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c. t v. but the others. it's eleven pm here in moscow tonight ukraine stops receiving russian gas after missing the latest and final deadline to start paying its multibillion dollar debt moscow stresses that supplies to europe will continue as planned. from says kiev is threatening to take as much gas as it needs for free from the transit pipeline supplying russian gas to the e.u. . also fresh fears of a mounting police threat are stirred up in america by revelations that officers are being armed with weapons from war zones despite a low crime rate of. the young palestinians killed during clashes with israeli troops amid a massive door to door manhunt for three jewish teenagers kidnapped in the west
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bank. kevin oh in this is r.t. international obviously the top story the gas story we're going to come to in just a second but we're going to start off with pictures we just received at this hour of another attempt to attack a russian diplomatic compound in ukraine this time in the port city of odessa it all seem to have begun as a peaceful rally the at the russian consulate building there despite the screaming of anti russian slogans i'm quite sure you can hear the sound the mother not these pictures when this comes through that quickly changed to calls to rip through police cordons around the compound and ted down the russian flag you can see master and would use their attacking security personnel over the police. did manage to
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stop the raging north they've even arrested a group of protest is. carrying explosives and got some photos here now these are photos of the improvised devices posted online by ukraine's interior ministry the violence in the desert covers just days that after the russian embassy in kiev was vandalized. crane in a moment more details on the trouble in the east but let's talk about the next russia's gas problem. artie's where the costs are of reports from outside the gas giants headquarters here in moscow what we've actually heard from the c.e.o. of gas from alexei miller and he's good meeting with russia's prime minister dmitry medvedev and once again miller said that ukraine's position is a form of blackmail. the position of the ukrainian side can be described as open blackmail the ukrainian government the prime minister wanted gazprom to allow
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ukraine to pay an ultra low price for gas like those in the customs union and it's certainly prices were not granted to kiev in ukraine said it would not pay back its gas that to russia it also said it would take a gas without any payment and in volumes it needs this of course such demands are unacceptable for the russian side that's why gas problem and to the prepayment method telling them this morning we also now know that ukraine's prime minister arseniy yatsenyuk has imposed a state of emergency on the country's energy sector here of course now has to pay up front if it wants any gas of from russia now the price that russia was offering is three hundred eighty five dollars per thousand cubic meters even the e.u. energy chief said that the price was reasonable but again when it comes to ukraine's prime minister siniora he doesn't want to pay any more than the price that was agreed with the previous leadership in ukraine before february's so right now since both sides are can't agree on the price or take matters to the international court ukraine is accusing russia of playing political games or russia
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simply looking to get its money back now of course as we know many european countries they're dragging this period right now because they don't want to see a repeat of what happened in two thousand and six and two thousand and nine and that's when ukraine was called siphoning off gas and time that for them through its transit pipelines and sings. horsemen of the many european countries depend heavily on russian gas their concerns are understandable but right now the ball is in here for it and already we know as i said that many european countries are worried that the will see ukraine siphoning gas off of them since they can't get their hands on more let me for a moment summarize the facts for you as the ukraine so far russia more than four billion dollars what russia demanded what it said its final deadline was that it received at least half of that money moscow stressed that it will continue supplying europe before ukraine for its part has been demanding that moscow cut the price on gas supplies the
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a use called gas problems final offer of three hundred eighty five dollars per thousand cubic meters as we've been hearing there a reasonable proposal and as you can see that number is lower indeed than the estimates of what many e.u. countries pay right now for russian gas meter this shows you how gas pipelines go from russia to the you the majority of it going through ukraine's territory despite assurances from moscow that supplies to europe won't suffer because promises that care of has threatened that it will take as much transit gas as it needs for free it has done that before and ukraine's prime minister gets to new york has ordered a review of the transit fees for russia's gas supplies to europe as well to do richard wellings from the institute of economic affairs and learned that he says all this could bring about severe consequences for brussels. ukraine's got to approximately five months of gas in storage now that it hasn't paid for and obviously this is going to be hugely worrying for european union countries he used
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torn in two directions it has this enormous trade with russia it doesn't want to damage that too much with the same time it's under pressure from washington to be take a harder line on the ukraine crisis against russian of course that's going to be damaging to the economies the point is we've already seen a very significant hike in the oil price because of events in iraq if we also had a hike in the gas price because of the ukraine crisis then europe could face them enormous difficulties particularly those countries in southern europe that both rely on energy imports and also are in deep economic trouble is really in quite a vulnerable position and of course things are going to change in a few months time once winter back in the world really focus people's minds on getting a deal for the meantime to the side to all this military campaign in ukraine's east locals say at least four people were killed and five more injured when the army showed the city of kramatorsk with heavy artillery fire how did nearby journalists have come under attack there are a correspondent from artie's ruptly video agency was among them this is what he
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told us. we were walking through fields when we heard a machine gun we dived down i kept on filming the self defense member who was our guide called for backup and a car came to pick us we jumped in we were driving fast and then another shot ripped through our tire and we were driving just the bare wheel for the rest of our journey which thank god will were alive when one made it but at the time the crew was filming a report about the allegations of phosphorus bombs being used by the ukrainian army they're designed to cause large intense fires and they use is strictly prohibited by the u.n. another two journalists working for russian t.v. have arrived back in moscow the pair's been held by ukraine security forces in south a day meantime thousands of people having to flee their homes in the east because of the violence. the minute by minute coverage all the aspects of ukraine's crisis you can always head online to r.t. dot com.
