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TANK: Hi, I'm Manisha Tank in Hong Kong. You're watching News Stream. And these are your world headlines right now. The 28 member NATO alliance is ramping up support for Ukraine while condemning Russia on the final day of the NATO summit, which is under way in Wales. But there is fresh hope that a ceasefire agreement could be signed as early as today. Ukrainian, Russian and rebel representatives are meeting again right now in Belarus. We'll watch that closely. NATO leaders, meanwhile, have just agreed to create a spearhead reaction force consisting of several thousand troops that can be deployed anywhere in the world within a few days. NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen says member states must help ensure NATO stands ready to defend all allies against threats. Leaders have focused on Russia's actions in eastern Ukraine and the ISIS advance in Iraq and Syria. The American comedy legend Joan Rivers has died at the age of 81. Her daughter says she went peacefully on Thursday in a New York hospital. About a week ago, she suffered cardiac arrest, this was during a minor medical procedure. Officials have not yet announce a cause of death. The closely watched U.S. monthly jobs report has just come out showing 142,000 jobs were created in August, that is far below what analysts had been forecasting. They've been predicting a rise of 226,000 jobs. We're going to have much more on the jobs report on World Business Today, that's in less than half an hour from now. You'll get the full analysis there. But let's go back to those Ukrainian peace talks, which are underway in Minsk. And let's check in with our senior international correspondent Matthew Chance who has been following the story closely. He joins us with the view from Moscow. Hi, Matthew. You know, earlier we spoke to Reza Sayah who had been looking at this from Kiev, but of course the situation in Moscow, the view from Moscow very different.</s>MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Yes. And of course I think we have to remember that these peace talks, these ceasefire talks that are underway in the Belarussian capital Minsk right now are between representatives of Russia, Ukraine, and of course the separatists in the east and the south of Ukraine. There, the initiative essentially of Vladimir Putin. There was a conversation on the telephone between the Russian and Ukrainian leaders on Wednesday in which they agreed the basic principles, they said, for a cease fire in the region. Vladimir Putin then came out and issued his seven point peace plan. And it's that plan, which is now being discussed and there's much speculation that will be agreed upon very shortly as these negotiations continue. The plan involving essentially a cessation of hostilities right now involving the transfer of prisoners from one side to the other, but crucially there's this clause as well, and this is being discussed now, a clause which would mean that Ukrainian troops would have to withdrawal to a distance that rules out the possibility of them firing upon populated areas with rocket launchers or with missiles. And so potentially that's a vast area of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, as they call it in Ukraine, which would include their capital cities as well, which of course would leave a large swathe of territory in rebel hands, pro-Russian rebel hands, and of course depending on who you choose to believe actually controlled by the Kremlin. And so that's something that may come out of these negotiations. And if it does, that would be a major win for the Kremlin.</s>TANK: Of course, some western powers really looking upon these -- the possibility of this ceasefire and these talks in Minsk as just an effort by the Russians to buy time to stave off any possible ramping up any EU sanctions. How is that accusation gone down in Moscow?</s>CHANCE: Well, there's not been any direct comment on it. But I certainly think that this peace effort in so much as Russia intends to keep to it, it'll be because the peace effort, the ceasefire achieves Russia's overall objectives, which is to create instability in Ukraine and perhaps to create a frozen conflict in those eastern and southern areas. With the longer-term view of preventing Ukraine from joining western institutions, specifically the western military alliance NATO. That vast area that I was talking about, which would be controlled by pro-Russian rebels, would effectively be autonomous. It would effectively be out of the control of the Ukrainian government. And in those circumstances, of course, Russia would essentially achieve its strategy to dismember Ukraine and to prevent that country, of course, from joining the NATO military alliance.</s>TANK: To some -- I think you and I, we worked, we spoke about this story, you know, six months ago as everything was beginning to unfold. And having witnessed that sort of unfolding of this crisis, it almost feels like, given what you just said, we would end up right back where we started.