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headlines in our t. international ten russian troops detained in ukraine after a partly crossing the border accidentally are returned. also this week so if ukraine's most battle hardened units are trapped in a muslim country time with government soldiers blaming kiev and kiev accusing russia of a stealth invasion. we examine how islamic state terrorists are exploiting black market trade on online p.r. and to expound their. uncertain. by really police arrest the well known opposition activist that she lands in the gulf nation to check on her father who's been on hunger strike for almost that week protesting
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against his own detention. by from a new center here in moscow you're chewed into the weekly around top of the top stories from the past seven days and right up to the moment developments as well i mean you know neal welcome ten russian part attributes returned home on sunday after spending almost a week detained in ukraine the group was captured when they claimed they mistakenly crossed the ukrainian border while on routine patrol has been following the story for us. 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
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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 but russia's 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 off to the 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 alexander
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mcchrystal that's why he thinks kiev seized the opportunity to put russian servicemen in the media spotlight. and teachers will clean students. 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 actually an actual soldiers and they were able to grade 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 will convince you that there are any russian troops there but of course one can have un convincing evidence if people want to believe it and these ten russian soldiers unfortunately were if you like a gift from heaven in that respect. ukrainian government forces have the whole
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diet of a village in the lugansk region near here has been intense fighting as you can see in these pictures witnesses say large numbers of ukrainian armored vehicles and tanks have been abandoned there are many of them destroyed in all it's now been four months since kiev launched its military crackdown i mean just. in the time officials say almost eight hundred government troops have died and more than two and a half thousand have been injured but kiev is being accused of a massive cover up until government forces say up to fourteen thousand military personnel have been killed or wounded and that casualty numbers are being deliberately underreported. in the last few days alone hundreds of government troops have reportedly been killed or taken prisoner near the town of ill advised in that annette screeching their entire battalions find themselves surrounded during a country attack by anti government forces many of the ukrainian soldiers managed to exit the earth through
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a humanitarian corridor or open for them by the self-defense forces and i want you crimean military commander has accused kiev of abandoning them all asli reports on the growing dissent within their rights. as the fighting intensifies and government forces close in a call for hope goes on on said flee enforcements for traffic ukrainian troops also incoming it's not the first time kids soldiers feel abandoned let it go needed to see if they didn't appear women if a little more here are three obvious what i thought of her through my blog levels to your material across my back when i was one so i wish that was the only response go use it was when i was originally i'm over it various guys i was there 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
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a tank soldier leaked online i feel five. forty five i was i was thirty three thousand five. thousand i thought there was frustration is growing among the troops is true then you could feel destruction i think it will get worse no it took to witness that. and the government the head of the interior ministry is locking horns with the leader of the radical nationalist white sick to 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 marshawn to key of to carry out speedy reforms in the interior ministry. jaros with your bragging you have deceived people whom you led into illegal armed units you were turning the people
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who believed you indicate an imposter meanwhile losses on the battlefield are mounting. policy r.t. eastern ukraine. president putin has shed some light on the behind the scenes the placea over ukraine in an interview with russian national media refinished this sums up the key points for us. i just came back from ukraine where we were walking for one month and this time we've missed a very dramatic escalation in speaking and made this very dangerous spread of violence in ukraine's east london are supporting has his opinion on why it is happening. 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 blood and put in has also commented on
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upcoming parliamentary elections in ukraine saying that it will nor to help ease the tensions in the country. all the candidates want to show how tough they are in the current circumstances it's hard to imagine anyone will advertise their peace plan there's no alternative to a military solution to the problem 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 its big neighbor and he has said that this resistance against the european values could be seen as the core of the conflict in ukraine. that that was the way in where you are what exactly are these so-called european values supporting coups or 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
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putin was talking just days after he met ukrainian president poroshenko in means can he has said that they 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 become harder for people there to survive through the cold. earlier this week ukraine's president petro poroshenko claimed russia had invaded his country international media outlets immediately run with this story and guy in it if you can look at some of that coverage. panic alert in western media after key if tweeted that russia invaded ukraine when reports started coming in that fighting broke out between the rebels and ukrainian forces in the port town of. many were quick to claim that it's russia's doing what seems to be happening on the ground however is that russian troops of pushing in from russia photos of tanks emerged in social media with nothing to suggest that they
