ah, i m glad else as well come to the program. russian forces are edging closer to capturing a key ukrainian city after days of fighting st. battles on the way in the industrial harbor of severity nets in the east and don boss region. the governor there says that 80 percent of the city is now under russian control. but in a booth for ukraine, germany and the united states have announced additional weapon support for keith, including advanced rocket systems, with a range of up to 80 kilometers. for more i spoke to the w correspondent, rebecca rit, as in the ukrainian capital, keith well on the, on the battlefield, get hard things are moving pretty slowly. we are looking at a war of attrition at the moment. been, as you say, russians making as small gains in that case, city in the house gets rivera, and yet, as the governor, they re the governor of that region. now saying that they do, indeed, the russia has now round about 80 percent of that city under its control. we saw one
hello i m barbara sarah this is the news hour live from london coming up in the next sixty minutes. unity not separation tens of thousands of people rally in barcelona they say they don t want catalonia the split from spain. turkey flexes its military might along the border with syria as part of an operation to rid the province of al qaeda linked fighters a painful healing process we need a teenager wrongly just the scaped me i m are with his life. and i m far it s all the case for anyone including poland are the latest team to qualify for next year s world cup in russia. let s begin the program with some breaking news the u.s. suspended all non immigrant visa services at its diplomatic facilities in turkey now that means that turks will not be given visas to visit the u.s. unless they re actually planning to move there well for more we can speak to tom ackerman who is in our washington bureau so tom this just literally broke what in the past five ten minutes or so what else
everyone i ve listed bar on the wall welcome to this news hour live from london coming up in the next sixty minutes to the top suspensions a visa services as diplomatic tensions escalate between the u.s. and turkey. cries for unity from the so-called silent majority hundreds of thousands of demonstrators caseloads here to stay part of space. a campaign to drive al qaeda linked fighters from in syria they promise to fight to the death. and a revolutionary remembered commemorations marking fifty years since the death of che guevara. and in sports after a twenty seven year wait egypt qualify for next year s world cup. poland and denmark also sealed spots at the twenty eight hundred finals in russia. although the diplomatic dispute between turkey and the united states has escalated in the last half hour ankara has suspended visas for u.s. citizens this comes after the u.s. suspended all nonimmigrant visa services at its diplomatic facilities in turkey let s take you straight away
again you re watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up. cries for unity from the so-called silent majority hundreds of thousands of demonstrators catalonia to remain part of spain. the campaign to drive al qaeda linked fighters from it live in syria they promise to fight to the death. and campaigning over it s time for the voters to decide who can be the leader of africa s just a quick. follow the diplomatic dispute between turkey and the u.s. has escalated ankara has now suspended all normal immigrant visa services at its embassies in the u.s. just hours after washington did the same in turkey it means most turks in americans now can t apply for visas to travel to each other s countries let s go live to washington d.c. and speak to our correspondent there diane estabrook and diane why is always happening. well this tit for tat actually was prompted last week by the arrest and the detention of a and an embassy a u.s. consulate employee in turkey and is stamboul who
hello i m rob matheson and this is the news our live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes the rising tensions the u.s. says it will stop handing out short term visas to visitors from turkey now turkey says it will do the same thing to the u.s. . another boat tragedy involving will hinge or refugees fleeing me and mark two people are dead several others missing. finding their voice catalonia as the silent majority speak out against a break from spain. remembering memorials across latin america fifty years after the death of a revolutionary i call. that we begin this news hour with a rapidly escalating diplomatic dispute between turkey and the u.s. in the last few hours has said it won t process visas for u.s. citizens who want to travel from the u.s. . to turkey the only ones it will hand out will be for people who want to move to turkey permanently it s come shortly after the u.s. made a similar announcement about some u.s. visas for turks a few days ago a u.s. consu