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recorders quicker. to ukrainian troops sent to the anti government strongholds of slavyansk and kramatorsk and raise the country's flag over the eastern cities with kid defying forces retreating to the regional capital now of donetsk also. the morning continues in the small eastern ukrainian village of congress where locals are burying their dead killed in tuesday's airstrike that claimed twelve lives including that of a five year old boy. a graphic video services showing israeli
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policeman brutally beating the cousin of the killed palestinian teenager whose funeral was held amid massive protests on friday. but also coming up this hour isis militants about to take the fight from syria and iraq all the way to spain as western governments scramble to secure their home front from radicalized volunteers returning from the war. good evening my name is kevin zero in this is arts international coming to live it's ten pm here in moscow now first this hour the new cranium troops have regained control of the city of slavyansk in eastern stronghold of anti-government resistance for months these are the latest pictures of what's been happening there today. with
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explosions going off all round people literally running for cover running for their lives reports of multiple civilian deaths have been piling up over the last twenty four hours for the difficult to verify at this stage because of the ongoing fighting it's thought though that at least six people were killed in the most recent attack most of them elderly. meanwhile the ukrainian flags been raised over slavyansk on the orders of president petro poroshenko while the government hails today's seizure of the city as a triumph rather says a pyrrhic victory more than two months of siege including shelling our teller a fire have left that city in ruins this is the face of today's slavyansk many residents returning who were escape the fighting might well not be able to recognize it. and the government forces have also pulled out of nearby kramatorsk as well retreating southeast towards the city of god love care and the region's capital donetsk you can see the routes that they've reportedly been taking on the map here and this amateur video coming up now allegedly shows their fighters
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parading through the center of kramatorsk own tanks before they left that city commanders say they had to retreat to save civilian lives from army air strikes. other developments these are photos from twitter of what appear to be antique forces arriving in donetsk just to remind you that is ukraine's fourth largest city with a population of almost a million in series many big place only two years ago donetsk was one of the host cities for the european football championships. more video from kramatorsk now where troops have raised the ukrainian flag over the city administration building there before the army arrived these pictures of merge showing residents fleeing if you see people queuing to board this bus several of the city's residential areas indeed had been caught up in violence over the previous twenty four hours.
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to two years. you can. put it just so that's what you to do you know it's. this residue of the kramatorsk return home and discover his house it really is this is what's left of his fluffed up the building was pounded by a shell i. presume it is going up which is like almost as it is the feel of the new. people who are known as shorty uppers will see what might work. all this. and yet another civilian death this time in the lugansk region the twenty two year old man was killed during an army shelling overnight he was hit by shrapnel after going under the roof to repair an aerial. let's go now to the nearby village of congress show of care that was
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devastated by an airstrike earlier this week the residents of burying their dead twelve people including a five year old boy were killed dozens more injured in the air raid which some ukrainian army commanders say was accidental refer national was at the funerals there are some graphic images coming up in her report to. a day of mourning in the village of static and the show of. residents gathered to pay tribute to those killed and wednesday's shelling. yvonne the youngest victim to abrade his fifth birthday 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. my dearest body and face a covered only pieces and left after one of the shells landed in
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a metre away from the man. who visited the village shortly after the bombardment this is where dimmers body on the ground locals say bombs were dropped from two airplanes they counted at least eighteen craters. some alludes. to what are supposed to find a spot. and i think that it is the message here is that. once again or to really bring you some a little bit. we're going to have brought that. we're in a good mood meanwhile he denies it and forces were involved he is the ukrainian state media turnitin picture of what happened then very much if you give fellowship fifty dollars minimum i could check that on they don't much like you know but i don't need to put it on. the range of fifty cars and all of annoyed see that there is still blah political theater and i just be enough to give
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a good state that. this is somebody you will need. to do over this it wasn't really you. didn't do it and it didn't leave you to do it but. this is not the first child killed in what kiev calls its antiterrorist gratian more than forty miners have reportedly died since it was launched less than three months ago and fury over their deaths has now reached ukraine's parliament. i mean. you really affected sheppey not all. was. was your man in there today alamo why do you people predicted national arabic in the east you boys even.
