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how much they care about the women of afghanistan. they don't care about the women of afghanistan. at eight pm moscow time israeli jets drop leaflets warning to evacuate in the face of an invasion. to stay indoors or risk being hit. and that's in sharp contrast to reports tonight of egypt brokering a cease fire as a palestinian official voices hope that turkish troops will be sent to the region to monitor a possible truce we will bring you the latest. also. recognizes the new syrian rebel bloc as the voice of the people pledging support to the coalition. division in its ranks. and reporting to the. cherished aaa credit score ratings agency. recovery.
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very good evening for me kevin though in this is r.t. coming from moscow the top story this israel has reportedly warned all gaza residents to stay inside or risk becoming a target the death toll from israel's bombardment of the region has already exceeded one hundred victims now around a quarter of them children. israel's assault has continued it's now day seven of operation pillar of cloud israel has over these last few days used naval and land attacks on the gaza strip so far today those attacks have been through and means only least four palestinians have been killed alone today including one fifteen year old boy his name is in the north of the
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strip israel continue to target almost every population center in the gaza strip from in the south which has been heavily pounds over the last couple of days particularly the beit lahia area in the north of the gaza strip as well as gaza city and khan yunis the middle area of the strip in the beginning of the morning israel said that no one should leave their homes and if they leave their homes they will become a military target of the state of israel so as you can imagine by statements being issued like that by israel and over the last few days we've seen israel leafleting northern areas of the gaza strip saying we're going to start a ground invasion soon that's happened three times now that lifting exercise that this is the civilian population here is totally terrorized and they are unable to continue their normal life the tool the same time obviously there's been stockpiling of food and fuel and bread and things like this as a result of that there's now a real on the supply of basic things that people are relying on for their normal lives business is a totally shut down educational establishments are totally shut down and the
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humanitarian situation in terms of health is getting greater and greater and greater. fear there will as israel continues its bombardment of gaza in response to what he says his own go in hostile action dozens of aid groups are now warning of an impending humanitarian crisis pretty schuman rights activist eighty more man who's monitoring the situation in gaza says the situation is desperate there. everyone is a target now we've had. over thirty children have been killed now and frankly just days like. this really it feels like we're in no man's land it just feels like there is that many homes being targeted now so many civilians have been killed and now we call it even go in the streets and the n.g.o.s are being told to stay in as well it just feels like we're sitting ducks every explosion options it's like a countdown you don't know exactly where it's going to land we've just been given a warning actually that over the next two hours israel is going to accelerate its
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assault on gaza and this is this is obviously you know hugely catastrophic for so many of the people here this is what happened in the gaza attacks last time people were going for days without without without serious personal food and and of course this is this is a potential disaster the collective punishment of the seeds we're hearing the need the biggest humanitarian crisis is in the hospitals whereby they're short of so many things like they've used in one week the amount of bandages and searches and and some basic medical supplies in three months obviously they're really strapped the ambulance she's in the medical agencies because so many cases are coming in and we heard yesterday the biggest the largest definitely more than day which was our best thirty people killed from the political front meantime egypt should president mohamed morsi reportedly promised an end to israeli strikes in gaza resilience change day the verified statement comes in in contrast to israeli army
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announcements meantime warning gazans to evacuate. reports now on why there is so little clarity. the one thing that has become increasingly clear over seven days of fighting is just how confused the situation is in gaza and it's certainly the most confusing for gazan residents themselves on the one hand israeli jets have been flying overhead almost by the minute and the israeli army has made a great point of saying that they want wizard and when to leave areas these jets have been dropping leaflets ordering people to evacuate just to quote the leaflets they say if you follow our orders he will be ok on the one hand of gazans are being told to leave their homes but at the same time there are messages that are being broadcast via radio via text altering these gazans to stay at home telling them that if in fact they leave their homes they face a greater possibility of being hit by israeli airstrikes so for the average person in gaza it's increasingly confusing whether to stay and whether to go there's also
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confusion over the whole story of a ceasefire we've heard from the egyptian president mohamed morsi who says that the end to israeli aggression all happened today but then alongside this we hear reports warning people to leave their homes possibly suggesting that a ground offensive is on the way we also know that the israeli is off threatening that if a cease fire doesn't in fact happen there will be a ground offensive almost imminently and parallel to all these developments and to surround a cease fire as well continues to call up its soldiers and send them to the south of the country so here too there's no clarity on we heading towards a cease fire or are we in fact heading towards a ground offensive that will result in much more intensive fighting the situation in jerusalem is just as confusing for most israelis on late tuesday afternoon the alarms sounded the sirens went off when three rockets fell quite a distance from jerusalem but close enough to activate the sirens the problem
