now and kiev ukraine three destinations of major significance ukraine with its rich lands and resources was an important industrial and economic source for the u.s.s.r. to cut it off from the soviet union would strike a big blow indeed. for most of the soviet union the second world war was about fighting the invaders of their land. but it wasn't quite so simple for ukraine the truth is ukraine has never been a united country. when world war two broke out a large part of western ukraine's population welcomed the german soldiers as liberators from the recently forced upon them soviet rule and openly collaborated with the germans. the real scale of collaboration was not announced for many years after the war but we now know that whole divisions and battalions were formed by ukrainian collaborators such as s.s. galaxy and not to call and roll into battalions. just in the beginning of the war more than eighty thousand people from college cina region voluntarily enrolled into division s.s. galad seen in a month and a half notorious for their extreme cruelty towards the polish jewish and russi

of the city of kiev and its vicinity must appear on monday september twenty ninth by eight o'clock in the morning. bring documents money and valuables and also warm clothing linen cetera. they need not follow this order and are found elsewhere will be shot. thirty three thousand seven hundred seventy one jews were killed in this two day operation of the nazis and ukrainian militia. another outrageous massacre was carried out by the ukrainian insurgent army and the bond era faction of the organization of ukrainian nationalists in german occupied polish foligno and eastern see between one nine hundred forty three and one nine hundred forty four this genocide of poles was led by me call eleven thirty five thousand to sixty thousand people in vali nya and twenty five to forty thousand eastern galaxia fell victim to this massive ethnic cleansing operation. sensing the inevitable loss of the german troops the organization of ukrainian nationalists gave up on their former ally and began fighting equally against the germans and the soviet forces. in january nine hundred forty three u.s.s.r. t

it happened here in kiev, the capital of ukraine. and at the heart of it is one man.enko is a russianjournalist. he fled moscow last year after receiving death threats and got a job with the ukrainian tv station. he is an outspoken critic of vladimir putin. translation: he's a usurper, a little dictator who lives completely in his own world. he wants to be like napoleon. collecting together all russian lands. but ukraine, which sees itself as being at war with russia, can be a dangerous place for putin's opponents. in the last two years several dissident russian journalists and politicians have been killed in kiev. exactly who was behind the murders remains unclear. our story begins earlier this year. was arkady babchenko about to become the next target? very nice to meet you. welcome. how are you doing? i'm glad to see you. happy to see you too! crazy times. yes. oleksiy tsymbaliuk is an unlikely assassin. he has lived as a monk and was once an orthodox priest. and then, when war broke out between ukraine and russian backed rebels four years ago, he became a voluntee

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jonah fisher, bbc news, kiev.‘the fake murder that fooled the world' is on bbc one, tonight at 8.30pm. british waste, sent overseas for recycling, could end upjust being buried as landfill. that's the concern of the the national audit office which says the uk is just creating the illusion of success, and must do more to make sure recycling has actually taken place. our environment analyst roger harrabin reports. 11 million tonnes — that's the estimate of packaging waste created by uk homes and businesses last year. the uk has ambitious targets for increasing the amount it sends for recycling, but the national audit office says firms have chosen to export more than half of the material, rather than to deal with it in britain. much of the material for recycling goes to developing countries less able to handle it than the uk, the report says. it wants the exports much more tightly governed. the problem with recycling material abroad is that the uk just has less visibility of what happens to it. it has less ability to

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it happened here in kiev, the capital of ukraine. and at the heart of it is one man.s a russianjournalist. he fled moscow last year after receiving death threats and got a job with the ukrainian tv station. he is an outspoken critic of vladimir putin. babchenko is a russianjournalist. he fled moscow last year after receiving death threats and got a job with the ukrainian tv station. he is an outspoken critic of vladimir putin. translation: he's a usurper, a little dictator who lives completely in his own world. he wants to be like napoleon. collecting together all russian lands. but ukraine, which sees itself as being at war with russia, can be a dangerous place for putin's opponents. in the last two years several dissident russian journalists and politicians have been killed in kiev. exactly who was behind the murders remains unclear. our story begins earlier this year. was arkady babchenko about to become the next target? very nice to meet you. welcome. how are you doing? i'm glad to see you. happy to see you too! crazy times. yes. oleksiy tsymbaliuk is an unlikely