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were operated by russian soldiers kill you put out this video claiming it's a russian tank. but while journalists were grappling with the new developments and struggling with the pronunciation of the town that was supposedly being invaded this is no bus got u.s. and nato officials pushed ahead with accusing russia of deploying more than one thousand troops and heavy artillery into ukraine last week ukraine called russia's delivery of humanitarian aid into eastern ukraine an invasion this week it accused moscow of quote unquote a full scale invasion the western media that is generally not putting much distinction between rebels and washer quickly picked up that side of the story that is despite the fact that this thursday the ois sea which is now monitoring the russian border with ukraine said they saw no evidence of russian troops and tanks crossing the border the u.n. said it could not independently verify the reports of the russian invasion but
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a u.n. security council meeting was called upon where its western members push to hold russia responsible russia stop this conflict at least two thousand two hundred twenty people including twenty three children have died in the conflict in eastern ukraine but we've never heard the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. call on key to stop bombing its own people in washington i'm going to check in on our team. human rights. watch us again called on he have to provide information on russian photojournalists understand he's been missing in ukraine since the start of august kiev insisted no information on andrea's whereabouts the watchdog's deputy director for europe and central asia says the rights of media workers are being violated in ukraine by both militia groups on the army it out and dump the authorities have a track record of detaining russian journalists.
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washington is leading the charge against islamic state militants urging other western nations to form a coalition against that you harvest in syria and iraq the u.s. is also stepped up or strikes against the group but the latest reports suggest the extremists have enough funds to replace any arms and equipment destroyed by the u.s. stomach states is one of the world's richest terrorist groups with assets worth an estimated two billion dollars reports suggest that significant amount of that around two million dollars daily comes from selling oil to kurds in near bring countries smuggling and kidnapping are also lucrative sidelines with run some payments bringing in around ten million dollars in recent years on the figures are publicly available islamic state publishes corporate style annual report to attract new sponsors the extremist group is also social media savvy using the internet to lure in newark routes as marina cost of reports. pictures of mutilated
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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 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 there is no mix states marketing 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 you distorting the qur'an of course but they're also using various kinds
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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 the more will see that it's a play on the noah's ark and wish the message is it's either there 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 syria's 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 crusades while watson nations might be trying to bomb isis out of
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existence. ices itself seems to have learned to those bombs that cam breach social media and therefore its existence online grow stronger than ever merino call survive reporting from london forty fifty minutes into the hour but still lots to come in the program including find out why not all european leaders are on the same page when it comes to sanctions against russia and more coming up shortly. differently here in syria now many of the members of congress of both parties who have gone to syria in recent months have said that they were former. president which is diddy's time for him to go. to go to peace to syria
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is going to be so obvious are. playing. the fish needs the. economic ups and downs in the final months day the longer the deal sang i and the rest of life until you meet casey will be every week on the. islamist militants in libya have taken over a part of the u.s. embassy which was evacuated a month ago stuff where died ju-ju increasing lawlessness in the country with
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rampaging warlords on their militias seizing control or we asked the editor of the pan african music where he thinks the situation could be heading. the security situation in libya is becoming even more precarious the united states anticipating this what happened pulled out its personnel and drove them to tunisia well i think the united states is trying to figure out which road to take they have a lot at stake their attempts to remake libya in their own image they may decide to utilize some type of military force to get in and sort of be chad in libya but this of course will only spark more animosity and more fighting a possible grow war about those who are opposed to the u.s. backed militias inside the country. prominent bahraini human rights activist. has been arrested shortly after arriving at the country's or port she was flying from europe to check on her father also a campaigner who recently went on
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a hunger strike in protest of his own detention the bill that i shop is a key figure in the bahraini opposition movement to himself spent two years in jail he sees the courts are at the beck and call of the government you would expect to see the judges who are going to fight. to she 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 i don't of criticism by international what i think rule and beautiful and i like i can i did this to him but they don't so far they were going and. taking a lot of you know what i defended the court and using the court using the judicial system as a tool to attack human rights activists to attack or pick it up or to attack your numbers to attack people or activists in the social media so we are in that more sort of passivity now we have now we have wanted to hold the rifle for a bit i did for a year who was in his hunger strike where i worried about this woman taking into
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consideration many woman with a daughter many men would go to. slovakia could veto the e.u.'s attempt to impose tougher sanctions against russia this week the country's prime minister called the measures meaningless and contra productive there's no point in supporting sanctions that could hurt the economy that was echoed by his czech contre part he wants to revise the block strategy the further restrictions thought to have been agreed by group in leaders of a summit in brussels would be the latest escalation in a trade war since most school clampdown on food imports the e.u. tries to curb the impact of the bomb some politicians there have their own ideas on how to ease the pain. he keeps pushing over it. germany's agriculture minister believes eating up the food which was supposed to go to russia could help local producers moneywise and also put additional pressure on the us. early estimates show the e.u.
