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i mean if it did you pretend you knew got very upset what can you do about the ukraine for it so. today's top stories to end their review of the week's headlines the ukrainian military on anti-government fighters accuse each other of ignoring a declared team's fire as more civilian lives are lost in army attacks over the last few days. israeli troops raid media outlets in the west bank including r.t. seizing computer hard drives and damaging equipment in a crackdown on the palestinian administration. fierce fighting takes place in iraq with islamist taking control of the new territories and forcing millions to flee to violence while washington considers airstrikes to stop the militants. as spain's new king is sworn in and we'll look at some of the highlights of his predecessor's rule and ask whether the era of charismatic european royals has and it.
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which international coming here live from moscow with me marina joshing ukrainian army and anti-government protesters in the east are pointing the finger at each other for violating a cease fire imposed by president bush and yes part of his peace plan on friday falls a terrible week for local civilians who lost over a dozen loved ones as a result of army shelling. god you know. that is what we would. do we. need to let. you know that you. know you could then you would not does the media let the detroit. go ahead where they're going to go you're going to go to
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hear. this and grow some food it was apparently shot in common tours and shows the aftermath of an artillery attack on tuesday tam people are believed to have been killed down as you can see buildings are full of bullet holes and body parts are scattered outside in a similar attack on the neighboring slovyansk a young mother and her five year old son were killed when a mortar shell landed in their backyard. so it's a good point so. that's what the judge did. but didn't let's see if. he slipped out really dealing with to be. used. the military crackdown in eastern ukraine has turned cities across the region into ghost towns tens of thousands of people have fled remaining residents are
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struggling to find food or medical supplies long queues for water empty shelves and grocery stores are common seen in large cities like slovyansk two russian journalists were killed in the ukrainian army shelling near the city of lugansk this week and the un has already demanded an investigation into the doubt this is the moment when the tragedy occurred. the crew from their a c a one channel worth filming a report about this group of refugees when a mortar shell exploded next to them correspondent eager carney who was severely injured and taken to hospital but died on the operating table you sound engineer was also killed in the shelling ukrainian authorities claim it was anti-government forces behind the death and ukraine's representative said the un has implied then journalists have only themselves to blame for being in the wrong place at the wrong time the only surviving member of the three man crew shot this video and described
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the moment the shell struck. including who knows we went to the place where according to the information we go it's they were refugees self-defense 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 activists raised his hands show the refugees the safe part of this moment the first shell exploded and damaged his hand how journalists stayed further away as a child i turned my head and saw that the second and the third shows went off exactly where they were only managed to film people dragging away their self-defense activists he had no legs so there was a road between us between our journalists and me i could him mortar shells exploding all the time they both had press written on their clothes but that didn't save them from an attempt to ease the tension in the east ukraine's president came
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up with a peace plan. it includes an amnesty for those who agree to lay down their arms and haven't committed severe crimes the creation of a temp kilometer wide buffer zone along the border with russia changes to the constitution to guarantee the free and safe use of russian language the document also suggests the decentralization of power to the eastern regions and early local and parliamentary elections one of the plan's top points is to guarantee safety for all and go sheeting fight although par shango himself as refusing to hold talks with leaders of the self-proclaimed republics russia has supported the plan but said it's unlikely to work without dialogue. if those two have to do professional job you know the fact that president poroshenko declared a truce is a vital part of the resolving the crisis and you see the most important number it's crucial that this truce of the graves to wait for a dialogue between the fighting sides that's the key to success. it's an immediate
