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the full picture of the states is long distance from around the globe in the book to. brushes top diplomat in berlin for further peace talks on ukraine as more casualties are reported after key evidence depp's up its crackdown anti-government forces in the east. israeli police clashed with crowds of protesters after reports of a palestinian teenager being abducted and killed in jerusalem as israel vows to continue its push against hamas following the deaths of the reason elite teams. jarvis militants make fresh gains on the border between syria and iraq after the white house lines about half a billion dollars to help moderate syrian rebels. six
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pm in moscow good to have you with us on r.t. international russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov is in berlin where he's set to meet french german and ukrainian counterparts in further efforts to stop the violence in east ukraine kiev stepped up its assault on anti-government forces in the restive region after a shaky truce resolved on monday there is security camera footage of a city from severed unanswered in the region in the defiant lugansk region showing explosion apparently caused by a mortar in a residential area despite president poroshenko pledging not to target the civilian population the army shelling continued overnight in the neighboring donetsk region these are pictures from the city of slovyansk which has seen some of the worst fighting since the beginning of the military operation at least two people reportedly killed there after the latest artillery attack hit a bus care of refugees trying to flee to safety more pictures of destroyed buildings emerging from the city where power and water supplies have been almost
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completely cut off residents say they're too scared to step out of their homes even to get food. he's not because of to do that with but with the political establishment moderates that it will put the most rigid out another could with acquittals but when a democrat brought them numbers out for a few with just because one believe what was up to rebut your absolute in the above are going to be pretty but. they seem to be usually give children. several hours. this summer as they were doing their flower you said it should only use jet did get to sit in these games but decided the pollute. she had the most good when those nobody at the ready just the boys but he had a couple at you but it was easier but as it doesn't add this just doesn't know you assemble what is it that you want to add about it must be a good look at the did let's go jones then yes well he's a venue what is the first thing you get doesn't want to be selected be it that you
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want that she allowed that russia's foreign ministry has reacted to the violence in eastern ukraine by urging authorities to stop shelling in reinstate the ceasefire to save lives the foreign ministry also stressed that the solution to ukraine's political problems by means of force against people of the country hardly meets the norms of civilized european society they have aspires to join the fighting has led many women to flee homes in eastern ukraine to try and get their children to safety but there are those who decided to stay and take up arms or his memory of an ocean reports catarina is twenty one years old she's a trained maddy with a passion for nature and painting. and she can assemble a collage in camp in seconds she says she's a good chance to. have you had to queue on that though the yes i have now that it wasn't self-defense it was them who approached not us. catarina belongs to eastern ukraine's self-defense forces she started on the frontline as
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a nurse but soon to go up on arms but the problem is that she sees the people she's fighting against as mere pawns in a bigger game over some of those who are responsible they send young boys to kill us and die for them or with that they hide behind most of them are young congress i have no choice and they're coming to kill us. as a self-defense checkpoint outside lugansk catarina needs a lesson she's in charge here and then one is a few days ago i went to a hairdresser and i saw a woman there a client she was looking at me with her eyes wide open it turned out i had forgotten to take my place off it happens. she sees no contradiction in her current status. this is what happens during wartime they don't even ask you they just come to your land i was just an ordinary woman i even could write well. catarina and a lesser a far from the only two you in the studio we were in from ukraine's east and south
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had a strongly warded message for female fighters on the other side educated that is the question to lead to the thirty ninth my done women's battalion girls either stop doing this or you will cease to exist if you continue to seek information about our men your men will die. the paramilitary battalion the addressing lines for the new government and for national unity and it's still growing. today then why don has reached by belong to censor he has embraced the whole country and we must protect the borders one family already know i think i'm going to have settle for dinner and guns and they need your help. they had of this battalion is also an assistance to ukraine as you defense minister but do not fear reprisals will work. for the common good of each of us we need to preserve their own dignity as i
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realised i would be seen as a man to someone who disappointed to have a role when a woman that all business means or they would kill me but you need to present i think about what it's that i want to have to hold my firearm close. and also waging a box on four hearts amongst these ukrainian band considers itself patriotic but some seats that are exposed to nationalist. crowds. but the real conflict has been full and was growing numbers joining songs every day some fear it's passing the point of no return. in eastern ukraine. russia's emergencies ministry setting up temporary shelters for refugees from ukraine according to the un around one hundred ten thousand people have fled to russia to escape the humanitarian situation the region where the u.s.
