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Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Tim Kaine slams his Republican rival Mike Pence for saying Russia’s Vladimir Putin is a better leader than President Obama. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
Donald Trump says he would be the last one to start a war and that clearly inferred that Hillary would. He says he has the best temperament.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken voices hope that a successful offensive by Ukraine would force Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss ending its invasion. "Success in the counteroffensive would do two things -- it would strengthen its position at any negotiating table that emerges, and it may have the effect as well of actually causing Putin to finally focus on negotiating an end to the war that he started," Blinken tells a joint news conference with Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani. SOUNDBITE
British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss urges allies to keep arming Ukraine and to ramp up sanctions against Russia, as the Group of Seven industrialised nations held talks in northern Germany on Friday. SOUNDBITE of Liz Truss, British Foreign Secretary
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg decries Russia's "recklessness" over the shelling of a nuclear power plant in Ukraine and demands Moscow stop the war against its neighbour. SOUNDBITE