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eight g.b. . but he was. president promises his troops will soon lay down arms a graphic video surfaces online showing body parts scattered across a residential area after the latest army shelling in kiev's a military crackdown on. the un condemns the killing of two russian journalists in eastern ukraine and calls for a full investigation the purge died during army shelling while filming fleeing refugees. militants close in on baghdad off to run sacking half the country and trying to seize its largest oil refinery u.s. troops have been sent to secure their embassy which is seen as a top target for islamists. and also this hour the king of spain officially
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advocates and hums the throne to a new generation of royalty amid a growing republican movement. live from the new center here in moscow twenty four hours a day i mean a real welcome to our to international. ukraine's new president petro poroshenko says his forces will soon unilaterally hole through offensive in the east of the country but residential areas in besieged cities are scarred by weeks of shelling we are about to show you graphic footage of the aftermath in the city of kramatorsk witness film the damage and several victims shortly after the attack and choose they at least ten locals were killed as you can see buildings are full of bullet holes and body parts are also scattered side one woman carrying a bucket of cherries home from market was reportedly among the victims there is
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a constant stream of footage coming in showing devastated residential areas including churches schools and hospitals left in ruins ukraine's president also hinted they sucking off his foreign minister who made headlines after making on see every public remarks a bite of blood and we were put in here with more details. there are reports in fact that poroshenko has already put forth a candidate for the position of the foreign minister has found himself in the limelight after being out of a riot by a russian embassy in kiev and saying something along the lines of this let's have a look at the oklahoma cooktop because it was so good i think that the three that you know. now whether or not this decision to lay off distance it has somehow been influenced by a phone call which was made last last night by the russian president. is not yet clear
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on who can get these two news items cannot be connected together however what is clear is that a short term we unilaterally ceasefire which partially promised to install in southeastern ukraine could be a direct result of that phone conversation the unilateral ceasefire is not going to last for very long says should give time to all armed groups in the region to lay down arms or russia's foreign minister believes any step towards dialogue that includes the self-defense forces in eastern ukraine is a step in the right direction. if this initiative is aimed at making a ceasefire all inclusive then so defense forces who oppose the current leadership must also be able to exercise their free will if the initiative includes an invitation by the cube with the words to start dialogue with the southeast this would be in line with what poroshenko promised and it is what we expect from him.
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the un security council is urging an investigation into violence against journalists in eastern ukraine after a crew from a russian t.v. channel were killed by army shelling near the city of the the only survivor of the attack was the cameraman he ses the attack targeted a group of refugees he believes it was not accidental fire. the crew is filming may in fact you ation of refugees when a shell hit their group these are images of civilians leaving the scene seconds before they explode signed engineer antelope died immediately reporter was taken to hospital with a severe injuries but died on the operating table some thirty minutes after that here's how the common man described what occurred. you could who knows we went to the place where according to the information we got they were refugees self-defense
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groups were helping the refugees to flee the areas under attack and when i reached the forefront of the self defense activists told me to hide behind a big car and i film from that spot as self-defense activist raised his hands to show the refugees the safe path at this moment the first shell exploded and damaged his hand now a journalist stayed further away to check i turned my head and saw that the second and the third shots went up exactly where they were i didn't see my colleagues as my view of them was blocked by trees i only managed to film people dragging away or self-defense activists he had no legs there was a road between us between our journalists and me i could hear mortar shells exploding all the time they both had press written on their clothes but that didn't save them. witnesses say the shell exploded out the feats of sound engineer on to and from the ocean he was twenty seven years of age reporter eagle corney look at least behind a wife and
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a seven year old daughter the bodies of the journalists have now been sent to moscow. the killings have triggered an international outcry the organization for security and cooperation in europe called on key have to find those responsible and hold them accountable the new york based committee to protect journalists condemned the killing and urged safety for journalists working in ukraine reporters without borders the call for a probe into the deaths well and said the violence against journalists has reached on priest the dented levels russia's envoy to the un vitaly churkin he also called skin distance from reporters in ukraine worse than during the iraq invasion. with a lot of experience in other conflict areas say that this for the first time and the few. being done to get the government forces never before them about is i mean if they were pointing out that even during saddam hussein times when baghdad was a being. invaded by the u.s.
