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it was thanks. to. iraqi kurds take advantage of the ongoing chaos to capture economically vital energy signs while planning a referendum on finally getting their own independent state. ukraine's president extends the trousseaux with anti-government forces with three more days for sides well to uphold the ceasefire but stray shells from sporadic fighting keep hitting the russian border. police brutally for don another world cup work his protest against labor conditions of that group described as nothing short of a hole with ink. and the you want is calling massive water cut also he was a city of detroit as while a shell of human rights while authorities are still trying to bring all this money
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from the poorest residents. from moscow this is our change to national you with me. they rocky army has lost twenty of its men in a vicious a shootout with radical fight to send in time to drive them back from baghdad not the battle took place some fifty kilometers from the capital this comes as the u.s. secretary of state john kerry urged the kurds to reinforce the defenses of the capital but it seems the ethnic group has other priorities now mostly capturing the oil rich city of code google could issue authorities are planning to hold an independence referendum to see caf not looks at the prospects of the vote. less than two kilometers away a stronghold of us law makes state in iraq and syria fighters from isis or
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as they're called in arabic have taken over the neighboring village these kurdish soldiers known as the peshmerga all are the only defense that's keeping the insurgents from marching north. to this whole area and osh isis fighters with snipers the militant offensive sweeping across a rock is redrawing the country's borders but so too are the kurds as iraqi forces crumbled in the wake of that the harvest onslaught kurdish soldiers moved in to fill the void nearly doubling their territory in the process in just a matter of hours the kurds seized militarily what they failed to secure politically for decades the oil rich province of cure cooled and its main city spofforth. the fishmongers controlling their. own because group and the other side on the other groups but of course the
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peshmerga which three a year ago i couldn't really walk around here without the help of an armed escort it was just too dangerous there are suicide bombings frequent clashes between rival groups but controlling here cool the kurds hope to prove that they can do a better job than the central government maybe say first so far but with neighbors like isis it's unclear for how long. it didn't take long that evening we witnessed care coke's temporary or spike from violence shattered a suicide bomber tried to enter a market in a kurdish part of town at least six people killed dozens wounded the kurds may seem as though when there's been this. some of them are living in the euphoria of pretty much total three. tenets people. means more programs if it was in time for. already divisions are emerging minority arab
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and turkmen residents are worried about their rights in the new kirkuk kurdish authorities promised a referendum but in a worrying sign of what could be ahead these shiite turkmen are taking matters into their own hands so. we don't trust any government or any group to protect us so we're taking on to defend ourselves lucy caffein of kooks iraq from the pentagon analysts to my cold my loof says the kurds are going to use the instability in iraq to snatch as much authority as they can the kurds see a golden opportunity to basically declare their independence they've already announced that they're going to have a referendum they do have a choice they can either do that or. do what. kerry wants and work with the government in baghdad i think that while they listen politely to to
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secretary kerry i think they have their own interests in mind and unless something miraculous happens in the parliament without moloch you stand on board i think this split enough iraq is going to be inevitable the only thing that is working in anybody's favor is that isis has the has a military capability but the question is will they be able to govern all that territory they're taking over and already they're fighting from within some of the units and some of the other islamist groups and even x. about this that they that join them temporarily to take the territory over but now there's actually been gunfire and each which will want their own little chunk in each little piece it's a mess. nature reacts with a stony silence on the wiki leaks documents that detail what tomatoes are going to have traded to land the job in the first place not coming up we will call them how to learn problem denmark reportedly took turkey up on an offer to back his
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candidacy in return for a media crackdown. last and you don't see attack problems protests just north of london we talk to the activists willing to take to the extremes in the a stand against radical. the shaky truce in the east ukraine has been extended with both the army and anti government fighters promising to recognize that the ceasefire which has been in place for a week is part of attempts to bring peace to the region people this say they're exhausted by constant fighting and have fled in their tens of thousands. more before the bullets. do you contribute. to. the future you bury my eyes in the bush you. really are you with the board you know the day in the shade you know should put that gives a notion is that national pride that you should really get into another team of them was the little facade that owns the i do my you that i was just
