leaders will meet in brussels this saturday. they are expected to discuss ukranian requests for military equipment. pro-russian separatists are in control, including areas around luhansk and donetsk. it recently has tape the coastal town. al jazeera's paul brennan sent us this update, which many believe will be the next front in the fighting. >> the military manoeuvring by both sides in the far south-eastern corner of ukraine continued with pace over the last 24 hours. the defenders of mariupol, and the volunteer brigade of local residents have been digging trenches on the approaches to the city, between the main body of the city and this town which as been captured and occupied by pro-russian forces. we have not seen russian marked vehicles or arm your ourselves, but we do know did have spoken to reliable sources that say there has been movement out of this town, heading north along the ukrainian-russian border, one must assume to engage in combat with forces to the north of here. as far as actions in the air, the ukranian mili

many people in brussels have been asking, will list a tour of vladimir putin? many think the only thing that will determine them are sanctions in the energy sector. that is something the e.u. will probably shy away from because so many countries in the you that much in the e.u. are dependent on russian gas. >> the main focus was to be filling top jobs in the e.u. what names are being tossed around? >> it seems the italian foreign minister will be the high representative for the foreign policy of the european union. the italian prime minister and socialist democratic party is in europe say they want her, too. there are some questions because she does not have a lot of experience. the conservatives are willing to cede that job because other jobs are more important to them. the commissioner for economic and monetary affairs, for example. we have been hearing the name donald tusk a lot. if the polish prime minister wants the job, it is probable he will get it. he is still thinking about it. his wife wants him to take it so that might be a good argument in favor of

people who work for the european commission you'd like to guess how many lobbyists there are in brussels who do the guardian thirty thousand almost almost parity one for one now i was just reading them then what nigel fries is talking about over there you can't because he's the last couple of years he's been making these speeches and brussels that get picked up on you tube and get millions of views and he talks of the every one of their answers you know mr speaker the e.u. is a corrupt is it are you on the same pages as nigel yeah absolutely it's just one not only you could party we want members from every single party and people who can't care about politics whatsoever. like it's like some sort of take we're just sapping nutrients and life from everything else appallingly appalling corrupt and of course one of the things for i was going to jackson to you recently is the election all those include you out as the president of the european commission a man let's not forget who only a year ago was forced to resign as prime minister of luxembourg. promise of a thousand years of recent scanda

we have heard you, brussels.derstand exactly what you mean about bureaucrats who have no democratic legitimacy. nckerhen they appointed ju in defiance of this country's wishes. i do object to the way he was foisted on this country in defiance of the explicit wishes of the major eu state in a way that would've not happened 10 years ago. -- reform is echo in the interest of the u.k. and in the interest of the whole eu. this is the case that is around the table in europe. we need to reform our social and employment laws. resurrecting the opt out for the u.k., i do not think that would be a bad thing. we need further reforms of the chp so we do not continue to waste taxpayer money and discriminate against third world producers. sugar cane on threatening the jobs. managed immigration so we know how many people are coming in. the london government can plan for school places and welfare and all the rest. i agree with the dutch. they want 54 areas repealed. should takethat we it back to and enter governmental arrangement

corporate sovereignty chapter in its present form so germany you diplomats confirmed in brussels on friday that the german federal government could not sign the agreement with canada it is as it is now negotiated germany is in principle ready to initial the agreement in september but the chapter on the legal protection of investors is problematic and currently not acceptable now of course this is the investor state dispute settlements so this is the thing that they're against now they're suddenly against it even though germany was the first one to ever introduce these concepts decades ago they are now starting to be guessed it because they've been sued twice by the same swedish company based on their own domestic policy so when germany first they got rid of coal and a giant swedish firm an energy firm was had a coal plant there they sued the government for one point something billion and now because of the fukushima disaster germany has cut shut down their nuclear power plants this germ the swedish from also has that and they're suing them for three and a half billion euro is so germany no

