In france. Hello. Armed separatists in the eastern ukrainian city of luhansk have reportedly been making fresh advances. Six separatists and 11 ukranian soldiers are known to have died. Many civilians are leaving. They are in control of a guard base and border guard post which ukranian forces were forced to abandon. Western leaders are threatening russia with more sanctions. David chater has this update from luhansk. Reporter the fact that the separatist fighters overran this border base after a fierce firefight is not just a humiliating defeat for kiev and their antiterror operation, it has strategic consequences. This is the base, the headquarters where they control and coordinate the russian border crossings, where they communicate with the border posts, which are emptying, and have no way of communicating with the border guards. That means a large blind spot is opening up on the russian border. It means the people in kiev, the government in kiev, the Security Services no longer hav
Slum life in mexico city may look humble but some are building their dreams. French president is calling for United International action to combat the group that calls itself the Islamic State or isil and they are hosting a conference in paris from representatives from 30 coun countries and has urgency for International Military assistance and isil fighters made significant gains in iraq and are a regional and even a global threat. Translator the struggle of the iraqi people against terrorists is our struggle as well and we have to act together and this is the purpose of the conference, we have to stand by iraqi authorities and there is not a moment to be lost. Translator we have to do everything to prevent the youth from being enrolled and break up recruitment channels and deprive isil of resources and punish all those linked to it. Translator we continue to ask for Airborne Operations to be carried out regularly against terrorist sites. We must not allow il to have sanctuarys and sei
Streets of damascus. This is obvious from the activities in the markets. From outside the apparent calm of central damascus this is a conflict thats claimed the lives of more than 100,000 seasons and forced 2 million to leave the country while president Bashar Alassads regime may stop using the chemical arsenal most of the dead have been killed by conventional weapons. Lets give you more details on those two proposals, an initial draft resolution gives syria 15 days to give details of the chemical weapons including locations which will be in a binding resolution to be voted on by the United Nations council and backed up with a threat of force if syria doesnt comply. Meanwhile, russia wants something different. It wants syria to place its weapons under International Control, but it will be backed up by a nonbinding statement and would not involve the threat of force. The russian Prime Minister had this to say about the upcoming talks. In geneva we agreed to discuss the initiative with w
Derailment in canada . Police launch a criminal investigation. We begin in egypt where the interim government is taking shape against a backdrop of violence and division. Electedbeblawi was tuesday and needs to form a parliament. The Muslim Brotherhood once the unconditional reinstatement of deposed president Mohamed Morsi. Leaders from the National Salvation front say they were not confronted about the timetable for parliamentary elections. Of the Muslim Brotherhood leader was ordered. The news just dropped a few minutes ago. We understand an arrest warrant thiseen issued for specific individual. Nine others are also included in the arrest warrant, including key leaders from the Muslim Brotherhood and other islamic democracy. Uding the the prosecutor general is accusing them of inciting the violence we saw outside of the Republican Guard were more than 50 supporters of the deposed president lost their lives. The Muslim Brotherhood has maintained their supporters came under attack i Se
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