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though a muslim let's go to. war you wouldn't do it when his boy and husband with buried another funeral started and then to move. in recent days at least six freshly dug graves have appeared that they cemetery but with a large scale military operation in eastern ukraine now underway locals fear they will be even more. riff notional party started logan's creech and eastern ukraine now make a report tonight tensions remain high on russia's border with ukraine where a russian checkpoint been hit with ukrainian shells for the second time in twenty four hours buses carrying refugees were moving through that crossing at the time with that latest attack eyewitnesses say they work but no one died the thing ukrainian fires reached checkpoints on the russian side a number of occasions since the conflict began following pictures were filmed right
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after the refugees reverted evacuated to safe there. you know. what's really. going to go down but as a lot of. the world. would you. don't you think that was a. good idea that was really evident you and you know it was. very unsettling uncertain time for so many people there on the border keep up to date with the latest from ukraine on air with that r.t. dot com you can find in-depth coverage of the whole crisis chronicled from day one . the.
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videos emerge that could aggravate the crisis between israel and the palestinians it shows a fifteen year old being severely beaten by the israeli police on thursday was more the boy you're about to seize reportedly the cousin of that killed palestinian teenager who was buried only on friday you may find the video come up here distressing these pictures were filmed by a resident who passed the footage on to a local t.v. station you can see one of the officers is sitting on top of the palestinian boy while the others kicking him punching him in the head after the beating it was dragged away by the police he's actually an american citizen by the way his father witnessed the arrest is confirmed the person in the video is his son now israeli police say that instance being investigated there they say the video doesn't tell the whole story here they say the officers were attacked first it's not the first time the violence against palestinian teens has been caught on camera it made two teenagers were shot dead during a protest in the west bank the israeli military was blamed for the killings patel
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of eve denied its troops had fired lethal and the initial. meanwhile initial autopsy examinations found that the palestinian teenager who was abducted and killed this week was burned alive are listed needs blame his murder on fire at jews it also sparked fears clashes with israeli police on friday which is no spread to other arab terms. israeli forces used tear gas to disperse protesters in jerusalem following the funeral of a palestinian youngster it's thought he was murdered in revenge for the killing of three jewish teenagers which israel blames on hamas israel arrested hundreds of palestinians and raided thousands of homes while trying to locate them in time and mass is offering to hold to its rocket attacks on television even if television stops shelling guards a well with the israelis no massing troops along the on claims border the situation's on
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a knife edge as one palestinian journalist told us what we are seeing right now is retaliating from both sides circulation critically more some calls were made for i fear intifada uprising and the latest incident the murder of the sixteen year old palestinian boy came after the murder of three israeli settlers this is going to fuel the tension and you know a number of threats made by israeli army officials against the hamas rule guys are if the rocket fire does not stop from gaza then the israeli military might intervene according to the testing in the center for bureaus of statistics more than one thousand five hundred palestinian the children have been killed between two thousand and two thousand and thirteen we haven't heard any confirmation from that from the international community from the world leaders when it comes to the police to want to come to the israeli casualties the whole world is talking about this there is not peace process violence is there anything the scene you have poverty you have you know all all kinds of you know factors so the environment the
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atmosphere is there for a third intifada. next the extremist fighters from isis are redoubling their efforts to make territorial gains in syria and neighboring iraq but their ambitions don't end there apparently they want to see it islamic state that stretches all the way to western europe as one jihadists posted in this video posted online. spawning are still use thing as the land of our forefathers and all the willing where are you going to liberate the mind of all the thousands of european volunteers have already helped swell the ranks of the militants in the region the e.u. as well as his ally america's beefing up security measures now than over fears returning to how this will seek to unleash terror back home legs reports. 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 nasa matan
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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 combo australia you can see nothing has gathered us except to make a lot of soldiers with the highest oh my goodness. i know how you feel when i. feel depressed it reaches out to sister stool in the united states in april and nineteen year old nurse was detained at denver international airport she was allegedly on her way to syria to marry an isis fighter enjoying the 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 say is unprecedented german intelligence claimed that more than two thousand europeans have joined the jihad in
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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 terrorist killers home europe and the united states have reason to be on high alert at a recent shooting at the brussels jewish museum is an ample example of jihad maybe 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 longer a story from somewhere overseas it is real and could soon be leaving trails of destruction in its own backyard. well as a push further into syria and iraq the jihadists are getting more than just manpower they've also seize vital resources that could help fuel their military campaign isis is already wrested control of several large oil fields in syria from rival rebel factions that you had this with the wrecking troops in