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state department takes a different view in this situation u.n. h.d.r.'s estimate of the number of people moving across the ukrainian border comes directly from russian government source is who suffice to say have not always been entirely accurate here and just a couple of points on this because i know there's been some questions u.n.h.c.r. statement did not say that one hundred ten thousand refugees fled ukraine into russia what it said is that number of people had crossed the border at some point that could be to go visit their grandmother and come back. influx of refugees has led russian regions bordering ukraine to declare a state of emergency officials say they're having to accommodate thousands daily the russian migration service puts the total number of people who fled violence in ukraine at four hundred thousand. some of the day's other top stories in the west bank israeli police clashed with hundreds of protesters demanding justice for the killing of a palestinian teenager whose body was found in a forest near jerusalem suspected he was kidnapped and murdered for the revenge of
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three israeli boys youngsters were abducted nearly three weeks ago and found dead monday in the west bank with israel blaming palestinian group hamas for the murders their deaths have made headlines around the world a. sense of anger and that sense that there will be some retaliation for these deaths it's becoming increasingly apparent that his plan is to make hamas pay for than that of the three teenagers found dead on monday so there is a huge amount of grief discovering the grim discovery of the three bodies of those israeli teenage is late yesterday israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu said the three teenagers were murdered in cold blood by what he described as animals and a letter of condolence president barack obama said the killing of the jewish boys had left him feeling and indescribable pain he also urged all parties to refrain from steps that could destabilize the situation in the region though despite obama's calls for peace israel's prime minister says he's ready to step up measures
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against hamas and punish the group further and the last couple of days israeli defense forces launched dozens of rockets strikes on targets inside gaza meanwhile the i.d.f. is listing on facebook their achievements so far according to the israeli army war than two thousand houses have been raided since the start of the operation hundreds of palestinians arrested dozens of hamas offices close together with media outposts at the very bottom of the page the about to bring justice to all those involved in the deaths of the teens but hundreds of palestinian families also grieve over their own children. the deaths which have largely gone. unreported by the international media as these figures show more than fifteen hundred palestinian children have been killed six thousand wounded by israeli forces since two thousand meaning one palestinian child has been killed every three days activist mustafa barghouti things the international media has reported repeatedly turned a blind eye to israel's deadly wrecker. it is very important for the world media to remember to mention not only the thirty israelis killed but also the eleven
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palestinian killed. three children who were also killed in cold blood by the israeli army itself which also amounts to war crimes israeli army has been killing palestinians in cold blood for several years we are talking about thousands and thousands of palestinians were killed by the israeli army and tens of thousands of people who would enjoy doing forty seven years of military occupation their israeli army now is demolishing houses and taking collective actions of punishment against the people whom they think are accused of being responsible for the killing of the settlers without but isn't doing any simple proof of that they are dispensable and the actions of collective punishments are continuing gold in the form of air raids on gaza which the israeli army is using to provoke reactions from palestinians and then present these the abbey's the actions as. well as the reason
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for their openness of behavior in gaza strip and in other places and palestinian territories global internet firms including countries the us and zimbabwe ganging up on the u.k. spy agency and the minute a report on the un that action against g c h q and its use of the web as a spying tool. also more angry plans to create a new high security prison is already being compared by human rights activists to guantanamo stay with us. as the media leave us so we leave the. bush and secure. your party is it the. shoes that no one is asking with again that you deserve answers from.
