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i. think. i. would be prepared to take targeted and precise military action if and when we determine that the situation on the ground requires the white house sending military advisers to iraq in considering strikes to help stop the violence and how this forces through the devastated country. plus we report on how the militants in iraq are being boosted by waves of foreign volunteers from the west raising worries that on their return the launch a new europe. also the military assault on eastern ukraine steam ahead with four more people killed in the latest shelling despite president poroshenko has promised ceasefire. and spain is welcome to new king
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but it's not all celebrations with hundreds of rally in the capital. welcome and thanks for joining us once again money you're watching international. the u.s. is going to deploy three hundred military advisors to iraq would you how this militants a sweeping across the country and if the situation worsens drone attacks remain an option that's according to the american president himself even though he claimed atrocities can only be solved by political means point not as the details. president obama is leaving the door open for further action saying that the u.s. is prepared to take targeted military action if the violence in iraq spirals
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further out of control because of our increased intelligence resources we're developing more information about potential targets associated with. them going forward we will be prepared to take targeted and precise military action if and when we determine that the situation on the ground requires now that's a complicated gamble because u.s. intelligence agencies are having a difficult time identifying possible targets including insurgent encampments training camps weapons caches and other stationary supplies president obama also while he was addressing the media urged iran not to intervene in iraq but the irony here is that in recent days several u.s. leaders including republicans have publicly stated that the u.s. needs iran's help to hold baghdad and keep it from falling to the islamic insurgent group isis now the u.s. president says allow iraq to turn into a safe haven for isis poses great dangers to the u.s. and its european allies which is why some action needs to be taken of course the
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criticism is that iraq might not even be on the brink of a civil war if it was not for the u.s. invasion. and the latest reports from iraq suggest the. militants of taking a vital oil facilities in the city of baiji however the final target is the hardest reportedly planning to create a new islamist state within the ruins of the country. he's gone a chance you can reports now on the worsening situation in the region. iraq is on the verge of erupting isis is controlling a predominantly sunni part of the bach shia sphere there further onslaught kurds could split off at any moment a secretary and war is brewing now the government would have to make a strategic choice putting the entire army to attack and take back that city and risk a much wider sectarian fights or have this group in control of an area that was a response with all the consequences not just for iraq for the region and for the
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world i says belongs to a faction of sunni islam committed to radical fundamentalist convictions that they seek to impose on other muslims their advances have long stopped being just iraq's problem these darker green spots are where the population is predominantly shiite you can see iran is the main shiite power in the region syria is largely sunni but the government of bashar assad is alawite which is a branch of shiite islam isis being an extremist sunni forces managed to advance this far both in syria and iraq because of the support of sunni communities on their way iran wants to help iraq's shia government repel the onslaught of isis an initiative which washington seemingly supports but targeting sunni areas which isis controls could create a backlash with other sunni nations getting involved like saudi arabia which has already warned against foreign intervention there's not going to be a simple military solution to this issue isis is also controlling parts of syria
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fighting against the government that. these problems are intertwined in a really demonic way u.s. politicians have tried to present the conflict in syria as being between those who want democracy and those who don't for many of the crisis in iraq is an eye opener showing how complicated the dynamics in the region really are. going to check on r.t. washington d.c. . or the kurds live. in northeast iraq are also fighting on their own battle front after isis launched its advance kurdish forces were able to push the islamists out of the city of kirkuk taking control of a vital oil center and as defense consultant believes kurds have been given a chance to create their own independent state of the country has been broken away as it is except it's not officially broken where they wanted to separate the oil
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rich or kurdish region in the north away from the main iraq it's been set up from the beginning from the ninety's the americans gave them the possibility of a semi autonomous region now all it is is their been running the kurds have been running their own kurdish region since the ninety's. and now all they're going to do is break away from iraq once and for all and declare independence. the isis group fighting in both iraq and syria is estimated to have around ten thousand soldiers at its disposal with volunteers coming from right across the globe reports indicate there are three thousand foreigners in their ranks and according to the u.k. foreign minister around four hundred of them are british citizens auntie sarah firth reports. far from the front lines in iraq and syria and another battle is being fought in the u.k. this week band isis making it an offense to be a member of the group but the organization is still enjoying
