in the words of william hague, the british foreign secretary, we all know that we are at the 11th hour. it would be an utter tragedy if these species were lost because of human ignorance and greed. >> with some of the world's most iconic species threatened for the wildlife trade, 46 countries joined royalty and international organizationses in london to agree on a global response. >> today, the government leaders assembled here will sign the london declaration, commit to go several bold new steps forward, including new pledge to guess address what is the most significant problem in my view, that of demand for and can assumption of specific products from critically endangered wildlife. >> in parts of africa, animal poaching that doubled since 2007 so animal dice in the tens of thousands each year for their ivory tusks carved into ornaments or hoarded as white gold. rhinos are dying for horn worth hundreds of thousands of dollars in the black markets of asia where it's believed to have miracle medical properties, but in truth has none. tigers, gorillas, 30les and leopard are all under th

british foreign secretary william hague met with his u.s. counterpart john kerry in washington. he said the two nations strongly support ukraine's unity and territorial integrity. >>> u.s. government officials have ordered three venezuelan diplomats to leave the country. the move is in response to leaders in caracas expelling three americans last week. u.s. state department spokesperson jen psaki announced the decision. >> we have indicated and have indicated for months our openness to develop a more constructive relationship with venezuela, but, again, recent actions, including expelling three of our diplomats, continue to make that difficult. >> venezuelan president nicolas maduro removed the diplomats. he said they were supporting opposition plots to overthrow him. maduro's opponents have been organizing nationwide street protests. he took office last year succeeding hugo chavez, a prominent critic of u.s. policy. >>> u.s. president barack obama is warning that the u.s. may withdraw all its troops from afghanistan by the end of the year if the two countries fail to sign a sec

angela merkel's visit to london it's a red carpet welcome fit for queen dubbed by foreign secretary william hague as britain's most important partner on seeking e.u. reform and the first german chancellor to address both houses of parliament starkly different to british prime minister david cameron's low key pub lunch with his french counterpart last month all that seemed to be placed on getting the backing of europe's economic powerhouse redrawing loved his relationship with brussels after all. if not of course in this europe incentives on both sides to find a suitable agreement so what exactly does cameron want for the u.k. curbing immigration by possibly putting a cap on workers from europe entering the u.k. at restrictions of benefits claims for migrants castes aren't protections for financial regulations on britain and repatriation of certain powers back to westminster to name a few but the question is what he wants in return but would be some wins for the u.k. but you could imagine it's a tit for tat. they would have to accept something in return amid all the fuss summer of lowering the exc

british foreign secretary william hague met with his us counterpart john kerry in washington he said the two nations strongly support ukraine's unity and territorial integrity. us president barack obama called his afghan counterpart karzai on tuesday to tell them. he has instructed the pentagon to begin planning for a possible full withdrawal of american troops from the country. karzai has so far refused to sign him by the collateral security agreement or bsa. that could keep american boots on afghan soil beyond the ears and the result appears to be a protracted tug of war between the afghan leader in the white house and it's the world's was at the suter reports. the us government has been on the back cause i signed the bsa on number of times but to no avail. on tuesday the white house made these for aspiration don't get the gang. the longer we go. without a signed peace the essay that by necessity the more narrow in size and ambition the mission for a post twenty fourteen force would be. yelled the bottom is rationed was to keep some us troops in place after the call but nations and

they said that some uk prime minister david cameron and the foreign minister william hague and the environment and separate it will also attend the meeting. as a teach it to our closing day for two days in first at wildlife crime conference. still the international community is expected to reach agreement to take small international cooperation and how it will take all of my chairs stacked like it as taking me to go international legal framework and establishing a coordinated effort to stop so torturing and to create an educational program to what the consumers choose in life so much of the month at a week and that a man from watson has been discussed sort of what's come out as being be the biggest challenge is there actually and they don't want to end the illegal wildlife try it's actually so fuzzy topics like to think of things though. lol ing false names and to reduce to the market in mind as the two most to discuss the issues since the beginning of the conference and some ex percy eight the biggest difference beat end of our wildlife treaty and to the criminal activities is total rates giv

minister william hague had said that it is wrong to call the protesters terrorists because they are simply people who are seeking a better future for themselves however he said all sides should turn away from violence but again like catherine ashton he had put the blame and the leader squarely on the a shoulder said the ukrainian government. and there was spoke about the west's reaction was general celebrity a trance full cost and publish all the trends journal if things the u.s. is trying to mask its beauty economic interests i would like to read you a quote by senator john mccain who is in ukraine in mid december so i put this all into perspective this has nothing to do about democracy as they queue talking about this is our only business and he makes it very clear here this is this is about the future you deserve a future in europe a future of peace with all of your neighbors the free world is with america is with you i am with you so they're talking about business deals here and that's all this is about. scenes of a war zone blazing barricades people on fire as well as dead and wounded

