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to keep them talk amongst yourselves from seeing peace through to from the troubling such as the sun. we've got the future. breaking news on our t.v. a russian reporter and his sound engineer died after being hit to during shelling of a village in east ukraine you're watching of the last supporters of the true shots before the mortars fell. a transit pipeline explodes outside ukraine's conflict zone amid mounting fears the crisis could start to effect yes supplies to you're a kid says terrorism was the most likely cause. washington sense troops are back to iraq as sunni extremism move wherever closer to the capital after seizing several other key cities. also those all british activists
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condemn a proposed law that would see some hackers jailed for libel and could also punish whistle blow was. desired to international live from moscow you with me to say. moscow is demanding an investigation into the death of two russian journalists the crew from the rosia t.v. channel were hit during the army's continued shelling of a village near the city of new gaunts. you're watching the last. the camera magnitude the only surviving crew member filmed enjoying the assault he managed to capture several blocks one of which claimed the lives of his colleagues we can also see a body they're being dragged away from the scene. thirty seven year old.
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who died in a hospital emergency room was a journalist his whole working life leaves behind a wife and seven year old daughter his son the engineer of wallace and reportedly died on the spot i had refugees out of the danger zone two mortar shells directly hit the group all three journalists had the word press marked on their clothes that's according to the taxi driver who drove them to the area here's what he also told us how do you. know that we were standing at a police checkpoint i decided to stay near my car there was a bus waiting to evacuate people journalists and local forces around ten people walked towards the road to try and get a view of the battle field the smoke then there was a loud whiz and a bright flash in the middle of the crowd so they had the word press written on their t. shirts. well the two other russian journalists released from detention in ukraine
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say they were beaten and threatened with execution the past and two days in captivity after they were arrested at a checkpoint here's how they describe their ordeal. well most. of you know we were stopped at a national guard checkpoint and asked to get out of the car and show our deeds when they saw our russian passports and found out that we were members of the vents to t.v. channels they change their faces they started joking that they caught a goldfish or won the jackpot they force us into a car and we were taken away our eyes were covered in eventually we were pushed into some basement gun point different people were coming to us threatening us they promised to shoot us and barriers in the field they said they hated russia and would do everything not to let us go a long life then we were drags out of the cell and forced into a car we were beaten by rifle butts for more journalists are getting caught in the
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conflicts cross wire but the situation is even worse for locals who have no way of knowing there was own. this is the air raid siren lugansk away people had to spend another night in their basement hiding from the renewed army shelling of the suburbs and there were reports of casualties in the city of come across another constant target of kick kids crackdown and these are pictures from neighboring showing what people have to put up with on their daily lives as that initial areas have been heavily damaged by the shelling and almost half of the population is has left the city and those who stayed and a constant threat of attack. on usenet the abilities. of the above and below and i was not there yet but if they are there for you when we are here are very good. you got me here thanks so much did you see this if you
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are. watching you know when you go to put it what's to be. he's got a daughter you're a detainee and we're going to bring new zealand but still a to go computer duty i'm still in that washer which. for minute to minute dates in ukraine's ongoing crisis go online to our tea dot com for more. ukrainian authorities say an explosion on a transit gas pipeline carrying supplies to europe was probably a terrorist attack here you can see footage of the fire no injuries have been reported so far gazprom says it's too early to tell whether gas transit to europe will be affected the gas flow is now being transferred through a parallel pipeline also in ukraine. the fact of pipeline is of vital route and one of the biggest in europe russian gas transported through it flows through up to a dozen countries including the continent's major industrial powerhouses like
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germany of italy and france at the moment is unclear whether previous threats made against transit pipelines are linked to the incident one came from the imagery yarosh the leader of ukraine's neo nazi right sector group this is his statement following an escalation of tension between kiev and moscow quoting we remember that russia makes money by transporting its all and guess to the west through our pipe so we will just destroy it and leave our enemy without this source of cash but again there's no indication of any links to this blast it may be significant that this happened outside the zone where kids have been waging an armed crackdown on protesters in eastern ukraine political scientists in my day as the score skeezers at the very least the blast is a blow to the country's reputation. if you look at the country it's not