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though is that it for two people and the flight the fear became confusion when people did in fact did not see the rockets in the city so he. in israel too there was confusion people have been phoning around concerned whether or not their sons and fathers who've been caught up as reserve soldiers are in fact going to be going into gaza the concern is that the moment you send ground troops you have an increase in terms of the number of potential casualties on your side now we're also receiving information that the palestinian ambassador to turkey has said that he hopes that egypt and turkey will send troops to gaza to act as peacekeeping forces now whether or not this is a sign that a decision has been made or is about to be made it's also just anyone's guess perhaps the one area where they seems to be some kind of clarity is just how effective the israelis are in terms of the p.r. campaign the united nations relief and works agency has accused the i.d.f. of lying the statement comes in reference to the twitter page the official twitter
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page of the israeli army where they said that the un was allowing her months to use its schools from where rockets could be launched effectively it says that the mass militants are in the school yard and from there they firing across into southern israel the un has said that this is simply untrue for quite some time the israelis have had experience in accessing social media and using it to their advantage i took a look. while israeli politicians weigh up whether or not to send their army into gaza they've had no hesitation in molding up their p.r. machines into the social media battlefield before one israeli was killed yesterday in the attack from gaza my house took a direct hit israeli citizens experience indescribable suffering this video offers a sophisticated alternative to the deadly reality on the ground a growing civilian death toll in gaza at the hands of the i.d.f. today there is
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a battle of campaign online offline in the electronic media for the hearts and minds of public opinion it's very very important when the israelis killed her must lead a homage to bari last week they didn't just kill him they instantly posted this video on you tube and then tweeted a warning to all his comrades that they could be next the ability of the poor longer active duty is also based on how it is being perceived internationally interestingly enough this war provides less pictures that for example of the two thousand and eight million war which was taking place in gaza paradoxically again as cynical as it sounds one of the reasons that they are less for the scene casualties is because israel would like their policies would have less pictures of the war israeli citizens are reporting rocket alerts on facebook and twitter long before the media and answers them it seems the more p.r. you put into promoting war the more justified it looks in the eyes of ordinary
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people the outcome sumburgh raids militant group in gaza is happy to fight fire with fire posting videos like this one on you tube mourning israelis there wherever they are they will be hunted down and killed again this group of arab students from tel aviv university are taking a break from the political science studies to discuss the politics of the media war . israel is lying to its people that is really reporters are inflaming. the situation there is a huge incitement from army analysts they say israel must demolish gals or even if a rocket hits the target they don't see that and that these really need is very rude they said that ten people from the same family died but they see that it is legal because they will be hamas members in the future where because there are rockets under the house the battle in cyberspace is well under way but the twenty four seven back and forth exchange on the likes of twitter between hamas and the israeli defense forces it seems the two sides who haven't yet met face to face on
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the ground have wasted no time confronting each other online policy r.t. television. for we are of course following developments in the middle east conflict on air and online where we've got a dedicated section for live updates and comments at r.t. dot com. the u.k.'s now become the latest in your nation to recognize the recently formed coalition of syrian opposition forces as the sole legitimate representative of the people it follows official recognition by france and italy in a joint statement of support by a foreign ministers of his or smiths in london with the details. they've called the formation of the coalition a major breakthrough that's what william hague said in his statement earlier and
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he's now recognizing the coalition as the sole legitimate representative of the syrian people now that alone brings with it major political clout that along with it he's also introduced what he calls a significant increase in practical support they're going to invite a political representative to come to the u.k. so that's assessed essentially establishing a diplomatic front inviting an ambassador from the this coalition to come to london but also and this is a thing that's going to give people most pause for thought he's going to commit another one million pounds in what he calls communications support he mentioned a couple of things internet hubs satellite phones to enable the opposition to communicate where and when they're in the field but of course when we say the field what we really mean is the battlefield so people are will be worried about what those communications equipment to going to be used for and basically they'll be saying that the how you use communications in the field is essentially to more