and i met with his british counterpart william hague in london on monday. he said it would be an exaggeration to claim that london and berlin are pulling in the same direction on youthful with anyone is looking for german banking and repatriated key powers from brussels and a referendum on eu membership plan for twenty seventy. so what did mr steinmeier mr hague have to say to each other for the questions or correspond to get mosque in london. well that was at a very friendly towards each other but i wouldn't say they've presented each other as close allies twenty eight on tuesday endorsed activities intention to be admitted to the black sea and current price is the set that i said strong support from the capricious government of two was that so that's the very positive but generally i've said it was still quite lots of different says it was interesting that i'm closest dunlap actually a few days ago has written at least a plot to kill and every tuesday to eat when he's stressed about the world who won and that peace cannot be taken for granted in europe an

cold war iraq east west divide us secretary of state don't carry and british foreign secretary william hague the but disputed the idea that the situation in ukraine is a zero sum game one in which one sphere of influence wins at the expense of the other. the two made the comments on the colts in washington dc. this is not the zero sum game. it is not the u west vs eased it should not be. it is not. raw show or the united states or other choices. this is about the people of ukraine and ukrainians making their choice about their future and we want to work with the russian with other countries with everybody available. to make sure this is peaceful. from this day forward because obviously the terrible violence that took place in the mind on the it was a shock to everybody in the world. bully for you. to be able to look closely with european nations in the european union economic cooperation but also of coals to be able to cooperate with russia on many issues and so said to karen on both been talking to farmers to laugh all the snakes that is. and we will come tonight comes out with russia. as w

we are to star in six re william hague has told the uk parliament breaks and disco plenty of time in nineteen ninety four golden temple a tactic in six separate its income rates up but he said the country's advice of a negative impact on events. the rate on the temple located around two hundred and forty miles north of the tally was one of the most abundant in the government's castle against insurgents the death toll figures remained distinct its secrets claim thousands took to the authorities put it in the hundreds game of the raid was to flush out from sikh separatists it amounted to an independent study. i made the comments up to recently declassified documents suggested and prime minister margaret thatcher. since then the special forces to like india on the right on the resort. no alteration to his toes and ground assaults without the element of surprise and without a helicopter pullman elements the cabinet second triple that full use of the uk military offices of eyes had limited impact on alterations and stop the attack and into the assassination of prime minister indira gandhi

us secretary of state john kerry and british foreign secretary william hague had expressed hope that ukraine can form an inclusive government. the was the only nation victimized by the japanese military during world war two the first thirty nine thousand chinese nationals were forced to work in japanese companies during the war and over six thousand died in the process seeking justice some seventy years later the bacon fat survived and the families of those that dance. thirty seven people in all filed a class action lawsuit against seventeen of the japanese corporations on wednesday. he represents the first case in the chinese port into the matter. they can potentially increase tensions between teaching and tokyo even further. this are demanding that the japanese firm's apologize in writing for the compulsory labor and asking for about one hundred sixty thousand us dollars per person in compensation that's all for me for this evening and i'll be back tomorrow night for another would get all the stories making headlines around the world. oh and welcome to prime time sports on tv chat

down by foreign secretary william hague is britain's most important partner on seeking eu reform. the first german chancellor to address both houses of parliament. starkly different to british prime minister david campbell smoky pub lunch with his french counterpart last month. all that seemed to be placed on getting the backing of europe's economic powerhouse in the drawing on his relationship with the process after all my neck out that the anchor them at the fish and it's not a person this year a pace and vincent smith and parasites to find a peaceful agreement to what exactly does cameron wanted the uk. curbing immigration but possibly putting a cap of workers from your country the uk. restrictions on benefits claims that the migrants capsized protect us from financial regulations on britain. the creation of certain powers back to westminster to name a few but the question if ed what it is the new ones who attend but would be some wind for the uk but you can imagine is that if the press conference that they would have to accept something in return amid all the fonts on my jewel

ministers on the ongoing violence on the ground but we also did hear from the british foreign minister william hague who said that it is not right to call the protesters terrorists that they are simply people who are looking for a better life but he also said that all sides must turn away from the violence a lever did put responsibility squarely on the ukrainian government to take the lead on this some of the responsibility for the escalation of the crisis should be shouldered by the ukrainian president well that's the opinion of the head of a major russian foreign affairs think tank. truce is not what they're looking for they are looking for the national revolution as the leader of the extreme. right wing right sector says they they have been dreaming about this moment for a long time they have been giving forces and actually. allies also on president from uganda which should he couldn't not know about this danger grown in ukraine and still until now he hasn't been using it can stick you should know all means to preserve the constitutional order and. the president of the country has been cuti sooty

ministers on the ongoing violence on the ground but we also did hear from the british foreign minister william hague said that it is not right to call the protesters terrorists that they are simply people who are looking for a better life but he also said that all sides must turn away from the violence the weather did put responsibility squarely on the ukrainian government to take the lead on this and much is piskorski he's a political scientist from the european center of geo political analysis thinks that radicals in the streets deserve to be called terrorists but are called. or at least his advisors through. movies from from radio recordings from a ukraine and from the streets of ukraine just to see the militant opposition activists running away with weapons and and so on so it's it's just ridiculous to say about to tell about peaceful opposition now in tears because as we see now there's no one representing the peaceful opposition taking part in the in the in the you know what is happening now in the streets of kiev the government does not control anymore the situation in the central the ukraini

