shevardnadze he did not enjoy the -- shevardnadze did not enjoy the same success in his native georgia. he was overthrown in a popular revolution in 2003. >> in nigeria, more than 60 women and girls who were abducted by bo boko haram last month have escaped their captors. official said the women freed themselves in borno state. >> the islamist extremists have made headlines around the world with several mass would -- matt kemp -- mass kidnappings of girls and women in recent months . more than 200 girls still to be found. the nigerian government has been criticized for not doing enough to freedom. >> onto the markets now. following last week's record rally, european shares kicked off the new week with their biggest drop in nearly two weeks. our correspondent sent us this summary from frankfurt. >> a weaker industrial production in germany is not the sort of stuff the people at the exchange like to hear. still, the mood on the trading floors at the beginning of this trading week was not completely cheerless. at least three major m&a deals moved the markets. the swiss maker of artificial

the former president shevardnadze has died.istant said he passed away after a long illness. >>> now in the uk, the home secretary is expected to announce a wide ranging ininquiry into allegations of child sex abuse missed or ignored in the 1980s and 1990s. robin has this report. >> we can't bring you that report. apologies for that. >>> let's go to our correspondent at the home office in london. bring us up to speed on what allegations are supposed to be of. they're pretty sweeping and reach all the way up to public life don't they? >> they could. there have been allegations for some time there was a firing many the uk that had a link to westminster. the police in london have been investigating that for some time. there were seven detectives work on that. last week we had a focus on this by politicians. there was a question about information that in the 80s it was handed by back bench politicians. the home secretary of the day in britain, there were allegations it hasn't been dealt with properly. in the last hour, they said act

shevardnadze.he really helped shape the post communist world order. you could debate whether this was intentio intentional or not because the soviet leadership argue ply was trying to restructure communism, not bring about its demise, but shevardnadze renegotiated arms treaties with the united states and allowed eastern europe to slip from moscow's grip in a largely misdemeanorless way. in 2003 georgia collapsed amid allegations of corruption. but eurasia looks the way it does today in many ways because of eduard shevardnadze. >> two cities were taken after recapturing slovyansk. scott hidler is live in slovyansk. this is the first time we've been in slovyansk. what are yo since they have taken slovyansk. what are you seeing? >> reporter: we found out there was a massive solum of ukrainian army, coming down south out of slovyansk. it took an hour and a half before we could get into the city. just two days ago there was still fighting here. that fighting is said that those hundreds of separatist fig

welcome to go on sophie shevardnadze general najib. served his nation whose whole adult life first in the military under saddam hussein and then as the mayor of the town of tal afar after the u.s. invasion his efforts to combat militant extremism by working iraq's sectarian divides managed to bring peace to the city but now as says that it's controlled far his former mayor follows that spate closely with concern he's here with us today to explain what exactly is going on in iraq today. as isis may.

shevardnadze went on to run the former soviet georgia. after that came to a tumultuous end, he admitted too much democracy was a bad thing. he was 86 years old. >>> a rare appearance on video by abu bakr al baghdadi. it's a video calling on muslims to obey him. much of the media attention went to his wrist, specifically a watch that experts say appears to be p either an omega speed master or rolex daytona, a pricey possession that would contradict his sermon about virtue and modesty. >>> two close calls in the air, and on the ground of late. the less serious one came from raf waddington in the uk. a tush a turkish pilot had a little fun with the crowd on the runway. could have reached up and touched the landing gear. they were there to see an air show. an amateur plane watcher in barcelona witnessed this. airbus taxiing on to a runway as a plane was on final approach. the russian jet put up the nose and put the throttle forward and avert add disaster. >>> this was a dark weekend in hollywood coming off an awful weekend in the box office.

fun welcome to sophie and co i'm sophie shevardnadze and we're here today in russian city of lights the man where one sees it says the eastern ukraine and sadly solid piece that his wife and two children were forced to.

