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to keep them talk so much fuel cells from scene peacefully to front we travel in search of the song. we've got the future covered. a mother and her five year old son are killed by ukrainian army shell even as the president outlines of peace plan which includes a ceasefire. iraqi forces are on the brink of losing control of the country's biggest oil refinery to islamist radicals out of reportedly already taken over an airport and are advancing on baghdad. also a group set up to fight semitism adopts a militant tactics in france threatening to kill those who don't share their point of view.
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wherever you're watching from in the world welcome here to moscow on to our to international i mean only our top story they leave us government military offensive in the east ukrainian city of slavyansk has killed at least four people among them a thirty year old woman and her five year old song who were killed when a mortar shell at their back garden. that have suggested that. this is not to seal the border for the. our teacher is in the region we can speak to some very emotional scenes we've been witnessing very understandably emotional scenes i should say tell us exactly what occurred. well the shell shell landed right in the backyard of a private residence at that time thirty year old a woman. was there with her five year old son are sandy and as the shell landed in
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the backyard the woman was killed instantly and for more let's hear right now from the woman's mother who spoke with an idea shortly before she was killed. in the life my mother said look they started i told her to get in the basement immediately she grabbed her son turned around and that's when the shell hit she just cease to exist. five year olds are saying me well he wasn't a killed instantly and he was a rush to to the hospital with multiple head ones that the doctors were working on the little boy to just trying to say little boy's life then entire night but the surgeon was not able to save the boy's life they later said that they discovered at least thirty shell fragments in his body and the family says survived by the
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father and the father has also managed to speak to also here's what he said today learn his kind of children who were shooting from the kind of to mountain with high caliber more times leaving show creators let the ukrainian authorities c.v.s. and draw their own conclusions weans letdowns will not give up that easily with the close of the once when you. well elsewhere shouting continues in this area and yet another christian orthodox church was it's are get it and it was partially destroyed and the church as a caretaker had been killed as a result of the shouting meanwhile despite they announce plans to implement a cease fire by other shango the shelling continues in the east of ukraine and russian president vladimir putin spoke to reporters and called for the second already and urged him to to implemented ceasefire as soon as possible meanwhile the other poroshenko himself is about to unveil for some veil
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a fourteen points peace plan here in eastern ukraine no we're yet to find out what exactly the points are but will give them to us soon as they're available they are available on calls for both the latest developments in slavyansk thank you. the iraqi army and jihadi fighters are engaged in fierce fighting over the economically vital oil refinery on talent for airport reports suggest government forces have been overwhelmed the taliban are on the show rounded up the refinery washington state it's dispatching what it calls three hundred military advisers to iraq let's have a listen to want of president obama had to say about things because of our increased intelligence resources we're developing more information about potential targets associated with. him 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 well to better understand how exactly the u.s.
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president is planning to help iraq let's listen in to our tease abi martin as she picks apart the details of his speech in the latest edition of breaking the set here's a preview of her take on obama's words. because he spoke mostly in a vague military jargon you 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 engage in combat he did announce that he would be sending up to three hundred military advisors to the country sounds innocent right unless you consider the fact that so-called military advisors were the original precursors to the us invasion of vietnam but probably the most interesting part about obama's speech was his claim that iraq is a sovereign nation that has the right to choose its own leaders seriously when did iraq become a sovereign nation the minute the us would realize that it's of war in the country result in the creation of yet another failed state because see no western powers have done nothing but violate iraq's autonomy by dismantling its government
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launching depleted uranium and white phosphorous attacks an occupied its people for the last decade this is old news to me the rapid advance of the islamic state in iraq and syria group is a major cause of concern internationally they are targeting the couple been plotting to establish an islamic order in the ruins of a failed state parties guy nature if you can reports on how iraq could already be falling apart. 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 as secretary and war is brewing now the government will have to make a strategic choice putting the entire army to attack and take back the city and risk a much wider sectarian fight or i 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 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
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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 fighting against the government of bashar assad these problems are intertwined in
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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 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. . originally numbering around ten thousand fighters the ranks of isis are now swelling by the day including recruits from the west intelligence analysts estimate three thousand foreigners have already signed up with isis on britain's foreign minister says four hundred of them well they are believed to be british the steady flow of fresh recruits says in part thanks to an intricate online campaign being carried out by web savvy jihadists recruiters on their efforts appear to be burning fruit take a look here is one twitter user from the u.k. voicing his approval of the isis onslaught in iraq and syria this is another one from germany this time hoping that you how this will claim victory and it's not
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just in the west either the internet supporters of isis come from all across the globe in europe the us or even asia or surf earth has more. from the front lines in iraq in syria and another battle is being fought in the u.k. this week banned isis making it an offense to be a member of the group but the organization is still enjoying a wave of online european support dubbed by some the fanboys well i've been speaking to some of the supporters online and i vs one station media why 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 here and i think. if you were to use
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this overused word in its. terrorism so this is more of a threat the one sort of actually going to travel. all the people here in the u.k. where no one ever traveled to be identifying with. the two constituents as a potential threat. exists ever since nine eleven in a way that constituency has always been that it's possible that they'll be more encouraged by. what's happened in syria and become more active not as a direct result of sort of. feel they're on the sort of wave of islam isolation of the world and then you've got the people who actually come by and who can spread who can become recruiters 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 the u.k.