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troops of the journalists could the could operate them. no physical problems arose for them from the government this is not the case they've been until now. meanwhile thousands of miners have been rallying into next the end of the military operation crowds took to the streets to call in ukraine's government to stop the killing of civilians across the rest of southeast which hosts the nation's largest mines and industrial areas for months of spoke to them. locals say that one coal miners come out to protest and the situation had really reached a boiling point is the general sense here is that the people are fed up with what's going on in their own backyard the leaders all this coal miners protests are giving the president a political mission called one c four hours to end the payment of action against his own people in the east of ukraine they say if the bloodshed continues they're ready to get out of the coal mines and take up arms in order to protect their homes and families. and if you are watching our team ukraine be ready to switch to our
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online content because kiev is planning to bomb for more russian channels including our own at r.t. dot com for minute by minute updates on the volatile situation in the country. moving on sunni militants have attacked iraq's largest oil refinery in the north of baghdad is on high alert with isis to harvest closing in on the capital meanwhile the pentagon is beefing up security so far the u.s. president has stopped short of sending in combat troops but is this a coughing up reports that may alter. armed to the teeth determined to carry on the march across iraq the islamic state in a syria also known as isis is quickly emerging as one of the world's most powerful jihad its groups the group's goal just what the name implies an islamic sunni caliphate stretching across the middle east isis already controlled large swaths of
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land in syria and iraq's anbar province last week they moved on iraq's north. seemingly overnight isis captured the second largest city of mosul more than half a million residents were forced to flee. we were afraid of isis and escaped more soon because they have no mercy there are people they killed they have no conscience that was just the start after mosul a lightning speed advance towards baghdad with cities and towns falling to isis along the way as iraqi soldiers fled their posts they left behind tanks humvees trucks and weapons paid for by the americans and now in the hands of isis the militants have their supporters to the shiite dominated government of prime minister nouri al maliki has alienated iraq's sunni population isis is also
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believed to receive financial support from sympathetic gulf monarchies and with iran backing the iraqi government there's fear the internal conflict could become a regional one all sides are bracing for the worst in the capital shiite militia men are responding to a call to arms from their religious leaders ready to defend their capital and their faith the iraqi army is also fighting back but this means airstrikes against sunni cities and that could make the already sectarian conflict go from bad to worse sitting out the fight at least for now are the americans with the hottest determined to press on the question is for how long. lucie county r.t. and that is because the u.s. has already sent a hundred soldiers to protect its embassy in baghdad there are also warships in the persian gulf dozens of helicopters over five hundred marines all on standby however
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qatar has won the u.s. that any military intervention to prop up the iraqi government would be seen as an act of war against the entire sunni are a world the middle east is of course a melting pot of diverse religious groups marked here on the map in red are the countries where sunni muslims make up the majority of those include guitar and of course america's closest ally in the region saudi arabia iraq is currently on the shiite ruin isis obviously what's changed washington is not considering teaming up with iran to prevent an overthrow military affairs expert eric margolis say the current turmoil in iraq is bringing up traditional alliances. the u.s. has more interests. to. share her room behind the scenes who are students. who are very.
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much goes things who were. it's very ironic because not just only a few weeks ago the. congressman will never. be run as a terrorist nation never. know who to go into greece and so. who caused the mourners. of the roma this week it's going to be very. everybody's a terrorist. do go thinking out which terrorists the word. staying with iraq india's foreign ministry says forty of its nationals employed as construction workers have been kidnapped in the city of mosul which is not controlled by isis their wives in india say the man called them three days ago to say they were in trouble turkey is also investigating claims that
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a number of its nationals were abducted near kirkuk well building a hospital coming up truth hidden behind bars a u.s. media reports suggest three kuantan the most detainees were actually kill about the prison in two thousand and six the spine of washington claiming the deaths were suicides. also america's new plan to convince the world it's g.m. products aren't a risk to human health using a new super banana all the details intriguing ones that are used to. economic growth. for. companies now like. what if the
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public doesn't like street. just approaching fifteen minutes into the hour here on r.t. international a new king will be trying to night in spain the senate has approved the abdication
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of one carlos who is stepping down after almost four decades on the throne but as the son philippe for person take over until the monarchy protests have been breaking out on the streets alexei your chevy is new trade for us. the fact that essential madrid is now patrolled by more than seven thousand policemen and national guard speaks volumes the government has every reason to be concerned because of the pro-republican protests this was said that they will hit the streets during the coronation ceremony despite the officials slapping a ban on all mass gatherings in the next two days the general discontent of the people with the government in spain has been long they blame the government for their poor living conditions in fact almost a third of the country is unemployed that is more than six million people out of jobs and we spoke to some of the report the republican activists have been saying that a change of the name inside the palace does not change the system and it's the system which they are protesting against the recent polls more than sixty two percent of the spanish population would welcome the idea of
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a referendum to determine whether spain should remain as more of the or should it revert to the republican form of government but the country's prime minister said that this referendum would not be held that contradicts the constitution and this is so that angered the protests the royal family didn't or didn't do itself any favors by being involved in several corruption scandals this is also angering the protests and they are assuring us that they will hit the streets as they've done before in fact ever since king juan carlos announced his abdication on june the second there have been protests on june the mass protests downs of thousands hit the streets of madrid paralyzing the spanish capital and we are pretty much expecting the same thing to happen in the next two days make sure you state you keep track of everything up and everything happening in madrid and we'll provide all the news as we get it. crying princes taking the throne of the low point for the royal family however despite the recent controversy surrounding one car this is rain many will remember him for the positive changes he brought to the country.