he's appointing somebody knows how brussels works i suppose but at the same time he's going to pray that he gets a reasonable department because he's up to you. he may get so he may get something like roads or something like that was common always he would like to have something involved with money for obvious reasons right and so this is. kind of a bad mark all day that number ten again. is nobody is heard of for an incredibly important position i mean while british parliamentarians would like to think that terribly important well over half of all laws now are not to do in brussels it's more important than our own parliament is now well all right well we'll have to keep track of this as the story develops and thanks again for coming on the kaiser report thank you much all right that's going to do it for this edition of the kaiser report with me max kaiser and stacy herbert i'd like to thank our guest simon rose get britain out if you'd like to get in touch tweet us a kaiser report by off. join me. in park and. very much. only on. your friend post a photo from a vacation you can't. call

this is not a majority position in brussels. the tightening of the sanctions seems to be a majority solution -- position. a couple eu member states -- that is probably what they're discussing right now. nobody wants to be left behind. it is also unclear if they will decide it right away tonight or if they will ask the commission to work on some further proposals. knockdown of any sanctions, an issue for germany and france. thank you for that. other news, the prime minister of the tiny african kingdom of lesotho has fled to neighboring south africa after what he the country'sby military. several people were wounded overnight. saidense force spokesman soldiers seized two police stations to prevent police from arming political groups. let's go live to our correspondent who joins us on the line. the prime minister said this was a coup, but the military said it is not. what is your take? >> the military said this was along the lines of an anti-terrorism operation. the opposition wanted to hold a protest march on monday that would for

brussels fights back know that russia's and e.u. food imports in response to sanctions european officials reportedly want to spoil moscow's plans now to get alternative supplies from latin america. tear gas and rubber bullets the u.s. police response to crowds demanding justice for the killing of an unarmed black teenager by a missouri cop. a little girl that survived eleven days in the siberian wilderness surrounded by walls of all thanks to a brave puppy to say. hello good evening my name is kevin when you watching r.t. international our top stories on this here's backtracked on its earlier statement that it had detained a russian photographer and ukraine understanding went missing in the country's east a week ago while his whereabouts remain unknown still kiev is apparently struggling to get its story straight now ukraine's deputy interior minister had confirmed earlier the journalist's arrest by the country's security forces in an interview with the latvian radio station adding that the thirty three year old photographer was cha

brussels bites back now that russia has banned e.u. food imports in response to sanctions european officials reportedly want to spoil moscow's plans to get alternative supplies from latin america. tear gas and rubber bullets the u.s. police response to crowds demanding justice for the killing of an unarmed black teenager by missouri cops and. meet the little girl that survived eleven days in the siberian wilderness surrounded by a wolves and bears all thanks to a brave puppy who saved her. seven pm in moscow watching her to national when we were in a josh welcome to the program our top story this hour kiev has backtracked on its earlier statement that it's detained a russian photographer in ukraine understand and went missing in the country's east a week ago and his whereabouts remain unknown ukraine's deputy interior minister have to confirm to journalists arrest by the country's security forces in an interview with a lobby and radio station adding that the thirty three year old photographer was charged with aiding terrorists however

countries are actually brussels to fill the financial void left by russia's actions do you think it's possible that greece could be picking up the panic phone to brussels while i do see that possibility the fall in the next hours or days but this is not going to be a recipe that it's going to have a broad will make some aspirin but it's not the long term medicine in the whole recipe that it's going to hear of the economic crisis we're going through brussels don't fill in the gap the economic gap on the economy decrease of exports for greece or other countries what we have to do is we have to look for a new dialogue the basis of new dialogue not confrontation between the european union and russia they should be strategic partners working for consultation of beats a normal that konami life on both sides because just before before but out of time some sort of jump in here but do you think do you think at all it might have been possible for greece to. use imposing sanctions during the whole process among the e.u. nations could greece have been independent do you think. even though we have

brussels bites back now to russia's banned food imports in response to sanctions european officials reportedly want to spoil moscow's plans to get alternative supplies from latin america. tear gas and rubber bullets the u.s. police response to grounds demanding justice for the killing of an unarmed black teenager by missouri cops. and meet a little girl that survived eleven days in the siberian the wilderness surrounded by wolves and bears all thanks to a brave puppy use a term. which international coming to live from moscow with me marina joshie will begin with breaking news well kiev has confirmed its detained russian photographer in ukraine under a stand and went missing in the country's east and we could go and he's now apparently been charged with aiding terrorists cross live to a correspondent with you know caution as more details for us what would you know as we know kiev have been denying this spuriously what more do we know now it's true as it turned out russian photographer and a stain and has been arrested by the ukrainian security service and i need to mention that this is the firs

