ukrainians who are putting their hopes outside parliament. why britons are divided. and god's mission -- a trip along the dutch bible belt. the ukraine has been in a state of political paralysis for several years now. there are power struggles going on on many levels. ukrainians have been waiting to go to the polls for four years, but only now are parliamentary elections taking place. the eu is watching with some suspicion, especially after the controversial jailing of the former prime minister. her political archenemy still leads the country as president. and an increasing number of ukrainians are asking themselves who they can trust that all. one thing is clear -- it is not the political elite. >> it is quite an animated evening. an amateur ensembles stages a comedy about marriage, but it is less about love that about the dowry, money, and influence. just like in ukrainian politics says this journalist who invited the actors to come to kiev's old market. the building has long since become a symbol. influential businessme want to privatize it, but these people are p

ukrainian politics is notoriously tempestuous and. pleasant but it's hard to see how it could benefit from this because it's so transparently obvious that it wouldn't succeed that they would be found out immediately which is really what happened right that the billion dollar question is do the ukrainians still want to build the cell and terminal s. that are they still looking for alternatives to russians down clearly i mean you saw there they had the president the prime minister the energy minister a whole host of officials all witnessing this signing it was a big deal they all serious about this idea they want more energy independence from russia now as it happens the prime minister promised result of has just arrived in norway and he's believed to be talking to an. the he is not clear whether they're talking about l. and g. but certainly they all get a bit we're discussing how to use more gas in ukraine i bet as ours will be asking to see the norwegian partners passport or something to confirm his identity will absolutely fascinatin

directly that he was an agency that he was a middleman the ukrainian energy minister explains how the relationship worked. just because the there were a number of documents signed but a spanish representative right now we're trying to figure out whether he had the right to sign which contracts unique case he took part in all of the negotiations on behalf of this company. but would you think one of the you know the krays would ask for one of the top journalists officials like the c.e.o. for instance to come and sign the deal you certainly would have thought so and it is traditional the ukrainian certainly pulled out the big guns the president and prime minister and a whole host of other officials were there but mr bay he managed to convince them because of technical reasons none of the senior executives from from those could come to here saw this document or suspect that i mean that's really the success of this hoax. he also committed that he was empowered to act on their behalf and the company was party to the plan was pretty funny because like a simple phone call to fidel says headqu

avila brings ukrainians orphans in a group to meet american families. >> 80% of the kids that come overfind a family that indictments them. >> david avila declined to be interview. after the i-team spotted him in gilroy, he took us on a tour of the town and stopped at a police station. officers warned him to follow traffic rules. i approached as he rushed into his home. >> i need to talk to you, david. going to put a jacket on your head? are you being straight with families about the kids they're adopting? >> avila did give jason and laurie a cr with the clause that haven't of child cannot be guaranteed. parent is encouraged to seek the advice of medical professionals with expertise in anywhere balance speed -- international speed yack -- speed yack tricks. avila must register for the state. he was registered but lapsed in 2010. >> if someone doesn't a have the registration, that is an issue they may be operating illegally. >> the descrict district attorney's office tells us there have been no complaints filed against avila. >> something we have to investigate. we look at both sides. >>

avila brings ukrainians orphans in a group to meet american families. >> 80% of the kids that come overnd a family that indictments them. >> david avila declined to be interview. after the i-team spotted him in gilroy, he took us on a tour of the town and stopped at a police station. officers warned him to follow traffic rules. i approached as he rushed into his home. >> i need to talk to you, david. going to put a jacket on your head? are you being straight with families about the kids they're adopting? >> avila did give jason and laurie a cr with the clause that haven't of child cannot be guaranteed. parent is encouraged to seek the advice of medical professionals with expertise in anywhere balance speed -- international speed yack -- speed yack tricks. avila must register for the state. he was registered but lapsed in 2010. >> if someone doesn't a have the registration, that is an issue they may be operating illegally. >> the descrict district attorney's office tells us there have been no complaints filed against avila. >> something we have to investigate. we look at both sides. >> l

