Headquarters in london. I am mark barton. And i am Olivia Sterns. We begin in ukraine. Lets get straight to ryan chilcote. Ighting continues to rage both sides stepping up their attack. Ryan is in kiev with the latest read it looks like the country is seeing some of the deadliest violence and the crisis began. What is the latest you are hearing on the ground . Good morning. The Ukrainian Government says they are going to push on with the fighting in the east of the country. The death toll from yesterdays battles stands at 40. All of those on the rebel side. It includes russian nationals. You will remember that several dozen russian fighters came from russia itself into eastern and identified themselves as chess champ chechaners volunteers. If they were, they were there on their own private business. Clearly, this is becoming a very messy affair. Lots of collateral damage. An additional 31 people injured. , which the Ukrainian Government did capture, was also damaged, so it remains clos
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Are strictly control. Plus incumbent Muhammadu Buhari is declared the winner in nigerias president ial election after a trouble with allegations of widespread irregularities. Hello im Terry Martian thanks for joining us we begin in the vietnamese capital hanoi where u. S. President donald trump and north Korean Leader kim jong un are just hours away from kicking off their second summit in less than a year the leaders are expected to have a brief one on one meeting later tonight donald trump began the day with talks with vietnamese present. The two countries signed off on a number of trade deals and trump once again held up the u. S. Relationship with vietnam. As an example for north korea trump is pushing john yang to give up its Nuclear Weapons program in exchange for Economic Development the talks in vietnam some eight months after a historic summit in singapore the first between a sitting u. S. President and a north Korean Leader. A washington though has set only modest expectations
Meetings with germany and india went long so they sent a staffer in the president s place but that claim easily undermined by one photograph. Both leaders supposedly in those longrunning meetings with the u. S. President , germany chancellor, Angela Merkel and indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi made it to the climate summit. In a few minutes we will hear from President Trump, a chance for him to clarify contradictory messages he has been sending on trade with china. In a span of 72 hours, hopes for the end of the trade war have been raised, lowered, and raised again. The latest the president said he spoke with chinese officials on the phone, and he says they want to make a deal. That news immediately boosting markets. They are set to open higher later this hour. However, his own treasury secretary would not confirm any such phone call or conversation took place. Aware at the highest level. At the highest level. Look, in the meantime, our country is doing great. Here is a simpler quest
Later today with the north Korean Leader kim jong un and the two progress toward peace in their second summit less than a year plus a g. W. Investigation shows that german weapons are being used by militia groups in yemen civil war this despite claims by the German Government that weapon sales in the middle east are strictly controlled. Im sorry kelly welcome to the program a series of cross border incidents has ratchet up tension between Nuclear Armed india and pakistan over the disputed region of kashmir a video is said to show shells fired from pakistan coming down in indian controlled kashmir near the city of her jury skirmishes have also been reported in other locations along the line of control that divides kashmir now both so. Sides also say that they have shot down aircraft pakistan says that it downed two indian war planes india has confirmed a loss of one aircraft and says that it downed a pakistani jet none of these claims have been independently confirmed both sides have cl