brussels fights back you know that russia has banned the food imports in response to sanctions european officials reportedly want to spoil moscow's plans to get alternative supplies from latin america. to gas and rubber bullets the u.s. police response to crowds demanding justice for the killing of an unarmed black teenager by a missouri cop. and the girl that survived eleven days in the siberian wilderness surrounded by walls and bears all thanks to a brave puppy a. very good even when i was kevin owen it's eleven pm here in moscow our top story this hour the kids back tracked on its earlier statement that it had detained a russian photographer in ukraine understand and went missing in the country's east a week ago while his whereabouts remain on known kev's apparently struggling to get its story straight this is a quote from ukraine security services from a couple of days ago it reads we're not holding anyone in the name of a standing we are also want to wear away such information could have come from then shortly after that this is how an advisor to kim's interior minister answered w

brussels bites back now that russia has banned e.u. food imports in response to sanctions european officials reportedly want to spoil moscow's plans to get alternative supplies from latin america. tear gas and rubber bullets the u.s. believes response to grounds demanding justice for the killing of an unarmed black teenager by a missouri calm down. a little girl that survived eleven days in the siberian a wilderness surrounded by wolves and bears all thanks so brave poppy safe her. what you might have a national coming to live from moscow i'm marina josh welcome to the program now brussels is planning to talk led the american countries out of boosting agricultural exports to russia that's according to the financial times citing senior officials nations such as brazil and chile were set to meet the short fall when the russia introduced a food embargo on a range of european products in response to ease sanctions and more and out from our correspondents in berlin people all over. well following russia's decision to ban the import of certa

he is in brussels. i think what we learned, nothing has changed. >> and europe is all determined by what germany says. our guest host for the hour the global chief strategist at citi private bank. he emerges as analysis of equities at the macro economy. when you look at what is going on in the stock market, we have these headline risks out of ukraine, iraq and the middle east. are these legitimate risks or headline risks? >> these are very legitimate risks. what they are are risks. they are till risks, things and probable that could end up becoming a bigger problem and so you have to discount them. we have talked for the last couple of months that risk is just not visible in the marketplace. in some places we have seen that is still the case. the chances of oil spike up up 20% over the next couple of months. one out of 100 probability in the marketplaces. these things get priced into markets, and i think they have. you take a look at this mild correction we have had. very broad-based -- >> is it over? >

summit is set to start in brussels. the 65 yaerld alliance is likely to -- 65-year-old alliance is liking to focus on further russian sanctions. >> reporter: n.a.t.o. was created in 1949, after the defeat of nazi germany to protect allies by perceived invasions by the soviet union and eastern europe. the purpose was summed up as keeping the americans in, russians out and germans down. the old tensions between russia and the west has amplified. nick burns, a former u.s. ambassador to n.a.t.o. says the atlantic alliance is essential for americans and europeans. n.a.t.o. provide a nuclear defense, a territorial defense, and has been that way since 1949. it's been the most successful alliance in modern history. with the end of the cold car, the pact vanished. n.a.t.o. expanded. 10 new countries joined. countries that had been allies. >> boy, does that decision look like a good one. you can imagine with the aggressiveness of vladimir putin, you can imagine what he might be doing. and into romania and poland. >> since the fal

international brussels muscles in latin america to stop it stepping in to replace the e.u. goods by russia. to gas and rubber bullets being fired at crowds in the u.s. state of missouri as protests over saturday's fatal shooting of a black teenager by a policeman continue to turn violent the eighteen year old was unarmed when he was gunned down in the city of ferguson and is to see it is there for ati pensions chaos and mayhem really have been unraveling here in suburban st louis in the town of ferguson we witnessed tear gas being. hired at just a couple dozen people standing around on a street where of course people have been coming out on to the street in the hundreds and thousands since the killing of an unarmed eighteen year old michael brown took place here the community is outraged because the young man had no weapon however he was fired at multiple times by a police officer and he died as a result of this people have been coming out on to the streets protesting violence has been erupting and most certainly we can get in front of our eyes to d.t.r. gas was fired at le

