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the headlines on our to international ten russian troops tamed in ukraine after apparently crossing the border accidentally returned. also this week several ukrainian army units are surrounded by anti-government forces with solutions blaming the room. kiev accusing russia of a stealth invasion. we examine how islamic state terrorists are exploiting black market trade and online p.r. to expand their journalist empire in iraq and in syria. are really police arrest the well known opposition activist as she lands in the gulf nation to check on her father who's been on hunger strike for almost
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a week protesting against his own detached. you're tuned into the week to wrap up of the top stories from the past seven days and right up to the moment developments as well my name's unit o'neill welcome. ten russian part of trippers 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 pulis leader has been following the story. the talks were complicated and difficult but we can now confirm that all ten 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
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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 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. and international law expert told us why he thinks kiev seize the opportunity to plant russian servicemen in the media
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spotlight. i wanted to. live. there 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 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 unconvincing evidence if people want to believe it and these ten russian soldiers unfortunately were if you like a good trim have been in that respect according to the live reports coming to us
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from eastern ukraine anti-government forces are close to getting control over the earth ports in the donetsk and lugansk regions fighting continues in both locations on the firehouse reportedly broken night in the main building of the net secure a port where at least one civilian has died in lugansk opposition fighters claim to have destroyed several military vehicles and forty cations in an effort to seize the strategic location and they say that several soldiers have been killed in a shoot out kiev officials say almost eight hundred government troops have died since the start of the military operation in the east while more than two and a half thousand have been injured but the authorities are being accused of a cover up to government forces say up to fourteen thousand military personnel have been killed or wounded and that the casualty numbers are being deliberately on the reported. in the last few days alone hundreds of government troops have reportedly been killed or taken prisoner near the town of illo vice skin that in that region
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there are entire battalions find themselves surrounded during a country offensive by anti-government forces many of the ukrainian soldiers managed to exit the area for humanitarian corridor or open for them by the self defense forces and i wanted crimean military commander has accused kiev of deserving of paulus lyric and reports on the growing dissent within the ranks. as the fighting intensifies and antigovernment forces close in a call for hope goes on on said feebly enforcements folks have to train in troops also in coming it's not the first time kids soldiers feel abandoned let me go immediately to see if they didn't appear women with the rebel yell or three obvious what a group of muslim a bloke level should do i must do well across the back when i was one saudis but the only response values it was when i was a regional i met over there it was i was too much it's a far cry from the tough talk of ukrainian president petro poroshenko talking of
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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 i feel five. forty five i was i was i did i was. there was a thing i thought there was frustration is growing among the troops going to. be filled in such as i think that you will get let's go it to the witnesses that it's that. and the government of the head of the interior ministry is locking horns with the leader of the radical nationalist white six to group which is taking part in the fighting in the country's east if our demands are not met we'll be forced to withdraw our battalions from the front line and launch marshawn to key if to carry
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out speedy reforms in the interior ministry. yarrow with your bragging you have deceived people whom you led into illegal armed units you were turning the people who believed you into cannon fodder meanwhile losses on the battlefield are mounting. policy r.t. eastern ukraine. president putin has shed some light on the behind the scenes the plan mostly over ukraine in an interview with russian national media re if an arsonist sums up the key points for us. i just came back from ukraine where we were working for one month and this time weakness to very dramatic escalation in speaking and made this very dangerous spread of violence in ukraine's east london airport he has shared 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
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what's happening now is a natural reaction by the people who live there and who are defending their rights they want those who took up weapons first blood an important has also commented on upcoming parliamentary elections in ukraine saying that it will norte 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 a big neighbor and he has said that this resistance against the european values could be seen as the core of the conflict in ukraine. as a way and what exactly are these so-called european values supporting coups or
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violent seizure of power and then crushing dissent with military might these what european values are now i think it's time we remind our western colleagues about their own ideals. president 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 had to prove their claim russia had invaded his country international media outlets immediately run with the story the guy in the town looks at some of that coverage. panic alert in western media after key if twitter it 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