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lamer poet and also said more artillery fire if taken place near the russian border on the korean side on friday night a russian checkpoint was shelled by the korean military injuring a border guard it happened when some two hundred refugees were crossing into russia showing america's firm support for the craney leader is the us vice president who is coming to kiev for a second time in as many months and their latest phone conversation joe biden assured petro poroshenko that the u.s. will not abandon ukraine are. the long trail of american politicians backing ukraine's new government. whether it's secretary of state john kerry laying flowers his assistant victoria nuland handing out cookies. senator john mccain offering support from a down protest at sarah is what you i mean america's presence in ukraine has been visible since the crisis began late last year and that presence is only growing as
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u.s. vice president joe biden again visits kiev his son hunter is settling into his new job on the board of ukraine's largest private gas provider certainly one of the reasons provides president biden might be going personally would be to ensure that he's cast interests are secured for for his son washington officials arrived full of praise for the new kiev government despite its crackdown against saying represents the will of the people america claims its came for the people to be heard on the no country should interfere with the affairs of another day sen john mccain talking to me in kiev in december need to make it clear. to the russian government anywhere near putin that interference in the affairs of ukraine is not acceptable to the united states of america or to any other free country in the world ok the message is clear but critics argue the presence of the vice
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president's son on the board of a prominent gas company the continual procession of u.s. officials in amounts of kiev and the promise of financial and military aid represents its own forward interference which only prolongs the conflict in the country and let us not forget that the western leaders also supported the overthrow of the attic of its government and what that that were and so what they supported is more really instability and i would read so this reality why they say their support really means nothing to the internal card for. it's going to continue as we say it so against the backdrop of on rest in the east and continuing talk of sanctions and threats against russia vice president joe biden becomes the latest u.s. official to touch down carefully making sure he doesn't cross the line or support interference policy. and we have just received these pictures from kiev from our
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video agency ruptly say look. you can see a group of masked people clashing with police outside keeps main cathedral judging by the flags they belong to an ultra nationalist movement the clashes come as ukraine commemorates seventy three years since the nazi invasion. the winter any europe could be colder than usual this year find out later in the program why ukraine may once again start siphoning off russian gas destined for that you. israeli defense forces have raided several media offices in the west bank artie's among them destroying equipment and confiscating records the rake amos part of a military campaign against palestinian authorities in israel accuses of kidnapping three israeli children responded was the office when it was attacked. not a large group of israeli military broke into the office of the firm which provides
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services fun number of satellite companies including as you can see several rooms have been damaged by the troops including editing studios the internet went to all three because of the action we lost our video and some other material completely office furniture and computers are broken smashed computer equipment and hard drives have been seized. the company that office was targeted during the raid was also attacked by the israeli army earlier this month in hebron its crew was forcibly stopped from filming in jerusalem the army broke into their media center as television believes the company is hosting a channel that incite terrorism and the latest wave of assaults by israel however it's targeting the palestinian hamas group which tel aviv hold responsible for the kidnapping of the israeli children for an explanation of the events in the west bank we spoke to an israeli defense representative and an official from the hamas. forces on the ground trying to locate the people on the
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other hand we have our intelligence capabilities which we are putting a huge amount of efforts in that our primary concern is the safety of the boys so we can't. expose everything that we know at this time when we need to 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 all day that i did against information. so they have these what they call a message that is they could act out on a mass something like a punishment something inconceivable more than seven hundred thousand people and that and. now and that a siege nobody. from the community that i am to do anything this is
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that it is that should not no should be condemned by the international community rob continues its struggle against radical insurgents that are sweeping across the north of the country the militants from the so-called islamic state of iraq and syria group known as isis are within one hundred kilometers of baghdad and this week the jihad has managed to continue their advance occupying several iraqi cities even though the army did manage to push them back from the capital latest reports say they've managed to capture a town in iraq syrian border where another branch of the same group is fighting now that has reports from the islamist occupied territories tell of the mass executions of captured soldiers isis takes pride in its violent methods. now reports. fifteen thousand fighters ten thousand operations in iraq one thousand assassinations and all last year alone the state of iraq and syria now known more notoriously as isis has been slicing through iraq moving closer and closer to
