europe and sanctions in russia since for 6 years from now for the ukraine and crimea and eastern ukraine and the question is not if europe should do more but how effective this may honeys them are how much much influence the sanctions have on their behavior over russia is it possible to change their russian behavior by sanctions and the answer is not really because we don't have any any substantial change in russian behavior on the political. stage as a result of dissension so we can discussing sanction in europe and europe can impose sanctions on 2 more russian film or 3 more russian citizens but the question is how how effective the sanctions will be. i think that there are some leading german politicians among them former chancellor gerhard schroeder have argued in recent years that it's time for a german russian reset or those voices growing quieter now after the attack on avanti not sure they are non-existent anymore i think. the problems with russia are obvious. with the europe it was the european union with that same time we shouldn't destroy in my view what has been built between

flight m.h. 17 the tragedy which claimed almost 300 lives many of them children took place over eastern ukraine in july 24th in a murder trial is currently under way involving 3 russians on the ukrainian accused of involvement maria for national guard line more details to saskia taylor in the studio earlier. it is explained in the document the last straw for russia was the government of the netherlands filing a lawsuit against russia in the european court for human rights alleging mosca had played their role in the mh 17 passenger airplane crash back in 2014 and russia denies all the allegations accusing the now the lens of being interested in only putin all the blame on russia rather than fighting the truth here is the russia's foreign minister in the dutch movies considered yet another blow to russian dutch relations and the hague courts determination contrary to common sense is to continue on the wrong path of unilateral attribution of responsibility to russia for what happened in the sky above donbass such unfriendly acts by the netherlands make it senseless for us to continue to participat

that day july 17th 20143 months off to kiev launched what it called a massive counter terror in eastern ukraine using advocation havea tillery tanks i was there on the ground since day one and i remember how quickly turning into a very bloody deadly operation the situation on the ground was boiling it was really dramatic the real war in fact was raging when these tragedy happened about eastern ukraine the investigation has been going on every since and to today we did not know exactly what had happened these are the key points. so and together and forces were very quick to accuse. the lens back the position. and according to the joint investigation team the plane was brought down by book surface to air. from the rebel controlled territory but interesting is that no satellite supported. version that russia. did not accept russia's documents and russia's materials he is russia's president vladimir putin talking about it whatever the present it doesn't say anything we have. syria we have presented it but no one wants to listen to us unless there is. we will not find the right response to the quest

in consultations over the downing of malaysian airlines flight 17 the tragedy took place over eastern ukraine in july 24th 6 years later the investigation is still ongoing our correspondent. joins me in the studio and gave us all the details. it is explained in the document the last straw for russia was the government of the netherlands filing a lawsuit against russia in the european court for human rights alleging mosca had played their role in the mh 17 passenger airplane crash back in 2014 russia denies all the allegations accusing the now the lens of being interested in only putin all the blame on russia rather than fighting the truth here's the russia's foreign ministry the dutch move is considered yet another blow to russian dutch relations and the hague court's determination contrary to common sense is to continue on the wrong path of unilateral attribution of responsibility to russia for what happened in the sky above donbass such unfriendly acts by the netherlands make it senseless for us to continue to participate in the 3 way consultations responsibility for the breakdown of the co

europe and sanctions in russia since for 6 years from now for the ukraine and crimea and eastern ukraineearn the question is not if europe should do more but how effective is this news mara how much or how much influence the sanctions have on their behavior over us or is it possible to change their russian behavior by sanctions and the answer is not truly because we don't fear for any any substantial change in russian behavior on the euro political. stage as a result of dissension so he can. discussing sanction in europe and europe can impose sanctions some more russian fear him or 3 more russian citizens but the question is how how effective the sanctions will be. i think that there are some leading german politicians among them former chancellor gerhard schroeder have argued in recent years that it's time for a german russian reset or those voices growing quieter now after the attack on me now sure they are non-existent and the more i think. of the problems with russia are obvious. with the europe it will say european union with that same time we shouldn't destroy in my view what has b