welcome to civvy in co i'm sophie shevardnadze is s.s. ukraine gripped by a cast civilians are struggling to find safety i do protect innocent people to ring this.

hello welcome to survey and kill on se shevardnadze and diagnosed with ms and that . a baby doctor said he had never lived a life outside especially institution but if done wrong now he's a professor teaching others about the needs of people with autism dr stephen shore is my guest today. the number of children affected by autism is on the rise but the condition remains hard to define while many think it's an illness people who have autism don't consider themselves sick what does it mean to be so different. people really do.

one of them to safety and co i'm sophie shevardnadze is out says she a crane great bag cast civilians are struggling to find safety protect innocent people to ring the spotlights to the lives of their ordinary people precious foreign ministry haskell pyle to report and human rights violations in ukraine since the start of the armed conflict the man behind his work the mistress commissioner for human rights. was my guest today. and. those who suffer most from war of those who take least parts of it with the ukrainian army on the offensive will the civilian plight in eastern ukraine get worse. who can stop it. and who should be held accountable. for russian foreign ministry commissioner for human rights is great to have you on our show today now we're going to start from the latest news the killing so the russian journalists it's a horrible tragedy obviously. but there's a full fledged war going on in ukraine is it really possible to find who's to blame and who's responsible for the killings.

you're welcome back to the program the former georgian president eduard shevardnadze has passed away aged eighty six aside from being george's leader until the rose revolution in two thousand and three he was also the last foreign minister of the u.s.s.r. in opposition he actively worked to bring down the berlin wall and put an end to the cold war here's what he wants said about those events their goals moved to i'm proud of those along with another figures i devoted all my life to stop the cold war and bring peace to the world. you can find more on the life and political legacy of eduard shevardnadze on our website dot com also with her on the edge of nuclear disaster again the cooling system and its crippled fukushima nuclear plant is switched off after a new leak is discovered find out about the dangers it poses online. also a sad day for boeing and a mystery for the emergency services after three earth plane fuselages land on a remote riverbank go online to find out what happened. nearly released video has shown the moment two possums airplanes almost collide at barcelona earth p

you can find more on the life and political legacy of eduard shevardnadze on our website or t. dot com also there right now on the age of you there disaster again the cooling system of japan's crippled fukushima nuclear plant is switched off after a new leak is the scope and find out about the dangers it poses on life. plus rise of the real transformers a british defense company reveals plans to make drones that can fix themselves and change shape during a mission. newly released video shows the moment two passenger planes almost collide at barcelona earp port no one was crossing the runway on the ground as the other came in to land that boeing from russian airline air pulled up at the last minutes of boarding the argentinian herb us flight controllers insists the two would not provided a deviation expert to c.h. told us the ground control was the plane. control can quite clearly be at fault because both of these had appliance traffic control instruction at the time so the jets landing would have been listening to the. traffic controller giving him instruction and the argentine

coming up in our team to national all interviews share with us sophie shevardnadze but if you're watching us in the u.k. it's going underground. if you make it without if you're going to kill some. troops to consider. to give you the great. stories but if you. choose to excess. your friend post a photo from a vacation you can't. call it different. the boss repeats the same old joke of course you like. your ex-girlfriend still paints tear jerking poetry keep. ignoring it. we post only what really matters at r.t. to your facebook you st. i will go to sophie and go on sophie shevardnadze general najib bad has served his nation his whole adult life first in the military under saddam hussein and then as a mayor of the town of tal afar after the u.s. invasion his efforts to combat militant extremism by working iraq's sectarian divides managed to bring peace to the city but now as says that it's controlled far his former mayor follows its fate closely and with concern he's here with us today to explain what exactly is going on in iraq today. as isis makes light defense advances in iraq the natio

