#UkraineCrisis Live Update: Video leak - Ukraine's Tymoshenko threatens not to leave from Russia 'even scorched earth'

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Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said that Ukrainians must take up arms against Russians so that not even scorched earth will be left where Russia stands in phone call with with the former Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, the representative of the Party of Regions, Nestor Shufrych. The tape was leaked online. In her microblog on Twitter Tymoshenko acknowledged that the telephone conversation took place indeed.

Record of a two-minute conversation appeared on the video sharing site YouTube, which was as well posted on the website of the TV channel RT.

Obama arrives in Pretoria, protesters burn US flags

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Hundreds of people have held a demonstration in the South African executive capital Pretoria to protest against Washington’s “oppressive” policies on the eve of a visit by US President Barack Obama to the African country.

On Friday, about 1,000 trade unionists, Muslim activists and South African Communist Party members gathered just few blocks away from the Medi-Clinic Heart Hospital in Pretoria where Nelson Mandela is critically ill. 

The protesters marched towards the US Embassy, shouting slogans denouncing Obama’s foreign policy as "arrogant and oppressive". They also burnt US flags. 

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