europe and sanctions in russia since for 6 years from now for the ukraine and crimea and eastern ukraine. the question is not a free europe should do more but how effective this may honeys mara how much much influence the sanctions have on their behavior over russia is it possible to change their russian behavior by sanctions and the answer is not truly because we don't have any any substantial change in russian behavior on the euro political. stage as a result of dissension so we can. discussing science in europe and europe can impose sanctions some more russian fear or tree more russian citizens but the question is how how effective the sanctions will be. i think that there are some leading german politicians among them former chancellor gerhard schroeder have argued in recent years that it's time for a german russian reset or those voices growing quieter now after the attack on avanti not sure they are non-existent anymore i think. of the problems with russia are obvious. with the europe it was the european union with that same time we shouldn't destroy in my view what has been built

european sanctions in russia since for 6 years from now for the ukraine and crimea and eastern ukraine and the question is not if europe should do more but how effective this may honeys them are how much or how much influence the sanctions have on their behavior over us is it possible to change their russian behavior by sanctions and the answer is not really because we don't have any any substantial change in russian behavior on the euro political. stage as a result of dissension so he can. discussing science in europe and europe can impose sanctions some more russian fear or tree more russian citizens but the question is how how effective the sanctions will be. i think that there are some leading german politicians among them former chancellor gerhard schroeder have argued in recent years that it's time for a german russian reset are those voices growing quieter now after the attack on a volley you know sure they are non-existent anymore i think. the problems with russia are obvious. with the europe it was the european union with that same time we shouldn't destroy in my view what has

europe and sanctions in russia since for 6 years from now for the ukraine and crimea and eastern ukraine earned the question is not if europe should do more but how effective this may honeys mara how much or how much influence the sanctions have on their behavior over russia is it possible to change their russian behavior by sanctions and the answer is not really because we don't fear for any any substantial change in russian behavior on the euro political. stage as a result of dissension so we can. discussing science in europe and europe can impose sanctions from 2 more russian fear or 3 more russian citizens but the question is how how effective the sanctions will be. i think that there are some leading german politicians among them former chancellor gerhard schroeder have argued in recent years that it's time for a german russian reset or those voices growing quieter now after the attack on avanti sure they are nonexistent and you more i think. of the problems with russia are obvious. with the europe it will say european union with that same time we shouldn't destroy in my view what h

in consultations over the downing of malaysian airlines flight 17 the tragedy took place over eastern ukraine in july 2 10146 years later the investigation is still ongoing trilateral discussions were being held between the netherlands australia and russia where the netherlands for the case blaming russia for m.h. 17 before the european court of human rights in july of this year this is a story we'll be following over the next few hours we'll keep you posted. elsewhere there's another weapon in the fight against covert a 2nd experimental russian vaccine against the virus has officially been registered the provoke corona vaccine has been developed by the siberia based vector state research center russia's president vladimir putin made this announcement on wednesday lucy just using. the vent to research center in the c.b.s. is registered a.p. vancouver on the 2nd russian vaccine against corona virus. well corona works like a composite sketch of a criminal suspect it contains antigens molecules that train the immune system to recognize the virus being synthesized artificially and so shouldn't po

part in consultations over the downing of malaysian airlines flight 17 tragedy occurred over eastern ukraine back in july of 20146 years later in the investigation is still ongoing let's get more on this now from our correspondent refer to me in the studio welcome maria i mentioned in the headline there russia's foreign minister calling this this whole operation pointless that they further explain what they meant by that yes this is a toupee. the statement by russia's foreign ministry that i hold in my hands about it says in possibility of russia's patisserie patient in 3 sides consultations with us trailer and now the lens regarding m.h. 17 passenger airplane tragedy back in 2014 that's after the government of the netherlands that is explained in this document filed a lawsuit against russia against a member of these a consultation team you know that in the european court of human rights alleging that had played a role in their plane crash in 2014 just remind you 298 people died mostly dutch nationals russia denies of course all the allegations and accusations of any involvement and accuses