brussels by the fact now that russia has banned e.u. food imports in response to sanctions european officials reportedly want to spoil moscow's plans to get alternative supplies from latin america. secure gas and rubber bullets the u.s. police response to grounds demanding justice for the killing of an armed black teenager by a missouri cop. in a national coming to life in moscow with me marina joshie ukraine is ready to accept humanitarian aid from moscow but not on a russian trucks cave says a cargo should be handed over to the red cross and the borderless now get more from our team are due caution of on this. well it's a mission that was earlier agreed by cave in moscow so what's happening now. well of the two ukrainian top officials said the time is needed for the international red cross which is contribution to this moscow initiated mission to establish where exactly the aid should go in the ukrainian region now the authorities also clean this humanitarian convoy has not passed a needed certification but at the same time they say t

a number of eager nations demand compensation from brussels fearing moscow's sanctions on food imports could cost them billions. also all the missile strikes to resume in gaza after a cease fire expires with reports suggesting israel's offensive is spurring and to some magic sentiments across the globe and. directed our military to take targeted strikes against eisel terrorist convoys should they move toward the city just a few years after withdrawing its troops from iraq a washington considers new military action to prevent more areas of the country falling into the hands of his fighters. you're watching r t international we're live from moscow we're going to go straight into our breaking news this hour ukraine says it could block of the transfer of russian gas or through its terra dream it could be among the sanctions kiffin is considering against moscow we'll have more on this story as the details come in here on our team to national. so in ukraine the ukrainian army is moving in on the largest city in an attempt to crush the anti-government resistance the a series of attacks on the

our international correspondent in brussels. pressure proposing a cease-fire for humanitarian aid deliveries to the ukraine is almost 300 trucks wait near the border of the war-torn region. for chilcote joins us convoy-date. where are we? -- convoy-gate? what are the speculations? the humanitarian aid convoy is in russia. that is the most important thing to note. it is adjacent to the rebel-held part of ukraine. ukrainians have said they want to inspect this convoy when it comes over. not clear how they would do that if they do not control the area on the other side of the border. the second thing you need to know is that the russians are talking about a cease-fire, a truce. the russian president spoke with barroso and the two agreed that they would meet at some point face to face to discuss ukraine. on thetion to that, diplomatic front, the russian president was in crimea yesterday, the territory they have annexed saying that he would really like to resolve the conflict and he will do everything he can to do that. finally, we h

meeting in brussels and says the situation is a threat to the whole of europe. >> this visit comes in a difficult circumstance from my country. despite the consolidated international efforts, in our strive for peace, ukraine is a subject for foreign military aggression and terror. we have worsened the situation from the 27th of august, and thousands of the foreign troops and hundreds of the foreign tanks. now, under the territory of ukrai ukraine and it's a rick for peace and stability in ukraine, and the whole of europe. >> we are clear there's no military solution, we need a political solution respecting the integrity and sovereignty. i believe it's more necessary than ever. we continued to urge russia to stop the flow of arms, equipment and personal into the conflict region, and withdraw forces from ukraine. >> so that was katherine ashton speaking in mill jan. simon mcgregor-wood is in milan. that is where the meeting is taking place. what are we expect of course, first of all? >> well, we are expecting the situation, the escalating crisis in ukraine to dominate the deliberations.

