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for. there must be near certainty that no civilians will be killed or in. russia suggests ukrainian border guards join the forces police checkpoints always see the monitors could even be invited only if the truce. is extended. to the. russian cameraman is killed in the region a bus carrying journalists and civilians are shot at despite an ongoing cease fire . the u.s. for its first batch of military aid to help the iraqi government come to the sweeping offensive of radical fighters as they proclaim.
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and the black flag rises over parts of syria and iraq over the port on the defenseless minorities left at the mercy of the advance. welcome to our duty international live from moscow this evening you know it's me. with the cease fire in the east of ukraine expiring within an hour. i've been voice in a bid to hold on to the phrase out peace. has more live now i mean i can you tell us what's been suggested. well the information that we're getting is that the proposal has been put forth by russia's president vladimir putin who suggested that ukrainian border guards be stationed to at the checkpoints that have been taken over by and to kenya forces but that those the ukrainian border guards be stationed
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those checkpoints on the russian side to serve as monitors in order to keep track of the situation together on top of that the russian president has suggested that always see observers also be placed at the very same locations for the very same reasons now the reasoning behind this proposal has been explained by russia's foreign minister. special attention was paid to the situation at the checkpoints captured by the end. president has been insisting on stablish in control of the situation and making it transparent so everyone can see military personnel and crossing the border those. now this proposal has essentially two preconditions the first and major one is that the troops the very fragile cease fire that we've been seeing in the south east of ukraine be extended and that is something that russian president along with leaders of france and germany have been trying to get across to ukraine's president poroshenko and there is
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a second condition and that is that here in antic here forces sit down and resume their peace talks at this point we do know that you can't really count so is in talks right now trying to figure out whether or not to extend the cease fire in use in the south east of the country and there is something that we will find out within less than an hour. in moscow giving us an update on what's going on with those suggestions on how to keep peace in the east of ukraine. are to remind you the week long truce was declared in the east on friday the twentieth of june now that was followed by talks between kiev and the self-proclaimed republics for the first time since the conflict started there are problems vowed to recognize the ceasefire in the presence of russian and international monitors on wednesday the president of ukraine russia as well as the french and german leaders to discuss the peace process over the telephone the same day the legal permission for the use of
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russia's military force in ukraine if needed was cancelled due to this request this friday the truce was extended for three more days with empty government forces promising to abide by the peace effort also saw always see even monitors released after they were detained in the daniel region is one of the journalists working in ukraine to remain in some danger a camera man for a russian t.v. channel has been killed he along with other t.v. crews came under fire in the deadliest region. well here. let me. tell you what. i did get away.
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yes. yes. i know. and here's how it happened to me and other journalists while on a bus close to a ukrainian army base the vehicle is said to be tearing the mothers of soldiers on their way to demand this son's return home gunfire reportedly came from inside the base. of the balloons would be pretty. used today gives anciently marty would be yeah you've got to wait did you discuss to get me the driver turned to the bus around to attempt and get to safety as the shooting continued. to do. you can see bullets hit the boss that's when. it was fatally wounded despite the efforts of other passengers to help him he died within an hour and two other
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reporters on board to describe what occurred. but we were trying to find a car to get him to hospital and when we started taking him out of the bus he turned around in his last words were the camera the camera then in the car he was conscious for a while but he lost consciousness when we got near the actual emergency station they tried to revive him for about half an hour but then they came out and said there was nothing more they could have done. the shooting started without warning and they were shooting to kill not as a warning to activists who later examined the boss told us that one of the bullets was from a sniper rifles writer. and i spent forty years working for one t.v. company filming in a war zones like yugoslavia iraq and syria he survived by his wife two children and several grandchildren this is what his colleagues had to say about the man who does
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know he knew his work he always helped down the correspondence until today i never knew how old he was i couldn't believe he was sixty eight it's really hard to talk about him in the past tense between. his job was his life i saw him in donetsk he told me that when he got back from his assignment in ukraine he would go fishing in september. i've known him since nine hundred seventy two but he was an outstanding cameraman and cheerful sympathetic but this is a great loss it's interesting russia is demanding an investigation into the death of the cameramen a mole more widely supported by international organizations diplomatic and media organizations have condemned the latest death of a journalist in eastern ukraine which has taken the total number of related killings to five officials stress that press t.v. employees must never be targets while always c.e. un and human rights watch members called on all sides in the conflict to guarantee