>> hundreds of ukrainian reporters have reported in kiev claiming the results were rigged by his rulingarty. kimberly reports. >> an uneasy standoff in the capital of kiev. supporters rallied outside the election headquarters chanting and then this led to pushing and shoving. they said the delayed vote count is being rigged in favor of pro government candidates. >> there were a lot of falsifications. both from parties and individual constituencies. >> our pensions were robbed except the ruling party's. >> void by their supporters outside, the ukrainians went to the election . the chief rival, former prime minister is in prison and was barred from running altogether. but authorities deny claims of vote-rigging and say the opposition is only trying to intimidate election officials. kimberly. "bbc news." >> a quick reminder. you can follow all the latest information. our reporters working across the world in 27 different languages on bbc.com/world service/world languages. >> you're watching g.m. place from "bbc world news" with me tim wilcox. our main story this hour. u.s. polling station

she's going to be a very wealthy ukrainian soon. the u.s.e annou e announced yesterday they are expecting this year's holiday season to be their busiest ever and also their slowest ever, so -- [ laughter ] leave them alone and go bother fedex. the postal service, probably the only business in america that complains about being busy, right? still no election results from florida yet. florida is the post office of states. the election has been over for three days, but already, there's a new survey that says hillary clinton is favored to win the iowa caucuses in 2016. [ laughter ] you think they could have at least waited until we peeled the "i voted" stickers off our jackets. survey showed hillary clinton with 58% of the vote. vice president biden with 17%. new york governor andrew cuomo at 6% and massachusetts senator elect elizabeth warren with 3%. a woman who has not yet expressed any interest in running is well ahead of some other people who aren't running. good study. [ laughter ] we can't let them do this again. no christmas decorations

♪ the ukrainian singer who wrote and performed it thinks so., she filed a federal lawsuit alleging copyright infringement. at issue, this lyric -- ♪ call me and here is my number ♪ >> i was driving and i heard "call me, here is my number." not, take my number, i give you my number, here is my number. >> jimmy: wow. right. here is my number. not there is my number, not -- [ laughter ] not hey, look, it's a number! here is my number. plain as day. she's going to be a very wealthy ukrainian soon. [ laughter ] the u.s. postal service announced yesterday they are expecting this year's holiday season to be their busiest ever and also their slowest ever, so -- [ laughter ] leave them alone and go bother fedex. the postal service, probably the only business in america that complains about being busy, right? still no election results from florida yet. florida is the post office of states. the election has been over for three days, but already, there's a new survey that says hillary clinton is favored to win the iowa caucuses in 2016. [ laughter ] you th

in northeastern romania near the ukrainian border, a special police unit halts trucks, and checking for illegal transports. drivers often radio other drivers with the location of inspection points. when asked what he is carrying, the driver answers, "wood products." once the trees are top -- chopped, and is difficult to determine the origin of the wood. police are often helpless. most trucks are suspected of carrying stolen would on board. >> the wood is stored at the port. from there, it is taken home by export companies to sell it abroad. >> but the police do not bother checking farmers or their horse- drawn carts. they are aware that they are dealing with a kind of wood market in the carpe diem mountains who are very well organized. the region is dotted with lumber mills on the outskirts of the bigger towns. the factories often belong to influential officials or even politicians making big money from the illegal logging. but the special police unit enjoys the support of forestry officials. today, they are partially successful in their mission. they come across much more wood than the

what is ukrainian for dunk. that right there. 23-10. terps making a rally to cut it to one. gerald pullson a little silent ninja. final seconds howard desperation. desperation no. kentucky hanging on to win 72-69. and another good ball game tonight, the carrier classic aboard the uss baton. florida early on. a little flush work inside. 27-23 at the half. but then some condensation in the second half. and they had to call the game because of safety. florida 27 georgetown 23. the game was stopped at half time. all right. back home. paul hewitt and george mason. brian allen the liquidator to the 10. he had 2. allen it's raining three. high arcing bomb. nba hoops, bucks, wizards nothing says friday night excitement like bucks and wizards. not. bradley beel his best game of had his young career. he had 22. bucks began the game down 12-0. it didn't matter. they outscored the wizards by 22. washington 0-4. coming up, playoff action in high school football. we head to virginia and maryland for round one. somebody taking on lincoln and leesburg. stick around has ecl ou mi byb lhthee?

and then the little ukrainian clean up duty. that will be 91, 74.all now, maryland will need to break out their black ops uniforms tomorrow against them here. and the seminoles will be coming to town at one of the most explosive team in the land. and that will be for the terps on monday. >>> all right, coming up, high school football into the november chill we go. and the playoff time. in frederick county, middletown high school. the clock operator is not necessary. >>> it's time for u.s.a. today high school sports, presented by toyota. >> welcome back everybody. there is great football in frederick county, middletown and walkersville have beat down all that have come their way except one when they played one another recently. middletown won that one. rematch, a perfect way to start our night out to frederick county we go. middletown, back in blast. this is smash mouth football for you. just excellent. eight carries, 46 yards, and one touchdown to get it cracking. and then later watch this cut right here by tim schumacher right there. well done, nic