eu ministers gathered for talks in brussels.ur next guest says that markets are too over trusting of putin. peter, thank you very much for coming in. what you think his endgame is? you mentioned in the past that russia was some sort of unstable buffer state here that is what we have got at the moment. what does he gain from that kind of limbo situation? >> markets basically have been every word.utin's when he says that he does not want a destabilize situation, we saw stocks rally. we saw emerging-market currencies rally. he said the same thing before going into crimea. that is not the view around eastern ukraine. we think he does not want to win per se. a buffer state. foring of military conflict is the slow grinding situation for the markets. the short term is hard for them to digest. it seems like barring any major events, we might have a sharp poin coming upt with this convoy trying to enter the country, the market will keep it -- >>. market should not assume that all parties involved want to find a quick resolution thing. is

leaders will meet in brussels, and are expected to discuss ukraine's request. egypt's highest religious leader is expected to rule on a death sentence handed down to the religious leader of the muslim brotherhood. the sentence was given in june. the grand mufti rejected it once, but was asked to reconsider. >> the united nations is calling for the unconditional and immediate release of the 42 peacekeepers in the occupied golan heights. they've been taken hostage by syrian rebels and peacekeepers are trapped in the area. >> more on the breaking news story we reported earlier, and reports of a coup in ley so theo in southern -- lesotho in southern africa, let's speak to tania page who is in southern africa. what are you hearing? >> the latest information from witnesses on the ground is that early this morning there were reports of gunshots being fired, and currently at the moment, it's about 9 o'clock in the morning, it is the army - they are on the steep. they were called not out. boots on the ground. the army appears to have taken control of the capital police

that will be done saturday in brussels, when the heads of state will meet. the european commission has to elaborate concrete measures. >> that's it? basically more sanctions? is there anything else they can do? >> well, one source said ot -- to me that unfortunately ukraine is no member of nato. that would mean the only legal option was to answer with military force. so foreign ministers have had to look to other options. one could be helping president poroshenko to support the situation in the rest of the country, to get the ukrainian people a perspective for the future. all this in advance of elections scheduled for october. that would mean maybe the -- accepting the loss of the eastern part of ukraine control by separatists. >> so what are you saying? basically abandoned the east? is that an option that would be taken seriously? >> well, the problem is the western countries are stuck in a situation where they don't have measures, tools to react, so they have to think. one option is that. because what is the alternative? muddling through? or helping the co

on the other side he's got pressure from brussels to cut spending harsh areally. what we've seen is members of his party against that kind of policy. he's stuck between a rock and a hard place with polls going down, economic figures going down. this is his response, a strong response to say he is determined, not going to be seen as weak. >> what's at stake for him? >> well of course he is up against all those promises that he's made to be elector rate. there are clashes here about who's going to run positioning ahead of the polls. for him he has as i say a tremendous amount of pressure from brussels and entractable problem when it comes to the economy. he's looking at the situation in the next year or so parties start moving towards that presidential date in 2017. at the moment as i say, more than 80% of voters think he's not the man to lead this economy. >> lucy williamson in paris. >>> russia announced plans to send a second aid convoy to eastern ukraine within the next few days. lavrov told the news conference the humanitarian situation in the rebel held areas

you've put in place we need compensation our farmers need compensation from brussels to make up the shortfalls particularly in finland in the dairy markets they could stand to lose up to one billion euro from the finnish economy elsewhere we've heard statements coming out across from across europe here in germany the trade union that deals with wholesale trade and foreign trade said that this could have a detrimental effect on the german economy in greece the main opposition party said that well the fact that the greek government the current greek government was just blindly following sanctions from brussels and from washington was going to have a detrimental effect on the farming sector there on the agriculture sector there and in ireland the minister of agriculture has said that he's very concerned that there is risk particularly when it comes to cheese expo. last year island exported four a half million euros worth of cheese to russia and we're going to be missing out on this over the next twelve months. for more on russia's imported restrictions let's talk live to poland dan sch

products brussels going on still in that you cannot live from that you can only decrease of exports for greece or other countries greece has. all history of traditional good ties with russia and we should continue on that road. and just discussion on political issues. trying to. push. the political decent. honest. reasonable. kind of. a resolution calling for all sides to accept a cease fire at the slides of the malaysian plane crash in eastern ukraine has been blocked at the un security council the countries who refused to accept the document put forward by russia wanted the end to government forces blamed in the wording of the west from the national institute of east and civilization believes it's all part of a well planned campaign against russia. very concept went to have an inquiry about the incident of the accident of the malaysian play plane but most obviously united states don't want to cooperate on got field and they don't give the information they have they don't want to communicate they just want to make pressure. against russia unfortunately the the members of the security c