this led to the pro russian demonstrations rejecting the new government in kiev. on february twenty seventh the government buildings in the capital of crimea were seized by pro russian protesters. the current crimean government was dismissed and the new leader surrogate acciona of was assigned as the leader of the crimean autonomy republic when you lead the as the below. but i shall it's close is go to kosovo still with you has this should q. . on march sixteenth the crimean referendum or so held and the people voted to leave ukraine and enter the russian federation. the situation in crimea is being presented as a russian invasion and again nobody looks at this seriously and looks at the poll numbers and some of the poll numbers done by the u.s. government agencies themselves showing that the people of crimea prefer being part of russia in the u.s. news media is all been presented as the russians invaded they then station sham election with people with guns at their backs somehow they big the ballot boxes to get ninety six percent approval for rejoining russia ide

more clashes in ukraine's capital kiev. there is absolutely no you shall like it or what you are caricature anybody would then use the same clothes that elude you. now on the brink of a civil war at least seventy dead so far and the death toll rising it you know would you. a new music store when you know. what we saw here today was a revolution. that it was initially but it's. not invested over five billion dollars to assist ukraine in these and other goals with. us from when you go to go to. nato has expanded into thirteen countries up to the borders of russia thirteen countries. focus has to be on not allowing ice into hot wall between ukraine and russia. that the. that the team of boys in the city would just look when the new buildings to be truthful. mum . mum up the eleven. the mummy mummy . ukraine. it's an ancient and proud land. with a rich history filled with much beauty heroism and sacrifice. ukraine is a border land. a place where east meets west. this is the flag of ukraine the blue represents the sky the gold i

became frequent guests in kiev initiating negotiations between parties in a faltering od will. be able to get. the results of the negotiations however were often reached only on paper thus you shan't go never told the supporters to stop blocking government buildings in central kiev. and therefore these nonviolent and very orange protests lasted for a month during which time the previous election results were no marred by massive corruption and new elections were announced an important nuance just three months before viktor yuschenko became a victim to a mysterious and still unsolved poisoning but it didn't prevent him from winning in the new election. though as we shall soon see there was much more than just the people's will that led to this victory this peaceful revolution and its leader world warmly welcomed by the international community but the euphoria didn't last long yuschenko its government completely failed with reforms and lost its chance to establish democracy instead descending into infighting viktor yuschenko was not reelected for a second term but at the end. of

the world seemed too busy welcoming this new democracy in kiev. to notice what was being done as it spread its wings over the country. many in southern ukraine had been viewing the revolution with concern. and an anti mind on movement formed in the city of odessa in early january two thousand and fourteen the protesters set up their camp in front of the trade union house a building which would soon become a monument to a massacre of its own it's difficult to overestimate the importance of odessa it is strategically located on the black sea and it's ukraine's largest seaport it's not surprising that ukraine's new authorities were watching the situation unfolding there with growing alarm. more and more of odessa as people were joining the anti my don movement at the same time as events in eastern ukraine were heating up. the new ukrainian government didn't have the power to wage war on too many fronts if odessa were to join the growing uprising in the eastern regions it would seriously complicate the situation. this rebellion had to be extinguished

in its twenty four years of independence in two thousand and four crowds of people descended upon kiev marking the start of the orange revolution. at that time ukraine became once again a battlefield of two forces the russian and western governments the culmination of this conflict took place during the presidential elections in november of two thousand and four. the two major candidates western backed victoria yuschenko and russian leaning victoria on a covert almost equally shared the votes of ukrainians by the way calling viktor yuschenko western backed is not an exaggeration. his wife. catarina yuschenko is a former u.s. state department official and worked in the white house during the reagan administration the division was along geographic lines traditionally russian eastern ukraine voted for young age while western ukraine chose use janko by the announced result viktor yuschenko lost to victory on a covert each but thousands of people didn't agree with it and they came to the central square of kiev on the twenty second of november. the situation received wide news coverage the c

government on the unity of nato but also on the question of crimea we do have our correspondent in kiev nick connelly standing by for us and nick a lot of people there of course watching this summit and helsinki very closely as well what are people there expecting you know sumi well this definitely is going to be a nail biter couple of hours until we hear more what is comes out of these. talks i think the real fear is that. president trump show move some ground he's been very vague about crimea in the weeks that have run up to this meeting he was pressed repeatedly and basically said we'll wait and see he's refused to categorically say that there will not be recognition u.s. recognition for russia's defector control of crimea. having said that on the fringes of the nato summit last week there was a meeting between ukraine's present poroshenko and president trump and they were spreading the message that from their point of view they're really hoping and expecting that nothing really much will come out of this this is about dialogue so the hope here from kiev will be that this is just the