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borders canceling all with touring u.k. passports and introducing new measures to prosecute days he planned to train. at brule. of fortune the united states and its allies have known about isis and their activities and the danger they pose for a few years now why haven't you stopped these groups from deliveries why do you allow these groups to get stronger and stronger why do you allow certain countries to support them financially why do you allow foreign fighters to get into the last estimate that the number of british fighters have brewed 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 are pretty disillusioned by what's happened. and who can produce a counter narrative of people. seemed killing explosion does to a baby. intent on stopping it that other side of the
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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 support is ice this is not the enemy the west is surf. reporting from london ok for more perspective on the online success of vises on its apparent appeal to some westerners let's speak to middle east journalist current look felt thanks indeed for joining us current you're in iraq earlier this year what do the people think of isis there. well the people i met definitely despised be they shia sunni or kurds or whoever and i spoke to some people who actually were attacked by them in the west of the country near the you protests river and no they
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didn't support them but we must admit there are some people who are taking use of their firepower to fight another kind of or against the iraqi government you know different versions of isis have been popping up since the invasion in two thousand and three in iraq what are they a symptom of well their sources definitely. who was first created in the eighty's to find the soviet union at that time their troops in afghanistan they moved to other places and they came after the occupation of iraq by the u.s. troops and others they appeared in. iraq well they are taking use of a certain political discontent among the population specially the western iraqi tribes who feel neglected and sidelined and repressed by the government in baghdad
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so they are taking use of a political internal conflict but they are fighting for a different agenda not the u.k. government they also said there are four hundred britons or so in the ranks of isis what do you make of that figure large. it is large indeed and there have been numbers by that this is the official number i guess the in official number might be even higher and they estimate that about two thousand fighters from europe from different european countries france has about seven hundred fighters among the isis in syria and in iraq so they say all over from european countries about two thousand fighters fighting over there why has europe been so slow to act on the success recruitment success as well of isis are not worried by the threat to be honest i think their. actual astonishment is quite hypocritical they have
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been supported these groups to fight governments like in afghanistan or in iraq or in syria on their behalf and we have seen that the group of the friends of syria of which germany is a member they supported militarily financially and politically groups fighting bashar al assad know these groups shifting over to iraq and they aren't actually by gulf states and for example the german government the german arms sales have more than doubled to these gulf states over the last two and three years so they have known what they are creating and now they are afraid of the spirit they created that they come back to their homeland so i think it's quite with a critical look for the middle east journalist we thank you for your input today especially from somebody who's been on the ground in iraq thank you. thank you.
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coming up in our to international a surprise for greenpeace the environmental group that wants are they smoking at nato off of the head of the alliance speculates about someone like me bonkers more not coming up. on a tiny village in the philippines could soon turn into a multi million dollar u.s. military base as washington expands its presence in a highly disputed and resource rich territories near the site trying to stay.
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on the air and the financial world. seems to goldman's cannot stop it is the only taking the demand to credit not going to get any economic benefit in life there are. so. choose your language. actually we can with the influential center say still some. choose to use the consensus you can. choose the opinions that you think are great to. choose the stories that impact your life choose the access to your office. welcome back to the program the head of nato has made some remarks that has shocked eco campaigners across the world understood rasmussen has publicly claimed that
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russia is colluding with environmental groups including greenpeace to undermine shale gas exploration and force europe to import russian gas his statement has left these groups bemused with a greenpeace spokesman asking what they have been smoking over at nato h.q. however the western alliance itself was quick to distance itself from the allegations saying it was his personal opinion not the official line i'm glad to say to talk more on this i'm joined live by vladimir putin prov head of the energy unit of green peace russia thanks for joining us today sir what's been your reaction to resolutions claims that you're going to fish and others are being bought by the russian government to oppose fracking. well it's quite different book you'll hear about that sort of being seriously so that's why ration of all british colleagues was very very human there they. will get a small nato headquarters but before m.p. year yes. position of greenpeace. shale gas franken
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technology so-called broken technology. is very kind side of the position of russian government which. also see the negative consequences of these kind of took no notice or environment. so this is kind of maybe the reason why why it was such a reaction from from the office so many took. yes let's just talk a little bit more not because so he was prompted to make the allegation has he produced any evidence then to back it up. well there was no any evidence and we can see that it was a private opinion without real serious background but this is. a kind of continuation off do political debate here at the end you know. where they want to it's full we can understand to talk dependence on fossil fuel or implication
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so this is kind of a result of this kind. because now he's looking to escape from these kind of defendants it does lead to a question why is ramos and even concerned about the anti fracking movement nato is after all of the fence alliance isn't it. well frank in the. united states to be out of. gas. globally in the world and economies are based off of any military. issues so that's why. they were nato but this is quite you political issue which which strike. so that's why we concentrate and environmental consequences often these kind of technologies so that's why for us it's much more important to see that if there were a result of this kind of debates yeah we should also clarify nato said that this
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was the secretary general's personal views but he did say it in a public speech so surely he's expected his remarks to be taken seriously. well as i said it's very difficult to accept and take this remark and quote seriously. so that's why we try to calm and base this this kind of statement so pure more so i think it's not serious. i don't know what was the background. but i'm here to prof head all of the energy unit i greenpeace russia great to get your input there thank you sir thank you. members all right wing vigilante groups will be going on trial in france later today charged with making death threats against a journalist but they are not ultra nationalist or neil nazis even they are in fact activists from the jewish defense league which claims to be battling against anti semitism. the story i know.
