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there must be near certainty that no civilians will be killed were. eyewitnesses say troops entered the anti-government stronghold of slovyansk in eastern ukraine and raise the country's flag over the city with kiev defying forces retreating to the regional capital of done yet also. morning in the small eastern ukraine village of congress shopko where locals are burying those killed in tuesday's airstrike that claimed twelve lives including a five year old boy. isis militants vowed to take the fight from syria and iraq all the way to spain and western governments scramble to secure
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their home friends from radicalized volunteers returning from battle. four pm in moscow good to have you with us our top story this hour ukrainian troops say they've regained control of the eastern ukrainian city of slovyansk which had been a stronghold of anti-government resistance for months here the most recent video from the city. explosions ring out and people run for cover their reports of multiple civilian deaths have been piling up over the last twenty four hours but help to verify the cause of the ongoing conflict is set at least six people were killed in the most recent attack most of them elderly. meanwhile the ukrainian flag was raised over slovyansk after an order by president petro poroshenko when it was government has to be seized seizure of the city as a triumph others may see it as
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a pyrrhic victory over two months of siege that involved shelling artillery fire that's left the city in ruins this is the face of today's live young should those who have escaped the war get the chance to return they'll find it on a recognizable. more residential areas caught in the violence and ski every launched its military operation artillery attacks left locals in neighboring kramatorsk in a state of shock. that's what she should dearly. residents of kramatorsk returned home to find it in ruins this is what's left after one man's flat was pounded by shells. listen to one up which isn't too much because
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that is what. people. are. all this. and the government forces confirm that most of them have been pulled out of slovyansk we're also getting reports that fighters are leaving in neighboring kramatorsk another hotbed of resistance and retreating southeast towards the goal of the and the regional capital of dianetics just to recap it's ukraine's fourth largest city with a million with nearly a million residents only a couple of years ago done it's hosted matches as part of the european football championships and we have reports of explosions have been heard near the city's international airport or bring you more information on that as we get it a week of tragedy continues meanwhile for the people of the small ukrainian village of devastated by an airstrike earlier this week residents have been burying the dead twelve people including a five year old boy were killed dozens more injured in the air raid which some army commanders say was accidental artie's marie if an ocean attended the funerals just
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a warning there are some graphic images in her report. a day of mourning in the village of star a congressional. residents gathered to pay tribute to those killed and wednesday's shelling were. the youngest victim to the greatest his face burns day just a day before his death. new told us he didn't even have time to play with him. next to his coughing another larger one this is yvonne's father. led him of his body and a covered only paces an act after one of the shells landed in a literally the man. visited the village shortly after the body and this is where the nearest body on the ground locals say bombs were dropped from two airplanes they counted at least eighteen craters. though some are you would just ready to let
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us go easy to find as popovers but it is the message here is that. the basic theory to really bring some order to duty and. we're going to have brought them here. we're in a good mood meanwhile he denies it and forces were involved he's the crane in state media is a tentative picture of what happened then very much if he'd give fellowship fifty dollars and you know might have checked that on they don't much like you know but i don't need you to keep it i don't. want the remaining fifty cars and all of nude scene at the risk to blow up or to put it in my vehicle which just be enough to give a good state that. this is somebody you still need. to do with this it wasn't really you. didn't do it and it didn't need you to do it but. this is not the first child killed in what kiev calls its anti terror
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gratian more than forty miners have reportedly died since it was launched less than three months ago and fury over the desk has now reached ukraine's parliament. i mean. even the effect of sheppey. was. it. was even. i mean that goes a little i believe people predict a national database. you boys. would do when and husband with them need to know the fuel to start and then to move. in recent days at least six freshly dug greys have it appear that they
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symmetry but with a large scale minutes your operation in eastern ukraine now underway locals fear they will be even more. refined hati start a congressional lugansk region and your crane. more details on eastern ukraine and a tragic stories of locals you can follow maria's twitter feed. the in the. extremist fighters from isis redoubling efforts to make territorial gains in syria and neighboring iraq but their emissions don't end there they want to see an islamic state that stretches all the way to western europe as one jihad has boasted in this video that was posted online it is funnier still you spain is the land of our forefathers and all the willing we are going to liberate it with the mind of allah thousands of european volunteers have helped swell the ranks of the militants
