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passed through its territory but for how much longer nicolas connelly reports this plant run by ukraine state energy company nafta gas was built almost forty years ago and is now coming to the end of its working life as ukraine struggle to maintain its position as the chief transit country for russian energy it needs to upgrade the infrastructure a pilot project financed by torture bank and underwritten by german export guarantees will see the multi-million euro compresses successively replaced but the question is will they ever really be needed. the north stream pipeline linking russia and germany directly across the baltic sea here is set to be joined by a second connection to construction is due to get underway later this year. will be able to transport some fifty five billion cubic meters of gas equivalent to two thirds of the gas transit in ukraine on average in recent years the project's critics in ukraine. would mean more than just. transit income. they say will increase europe's dependence on russian energy and. political pressure on its former eastern european satellite states

government of pro petro poroshenko might come on rally around see him as a figure to unite around nicolas connelly with the latest from kiev thank you nicholas today of the united nations international day against the use of child soldiers armed groups for crew boys and girls in conflict zones and forced them to carry out brutal crimes there are an estimated two hundred fifty thousand child soldiers across the world mainly in africa and south sudan aid projects are trying to help former child soldiers reach we integrate into society have a look. david was once a child soldier now that terrible time is behind him and he's working as a cop and making beds chazz and tables when he was still fighting he almost lost all hope for his security we're protecting his identity. there are so many bad things. in the sense of millions being killed. there's so much death and hunger and nothing else. has done for years according to the u.n. there were nineteen thousand child soldiers in the country some days ago groups released three hundred children not all were recruited by force some were driven by poverty to

sees himself coming back to ukraine coming back to georgia and that he will carry on fighting nicolas connelly and thank you. turkey has been digging in for its offensive against kurdish fighters in syria and it is also looking to shore up support on the home front most turks back operation all of branch as it's called a military incursion launched last month into syria's afferent region turkey views kurdish militias stationed there as terrorists and a threat to its southern border president much of type pair to one has warned of a heavy price for anyone who speaks out against the deployment date of use turkey correspondent yulia hunt reports. they are knitting for the soldiers in the battle server old times a week these women meet in istanbul district they make national hats to be sent to the turkish syrian border it gift to the troops at war. off in the a scout leader we want our soldiers in our into know that we support them as their mothers and sisters they have everything they need but this is our way to show that we are with them carte cygnus us i hope our soldiers will return home safel

correspondent nicholas connelly who is standing by with the latest from kiev so nicolas what more do we know about this mysterious case well sara as you saw in that report it's been an eventful few years for me cause of course million today was no exception we got word mid afternoon that this detention was going on you know happened very quickly and within a matter of minutes his supporters would rushing to enforce and roads leading west trying to stop him being taken out of the country they had successfully stopped his arrest attention to petition for christmas but this time they were false enough it seems like ukrainian authorities said look the lesson and it was all very fast these people who weren't wearing official uniforms who were just in camouflage who turned out later to be members of ukraine's border guard service had taken them to an airport where a private jet was waiting for him taking him to waltz away you know let's talk a little bit more about his position there in ukraine because we know we actually have footage from earlier this month of saakashvili parading through

government of pro petro poroshenko might come on rally around to see him as a figure to unite around nicolas connelly with the latest from kiev thank you nicolas the leaders of south africa's ruling party the african national congress are meeting to decide the future of the country's embattled president pressure on jacob zuma has been growing since december when he was replaced as a party leader by the country's deputy president c. will run a post. seventy five world zuma has been dogged by scandals since coming to power back in two thousand and nine he is currently fighting the reinstatement of seven hundred and eighty three corruption charges if he refuses to step down the president could face another no vote of confidence in parliament or impeachment. for more let's bring in journalist alan van gelder who is joining us from cape town and this meeting has been going on for quite a while what do you think that it says about the discussions and what are you expecting to come out of them. they have been going on off almost seven hours a meeting so did we actually have four sets tonight was the message

passed through the country but for how much longer nicolas connelly reports. this plant run by ukraine state energy company nothing gas was built almost forty years ago and is now coming to the end of its working life as ukraine struggle to maintain its position as the chief transit country for russian energy needs to upgrade the infrastructure a pilot project financed by georgia bank and underwritten by german export guarantees will see the multi-million euro compresses successively replaced but the question is will they ever really be needed. the north stream pipeline linking russia and germany directly across the baltic sea see here is set to be joined by second connection to construction is due to get underway later this year the new pipeline will be able to transport some fifty five billion cubic meters of gas equivalent to two thirds of the gas transit in ukraine on average in recent years the project critics in ukraine argue that north stream too would mean more than just empty pipelines and transit income. they say it will increase europe's dependence