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The British Prime Minister David Cameron has said London will deploy military personnel in Ukraine to help train government forces. He told the Parliamentary committee that failing to stand up to Russia in eastern Ukraine may lead to destabilization in Moldova or the Baltic States. Here's report from our Defence of Diplomatic corespondent Jonathan Marcus.

With the fighting in Ukraine continuing, David Cameron is signaling the western resolve and a commitment to Ukraine. Britain, he said, was not at the stage of supplying lethal equipment to the Ukrainian military. But giving evidence before the House of Commons Liaison committee, he announced the launch of a small training programme for Ukrainian army. Up to 75 British personnel will go to Ukraine, divided into a number of separate teams. Mr. Cameron made it clear that this is all about providing the Ukrainian military with knowledge. Britain is not joining in the fighting. And he stressed that all of the training will be well away from the area of conflict.

The Ukrainian Foreign Minister has expressed fears that the pro-Russia rebels in the east of the country are moving their heavy weapons towards the strategic port of Mariupol instead of pulling them back in line with the agreed ceasefire. International monitors say they can not confirm the withdrawal of the rebel weaponry or their movement to Sumal till the reclaim has been reported on the ground. The OSCE monitors say that to verify any pullout, they would need to know the number of weapons, where they were being taken and by what means, and they did not have that information.

The White House says President Obama has vetoed the Bill that would have given the goahead for the construction of a controversial Keystone XL pipeline carrying oil from Canada to Nebraska. Its supporters say it could provide jobs and improve the US energy security, but environmentalists warn it could contribute to global warming. Gary O'Donoghue reports.

Despite significant majorities in both House and Senate for the pipeline, President Obama has always said he would not sign any legislation until the review have been completed by the State Department. His veto can only be overturned by a 2/3 voting both chambers, among several Democrats voted for the measure in the Senate for example, supporters were still 5 short of overcoming that hurdle. This is the third time the President has exercised his veto, but it represents the first major legislative clash between the President and the new Congress.

At least 27 people have been killed in northern Nigeria in apparently coordinated suicide bomb attacks on bus stations. The blasts occurred in Kano, the largest city in the north, as well as the town of Postikum. President Goodluck Jonathan condemned the killings, but said the days of the mourning victims of incessant attacks would soon be over as the tide deterred against the Islamist group Boko Haram. The group has increased its activities ahead of elections that have been postponed because of security concerns until March.

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The American Justice Department has said a white man who shot dead an unarmed black teenager in Florida 3 years ago will not face hate-crime charges at a Federal level. George Zimmerman was acquitted of second-degree murder after saying he opened fire on Trayvon Martin in self-defence. The case triggered a fierce debate in the US of the guns and race relations.

The European Finance Commissioner has said the Euro-zone's approval of changes by Greece to its bailout programme has averted an immediate financial crisis. But Pierre Moscovici said the deal was only the starting point, Greece has until the end of April to find a more permanent solution to its debt crisis. And the government of Alexis Tsipras has been criticised for abandoning many of its electoral promises, as Mark Lowen reports from Athens.

They had to roll back on certain pledges and for example their pledge to raise the minimum wage by 170 euros a month, to reverse privatization, to reverse austerity measures actually and to rehire thousands of public-sectors workers laid off during the financial crisis. What the Prime Minister said is that he was back into a corner on this, that Greece had to compromise and take awesome concessions in terms of spending more on welfare, on helping the victims of the humanitarian crisis as they call it, but they had to negotiate with the Euro-zone on this, and they managed to negotiate and keep Greece in the Euro-zone.

More than 30 people have been killed in Iraq in a series of bomb blasts in and around the capital Bagdad. Twenty-five of the victims died in a dual attack that took place just before sunset. First a suicide bomber detonated in an explosive vest in a tea shop, then a minute later a car parked on the street outside blew up.

Fossil teeth found in Kenya have shed new light on the origins of the hippopotamus and how it reached Africa. Researchers say the teeth which are about 28 million years old, confirmed the link to a family of now extinct plant-eating semi-acritic mammals called Hathoric Fears.

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