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in the region plus the us stepping up security over fears returning jihad this will seek to unleash terror back home. more. as isis continues its bloody rampage in iraq a quick look at the social media reveals that people from the west are more involved than you would imagine a man claiming to be not simple ton a twenty year old british national posted a photo of what seems to be fifteen homemade bombs it was accompanied by a tweet so the u.k. is afraid i'll come back with the skills i have gained the same man appears in a video with several others calling on brothers in the west to join their cause we have brothers from bangladesh from iraq from come australia you can see nothing has gathered us except to make a lot of. oh my goodness. i know how you feel when i. feel depressed it reaches out to sister still in the united states in april and
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nineteen year old nurse was detained at denver international airport she was allegedly on her way to syria to marry an isis fighter enjoined extremist organization to as reported a system in any manner her facebook page suggested that her profession was a slave of this latest recruitment in western countries experts say is unprecedented german intelligence claimed that more than two thousand europeans have joined the jihad in syria and iraq including at least three hundred twenty germans american reporter richard angle who was kidnapped and released in syria two years ago says that up to seventy americans are also involved and with jihad is openly saying they could bring their terror skills home europe and the united states have reason to be on high alert a recent shooting at the brussels jewish museum is an ample example of jihad may be on its way to europe investigators claim the gunman joined isis in january and the recent tightening of security for u.s. bound flights suggests washington is becoming aware that isis terrorism is no
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longer a story from somewhere overseas it is real and could soon be leaving trails of destruction in its own backyard. as they push further into syria and iraq jihad is gaining more land and more than just land and manpower they've also seized vital resources that could help fuel their military campaign isis has already arrested control of several large oil fields in syria from rebel or from a rival rebel factions jihad is now fighting with iraq he troops in a bid to seize the refineries in the north of the country one analyst telling us that isis could even start exporting the black gold we should not rule out the possibility that these religious extremists can get this oil to the market and receive funding in return for isis is very well funded they were able to loot a bank and apparently ran away with tens of millions of dollars for this recent events they made in iraq in neighboring syria they were in
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a de facto alliance with united states of america and its north atlantic allies against the domestic base regime the president all saw and that not only brought them recognition and influence brought them a certain amount of funding. still to come as a mega pile of rubbish grows higher in south east london housing prices in the region are dropping lower we hear from residents who have had to put up with the stink for four years. just imagine twenty two drawing this racing down here at three hundred twenty kilometers an hour that top speed you look at how olympic host city sochi is writing for its next major sporting event russia's first formula one grand prix. but first initial autopsy is found that the palestinian teenager who was abducted and killed this week was burned alive palestinians blame his murder on far right jews and also sparked fierce clashes with israeli police on friday.
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israeli forces using tear gas to disperse crowds of mourners in jerusalem at the funeral of the palestinian youngster thought he was murdered in revenge for the killing of three jewish teenagers that israel blames on hamas while searching for their killers israel arrested hundreds of palestinians and raided thousands of west bank homes tension being further fueled by strikes from both sides with israel massing troops along its gaza border one paddle palestinian journalist covering the conflict that the situation is tense. what you are seeing right now is retaliating from both sides situation. some calls were made for a ferret intifada or uprising and the latest incident the murder of the sixteen year old palestinian boy. after the murder of three israelis so there is this is going to fuel the tension and you know a number of threats made by the israeli army officials against the hamas rule gaza if the rocket fire does not stop from gaza or the israeli military might intervene
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according to the credit union center for abuse of statistics more than one thousand five hundred protesting in the children have been killed between two thousand and two thousand and thirteen we haven't heard any contamination from that won't it from the international community from the world leader. when it comes to the press today when you come to the israeli casualties the whole wall is talking about this there is no peace process violence is there working the scene you have poverty you have you know all kinds of you know factors so the environment darkness fear is there for a third intifada still to come what are you willing to do for high speed internet find out how residents of a remote german village matter into their own hands after this short break. well mom told me my language as well but i will only react to situations i haven't read the reports for so i'm likely to push the no i will leave them to stay current
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a comment on your latter point of the month to say to secure yes because i'm going to talk you know gonna. say no more weasel words. when you say the direct question really prepared for a change when you should be ready for a. critical speech mr leno down to freedom to. dramas the truth be ignored. stories others the few still noticing. things is changing the world lights next. to the picture of today's new. home to and from around the globe.