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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 were operated by russian soldiers kill you put out this video claiming it's a russian. 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
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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 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 kiev to stop bombing its own people in washington i'm going to check out our team. human rights watch as again called in kiev to provide information on russian photojournalists and who's been missing in ukraine since the start of august kiev insists it has no information on andries whereabouts the watchdog's deputy director for europe and
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central asia says the rights of media workers are being violated in ukraine by both militia groups on the army. the authorities have a track record of detaining russian journalists. washington is leading the charge against the islamic state militants urging other western nations to form a coalition against the jihad us in syria and iraq the us has also stepped up or strikes against the group but the latest report suggests the extremists have enough funds to replace any arms and equipment destroyed by the us islamic state has managed to create one of the most successful business models in the world of terrorism with us it's worth an estimated two billion dollars reports suggest a significant amount of the opteron two million dollars daily comes from selling oil to kurds in neighboring countries and kidnapping it's also lucrative sideline with the ransom payments bringing in iran and ten million dollars in recent years
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on the figures are publicly available islamic state publishes a corporate style a new will report to attract new sponsors the radical group is also social media savvy using it to attract new militants to join their fight. brings us more. pictures of mutilated corpses of the so-called infidels and photoshop images of western troops and gulf 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 and message that even al qaida is uncomfortable with visit those what was striking. can produce some remarkably good visual graphics but nothing on the scale of isis the photography is hyper real there is no mix states markets and techniques are becoming increasingly more professional and widespread as its propaganda is found in different languages in
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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 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 adversary is 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. ices itself seems to have learned to those bombs that can bridge social media and therefore its existence online growth stronger than ever merino call survive reporting from london for art's sake. stay with us right here in our to international to learn why not all the european leaders are on the same page when it comes to widening sanctions against russia bottom more just ahead. there's a media leave us so we leave that may be. why the scene pushes security player your party years ago to wear shoes that no one is asking with the guests that deserve answers from. politicking only on our team.
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of. c.b.s. this is our. propaganda. that is the state sponsor of russia today program just more likely to be enough like. this that is just ridiculous non answer to my question. john is not. supporting their safety and sometimes their lives all over the place to bring people stories none the taliban the taliban don't want you to see and we come here. you're tuned in to the weekly welcome buck islamist militants in libya have taken over a part of the us embassy which was a factor waited
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a month ago stuff for polls i choose to increasing lawlessness in the country with rampaging warlords and the militias seizing control or we ask the editor of the pan african newswire what happens not. the security situation in libya is becoming even more precarious the united states anticipating that this would happen 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 get some type of military force to get in and set up a beachhead 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 by rini human rights activists. has been arrested shortly after arriving at the country's are poured she is flying
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in from denmark to check on her father also a campaigner who recently went on hunger strike in protest of his own detention we got the thoughts of a key figure in the bahraini opposition movement not build up themselves spend two years in jail he says the courts are at the beckon 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 a friend like i can i did this to him but they don't so far they were going and taking a lot of what i defended the court and using the court using the judicial system as it to attack human rights activists to attack or pick it up or to attack vietnamese to attack people and 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
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a good idea who is in his hunger strike we are worried about this woman they couldn't because the generation many women will go to 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 counterproductive adding there is no point in supporting sanctions that could hurt the economy and that was a good base check card to part he wants to revise the block strategy the further restrictions thought to have been agreed by european leaders of a summit in brussels will be the latest escalation in the tree work since moscow clamp down on food imports as the e.u. tries to curb the impact of some politicians there have their own ideas on how to ease the pain. day keeps fourteen of it. so there you go germany's agriculture minister believes eating up the food which was supposed to go to russia could help local producers moneywise and also put