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no more a state it's rather a kind of failed state which does the control it's territory which is unable to guarantee not only the lives of its own citizens about also all the economic side of chaos that pipelines and their physical science skills. business going on there so this is one of the very many examples and talking about a terrorist attack. is going oh we can tell that well it's hardly possible that the so-called. separatists that the enemies of their regime yes i would say operating in our region. coming up facing jail time for revealing the truth to british activists condemn a proposed ng to add malicious hackers which could get a whistleblower to. american troops are going back to
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iraq the u.s. is sending up to two hundred seventy five personnel to protect the embassy staff and assets that since large parts of the country fell into the hands of extremist groups known as isis or this law make state of iraq and syria these are shut of the areas here on this map where the jihad is not in school or partial control president obama says troops will remain in place until the situation improves washington is also considering teaming up with iran and launching drone strikes against the insurgents on monday ices a released these images apparently showing mass executions of captured iraqi soldiers wearing civilian clothes or plainclothes rather the country's chief military spokesman says the pictures are authentic and show around one hundred seventy soldiers being killed however the group claims it acts a-q. to ten times that number. and as diana did you can reports the growing might of
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jihad is in iraq as provoking a strong reaction from the us washington is now pondering over how to bomb iraq in such a way as to not provoke a backlash after all the crisis there has a strong signal terry and background with the militants being sunni muslims so what's your response to airstrikes just aren't the answer here well look the whole answer but they may well be one of the options that are important to be able to stem the tide and stop the movement of people who are moving around in open convoys and trucks and terrorising people the sick caring component video walks crises is already traditional alliances iran wants to cooperate with the u.s. to assist iraq's shia government washington's ally saudi arabia on the other hand warns against any foreign interference amid reports that wealthy sunni donors in saudi arabia kuwait and carter have been funding militants from the islamic state
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of iraq and syria the us is allied with all the gulf countries that are supporting the sunni rebels in syria that are supporting them in iraq this is an old problem see isis militants move out of the six carrying boy iraq which started after the u.s. and u.k. invasion in two thousand and three today some of the politicians who made the decision to invade are anxious to wash their hands of blame the u. case tony blair wrote we have to liberate ourselves from the notion that we have caused this we have it the sunni extremists now control vast areas in iraq including the cities of fallujah and to create as well as mosul the second largest these cities which have been battered by the decade long war looked very different before the u.s. and u.k. invasion. in two thousand and two i was emotionally in the northern city that has been now seized by the rebels the sunni revolt at that time in two thousand to mosul and i was greeted by. people emotional they were christians they were sunni
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arabs shia ribs and they were kurds they were a tapestry they were a rock the multinational multicultural communities of the record their time and they were living in peace today they are divided along sectarian lines because of an outside invasion washington is now divided between those who oppose any u.s. military intervention in iraq and those who say something has to be done because of the. rather were bridge to the official all sides say they don't own iraq's problems and they don't want to help the government there for the militants out however many experts agree their returns are only a matter of time. and i'm going to show you our work. by says immersion in iraq right after the us led invasion and pledges allegiance to al qaida although the groups later became rivals it has fueled the sectarian bloodshed in the country
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and proclaimed and independent islamic state spanning iraq syria lebanon palestine and jordan isis has thrived in june the ongoing war in neighboring syria after gaining access to money and arms foreign flowing into the hands of the rebels they're not awful growing into a huge force the group is a moderating on the very heart of iraq let's take a look and now earlier this month the militants captured mosul now that was a key victory for them but ice is continued to press south along the main highways towards baghdad earlier today at least forty four people were killed just sixty kilometers from the capital in baquba and a car blasts in baghdad killed twelve others international relations expert dr oz hassan says iraq could be heading for a much wider sectarian war. you need to recognize that it's not just ice it licenses it's the whole say coat. is the extremists in it in iraq you've also got
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eighty of the sunni arab troll i made up of the military council of tribes of iraq is a much wider variety of actors whose interests of all annoying together and they are now working with with ice to an extremist whereas because previously they actually helped protect the big the rocky government in that sense one of the first steps needs to be to get those forces who have joined up with isis back on side with the iraqi government there needs to be a much wider regional approach and much more nuanced approach that if this problem is going to be dealt with you've got a set of scenarios where it is very possible that the amount of government could fall and iraq would break out into a much wider sectarian conflict that draws in saudi arabia and iran. right after the break we'll talk to a top hamas official and any israeli army spokesman about the ongoing says operation for three missing jewish teammates as well be back.