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baghdad and they're running a slick modern p.r. campaign to even publishing an official report of their activities using computer generated graphics it paints a clear picture of the terror organization including the types and amounts of weapons they use their strategy details of operations and targets and former intelligence officers claim it produces its press releases like a giant corporation trying to create an image of a world structured disciplined and effective organization or to attract funding but their actions speak loudly too as isis fighters have almost to reach the iraqi capital killing scores of people along the way in just around seven days while during the u.s. led invasion of the country it took the allied forces twenty two days to reach baghdad the alternate goal of isis is to create a new slavic state merging parts of iraq and syria into one now it's believed that the movement grew out of al qaeda in iraq emerging from the cast of the two
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thousand and three invasion today it has fifteen thousand fighters most of whom are thought to be from neighboring middle eastern countries but around two thousand are believed to have come from europe including britain isis has also become known for extreme brutality including widespread beheadings and crucifixions most of its funding is traced to southeast asia particularly indonesia the country with the biggest muslim population on earth and would following the arrest of high profile jihad as the it said extremists are now turning their attention to the conflicts in iraq and syria. now washington is considering getting involved in a conflict by sending in the air force to bomb the militants it has already deployed three hundred military advisers to how the iraqi army but the fancy analyst i'm anyone says going back to iraq is not something the american people would like to see providing more weapons to the iraqi military i think would be a nightmare they have the weapons are already ended up in the isis hands a least a lot of weapons have so then you have the other thing is a good be
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a ground campaign or it could be a full fledged air campaign on the economic consequences of course all that costs money and the united states is already has a seventeen trillion dollar debt and i think we're already overextended around the world and to get back into iraq is going to cost more money and more billions and i think as i say the american people are tired of not only the lives lost american lives overseas in these places but also the money spent you know they've spent trillions in iraq are ready and more of the week's top stories in just a few minutes here in our. economic record take part.
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in our. one thing if the public likes to. i marinate in the financial world. to see these developments i mean it's time to see the dems only take you know demand the credit is not going to get any economic but it's not like they're on to and they're on top. so we leave the. motions to. the party is it. seems that no one is that good with the game that you deserve answers from. politics.
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welcome back you're watching r t international commissionaire again terrorizing europe has warned out the e.u. should get ready for a cold winter that after ukraine was cut off from russian gas after it failed to pay billions of dollars of debt ukraine is a major transit partner delivering gas to europe where business and households rely on russian fuel for some of them it's the only source of gas and the main fear now is ukraine could start siphoning the gas off as it's done before the first time in two thousand and six and then in two thousand and nine or because of the crisis at the time slovakia declared a state of emergency and bulgaria had to shut down some of its industrial operations as moscow guarantees or will meet its contract obligations ban erisa editor in chief of the business you are practising believes it's key of him i'd break the deal. russia has always been a reliable supplier of gas to europe even in the cold war when we were enemies with
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that in the soviet union that the soviet union continued to deliver a program here with you know the insecurity in russian gas supplies it's not russia it's the fact that it has to go through ukraine and ukraine is more or less bankrupt has been unable to pay for its gas and so when it meets gas it simply siphoned off gas that was headed to the west now or us will do if they do stop supplying ukraine gas they will continue to supply what their contractual be obliged to send to western europe the question here is whether ukraine will simply send that gas and not take any for itself and that question remains open. and some of the transit gas from russia has already been switched to a reserve pipeline after an alleged terrorist attack in ukraine earlier this week find out what happened online at r.t. dot com plus. human rights watch slams bahrain for cracking down on those who use cameras to expose police violence against anti-government protesters.