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the journalist safety. shortly before the attack that killed the cameraman a crew from a russian life news t.v. channel was shot at near the same military base they managed to escape unharmed but the car was badly damaged here's what one of them had to say. there was a panic i don't know what to do i just laid on the roof. digital grounds of the way to save myself from the constant mortar shelling the last of the. it was very scary especially for a person who isn't entirely sure. let's take a look at what journalists have been facing in ukraine in the past months just two weeks ago amir taheri fire killed a russian correspondent and his sound engineer while they were filming refugees outside the city of lugansk last month and italian photographer and his translator died in mortar shelling and a reporter for artie's video agency ruptly was severely wounded by soldiers in the
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city of mariupol in may it took several days to negotiate his return to moscow journalists often detained without charge by government forces and correspondents for various russian news channels have been apprehended interrogated and even beaten investigative journalist tony gosling believes the media under threat because of contouring in the radical elements in power. some ceasefire isn't it we've had five journalists dead now this is the latest all it seems killed by their careers regime it means that there is a massive dissuasion for journalists to cover the subject it means they have to get you know all sorts of gear front proof gear this sort of thing into going to these results makes it much more difficult the ceasefire at the moment doesn't really seem to be a serious one doesn't seem to be holding i mean we've got a very serious problem with these key positions within the here government. the attorney general the interior ministry and the defense ministry all held by people
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who are members of fascist parties and i think really in order to move forward we've got to have the germans and the french some real heavyweights in europe putting some pressure on the kiev government to remove these fascist from these key positions in the kiev government this is why between the army and enter government forces are set to elapse in less than an hour and their calls are preparing for the worst as maria from the us now reports. this is a bomb shelter watch out it was built decades ago when ukraine was part of the u.s. to start at the height of the cold war and it seems these dark times are returning to these parts of the world the enemy may be different but these abandoned sides are now coming back to life seriously as they say if you want peace prepare for war the diem of the ganske resident volunteered to clean up soviet era bunkers they could provide a crucial defines against army air raids and to refine he says we speak to the dean
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during what is supposed to be a ceasefire the us which is why we're working here the infrastructure is destroyed so we're taking the most important first steps to fix it and allow people to shelter here similar work is currently underway at many similar size all over the city about one hundred bomb shelters are already open. brazil in a bizarre rubrum of the world this morning this called on me of the rule of rather be sure and i just heard that there were about the last one more but your border is a growth the kamakura market but there is a legitimacy. the way in the world where human longer profit off of them up or move there would be a priority of this little girl more in your more recent game where we're through with communism for probably a minute there is also a kitchenette with some basic food and purse keats. doesn't wasn't too good for
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suddenly we here were sounds like distant shooting daughters organization metal probably a form of authority in. which in the us after which more but at least when you fret over keyboard. when we film vitalis daughter nast or stops by. she also heard what we did. the sky was lit up with explosions when we were walking home through a filter van there were sirens and everyone started running away it was terrifying the same thing happened later that night this is fire expires in just a few hours time and no one can say for sure whether these long abandoned bomb shelters will be needed again reef notion r.t. in lugansk eastern ukraine. the ceasefire has been breached again according to
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anti-government fighters so they say the army has shelled the city of slavyansk while attempting to advance on the self defense positions they have but the bombardment has once again hit residential areas reportedly injuring a girl and killing an unspecified number of people. i don't i just don't see when the shelling started i dropped what i was carrying and the run to. the doors were closed but i shouted so loudly that someone came down and that me and when it was over i ran back everybody was crying in panic you know this is outrageous what can we hope for will wake up tomorrow see how can you call this a ceasefire. or you can see more dramatic images from other ukrainian conflicts on our website at r.t. dot com one is coming up to a break stay with us. on marriage in the financial world moves. to seize to moments to not stop
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exactly take no demand for credit. and life there are good and. i'm abby martin the stories we cover here we're not going to hear any right other big story the extra headlines and talk there's a reason they don't want you to know about you never want to tell friends that you should be completely outraged now let's break the set. dramas that can't be ignored to the. stories others use in their. faces changing the world right now. to picture. from around the globe.