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rage in communities across america after revelations that local police forces are getting heavy duty military equipment washington says it's using surplus hardware from its overseas wars to bolster security at home but some americans fear their neighborhoods are now turning into war zones of their own miniport miles got the story. well as america can use winding down its longest streak of war soldiers are returning 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 the new paradigm is it's the military paradigm militarized police and the problem with that is when they look at
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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 thing that it's doing is basically just making it more and more obvious there are they are being launched their 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
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all the time and for no reason our country has never been invaded we have no foreign armies 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 of paranoia about that here that i don't like it usually excuse the armed police like they're going to you know. like the people of afghanistan then we got a problem using that as 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 r.t. . well i did some form of police officials awarded by law enforcers getting so much fun the power of the caps and ray lewis sided with protest as of two officers pepper sprayed peaceful demonstrators that multiply wall street money back in twenty eleven he told us such crackdowns could deadly that if military weapons were
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used by police. 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 somebody and killed so many innocent people and they were not high caliber weapons can you imagine a massacre that would take place at the office or had high caliber weapons they will sell this high quitman the repairs 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 pall lease industrial complex well they'll make billions off of police departments much more to come the u.k.'s first secret trial came close to signal
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the end of open justice in the country a controversial legal practice is the physically debated with those for and against a correspondent has both sides of the argument and fielding. well told you my language as well but i will only react to situations i have read the reports for. what is a no i will leave them to stay part to comment on your point the. security of a car is on the docket no. thank you no more. when you made a direct question he prepared for a change. be ready for a. freedom of speech and slid down the freedom to.
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dramatize the. stories others refuse to. face is changing. the picture. from around the. globe to. clashes between palestinians and israeli troops have left one teenager dead in the west bank city of ramallah comes to tell of evil rests more than forty palestinians in connection with the abduction of three jewish teenagers the latest attentions reportedly bring the total number of those rounded up now to at least one hundred fifty among them is the speaker of the palestinian parliament who's also a member of hamas. has more on the ongoing operation from tel aviv. this has
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resulted in the closure of several palestinian cities and also in house to house searches and it was during one of those searches that overnight a nineteen year old palestinian was shot dead during clashes in the palestinian city of ramallah now the israeli government says that the hamas militant group is clearly to blame it says despite the fact that the organization has not taken responsibility and let's remember that this is an organization that in the past has clearly stated when it is responsible for attacks and for kidnappings in fact to massa said the israeli accusations are silly the three teenagers were kidnapped on tuesday night while they were hitchhiking home after religious studies the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has vowed that he will do everything in his power to bring them back safely he also points the blame at the palestinian president mahmoud abbas saying he needs to shoulder responsibility particularly in light of the recent palestinian unity government that was formed this unity government is
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something that the israeli prime minister has criticized repeatedly saying that it is an opportunity that hamas is trying to use to gain a food a stronghold in the west bank as is always the case of course it is the ordinary palestinians who are feeling the repercussions of this heavy handedness on the israeli response side you have border closures you have an increased israeli military presence now in the palestinian territories and the mood on the ground of course is that no one is certain how long this will continue for. journalist joe. believes the ongoing israeli operation is more of a reaction to the unity government than a search for the missing. it's the operational goal of your sample search but we'll see lastly this is a couple of things one is a full scale attack on the hamas movement in the last. resistance and also
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political but. it's so different. and the decision. of the israeli policies that are designed to. reinforce the division between the west bank and gaza strip so i think the holy see is at least as much a reaction to unity three months which of course israel their light as much as anything else. but the reports quoted they will try again for next. washington's considering direct talks with iran they help the iraqi authorities fight the growing insurgency earlier monday sunni militants scored another victory they captured the northern city of tal afar near the syrian border it's the latest blow the nation's shiite led government for a radical militant group known as isis that's leading the onslaught throughout the country that's a brilliant live landless chris bambery talk more about this. they see the remaking
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citic significant headway what next for isis in less they stopped will be. i think what isis is going to discover is that number of countries in the region which are up to no difference of the civil war in syria are going to step in iran you mentioned can't just simply watch the shia holy places fall and bite out of itself to isis but also the talks must be rewarded with the city because the turkish city is going to talk its population and the kurds are no growing the intrusion into the region's world so i think at some stage they're going to come up against various regional powers and what is strange about this is that the different are different decisions that people took on the syrian civil war or been subsumed by this crisis so we will see. siding with iran and the americans are already talking about drone strikes the for the bush warships into the persian gulf for the drawings as well so i think we're going to see winds coming through here in