the world seem too busy welcoming this new democracy in kiev. to notice what was being done as it spread its wings over the country. many in southern ukraine had been viewing the revolution with concern. and an anti mind on movement formed in the city of odessa in early january two thousand and fourteen the protesters set up their camp in front of the trade union house a building which would soon become a monument to a massacre of its own it's difficult to overestimate the importance of odessa it is strategically located on the black sea and it's ukraine's largest seaport it's not surprising that ukraine's new authorities were watching the situation unfolding there with growing alarm. more and more of odessa as people were joining the anti my don movement at the same time as events in eastern ukraine were heating up. the new ukrainian government didn't have the power to wage war on too many fronts if odessa were to join the growing uprising in the eastern regions it would seriously complicate the situation. this rebellion had to be extinguished

the world seemed too busy welcoming this new democracy in kiev. to notice what was being done as it spread its wings over the country. many in southern ukraine had been viewing the revolution with concern. i and an anti mind on movement formed in the city of odessa in early january two thousand and fourteen the protesters set up their camp in front of the trade union house a building which would soon become a monument to a massacre of its own it's difficult to overestimate the importance of odessa it is strategically located on the black sea and it's ukraine's largest seaport it's not surprising that ukraine's new authorities were watching the situation unfolding there with growing along arm. more and more of odessa as people were joining the anti my don movement at the same time as events in eastern ukraine were heating up . the new ukrainian government didn't have the power to wage war on too many fronts if odessa were to join the growing uprising in the eastern regions it would seriously complicate the situation. this rebellion had to be exting

the world seem to busy welcoming this new democracy in kiev. to notice what was being done as it spread its wings over the country. many in southern ukraine had been viewing the revolution with concern. and an anti mind on movement formed in the city of odessa in early january two thousand and fourteen the protesters set up their camp in front of the trade union house a building which would soon become a monument to a massacre of its own it's difficult to overestimate the importance of odessa it is strategically located on the black sea and it's ukraine's largest seaport it's not surprising that ukraine's new authorities were watching the situation unfolding there with growing alarm. more and more of odessa as people were joining the anti my don movement at the same time as events in eastern ukraine were heating up. the new ukrainian government didn't have the power to wage war on too many fronts if odessa were to join the growing uprising in the eastern regions it would seriously complicate the situation. this rebellion had to be extinguished

you go back to kiev the next day after the meeting with merkel. and protests are up at my right can you take me through that period so someone let's. find the money at the worst with the mute in the uk see. more snow. yet at the mobil have. to go to. if you want me a pretty much. as we took appropriate for the will move and you built a will grow. up just in the going is also. what you see is the loser i don't like the interest of the least a little to shift my ground. robert perry is a longtime investigative journalist based in washington d.c. best known for his major disclosures about the iran contra scandal in the one nine hundred eighty s. he is the founder of consortium news where he has reported extensively on the crisis in ukraine and the forces behind the unrest and in geo is a non-governmental organization how many n.g.o.s are quite legitimate they represent good causes that maybe they help people in a country the door deal with water problems or deal with various kinds of social problems but there are some n.g.o.s that have become funded

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you go back to kiev the next day after the meeting with merkel. and protests are up at my right can you take me through that very slow someone let's. find the money at the post with the mute in the uk see. more snow deal or yak at the mobile have. to go to. if you want me approaching my billet in wichita do you let me be took appropriate for the little move around your little group. up just in the company is also. what you see is little bizarre i don't like the interest of the least a little to shift my ground. robert perry is a long time investigative journalist based in washington d.c. best known for his major disclosures about the iran contra scandal in the one nine hundred eighty s. he is the founder of consortium news where he has reported extensively on the crisis in ukraine and the forces behind the unrest and in geo is a non-governmental organization how many n.g.o.s are quite legitimate they represent good causes that maybe they help people in a country feed or deal with water problems or deal with various kinds of social problems but the

you go back to kiev the next day after the meeting with merkel. and protests are up but can you take me through that period. by the minute the worst with the media in the uk see. more. yak at the mobile have. to go to. if you want to let me update you my position which it would you let me as we took appropriate for the will move and you built a will grow. up just in the company feel and see what you see is little bizarre i don't like the interest of the least a little to shift my ground. robert parry is a long time investigative journalist based in washington d.c. best known for his major disclosures about the iran contra scandal in the one nine hundred eighty s. he is the founder of consortium news where he has reported extensively on the crisis in ukraine and the forces behind the unrest and in geo is a non-governmental organization how many n.g.o.s are quite legitimate they represent good causes that maybe they help people in a country feeder or deal with water problems or deal with various kinds of social problems but there are some n.g.o.s th