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looking. to. quarter past the hour now homes in south east london being swamped by the stench and the sight of an ever growing mountain of trash that after three years of creep has now stood four stories tall attempts to get authorities to deal with the festering rat infested monstrosity have been in vain or he sorry for reports. is a. person who can bring them in and he's not the only one around his saying that after a waste disposal company allowed this rubbish to pile up now estimated to stand around forty feet and how long he been living with that the neighbors. were off for years. there were two was a take on sick a guy so on so so to speak talk about he would plastic man. i was told i was
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a business plan and for as you can see. they don't quite work it's not just residents who are upset since december two thousand and eleven the london fire brigade had sent out save a six hundred fifty fire engines to twenty three separate fires here backing up more than six hundred fifty thousand pounds worth of resources the environment agency recently on the high court to find a company in contempt of court after countless missed deadlines and injunctions to meet the waste the judge they dismissed the action they it's not immediately clear why understandably the company went keen to talk. do you think the way the residents here being treated by a company is thirty. well they did release a statement saying without a cash injection or agreement from the environment agency to allow the company to generate further income we simply cannot afford to make substantial disposals the
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legal fees incurred by the company as a result of the court proceedings have drained the company's resources this money could have been put to better use by making disposals from the site what's happened here is over a number of years you've had various firms all changing their name and saying the different firms have been operating on a permit from the environment. people are supposed to police this but no one has taken decisive action well this is meant that the residents that live here instead of being able to enjoy the comfort of their own homes are left in the middle of the deal with the lies and the dust and. that comes from that must've pile of rubbish and quite frankly that thing. reporting for us. taking a look now at some other stories making global headlines this hour beginning in somalia where a car bomb exploded in the country's capital mogadishu killing at least four last
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happening near parliament while m.p.'s were in session al-shabaab islamist militants have been in to carrying out the attack this may at least ten people were killed when the group targeted the same building. in afghanistan at least four hundred oil tanker trucks carrying fuel were destroyed by fire started in a parking depot used by trucks delivering supplies to nato taliban says it carried out the attack. and egyptian forces handed life said incident is to the muslim brotherhood spiritual leader and three of its members they were found guilty of inciting violence during the coup last year that toppled president morsi judges also upheld death sentences for ten other party leaders egypt's army back government has been cracking down on the group for more than a year jailing thousands and killing hundreds of protesters in the streets. pro and anti immigration activists squared off at the u.s. border patrol station in the town of marietta in california awaiting the arrival of
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another one hundred forty families without documents from central america town's residents made headlines this week after they blocked three buses with immigrants most of the arrivals fleeing poverty in their countries and crossed the us mexico border hoping for a better life. after hosting the two thousand and fourteen winter olympics russia's black sea resort of sochi is now trying its head of formula one in october they'll become the first russian city to stage an f one grand prix archy's neil harvey visited the racetrack to see if everything is up to speed. the race is on for the southern resort of sochi to bids to transform itself from a limper coast into the venue for this year's russian drum. this is our organizers hope it will look for now though the reality is quite different the main grandstand still in the construction and the track still being late but the sortie team are confident their circuit will be both on time and world class is going to be fine i
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think most most f one circuits are similar in the sense of very very kind of last minute delivery i think is going to be quite challenging for a lot of drivers we have a couple of very interesting turns here which i think they would be challenging. i think some strengths of the drivers and a difference has not been easy for the organizers who are tasked with constructing a track that can weave its way intricately through sort she's a limping village and at high speed. so to make that happen they drafted in one of the best in the business german track guru hand until care who came up with this design and the early feedbacks to be believed seems a tilt didn't disappoint behind me you'll see the fast this part of the course just imagine twenty two drivers racing down here at three hundred twenty kilometers an hour their top speed and then they break sharply for this turn to the tightest part of the course just thirty metres from side to side just imagine the bottleneck in
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the potential problems they all try to squeeze through here. that was battled through here they call it pick up speed up toward three hundred kilometers an hour if they sweep their way around this majestic picturesque bend take the round battle plaza and back into the more recognizable surroundings of the olympic village we took the chance to test out the track ourselves but we weren't the only ones the formula one road show served as a test drive for the big event but also giving russians a tantalizing taste of the. and the dilemma that lie ahead for the final layer of the trunk to be laid in august seems that for organizers the finish line is literally in sight the mine will be the case in the future then one chief bernie ecclestone keen on tuning the russian grand prix into a night race does what mr ecclestone sincerely wants this is a beautiful idea different that this year race starts at three pm and it will be a race but for the next years i'm sure that the one year of such
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a crime free will be of the night race night tool day though it's unlikely to matter too much to the officials in sochi he won the bid to make the city a global school team but no this is one rice it's only just begun reporting from sochi this is neil harvey foxy. almost a year now since the capsized costa concordia cruise ship was hauled upright again some of her decks are still deep underwater the water youtube channel you can go on an underwater trek to explore the submerged interior. also on our side we have google makes certain news items disappear from search results and what stays on line and what goes on live. right on the scene. first struck. and i would think that you're.