monte: tonight's focused report takes us to eastern ukraine, in 2014 russian backed forces want to withkraine army. a true swiss reached this past july and since in the region has been largely peaceful -- a truce was reached this past july and the region largely peaceful pro-russian parties are set to win big. >> in the frontline town, the sound of shelling has given way to the sound of steamroller's. the former says this company was working before the cease-fire was renewed in late july, but is making faster progress now. >> [speaking foreign language] >> it is easier to work with a cease-fire because you are not afraid a rocket will fly in at you. before you would be afraid and say -- wonder, is it worth laying asphalt today are not? it was scary and out is not. >> prior to july 27, the number of weekly cease-fire violations recorded by oecd observers regularly ran into the thousands. since then it has been a few dozen at most. that head ofhe military's ability to administration is delighted with progress on roadbuilding. >> [speaking foreign language] >> but the main benefit of the c

at least 4 people have been killed and a dozen more injured in wildfires in eastern ukraine the authorities in the region say acres of forest and grassland have been destroyed by fierce flames residents are being evacuated from the area. spain's government has ordered the capital madrid back into lockdown amid a surge in the number of corona virus infections the country's health minister said thursday that new cases in the madrid region accounted for almost 44 percent of new infections across the country in the past 24 hours the regional government had opposed the measures but now says it will comply and instead launch a legal challenge against the law. this hustle and bustle could soon become a thing of the past as madrid prepares for its 2nd lockdown. it's exasperating not knowing what's going to happen tomorrow but i understand that given how cases are increasing in madrid a lock down is the only solution so will have to do it. with the hospitals that capacity and infection rates by rolling out of control the spanish government had little choice but to act. conservative regional leaders

at least 9 people have been killed and dozens more injured in wildfires in eastern ukraine the authorities in the region say acres of forest and grassland have been destroyed by fierce flames residents being evacuated from the area. the u.k. departure from the european union may become a matter for the courts today the e.u. launched legal action against britain after the u.k. refused to drop controversy a legislation that would violate the brig's agreement and break international law european commission president on the line announced the move in brussels ahead of the summer. brussels had given london a hard deadline europe's british friends as well as on a funded lion puts it have been given until wednesday to revise their proposal and because london did not react brussels is now doing so the commission has decided to send a letter a formal notice to the u.k. government this is the 1st step in an infringement procedure but that invites the u.k. government to send its observations within a month. the british lower house only approved the controversial internal market bill on tuesday it wou

when it came to the minsk agreement the minsk talks of course they seek to find a solution in eastern ukraine russia is one of the co-chairs of the means group to deal with the fight in northern iraq i wash. preceded mccall has to toggle the president we want to work the differing work with means group you know that to look for a cease fire in the world no cooperation we're not going to stop doing that to do to the about the sanctions. alexina valley is still recovering here in berlin he took a lot of flight from siberia to moscow back on the 20th of august he was brought in was in a juiced coma for a couple of weeks he was roused from lots and discharged from hospital the last month and continues to recover but as he's getting better it would seem that there's still plenty of ramifications from whatever happened to him to come with relations to how that relationship between moscow and brussels is going to go from here on out you know it's a saga that will continue thanks. peter all about. well news in brief now and a victory celebration turned into a standoff with police in los angeles where

crime was committed at least 9 people have been killed in a dozen more injured in wildfires in eastern ukraine the authorities in the country region say acres of forest and grassland have been destroyed by the fierce flames residents of being evacuated from the area. spans government has ordered the capital madrid to lock down amid a surge in the number of corona virus infections the country's health minister said thursday that new cases in the madrid region accounted for almost 44 percent of new of new infections across the country in the previous 24 hours the regional government had opposed the measures but now says it will comply and instead launch a legal challenge against the lockdown. this house and bustle could soon become a thing of the past as madrid prepares for its 2nd lockdown. it's exasperating not knowing what's going to happen tomorrow but i understand that given how cases are increasing in madrid a lock down is the only solution so will have to do it. with the hospitals that capacity and infection rates by rolling out of control the spanish government had little choice but to a

