It is 6 00 here in london this morning. Ryan chilcote is following the ukraine tension from brussels. Caroline hyde has the details of the potential vodafone deal. Lets start with our top story. Crimeans have voted to secede from ukraine and join russia. That is according to early results of yesterdays referendum. Western governments announce the vote as a legal. European Union Foreign ministers gather in two hours to discuss sanctions against russia. Brian is in brussels. Ryan is in brussels. They will be whittling down the list of dozens of members of russias elite that it intends to subject to put these restrictions visa restrictions. Punish kremlin officials and members of russias elite who politically played a role in the russian incursion in crimea. Dissuadeis to president putin from annexing crimea. Goal is to discourage president putin from going further into the ukrainian mainland. Include theuld also heads of two statecontrolled companies. Producers largest gas and the ceo of
The sunni rebellion is making major gains west of baghdad. They have taken towns on major highways linking iraq to strong holts in syria. The iraqi army hcan can. Sunni fighters took two towns on the road to baghdad. The front line is adisa. Iraqi soldiers have left posts but sunni tribal leaders are refusing to surrender the town to rebel forces appearing to be waiting to a push to haditha. The push gained moment um on saturday. A new front is opened further sou south. Its on the other major highway linking syria with baghdad. Lets bring in imran khan from baghdad. Talk us through the army action now heading to haditha in Anbar Province. What do you hear about that . A number of tanks are ready and rolling in towards haditha. What happened a few hours ago is that the isil arrived and sent an em sassy into the town saying, please surrender. We will enter your town peacefully. You can fight with us or you can step out of our way. Now, the tribal shake sheik said they wanted to repel the
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