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effectively target bombs and other ammunition the problem with the syrian opposition for western countries has always been a lack of unity western countries have always said you know get yourselves together and then we'll talk about supporting you more closely and it's true that this coalition does represent a coming together of those various factions and forces that has been very old with each other in the past and they've pledged also to let more factions joy if they so choose but importantly they're all fourteen all is the most groups in the city of aleppo where there's been a loss of fighting who rejects the coalition wholeheartedly they say that it's a conspiratorial project and their reaction to it seems to be that they thought their desire to set up an islam this state in syria so that will worry western countries should give them pause for thought because of course it will increase fears that any all means that are eventually possibly sent to aid the opposition could end up in the wrong hands so one can only hope that that will give western
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countries just a little bit of course but thought. allen muhammad from the syria tribune told us european supporters of the rebel coalition don't know who they're dealing with. we don't ignore this pollution and they don't control anything on the ground and the rest wanted to be the sort of the us which does not make sense after our friends and. the permission as leader of the sort of people the final groups and the leader of the released this video will see that this coalition but nothing because now that they are they were fighting the. syrian so i don't think they would be able to cross over. or we can. watch it on the one black. line on our top stories and developing news for you it's from the reuters news agency we just heard in the last minute or two that gaza truce is set to be
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declared at nineteen g.m.t. and go into effect twenty two g.m.t. that's according to a hamas official it's being reported by reuters so maybe some big developments there will be fully across it of course gaza truce to clear that nineteen g.m.t. set to go into effect at twenty two g.m.t. we'll be across that as it happens if of course it happens it's been reported by reuters tonight. still ahead to afghanistan's president karzai calls the united states to ordering officials to take over the american run prison of two months after control of the facility was due to have passed into afghanistan is that in a few minutes. the stunning beauty of reindeer gracefully dancing across the arctic tundra more than just a scenic image it is a way of life for sun traditionally the nets people are nomadic reindeer herders
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and though in many ways they lead a simple and rustic life they are also highly skilled and organized in their tree. another week. depending. on the day we found this particularly camp they were settled near the coast of the . here for families work together to manage nearly a thousand reindeer herding reindeer is not just a job for the people. but they can use almost every single part of the reindeer to help them survive. a deer is a means of transportation. for the. life in the tundra is harsh and so before winter hits many of the children are helicoptered to the center of the district for boarding school.
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students learn different languages utilize modern technologies through specialized grant programs and even learn arts skills all within a protected the school was founded a. scientist who wanted a better way of life for his people but even with the most progressive ideas and education say they don't want to trade the modern life. i have returned to the time and i actually like it here if you're outside there's fresh air fresh water looks at the site you can see deer it's a joyful sight. a sentiment that hopefully ensures that russia's northern reindeer will have caretakers for generations to come.
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hello again afghanistan's president hamid karzai has ordered his top security officials to take full control of the prison of by graham air base now it's still run by the u.s. despite an agreement a transfer of power to afghan authorities signed back in march. this is really an issue of sovereignty for the government of afghanistan we have to keep in mind that the prison is an enormous very controversial detention center here in afghanistan it has more than three thousand afghan prisoners who have been held there without any sort of trial or due process with the courts fifty seven of them were actually found to be innocent under the law by afghan authorities and what we've heard from karzai spokesman on monday is that actually as many as one hundred new prisoners are being put into that detention facility by the americans mainly through special forces night raids per month one hundred new people and so
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you have this issue where afghan nationals on afghan soil are being held for and essentially occupying force and this is really prompting a lot of disconcerted by the government here within afghanistan what we heard from one actually human rights expert is that the afghans simply want the prison the ability to determine what to do with the fate of the prisoners and this is why karzai issued a statement saying. his officials take urgent measures to ensure a full afghanization of the prison and a complete transfer of authority although it is unclear that there's going to be any immediate changes it looks like this process will still take a bit of time to pull through the americans are saying this is a matter of security they say that they have found that the karzai government has released a number of prisoners who had ended up going back to the taliban or carrying attacks against coalition forces or u.s. troops and they also say that they have the rights under rules of war to detain
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so-called britta belligerence although of course when there is no due process no court system is sort of ensuring this it's hard to tell who is a belligerent and who is just a local afghan who's been swept up by this massive prison system and we have to keep in mind that this comes just days after a very critical tense talks between the u.s. and afghanistan over the future of american forces presence in afghanistan after twenty four when the issue of sovereignty again. came up. strongly a porous opposes immunity for american troops who kill afghans on afghan soil she wants them to be tried by afghan law here in this country whereas u.s. military officials staunchly are against that and they want their military officials to be brought back to the u.s. to stand trial there and this is of course become much more controversial after the recent high profile trial of the massacre of sixteen afghan civilians by an american soldier who is now being persecuted in washington state in the united states so what this really boils down to is a lack of trust by both countries which is quite disturbing if you look at the way