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i'm abby martin the stories we cover here not the. other big story the extra headline same time there's a reason they don't want you now they are going to tell you don't raise that you. know let's break the set. choose your language. of choice make it without waiting for the federal system still some. choose. the great. choose the stories to. choose the accents to. thirteen minutes past the hour period over a government online snooping has been brewing for a while and it seems that this reached a tipping point with
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a group of internet firms from six countries teaming up to sue britain's spy agency first case of collective action against g c h q details from our london correspondent ali boyko the u.k. government is effectively being sued by a group of internet service providers they come from a number of different countries including the u.k. the us and germany now it is reportedly the first time that an internet host has gone to court over alleged government spying now they say that g.c. h.q. is using malware or malicious software as it's tough in order to break into their networks and spy on their customers communications online now legal action is going through a very special london course it's called the investigatory powers tribe you know and it's their job to look into claims or complaints over the misuse of government surveillance now you can imagine that this court. somewhat in the wake of the
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edward snowden revelations and of course later this month they're going to be looking into complaints from human rights organizations the way that social media sites like facebook and twitter have been targeted by g c h q now two m.p.'s have also sued the u.k. government through their school it's over claims that communications were monitored as well so as i've just said in the wake of the edward snowden affair with the public debate still very much taking place save a mass government surveillance these fresh and unprecedented legal moves from the internet service providers are unlikely to be the last plan to create a new high security prisons in greece has seen activists compare the project to notorious guantanamo bay facility thousands of inmates across the country went on a hunger strike against the bill which goes to parliament on thursday in their
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statement prisoners say they are fighting to remain human instead of becoming forgotten shadows and you farmer discussed this all with. just back from assignment in. it all started on the eighteenth of june and then every day after that more and more prisoners across the country joined in the hunger strike in total there were around four and a half thousand prisoners across the country who were starving themselves and they couldn't take it any longer which is why they stopped and i said that i will continue fighting for what they believe in and otherwise what are they fighting for they are against this bill which envisions a tightening of restructure of the country's penal code and also the creation all types of things across the country they claim that this will be like. so in general they're saying that the condition in prison is already plus they don't want to see the creation of a new one which potentially could be worse so what's been the government's response to those arguments presumably believes that these things should go ahead yes and
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also we know that the country's main opposition party tried to reason with and please consider in this bill and they asked them to hold off on that until they can get a chance to visit some of these prison facilities but that request was denied we actually managed to speak to one of the prisoners his face is covered and the voice was altered because wanted to he asked us to protect his identity so let's listen to what he had to say about what life was like in these prisons you see you know to the green maybe to a prison inside a prison without any rights without any future prisoners who have completed one fifth of their sentences should be allowed to visit their family with filthy conditions mice and cockroaches there are no doctors here for every illness they just give us ask roots there are prisoners here who have no money so nobody gives them anything to eat we find cockroaches in the prison food is disgusting it's better to eat nothing than to eat this five prisoners live in
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a cell designed for two now the same problem as the fact that persons don't have money and i was there and then even though the government is saying that the situation is improving in the country when you talk to people they believe that nothing has changed and they don't see their lives. proven at all of their marxism in athens every single day on various sessions making sure explosives don't get anywhere near french airports is arguably one of the john d'armes primary tasks but what if the cops can't find a bomb they planted at the terminal themselves during training that's what happened in march say you can find out all about their embarrassing on our website. why you're there learn how an oxford university d.n.a. expert spends a year testing samples of her and a hair that people handed over telling him that they were from yetis abominable snowman and other creatures of mystery check out what he concluded. jihadi militants from isis have overrun a key syrian border town after pouring in reinforcements from neighboring iraq take
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over coming two days after isis declared an islamic state on the syrian and iraqi territory it currently controls this unverified video of. me apparently showing militants parading tanks and other combat vehicles in eastern syria their rapid isis advance coming on the heels of washington releasing half a billion dollars in military support to the syrian opposition which has stoked fresh fears the u.s. is inadvertently aiding jihad is journalist car thinks the u.s. helped bring about isis militants in the first place. ice is not just the nation of the syria isis has its origins in iraq itself in the jihad its resistance to the u.s. occupation when they would you have troops in iraq the so-called surge that was a. well of those groups have been defeated or at least neutralized that probably never really happened and ice is has been an audio route not just because it was out in syria but also by the incompetence or terrorism and corruption of the i'm
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a leaky government in iraq so all these different forces a crevasse huge regime which is very probable that some iraq could fragment into three stages because i can't see the moment of the time being any kind of m six area movement that could overcome the division but everything in iraq to shreds i says hasn't gotten any direct help from the west but it's militants seized a fair share of u.s. aid meant for the moderate syrian opposition force in washington to temporarily suspend supplies the floodgates have now opened again with a five hundred million dollar aid package but as artie's marina portnoy reports the u.s. maintains it's not responsible for fueling regional violence all over the arab world america has left behind its military footprint but i believe america is exceptional in part because we have shown a willingness through the sacrifice of blood and treasure to stand up not only for our own narrow self-interest but for the interests of all america's exceptional
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armed forces have invaded afghanistan and iraq dropped bombs on libya pakistan and yemen and reportedly trained rebels fighting to overthrow the government in syria. directly leading to the insurgency in iraq who are extremists have now declared their own caliphate not enough to just say that we are exceptional one way or the other the reason we can point to american exceptionalism is because we've done exceptional things and we do exceptional things. we have to live up to that standard but time and time again washington's eagerness to involve itself in foreign conflicts has fueled six tarion divisions creating an exceptionally dangerous circumstance the us unfortunately. has destroyed and made a mockery of the i mean you know what they have done in libya will be have done through you and continue to do what they've done in iraq. something that.