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on a reporter's twitter. and instagram. could be in the know. getting high speed internet from existing providers proved impossible for a small german village so residents tried to go it alone and found a way of doing it themselves peter all reports. the rural farming villages of northern germany are beautiful but remote so remote telecom companies refused to install modern broadband connections because they didn't see any profit in it and it's the through also being connected to the world is very important to the future of our community very spread out here for some properties the nearest neighbor can be up to six kilometers away from. snubs by the telecom providers the village of love instead have taken matters into their own hands. but i think in the us this is a long term project we don't expect to make any money for around thirty years
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that's no interesting to big company we're doing this for the service not profit. they've installed twenty two kilometers of fiber optic cable creating a community built broadband network that connects each household for anybody not convinced the local restaurant also doubles up as a show room so people can see just how big the differences are before and after the switch over to fiber optics it doesn't come cheap it costs one thousand euro to join up and for that each person becomes a shareholder in the company despite the cost is be good to take over the mines own study and found. my son studies computer science and has to spend most of his time in the city because of this he can come home and work here sometimes it's great to see you know far as a sign the broadband access has changed the way business is done allowing this to sit on his porch while still controlling and monitoring his bio gas plant which
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generates power for the village even the cows are online and logged with a click of a button here going head to head with the main provider is paid off for the community peter all of a. still to come r.j. international a new documentary about troops killed by friendly fire or if you're watching us in the u.k. george galloway and stay with. him is about seven years old it's one of the largest ten cities on the east coast of america and it's got about one hundred people here just because of economic the cost of housing in this area especially is very high i believe as an american we
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have a writes. about it or possess public land until something is created. that's my house you see back there live it send them to well at least then spend the. rest of the day if we hadn't done that we wouldn't have been home i want to know if we don't just how do you know people have density we don't know anybody that needs help so tell your friend to just give us a more secure mortgage as they got never going to get ready and today we had one thousand who got a place to live once on monday i'll be out here with my dog. 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
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good of my patients. i will not give deadly doses to anybody. or advise of those to do so. i will never do harm to the. doctors of the docs on. the research of dr scott's nor a retired lieutenant colonel at the harvard business school highlights the difficulties in determining both the cause of and criminal culpability in friendly fire incidents so friendly fire have a perverse relationship with friendly fire paratrooper and eighty second airborne division i was a victim of friendly fire in operation urgent fury and grenada and so for years this was ninety three i had a perverse sense of curiosity how could sometimes some of the best trained best equipped people in the world sometimes fall short of the mark in his book friendly fire dr snoeck investigates an encounter in a no fly zone in which two u.s. f.
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fifteen fighters shot down two u.s. army black hawk helicopters instantly killing twenty six. un peacekeepers this happened in one thousand nine hundred four full three years after the end of the first gulf war it was a high shooting war going around there's not a lot of bad guys around on the ground there aren't a lot of enemy planes flying around near broad daylight unlimited visibility relatively benign conditions it's on can play in this one of the fog of war on the call sheet that morning the two f. fifteen pilots were briefed that they would be the first aircraft to enter the no fly zone by regulation no helicopters were allowed to fly into the zone without fighter coverage however unbeknown to the f. fifteen pilots a last minute early morning trip was scheduled to get peacekeepers to appeal a town deep in northern iraq when the pilots entered the no fly zone that morning they were alarmed to see two helicopters appear on their radar nobody's supposed to be in front of them that day so you're already your expectations these are probably
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enemy helicopters that speeded that out too that this sense of all you're trying to figure out isn't hip isn't something which soviet as a nation you have to come through. for the army's rules of engagement the f. fifteen approached the blackhawks to visually confirm that they were enemy aircraft before firing they were trained on this they take a lot of pride in this but of course a black cock a u.s. army black hawk. was configured these two blackhawks were configured slightly different that day normally a black hawk they have little wing lights on the side and sponsons and on this particular day the blackhawks are going about one hundred miles to the town of erbil inside deep inside northern iraq and so they attached extra fuel tanks to the blackhawks and these little wings and that change the shape which.

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