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true story. arabic for a visit or a big. breaking news kiev misses the deadline to pay its gas debt to russia moscow is now expected to cut gas supplies for ukraine. america's tooled up police patrols as the pentagon hands out its hardware leftovers we ask whether offices really need military grade gear. plus britain's secret appeals court was the government's plans to spend some closed door justice in the name of national security.
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a law that could have a company you're watching r.t. international now we start with some breaking news the deadline tricky have to pay its gas bill it is now passed russia warned that failure to sort it out means cutting off supplies for ukraine let's go live now to artie's wearing a corset over who's outside gazprom headquarters in moscow marina the deadline has just passed a couple of minutes ago has there been any statement or any think that's been said from gazprom i understand i think marina has problems hearing so the moment you come back to marina in a couple of minutes i think we'll solve that problem for you well the media spokesman for gazprom c.e.o. is now holding a news briefing. in a few minutes time so when he does it will come to that and we'll have a listen to see what he says but as well as the ramifications for ukraine europe could also. refuse to pay its way and it's been argued that russia's interests are
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at stake too well i think we can talk with marina hope so she's outside the headquarters of gazprom in moscow marina can you hear me loud and clear just check that. great ok well absolutely i got the minutes ago that deadlines passed as gazprom had anything to say. well we are actually waiting to hear from gasper almost spokesperson said any minute now this is actually the fourth deadline that ukraine has missed russia has been quite patient considering the amount of money it sold we're talking about for him to have billion dollars and that russia has tried to be a reasonable offer in the deal that many have described as this deal and that deal involve paying half the debt now and then getting at twenty percent discount on the rest of the day plus one hundred dollars off the contractual price per unit and that amount would be fixed for at least a year now this would actually save ukraine millions of dollars and in fact russia
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so is asking for produce three hundred eighty five dollars four thousand cubic meters even the european energy commissioner has called that price fair but reasonable but that's not the view of ukrainian prime minister saying yet saluki wants to pay no more than two hundred sixty eight dollars in a surprise that was agreed with ukraine's previous leadership before february scusa right now both sides are looking sake the matter to the international courts ukraine accusing russia of political game playing russia simply wants in repaid now russia has moved back to that line many times before but it seems that patience has really run out this time and now europe will have to deal with ukraine stubbornness and many european countries are now dreading a repeat of two. thousand and six and two thousand and nine when we saw ukraine siphoning you intended for them through transit pipelines and of course since many countries depend heavily on russian gas there needless to say concerned as i said
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right now we are waiting to hear from the spokesperson from gas from to hear what happens now ok. we need a core set of outside the headquarters of gazprom she says we are waiting to hear that press conference from the gas problem and as soon as that starts we'll bring it straight to you well as well as ramifications for ukraine europe could also suffer refusal to pay its way in it's been argued that russia's interests are at stake too well earlier i discussed the consequences for all parties with nickel is shit. i mean we've heard here that ukraine has been calling on europe to reduce its reliance on russian gas supplies is that possible at all well it's a fact it's one of the four major misconceptions in this entire gas rhetoric so this is number one yes ukraine says europe's let go of russian gas not buying it but if you look at the map you'll understand that european dependency on russian gas is pretty heavy and in order to lead go russian gas entirely europe will have
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to get new pipelines and new terminals that cannot be built overnight on top of that is indeed it does happen in the gas prices are going to shoot up about fifty percent according to the world bank and that's something that's going to be a really hard sell to european customers first and foremost to ukraine says it can find alternatives to russian gas supplies how likely is that well if you're talking about something that european leaders have been hyping up about for quite some time and that is the reverse flow that ukraine is supposedly getting from europe perception number two a matter of fact europe is allowing ukraine to keep some of the gas that europe is getting from russia but of course there's a shortage of gas on the european side so they have to make up for that and they have to buy the more expensive gas so essentially what we have on our hands is the european customers taxpayers already paying an arm and a leg in order to make up for their leaders the political grandstanding. a
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potential solution people have moved today anyways all the shale gas that's in america how could that help is that possible misconception number three and that is of course the expectation that americans are going to save the day simply not going to happen because it has to go all the way across the atlantic ocean which is pretty big it's too expensive and right now the price is gas prices in europe were too low for that to happen and it would take about two million to increase to actually get the gas there cross from the united states to europe and they only have four hundred thinkers at the moment so. looks good on paper but it's simply not a possibility in the first evil future or right and so now in the long term that is able to happen russia would then lose a large market with european market is huge for russia is that a big concern for russia finally the fourth a vital misconception the doomsday scenario that russia's going to go down the drain without selling its gas could have been true until recently because now
