as you know, these agreements were reached with assistance from russia and the os he -- osce it's not only about russia and ukraine but also about the eu. let's go to our correspondent who joins us from moscow. russia says it will accept both the results of the ukraine's election last week and that of the separatist these coming up on sunday. why is moscow taking this particular line? >> i think because the view from the kremlin is an unstable refrain with an unstable east where russia has significant influence is to the benefit of the kremlin. that is the way to maintain instability, and that means in the kremlin's view, the way to maintain a hold on ukrainian politics, which seems to be slipping away from mosco's creek. it i a way to create a permanent instability element. >> let's talk about that separatist area. the outcome on sunday will almost certainly be a resounding endorsement of the pro-russian parties. what difference will this vote make in the end? >> in the end, that will contribute to the moscow position, which will be telling kiev that it has to talk to the people who

. >> well, i'm joined now by the head of the osce observer, and let me ask her about her impressions of the vote. thank you for joining us. do you think this was a legitimate election? >> well, we have first of 900 in polling stations assess the process as well organized and ordinarily in a huge majority of polling stations visited. so yes, they did well. >> this is a country at war. millions of people didn't even have a chance to vote. that must undermine the credibility of this election? >> well, we're not in the business on deciding on the legitimacy of an election. we took note that the-- >> you are in the business telling us whether it was a credible reflection of what ukrainians want politically. >> that is correct. we took note of the fact that the authorities made good efforts to insure that everybody could vote. voting was attempted and actually organized, and half of the polling stations in donetsk and luhansk, or at least in half of the election district. >> and in crimea not at all. >> but it is outside of its control, therefore no polling was organized. as all the citize

>> absolutely but it is a member of what is now the osc, back then was the csc and party to all of these rules. of course, in the case of ukraine, there are other problems as well because they had the budapest memorandum which said take out all of your nuclear arms and we, russia, u.k., united kingdom and the united states will guarantee your execute. >> right. >> another agreement that didn't hold, and then on top of that, there is also another crucial document here which was in 1990, the paris charter which all parties said, everyone can choose which way they want to go, who they want to be aligned with. and now, that was more really about nato. but in this case, ukraine is not going to nato. all it wants to do is have a fairly low level agreement with the european union. it's not eu membership. >> trade agreement? >> right. exchanges. but that's it. i mean this is especially in the united states, people think, oh, you know, they are joining the eu. they are not joining the european union. they are simply having a closer relationship, better trade relations, and if that is a reason to

they are waiting, and the osce are there. they are asking questions together with military police.n i say? >> reporter: the school lies just four miles from the city's main airport. it is controlled by ukrainian forces and for months it has been the site of intense fighting. separatists said government forces were responsible for the latest shelling, but ukraine says rebels were to blame for the attack and denied targeting civilian areas. in a nearby town, the new school year started with optimism. despite the months of turbulence, many are determined to live as normal of life as possible. >> translator: we can hear the shelling, but what can we do about it? it will all be fine. >> reporter: a tough task for these students especially in the backdrop of the fragile ceasefire that could see the small semblance of normality disappear all too quickly. >>> in mexico, three soldiers are being charged with unlawfully killing suspected gang members. they were involved in a shootout in june, but investigations suggests the soldiers didn't follow rules and protocols. adam has more from mexic

>> well, the overall situation in east ukraine is generally 10, according to osce monitoring missions, which are right now in eastern ukraine. the peace deal upon which the parties have agreed almost one month ago has been, in fact, violated almost daily. so, it is quite questionable to call it a cease-fire. the firing around the airport had increased over the last couple of days and, apparently, the separatist are advancing upon the air or. -- airport. there is now a fear that crane might -- that ukraine might fire without return. >> that was the latest in kiev. thank you very much. >> france has defined its european -- to hide its european partners by saying it will take two years longer than initially promised to get its deficit under the european union limit. >> reporters at a news conference were told that the reason for the delay was the fragile french economy. >> the french government announced lands to save 50 billion euros by 2017, also defiantly resisting calls from its partners for more austerity. the french finance minister said the country would get its budget deficit bac