products brussels does not feel in that. from the economic decrease of exports for greece or other countries greece has a long history of traditional good ties with russia and we should continue in that role. of politically she said. trying to. push. political. shop. so i can see recent budget kind of sids. at least fourteen palestinians have been wounded one seriously so in fierce clashes with israeli soldiers across the west bank. israeli army used tear gas rubber bullets and live ammunition to disperse thousands of people staging a protest against the militants in gaza palestinian protesters threw stones and fireworks at troops the west bank is seen skirmishes a number of times since the beginning of the month long conflict but this time up to ten towns including bethlehem and ramallah would involve a fear reports for i'll tell you from the heart of the disturbances. just behind me palestinian protesters are clashing with israeli troops here in the occupied west bank throughout the west bank today we've seen clashes betwe

western narrative it's becoming more and more apparent but you have the white house and you have brussels are very rigid that they want to keep the narrative that there are no fascists in kiev and everybody is pro russian in the east which is completely false here but this is this is where it's going but would bothers me is that the mainstream takes your talking points exactly from the powers that be this is just a corruption of journalism the very essence of what journalism is supposed to do i think first of all what is very important we shouldn't do that mistake to think that my dorothy of western mainstream journalism is thinking in a historically way that they say this was like this and that in order to what they do they support now anybody with out respecting the certain ideology who is anti russian and these people who are anti russian are and this is a principle these are the good ones in the eyes of western mainstream journalists and whatever they do when they burn people or life in odessa then it is the bait that i read it in german newspapers that this debate that if those victi

brussels. meeting in we will have more and a little bit. >> talking about the tough troubles at tesco. ning. capitals the dividends are slashed. it is the time it takes the new ceo to get in the door has also been cut. newly three years of toldioration. i have you the stock could fall 12%. >> i will be talking about that shortly. gains. week of is still there. you look at inflation in germany. this was the bane of the european central bank. spoke to city tomorrow. they say euro needs to drop another five percent. you need to see it down one dollar 20. add.ould there are 1000 russian troops on ukrainian soil. obama is talking about consequences. equity market seemed to be focused on the ability of mario draghi to deliver something. equity markets are trading higher. they have not uncrossed yet. we see a range from four percent lower to possibly 10% lower. have a cut in terms of x then the teacher. caroline will take us through those numbers. when it comes to luxury this is a different story. the

is making sure kiev has enough cash to keep the country running ukraine's president says brussels is ready to hand out around a billion dollars in the near future and that's on top of a one point four billion instalment already approved by the international monetary fund this however means ukraine will have to raise basic terris freeze wages and pensions and even introduce new taxes and this more the package includes slashing tax benefits for agriculture and allowing banks to repossess property but complying with the demands is hard for a country that's already in economic freefall for example the country's debt is expected to jump up to sixty percent of g.d.p. by the end of this share and this pace it will be eighty percent four years from now what makes the situation even worse is that the economy isn't growing on the contrary experts believe it will shrink dramatically between now and the end of the year is kiev digs deep into his pockets to find another nine billion dollars to pay off lenders wall street analyst michael hudson believes ukraine is facing a financial abyss. ukraine

products brussels done a lot still in that. from the economy greece of exports from greece or other countries greece has a long history of traditional good ties with russia and we should continue in that role. you can head to our web site to tell us who you think will be hit the hardest by the sanctions over the crisis in ukraine here are the options to choose from here the graphics here ultimately the majority now believing the e.u. and the us could actually suffer the biggest loss is only a little less feeling that both russia and western nations will be affected equally and the rest of you say it's either russia or no one as the world will quickly just cast your vote as r.t. dot com. the in the. it's off the international live from moscow thanks for joining us president obama has given permission to launch u.s. airstrikes on jihadist militants of the so-called islamic state that of occupied a large area now of northern iraq however he said the strikes would only take place in the event of islamists attacking the kurdish city