you can find more on the life and political legacy of eduard shevardnadze on our website r t dot com also they're. on the edge of nuclear disaster again and a cooling system at japan's crippled fukushima nuclear plant is switched off after an unique is discovered find out about the dangers that poses online. day for bowing out a mystery for the emergency services after a three earth plane through the lodge's land on a remote river about go online to find out what happened. nearly released video has shown the moment two passenger planes almost collide at barcelona airports one risk crossing the runway on the ground as the other came into the boeing from russian airline air pulled out the last moment avoiding the argentinean or of us punish flight controllers insist the two would not have collided but e.v.a.'s next for christie aides told us that drug control was the plane. were in control can quite clearly be at fault because both of these had appliance or traffic control instruction at the time so the jet's landing would have been listening to the. traffic controller giving him instr

shevardnadze has died. he was aged 86. his spokeswoman said he had died after a long illness. e swept across the international stage in the final years of the soviet union. it was a difference so early when he was the leader of post-soviet georgia -- different story when he was the leader of post-soviet georgia when his career ended in humiliation. sayskrainian government its forces have taken two more eastern cities from pro-russian rebels. this comes a day after government forces regained control of the rebel stronghold of slovyansk. as troops handed out supplies to residents in the streets of slovyansk, the newly appointed ukrainian defense minister said all resources were being pulled into the offensive -- poured into the offensive and in getting the town's back to normal. donetsk --k and towns in the donetsk region will get help us quick as possible so that people can get back to normal life. >> many residents in donetsk urged the troops to stay away. as troops regroup, scores of ,esidents came out to rally calling for an end to the bloodshed. is a tacticald it retreat an

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eduard shevardnadze was 86 years old.ederal judge in philadelphia given initial approval to landmark concussion settlement between the national football league and former players, coming today after the league we moved a cap of $675 million on claims for medical damages. the judge questioned whether that amount would be enough to pay all claims. the assessment involves more than 3500 former players who have sued the nfl. wall street came back from the holiday weekend in cautious mood. the dow jones industrial average lost 44 points to close at 17,024. the nasdaq fell 34 points to close at 4,451. and the s-and-p 500 dropped 7, to finish at 1,977. still to come on the newshour: renewed violence stokes tensions in the mid-east; disputed election results in afghanistan's presidential election; accessing who's really benefiting from the g.i. bill; and protests showcase the debate over undocumented immigrant children coming to the u.s. >> woodruff: now to the middle east, where there has been a major escalation of tensions in t

well welcome to sophie and go on sophie shevardnadze general najib abed has served his nation his whole adult life first in the military under saddam hussein and then as a mayor of the town of tal afar after the u.s. invasion his efforts to combat militant extremism by working around sectarian divides managed to bring peace to the city but now as says that it's controlled far his former mayor follows that spate closely and with concern he's here with us today to explain what exactly is going on in iraq today. as isis makes lighting fast advances in iraq the nation's armies fleeing on us showing the world how feeble the country is three years after u.s. troops left its soil what's the cause of its weakness what will it take to contain the wave of terror and can come out of this as a united nation. najim a bad algebraic slayer over iraq a town of tal afar which is now in isis hands you are now based in america and you are made a scholar it's great to have you on our show today now talent far has been overtaken by isis you were the city's mayor i know and i know that you keep in touch with

shevardnadze what do you do when war robs you of your childhood my guest today lost his mother in a fighting in sudan and became a soldier at the age of seven the kindness of strangers and music helped him overcome his childhood in extreme violence manual job is now a wall famous hip hop artist and he is here today to share his extraordinary story with us. there are three hundred thousand child soldiers in the world most of them for the. drug war deprived of families forced to kill. children good soldiers how does one escape such a fate and what happens if they do. emanuel joel child soldier turned hip hop artists welcome it's great to have you on our show today i just want to go back and remind our viewers where you started out you were only about seven years old when your mother was killed and the second sudanese civil war then you became a child soldier and were told that a k forty seven would be your only parent that it would be taking care of you from now on this is how you really felt that your life depended on this weapon to survive. well there some more so when you're in a training c