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doesn't jive with claiming any kind of effect from the lives and yet in each case washington has washed its hands of any responsibility the united states of america is not responsible for what happened in libya nor is it responsible for what is happening in iraq today in the absence of u.s. military action in iraq is warning that it could ask iran to carry out airstrikes against the hottest group isis that could throw a wrench into the works of american foreign policy potentially having to rely on an adversary to defeat a threat that washington itself is blamed for indirectly creating. marina port niamh are to. turn now to some other global stories of suicide bombers killed at least eight in an attack on a military bus in kabul thirteen others including civilians were wounded explosion
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happening in a heavily secured area near the afghan capital of university taliban saying it's behind the attack this latest violence coming at a time of political tensions with the country awaiting the results of its presidential runoff a. cargo plane crash into a commercial building in kenya's capital shortly after takeoff all four crew members killed incident happening in the early morning when the building was largely empty so no one on the ground was harmed the plane was said to have been flying especially low at an altitude and hit an electrical pylon. hungry being warned it may need even more budget cuts to get its debt down or run the risk of being put back on watch by e.u. finance monitors or things like sarah jessica imports or other countries finding it tough to stay within the deficit limits set by brussels. had little hesitation when choosing a new car for a major german brand only the car was manufactured in his home country if you want
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to buy it maybe you have to pay for. it because of. registration because of the tax so if you buy hanger from germany then. a little bit cheaper. it makes no difference i mean well it's right you know. so if it's the same why pay more this logic may have driven several european car manufacturers to set up factories in hungary with an obviously cheaper labor force than in germany but the one that is just as skilled back in the days when hungary was part of the socialist block used to be one of the biggest car manufacturers in eastern europe when the country entered the european union most of its factories went bankrupt as their predecessor was not needed in europe i must a decade on europeans have decided to experience and are now producing their cars here. largely because of that and we're talking several hundred thousand units produced annually hungary is now experiencing the biggest industrial growth in
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a decade but would that mean the two thousand and four e.u. accession promise of a better living has been capped a recent poll study suggested that seventy two percent of the variance felt that economically they were doing better under communism. seventy two and thank god i have a good job because without it i wouldn't have survived with my pension unlike twenty five years ago when pensioners didn't have to work. livingston. ten years towards consumption is. going to level the investment is below ten years ago level last hungry is a comic officials are happy to see improvement and say this is largely due to them finding their own ways to run the country no mr all but that may be among the reasons why hunger is prime minister or a man does not get along with brussels or fighting a strong leadership that has unable to hungry to get out of this mess is something . those politicians and the. we want all the degrees of freedom that we can have
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understanding that being a member of a club like the european union it has implications for for the for the policies that we can pursue but you're not in favor of. having to coordinate more policies been necessary. hungary's recovering economy is now facing a big task e.u. funding is predicted to slow even more in the next three years that's when it will be clear whether it has indeed found its own way but officials are already making no secret all that budapest is now looking eastwards to boost trade with russia and china. reporting from budapest in hungary up next we continue to follow the twists and turns of our correspondents routines on our new episode of news team or if you're watching us from u.k. they're almost time for going underground with offshore accounts.
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as a new physician i swear to abide by the hippocratic oath. to the best of my ability and judgment. i will prescribe for the good of my patients. i will not give deadly doses to anybody. or advise others to do so. i will never do harm to any. doctors of the dogs on top to. this is what we do we kill people and break things. we can see something if simple
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