Eastern ukraine. The late yet again. Yes campaign to push back for a rationalist in the region suffered a big setback on wednesday was a persistent taken over another building and done yet scary already ultra fine facilities in the line of the city. And then on reports that some ukrainian troops who were deployed to flush out the separatists have defected to the interim government in kiev says russia is behind the unrest will talk to our correspondent in Eastern Ukraine in moscow a moment but first this report the new russian separatists cheered as the soldiers Boston Common vehicles. Baby steps of the ants wednesday morning just like in crimea they want new insignia that way the russian facts. Its unclear where these men and their weapons came from the Ukrainian Government in kiev says these vehicles were among six sees the Ukrainian Army. Having come and get a new complex. Russian troops tested it out to that amount of practice and onlookers some of the false is opposite to the forem
Welcome to bbc news, im mike embley. Our top stories is this the momenta ukraine passengerjet was shot down with 176 people on boa rd 7 the us, britain and canada say theres evidence it was accidentally targeted by iran. The us house of representatives votes to limit President Trumps war powers against iran, without the approval of congress. Leave your homes or risk being trapped, authorities warn residents in victoria, as australia braces for more hot weather and strong winds. A day after the duke and duchess of sussex announce theyre stepping back from royal life, meghan leaves the uk for canada. Canadas Prime Minister has said intelligence suggests the ukranian plane that crashed outside tehran this week was brought down by an Iranian Missile. President trump says the strike may have been a mistake. Everyone on board was killed, including dozens of canadians. It was just hours after tehran launched missiles at bases hosting american troops in iraq, in retaliation for the trump admin
The majority of people are blaming washington. Molly the is from traition is taking its toll on the white house, the congress. The president s Approval Rating dropping to 4. Dropping dropping to 40 . Over half of americans dont approve of the job hes doing. This is a bowl filled with bad news. 70 believe the country is heading in the wrong direction. 80 are down on the countrys political system. I think the big number is 21 say they believe their childrens lives will be better than their own lives. 76 say they have no confidence that will be the case. This is not just bad news about people not liking congress or the president who will only be in office for a few more years. This is about the entire future of the country. So many of them have seen their standard of living go down off a number of years. We found out that the median household net worth. People right in the middle has declined from 87,000 in 2003 to 56,000 in 2013. Household income right in the middle has gone from 55,000
Lets get straight to this video. What more is in this video . This video is haunting and dramatic as they tend to be. A couple things different about this thing. The chanting over it is in russian. Typically its in arabic. Theres pictures of russian cities and targets so theres no doubt as to who the audience is for this video saying we are coming to you as the video says. Were going to spill blood. Russia responding to president putin. They are aware of the video and looking at it to judge its authenticity. Thank you so much. As soon as you get more from russia, more from this video as well. So in the meantime, in iraq, a major offensive in the war on isis. War planes dropping bombs, helping Kurdish Forces as they bat toll retake the key city of sinjar. Cnn cameras rolling again smack dab on the front lines embedded with peshmerga fighters. Whats key here is this map. You see this piece here. This is the map in sinjar. So this is the red area you see here. Thats the strategic town nea
Canadas Prime Minister has said intelligence suggests the ukranian plane that crashed outside tehran this week was brought down by an Iranian Missile. President trump says the strike may have been a mistake. Everyone on board was killed, including dozens of canadians. It was just hours after tehran launched missiles at bases hosting american troops in iraq, in retaliation for the trump administrations assassination of irans most senior general, qassem soleimani. The bbcs nick bryant has the story. American media say these images appear to show the moment the ukrainian airliner was hit by an Iranian Missile shortly after take off. The plane did not explode immediately and continued flying for several minutes as it tried to return to tehran airport. This video appears to show the boeing 737, which seems to be on fire, as it went down. Just before it crashed, a satellite apparently detected the heat trails of two missiles, followed moments afterwards by an explosion. Us officials said it