and at least a 4 people have been killed and a dozen more injured in wildfires in eastern ukraine the authorities in the little hans region say 8 hours of forest and grassland have been destroyed by the fierce flames residents are being evacuated from the affected area. now it is the alternative nobel prize for human rights the rights life ahead awards have been the winners rather have been announced today while organizers say the 4 activists were picked for their dedication to fighting for democracy in their communities this year's selection of recipients highlights the increasing threats to democracy globally it is high time that all of us in favor of democracy around the world stand up and support each other. so that was the statement mission to well 4 winners were picked from a list of 182 nominees for the ward which is open to all individuals and organizations for contributions to sustainability equality and peace while among this year's recipients is a lot of cutting and run who you see here behind me a lawyer from the miskito indigenous groups well she defends the rights of ind

along with a video taken 2 days prior accompanying a number of russian and separatist tanks 3 eastern ukraine today this video was taken on the day of the make 17 shoot down 5 hours before the shoot down and you can see the one of most important details. is on this book we can see 1234 missiles on the book to shut down and make 175 hours for the shoot down. if you look at a video filmed the next morning around 5 or 6 in the morning. this missile was missing there's only 3 missiles. and we know what happened to that missile. and there are many ways to know exactly when and where this video was taken. one reason and one way we know is that the end of this video we see. fuel prices and if we look at historical bad of what the fuel prices were on the day they make 17 shootdown i compare they were the exact same prices that we see right here so i know exactly when the video was taken. and also there's even a satellite image showing the same vehicle in mackay have been the satellite images on google earth and one can find it it was taken out of 11 o 8 am on the day of the shoot so if google earth i

at least 4 people have been killed in a dozen more injured in wildfires in eastern ukraine the authorities in the loo hans region say acres of forest and grassland have been destroyed by fierce flames residents are being evacuated from the affected area. major u.s. carriers american airlines the united airlines are putting a combined 32000 workers on unpaid leave both airlines announced the move separately on wednesday after congress failed to extend emergency funding for the industry travel bans have hit airlines especially hard during this pandemic. police in hong kong have arrested dozens of activists who were defying a ban on protests it comes as the city marked the 71st anniversary of the founding of the people's republic of china officials denied permission for a rally citing security concerns and court a virus restrictions. human rights are under threat across the world and so are the activists to defend them the rights livelihood award aims to recognize their achievements also known as the alternative nobel prize this year it's being awarded to individuals and groups fighting for p

we saw that with ukraine, russia pots like annexation of crimea and its military prevention in eastern ukrainecourt rules that the far—right golden dawn party is a criminal organisation. next year's national five exams which are sat by 15 and 16 year olds in scotland are to be cancelled. they'll be replaced with teacher assessments and coursework. our scotland correspondent, lorna gordon explains. at this high school, these fourth—year pupils —— peoples are setting for the national five qualifications equivalent to gcses. now the exams they have been working towards, they have been scrapped and will be based on continuous assessment instead. i think that it is pretty bad because it is very difficult for us to go on and it would depend... the tests and the class... it is too much pressure to have one big test determine your whole life. scotland bonsai education cemeteries insist this is a system of rewards that can be given despite disruptions caused by current first. . .. given despite disruptions caused by current first.... it given despite disruptions caused by current first. . .. it puts a