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certainly tony blair has benefited from war and deaths and he totally destroyed iraq and. he's calling for a rainy iraq and i did a little back of the. i figure that for every dead u.k. soldier in iraq it'll add about twenty five thousand pounds to tony blair's retirement. choose your language. because we can we know if you're going to. choose the consensus you can. choose the opinions that immigrate to. choose the stories that imply. choose access to your.
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big bucks but. i would like to know that you know 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 shrek albus. role. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of our government and across several we've been a hydrogen why handful of transnational corporations they will profit by destroying what our founding fathers once built 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 trucks and rational debate and real discussion critical issues facing
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that define ready to join the movement then welcome to the big picture. oh welcome back this is lardy international the israeli army says it has arrested forty more palestinians in the west bank bringing the total number detained to over two hundred as part of an ongoing hunt for three missing jewish teenagers a top political adviser to hamas as prime minister told my colleague you know neal the such as completely unlawful. well there is an i.e.d. intelligence information doesn't to prove. any solid. proof so they have what they call a massive crackdown and that's something just like a punishment something inconceivable let's get information directly from you then
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hamas has neither claim nor denied responsibility for the abduction what does that actually mean that's mean that we have no information actually who. who is behind these things nobody from hamas having any information that could lead to rudi because you know those sixty seven more than seven hundred thousand people. in the now under siege and nobody actually from the world community to do anything all the people who are civilian. problem and kids and i got the mission and team this is a good is that international law should be condemned by the international community well yeah i spoke to lieutenant colonel peter and official spokesman for the israeli defense forces he says from us some must pay for less pay the price for the abductions. we have forces on the ground trying to locate the people on the other
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hand we have our intelligence capabilities which we are putting a huge amount of efforts in that how do you know that they've been taken in by hamas that is really the question here about primary concern is the safety of the boys so we can't you know expose everything that we know at this time when you course when the situation permits so we'll of course bring the information forward at this time i can say with full confidence that hamas is behind that and for that reason we are operating against hamas at all levels hamas have to pay a price for carrying out these type of attacks and also all we'll go with this and what a little arresting people really had cheap i mean is it getting you closer to finding the three teenagers we will paralyze them pursue them and they will be threatened by our efforts is not a reality we can you know just sit by and say thank you very much we will operate it and act on it in order to prevent it as much as possible. in other news of this
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hour at least fifteen people have been killed in a new attack by islamist extremists in the kenya's coast. gunmen raided two villages overnight searching for security personnel at least twelve women were reportedly abducted during the attack it comes a day after the militant group attacked hotels in a police station leaving around fifty people did the group says it is taking revenge on kenya's military for the deaths of muslims in somalia loss of sub fighters massacred at least sixty seven people at a shopping center in nairobi. a double tornado has torn through nebraska in the united states the midwest at least two people were killed and one thousand others injured to the small town of pilger has suffered critical damage with half of its buildings leveled makeshift shelters have been set up for residents. least eight people were killed when
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followers of mt taliban. clashed with police in eastern pakistan police are fired shots and tear gas when supporters of the cleric refused to remove barricades from around the scholar's complex predator base has announced plans to return to pakistan next week to lead rallies against the government. or you know a special forces have captured a suspected militant thought to be behind an attack on america's embassy in libyan city of benghazi in september twenty twelve the alleged mastermind was caught during the secret raid this weekend and is now being held outside libya he's the first suspect to be arrested in connection with the benghazi attack which saw four diplomats killed and could now face the death penalty if found guilty. now the british government is pushing for
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a new law that would see malicious hackers jailed for life but activists say the cyber terrorism bill could also be used against online whistleblowers pollitt boyko has a story. in today's digital age committing a serious cyber crime could land you a mega sentence and a serious crime bill proposed to mclean speech computer hackers who launched devastating attacks on u.k. infrastructure could soon face life behind bars as a single attack can have such a dramatic effect let's just imagine a scenario where we go in our electricity for a week and the impact that would have had no lights no power to do engineering on manufacturing business or to you know for people to boil water you know to sterilize baby feeding a quick but that actually has a tangible effect on people's daily existence and actually worse case scenario on people's very very lives at the moment impairing a computer as it's written in law carries
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a maximum ten year sentence according to ministers that's disproportionate to the potential damage a malicious hacker could wreak but computer security experts have questioned what cyber terrorism really means and whether the term could be used to prosecute citizens who try to whistle blow on the government or a company i honestly think if you if you're hacking in order to harm life then there will be sentences already available but frankly computers are more central to us. that might mean that people can do more harmful things but things that we have to publish them for all of the results you know if you killed people have you attempted to done damage property or disrupt the capital's transport those are concrete eric becomes the the trying to do those things are actually doing that that's what people should be sentenced for benevolence security researchers are also concerned their work often involves behaving like hakas with the intention of
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finding vulnerabilities on a website and exposing cyber risk but according to this proposed law even those working for the common. good of the internet could end up behind bars so feel a major threat here is if somebody is simply trying to reverse engineer a site maybe see that show that it isn't properly secure and that people shouldn't trust it and that the operators need to sort themselves out those are the kinds of problems where people can to face computer misuse charges without really having done anything wrong. london. very care of breaking news this hour moscow is demanding an investigation into the death of two russian journalists in eastern ukraine a crew from the rosia t.v. channel were hit during the army's continued shelling of a village near the city of new guns.