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the meantime we have the united nations saying that the video has been posted on social media of executions and to create create. about actually happened and hundreds of people have been killed while the united nations is calling war crimes so i think isis is going to discover in some ways it's been off more than you could chew. but we got you on the law and there's a new propaganda video reportedly produced by sunni jihadists of isis i guess it goes to prove really our media savvy they are will take a look at that a second just listening to it for a minute pretty well produced as you can see there's a period online. basically showing the air force it was filled with a drone etc what i'm trying to say is that it's pretty media savvy here trying to get people on their side this fact to people to come and help fight their war. are you surprised by how together they seem so far and how much progress they've made
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so far albeit without not that much resistance so far as you say. no i'm not surprised because it's been some while coming it's been obvious that the war in syria in which those people have been involved have been brutalized is the same war which has been seeing in iraq for some time the sectarian killings so obvious that the war is spreading from syria into iraq and many of those places i was watching another video were one of the isis fighters kills a member of captured soldier and describes the sheer dog it's interesting is accents from north africa is obviously not from syria or from iraq we know that it's been checked and others there are involved in this war so one of the brutalized secondly of course is well they're well used to social media in terms of objects in themselves but the fact that in addition to the video you know talking about they're putting up witchery at the executions and saying i've killed a dog that is going to backfire in terms of across the region as i say in the
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neighboring governments all around will be very nervous about what is happening here and will be very keen whatever the past differences will be have been with the maliki government in baghdad to buttress the maliki government against this against isis because it's called major repercussions potentially for turkey for around and every other country in the region apart from so really and the shorts who have been backing these people asked for this war on the line you're talking about so far it's not quite known how involved they have been there's a rebel at their side if you crack units in already what do you think their involvement practically is going to be here especially as far as was washington's concerned as well. i think they'll provide weapons i think training i think will protect the whole holy shrines for for i will be very careful becoming involved the iranians have always stayed out of foreign conflicts to any great degree and i think to be very careful the americans i think are
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a very difficult position already that is meijer criticism of american foreign policy blunder the road here really hyping up support for syria are backing away from intervention thank goodness but also the huge debate which is no taking place in britain america was that the invasion in two thousand and three which has created the divisions and of course the answer has to be that the americans are responsible for divide and rule in iraq carving iraq up into three separate entities or paint where sunni or shia and a kurdish one walked in the sunni militias which had been the resistance the beginning of the occupation co-opting them and then helping them turn against the shia motions that became nervous about the americans have been really involved in this very bad to increase in this scene and therefore i do think we can see the americans being part of any solution i think the solution has to be from within the region itself and that is why i think people in a way should a pause any further involvement of the americans and their hours here because here they have created this really terrible so now it scenario inside iraq chris bambery
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political analyst on line from london thank you for thoughts tonight. and you are staying in the u.k. for next story as well the prospect of the u.k.'s first secret trial of two suspected terrorists in the name of national security as defenders of the british justice system up in arms that last week an appeals court flushed the red light to the plan questions still remain though because some of the main proceedings will still be kept going behind closed doors anyway sarah firth explains. the trial of the key terror suspects was always the first fully secret criminal trial to be heard in the u.k. now prosecutors had been fishing for that the press to be banned from every part of the proceedings on the grounds of national security now the cause of appeal block last week so what can now be reported the judge's introductory remarks the prosecutors a printing speech and the verdicts and sentencing phase can all be reported but the
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court of appeal also ruled that the core parts of this terrorism trial will still be heard in secret and we can take a listen now as to why the details of how this terror trial should be heard have proven so controversial 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. cheatin 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 completely in secret will 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 terrorism trial could be heard in secret but that 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 that roast are going to be held in secret the important issue here is the very issue of open justice because we have a long tradition that just has to it's not enough for justice to be done it's got to be seen to be done in 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 cool. is this can mash and security information ever be made public the governments are saying is no there are people who are saying that it's a dangerous precedent they are wrong it's neither dangerous nor a precedent as far as the precedent for it is concerned the have been many trials in which part of the hearing has been held in secret for national security reasons as for being dangerous it's not dangerous because the judge will guard the fairness
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of the trial done in public if at all possible well 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 though to bar 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 decides there will be released need down 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 day won't be far off the surface r.t. reporting from london. always a wide range of comment on the big stories that they are not international talking of which then after the break coming up next did cross talk with people of other marks international if you're watching us in the u.k.
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following welcome across all things considered i'm. debating american foreign policy is there one any more traditionally the political left and right had clearly different positions on how washington should exert power in the world today it appears everyone in the establishment is a hawk. to cross talk american foreign policy i'm joined by my guest james carafano in washington he's the.

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