Ill have the latest sports fuse, the day of 2015 is one to forget for chelsea, well tell yo you why they are only just top the premier league. Egypts highest court has order add retrial for three al jazeera journalists who have been in jail for more than a year. Its sited procedure flaws in their original trial. But the three remain in custody and its not clear when they will be back in court. Mohamed fahmy and peter greste were arrested on the 29th of desks 2013. They were falsely accused of aiding the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood and damaging egypts reputation abroad. They were convicted in june. They were sentenced to seven years in jail, bahar to ten years because he had a spent bull that he picked up. Their detention and convictions sparked protests and condemn face around the world. They never saw a minute of freedom the 2014, and with the start of a new year they remain imprisoned. Despite an Appeals Court granted a retrial peter greste, and fahmy are still behind bars. We luck t
Wonderful gifts given to European Commission staff. Oegypts highest court has order add retrial for three journalist whose have been in jail for more than a year. It sited procedure flaws but the three remain in custody, and it is not clear when they will be back in court. Mohamed fahmy peter greste and Baher Mohamed were falsely accused of aiding the outlawed muslim brotherhood, and damaging egypts reputation abroad. They were convicted in june, peter and mohamed were sentenced to seven years in jail, baher got ten years because he had a spent bullet in his possession that he picked up at a protest. Now their detention and convictions sparked protests around the world. They never saw a minute of freedom in 2014, and with the start of a new year they remain in prison. Despite an Appeals Court in cairont graying the retrial, Baher Mohamed peter greste, and fahmy are still behind bars. At the same time with demand that they are immediately released, they are unjustly imprisoned, everythi
Welcome to countdown. Back to our top story. Eu leaders have given the European Commission a week to draft a new round of sanctions against russia as the conflict deteriorates. Worried the situation could get worse. I think we are close to the point of no return. The point of no return is fullscale war. Lets get more of this. Ryan chilcote has been reporting on russia for 20 years. Thats a long time. It is. Are getting really busy. We heard the ukrainian president. We also heard from the russian president yesterday in what i think was a very meaningful sayingew he gave affectively there should be talks for state had four Eastern Ukraine. You pointed out earlier a spokesman said this is not the russian president saying Eastern Ukraine should be independent. It will certainly unnerve kiev, and it certainly has a lot of people concerned putins aim is to create a land bridge from russia proper to crimea to another state. It is putting pressure on kiev. Exactly, to have this wedge between r
I think it is ironic that people get the day off on labor day. I am guy johnson, this is the pulse. Here in london. We will get straight to our top stories. Conflict between ukraine and russia taking another twist. Ukraines president has warned that the crisis is this to the point of no return. Eu leaders have given the European Commission a week to draft a new round of sanctions moscow. Ryan chilcote has been analyzing the story. The rebel . Recordruble at 37. 44, a low. The soviet union dissolved in 1990, this is the lowest against the dollar has ever been. 7 since monday of last week, a consequence of the conflict in ukraine. This is one place where expressingre concerns. You couple it with the issue of capital outflows out of russia. Last week we saw the ruble get hit, it is continuing today, down 0. 8 already. Nato summit in wales. And friday. Hursday before that, president obama goes to estonia. Meeting all of the baltic heads of state. Saying look, do not even think about trying
First of september, backtoschool. You are watching the pulse. We are here in london. I am guy johnson. Lets get straight to our top story. The conflict between ukraine and russia taking another alarming twist. Ukraines president has warned the crisis is close to the point of no return. Eu leaders have given the European Commission all week to draft sanctions against moscow. We are joined by Ryan Chilcote who has been reporting about russia for quite some time. It is true. Lets talk about this in a little more detail. Lets talk about the sanctions story first of all. Sanctions are looking more likely than they have in the recent past. The question is, what shape they might take. The reason why sanctions are likely is that the threat from the European Union on saturday was that if the situation worsens, then there will be sanctions. The situation in ukraine has worsened. Two events i would. 2. One is president putin yesterday saying that the talks in ukraine between separatists and the g