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a wave of online european support dubbed by some of the isis fanboys well i've been speaking to some of the isis supporters and i vs one station media why is supporting isis despite the reported killings and he's applied for me that he. has come the closest yet to establishing an islamic caliphate why do you think isis holds such appeal for some of the people back home and i think. if you were to use this overused word in its. terrorism six places more than the one sort of that she got into trouble they're going to come back all the people here in the u.k. right now he went to the trouble to be identifying with this. to construe troops as a potential threat. existed ever since nine eleven so in a way that constituency has always been that it's possible that they'll be more
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encouraged by. what's happened in syria and become more active not as a direct result of so but they just feel they're on a sort of wave of islam isolation of the world and then you've got the people who actually come back and who can spread who can become active or recruit first and that's a really dangerous thing that's a meeting is the national security council this week prime minister david cameron said the government was doing all it could to address the threat posed by foreign fighters including interviewing individuals like u.k. ford is canceling all with touring u.k. passports and introducing new measures to prosecute days he planned to train. or is the rule. of four should be united states and its allies have known about isis and their activities and the danger they pose for a few years why haven't you stopped these groups from leverage why do you allow these groups to get stronger and stronger why do you allow certain countries to
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support them financially why do you allow foreign fighters to get to the last minute the number of british fighters that brood four hundred and growing professor griffin tells r.t. the government now desperately needs to strengthen its response to some of the most precious people coming by people who have been disillusioned by what's happened. and who can produce a counter narrative of people. seen death and killing and what an explosion does to a baby comes but intent on stopping it. that other side of the story could be more crucial than ever much of the british population watches in horror the grisly images of some of the killings taking place in iraq at the hands of isis fighters but to its european supporters i thought this is not the enemy the west is so i see reporting from london.
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we will be keeping our finger on the pulse of events in iraq both on screen and online you can log on to our website dot com for the latest updates on the story along with expert opinion and analysis. in eastern ukraine four people have been killed and six severely wounded during the latest military offensive on the city of slavyansk locals there say that there is a massive military presence around the city which is reportedly surrounded by the army and that's despite president poroshenko has promised cease fire under his new peace plan and what exactly the fourteen point plan to end violence in e.c.g.'s will be revealed a little later on friday earlier discussed his ideas were bloody and near putin meanwhile wants prosperous regions are looking more like ghost towns now tens of thousands of people have fled the affected area those who remain suffer from water
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food and power shortages not to mention nonstop artillery attacks and there are large queues forming on the border with russia as people hurried to take their children to say. it's very scary to see flying planes any time i saw them i ran to my mommy and daddy and tanks are also very scary. the fire gunshots at us and shelled out we had next to a couch in the basement we were very scared. it's a battlefield their concert on fire my parents hide in the basement with thankful to have a skid because we wouldn't have lasted a long while i don't understand why they're doing this it was lost everything. when radicals came into my city and started shooting people we had to leave the scariest part was when armed men came to our house asking about our men laws to write them
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a few days later my son told me that they shot the leg. of us but in spain hundreds of anti-monarchists have rallied in the capital madrid shortly after the new king philippe the six was sworn in the protest mood is high in the austerity plagued nation with the mood aggravated by the royal family's lavish lifestyle parties alexy reports from the city. just a few hours after spain had its new king officially sworn in people have hit the central square of madrid in a protest against the mourner keep the mood here is quite determined they are angry they're saying that mourners he has to go we're hearing chants of mourners means murder and monarchy is fascism that what these people are saying we've already seen scuffles i've seen at least a dozen people being beaten on the ground by the right police and taken to police violence even one of our cameraman from the r.t.s. spaniel crew got hit by a police and we have definitely seen larger protests over the past several weeks
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particularly on june the eighth one which it was practically paralyzed by protesters many people voicing concerns that spain must not remain mourner keep it must become every public and this is pretty much the demand of these people it's quite loud what they're saying but they are unhappy with their living conditions six million people are unemployed in spain that is almost a third of the country's population they say that a change of the face inside the royal palace will not change anything the whole system needs to be changed still to come for you this hour the best defense is a good old friends a radical group claiming to protect the rights of the jews the so by intimidating the victims with death threats also. tiny village in the philippines could be transformed into a multimillion dollar military base for the u.s. and the battle for the resource rich south china sea.