ministers on the ongoing violence on the ground but we also did hear from the british foreign minister william hague who said that it is not right to call the protesters terrorists that they are simply people who are looking for a better life but he also said that all sides must turn away from the violence or whatever did put responsibility squarely on the ukrainian government to take the lead on this. live from brussels tests and many thanks indeed. a long way ukraine's conflict drags on the more powerful. the radical opposition becomes. a professor of history at oxford university. maybe we could go ahead so new york feel that they can ride this tiger to par certainly i hope that they've tried to use it to in a sense the western backers have to every time the other coaches make concessions far from calming a situation that is a. revival of violence and i think what we're seeing is an attempt to inch by inch to force a change of regime the problem is that it's taken longer than perhaps the opposition hoped for and at the same time this is imposed and empower the radical right wing paramilitary group

on the other hand british foreign minister william hague said that it is wrong to call the protesters terrorists because they are simply people who are seeking a better future for themselves however he said all sides should turn away from violence but again like catherine ashton he had put the blame and the leader squarely on the a shoulders of the ukrainian government. thanks very much indeed for that live there in brussels well let's get more on the situation in around kiev and in the entire country now live with gerald celente he's trends forecast from publisher of the trends journal gerald is it fair then to hold the government soley responsible for breaking the truce punishing them with sanctions and accusing them of actually escalation the violence there and here. well you know as an american you know i'm not naive is that our country has been involved in overthrowing a number of governments around the world a rock afghanistan libya keep going on i've never seen such overt action in destabilizing another country or putting america's two cents into it and now this isn't speculati

certainly as william hague has said today the impact by the british officials were limited, we stillnow what the parameters of that limitation were, and what impact that had on what happened in june of 1984. >> i know you are glad it happened quickly, but did it go into enough detail? >> i don't believe it did. i think it should have included other aspects of what exactly happened in this the run-up to february 1984 when the official went to india. >> because regardless of how much influence [ inaudible ] it was an event that th then -- triggered a cycle of violence. >> it has an impact on the british sikh community, and how they are viewed around the world. within the british sikh community there are issues about trust, and whether this british government can be trusted. that's been something which is quite resinant. >> this anying associations broke down, they were to use a helicopter. so it does sound as though there were very different events. are you satisfied that it was a limited impact that [ inaudible ] was given? >> it certainly appears that way, but there are certain docum

william hague urged all parties to cooperate. >> this is not a zero sum game. it is not a west versus east, it should not be. it is not russia or the united states or other choices. this is about people of ukraine and ukrainians making their choice about their future. >> meanwhile russia's foreign minister said that aid to ukraine should only be provided to "legitimate ukrainian authorities." we're joined by jim from moscow. it may not be a zero sum game as far as kerry is concerned but it is as far as vladimir putin's concerned, isn't it? he's been incredibly silent over the last two weeks. what's going on with him here? >> reporter: that's right. what happens next will obviously be very much dependent on what vladimir putin does next, and so far we simply haven't heard from the guy. he had a meeting yesterday with his top security council but no information came out of that and i think that this is really what's driving the uncertainty about what russia does next, because putin, after all, must be reeling from the loss of face, if nothing else, from this revo

a lot of the foreign ministers have stopped to speak to the press including william hague who summed up what appeared to be the unanimous view that sanctions are needed. >> there have to be an international response to what has happened over the last few days. what is why we'll be discussing sanctions, and measures against those responsible for the rye lens. it is time on all sides for people to turn away from violence, but the ukrainian government, of course, bears the greatest responsibility and the particular responsibility to take the lead in making sure that happens. >> what are the russians saying? >> well, they're very angry about this whole issue of sanctions. they accuse the european union and united states of meddling in the situation, a statement from the foreign ministry issued earlier on thursday indicated their view, the putin kremlin view that sanctions will only exaggerate and exacerbate the situation. this from a foreign ministry spokesman earlier. >> as tort individual sanctions by the u.s. or european union, which they try to operate at the moment, from our point o

just in the past twenty four hours william hague actually here actually called on russia to foot the bill for ukraine and many western opera. some of these drills have been clearly stated as they've already been planned you know in advance countries have military drills all the time it just happens that ukraine this is what's happening at the moment in ukraine so automatically some western media believe that that is something to be scared of and this scaring the rest of the you know everybody else out there because everything there is war coming or at least i must say thank you very very much rory. now russia's military drills were pre-planned as the bag was you're saying they have nothing to do with the events in ukraine that's also what the foreign minister sergei lavrov told his american counterpart john kerry the two discussing possible solutions to ukraine's crisis in a telephone call them both stressing the need for calm that will run to broaden from germany you know to nato movement he says the alliance sees the turmoil in ukraine as an opportunity to expand and that will only