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forward here. leading a dog's life here in moscow could soon become a bit easier authorities have come up with a humane way to tackle the issue of stray dogs off for a normal mostly random hunting spree that sort of domestic pets killed talking about soon also plus find out about the international space station crews latest landing on the snowy steps of kazakhstan. it's been another bad day for the eurozone with france stripped of its treasured aaa credit rating for second time this year this time the downgrade came from moody's which condemned the bloc second biggest economy is quote stagnant and exposed crisis strategy. time is running out for euro zone giants to act. the european union economically as it stands is an unsustainable organization's an unsustainable financial and economic mess so what this downgrade actually i think is we're seeing france and germany and some of the bigger countries to do is recreate the european union i
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mean stocks according to some of the other economies such as responsible spain italy and you know kind of regroup and recreate near kenya in order for the european union generally and france italy to respect it so the economy and people are going to suffer there will be significant shocks to their comfort to their pocketbooks to their household there will be a combination of both economic necessary and austerity measures and meet seen across the european union and understandably so no you know most citizens are self-hate with that so i do think we will there be war protests across france. a while the to expose bear the brunt of the crisis the same cover said the bank was conceived in happier times the european central bank's new headquarters in front foot was intended to be a symbol of prosperity transparency and opportunity but today enthusiasm for the projects way drug delays rocketing costs them the economic crisis. reports.
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at a time when many europeans are unable to pay their mortgages and are kicked out of their homes and spain's forced approve a suspension of addictions after a woman killed herself in desperation the european central bank is preparing for a house warming party the european treasury symbolic new building will be the tallest on frankford skyline when it's complete but so far it seems the projects faced sky high criticism first of all for its ten digit price tag. we think the project is to shoot an ugly we ask the e.c.b. to use its money more carefully something taxpayers intrusted to them. stephen meissner from germany's part of reason doesn't see any reason to spend that much money on a piece of real estate but he says he sees a reasonable explanation of why the sky's the limit for the european union's
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economic monopoly they never run out of money it's they just come to me and the other taxpayers they go you have to pay more you're paying more if it more or maybe because it's easy the european central bank just print the money and while some may see an upside down logic here german m.p. mr scheffler explains it's more than just a piece of architecture. e.c.v. wants a palace a building to demonstrate his power through a million more million less makes no difference to make a statement about its power and credibility but that's a notion that's taken a serious not in recent times the seventeen nations euro zone's unemployment is at a record high brussels and seized on a stereo to measures which the government cut spending and raise taxes increase in peoples and as well as euro skepticism here it is future european central bank headquarters here in germany and the building was initially supposed to be
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a symbol of integrity and competence efficiency and transparency of the e.u. main financial institution but many now gloat that the project that has already far behind shadow and over budget may be sending a slightly different message bottom line cynics have compared the bank's future premises with the biblical story of the tower of babel it was meant to reach up to heaven but ended up instead abandoned left as a symbol of hubris and conceit if you look at it it's considered i guess modern architecture sort of looks like sort of like it's been flat and squeezed and turn around and it looks like a medieval sort of collapse on itself so it's kind of maybe a fitting symbol i think it's very possible that the euro itself the currency may not even be around by the time they finish the building the construction is due for completion by twenty fourteen and it's already known that the president of the e.c.b. will have a room on the forty first floor some say he will not just see
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a breathtaking c.t. panorama he'll also have a bird's eye view of the turbulent ups and downs of his own troubled empire the e.u. fated euro zone. notion r.t. germany. and greece are still the main victim of europe's economic downturn municipal workers there of march to the capital athens split us against thousands of layoffs agreed by the government thanks. change for bailout funds there were fears of war job cuts were still to come after an e-mail from the i.m.f. arrived at the greek ministry of finance demanding the dismissal of even more civil servants confused government officials rejected the new requirement which later turned out to be a mistake comes ahead of euro group discussions on the next tranche of the thirty one point five billion euros bailout for greece. in the u.k. a number of journalists linked to rupert murdoch's news international have been charged in connection with an ongoing bribery inquiry david cameron's ex communications director and a cool son and former news international chief rebecca brooks are among those facing charges it's alleged they illegally paid police and public officials for
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information the charges follow the phone hacking scandal that forced the closure of murdoch's british tabloid paper the news of the world last year. thanks for being with us financial skullduggery revealed next to the lace dish of the kaiser report on air just a couple of minutes from now. do
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