</s>CHANCE: Well, we'll see what the outcome of these negotiations are. I mean, Petro Poroshenko has said that going into these negotiations with his representatives that Ukraine's territorial integrity is not up for negotiation. And as that correspondent in Ukraine was reporting earlier, that the longer-term issues are not being discussed at this -- these ceasefire talks. But, you know, of course the future negotiations that would inevitably follow if a ceasefire is proved would be talking about these longer-term issues. And so, yeah, I mean it'll be interesting to see what comes out of it. Ending up where we started, I think probably -- I mean, my prediction is that we'll probably end up with Russia in a much stronger position than when we started with the possible exception of this, we've been hearing a lot from NATO and the secretary-general there and our correspondents there talking about all these guarantees that have been reissued by the western military alliance. An attack on one member is an attack on all of them citing and reaffirming article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty. But of course Ukraine is not part of that North Atlantic Treaty, it's not part of NATO, and so it doesn't qualify for that kind of support. Now in the future, I think NATO is drawing a very clear red line that Russia it's hoped will observe. But I think it's also an acknowledgment that there's not a great deal NATO can do to protect Ukraine at this point.</s>TANK: Well, of course, depending on the quality of the talks today, it could be a pivotal moment. Let's wait and see, as you say. Matthew, always good to talk to you. Thank you very much for that. The view there from Moscow on these talks. So, the mayor of Calais in northern France has threatened to close the town's port if Britain doesn't take more action to stop illegal immigration into the United Kingdom. The warning comes after more than 100 mostly African migrants tried to force their way onto a ferry that was leaving Calais on Wednesday. But British authorities have some complaints of their own. ITV's Dan Rivers has the story.</s>DAN RIVERS, ITV CORRESPONDENT: Lee Croson is filled with dread each time he nears Calais. He's securing his truck as best he can, but as I'm about to find out these defenses will be tested in broad daylight by desperate migrants trying to get into Britain.</s>LEE CROSON, TRUCK DRIVER: Sometimes it's more like a war zone than what Calais used to be. If you get to Calais or park anywhere in Calais 99 percent sure that you'll get the immigrants in your trailer.</s>RIVERS: He takes us down a notorious back road, diesel alley, lined with migrants from Africa who are desperate to stow aboard a truck to get into Britain. Like this man in red who tests Lee's defenses as we slow down at the traffic lights. The migrant might think it's funny, but drivers like Lee face a 2,000 pound fine for each stowaway found in their vehicle. Thankfully this time Lee's padlocks keep them out. Each time one of these trucks approaches Calais, they are running a gauntlet, sometimes with hundreds of migrants trying to break into the truck. The situation has got so bad that the drivers now often try and avoid stopping at all within three hours of the port. But even when they get inside the supposedly secure area of the port they're still not safe. This was the chaotic scene later that afternoon, migrants on the rampage as police struggle to regain control. And this passenger footage shows when they are caught they're simply released without even fingerprinting, despite that being recommended by Britain's border watchdog last year.</s>JOHN VINE, UK BORDERS AND IMMIGRATION: Those individuals were not being finger printed, their identities weren't being captured by the British authorities. So I made a recommendation in my report that that should chance.</s>RIVERS: The home office says it's reviewing arrangements, but migrants we spoke to confirmed nothing has changed yet. This man has been trying to get into Britain for six months and says when he's caught on a lorry he's simply released and is never prosecuted. There are hundreds like him living off food handed out by a French charity spending every day trying to get into Britain. Entire families risking their lives to cross the channel. Dan Rivers, ITV News, Calais.</s>TANK: Dengue fever is striking Japan after disappearing for almost seven decades. At least 55 people have now fallen ill in the past week. Will Ripley has more on the latest outbreak in Japan.</s>WILL RIPLEY, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Normally this time of year, this public space in Central Tokyo is full of people. Right now, it's deserted as Japan tackles its first reported domestic outbreak of dengue fever since the end of World War II, 1945, almost 70 years ago. You can see, Yoyogi park in the center of the city normally full of people closed off right now, all of the dozens of victims came here to this park and all of them were bitten by mosquitoes, which is why you now see signs up over the place warning people to take precautions, wear long sleeves, long pants, don't show your skin, and definitely use a lot of this: bug spray. This is a hot seller all over Tokyo right now. People are doing whatever they can to avoid getting bitten by dengue infected mosquitoes. Symptoms usually show up within a week. You can get a severe fever, headaches, body aches. Most of the time the symptoms are mild and people recover. Nobody has been killed here in Japan because of this outbreak, but there are cases when dengue can be deadly. And the weather conditions are not helping the situation. It's been a hot, humid summer, perfect weather for mosquitoes to grow and thrive and spread this disease, which is why Japan has been out spraying for mosquitoes, trying to control this outbreak before it gets any worse. Will Ripley, CNN, Tokyo.</s>TANK: You're watching CNN News Stream. Now as the new ladies of Lego fly off the shelves, a scientist who helped design them tells us the toys are aimed at challenging gender stereotypes.