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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 but attacking those who don't share the same views and opinions jonathan mall adopted claims he felt there i felt the league when he started researching them in paris i exposed my friends some. fellow in the in the book crazy for doing this job in september two thousand and twelve my car of been bombed by a. bomb i received death threats and a couple months ago i went to cover a protest against anti-semitism. me and there were like fifteen people jumping on
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me breaking my camera and. beating me up on the ground what is being done to prevent this from happening again what is the police doing at one point there. intervened and took me out of the protests and i told them there were many of them on the place so i told them why don't you a resident oh if we do anything it would create 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. the crease is present of course but it's not everywhere so we have to do what they are incapable of doing correctly from attacking left wing students pro palestinian groups and even writers of 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 a pretty strong in the police we know there are some people the will to do their
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job but at some point you have people in europe 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 members of the j d l training in an official building that was being leased by the police if the police are calling them they are training how could they arrest them the league had no desire to talk to us when we contacted them about their publicity speaks for itself you do not get in our way because will hurt you very very very badly various local movements an answer rices and 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. . research associate at the institute of international and strategic relations in
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france sees that during our breaks of anti semitism the jewish defense league is seen as an alternative to the police force. probes that have. because quiet are popular among the jewish community simply because it's a they believe is does not protect us so we're going to protect those ourselves and now since the beginning of the years to a wave of faith and there's something that takes broke here and for all they do is definitely gaz been seen by many as quite a soup to the police here in is that it is quite. close really because of police because if you police know that it has a get maybe not due to prevent terrorist attack but to attack people which led being doing for years most of the people is a tag where of course muslims just little box run the jewish defense league burst onto the scene several years ago after an anti semitic scandal involving the
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british fashion designer john galliano he had been caught on camera in a park cafe expressing his love for hitler and insulting to women he believed to be jewish the group responded by later targeting the premises covering it in posters labeling galliano an enemy of both israel and fronts. a small village in the philippines could find itself a sucker official pawn in its cover sources of this site that china is a huge american military base has planned for the sea maria with the philippines looking to use increased military cooperation with washington as a way of keeping china the two allies are planning joint drills near a disputed area that beijing claims ownership of this month but journalist james corbett believes pressuring china could lead to bigger conflict. this has to be seen as just part of a trend towards the deepening of the us and philippine military alliance that goes right along with the developing us japanese military alliance the us australian
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military alliance so i think this has to be seen as more part of a regional trend that's developing both china and the us 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 etc 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. time for some more international headlines now if. i. were violent protesters or one of those current world cup cities the march to the month
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free public transport started peacefully but reportedly turned violent for the local market for joining the demonstration protesters started to smash banks and car dealerships i'm pleased responded with tear gas. a truck explosion in western syria's provinces left at least thirty people dead medics save it death toll is likely to rise with fifty others injured many critically the bomb laden vehicle detonated and the village destroying several nearby houses police say the terrorist attack was carried out by rebels fighting the assad government more than three years of civil war in syria have left an estimated one hundred sixty thousand people did. this really soldiers have shot dead a fifteen year old palestinian boy and seriously injured three more in the west bank they fired in response to the teenagers throwing stones the troops were involved in the search for three is really students who disappeared two weeks ago israel accuses hamas of abducting them but human rights activists say i.d.f.
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soldiers often open fire and palestinians even when they are unarmed and pose no danger. it's almost time for sophie co finding out whether europe's ready to brush environmental concerns under the carpet on them breaks oil and gas fracking. to genetics but eugenics vulgarize ation of darwin science punishment for an uncommitted crying i was never the least one of them for believing 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.

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