you go back to kiev the next day after the meeting with merkel. and protests are up at my right can you take me through that period so someone let's. find the money at the worst with the mute in the uk see. more snow deal or yak at the mobile have. to go to. if you want to let me update you my position which of those clothes we took appropriate for you will move on your little group. up just in the coming few months what you see is the bizarre i don't like the interest of the release they were able to shift my ground. robert perry is a longtime investigative journalist based in washington d.c. best known for his major disclosures about the iran contra scandal in the one nine hundred eighty s. he is the founder of consortium news where he has reported extensively on the crisis in ukraine and the forces behind the unrest and in geo is a non-governmental organization how many n.g.o.s are quite legitimate they represent good causes that maybe they help people in a country the door deal with water problems or deal with various kinds of social problems

jonah fisher, bbc news, kiev. england's highest summits — to pay tribute to fallen heroes from the first world war. the singers have been on a tour of the lake district, to mark the centenary of a unique war memorial — a series of peaks across cumbria that were donated by landowners to remember the local men who died in the conflict. our correspondent robert hall joined the choirfor their last performance. singing. on the rocky slopes above borrowdale, a line of walkers is snaking upwards. there are among thousands visiting the la keland landscape this summer. but these visitors are on a mission. almost a century ago, another column of men and horses was climbing into the clouds, here to build a cairn commemorating the lost lakelanders of world war i. in the years that followed, the idea grew. fell walkers raised cash to buy 12 mountain is creating the uk's largest and most dramatic memorial. singing. now, that moment has been marked with music. over the past three months, more than 60 singers have walked 25 miles

let's go from world war two kiev to the end of hostilities in the united kingdom. one of moscow's biggest clubs scented same in one nine hundred forty five as a goodwill gesture hostilities were ended soviet union and britain and america allies at that time let's not forget and dana most sense it's him with a lot of mistake what with these wishing players like playing against the likes of call the city in wiles' ranges in scotland and chelsea and arsenal in london it was a fantastic saw hundreds of thousands of people inside the stadium with a lot of fantastic memories from both the players that played in the games and the people that watched. so for all of you sixteen seventeen year olds. three all classes all in europe hard to technology. this is a grander just. the right. ninety ninety one the berlin wall kind soviet union collapsed and fifteen nations because independence that meant russia went on its own for the first time in many many years and it ends with a free for all call with a fantastic start can i go on like that same of nine hundred sixty that won th

kiev, a city of 5 million people and capital of ukraine.he country is still fighting russia in the east, and fighting a deep legacy of corruption and organised crime. and this is where richard cook's company signed an $80 million contract. the deal, which cook's company signed in 2013 when the old pro—russian regime was still in power, is supposed to be for shipping vast amounts of old rail tracks — 20,000 tons of them a month for a year. it seems like an awful lot of railway. i'm meeting localjournalist sviatoslav yurash. hi, sviatoslav? he's going to help me while on the ground in kiev. let's get this gear in here. he has a wealth of local knowledge, which should prove useful. we're off to meet someone who's taken a close look at this contract for us. she's a specialist in corruption. daria kaleniuk heads up ukraine's anti—corruption action centre, antac. she thinks the contract doesn't ring true because the company in ukraine supposed to be supplying millions‘ worth of used rails has no accounts filed that she can see. the first thing is

mosquera activists have been staging protests throughout the world cup and in kiev others are followinghe hunger strike with rallies at the independence square area they came out to mark the filmmaker's birthday on friday. >> these protests are extremely important. otherwise international politicians won't know what is happening and without information, no one can solve this problem. reporter: calls for his relief -- release, aimed to highlight his main demand with his hunger strike. he is pushing for the release of all ukrainian political prisonerss in russia, think it s time they arrange a prisonerr swap. there have been initial talks between president putin and the ukrainian leader, but with today's rally in kiev, what demonstrators want above all is to show their moral support. ♪ sarah: there are two games left to play before the 2018 world cup is consigned to history. by sunday night we will know the new world champion but before the final there is the minor matter of third place. belgium and england will battle it out saturday. they have faced each other in the group date and belg