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russia has the gas deal with china the world consumption is about three trillion cubic meters of gas a year china alone is expected is projected to get to two trillion so there is no shortage of appetite for russian gas in that regard thanks to china. as well as locking horns over gas with russia kiev still waging a military campaign in ukraine's east later this hour ukrainian refugees talk about being driven from their homes as fighting between the army and local militia escalates. american police in some cities are being armed to the teeth with military hardware more suited to war zones but it's not because of some suburban security nightmare it's because there's tons of expensive gear left over from lengthy foreign campaigns and this marine important to explain some of it is not even being used in the president in the pentagon don't want gathering dust. as america continues winding down its longest streak of war soldiers are returning
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home and so is their military arsenal a used armored vehicle that will be used during swat calls and other emergency situations nine foot tall mine resistant trucks specifically designed to survive roadside bomb attacks are parked all throughout the u.s. local and state police departments have acquired more than four hundred m. wraps and silencers and tens of thousands of m. sixteen machine guns and night vision equipment is a new paradigm is it's the military paradigm militarized police and the problem with that is when they look at american sort of golf and they see only combatants this is all made possible through america's military transfer program created in the ninety's when violence and drug gangs plagued major cities today crime in the u.s. has fallen to its lowest in a generation and the special response team in richland county south carolina looks like this ready to take on the taliban should it invade the self this year the
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thing that it's doing is basically just making it more and more obvious that iraq they are being watched her eyes are police forces are being turned into soldiers iraq war veteran emily yates says her country's law enforcement is being trained to fight against the public instead of serving to protect it they should be trained to deescalate any violence or gresham that's happening but instead the police are showing up and causing violence and aggression people are just afraid all the time and for no reason our country has never been invaded we have no foreign army at our doorstep however a sheriff in indiana claims his county needs m. wraps to protect against possible attacks by veterans returning from home i see a lot her annoy about that her that i don't like it usually excuse to harm the police like they're. you know like the people of afghanistan that we've got a problem but using that as
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a way to militarize the police for whatever they think might be coming in the future a future where america's local police forces will be prepared for war but who will they be warring against marina arty. and even full of police chiefs are wary of local offices getting so retired captain ray lewis sided with protests as the offices put this bright peaceful demonstrators with an occupy wall street rally back in twenty eleven and he told us that once police have more firepower i'm actually crackdowns could become even more brutal. high caliber weapons are extremely dangerous they have a very high ricocheting velocity and that means that innocent people are going to get killed and injured they will be shot they can go through doors they can go through cinder block they can go through metal car doors and this type of velocity is not necessary think of kent state. where they shot so many and killed so many
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innocent people and they were not high caliber weapons can you imagine the massacre that would take place for fisher's had high caliber weapons they will sell their side equipment the repair the maintenance for this will come from taxpayers' money corporate america will make billions off its office equipment you've heard of the prison industrial complex you heard of the military industrial complex corporate america now wants to make a poly's industrial complex where they'll make billions off police departments. now have some breaking news here not international russia's gazprom has announced that moscow is cutting off supplies for ukraine after the deadline set the key have to start paying its debt expired russia was expecting to see one point nine billion dollars by six am g.m.t. which is a bad one half of the amount of money owed by ukraine since november the e.u. says it still convinced the gas rabbits we moscow and kiev could be settled soon where europe's at risk because it's heating reliant on russian supplies via ukraine
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which has previously siphoned off fuel when it's being cut off for not paying. now we're back among the we'll cut crowds in brazil in the few minutes time. ha. ha ha oh but not everyone has got football fever and the bright the protests and the partying of the ponies the biggest sporting event. i suspect. we're going to go digital the price is the only industry specifically mentioned in the constitution and. that's because a free and open process is critical to our democracy albus. role. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of
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our government and i was proud cynical we've been a hydrogen lying handful of friends dash all corporations that will profit by destroying what our founding fathers once will just my job market and on this show we reveal the big picture of what's actually going on in the world we go beyond identifying the problem to try and rational debate and a real discussion critical issues facing america by ready to join the movement then welcome to the big picture.