welcome to the enco i'm sophie shevardnadze is out says she a crane gripped by a cast civilians are struggling to find safety i should protect innocent people to ring the spotlights to their plight so they wouldn't worry people precious foreign ministry has compiled their report and human rights violations in ukraine since the start of the armed conflict the man behind his work the mistress' commissioner for human rights. was my guest today. those who suffer most from war are those who take part in it with the ukrainian army on the offensive will the civilian plight in eastern ukraine get worse who can stop it and how and who should be held accountable. because that's russian foreign ministry commissioner for human rights is great to have you on our show today now we're going to start from the latest news the killings of the russian journalists it's a horrible tragedy obviously. but there's a full fledged war going on in ukraine is it really possible to find who is to blame and who is responsible for the killings. well obviously it is possible or what it takes it takes first of all political w

coming up next here not international interview show us off think i would scifi shevardnadze and if you're watching us in the u.k. it's going on the ground. level. i know c.n.n. m.s.n. b.c. and fox news have taken some knocks lightly but the fact is i admire their commitment to cover all sides of the story just in case one of them happens to be accurate i think. that was funny but it's close and for the truth and might think. it's because when full attention and the mainstream media works side by side the joke is actually on here. and our teen years we have a different brain.

on welcome to sophie and co i'm sophie shevardnadze. we're here today in russian city of lights image where one sees it is a sin view crowd and family solid piece that his wife and two children were forced to flee their hometown where they say the war came without warning. how did they escape and will there ever be able to return home. he and his daughter are given a route to share their story with us today. corinne is four seems. to abandon their homes fighting and shelling the villages and send families running for their lives and for most russia the closest safe haven the un says over one hundred ten thousand people have already crossed the russian ukrainian border what awaits them. when will there be peace in ukraine and will the country ever be whole again. thank you so much for being with us today actually really touched at your courage to share your story with us so let's start from the very beginning when did you decide to leave ukraine. that was a decision my wife and i took together. after the massacre in a death on may second

welcome to surf and kill me sophie shevardnadze and what happens when you find yourself at war at a very young age because i was told was a teenage wreck wrote when she was captured by the mujahideen in afghanistan ended up spending twelve years in war torn country serving as a personal bodyguard of the most powerful anti taliban leader ahmad shah massoud how did he go from captive to brother in arms what made him go native and why did he come home to russia years later well nick i will strive is here in the studio to tell us his person. twenty five years ago saudi troops left afghanistan some soldiers however stayed behind captured in a foreign land unsure of course friend or foe stuck between two worlds what does it take to change sides in the war how can you survive in captivity and can you ever go. and welcome to the show thank you very much for finding time your story is amazing and i know that you also go by another name. that's an islamic name which you consider your home country afghanistan or russia i have two home nations. russia is my first home the real one but i see afghanis

hello welcome to sophie and co i'm sophie shevardnadze and diagnosed with autism as a baby doctor said he'd never leave a life outside a special institution but it proved him wrong now he's a professor teaching others about the needs of people with autism dr steven schorr is my guest today. the number of children affected by autism is on the rise but the condition remains hard to define while many think it's an illness that people who have a watch as you don't consider themselves sick what does it mean to be so different . people really disadvantaged can they be integrated into society and cancer society benefit from their innate talent. dr stephen shore a professor at adult by university ouch isn't researcher lecturer diagnosed with a state himself welcome it's really great to have you on our show today so let's start from the big thing out what is it is it a new or a logical disorder or is it a psychological thing oh autism is a neurological difference i look at autism as a nonstandard way of perceiving and processing the environment. and doing so it causes differences in communicati