just trying to figure out some of the knitty gritty and some those are the calls that are usually the osc refer to me and i will get several of those a month and you know, more during the times where the people are doing the open and before the open enrollment. >> but it is the number of people that you would expect under this hcao. >> i have never been able to get that number and there is isn't, a, there isn't a repository of contracts anywhere in the city and so i can't get to that number and i have never been able to get to that number, and i apologize and i have not found that there is a pathway to that. so... >> commissioner singer? >> >> just to respond to commissioner's question about the overlap with the aca, and so the aca employer requirements start with 50 and the delta from the 20 to 50 employees will be subject to the hcao that are not necessarily subject, and they don't have a mandate under the hca and the other thing to note is that there is one example where san francisco was ahead of the curve and you are right that there was a significant amount of overlap between the ac

osc oscar de-la-renta has died at 82 and we have his life on-and-off the cat walk. >> reporter: the rednot be the same without him, oscar de-la-renta to the stars and more and fashions wore by celebrities and royalty. as for first ladies he was second to none and from jacqueline kennedy to michelle obama his styles set the trend and hillary clinton wore the gown in 97 and bush in 2005 and had seems and stitches and started out as a painter in 1932 and dreamed of being an artist working with an easel but it became clear his calling was was clothing and worked for elizabeth arden and 65 he had a ready to wear label and the life beyond the fitting room and he was a business plan, a philanthropist and his legacy will live on in his designs and what he will forever bring to the fashion world. just last week his company appointed a new creative director as a successor to him. de-laerenta he says every season i'm inspired by women and oscar was 82 years old. >> that is it and the day's top stories straight ahead on al jazeera and i'll see you again and thanks for watching and good-bye for now.

maybe one of you guys -- paul, anything on that from osc? have they said anything? >> boy, that would be a good idea. >> there's a bill in the house and senate. whether the bill becomes a law, it's up to the elected leadership. i don't know whether those bills will become law or not. >> i don't know. i don't know if that's going to happen or not. people are talking about it, but i don't know. >> we have another question from the right side of the room. >> that's probably not a satisfactory answer for you, but i can't give you a better than one that. yes, sir? >> british army exchange officer. >> british army. >> currently the projections for the 2015 strength, and 2017 end strength, and god forbid sequestration, have the active component, the national guard component and army reserve component, almost identical, around 36, and 20. could i ask the panelists if they broadly agree and endorse those percentages split between the three components? and if any of them have an opinion that there is a tipping point below which they would tend to disagree that they should sti

osc policy is leading that effort. they could tell you where it exactly is coming from. >> thank you. i wanted to clarify one thing -- it is in fact service members who will be operating this testing labs in the field? >> correct. >> we have been told that service members are not going to come in contact with patients. now we are being told that is changing. >> the labs are a separate specialty element of the force. that is probably where that has come from. as far as the general population, they won't be coming in contact. these labs are trained to a specially skilled level. it is the highest level. they can operate in a nuclear, biological, and chemical environment. they are specifically trained to do that. that is their primary skill set. we had one in their that has been operating for several years in the country that works on infectious diseases. we have both the navy and the army with medical labs in many countries doing just that, to monitor these things. >> how many do you expect will be running these labs? >>

transparency and confidence, ultimately stability with all the, i think it was 57, countries in the osce these confidence-building measures last year. we're implementing them now. and then we also have to leverage our law enforcement networks and dod networks as we reach out to these countries. >>, so eric, yeah, i was going to say, do you have similar cooperative -- >> we do. we'll work with other nations' militaries very often try to do capacity building. there's a lot of demand in the world right now for people trying to figure out how to build their equivalent of a cyber command. and the reason we do that is we want them to do that in a responsible way. there are some things we've learned that we didn't do as well as we could have. how you balance that with respect for civil liberties within the law, you know, executive oversight of military organizations. and there's another point that i wanted to make that builds on what chris was talking about and also chairman rogers talked about this. offensive operations are something that are always an option, but it's only one of many tools t

will canada therefore be joining germany and france in further supporting the osc peace keeping and monitoring mission? >> mr. speaker, canada has been at the forefront responding to the russian aggression in ukraine and have been one of ukraine's stronger supporters. mr. speaker, although we have the fighter in place, we can't provoke while in eastern ukraine and not seen any progress for russia to get support for the militan militants. >> the honorable member. thank you, mr. speaker. we were shocked to learn on friday that the health canada office will be closing. this means 34 lot of jobs and 1.5 billion and research is paying the price for mismanagement. why don't they have the right to economic spin offs? >> you understand this is a paid consolidation issue and this doesn't affect frontline services on health. >> the honorable member. >> mr. speaker, thanks to the strong leadership of our prime minister, this government is a world leader in providing support for canadians living with disabilities. they introduced the savings plan and the first plan of its kind in the world to assess canad