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a lot less that it just would show that you would have always to move to work on usenet to do more here to survive so you see if i get through. the night after the truce so was extended appeared mostly calm however there were reports of sporadic fly in the region with russia's border control service staging one of its checkpoints had been hit. shells continue to fall in russian territory one here a checkpoint building then exploded inside there were no injuries two more shells landed in nearby villages. the anti-government forces in ukraine have a meanwhile released for always see observers who were detained a month ago russia's foreign minister says moscow's calls for peace may have prompted that move but a gale of raw believes russia's influence with those anti-government activists is limited he added that certain powers could be undermining own plans for a peaceful resolution. to the. ukraine's president poroshenko would like to ease
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the tension and prolong this is fun but there are other forces within the ukrainian authorities radicals who still control or have close contact with the nationalists that's the right sector the battalions of the tycoon and other powerful groups that don't obey ukraine central command or the commander in chief there are also partners overseas our american colleagues who judging by multiple evidence still prefer to push the ukrainian authorities along a path to confrontation. maria financial saw firsthand what the mood in the air is like amid the cease fire. the truce remains in place here in eastern ukraine but so dust attention in the weeks since the ceasefire came into effect sporadic clashes between the army and local defense forces have carried on regardless sometimes resulted in fatalities including civilians on friday and woman and her son very
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poor to be killed in the army shelling in the town of slovyansk in donetsk region which is the epicenter of what key of calls its anti terror operation and here in the guns overnight there was little sign of calm either on the return from filming at the ukrainian russian border at a checkpoint we heard a conversation between local fighters why we're talking in which they described shooting happening right then next to a nearby railway bridge as well as wrong the local hospital at this checkpoint had recently been taken by self-defense forces and the ukrainian military was trying to regain control of this strategic location we were forced to take an alternative route along a wild path through the forest all the time we had to coordinate we saw the french soldiers patrolling that area but even then we were told that it was still very dangerous. work. just. to stand on. the floor with.
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the driving from the russian to all the credit to the one now ready still for the others to go to the tower the cards were dropped it was also the battle for local sop that says that the road so obvious that the street the smallest closet. that. is the one that. stuck to. the extent of choice is supposed to pave the way to prolong. peace in the country but so far we can see a lack of trust between both sides and it's fair to say whatever peace the reason right now in this part of the country remains fragile at best rich nationality from lugansk in ukraine and these are reinforcements for the national guard right after taking the oath in western ukraine the right sector members decided to pay
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a visit to a local police station there's a valence footage shows a crowd of massed men breaking in some with molotov cocktails the gang demanded the deputy police chief resign within twenty four hours all day would burn down the building they're angry with officials for prosecuting activists involved in february school in kiev ukraine's interior ministry says one officer or thirty yearly beaten civilians are fleeing of the tillery attacks in eastern ukraine the un says the number has had eight hundred thousand but for the us source doesn't seem credible enough. since the start of two thousand and fourteen one hundred and ten thousand ukrainians have arrived in russia we just have seen no evidence to support that we don't believe they're credible we're watching we just don't think that the hundreds of thousands numbers credible we don't have anything to cooperate if this is the u.n. this isn't the russians say no not there's this is an agency you guys give millions
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and millions of dollars to in there now. we don't have anything to back up that number. went to deny breaks food and even water migrant workers in qatar say their treatment has reached a new low in the latest episode at a hotel complex construction crews clash with gods on the side these are rare pictures coming out of qatar showing the situation tens of thousands of migrants are working under various. venusian infrastructure laboring under what i described as deplorable conditions a german filmmaker who was arrested by qatari police were exposing the country's poor working conditions believes this case is just one drop in the ocean it was initiated by the workers not being allowed to take proper lunch break bear in mind we are in the middle of ramadan and ramadan obviously has four islamic workers and there are quite
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a few of them on the right. you know high reading and i think it's really right now as these things come home more and more you know higher frequency i think it's time to face a possible rerun of the vote for the world cup in qatar that's something that you know comes into reality with all human rights issues with all the corruption issues coming up on a daily basis right now i think this is what we had in front possibly. rights groups worldwide have condemned the treatment of migrant workers and qatada time and time again statistically say activists want to work a dies every day as a country prepares to host the twenty twenty two world cup on top of the house conditions workers are left without pay for months with their documents taken away by the companies that hired them we're taking a quick break we'll be right back with more news right here on our team to national .
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leaders so we leave that maybe. by the same motions your. place your party there's a bill. for shoes that no one is that stand with to get that you deserve answers from it's all politics. are. economic record for. her for her. audience now right in the heart. want to give the public i'm like.