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you're watching the last footage the cameraman is the only surviving crew member filmed to during the assault he managed to capture several blasts one of which claimed the lives of his colleagues according to eyewitnesses the attack started as self-defense forces were trying to guide refugees out of the danger is two mortar shells directly hit the group all three journalists had the word press and locked on their clothes that's according to the taxi driver who drove them to the area. delves into the murky depths of finance and next here on i t international.
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recently four hundred high level russian officials including duma members were someone for a three day military training event that would include the use of various different weapons and lectures about steve the russian military the stated objective of all of this was to make the average soldier in the army aware of the patriotic attitudes of those who can order them off to fight in theory this is a good idea but the reality is this kind of sweet stench of an empty p.r. stunt this is not nearly enough to convince the average grunt that the guys in power care about him as far as i understand it in the military they want to push people to break down their psychology and boot camp so they can make new better tougher more patriotic people and obedient ones as well the sort of cutesy who we can camp will not have any psychological effect these politicians and to be honest i think bureaucrats the world over have it too easy their lives are too comfortable heck all the duma deputies have these nice leather chairs and they have gold watches and assistants and all that stuff i think that if the duma deputies had to suffer through a military hell. for one month out of the year the corrupt comfort obsessed
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weaklings might get squeezed out of the system this training for the elite is a good idea but it needs to be done right and brutal but that's just my opinion. your friend post a photo from a vacation you can't. call it different. the boss repeats the same old joke of course you like. your ex-girlfriend still pens tear jerking poetry keep tabs nora's. we post only what really matters i don't see your facebook you speak.
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well or good well good oh well back go to beginning go beginning i did a free lesson there i was going to cause a report i max kaiser and windstar one saying war oh yeah what is it good for absolutely nothing oh yeah oh yeah war oh yeah what is it good for absolutely nothing say it again yell while edwin starr may have been big in motown he was obviously no economic genius for in the pages of the new york times this week economist blogger and professor tyler gallagher argues that the problem for our economy is in the west is that there just isn't enough all out war these days stacey. yes max this was the kind of tyler cowen he's a professor at george mason university sounds an awful lot like tony blair as well also in the pages of the papers here in the u.k. was calling for all out war in the middle east well the headline is the lack of
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major wars may be hurting economic growth and his argument is that the perception and persistence in expectation of peace is actually harming economic growth because the world just hasn't had that much warfare lately at least not by historical standards some of the recent headlines about iraq or south sudan make our world sound like a very bloody place but today's casualties pale in light of the tens of millions of people killed in the two world wars in the first half of the twentieth century even the vietnam war had many more deaths than any recent war involving an affluent country and even gives the chart mannix of these deaths as they see declining declining since the fifty's peace is deflationary and they're trying to create inflation so of course that is in the interest of those who enjoy the inflationary wealth confiscation scam to perpetrate war this is also part of the keynesian bag of tricks that would be put forward by people like paul krugman member paul krugman suggested that it would be great if aliens showed up
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and declared war on earth as a way to increase inflation and increase deficit spending so this is war is all was unfortunately the last refuge of an economic scoundrel who is an able to argue for free market capitalism and all of its. benefits they simply see war of the state these are statists they they're arguing for the state the new york times as an organ of state propaganda to propagandize war in this way is quite damaging to the population as a whole but it's not surprising on the show we've said many times that the u.s. foreign policy is in the u.s. dollars backed by the pentagon is backed by war and if stated to.
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