The European Space agency tests technology for a new reusable space plane. The leaders of germany, france, ukraine, and russia are now in minsk, the capitol of belarus trying to get a peace deal hammered out for eastern ukraine. Since the beginning of this year hundreds of people have been killed in fighting between ukrainian troops and prorussia separatists. Rory challands with more on what the leaders hope to achieve. Reporter were talking about things like ceasefire lines, where are the front lines that separate the Ukrainian Army and the separatists themselves. Were talking about things like the border between russia and ukraine, who is going to make sure that border is not the conduit for weapons and men as the ukrainian governments and western governments have been accusing russia of using that border over the last year or so and were talking about self determination, independence autonomy for the self declared republics themselves. But its the sequence of them how do these thing
A rebel fighter is killed in the philippines. . A. Meters from ukraine, russia and general gli and ranns are due to meet in minsk. A ceasefire dined last september collapsed at hundreds of civilians killed. There has been an explosion at a bus station in donetsk. A shell hit, a nearby industrial plant was targeted. Charles stratford is in donetsk. Reporter the attack happened 8 30 local time. It was a central bus station. There were reportedly around 30 people here at the time. You can see the extent of the devastation. The people in local restaurants heard a massive explosion, panic in the area. Its one of two places hit this morning in donetsk. Another strike on an industrial plant, very close by. Both sides of this conflict suffered indiscriminate shelling. Yesterday we saw the attack on the ukranian military controlled city of kramatorsk and comes on a day of efforts to try to bring a truce to the conflict. Thats how difficult it will be. The ukranian government says 19 soldiers ha
Company apple and a reusable space plane leaders from germany, russia and france are about to meet in minsk in eastern ukraine. A ceasefire will be held and hundreds since the beginning of this year have been killed. A bus station in donetsk was hit by shelling at least two people were there. Charles stratford is at the scene. Reporter the attack happened 8 30 local time. There are 30 people here at the time. The people that spoke in the restaurant said they heard a massive explosion, panic in the air. Its one of two places hit in donetsk. Another strike on an industrial plant close by. Both sides of this conflict suffered indiscriminate shelling. Yesterday we saw the attack on the ukranian military controlled city of kramatorsk, and comes on a day of it comes on a day of renewed effort to bring a truce to the conflict and shows how difficult that will be. Before that incident in donetsk, charles went a few kilometres northeast to where the fighting is fiercest. Many have been killed i
Ready for blastoff, this is the European Space agencys vessel thats about to test whether this reusable space plane will work. The u. N. Is saying that 300 migrants are now feared dead after four boats sank in the Mediterranean Sea this week. They were trying to cross from libya into europe illegally. They left libya on rubber boats on sunday. The latest from the u. S. My commission for refugees. This morning at 7 30, nine survivors arrived. They confirmed that there were 203 people with them that have disappeared. They have been saloed by the sea. In additional to that, they confirm that there was a fourth dingy so we do not know about the fate of another 100 people. The survivors are taken to the First Reception Center that now is working at full stage. They receive rance food, medical assistance, clothes. They arrive almost neighborhood, you know, they arrived without anything. Then within 24 hours maximum 72 hours, they are transferred to other centers on mainland. The russian pres
And the European Space agencies tests its new reusable space plane. So the leaders of germany, france ukraine, and russia are on their way to minsk, the capitol of belarus, and there they are expected to hold talks to try to reach some kind of peace deal for eastern ukraine. Since the beginning of this year hundreds of people have been killed in fighting between the ukrainian troops and prorussian prorussian separatists there. A lot of preparer to work is normally done before the leaders arrive at this event. Are you getting any idea about what might be on the table . Well yes, there has been a lot of prepare tory work being done. The Contact Group has been meeting here now and it involves representatives of the separatists, the european monitoring group, and representatives of russia and ukraine as well. Then on monday there were talks going on in berlin at a kind of junior foreign minister level. All of that was trying to prep the ground work lay the ground work so that when the lead