared. slovakia could veto the eaves attempt to impose more trade sanctions against russia next week the country's prime minister called the measures meaningless and counterproductive adding that there's no point in supporting sanctions like the economy that was echoed to by its czech counterpart who wants to revise the block strategy to further restrictions announced by european leaders at a summit in brussels with the latest escalation in a trade war that since moscow clamp down on food imports is the e.u. tries to curb the impact of that ban some politicians there got their own ideas on how to ease the pain one keeps put you know that. job is a culture minister believes eating up the food which was supposed to go to russia could help local producers moneywise and also put additional pressure on moscow of

early estimates show the e.u. could lose up to seven billion euros over the food and bargain and that around one hundred thirty thousand people could lose their jobs as a result you. see here polish farmers who are seeking full conversation with their losses they don't several tons of examples outside the e.u. parliament building in brussels. the us was different sanctions than the trade we want a no means to improve the situation on the country we have a spiral of excretion that hurts the german and european in qana. yes many people are checked to be sanctions right from the start they have a right to feeling that this is not too late to achieving. sanctions are always prove that their political means failed they are useless and they are harming the population sanctions always lead to losses on both sides and you can already see

the backlash from the sanctions but in the next couple of months it will be even more obvious now. from the beginning it was the wrong approach because sanctions escalated the situation and did not ease the tensions it was clear when the imposed sanctions that there would be a counter reaction and the stakes would be raised and now because of that a lot of entrepreneurs as well as the general public in germany has been affected by that place thanks for that international coming up after the break which is next exam a boy career examines the west's confused policies on terror both at home and abroad . if you look at my generation of americans and even more so at the millennium there are a lot of people with all sorts of piercings and tattoos everyone wants to express

themselves by getting the exact same cliched tattoos and piercings as everyone else but can we discriminate against these people because of their and out appearance normally people are against discrimination because of punishes people for the way they were born their raise search gender but no one was born with big metal loops stretching out their ear lobes so essentially yes you can't judge someone by their tattoos and piercings because they got these done consciously as an adult i mean we all know that you need to dress up on a first date or job interview to make a good impression and all having the words thug life written up your forearm are not very convincing to me that you are going to make a valuable employee or girlfriend one of the worst things that we tell children is that you should never judge a book by its cover the problem is that no one has the time to open up all these books and investigate so obviously ninety percent of the time we're going to be judging each other by the cover of our book and if that cover is full of dead fetus tattoos like one guy i know that you should expect a lot of bigoted reactions over the course of your life but that's just my opinion

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broke to. hello and welcome to worlds apart it took an american being killed by a briton in the midst of the syrian desert for the danger all violent extremism to really hit home but why does the west only seem to care about really just radicalism when it compromises its own security well to discuss that i'm now joined by hani dear a co-founder of the u.k. based antic stream is group active change foundation mystical here thank you very much for being on the show it's a pleasure thank you for inviting me now when extremism prevention is discussed in the british media it's usually in the context of young british muslims travelling to syria getting radicalized there and that.