hello welcome to surf and co i'm so sorry shevardnadze diagnosed with autism as a baby doctor said he'd never lived a life outside a special situation but it proved them wrong that he's a professor teaching others about the needs of people with autism dr stephen shore is my guest today. the number of children affected by autism is on the rise but the condition remains hard to define while many think it's an illness that people who have a which isn't don't consider themselves sick what does it mean to be so different are autistic people really disadvantaged. can they be integrated into society and can society benefit from their innate talent. dr stephen shore professor at adult fire university out is an researcher lecturer diagnosed with a stay himself welcome it's really great to have you on our show today so let's start from the big thing out isn't what is it is it a new or a logical disorder or is it a psychological thing or doesn't is a neurological difference i look at autism as a nonstandard way of perceiving and processing the environment and doing so it causes differences in comm

here and i'll tell you the latest headlines at the top of the hour after a short break sophie shevardnadze talks to an afghan prisoner of war turned taliban bodyguard if you watching is over in the u.k. it's a special report for you on the black gold rush in canada. in florida the debate over whether illegal immigrants should be able to get driver's licenses is heating up one group called the living with angels says that they should be allowed behind the wheel to support this view they use a classic argument that comes up a lot in the media they say that not a lot of people for it are legal so if you're not legal you can't ever driver's license what's with that this is like when people say well we should legalize drugs because people use them anyway or we should legalize prostitution because people will do it anyway so such i think they mean that it's everyone comes here illegally anyways we may as well. them drive so if enough people do something we currently consider illegal does that make it ok maybe sometimes but in the case of illegal immigration rolling out the red carpet for people

and you can find more on the life and political legacy of eduard shevardnadze on our website r.t. dot com also there on the edge of nuclear disaster and again the cooling system magic pans crippled fukushima nuclear plant is switched off after nearly is this covered for about about the dangers it poses online. while some rise of the real transformers there's the finance company reveals plans to make drones that can fix themselves and change shape during a mission. now a newly released video shows the moment sue passenger planes almost collided at barcelona airports one was crossing the runway on the ground as the other attainments alliance the boeing from russian airline to terra pulled up at the last minutes employed in the argentinian air boss spanish flight controllers insists that c. would not have lied but aviation expert chris kate told us the ground control while struggling. with ground control can quite clearly bit because both of these airplanes were on traffic control instruction at the time so the jets landing would have been listening to the. traffic controller giving

bonser news for now but up next sophie shevardnadze searches for a local solution to poverty to stay with us. death row inmate joseph would rise in pain during a two hour execution this prolonged suffering was not part of the plan and not constitutional but an accident and not quite a unique wanted that just this year in both oklahoma and my native ohio there have been botched executions due to complications with lethal injection one judge alex kozinski who voted to give would a stay of execution due to the questionable nature of lethal injection drugs said that the good old firing squad would be a lot more humane and his opinion eight or ten large caliber bullets fired at close range inflict massive damage causing instant death every time.

latest from ukraine and stay with us because after the break it'll be sophie and co with sophie shevardnadze. two u.s. agents who are working deep inside the german government have been caught which has heightened tensions between the two countries even more the german reaction to this was to expel the cia chief in berlin from his post this is the kind of story that makes people who hate u.s. foreign policy the share button on facebook and get all excited it makes me feel that merkel or at least some elements of the german government are actually fighting against foreign meddling but i would say that you should take this story with a huge grain of salt yeah they just had one cia asset out of the country and this could be a sign of change but there are still twenty plus u.s. military bases currently operating in germany and in fact the power holder base is one of the largest ones outside of america territory with thirteen thousand troops permanently stationed there so basically if merkel really wants to reduce foreign meddling in germany she is going to have to somehow get a massive foreign m

i like to take a step back and remember that eduard shevardnadze died this week and who is he will he was the one with got a bit chuff who initiated the policies that resulted in the dissolution of the warsaw pact and should have been the dissolution of nato nato promise not to move one inch farther to the east look what's happened this is at the core of all this and put chain holds a high cards here he has already taken over crimea and as hellmuth schmidt the statesman from germany said that was still house fish that he thought really understandable and nato is not going to be able to take over to assume that assume ukraine into its membership any any further than it was able to do with georgia and the ukrainians really should remember what happened in two thousand and eight because the way partition is acting now is the way saakashvili in georgia acted then and he's going to not get the kind of help he needs in the end from the united states mary when flex upon that because you know it's not country only was always seen as and say are good for the americans for nato expansion and lo

