this man is from a suburb of donsk where u ukrainian are proseparatist and as they close in on donskg is getting close to home and they describe the sounds of shelling and the walls and windows shaking. these are some of the most vulnerable victims of this conflict because they cannot be moved to safety. it is hard to offer words of comfort to some. this woman says she worked hard all her life laying roads, now she says dying alone, she doesn't know where her daughter is. many here were children during the second world war, they sing sons from the soviet area about soldiers saying good-bye to their city before going off to fight. it helps them to forget these troubled times, this war surrounds them once again, i'm with al jazeera, donsk. >>> a ferry carrying 200 passengers collapsed by the south capitol daka and 14 bodies have been found in the river, dozens of people have been rescued. ferry accidents are common in bangladesh and blamed on over crowding and poor ship design and maintenance. more bodies have been recovered in northern nepal after a massive landslide in july raised th

and shelling across both cities have killed dozens including 11 people in donsk in the past 24 hoursian guards have started checking what is in a convoy of russian trucks stuck at the border and moscow said they are carrying humanitarian aid going to rebel held towns but are worried it may have military supplies and ukraine says it won't allow the trucks in until inspections are finished and warning of widespread abuse by pro-russian rebels after hundreds of abductions and barnabie reports. >> reporter: the physical damage of war here is obvious but all of this can be repaired in time. what won't be so easy to fix are all the broken lives. this is boris and wife maria and this picture is of their son and he disappeared several weeks ago when the separatists arrested him and said he was stealing. there are reports they executed him in a type of crude summary justice. maria has been looking for him everywhere and says she has to believe he is still alive. she saw him in her dreams last nig night. when the separatists were this charge this building was their military headquarters, it wa

ukraine government says forces surrounded do surrounded donsk and pro-russians surrender and residentsing up to the sounds of shelling, some took refuge in the basement of a building and 100 persons fled from a high-security facility after it was hit by the shelling and emma hayward has more from slovonsk. >> from the separatists the main tellicom center was on fire and apparently hit by a shell. one of many buildings coming under fire from ukrainian forces. >> translator: the ukrainian telecom building is on fire is what it is because the shell ex employed and set it on fire and firing mortars. >> reporter: almost half of the city's one million strong population has now left, unable to cope with this, many people are still trying to get out and others are seeking shelter, even the maternity unit has gone under ground to escape violence. ukraine military appears to have the upper hand and pushing forward and cutting off enemy supply roots and say they will not stop fighting until they have driven out separate cysts from the strongholds in the east. >> translator: if there is an initiat

. >> reporter: parts of the city came under fire yet again and people in donsk were left picking throughieces and this was once part of the hospital and now reduced to rubble. >> translator: there were word the street at the beginning, then he died and brought in by his relatives and just walking past here. his left lung was injured and his heart just stopped working and a very painful death after 10-15 minutes. >> reporter: home of the separatist movement has been in the sights of the ukrainian military for weeks and half of the population are thought to have already fled to try to escape a possible unslauth and a russian is accused of having close ties with moscow. >> translator: i think the donsk people republic should be ruled by blood and a person of this kind is among us. please welcome alexander. >> reporter: in slovonsk would be unthinkable a few weeks ago. the city was controlled by separatists but is now back in the hands of the government but not without heavy losses on both sides. the authorities here are trying to rebuild trust with the community and it's to try to heal the

. >> reporter: what is clear is a worsening humanitarian situation, in a separatist stronghold of donsk cueing for water and other essential supplies and the separatists declare the government in donsk was enforcing strike new laws in the area it now controls. >> translator: death penalty in the code is for the following crimes. first aggravated murder which is murder of two or more people or a child or a pregnant woman. second for certain military crimes committed in war on the battlefield and third crimes of aggravated codes of war. >> reporter: heavy fighting is leaving families with little choice but to flee any way they can. the journey to try to reach safety can be a treacherous one and security situation deteriorates more people are willing to take the risk sometimes with devastating consequences. on monday the separatist denied carrying out attack that killed si civilians and the government gave a detailed account of what it said happened. >> translator: today at 9:40 a.m. terrorists committed a bloody crime. and on the roads and terrorists and civilians were trying to flee duri

as renewed fighting on the pro-russian stronghold of donsk and it covers the skyline and tens of thousands on sunday and they advanced in the city of lahonsk taking control of one suburb. germany foreign minister is urging a cease fire between ukraine's army and separatists and they discussed this between ukraine ministers in berlin. >> translator: difficult talks but i think and hope we made progress on some points and agree we will go back to the capitol and report to the government and on tuesday we will decide when to continue the talks. >> reporter: now brazil said good-bye to one of the most prominent leaders and he was killed with six others in a plane crash on wednesday and thousands turned out for his funeral and gabrielle alexander was there. >> reporter: saying good-bye to a man who could have been president of brazil and this is his home state and in shock. in the large working class northeast state they credit him for looking out for the poor and schools, roads and hospital clinics and say he never forgot his people even after launching his national campaign for president and