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treaty. people are going to new. york. taking everything. oh. my. most of us think the six. most cases most months. sometimes for nothing. this season and it's just. it's not just keep up the story can still be just if you see a stage eight look at the tax cuts speech because it still. stands.
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to genetics but eugenics vulgarized darwin science and punishment for an uncommitted crying i was sterilized to learn to believe in eighty feebleminded still today for the few i don't know why. but i still don't know why genetic improvement through forced sterilization the basis for nazi ideology don't stop at just sterilizing and now go to the point of deaths. for years rarely discussed. till now i'd really rather not talk about that but. i almost told you my language or what i will only react to situations i have read the reports to let you know for sure no i will leave them to stay current to comment on your latter point of the month to say it is mr kerry
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a car is on the docket no god. no more weasel words when you vade a direct question prepared for a change when you throw a punch be ready for a bad. freedom of speech and down to freedom to crush. right to see. her straight. and i think you're.
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welcome back you're watching r.t. international next for you a journalist's investigation into crimes committed by the radical group the jewish defense league has ended in death threats for the man trying to expose the wrongdoings while those he tried to intimidate jonathan mode are now due before a court on friday as marina cos of a reports the group may have crossed the line many times before. never know what they have a strong following and a clear message as only we are here present we are jews noble and cruel we are well trained well equipped we're not afraid and we should be more afraid of us than we are of them the jewish defense league claims its goal is to protect the jewish community from hatred and anti-semitism but some jews accuse it of doing the very same thing it's meant to be fighting against and these people say the organization is not protecting anyone what it's like in those who don't share the same views and opinions jonathan mall adopted claims he felt the wrath of the league when he
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started researching them in paris i exposed with my friends some. felony crazy for doing this job in september two thousand and twelve my car of been bombed by. another bomb i received death threats and a couple months ago i went to cover a protest against anti-semitism they reconnects me and they were like fifteen people jumping on me break a my camera and beaten me beating me up on the ground what is being done to prevent this from happening again what is the police doing at one point intervened and took me out of the protest and i told them there were many of them on the place so i told them why don't you a resident oh you would do anything you do creates a riot the jewish defense league is an international right wing organization even though it's considered a terrorist group by the f.b.i. it's completely legal and countries like canada and france where it has around three hundred members. at the crease is present of course but it's not everywhere
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so we have to do what they are incapable of doing correctly from attacking left wing students pro stinney and groups and even writers at their own book launches the league has been accused of being behind a string of violence but the victims say the police have no interest in investigating and accuse them of willful and action. is. pretty strong and in the police we know there are some people that will to do their job but at some point you have people in here that are blocking the fight when those people go on trial the judges most of the time they're being they're being lenient in two thousand and four a documentary actually filmed two members of the j.p.l. training in an official building that was being leased by the police many were quick to connect the dots if the police dog watching them while they were training how could their arrest really have no desire to talk to us when we contacted them about their complicity speaks for itself. do not get in our way because will hurt
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you very very very badly various local movements an answer rices them activists have called for the group to be banned the french authorities have ignored those calls and those who feel victimized by the group are left looking over their shoulder marina cos of our reporting from paris for r.t. . and over to call my new tool to keep protesters at bay is hitting the markets will tell you all about you and many drones which are capable of foreign pepper spray and paint balls and what critics say they're dangerous directs the makes it. also there for you the world's biggest eye in the sky the european southern observatory has blown the top of a three thousand meter high mountain in chile so it could set of the largest ever telescope. but if you're going through
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a moment like these policies i think you know. pleasure to have you with us here on our t.v. today i wrote a researcher. a small village in the philippines may have to make way for a huge u.s. military base as part of the asian nations fight over the resource rich south china sea and this could bolster america's military presence in the region where washington already has tens of thousands of troops dozens of bases journalist james corbet working in the area believes that putting more pressure on china could lead to a bit of conflict this has to be seen as just part of a trend towards the deepening of the u.s.