shevardnadze now clear things are more depressing than looking into the. wrong time fair especially when it's not by choice but by circumstance is there a global solution to the poverty maybe not but luckily for sure we have. why does poverty persist why are the poor poor and the rich richer over half of the world lives on less than two and a half dollars a day children have no chance caught in this cycle below the poverty line what does it take to tackle poverty can a rising tide lifts all boats or to empower and encourage we speak to a poverty pioneer who began with faith and a few dollars for. our guest today is mohammad yunus noble peace prize winner of the pioneer of micro finance to financial strategy that's lifted millions out of poverty mr yunus first of all let me start by saying that we're really glad to have you on our program today and i'm just going to go ahead and start with a question that all of our viewers are asking so how soon can worst pay back their depth to your bank is there a risk of being indebted for life to your bank for example.

i do stay with us here and next we have sophie shevardnadze and our interview shows so forget us all for me for today we have you watching as in the world if a great day a c.c. . death row inmate joseph would rise in pain during a two hour execution this prolonged suffering was not part of the plan and not constitutional but an accident and not quite a unique wanted that just this year in both oklahoma and my native ohio there have been botched executions due to complications with lethal injection one judge alex kozinski who voted to give would a stay of execution due to the questionable nature of lethal injection drugs said that the good old firing squad would be a lot more humane and his opinion eight or ten large caliber bullets fired at close range inflict massive damage causing instant death every time i think we feel injection is popular not for the executed but for society as judge kozinski said shooting someone in the head with a machine gun is instant death so why don't they use the firing squad because that would be messy and raise questions quietly injecting people way fro

a welcome to me sophie shevardnadze what happens when you find yourself at war at a very young age because of the strength was that teenage wreck route when he was captured by the mujahideen in afghanistan ended up spending twelve years in war torn country serving as a personal bodyguard of the most powerful anti taliban leader ahmad shah massoud how did he go from captive to brother in arms what made him go native and why did he come home to rush out years later well nic i was struck as here in the studio to tell us his personal story. twenty five years ago the troops left afghanistan some soldiers however stayed behind. in the forum are unsure who is friend or foe stuck between two worlds what does it take to change sides or how can you survive in captivity and trained you never told . because i suppose he was welcome to the show thank you very much for finding time .

shevardnadze the member states of the e.u. take pride in their high standards of living and developed economies but a fresh european commission report has brought to light the true extent of corruption on the continent billions of euros are going to waste and no parts of the union are spared but its corruption universally harmful and how is he going to tackle it well that of course a newly appointed. as the financial crisis ease its grip on europe the continent is now faced with a different challenge it's claimed bribery is eating the union from the inside reportedly costing the bloke as much as a whole year. the world's most advanced economies the shocking truth. on the grabbing. for is the fight against corruption hopeless. because it's great to have you with us today now the commissioner behind a report into the corruption in the you has called the scale of it breast taking to the figures say your breath away because there are certainly striking first of all both regards to your real sore on the world. not so much surprised

hello welcome to sophie and co i'm sophie shevardnadze and diagnosed with autism as a baby doctor said he'd never leave a life outside a special institution but it proved him wrong that he's a professor teaching others about the needs of people with autism dr stephen shore is my guest today. the number of children affected by autism is on the rise but the condition remains hard to define while many think it's an illness that people who have a which isn't don't consider themselves sick what does it mean to be so different. people really disadvantaged can they be integrated into society and can society benefit from bury me tell it. dr stephen shore a professor at university outages and research your lecturer diagnosed with a stay himself welcome it's really great to have you on our show today so let's start from the big thing out what is it is it a new or a logical disorder or is it a psychological thing oh autism is a neurological difference i look at autism as a nonstandard way of perceiving and processing the environment. and doing so it causes differences in communication social inte