while the battles were right in the soviet union in kiev in modern day ukraine the word games between russian and german soldiers they were prohibited very very quickly because they didn't want fraternization between the enemies pretty can see here they were well ordered games the players would play and then they'd go back to the trenches and fight again for you know it's people point incredible story. let's go from world war two kiev to the end of hostilities in the united kingdom venum out one of moscow's biggest clubs censored same in nineteen forty five as a goodwill gesture hostilities were ended soviet union and britain and america allies at that time let's not forget and dana most sense it's him with a lot of mistake what with these wishing players like playing against likes to call the city in wiles' running shoes in scotland and chelsea and arsenal in london it was a fantastic show watched by hundreds of thousands of people inside the stadium with a lot of fantastic memories from both the players that played in the games and the people that watched. so for all of you sixteen

it's devastating in his criticism of the police in kiev and live with. the police had cracked down hard on this after the first attacks we would definitely not have seen the murder. of power. or water by what to do when something like this happens it's up to the police and politicians to come down hard and send a message to society that things of this kind will not be allowed to happen before mobile shop. since the attacks police have responded to requests from community leaders to step up their patrols and roam the districts. miroslav horvath is a roma community leader and local councillor very few roma hold elected office he uses the position to bridge the gaps between government and his own community many roma here don't even have a birth certificate let alone a passport he's often the only one who can help. but recently miroslav has been confronted with a new set of problems as victims of the attacks come to him for support. we're more i don't understand where this hatred comes from we've never seen anything like this kind of open discrimination thes

made to pull me out now i was not aware of being on any blacklist we checked that before i went to kiev and certainly it raises questions as to a why does the o.e.c.d. hold a conference on media plurality in ukraine and secondly what does it say about the ukrainian authorities and indeed about the only see if journalists such as myself are prevented from participating in such a conference now there was a response from the o.e.c.d. they said quote that this was regretful and they called on all member states to ensure the free travel of journalists across the o.s.c. region but aside from that there hasn't been anything i have received lots of messages of support from numerous people across the political spectrum on my twitter account but also as to be expected i've received a lot of hate mail a lot of intimidation and of course the usual trolls. you very much for the apollo i suppose we can end this way of saying we should expect more from though if we see that their commitment to freedom of speech is it isn't matched by the reality thank you very much for joining us. well gentlemen let's

protests on the streets of kiev and to their second day the crowd of around a thousand protesters were joined by the leader of the opposition or any well boxing champion vitaly klitschko he called on the demonstrators to maintain pressure on the government after it decided not to sign a major trade deal with the e.u. you go back to the next day after the meeting with merkel. and protests are up at my right can you take me through that period slow. by the minute the worst with the mute in the uk see. more. yak at the mobile have. to go to. if you want to let me update you my position which it would you let me close we took appropriate for the will move and you built a will grow. up just in the company is also. what you see is little bizarre i don't like the interest of the least the world will to shift my ground. robert perry is a longtime investigative journalist based in washington d.c. best known for his major disclosures about the iran contra scandal in the one nine hundred eighty s. he is the founder of consortium news where he has reported extensively on the crisis in ukraine and

after the my done demonstrators were dispersed the conflict shifted from kiev to eastern ukraine. the ongoing conflict in the dumbass region was still being live streamed via social media and constantly monitored by your own mind on s.l.s. . different if we're not. there why did ya cut off them. what. i. want to top was that. well. the propaganda war on the internet generates tons of data. because of the sheer mass of information your own mind on s.l.s. recruiting volunteers to search the web for relevant info tweets and posts. we have a database where we save all the information we get from internet sources including facebook pages to fill in for what all of this information must be checked the internet is full of fake news unverified information and gossip. the very. best two plus fifty of the first group is going to slovyansk on the fanciest and the other rival in the first grammy you have something you who go on a first earlier in the morning we're going to seventy five cassel in the afternoon we're working with the children's hospital that was shall we were interviewing the c

made to pull me out now i was not aware of being on any blacklist we checked that before i went to kiev and certainly it raises questions as to a why does the o.e.c.d. hold a conference on media plurality in ukraine and secondly what does it say about the ukrainian authorities and indeed about the only see if journalists such as myself are prevented from participating in such a conference now there was a response from the o.e.c.d. they said quote that this was regretful and they called on all member states to ensure the free travel of journalists across the o.s.c. region but aside from that there hasn't been anything i have received lots of messages of support from numerous people across the political spectrum on my twitter account but also as to be expected i've received a lot of hate mail a lot of intimidation and of course the usual trolls. you very much for the apollo i suppose we can end this way of saying we should expect more from though if we see that their commitment to freedom of speech is it isn't matched by the reality thank you very much for joining us gentlemen let's move