The u. N shares his thoughts on genocide. The Environmental Impact of the bp oil spill and the economic recovery. The plight of migrants from africa and the middle east having tragic consequences tonight. The search for survivors continues off italys southern coast. That is where nearly 700 migrants are missing after their boat capsized. Two dozen bodies have been recovered. 2,000 fleeing the city of ramadi the homeless are in the middle of a war zone. And south africa, jacob zuma says he will end xenophobic aarticulation. Calling for an International Effort to stop the Human Trafficking of migrants from africa. According to the times of malta the boat overturned 125 miles south of lampedusa. The main route for migrants fleeing libya. Paul brennan has the story. The search and rescue is being supported by coast guard and helicopters. Joined which merchant vessels. Planes are crisscrossing the sea where the migrant boat capsized. Scouring the ways for survivors but the likelihood are gr
Has seen since two thousand ford received wide images right now. From kiev with the opposition is up in arms victor get a cold which have the option. Well ask our panel in the fall. The study are those that deserve and say hello once again declared try. Thank you false but these are the headlines. All Anti Government protests in ukraines Prime Minister says russia offered Financial Assistance in the tenth of putting on hold and to start trade deals with the eu. Anti syrian rebel great threat to boycott peace talks in geneva the pre tsunami says they can be no negotiations as long as on site remains in power. And the Us Government makes its case for independence from per cent and says that by gaining the power to make Big Decisions in the nation would become more prosperous. To ukraine where the Prime Minister has expressed and ahmed the country becoming a battlefield that the eu and russia. A few days up to kiev put on hold and a star a trade deal with the eu. We cut out their office a
To a role that gave him control over many aspects of her life and career. The diplomatic stand off over belarus has escalated further, with the European Union announcing today it will impose targeted sanctions. Heres the European Commission president ursula von der leyen. We will sanction all those responsible for violence, repression and falsification of the results of the election. The people of belarus took peacefully to the streets. And the authorities answered with violence. This cannot be accepted. Eu leaders held a Virtual Summit today to discuss belarus. Heres the Eu Council President charles michel. The European Union stands in solidarity with the people of belarus. And we dont accept impunity. On august the 9th, belarus held elections. These elections were neither free norfair, and did not meet international standards. We dont recognise the results presented by the belarus authorities. The people of belarus deserve better. It was poland who called todays emergency summit. It
Ukraine intractable, syria, extend the new star treaty for five years thats going to expire in 2021 as a result of these two president s coming together . Yeah. Can they agree for no Nuclear Proliferation and put pressure on north korea and also put pressure on iran . Is that possible . I think so. Paul okay. Lets talk about the domestic politics here because you know to have an effective Foreign Policy, you need domestic support. And the way the president handled that Press Conference has really hurt him in terms of his ability, i think, to maneuver inside congress and have the support he needs. Why did he get such at odds with the Intelligence Community judgment about 2016, when he really didnt need to . Yeah, i mean, listen, monday was a disaster. I think it was a low point of his presidency, to be sure. I dont get it to be frank, paul. I mean, i know that they put a
president . You know, theres a lot of misunderstanding about this. In talking to the people around the president , wh
President putin issuing a statement which included an invite to the children of american diplomats in russia to christmas and new year shows in the kremlin. And then came this tweet from the kremlins twitter account reiterating that festive sentiment that has left a lot of people scratching their heads. Its apparently from putin who offers his new year greetings to president obama and his family, also to president elect donald trump. Lets go live now to moscow and Senior International correspondent Matthew Chance. Matthew, the u. S. Just slammed some of the toughest sanctions of any country in the world on russia so what now is behind this kind of response coming from putin . Its an interesting question. It was a very unexpected response as you indicated. We were expecting the kremlin to do a tit for tat expulsion of 35 u. S. Diplomats here in moscow. Thats what the Russian Foreign minister advised the kremlin to do but it was all very choreographed. It was all kind of staged to try an