dismissed its top judge. vsevolod kniaziev was detained for allegedly taking multi million dollar bribes. prosecutors say he was arrested as part of their biggest ever anti corru ption case. ukraine is under pressure to tackle corruption as a requirement forjoining the european union. the reuters news agency says mr kniaziev could not be reached for comment. meanwhile, ukrainian officials have praised their anti missile defence system. overnight, it blocked an intense barrage of russian rockets over the capital kyiv. they say the system shot down six advanced russian hypersonic missiles, which president putin has claimed are unstoppable . kyiv s mayor, vitali klitschko, described the night. actually, last night, our citizens didn t sleep because three hours long, beginning at 230, we have a bombing alarm, and at the whole night we listened to huge explosions and it actually was one of the massive missile attacks to our home hometown. different kinds of rockets the russians s
Allegiance once again to alqaeda rejoining the groups north African Branch. The German Parliament is set to approve the governments plan to send 1200 soldiers to support the fight against i. S. I. L. In a noncombat role and politicians have been debating the bill over the past couple hours and a war ship and six aircraft are also part of chancellor Angela Merkels proposal and appealed for help after last months paris attacks and antiwar activists have been protesting against this plan. Now if the plan is approved germany will be the latest addition to the international antii. S. I. L. Coalition which includes dozens of countries however not everyone has played a military role and not all at the same time so here is a break down. These are the countries that have been involved in fighting i. S. I. L. , there is 18 of them in all. These are the ones that are carrying out or supporting air strikes in syria and these are the countries that are striking i. S. I. L. Targets in iraq, now ther
Se sending more force to fight isil in syria. Im Barnaby Phillips in vienna at the opec summit. Oil prices are down, oilexporting countries are divided on what to do about it. Our top story this hour, four palestinians have been killed by Israeli Security forces in separate incidents across the occupied west bank. [ gunfire ] in bethlehem palestinians protesters threw stones at the israeli army. Earlier north of Ramallah A Palestinian man was shot dead after ramming his car into Israeli Soldiers. Two were likely injured. Stephanie decker joins us live now from ramallah. This is apparently getting worse by the day, steph. Get us up to date with the death toll so far. Reporter the death toll since the first of october when we really saw this wave of one on one violence start, these are huge numbers, but i think now were two months on. This is becoming a daily occurrence. It does go in waves. In a day like today, three separate incidents in separate parts of the occupied west bank. Last n
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