journalist olga tan see shook sometimes comes up short researching for she fires for a ukrainian wire service. >> due to chinese wars and regulations, if there is something going on, sometimes you can't get access to some of the pages. >> reporter: china's rise has given foreign media much to write and talk about. but it's a story that can frustrate even the most persistent of journalists. although the media can't get detailed information about the congress, what do we know that's expected to be confirmed when the meeting wraps up next week? >> reporter: we've got an idea of who will head up china's next generation of leaders. we've heard their names before, she jingping and lee kowtow. we'll be hearing them for years to come. they'll be chosen for top communist party posts next week and unveiled to the world. analysts say xi will become general secretary taking over for president hu jintao. >> reporter: chinese vice president she jingping is 59 years old, she comes from shang something province. communist party leaders named xi vice chairman of the central military commission in 2010

saturday this is the fourth straight day that tel aviv has been on the receiving end of a long range ukrainian made missiles while talking to people here in tel aviv certainly immediately after we had these two missiles that were intercepted the general mood here is that the mall tel aviv comes under the firing line of missiles the more the government is going to be more prone to wards nor inching a ground offensive there has continued to be movement of tanks and armored personnel vehicles along the israeli gaza border we also heard from the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu at his weekly cabinet meeting that he will significantly expand his operation in gaza and many people are reading into that that that means that a ground offensive is on the. cards the idea of cheats also ordered an increase in the number of sorties eight militants in gaza so we are expecting that that also be an increase in air strikes over that over gaza city in addition to this we having seventy five thousand reservists who gathering in the south of the country they haven't been given orders as far as we're awar

has shifted it's almost as if the red line has been crossed by militants would not have long range ukrainian made missiles that reach as far into the country as tel aviv and in light of this i'm hearing more and more israelis say that they also supporting a ground offensive that they believe it's the only one and only way that militants in gaza can once and for all be dealt with the problem though is that tel aviv is widely aware that if infected launches such an offensive it will lose international sympathy it's one of these warnings particularly from the government of the u.k. but israel is relying on the united states as it has in the process to back it up we are also hearing more and more many israelis voiced the opinion that they believe that gaza is on not innocent and this comes from the point of view that we are looking at a grinding civilian death count in gaza what i'm hearing israelis tell me is that it is gazans that you take to the hamas government and as a result they want to live with the consequences this is almost a justification for the israeli army getting it wrong so freq

number one completely losing its despite his side beating both last three to the last sixteen of the ukrainian cup. then on thursday less than a week after turning fourteen chinese party chairman came up just short of an eagle and save pot with a top notch bunker shots to lead off to the first round in thailand. he went on to win the tournament and has become the youngest ever player to qualify for the u.s. masters next year. last friday snowboarders from across russia showed off their skills in moscow real monster event jumping contest took place at a temporary venue next to the crown then to the wind up taking up a five thousand dollars prize. on saturday argentina legend and world cup winner diego maradona looked on as russia to be brazil seven four in dubai to change their second straight feature football crowd they got sheinkopf netting four goals for the russians. and on sunday it's going down to the wire in formula one off to keep me where i can and won his first race of the year in abu dhabi but i know i'm also finished second ahead of championship leaders sebastian vettel to cup the g

deployed only earlier only a few hours earlier on saturday had managed to intercept a long range ukrainian in mosul so we are witnessing longer range missiles and managing to reach further into the jewish state and that is sending panic particularly in cities like tel aviv that will further inland the idea on the chiefs has also called for an increase in the pace of air strikes and this comes off to masturbate strikes on saturday morning so all the government buildings of the hamas leadership be completely destroyed and that is the same building where just a day earlier the egyptian prime minister had made it and when he was in gaza at this building right now essentially is an island of rubble. had hoped to end something many of hope that they would be a cease fire in place now the israelis do deny the fact that they broke that cease fire but we have heard from her muscles on the ground that during that period of the so-called cease fire at least two palestinians were killed so there doesn't really seem to be any kind of real determination to actually bring this violence and this fighting

jumped over a one billion dollars gas deal this sounds like an extraordinary story absolutely well ukrainian officials are now trying to figure out who they signed this deal with since the spanish companies actually deny any involvement whatsoever absolutely fascinating all the details just a couple of minutes after thanks very much. the legacy no one should be proud. of scrap metal littering pristine arctic landscape building stilton over their foundation pipes spewing black smoke over the snow covered peaks the traces of the soviet industrial activity on the spitzbergen archipelago don't make a pretty picture the guiding principle here is the worse the better locals like to tell the story that back in soviet times when norwegians were visiting barons were they also expressed. how prosperous the settlement was well times have obviously a challenge where they saw it lags they still attracting a region tourists are barons work cons much needed cash that's why while. our goal is common as was uncovered here a few days ago instead of throwing it away the local administration decided to paint th