there will be a press conference at 6:00 in the evening in brussels. with that, back to you. >> neal said the chief emerging market economists at capital economics. he is with you in the studio. >> we can choose, so the tough job becomes even tougher. really, at this stage, i think, the markets are really struggling with this, too. it is a big sell-off in the bond market last week. this week we've seen markets rally on hopes that there might be some steps towards de-escalation from moscow. and the hope seems to be about de-escalation. which would point to actually some kind of retaliation and escalation. >> and i like how in the comments yesterday in crimea, you take the time to look through the comments, we'll do everything we can not to escalate the crisis. but the market is ignoring that. >> i think that's true. and the point is that he's trying to ride the horses, if you like. there's a domestic audience and there could be no backing down. the big russian oil companies, they're going to apply for central bank for financing help, he's effectively be

products brussels does not fill in that our economic from the economic decrease of exports for greece or other countries greece has a long history of traditional good ties with russia and we should continue on that road. where we love it when you get involved with our stories here on r.t. if you go to our website you can tell us who you think will be hit hardest by the sanctions over the crisis in ukraine as bring up the numbers here are the options to choose from for example right now the majority believing the e.u. and the u.s. could suffer the biggest losses only now a little less feel that both russia and western nations will be affected equally the rest of you say it's either russia or no one as the world will adjust quickly you cast your vote it's r.t. dot com. it's a pleasure to have you with us today president obama has given permission to launch u.s. airstrikes on she hottest militants of the so-called islamic state that have occupied a good chunk of northeast iraq however obama did say the strikes would only take place in the event of islam is talking the city over to build

is making sure kiev has enough cash to keep the country running ukraine's president says brussels is ready to hand that around a billion dollars in the near future and that is on top of a one point four billion instalment already approved by the international monetary fund this however means ukraine will have to raise basic terrace freeze wages and pensions and even introduce new taxes and there is more to the package include slashing tax benefits raghav culture and allowing banks to repossess property but complying with the demands is hard for a country that's already in economic freefall or the country's g.d.p. shrank almost five percent in the second quarter of this year with major firms losing ten billion dollars over the first half of the year last year they were several hundred million dollars in profit and ukraine's currency the good evening is losing value to experts say the economy would be unsustainable if their currency forced to more than twelve to the dollar well it's their thirteen and a half at the moment wall street analyst michael hudson believes ukraine is facing a

parliament building in brussels some german politicians think sanctions were a big mistake. especially if it does us different sanctions than the trade war i know means to improve the situation on the contrary we have a spiral of exclusion that hurts the german and european economies many people who rejected the sanctions right from the start they have a right to feeling that this is not the way to achieve anything. sanctions are always prove that the political means failed they are useless and they are harming the 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. 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 now because of that a lot of entrepreneurs as well as the general public in germany has been affected by that. well the losing money over the events in ukraine is still ma

we went to brussels where there were many st. louis passengers living, and that's a photo from the old jewish refugee neighborhood. there was a gestapo census of the jewish population in 1941 in brussels, so we had all the addresses of the st. louis passengers and in some cases we even had telephone numbers. you don't think of that. anyway, we had the addresses so we went back to the very buildings where st. louis passengers lived in brussels. this was around 1999, the year 2000. the old jewish refugee neighborhoods thinking there might be someone still there. who remembers what happened to their former neighbors 50 years ago. but in fact, whileander li ande a jewish neighborhood, it's still a refugee neighborhood, there were women in burqas, people were extremely friendly, but nobody could help us with clues to what happened to people in that neighborhood 50 years ago. at that point, we realized when you're doing research about jews from the 20th century, we realize it's not where you're from, it's where you went to because it's

to give you an idea and yes is the city of almost a million people which is roughly the size of brussels. and this video is from a town just outside today near a church exploded into a fireball after it was hit by a shell and as you can see it's right next to a playground which likely was empty at the moment of the attack all this happened in just a one day and just to show you something else on this video this right here is a crater just at the bottom of my screen there which this was from a previous strike a couple of days before this. military officials say they're reading troops for street fights in donetsk and lugansk as part of a crucial phase in the operation to take back control over the rest of regions river national has more. ukraine's national security and defense council has confirmed that the army is currently preparing to regain control of the major cities in eastern ukraine it is also now confirmed by the officials of what kiev calls its antiterrorist the region in these parts of the country they spokesperson has said that the military will take the cities and the towns an