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look to. we're back with more international news here on r t the u.s. has rushed a three day supply for hellfire missiles to the iraqi government in an attempt to help the desperate authorities battle jihad as militants the army is once again trying to regain control of the city of tikrit as extremists aim to capture baghdad this comes after the radicals proclaimed islamic order on territories they kept in both iraq and syria. the area they now hold contains economically volatile oil sides now islamic state in iraq and syria is urging other extremist groups to pledge allegiance to the new state so the question arises where does isis get the funding or the means to snatch up some of these powers in the region it is sort of
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group has poll fall behind the scenes sponsors in the gulf states isis is also involved in smuggling extortion and bank robberies and in the course of its rapid advance on baghdad the group took control of stockpiles of u.s. made weaponry and even washington has played its role in the rise of isis as artie's marina port my explains. the newest terrorist organization known as isis is overtaking fighters brain as public enemy number one sunni islamic militants are unleashing brutality and bloodshed in iraq but its next door in syria during a three year civil war where the extremist group got its start we are where we are because we armed the syrian rebels we have been fighting alongside al-qaeda fighting alongside i says isis is now involved in in two countries but here's the anomaly we're with isis in syria we're on the same sort of the war so those who want to get involved to stop isis in iraq are allied with isis in syria that is the
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real contradiction to this whole policy right according to reports the u.s. government may have in. advertently played a direct role in strengthening extremists there are also allegations that the united states may have been involved in some of the training. isis insurgents at a training camp in jordan so the saudis the qataris are directly involved in this regime change policy in syria and iraq and united states has helped and created these conditions and this will cause chaos and expanding war in the region according to german magazine der spiegel americans were still in jordan in march of last year training up to twelve hundred members of the free syrian army to use anti-tank weapon mary we have spent a lot of time trying to work with a moderate opposition in syria now the white house is ready to spend a lot of money the obama administration has requested half
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a billion dollars to arm and train syrian rebels fighting to topple president bashar assad u.s. officials claim only appropriate members of the moderate syrian opposition will receive american weapons and ammo problem is it's not always easy to differentiate between the moderates and terrorists here's u.s. senator john mccain posing with members of isis the photo is now reportedly being circulated by the group as proof of their legitimacy not to be disputed the legitimacy of isis is gruesome behavior violence so horrific some report osama bin ladin looks like a gentle soul in comparison as the newest group of terrorists is growing stronger and gaining more ground throughout the arab world their safe haven remains in syria where the white house is promising to send more weapons with the goal of a stablish increase marina porton i.r. to washington d.c.
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. and it's not just gulf countries or the u.s. behind the rise of this preaching in syria we spoke to dr hussein from the middle east technical university he says turkey has been supporting the jihad is currently fighting president assad. we know that the turkish government in particular in syria is. an entertaining strong and close lucian's route to. group b. to push government until now have not moved to these four issues but rather speaking about the certain elements of islamic groups we know that the turkish government has been friendly. groupings and groupings also abuse of this british sympathies of the turkish government but i says attack on iraq is further whitening existing cultural and religious divides the sunni's are fighting shias muslims versus christians tribe against the government and kurds
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against all i'm caught in the tight vise of the minorities who are more threats than ever before as we see catherine of reports. i. was exhausted terrified with nowhere to go but these are ropes newest refugees in a single day tens of thousands of iraqi christians were forced to flee their homes after clashes erupted between isis militants and produce forces. all of a sudden we heard shelling and explosions we didn't know who was attacking us we just knew we had to get out there wasn't any time to panic most families are going to put nothing but the closing again that you would close medicines important papers everything we live behind i don't know how we'll get by someone deny to those blankets and pillows and that's all we have. it's hard to believe that just
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yesterday this was a completely empty parking lot overnight it's been turned into a makeshift refugee camp. the families fled in a paddock an entire village emptied overnight the volunteers are doing their best to help however they can but supplies are limited and more and more people keep coming. families like this one are twice displaced they left baghdad at the height of the sectarian civil war lawyer of the flip. side there is no safe place left in the rock in baghdad they used to slaughter you for being christian now in masood it's the same thing and there is no one to protect us. that was this is the sound of a country torn apart sunni militants are sleeping a prostitute western lot in baghdad in the south shiite militias are digging in the kurds to are on the move reclaiming long disputed territory in kirkuk province we need a leader of iraq's minority turkmen community he's taking us to meet the newly formed