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spain's new king has been sworn in but the mood of the country is far from celebrate tory hundreds of anti-monarchist have rallied in madrid shortly after king fully back to the throne the protest spirit is strong in the plague nation with millions of spaniards being pushed deeper into poverty the sentiment is also aggravated by the royal family's perceived lavish lifestyle as a result the crowning ceremony was kept low key. juan carlos stepping down signal in and of an era as a gifted sailor he competed in the nine hundred seventy two olympics following a military coup in the eighty's and he went on t.v. in a full army uniform and ordered troops back to their bases not many royals would pose in a controversial photo having shot dad an elephant whilst on safari in africa and being a keen motorcyclist did nothing to harm his image among his people but what manning
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will no doubt remember most is what he wants told the late venezuelan president. i . don't think that i want to go now they are going king is not the only european you're famous for his catchphrases the u.k.'s duke of edinburgh famously told british students in china that they are is still looking like the low goals of the stay too long in the country and the current king of sweden criticized by some media outlets for being a party goer the family himself to the press saying there is a broad definition to sex and strip clubs the story of hallock's more told me that the era of charismatic royals is over. generally used to have a very charismatic kings these days they're used by the government and people don't trust so much in them juan carlos was very charismatic and funny he was close to the people. is more of a function to read and this might be
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a problem for the more keys now this week marks the second anniversary of joint of being holed up in the ecuadorian embassy in london the founder of the whistle blowing web site we can leaks still faces an arrest warrant issued by the swedish government but as a salinger's lawyer explains it's not sweden that he is particularly scared off his main concern has always thing the risk of a man extradition to the united states and the ongoing u.s. grand jury and coming into a he thinks that we know is ongoing and we know that because of documents from the lace must be so that is why and i think it's important to remember. that it is as a result of the u.s. action to regulate the prosecution rested of what he thinks that julian remains inside the. hackers in the u.k. who threaten national security might face life sentences according to legislation proposed by the government but activists fear that whistleblowers could end up in the same category with cyber terrorists playboy explains. in today's digital age
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committing a serious cyber crime could land you a mega sentence under the serious crime bill proposed in the queen's 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. to sterilise baby feeding a quit 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 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
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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 will if you're hacking in order to harm life then there will be sentences already available differently 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 would disrupt the capital's transport those are concrete eric comes 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 hackers with the intention of finding vulnerabilities on a website and exposing cyber risk but according to this proposed law even those
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working for the coma. good of the internet could end up behind. so you feel a major threat here is if somebody is simply trying to reverse engineer saw it maybe see the show that you didn't properly secure and the people shouldn't trust it and operate as need to sort themselves aren't those the kinds of problems where people can to face computer misuse charges without really having to anything wrong . some other stories from around the world an explosion on the gone highs has reportedly killed an israeli teenager and wounded three more civilians a blast on the disputed border between syria and israel was allegedly caused by a mortar shell israeli army responded with tank fire into syria following the incident. south korean soldier who went on a rampage at a military checkpoint has been surrounded by security forces at a school in a nearby town reports say his exchanging fire with the army sergeant killed five of
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his comrades at a border outpost with north korea. having a rainstorm that triggered massive floods in east and south china have left over a dozen people dead officials say some three million people have been affected and thousands forced to seek refuge the downpours also caused major power outages blocked roads. suicide bomb attack in afghanistan's eastern provinces killed a police officer and three civilians explosive device went off as the officer was passing on his motorbike. attacks on civilians and security forces are happening on a nearly daily basis in afghanistan after the taliban launched an offensive over a month ago. and coming up a backstage pass to a t. in the latest episode of news still.
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so are we going back to iraq recently violence has flared up as insurgents are taking cities from the current iraqi government and response to this chaos obama declared that his administration is prepared to take military action whenever our national security is threatened oh well since the weapons of mass destruction were never found in iraq and the current militants can't shoot a key forty seven's over the ocean i don't see how us national security is at risk now or before the iraq war even started but on the other hand the flow of oil from us but tamia well that might be at risk but sometimes i forget that obama is a politician and just a day later he was quoted as saying quite the opposite about the same situation declaring that we will not be sending u.s. troops back into combat in iraq which sounds great to my ears and do you wait yet another few days and now he is saying that they want to send at least two hundred
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seventy five troops to provide support and security for u.s. personnel and the us embassy in baghdad i think this orwellian attitude towards the truth comes from two factors one lying works and obama gets away with it and to the fear of looking weak presidents have to act confident like they were total control with an awesome plan even when they have no idea what they're going to do i think this is the case with this iraq issue but that's just my opinion. i've lived. a little. little
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i have. a good. weekend thank you. live. live live. live .

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