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i'm i'm i'm i'm i'm i'm . three thanks for staying with us for more international news an annual family festival in britain this week turned into an all out to millie after a gang of neo nazis attacked party goers stabbing one man or thought though is that the mob wasn't even made up of britons but rather it was polish immigrants witnesses say the same and for shouted profanities and fought and threw bottles at the crowds before police arrived since then the brain and nearly daily protest against new nazi activities are teaser for it was that i was at a march today. we're here to school king ousted monks still parked at the moment in
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north london that was where nancy fascist demonstration had taken place and i got some of the demonstrators have left the park and they're marching out onto the streets of london peaceful demonstration today the purser's the nazis come there would be no peace is that the best way to fight you know susan violent. the only way to far north is is to for not to stand and say we don't like you know don't like you don't know we don't like this you know think this is a danger provoking move. provoke remove all of the violent office about turn the discourse interaction which is the reaction to an action we would have to face nazis last month we would you know we would a british nazi polish northeast of the john you nazis would only be for nationalist and no resist and no first use then just of course because really just our control or distort the goal to destroy i think that's what today's protest is about the last technically allowed to be on the street him marching like this police say at
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this point it's actually going to be more hostile see break them up essentially that there have been a number of arrests that have taken place today already the demonstration itself incredibly well police there is a strong police presence there you can still see the police are monitoring closely what's going on as the greek take to the streets of london. british a race relations activist just believes the euro crisis and politicians are partly to blame for the rise of nationalism in europe. one always has to be vigilant and concerned and particularly when one looks across the european union after the european elections and the drift to extreme what right i mean some cases openly in your nazi party i think what's happening is that austerity is acting as a magnifying glass when people get anxious and concerned for their future the future of their children but of course they get angry the issue really does that is
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the moment politicians are directing their anger not to the bankers and the rich institutions of europe that led to the economic crisis but to the vulnerable in society those on welfare those unemployed those who are migrants those who are elderly and other minority communities and this is an extraordinarily dangerous following. anders fogh rasmussen term as nato chief maybe almost but now questions are being ousted about how he got the job in the first place or freshly in the spotlight we can leaks documents suggest restless and abuse his powers as prime minister to guarantee himself his future job specific lee denmark reportedly agreed to study legal action against a kurdish separatist channel that was broadcasting from copenhagen in two thousand and nine in return turkey said it would bag resinous and as the future nato chief so one why was turkey worried about these broadcasts well ankara long claimed that
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raj t.v. was a mouthpiece of the kurdistan workers party which wise for the rights of the minorities of the kurdish minority and is considered a terrorist organization in turkey and the west and other channels that are broadcasting in two thousand and four and in two thousand and ten was officially accused in denmark of promoting terrorist activities and this year the channels license was finally revoked we spoke to they neuer take a listen to what he had to say. we have a special independent committee or terribly should be denmark which would issue the certificates to the turks the turkish government had at three different occasions complained to this committee and each time they concluded that the coverage was just like the coverage she would fired at the big day the stews television stations so we thought that also the courts. would respect the freedom of expression the freedom of press the freedom of
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information but it did occur we also nato to comment on the knicks about the deal to appoint dress mithun a press office told us to talk to danish initial authorities insisting that the calls were fully independent however journalist lawyer and former m.p. beyond l. mcchrystal questions that pain there were some conflicts of political character between the bar and turkey argued by the states intervened because say like very broad stroke they describe it is to become the six zero there was a big pressure from us forces they thought and says to think even creative bad are how to a diet and how to prove that rusts elevation was promoting sarazen bread in the end of the diet but what there was within hours after that he
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died with it was announced that there was agreement between the turkish government and the other bates who causes to decide the previous stage privatised as a second surgery kurdish activist delighted the reka tells us that when it comes to turkey minority rights and the least of europe's concerns. i think their kurdish issue isn't one of the most on resolve issues of the century and this war between the p.k. k. and turkey benefits to vote institutions and countries so on one hand while the west close the eyes to human rights violations in turkey and actively contributed to these human rights violations by either providing military or intelligence on the other hand the kurds the kurdish and europe was completely criminalized and we see the similar thing happening with kurds in syria for example even though the people have established. very progressive self governance structures in the north
