it's not going to stop us from trying to pursue solutions so that we can implement the minsk agreement and get russia and those separatists to lay down arms and stop bullying ukraine. it won't stop us from bringing a political transition inside syria that can and the hardship there. prime minister lee: can i say something about tpp? i don't want to get into your domestic politics. looking at someone who is someone who has been intimately involved in triggered the whole process, it has become this important initiative. the economic arguments for the tpp in terms of trade, i think the president has presented them eloquently. it is a deal the countries have negotiated. each one provides market access on their side in return for gaining market access on the other side. they are committing to rules. it is a hard fought bargaining ross us. the negotiators spent many trips and nights and many dawns and find out. at the and of it, everybody must decide is a plus or minus for them? in your case, i think mike froman did a very good job. ours did the best they could bring back something the polit

he says the enemy has already moved beyond the line of control set in the peace deal known as the minsk agreement. he says that the pro-russian forces move forward from here, they could keep going and take any city in ukraine. from relative safety, we listen to the noise of war. until it gets too close. m mortars land just outside. they've punched through this building before. we should go now? okay. ready. we good? chris, you good? >> let's go, let's go, let's. >> reporter: bullets whistle around our team during the final run to safety. this is what a cease-fire looks like in eastern ukraine. >> incredible report there and our phil black joins us now live from eastern ukraine. phil, of course, ukraine might be celebrating 25 years of independence from the soviet union but on the ground in eastern ukraine, the battle for independence continues. so, how much worse might this fighting get? how might it escalate, perhaps, from here? >> reporter: well, rosemary, it is an active war, and what we've seen in recent months, an intensifying one. so, for some months now, greater violence, more ca

the russians agreed to minsk. it means pulling back the weapons and forces and allowing for monitors to go in and for local elections and we aren't there yet and the secretary routinely discusses this with foreign minister lavrov. that's the outcome we want to see. on crimea, we do not recognize the occupation of crimea. crimea is part of ukraine. we've i had long ago you can't redraw the borders of the map of europe through the barrel of a gone as was done in crimea. >> woodruff: admiral john kirby at the state department, pleasure having you. >> thanks for having me. >> woodruff: after our interview, spokesman kirby made one more point about russian military activity on the border of ukraine. he said while the u.s. doesn't have perfect visibility, it alsl does not have indications right now that they-- the russians--th are prepared to go across the line. >> woodruff: now to brazil and the olympics, where the games are heading into the final weekend-- on and off the fieldso of play. jeffrey brown has our update.f

was the visit will be on that taylor avenue at 6:00 >>reporter: still quite crowded here is the near minsk looking at the traffic heading into downtown oak room but the backed upstarts to san leandro. >>darya: is been in place since 1961 officials with eldorado hills community service district say they cannot explain why it was put into place but it is definitely not forced. >>robin winston: more heavy traffic all the way over into fremont street ride around 25 to 30 minutes here is a nice commit five a was added to the richmond san rafael bridge the configuration, is to commit traffic which is on left the nemesis no major problems really heavy on the hayward side 45 minute drive convict spent for san leandro haywood union city obbligato to 37 that is not too bad to get from the summit headed north up to 85 split. >>reporter: to him was a look at the morning everyone at the golden gate billing with the fall and leaks about the debt we're still dealing with the overcast sky conditions lower six discovering the coast along the east bay shoreline 60 to 771 men '80s found over the hills that w

. >> germany and france trying to progress in fulfillment of the minsk treaties, but the security situation in eastern ukraine worsens during the summer. every day, people lose their ,ives on the contact line especially the ukrainian soldiers. you can imagine that in this situation, it is very difficult to lift sanctions. of course we are working on that. we spoke with the russian and ukrainian presidents. i hope we will be able to present some progress to the european council. nejra: volkswagens agreement to pay 652 u.s. auto dealerships will cost it about $1.2 billion. that is according to a person familiar with the matter. that will raise vw's settlements to $16.5 billion. the carmaker is still facing investor claims and possible criminal charges. global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2600 journalists and analysts. i'm nejra cehic. this is bloomberg. francine: janet yellen takes to the stage today for the much awaited remarks at jackson hole. september rate hike on you the one in three. odds jump to one in thre. >> i did express my view that i thought it was time to continue th

not going to stop us from still trying to pursue solutions so that we can, for example, implement the minsk agreement and get russia and those separatists to lay down arms and stop bullying ukraine. that's not going to stop us from trying to make sure that we can bring a political transition inside of syria that can end the hardship there. >> can i say something about the tpp? i don't want to wait until domestic politics, but looking at it from somebody on the other side of the pacific, who has been intimately involved, and, in fact, triggered the whole process, because we started the p4, a little fda on which the tpp falls and just has become this important initiative. the economic arguments for the tpp in terms of trade i think the president has presented them eloquently. what the benefits are to american companies. it's a deal which the countries have negotiated, each one providing market access on their side in return for gaining market access on the other side. each one committing to rules in exchange for the other side committing to rules. it's a hard-fought bargaining process. the ne

it's not going to stop us from trying to pursue solutions so that we can implement the minsk agreement and get russia and those separatists to lay down arms and stop bullying ukraine. it won't stop us from bringing a political transition inside syria that can and the hardship there. prime minister lee: can i say something about tpp? i don't want to get into your domestic politics. looking at someone who is someone who has been intimately involved in triggered the whole process, it has become this important initiative. the economic arguments for the tpp in terms of trade, i think the president has presented them eloquently. it is a deal the countries have negotiated. each one provides market access on their side in return for gaining market access on the other side. they are committing to rules. it is a hard fought bargaining ross us. the negotiators spent many trips and nights and many dawns and find out. at the and of it, everybody must decide is a plus or minus for them? in your case, i think mike froman did a very good job. ours did the best they could bring back something the polit

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