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philippine military alliance that goes right along with the developing u.s. japanese military alliance the u.s. australian military alliance so i think this has to be seen as more part of a regional trend that's developing both china and the u.s. and its allies are playing to their respective political bases and they're looking for economic stimulus that comes from militarization so they are looking to divert more government funds towards the defense sector i think it's part of a feedback loop where one side makes a move so the other is seen to respond to it so the other side responds to the response that cetera and i think when we're caught in that type of feedback loop it runs the risk of running into a some type of military confrontation scenario simply because when you have all of these ships in these highly disputed territories that are at times running into each other as we start to see these types of incidents that could become a hot war scenario perhaps inadvertently. on us take a quick look at some of the global headlines for you. starting with torrential
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rains that have triggered massive floods in parts of bulgaria leaving at least ten people dead near the black sea resort of wagner hundreds have been evacuated after the deluge blocked roads and swept away cars heavy rains also damaged houses and flooded villages outside the capital saffir forecasts the sixteen weather will continue throughout friday. i swear kenyan security forces have killed five militants suspected of involvement in deadly attacks door to door shootings by the group claimed the lives of at least sixty people in the coastal region earlier this week kenya's been supporting the fight against the somali based al shabaab which is made at the target of repeated attacks by insurgents. in the u.s. some seventy five scientists may have been exposed to live anthrax the potential exposure occurred after researchers working in a high level bio security lab in atlanta failed to follow proper procedures to
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inactivate the highly dangerous bacteria government auditor's had previously voiced serious concerns over safety issues at the atlanta laboratory. for thousands of children in rumania seeing their mothers or fathers is becoming a rare luxury that's because the crippling economic situation in the country is driving parents to seek work abroad but i strive to provide for a better future is already coming at a high cost as artesia gore piece going off explains. it's become very rare that ten year old willing to you know yes to see her mother she left romania to work in italy a year ago leaving her daughter with her grandparents there was a it's very sad because i have no one to talk about my problems to this and really is younger and much more introverted he prefers to spend more time alone both of his parents work in germany while he's also being raised by his grandmother. they
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sent the toys and clothes but i don't remember when was the last time i saw them. unfortunately nowadays in romania cases such as well in china and drays are far from unusual so this here is called the heart of wishers it's filled with notes from the children where they wrote their wishes and they were told that they would come true next year so all these notes are about parents for instance this one says i wish my mom would come back from london bring toys and then would go together to another countries another one here says i wish my mom would come back from italy and i wish my dad would find a job. sure these kids haven't been abandoned by their parents in fact one of the main reasons they want to work abroad is to ensure a better life for them but the long distance relationship can be much harder on children than it may she they feel isolated. might feel depressed feelings. and they may be not having so much friends like
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this. according to official figures over eighty thousand remaining children have their parents working abroad but n.g.o.s are reporting much higher numbers region three hundred fifty thousand since most parents used to head off without notifying authorities. the situation is they. are especially when the mother is. leaving. mainly for the smaller kids because they're very attached to their mothers. and there are so when. especially when the girls started on a sense and they need some guidance and support recently the government passed a law obliging all parents not only to notify the state when we head off to work abroad but to appoint someone to be responsible for their children in court while they're gone but frankly with the average salary in romania and billy reaching four hundred euros per month it's unlikely parents would stop looking for what the broad
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anytime soon aged you've got the good old r.t. bucharest romania. to stay with us they'll be more news headlines at the top of the hour up next martin will be breaking the set on the rise of sexual abuse cases in u.s. colleges. eugenics but eugenics vulgarize ation of darwin science punishment for an on committed crying i was sterilized to learn to believe in eighty feebleminded still today for the future i don't know why. but i still 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
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discussed. till now i'd really rather not talk about that right. some people say that when it happens at some point in time not a very nice one the curtain falls down. at some point and i could no longer stand it i decided to kill myself. even though i was scared of what i'd done but i punched but i didn't understand it when a man religion says hand the woman should. run from him. everyone who sees this video to also speak to the children's father. has then became a controllable she felt that he could do anything. why you're crying don't cry
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i know i'm tired of crying too don't cry then. phone low party people i'm abby martin and this is breaking at the sat so today obama gave a highly anticipated press conference announcing our own plans to move forward in iraq because he spoke mostly in a vague military jargon and had to listen closely to understand the underlying u.s. response to isis is growing influence while obama insisted no troops would be sent to actually and gauge in combat he did announce that he would be sending up to three hundred cars.

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