U. S. President Barack Obama Warning of a tough battle ahead before the ultimate destruction of the socalled islslamic stat. In a picturesque town in russia wrestles with its past, all because of one person was born there. Guess who . It is good to have you with us. Trying for peace in ukraine again. German chancellor Angela Merkel is preparing to host a summit in berlin on wednesday. Shell be joined by president putin of russia, the ukraine, and france and they will try to revive the accord. It was supposed to bring a degree of peace to eastern ukraine. An insurgency, however, has an going on there for 2. 5 years. Reporter it has been a little over one year since merkel and putin negotiated face to face. Even then in paris it became clear that the treaty is more of a pipe dream than reality. A later a year later, the chancellor tried to play down expectations. The assessor do taking stock of where we are. Purely one cannot expect miracles from the meeting, but it will be worth the eff
Because of one person was born there. Guess who . It is good to have you with us. Trying for peace in ukraine again. German chancellor Angela Merkel is preparing to host a summit in berlin on wednesday. Shell be joined by president putin of russia, the ukraine, and france and they will try to revive the accord. It was supposed to bring a degree of peace to eastern ukraine. An insurgency, however, has an going on there for 2. 5 years. Reporter it has been a little over one year since merkel and putin negotiated face to face. Even then in paris it became clear that the treaty is more of a pipe dream than reality. A later a year later, the chancellor tried to play down expectations. The assessor do taking stock of where we are. Purely one cannot expect miracles from the meeting, but it will be worth the effort. Reporter not especially optimistic. At the time, the french president and the german chancellor succeeded in getting the ukrainian president and putin to sign the agreement. We now
Anchor thank you for joining us. Corruption allegations against jacob zuma. A report calling for an inquiry into allegations that a wealthy family known to zuma was appointed in stateowned firms. The publication of the report came as thousands took to the street of pretoria to protest against jacob zuma who has been engulfed in corruption scandals. He is under scrutiny, the result of and big losses. [chanting] anchor joining us is our correspondent in johannesburg. Alice, talk is to the main accusations leveled against the president . Reporter the allegations are about his relationship with a family, three brothers from india who have business in south africa. It is about how the influence has worked with the appointment of cabinet ministers. There is a deputy minister of finance who had a meeting at their residence and they offered him the job of minister of finance, saying you could get cash now in a bag if you want to become the minister. So they were trying to bribe for the positio
Do you see any changes in that in terms of a different relationship between the president elect and the kremlin . No i dont. The russians recently deployed their loan carrier and conducting some ops off of that. Presence sustained a of their artillery and the deployment of a very advanced their deployment air defense system. , clearly theicates russians are there to stay. They want to maintain a presence and base in syria, their only base outside of the former soviet union, the Permanent Base they maintain. I expect their planning on expanding. Russia. Ust question on the 30,000 foot question, and that is one aspect of the putin doctrine has been to enhance his own stature at home by provoking confrontation provoking confrontation with the west, by trimming for his people at home the United States the russian equivalent to the great satan. With hishe square that comments or overtures to the president elect . Kremlin words, does the needed the american bogeyman to maintain popularity at
Do you see any changes in that in terms of a different relationship between the president elect and the kremlin . No i dont. The russians recently deployed their loan carrier and conducting some ops off of that. Presence sustained a of their artillery and the deployment of a very advanced their deployment air defense system. , clearly theicates russians are there to stay. They want to maintain a presence and base in syria, their only base outside of the former soviet union, the Permanent Base they maintain. I expect their planning on expanding. Russia. Ust question on the 30,000 foot question, and that is one aspect of the putin doctrine has been to enhance his own stature at home by provoking confrontation provoking confrontation with the west, by trimming for his people at home the United States the russian equivalent to the great satan. With hishe square that comments or overtures to the president elect . Kremlin words, does the needed the american bogeyman to maintain popularity at