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oh again welcome back now journalists have come under fire in the east ukraine where kiev's army is pressing on with its military operation against the defiant region a correspondent for marty's ruptly video agency was among them meanwhile the crew was filming a report about the allegations of phosphorus bombs being used by the ukrainian army they are designed to cause large fires and their use is strictly prohibited by the u.n. another two journalists working for russian t.v. have been held by ukraine's security forces since saturday we march thousands of people are having to abandon their homes in the east due to the violence from cos there has been hearing about their all deals. the refugees have certainly had itself in the last few weeks but for some the burden of displacement turned out to be much heavier than for others kids with physical impairments and their mothers were left to fight for themselves in the shellshocked east of ukraine alexei was
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born with a very rare condition and has never seen the light of day his mother you didn't think twice when she was told the so-called antiterrorist operation was approaching her town near the guns she's all settled in here now in the safety of souter in russia but it did take some time for alexei to get used to the uniform and he agreed you could achieve screamed a lot of us because the air quality is different here but he got he used to the conditions of the three or four days and they are not the only family who felt the safety and medical treatments of their disabled loved ones could not be provided for a home visit ali fled from art school with his aunt chased away by the daily aerial attacks by the ukrainian military they were told their town will soon be swept by the army they had to leave behind their entire family lives similar boy all i want is for my mom to come here right here that's all i need. and that's yana has two
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kids of her own and help the self-defense forces at home by cooking and delivering meals she says she would never have left ukraine if it wasn't for that sally post on your first he's very scared he always asks his grandmother i think going to shoot me i think going to kill me due to his condition he can't express emotions very well but sometimes he just screams very loudly the families are now away from the bloody violence and in the safety over this summer retreat turned into refugee camp however there is no place like home they say hoping for peace to be able to return to their abandoned houses on calls or party southern russia. and you can get me. by minute coverage of all the elements in ukraine's crisis on air and of course online at r.t. dot com. protecting national security is a reason often rolled out to justify governments keeping quiet about some of their
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more shady activities but in britain it now goes to the very heart of open and fair justice waving aside the right to an open court hearing the country's been trying to sneak through its first secret criminal trial is sarah for three ports. these are the names of the t. defendants in the terrorism case until last week they'd been known only by the initials a b. and c d g twenty application from prosecutors to ban the press and public from proceedings on the grounds of protecting national security the whole case was close to being has completely in secret well the court of appeal blocks that attempt to hold the first ever completely secret criminal trial in the u.k. the judge is saying that the call of the terrors the trial could be heard in secret but the other parts must be public but campaign is the worried that despite the
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ruling this case marks yet another step toward secret courts becoming a therm part of the british legal system only partial victory large parts of the trial is still going to be held in secret the important issue here is the very issue of open justice because we have a long tradition that for justice to is not enough for justice to be done it's got to be seen to be done this case was an extraordinary departure by initially allowing the whole of the case to be heard in secret at the heart of the debate around secret courts is this can nationalize security information ever be made public the government's stance there is no there are people who are saying that it's a dangerous precedent they are wrong it's neither doing to us nor the precedent as far as the precedent point is concerned the have been many trials in which part of the hearing has been held in secret for national security reasons house for being dangerous it's not dangerous because the judge will god the fairness of the trial
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done in public if we talk possible will for hundreds of years we've been able to have jurisprudence on cases that involve sensitive issues there are always ways in which the evidence can be presented that will protect for example surveillance or secret service operations there's no. need to go to the press from it whatsoever if we don't know what's going on what's being reported it could easily lead to an increase in miscarriages of justice ultimately it is the judges that this saeed there will be released no doubt this in this instance the cool cheese not to get it as a police secret trial the concern now is that with more applications that they won't be far off the surface r.t. the posing from monday. night football is finest are battling it out in brazil at the moment and it seems to get ahead you need to have a lot of height the french what claims that training sessions have been watched by a spy drone at r.t.
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dot com you can find out whether it's down to rivals and the work or devoted fans at the controls both say they're inventing terrorists with entrapment muslim groups in the u.s. accuse the f.b.i. of setting up innocent people to justify a controversial arrest program. right to see. first street. and i think that you're. on our reporters' twitter. instagram. debating american foreign policy is there one any more traditionally the political left and right and clearly different positions on how washington should exert power in the world today it appears everyone in the establishment is
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a hawk. i can only read. for. her. eye. since. the bottom is now a. part. of one. clever line. dramas that can't be ignored. in the. stories others refuse to notice. faces change the world writes never. the old picture of today's new log on to and from around the globe.
