Ukraine launches 24 hour news channel

Name: Ukraine launches 24 hour news channel
Uploaded: 2014-08-24T08:03:20.000Z
Duration: 2 min 25 s
Description: Ukraine is launching its first 24-hour English language news station, aiming to promote the country's image abroad and counter what it claims is a Russian media campaign against it.

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Ukraine is launching its first 24-hour English language news station, with a key aim of promoting the country's image abroad.

Ukraine Today has a clearly pro-Ukrainian - and pro-European - agenda.

The station's backers hope to counter what they claim is a Russian media campaign against Ukraine.

David Stern reports from Kiev.

Europe

24 August 2014