Kills more than 400 people in a week. And bad news perhaps for chocolate lovers. Turkeys hazelnut crop has been devastated. Well tell you why. World leaders arrived in wales. Tight security for a critical n. A. T. O. Summit, and the crisis in ukraine will be among the important things theyll discuss. Its been described as the most significant meeting of the military alliances, the fall of the berlin wall. Ukranians president petro porashenko will be briefing World Leaders on event in his country before the summit starts. More than 2,500 people have been killed in five months of fighting in the army and prorussian rebels. Well have paul brennan live from donetsk. My colleague craig bays our diplomatic editor. Sergey lavrov, russias foreign minister, says we are ready to take practical steps towards deescalation the head of n. A. T. O. A few hours ago said he didnt believe a word the russians were saying. What is the situation . They are deeply concerned for a reason, which is in the las
The nato summit gathered leaders from all over the world, in wales today for what is being called the alliances most important meeting in decades. The leaders are discussing several issues including the crisis in eastern ukraine, the islamic offensive in iraq and syria, and winding down the war in afghanistan. Diplomatic editor has more now from the meeting in wales. They are calling this the most crucial summit since the end of the cold where are. And thats because of the range of crisis. Top of the agenda is the situation in ukraine. Difficult balancing act for the nato leaders here. Trying to deter russia, and yet at the same time, not further antagonize president putin. One western official, they now believe there are about 3,000 russian soldiers inside ukraine. Probably nearly as many now as there are separatist whose are a part of that fight too. Now, they have come one a package of measures, support for the military. Training, logistical help, helping rehabilitate those soldiers
Expected to confirm a ceasefire. The u. S. Readying a fresh round of sanctions on moscow, regardless of any peace plan. Announcer youre watching worldwide exchange, bringing you Business News from around the globe. And youre looking at live pictures from new port in wales where nato leaders are expecting a military flight path which is happening as we speak. There we go. Thats the fly past. Three planes and well, of course, well be back to nato throughout the day today. Continuous updates from hadley gamble who is there. Well be discussing the significance of those ecb Monetary Policy measures yesterday, which are obviously taken by the market as a complete surprise. Absolutely. We saw that huge rally yesterday and quite surprising to see this morning its fizzled out. You have to wornld why. Maybe its because the market realized they did this because the european economy is weak after all. Maybe realism is settling in. The euro weakened significantly yesterday. Today they force that an
Thanks to the supreme court. Kurdish and Iraqi Forces Push forward in tikrit. Im phil lavelle at tvenice Film Festival where a wedding is taking place. In a moment well be looking at that major announcement by nato. High on its priority list is of course ukraine. There are peace talks in the belarus capitol minsk. A ceasefire was supposed to have been implemented now, but there is still fighting going on in mariupol. And the advance from russia into that country, appears still to be going on. Harry there is talk of this possible ceasefire deal, but it seems the fighting is still going on there in mariupol. It is, yeah, if you saw me looking around, thats because we just heard system of the closest artillery shelling that we have heard all day here. You can see overmy left shoulder, there is a pretty large column of heavy artillery, two howitzers that have just arrived. The Ukrainian Forces say they have been up for the last 48 hours, they have been firing, and they have encircled the t
Good morning, everyone. Im tahman bradley. And im reena ninan. We begin with the growing International Concerns over russias movement in ukraine just as president obama heads to europe today. The president is visiting estonia in a show of u. S. Support for the baltics before heading to the nato summit in wales where the ukraine crisis is looming large. More from abcs gloria riviera. Reporter with large swaths of the country ravaged by war and prorussian separatists readying for more fighting deeper into eastern ukraine, this was the new normal for one mother taking her daughter to the first day of school in mariupol. Im scared that someone will shoot, she says. Her daughter recalling explosions and tanks. Abcs Hamish Macdonald is there in mariupol where they are preparing for an advance from the east. Theyre ready if, in fact, theres an advance and this trench system will effectively operate as a last line of defense for this city around a Million People live here and theyre divided. R