. >> in washington and thank you very much, fighting in ukraine and south of donsk controlled by pro-russianaratists and military saying they captured ten russian soldiers and they believe the russians are trying to control a strip of land annexed in march and a town on the southeast border came under heavy shelling and residents there cannot tell which side is firing and ukraine officials say that artillery is coming from the russian side and leaders from the countries meeting face-to-face today, ukraine president poroshenko and putin meeting to shake hands and he had demands for ukraine military offensive and poroshenko called for an end as well. >> this meeting is well underway but the expectations are not particularly high because this isn't a peace negotiation. this is a meeting of the customs union which involves russia, bela-ruse and kazistan and opened up to ukraine president and the european union delegation that has come here too. so when the german chancellor, angela merkel said don't expect a breakthrough and the european union has been saying what this is a chance for first seri

to ukraine where officials say 195 soldiers returned from rebel territory but fighting raises on in donsknd pictures of residents who were forced to spend the night in bomb shelters. they slept in winter clothes and on wooden planks about 200,000 people fleeing their homes further north ukraine forces have retaken the town of slovonsk and mr. phillips reports. >> reporter: this is the hospital and i'm in the surgical ward. now when the separatist controlled the town they took over this ward by force and set up a roadblock the street outside and many of the hospital staff were so frightened they ran away. we are also told the separatists took over the hospital bomb shelter and stopped some patients and hospital staff from using it. now, in june this ward was hit by shell fire. a nurse was killed. and the roof just above me was badly damaged. we don't know who fired that shell but one hospital official told me that he believes it would have been government forces. what we do know is that medical staff and medical premises are receiving very little protection in eastern ukraine's war. >> rep

controlled from russia and they are in controlled of large parts of eastern crane including the lohansk and donsken the coastal town and the big fear is they are trying to create a land corridor with the and next region of crimea and these are the areas where separatists are getting help from russia. >> translator: there was a call from the russian president to provide the encircled units with all humanitarian corridors and ready to give them core -- corridors so the weapons cannot be used against us. >> we will go to babbot with russian magazine and thank you for talking to us. it seems like the separatist leader was talking direct instructions from vladimir putin, is this an indication that russia is in direct control of events in eastern ukraine? >> well, i don't think so because there were several incidents before when putin had wishes and not fulfilled by fighters in eastern ukraine and in may they asked separatists not to conduct independent referendums in the two region and they controlled them in luvansk and the people in the areas still went ahead with their plans to hold referendums fro

european union pushes for immediate ceasefire here the crisis deepens and i'm with al jazeera the donskine. >>> less than a month scott land will decide whether or not to sit for the united kingdom, a historic referendum. proindependence leader and leader of the scottish parliament is head to head with darling head of the no campaign. the second and final televised debate ahead of the independence vote on september the 18 and a key issue is whether scott land can keep the pound sterling as its currency and the economic viability of scott land's oil supplies. >> the north sea has been in a boom to the country for 40 years. but what you can't get away from is once it is gone it's gone and slowly but surely every battle we take to the north seas is one barrel less where i don't want to see is my country so dependent on something so vol e volitile and we lost more than the schools in scott land. >> and a few seconds ago he admitted we could use the phone and didn't need permission. shortly different from what they said a few months ago when he says if you walk out of the u.k. you walk out o

is continuing the campaign to penetrate rebel-controlled areas in the east and renewed fighting in donsks of smoke filled the sky and people were killed on sunday and forces from kiev advanced in the city and taking control of a suburban they are urging kiev and moscow to avoid direct confrontation. emma hayward has the latest where the army says it pushed back the rebels. >> reporter: a few months ago many of these men had never picked up a weapon. they were paramedics, students, builders, lawyers. now they are firing live rounds, getting ready to fight. the ukrainian army is using volunteer fighters like these to try to win back territory and they have a few weeks training before they head off to the front line and then it all becomes very risky and real. this is where they could end up, in the region where the separatists are still in control. the battle for this land is fierce and intensive. this was once the regional airport welcoming flights everyday. on sunday separatists brought down a fighter jet close to them but ukrainian forces say they still have the upper hand. >> translato

neive barber, in ukraine donsk region. >> vladimir putin is scaling back offensive in the east and putineat with ukraine port porteshenko and he threatened decisions to sign an association agreement with the eu. >> translator: i'd like to say we are ready to discuss any variance of our cooperation based on consideration for each other's interests and ready to exchange opinions on the acute fighters in ukraine which i'm sure cannot be sold by further escalation without taking into account vital interests of the southeast regions of the country and without peaceful dialog with their representatives. >> translator: the first step in stabilizing the situation in ukraine is to create effective controls on the russian, ukrainian border as a key element of the country sovereignty and independence and we should do everything to stop supplies of hardware and weapons to the rebels because border controls are only possible with participation of the osce. >> rory is live from minsk so what have we heard at the meeting so far? >> reporter: well, earlier on this afternoon there was a briefest of hands