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up to. the. well i mean with r.t. now an explosion at an oil refinery in central russia has killed at least five people a technical failure is believed of course the explosion in krasnoyarsk which also injured seven others another four people are missing eyewitnesses say nearby buildings bore so damaged and columns of smoke could be seen several kilometers away firefighters have since put out the place. israel's military has arrested around eighty palestinians in the west bank after three israeli teenagers were abducted there most of those detained are members of hamas which is accused of the kidnappings by the israeli prime minister the groups deny the greek denies involvement human rights activists you're exact he told r.t. that the breakdown of peace talks has led to an escalation in the violence i really
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hope that we go back to a situation where we talk with the palestinians about ending the conflict about a permanent status agreement which is the real necessity where there's a vacuum where leaders leaders don't talk and i'm sad to see that the israeli government gave up very easily and it is playing now more of a blame game with abu mazen instead of going to go see it as stable where there is a political vacuum violent elements come in and we see the result i think the best way to prevent such d.v.d.'s in the future is to have a permanent status agreement agreement between us or the palestinians that will serve israel's national interest best because continuing this situation is as we see brings more and more violence and hardships. in other news at least five people have been killed and another thirty five wounded in another round of jihadist violence in iraq this time the turkmen populated city of tel afar behind it
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a radical militant group known as isis which has been rampaging through the north seizing key cities and. dancing on baghdad but the iraqi government claims it's quashed the militants onslaught and is preparing a counter operation and identified gunmen have rampage through a coastal resort in southeast kenya killing at least thirty four they shot at people in a drive by attack as well as torching hotels and the petrol forecourt the somalia based group al-shabaab is being blamed it's been behind a string of deadly assaults in kenya. i would say that the merican are stayed even re-edition here i wear a crowd of about seven hundred protested against the cost of brazil hosting the world cup brazil fi t. gas and rubber bullets at the protesters who threw molotov cocktails at offices but while the have been protests nationwide in the run up to the tournament the hundreds of thousands of fans who descended on brazil have only one thing in mind graham phillips is in one of the city seeing a definite football take
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a. run here downtown in hours to see the first ever world cup match england versus italy i'm not finished italy to england one how many thousands of fans joined the stadium was near capacity in this city deferred this north of the twelve o'clock news now it's a city which perhaps many at some of the south america they put little idea of are products of this world cup two thousand and fourteen this want to visit the amazon rain forest is sometimes referred to as the heart of the amazon we could leave the welcome i just took the phone i want to hear about this in june twenty fifth with many more thousands of international fans to make the journey here speaking to friends already made that journey to see what they can expect seven hours right right right right right. so you want to see the stadium is going to be all right so is going to be ready. for civilian female. president was. very very ready for the close up with the. families we can see
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from speaking to fine folks also reservations about how ready to announce really wants to host this world cup two thousand and fourteen the move to the city itself is largely positive now some fans are told me that they expected to be coming to the middle of the jungle they want to really found is a posting twenty first century city top of imports and exports of manufacture with a vibrant colorful downtown area now it's windy here but temperatures can still reach over food degrees in the world the result will be warm was locals and fans alike have come out to make the. to save this world cup experience the next match is camera this is crucial. this is the influence to. remind of our breaking news here on r.t. international russia's gazprom has announced that moscow is cutting off gas supplies for ukraine after the deadline set for kiev to start paying its debt expired russia was expecting to receive one point nine billion dollars by six am g.m.t. which is about a half of the total amount of money owed by ukraine since november the e.u.
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says it's still convinced though the gas route between moscow and kiev could be settled soon europe's at risk because it's hugely reliant on russian supplies fire ukraine which has previously siphoned off fuel when it's been cut off for not paying up next we speak to scotland's only e.u. parliament member in soft but if you're watching us in the u.k. it's uncompromising debate in crosstalk.
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the. ingenue it's was huge and it's vulgarize ation of darwin science and punishment for an uncommitted crying i was sterilized to learn from being in a tree feebleminded still today for the few i don't know why he lived by the still the i don't know why genetic improvement through forced sterilization the basis for nazi ideology don't stop at just sterilizing yet not going to now go to the point of death. for years rarely discussed on till now i'd really rather not talk about that right. on the new cultural moment i should be making news all the face i just arrived mon .
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was. a pleasure to have you with us here on t.v. today i'm wrong researcher. welcome to city and comb sophie shevardnadze right wing parties the e.u. parliamentary vote with british voters throwing their support behind the euro skeptic you keep a blog but will the car to success transfer into something bigger well david colburn member of the european parliament.

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