is that rudy giuliani had been running something of a shadow state department in parts of eastern europe. ukraines extremely important to the united states giopolitically. borders with russia. it is part of that region of eastern europe that is right on the frontier where the u.s. and nato push up against russia. we have known this for a while. is this an escalation, or is this something new? >> it is not new. it is part of a pattern. as you know, rudy giuliani went to ukraine repeatedly to try to surface information to use against joe biden in this campaign to help his client, donald trump. he went to the extent of working with donald trump to pressure the ukrainian government to launch an investigation of joe biden, and that's what bought the impeachment on the president. now, what we now also know is they are repiezing the 2016 play book in terms of dumping possibly hacking and then dumping information at this late stage, but it goes to that old saying, joshua. you know, fool me once, shame on you. fool me twice, shame on me. and this time the american people can't be fooled again. we have to

moving across southern parts of france and some very wet weather setting in across parts of eastern europe say ukraine pushing up into belarus into that western side of russia will see some very heavy rain with the possibility of flooding here there's that hate 35 celsius in athens similar temperatures you go on through where to stay the west the weather continues to the east west the weather back towards the balkans and blustery showers rattling in across a good part of northern and central europe not too bad in spain portugal it has to be said as the case across northern parts of africa plenty of showers there just around the gulf of guinea and i shall is extending across into liberia into sierra leone and even if you show us to the north of that. frank assessments if american public opinion pieces betrayed by social media platforms after november this would be because if you believe that there are ferocious into our democracy one obvious solution is to break up informed opinion lucas said his don't go any way the protesters aren't going anywhere either it's ability of the revolution people in-depth

moving across southern parts of france and some very wet weather setting in across parts of eastern europe say ukraine pushing up that belarus into that western side of russia will see some very heavy rain with the possibility of flooding here there's that hate 35 celsius in athens similar temperatures you go on through where to stay the west the weather continues to the east what's the weather back towards the balkans and blustery showers rattling in across a good parts of northern and central europe not too bad in spain portugal it has to be said as the case across northern parts of africa plenty of showers there just around the gulf of guinea light showers extending arad across into liberia into sierra leone and even if you show us to the north of that. corruption it is that invisible behind a wall of silence. against. corruption is not something to be told and it. is a. country he's even let's destroy this wall. in 2020 the free space i want encourages the heroes who are fighting against corruption this helps our communities to save the resources that we need in order to address the burning proble

it was enduring american diplomacy in the ukraine and eastern europe.not get up to the vice president's attention? did he learn about this? if he did, did he do anything about it? if you didn't hear anything about it, that says something about the management and his own office. he is dishonest if it never got to him because the staff was not sharing the stuff that he would hear incompetence. either one is not very encouraging for the man who wants to be the president of the united states. >> martha: amy coney barrett was saying how no one is above the law, the roads will have to apply equally. i think about general michael flynn and others who are caught up in the russian collusion scandal that turned out to be going nowhere after two years of investigation. registering yourself as a foreign agent and doing work in a foreign country is one of the things that they were charged with and went to jail for. is that a question that you would -- given that situation, that it is quite fair to ask and depress hunter biden on at this point? >> i think we all have

the largest was the stream from eastern europe, mostly from poland and the ukraine. these were, in large part, adolescents, young men and women who were grabbed from their homes, forced onto trucks and trains into germany. hitler and the third reich leadership knew from the very beginning that the only possible way to send millions of soldiers to the eastern front was to replace them with millions more forced enslaved laborers from the east. that was the first group. they began a arriving in 1940, 1941, and continued to arrive through the end of the war. the second stream that made up the last million came in 1944 and 1945 from latvia, lithuania, estonia and parts of ukraine. and these were men, women and their children. the men and women who had in one way or another collaborated with the nazi authorities. finish sometimes that collaboration meant simply working in a post office that was overseen by a nazi official. in other cases it meant serving in the auxiliary e police rounding up jews. in some cases it meant joining the ss division. when it became clear that th