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could lose up to seven billion euro over the food embargo and not a run one hundred thirty dollars in people could be jobless. european farmers are already demanding compensation these polish workers dumped several tons of peppers on its side the e.u. parliament building in brussels they're getting support from some politicians who believe sanctions are a big mistake. as we stated it does was different sanctions than the trade war i know means to improve the situation on the country we have a spiral of exclusion that hurts the german and european economies many people are check to be sanctions right from the start they have a right to feeling that this is not too late to achieving. the. 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
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already see the backlash from the sanctions but in the next couple of months it will be even more obvious you know what i'm talking. from the beginning sanctions escalated the situation and did not ease the tension is the sky it was clear when the you impose 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. poland's prime minister donald tusk is to be the next president he'll take office on the first of december he's replacing herman van rompuy who sees that use of major challenges of the economy ukraine and britain's place in europe the blocks leaders have also nominated italian foreign minister federica buggering me to be their new foreign policy chief political commentator on of intensity things they two new leaders hold very different political views and not my proved to be a problem for the future all of the. maurine is seen very much as
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tolerant candid as towards russia while donald tusk is seen as tough men who will are wrestle with president clinton about it's small to about it's about this relationship should be functional and unfortunately it's not because they contradictions are so profound that there is no other way that this states well try to built up by a letter all relations with russia because more complicated more profound the debate in europe and a less less vision common vision is represented towards russia our last chance is for european union to become a real player and fulfill its role or if it's a mission to become a saver off ukraine relations always plenty more stories for you online including right now why day to day jobs can be more dangerous than warfare
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a report from the un international labor organization finds that more laborers die in factories and soldiers on the world's battlefields the full story available or to dot com. also there are volcanic comics nuclear option in papa new guinea forces people to flee their homes and planes to change their votes we've got all the details on the best pictures for you waiting on line. the threat posed by islamic state terrorists will be high on the agenda at the upcoming nato summit in the well cities of cardiff a new poured his heart he fears reports hundreds have already gathered to protest the threat of yet more military action amid fears the alliance might decide to launch itself into another distant war. well the leaders the organizers of this protest movement against the nato hope that in the coming hours and days ten to twenty thousand protesters from across wales the u.k.
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and even some coming from mainland europe are going to common here top protests nato summit which is taking place on thursday and friday around sixteen leaders from around the world coming off for this very high profile and significant conference protesters here are against nato itself the the entity which they see as they say just waging war on countries they say it is symbolic of global equality now to protect the nato summit taking place in the next few days has been on tressa dented security operation by the police close to ten thousand police officers have been drafted in from across the u.k. now this operation that critics say has cost up to fifteen million pounds to secure a part of new port this city and also wells capital cardiff which has also been
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caught up significantly in the security preparations including tens of kilometers of security barriers being put in the center of the south wales cities the police are trying to do many things first protect the nato summit itself second to also facilitate the democratic protests of peaceful protesters and third to try and keep wales and the u.k. secure given the increased terror threat which was raised just in the last couple of days. coming right off bug zella boy curry examines western governments complex and sometimes contradictory policies on terrorism do stay with us. well go. this month show bush's transports gets
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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 keep 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 deer a co-founder of the u.k. based anti extremist group after the change foundation mystic of 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.
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