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of syria. and online now at our tea dot com christian orthodoxy at least through eggs and holy water and members of marilyn manson's rock band i had a big concert in moscow the gig never should face however due to a bomb threat all the details of the story of a double for you online. also the life changing developments as technology approved in the u.s. to help those paralyzed take a huge step towards walking again find out all the details about the new robotic suit and much more of our team doctor. the bank robs you a city of detroit is on the brink of a water crisis thousands of people they have been left with no supplies at all the authorities say they're only protecting the city's budget from unpaid bills situation for several activist groups to demand the united nations step in and help or the u.n. experts looked into the matter and said the shuttle's
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a violation of human rights and close inspections there reveals it's not just the hand of not paying their bills but some corporations are tens of millions of dollars in the raid as well but these little pressure being put on them are cheesemaking lopez has the details. it is one of the most essential elements of life. americans enjoy some of the cleanest and most abundant water in the world but what happens when the pipes are turned off and the tap runs dry how am i supposed to wash my child heilman i supposed to shower must fill in the largest american city to ever file for bankruptcy residents are falling behind on their water bills now facing five billion dollars in bad debt the water department is taking drastic measures to plug holes and that means cutting water this is one of those houses that has had its water shut off and you can tell that because the detroit water and sewer department went ahead and painted on the porch
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that water cut time now they've been doing this more and more frequently to abandoned houses and they are they say going after abandoned houses first and worse you kind of avoid it wasting water for houses that people simply don't live in however more often these days the houses facing shut off have residents living inside this is the detroit water brigade headquarters groups like the way fun and the detroit water brigade are working with residents to get on the water they need in the short term and the funding in the long term to sustain themselves we have donations the water that people have say we also have water filtration devices as well as aqua tablets so that people could you know access to clean drinking water these groups are now calling for help from the federal government and even the united nations to address what they describe as a humanitarian crisis nikita rally is one detroit resident who is afraid of the consequences of missing even
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a single payment if you tell someone i don't have water in my home that's the first strike you can get your children removed or you go to the war department if they help get my children back they don't care don't just think it's big and she isn't alone know me you're shutting out all the water all the most vulnerable for. it was now raises a human rights question it raises a moral question what if people do want to water scuttle out of the take their medicine if they're seeing a shot of they make the formula for the babies however the water department argues we have the the burden of being heavy to be realistic in a lot of the folks the activists for example don't have that they have what they feel are simple solutions. which really don't really hold water if anybody can come up with a way that we can make the detroit drinking water is good as it is right now for pennies on the dollar was going to listen unfortunately this is not the case leaving some residents salivating for a solution to this water crisis and others just plain thirsty reporting in detroit
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michigan meghan lopez r.t. . and the plight of thousands of detroit residents it is discussed on every mountain as breaking the set next hour here on r.t.e. . death row inmates in oklahoma protesting against the use of lethal injections to execute them though they say it's akin to experiment on humans their lawsuit filed against the stage follows the bungled execution of oklahoma inmate clayton lockett in april he died of a heart attack forty three minutes after being injected doctors had burst a vein in his body while administering a controversial cocktail of drugs that no one similar incident back in generally in ohio where an inmate was reportedly in convulsions for about twenty six minutes in both these cases concerns worries that doctors use previously untested drugs.
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right even though the investigation into both cases continues prison authorities are going ahead with the methods now the three executions have been carried out in june so far the first since a problem in total three thousand prisoners await the death penalty in u.s. jails human rights advocates are concerned the authorities are unwilling to take heed of paspaley s. every time one more state changes a protocol or changes the lethal drug cocktail in a sense we have the potential for human experimentation to be trying something on a human being that's never been tried before and that's being repeated in state after state here in the united states oklahoma has not done another execution yet now we've set some dates out several months into the future and that's exactly why these inmates have sued what they're basically saying is that we're not ready to do more executions are you know that you know the status saying it thinks we will be
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ready within a couple of months and of course without the full findings there and what went wrong in clayton lockett sex accused and i think it's very hard for the state's argument to be taken seriously that we're ready to actually start more executions when we don't fully know what happened. coming up the ride up it's time for breaking the set with every month and i will see you tomorrow. his name was joseph goebbels he was nazi germany's minister of propaganda the myths that he created exist to this day. it was the gerbils propaganda was supposed to actually trying to denigrate other nations while at the same time raising ordinary german self-esteem who would. keep
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its complete use of go bill snoop precisely what the masses need to hear in order to make them follow him he was like the pipe paper from the fairy tale that made grant's fall to the tune of his by. the myths created by the chief nazi ideologist bound for tal saw in the west we have to fight these myths today in memory of those who won in the second world war. this is what we do we kill people and break things. we can see something if simple as people playing soccer you can see individual players and you can see the ball. you can almost see is facial expressions.

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