is worth mentioning that most of these missiles all homemade there are some that are long range ukrainian missiles but they are unguided and they are by and large. missing the target they're also mostly being intercepted by the israeli side into this and earlier today here in tel aviv the israelis deployed an iron dome system for the first time ever everybody does point to the fact that this cannot be a precisely targeted operation you have the number of dead that continues to climb and many of them in fact most of them also billions and here too we have the number of injured people continuing to increase the foreign ministry spokesperson did stress the point that the israeli army is targeting only the militants responsible for the firing of these rockets but he was hard placed to answer the question as to why so many civilians are being killed the israeli government will do everything needed targeting terrorists only. to stop the firing of rockets on israel cities is really schools is really children and if we will need some ground operation we definitely will consider so there are no ch

gas deal extraordinary story it's absolutely nothing that's absolutely right now it turns out the ukrainian officials are actually trying to figure out who they signed the deal with since the sanest energy major they thought they were partnering with is actually denying any involvement what in the story and more and just a couple of minutes after a short break thanks a lot. from . the great russian warriors. prevailing over hazards and asperity. to reenact an epic parade through paris you've. come a complete that triumph. with people's admiration for two hundred years. old the globe oh. i'm off to school. the. parents versus social workers duckett nabby pm last stop giggling and me me that kidnapping children have become prizes to fight full why does the last threaten families of the social for reducing the infamous they have a right of willful minimal me feel that they have any kind of for suspicion about the world more fuel for children are often a just better at bringing up kids than their own mom and dad. and from what we have an industry that is so. concentrated on the other for trade

to and towards the north of the country and mass and other militants are firing now in long range ukrainian made missiles and i think that this kind of meeting this kind of fear and panic that is not infiltrating the but nation of israel much to that then just the south we rockets have been rained down on is starting to create an anxiety an oppression on the leadership of israel to launch some kind of ground offensive there was a barrage of rockets it is going to hit the south of this office wanting to know that one person has been seen as the injured between the rockets are still far short of the target there has the movement among the israel gaza border with the israeli tanks and armored personnel vehicles this does raise the question of whether or not a ground operation is imminent the roads around gaza have sealed and the idea of has confirmed that it is attacking from the sea the last strikes classrooms so you certainly had and intensified israeli operation against gaza reporter you talk about that israeli forces are shutting down the roads around gaza according to the i.d.f. on twitte

which proved to be crippling for the ukrainian economy and the population there is suffering a great deal because of that while campaigning president obama indicated that he didn't want to go to war with iran but that he would continue the sanctions policy and that's what he's doing and we've heard reports that the obama administration might engage in direct talks with iran at some point but there has been no confirmation that. threatens to attack iran and the u.s. appears to be stopping them some argue that. might be playing a good cop bad cop diplomatic game there anyway the administration's strategy appears to be to make iran's so desperate that they would agree to anything but sanctioning iran was probably not president obama's very first move after winning this election government officials here say said on wednesday a u.s. drone strike targeted a group of al qaida militants in yemen and the president had to authorize that and possibly he did that within hours after his reelection the use of drones has been highly controversial it's quite clear not everybody by those drones are

injuries it is worth mentioning that most of these missiles homemade there are some that are long range ukrainian missiles but they are unguided and they are by and large missing their target they are also mostly being intercepted by the israeli side into this and earlier today here in tel aviv the israelis deployed an iron dome system for the first time ever paula certainly over the past few days i know you have been sort of i've been talking to officials from the i.d.f. i even spoke to the prime minister's top spokesperson describing to me that the past four day siege an assault on gaza has been the most precise that exist. israeli siege the country is known in recent history but it seems a bit bizarre then certainly they're having trouble explaining the rising number of civilian civilian casualties what are they telling you where you are. well certainly if you talk to people on the ground everybody does point to the fact that this cannot be a precisely targeted operation you have the number of dead that continues to climb and many of them in fact most of them are civilians and you get to we ha