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came after dictatorship by. it's true that he how to open. to. the war know how. tree he played a political role. with the arrival of democracy i don't think there was this strong political role. now the i go in king is one of europe's most colorful royal should we say among many famous slip ups in two thousand and seven he asked venezuela's president hugo chavez to literally shut up but he's in good company the u.k. duke of edinburgh famously told british students in china at the risk of looking like the locals if they stayed too long in the country also the current king of sweden criticised by some media outlets for being a party or the fed themself to the press by saying there's
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a broad definition to sex i'm just trip clubs. on with the all royals being consigned to the history books questions are being asked as to whether the next generation will help europe's hereditary monarchy survive in the twenty first century more analysis on not just the take away oz always on our website. america's notorious guantanamo bay prison is being accused of a string of cover ups a recent report in the u.s. media suggests three couples who were actually killed there in two thousand and six the spy at the official claims they committed suicide the u.s. military still refuses to release updates on the ongoing detainee hunger strike at the facility the language used by washington to describe a fence up the side well it's making it especially hard to verify the facts suicide attempts are simply described as acts of self harm according to the u.s. torture is not torture get more it's actually an enhanced interrogation technique
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and the hunger strikers are religious fosters a painful force feeding of detainees is referred to as internal feeding even though the controversial practice has been condemned worldwide as torture one professor who investigated the deaths at the facility in two thousand and six told r.t. it's virtually impossible to commit suicide there. well we have compelling evidence however of the men they didn't appear to have done in the manner that the government claims that the government claims they hung themselves in their cells by committing suicide and the problem with that is that there were five guards watching twenty four cells not all of which were occupied and there were five guards and all times including several walking the short little corridor because the plea and videos and if you read through the the n.c.i.
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as investigators. you would read that the men were had been did more than two hours when they were brought to the clinic and then rigor mortis you know if you have five girls gardy or eighteen to twenty people and three of them die and are flipped hanging in their cells for hours people should go to jail because the military failed to comply with their obligation. meanwhile two convicts have been put to death using lethal injection in the u.s. the spied a box very recently bought six accused of an inmate they latest death sentences went ahead with an instant in georgia missouri and a third man will be executed later this week in florida but back in april an oklahoma convict was left writhing in pain for almost an hour before he died after being injected with an experimental lethal cocktail. on our website right now packard is on a mission to turn the computer industry green the i.t.
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giant has come up with a technology that could reduce energy usage by the equivalent of several nuclear power plants. plus the u.n. tell syria to speed up its chemical disarmament efforts at r.t. dot com for a check up on how damascus is struggling to get rid of its chemical arsenal ahead of this month's. right on the scene. the first strike. and i think that you're. on our reporters. in. the in the. america is putting new super by knowledge through a six week human trial genetically enhanced on the victim and rich it's claimed they could improve the diet of people in east africa but scientists michael hansen
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thinks this is nothing more than a publicity stunt to improve the reputation of g.m. giants. things like golden rice or golden bananas are attempts to say oh we can use this technology for a useful purpose that will help the poor so i see it more as propaganda purposes and i think the reason that they are trying so desperately with the genetic engineering is it does have a bad name eighty five percent of the global acreage in engineered crops are all herbicide tolerant they're designed to be sprayed with herbicides they're doing they're designed to have you spray more pesticides on them part of the problem is in the in the united states for example we don't require safety assessments or feeding studies before these products are allowed on the market before these are even fed to people they should go through a safety assessment. and be fed you know not only to animals before
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they're given to humans because in other countries this would not be allowed. to other news for across this hour dozens of indonesian immigrants are missing and eight people dead after a both capsized sinking off the west coast of malaysia the wooden vessel was not the sign for the open sea and was carrying ninety seven indonesians including women and children so far sixty survivors have been accounted for and a search is currently ongoing officials say the passengers were illegal migrant workers trying to return home ahead of the muslim holy month of ramadan. al-jazeera journalist up to the house being released from an injection place and after more than four months on hunger strike in protest as prolonged detention he spent ten months behind bars with. these arrests most needed trucked on an islamist supporters of the ousted president mohamed morsi and just officials accuse the network of supporting more she's muslim brotherhood. is the news for now but if you
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