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militia they face extermination from sunni militants he tells me but he doesn't trust the kurds to protect them either. which might disarm the bad people. we arrived to find a deserted village the families have all fled for safety these men stayed behind to defend the land. sure they used to be drivers teachers farmers and businessmen they took up arms two weeks ago after sunni extremists slaughtered dozens of their people in a nearby village. no one came to protect us when they attacked not the iraqi army and not the person or god it was a wake up call now we are here to defend ourselves we have enough weapons and we'll fight until the last drop of blood as. determined but outnumbered
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and outgunned facing an uncertain future in an increasingly fractured iraq. you see kampen of problems iraq. when iraq could be heading towards an even more fractured future as kurds have earned a strong ally for their strive for independence israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has supported the state hood a professor at tel aviv university dr offer a bindiya believes with an independent kurdistan of the region as a much greater chance of peace i think that the two parties in washington in israel do not see eye to eye on this issue on the kurdistan issue because the united states is still hoping to keep iraq is the unified state but it is in use of gold because it doesn't work anymore the kurds have been having a state of their own for a long time even though they did not declare it and iraq has no say in the stand of
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iraq the kurds are force of stability there are. they are secular more secure than the rest of the people and you know that for ten years already could this time of iraq is is really a very stable wise's of stability. because some other world headlines now the israeli military have found three bodies near the west bank city of hebron believed to be those of the missing jewish teens who disappeared more than two weeks ago officials say the three appear to have been shot dead shortly after the time of the disappearance israel has accused the militant group hamas of kidnapping them of the fashion has repeatedly denied this their disappearance set off an uproar in israel and aggravated already strained relations with palestine. two bombs have gone off near the presidential palace in cairo killing two police officers and wounding
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several others of the second explosive went of is a specialized squad were trying to defuse that becomes a days after slumber. planted bombs in the city the latest in a spate of attacks hitting egypt's capital this month over the weekend a homemade explosive device a place near a government side on the city's outskirts killed a girl and wounded her mother. tens of thousands gathered outside the prime minister's office in japan's capital to protest against constitutional changes the cabinet is expected to approve a measure which will allow the country to recruit troops overseas and help allies in military action even if japan's not threatened a constitution that currently bans war was adopted in japan after the second world . now it may not be able to buy you happiness but online the money can attain you just about everything else even national
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leaders as r.t.c. got found out that fall somewhere the peak unionists. people can buy and sell or trade almost anything on e bay from britney spears through bubble gum to supercars and even someone's life one man in south africa seems to have taken things to the next level placing a lot to auction the country's president the description of the law says jacob zuma has five years' experience as the president is in great health has eight wives and eighteen children the user nicknamed average joe placed a lot added he wanted to trade president zuma for someone with similar skills just cheaper to run and more clever many south africans have indeed been criticizing the president for becoming a bit too costly for the budget for instance he spent twenty seven million dollars just to restore his country house which was fixed with a new tennis court of football pitch helli bad and other high life accessories despite many in the country still not being connected to the sewer system while around thirteen million are thought to live on just two dollars
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a day even though trading humans is a legal this isn't the first time a living person has been put up for grabs on e bay recently a ten year old girl from england tried to sell her own grandmother describing her as annoying what could only the biggest bid reach twenty thousand dollars but was taken down shortly after while one australian man actually sold his own life the lot included his house his motorbike and a car his business and even his friends were separated with his partner and decided to start afresh his old life fetched three hundred five thousand u.s. dollars and now he's reported to live on an island near panama with a new girlfriend so really almost anything can be found on e bay even a partially eaten group cheese sandwich said to bear the image of the virgin mary thatching a biblical twenty eight thousand dollars no wonder presidents are being listed as well. well up next associates of a nazi talks to
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a former british s.a.'s officer who was afforded as a hide mycenae in the war and now gone. since the end of the cold war the media environment is transformed almost beyond recognition today there is a global battle for hearts and minds and the west mainstream media is losing about . this is what we do we kill people and break things. we can see something as simple as people playing a soccer game you can see individual players and you can see the ball. you can only see is facial expression you can see is now open and crying out. maybe cursed
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us or maybe he asked. for forgiveness for. there must be near certainty that no civilians will be killed or injured. but if you will show harmony why should be making news all the face i described below. it was. a pleasure to have you with us here on our team today i'm sure.

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