avila never raised questions about the childrens' health, receiving just a few sheets written in ukrainiane, they experienced first signs of trouble with sfeta. >> she hits, kicks and threatens to commit suicide, threatening to kill everybody in our family. >> they brought her to a neuropsychologist. >> it's clear these two children had significantvale vel mental disabilitis.. >> she was diagnosed with 12 disorders. she's now living in a mental hospital in north carolina. alec diagnosed with seven disorders. >> they should not have been made available except to a family who stated i want the most severely handicapped and disabled child with fetal alcohol, drug exposure, brain damage. >> the family had no idea what they're getting into, saying they discovered the orphanage was actually an asylum. >> this is never disclosed to us, by anyone. >> the family believes david avila should have told them about the conditions and about the orphanage. >> he should have known. he is paid to know. >> abc 7 news featured avila in a story here b.his family in 2008. a program similar to the one this famil

with in the united states from polish backgrounds and other backgrounds, they come from that -- ukrainianackgrounds, they want the catholic school, they all came from left wing -- hard left wing communist countries and they're the opposite. this idea you can trace people's ideological dna through their migratory roots is insane. >> it shows how very little they understand their fellow americans and how very little they're trying to understand. you know, chris, what it says to me, a lot of the nonsense that we heard over the election, the welfare ads and all of, that i thought they put that nonsense out there to satisfy their base. now i'm noting how many of the republican strategists really believe those ugly stereotypes about voters of color. and let me further say, chris, that it isn't just the nonsense we heard in this election. black americans have understood, have heard republicans speak disrespectfully of us for the last 50 years. that's the reason black americans don't vote for the republican party. now for the last five to seven years, latinos have been hearing the same thing. if

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the chinese have just loaded a bathtub that they bought from the ukrainians and they're kind of figure out how to land an airplane on. it's going to be a long time before china comes anywhere near the united states as a global military power. but it's because of the importance of our ability to sustain its global infrastructure that i worry a lot about avoiding the kinds of efforts to become the fixer of last resort. when we get mired in afghanistan, when we try to turn iraq into a democracy, they are serious opportunity costs. there's a punchline i guess would be we need to pick our shots much more carefully, because we have a huge first order business managing the world in which power will be more equally distributed. >> very interesting talk, sir. >> thank you. >> but sort of to get some of the points you are raising, egypt and tunisia, in the middle east as essentially, they voted for a against modernity, against commercialism, against an industrial society. if you look at the two people morrissey put in deployment, i mean, the head supreme court, the head of the military, i mean,

there is value in having ukrainians come to this country. there is value in having ethiopians. there is value in people having diverse social backgrounds and ethnic backgrounds coming to this country to facilitate acclimation to this country. so i think that it was well thought out having the concept whereby people who don't happen to be from mexico, india, or china, or the other main countries, have a way of getting here. it's a good program. so, too, having a stem visa program is absolutely critical call. it's important to our country to make sure we retain the talent we attract to our universitys and nothing is more frustrating to me as an american and many of our stites and i talk about it frequently back home, representing both of our major state universitys in colorado, as well as private universitys in my district as well, that here we are, educating people from across the world and if you look at our engineering grad school well, see a high number of foreign national obs student visas, educating computer programs -- programmers, aerospace engineers, with the skills they

because it is difficult to imagine any ukrainian regime and it simply has the bomb. what does that mean? is already related to the delivery system? one has to consider the circumstances the consequences and give an explicit commitment by an overwhelmingly strong nuclear power. this is not an argument for it to be the central focus of our policy. obviously, a negotiated outcome that needs to some extent the principal desires of the negotiating side, but doesn't necessarily humiliate the iranians into an unconditional surrender, so to speak. it is still preferable. but short of that, they could succeed in the meantime. a shift by a combination of sanctions, and at the same time, to serve as a deterrent and involves all of our friends in the middle east as the best option is the options that failed otherwise in the achievement of that objective. so that is the perspective that i share, and the sooner we get off the notion that at some point we may strike the wrong, the better, the better the chances, the better the negotiations and the better the chance for stability we

those of you who have trouble accessing your bangs, senator lieberman has pointed to the ukrainians as retaliating against the u.s. bangs for the stocks that attack, which i'll talk about momentarily. our power grid. what is the risk? well, one if terrorists want to break into our power grid. those of you that have fled a few days without power as mark and i did when the future is not down our power lines, well, there are already according to a member of the expert, foreign nationstate that are in our networks in the power system. the operation aurora a few years ago proved to cyberattack can bring down the power grid with a cyberattack on one of the systems, causing it to bitterly shake it felt to do. and if you've noticed, you can't go to wal-mart and pulled these power systems up a shelf. it takes a few months to get them back. a few months about these systems could be a $700 billion impact. the intelligence community in the u.s., they are afraid to. they warned that already nationstates are in our power grid. se/30 heard from john harrington , for the first time that i recall a sit