-a and into ukraine some lesser weather there for time as well it's opponents eastern policy jamey say some west weather linking back across the low countries strew the netherlands in sioux could pass of england southern pass of wiles' which was west he comes on next system baseband of west windy weather that will come through for saturday fridays a better day of this a sad day see it has very very wet and there's more rain all the cards move into the 2nd half of the weekend if the central parts of europe have doubts of water south as you can see but the a sunshine and that's the case too across much of spain and portugal comes across the mediterranean sea 5 and draw you might just catch one or 2 showers just around the mediterranean coast of libya show us there into the far south of nigeria with one or 2 showers from liberia. down into this story. community bio diversity is buyers. security is that essential for our species to survive be part of the debate i know you have my days and you too can be part of this conversation when no topic is off the table the police are not neutral and

terminal and all and as well as the interests of the ukraine that are highly promoted by the us and of course poland and many of the european countries and eastern european members of the us union so in this case it just perceived as on the one side of it though he should be sure all these your racial relations between the united states and the european countries that are more likely to fold to washington's line against russia but also of the economic interests of these countries which are in fact interested in maintaining russia acts for of natural gas through their territories and thus all those payments that come with. just very quickly in his army thing today are more sanctions coming against russia. well you see you see oh no we haven't seen any sanctions any distance agents against the boroughs and against something on the look of. you know if you see there will be any personal sanctions used to look at surely current accuse associates but to my mind the issue now while it was only when you somehow are separated in the german political discourse because many of the german police go elite members actually told that we should separate the tr

ukraine. these were the first reported destructive attacks against a control system of civilian critical infrastructure. these attacks turned out the lights and turned off the heat in the middle of the easternss virtually the whole world. and what is commonly referred to as the most destructive and costly cyberattack ever, the conspirators unleashed malware. malware buted as this was a false flag. the conspirators designed it to spread with devastating alacrity, bringing down entire networks in seconds and searching for remote computer connections to attack additional victims all without hope of recovery or repair. resultirely foreseeable was that the worm spread globally, shutting down companies and inflicting immense financial harm. this irresponsible conduct impaired critical sectors like transportation and health care to provide services to the public not only in ukraine but as far away as western pennsylvania. as alleged, for just three u.s. related victims, three of at least hundreds of victims damages exceeded $1 billion. rather than express remorse for the damage inflicted against those worldwide, they callously celebrated their success. next, the conspirators turned their sights on

look at what he's done in ukraine the threats he's made to the people just trying to demonstrate for democracy in bellerose the threats constantly to our nato allies in easterneurope that these 2 authoritarian powers are challenging the democratic world and unfortunately steve we don't have an american president right now who will stand up to them he wants to embrace them and he's not been tough enough and strong enough in dealing with him i think that's problem number one of course terrorism and the threat of terrorism is an abiding concern and a very serious continued threat to the united states we know that the islamic state is still not completely destroyed and that has to be a goal of the united states and our allies certainly on top of all of that in terms of immediate importance it's the coronavirus and it's the pandemic the 2nd wave that we think we may now be experienced. and here in the united states the united states has to work both within our country and also with other countries to bring it to a close hopefully with the arrival of it back seen if that happens in 2021 and the dispersal and distribution of that vaccine around the world and around

into poland and ukraine pushing up a little further north as to there we go down to the southeast $536.00 in athens over the next couple of days so that really is the place to be that eastern side of the mediterranean but lots of showers just rattling away swirling away across a similar part and noticed more weather coming into southern areas of france not ship out across northern parts of the iberian peninsula through spain and portugal on a dry across a good part of north africa but she was further west. we're heading to the place some deep in the true renewables on it's taking us 2 days this fall just to get from the search through. techno look at what is being done to protect one of the region's most iconic creatures cars are disappearing because clearly eagle path train with too many researchers wanted to see if reintroduction of my clients was a viable option to save some of these population pretty good. techno on al-jazeera . will. be watching out as there are a reminder for our top stories this hour the capital nagorno-karabakh has come under renewed bombardment as fighting between azerbaijan and armenia and has a 2nd week the 2 countries accusing each other target