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additional pressure on moscow early estimates show the e.u. could lose up to seven billion euro over the food and bargain up around one hundred thirty thousand people could end up jobless. european farmers already demanding compensation polish workers dumped several tons of peppers. parliament building in brussels they're getting support from some politicians who believe sanctions were a big mistake. as bush 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 the sanctions trite from the start they have a right to feeling that this is not due to achieving. sanctions or always prove that the political means failed they're useless and they are harming the
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population sanctions always lead to losses on both sides you can 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 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. poland's prime minister donald tusk is to be the e use next president he'll take office on the first of the semper he's replacing herman van rompuy who sees the e.u.'s major challenges are the economy ukraine and britain's place in europe the blocs leaders of also nominated italian foreign minister federica to be their new foreign policy chief political commentator on a fund density thinks the two new leaders hold very different political views and
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that's my prove to be a problem for the future of the. maurine is seen very much as tolerant and 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 as so profound that there is no other way that the states worlds try to built up by a letter all relations with russia because more complicated more profound the debate in europe is and 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 an invasion to become a saver off ukraine two nations. plenty more news and views online few including
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why day to day jobs can be more dangerous than war for what from the international labor organization finds that more liberals die in factories than soldiers on the world's bottom feels the full story waiting for you at our to talk. also there have all come a corruption in papua new guinea forces people to flee their homes and planes to change their routes we've got all the details on the best the true for you on. the threat posed by islamic state terrorists will be high on the agenda at the nato summit this week in the well cities of cardiff and new port brits 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 a nato hopes that in the coming hours and days ten to twenty thousand protesters
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from across wales the u.k. on even some coming from mainland europe are going to come here top protest nato summit which is taking place on thursday and friday around sixty leaders from around the world coming off for this very high profile and significant conference protesters here are against nato itself the the answer to which they see as they say just waging war on countries they say it is symbolic of global you know equality now to protect the nato summit taking place in the next few days has been on trial precedented 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 newport 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 up 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. let's move to some other world starting in france where an apartment building exposed has left at least six people dead in a car suburb one of the victims was an eight year old girl a dozen survivors or a man severely injured rescue teams are still sifting through the rubble and certified. residence officials say the tragedy will most probably caused by a gas leak. in somalia islamic
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terrorists wearing army uniforms have stormed a high security prison in the capital killing twelve people gunmen from the al-shabaab network set off a car bomb outside the building before shooting their way in and attempting to free fellow militants wherever they feel to reach the underground cells where prisoners are being held al-shabaab has been fighting to retake control of moderate issue since they were driven out of the capital by african union forces three years ago. israel has laid claim to a huge tract of land in the west bank paving the way for further settlement construction the move comes despite international calls on israel to halt settlement expansion in palestinian territory one of the key disputes holding back the peace process the latest a corresponding one thousand acres is the largest in thirty years. while many of us resort to trolling the internet while looking for cheap flights one russian man has perfected another approach when he goes on holiday he flies in
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the plane he built himself but in a car has the story. surrogate and his eight year old son took a flight to their holiday destination there'd be nothing exceptional about that word not for one thing. 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 it has spent over five years building and from scratch using mostly fiberglass plastic old machinery parts and has inexhaustible a few c.d.'s i'm sorry ghana has sunny keita 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
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cross-country vehicle that would get me anywhere i ever wanted i was always dreaming about it but his real passion for airplanes started back in ninety seven when russia introduce a new law that allows anyone to have a private plane for personal use so we can use a little i had to overcome a number of challenges because it is a self made aircraft i had to train 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 sue good to the equator you get to the most leaves you this is the place we now dream of visiting together with my son there is only one thing standing in their way in the himalayas sergei sas he needs to the engine to increase the flying out to two huge and as we've come to learn for him not even
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the sky's the limit and i do question our. i'm on with a plan great stuff paul scholes will be here in just over half an hour's time with more news but up next it's crosstalk you're on our to international. world of. science technology innovation all the lives developments from around russia we've got the future covered.
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