Sundays final or going to stay home and stay away from what should be a showcase and joyous event. Kicking out the clutter. We investigate the meaning of the stuffed paradox. Welcome to the program. German chancellor Angela Merckle said a diplomatic solution is still the only way to resolve the crisis in ukraine. She was speaking ahead of talks with the french president hollande and russian president Vladimir Putin taking place in moscow in a few hours time. That meeting follows a visit to kiev where they put forward a new peace plan. No details of that plan have been released but some reports suggest it could include a redrawn ceasefire line and greater autonomy for the breakaway regions. However chancellor merkel says she will never decide on questions of territorial integrity over the head of another country. While there has been continued fighting over the past few days in Eastern Ukraine, prorussian rebels have surrounded the town of debaltseve. Now you can see in the territory he
To be free. Peter wont rest until theyre released from prison. The first large scale trials against ebola are getting underway in liberia. And the former head of the imf goes on trial, accused of helping to procure women for sex parties. Hello. Welcome to bbc news. The syrian city of kobane has been libertied after four months of intense street fighting and air strikes. Kurdish fighters finally drove the jihadists out with the help of allied forces. Since august the u. S. Led coalition has launched nearly 2,000 air strikes against i. S. Targets, with most of the focus being against kobane and east. But i. S. Still controls swaths of lands in northern and western iraq. Symptom estimate the Extremist Group has taken over almost 40,000 square kilometers. 8 Million People are believed to be living under partial or full i. F. Control. When the fighting in kobane took hold hundreds of thousands fled to neighboring turkey. A bbc Team Including our correspondents, have entered the ruin city an
Everyone thought hillary would win. Obama comes out of the blue from nowhere and swedes everything away. He with two terms. Leave it to the democrats to come up with someone on the left of Hillary Clinton. Host which is what we talked about yesterday. Think the Democratic Party has a lot of the same internal divisions but the democrats are more cohesive. They are poised to run for president on the democratic side that tend to be, if you look at haveon and warren, probably a lot more support within the wings of the party than the republicans do and the republican field is a little more unsettled. Really near the end of his second term, and i mean in the final year as the up, the issue is does hillary run or not. If she does not, it is probably a wideopen yield on their spot. And you the presidency, have a political figure that at least appears to be a consensus candidate at this time. It is different for republicans are now. They have been out of power for a while. They have not had imm
After the downing of the flight, was the battery hastily removed from that area, why, on 17 june, were ukrainian antiaircraft radars working at an alltime high . These are a number of questions which have been set forth by the ministry of defense of russia and which should be answered which the International Investigators are going to have to know about. Is only providing [indiscernible] to the Security Council. For an example, they controversial recordings by the commanders of the rebels, which then seemed to be touched up negotiations which had taken place before july 17. The minister of internal affairs of ukraine put forth a video which somehow showed a surfacetoair [indiscernible] in russian territory, but which was filmed in ukrainian territory. That could not have been controlled by rebels. Let us not forget that the reason for 17 july incident was an armed clash in ukraine in the area of the crash site. The priorities today are swift halting of classes and violence, establishin
And the need to save water any way they can because of the severe drought in brazils biggest city. Well i. S. I. L. Forces in iraq are moving closer to a major government base housing hundreds of u. S. Troops. Fighters attacked the western down of albaghdady and anbar from two directions. Its been besieged from i. S. I. L. The fighting a few clms from an air base kilometres from an air base where u. S. Troops are training iraqi troops. Lets go to imran khan our correspondent in baghdad and tell us about what is happening down there . This is a serious situation. Americans said there are squirmishes close to the base where the marines are based. It hasnt come under attack yet. We have seen this tactic via i. S. I. L. Time and time again. When they want to make an attack on an iraqi army base the first time in Anbar Province every time they want to attack what they do is they take over towns and villages on the outskirts and use it as a launching pad. They have been successful. I. S. I.