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a bid to try to seize the massive oil refineries in the north of that country one analyst told us that isis and the could even start exporting the black gold to raise cash 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 the recent events they've made in iraq in neighboring syria they were in a defacto alliance with the united states of america and its north atlantic allies against a domestic based regime the president all sought and that not only brought them recognition and influence brought them a certain amount of funding. just had a run out city as a mega pile of rubbish grows ever higher in southeast london where put on house
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prices for nearby homes dropping ever lower because of it we talk to residents who've had to put up with the stink for years now also to. just imagine twenty two drawing us racing down here at three hundred twenty kilometers an hour that top speed we look at how olympic how sochi is preparing for its next major sporting event russia's first formula one from pretty. well known language as well but i will only react to situations i have read the reports for. the pollution and no i will leave them to the state department to comment on your latter part of the month to say to secure a car is on the docket no gonna. take no more weasel words. when you question the prepared for a change when you should be ready for
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a. printout of speech. down to freedom to cost. dramas that could be ignored. stories others refuse to notice. faces changing the world. so picture of today's. politicians from around the globe. hello again homes in southeast london are being swarmed by the stench and sight of an ever growing mountain of rubbish which after three years of create four stories
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tall terms to try to get the authorities to deal with the rat infested trash monstrosity have been in vain r.t.c. . and he's not the only one around here saying that after a waste disposal company allowed this rubbish to pile up now estimated to stand around forty feet and how long have you been living with the neighbor. there what for was a take on. so on so. he would plastic. was a business plan and. it didn't quite work it's not just residents here 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
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than six hundred fifty thousand pounds worth of resources the environment agency recently asked 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 it's not immediately clear why understandably the company weren't keen to talk. do you think the way the residents here are being treated by a company is third. although 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 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
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there's different firms have been operating under a permit from the environment. people are supposed to police this. taken decisive in force what action will 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 summer that they'll with the lies and the dust and. that comes from that must've pile of rubbish and quite frankly that thinks sarah firth reporting for us. around the world in somalia now a car bomb explosion in the country's capital mogadishu killed at least four people that blast happened outside the main gate of parliament building while m.p.'s were in session al-shabaab islam is militant say they carried out the attack earlier this year at least ten people were killed when the group targeted same site. in afghanistan at least four hundred oil tanker trucks carrying fuel have been destroyed by fire the blaze started in
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a parking depo used by said trucks delivering supplies to nato the taliban said it carried out that attack. a quarter of egypt's given life sentences to the muslim brotherhood spiritual leader and thirty six of its members they were found guilty of inciting violence after last year's coup toppled president mohamed morsy judges also upheld death sentences for ten other party leaders egypt's army backed government's been cracking down on the group for over a year jelly thousands and killing hundreds of protesters in the streets. after hosting the twenty fourteen winter olympics the russian black sea resort of sochi is now trying its hand that formula one next this october will become the first russian city to stage an f one grand prix harvey visited the racetrack to see if everything's up to speed. the race is on for the southern resort of sochi to bids to transform itself from
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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 under construction and the track still being late but the saudi team are confident their circuit will be both on time and world class is going to be fine i 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 will be challenging and 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 limp dick 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
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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 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 for formula one road show served as a test drive for the big event while also giving russians a tantalizing taste of the. from the glamour that lie ahead with the final layer of the track to be laid in august it seems that for organizers the finish line is
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literally in sight the mind not be the case in the future therefore in chief bernie ecclestone keen on turning 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 day race but for the next years i'm sure that the one year such a grand prix will be of the night race night all day though it's unlikely to matter too much to the officials in sort cheap here in the bid to make the city a global sporting mecca you know this is one race it's only just begun reporting from sochi this is neil harvey farty. just a few days ago until the cup size costa concordia cruise ship heads on its final voyage to the scrap yard although it was hauled up right almost a year ago as some effects are still under water before it scrapped that you tube channel will go on a journey to explore it submerged in tears some of the things that. you really understood. always more than twenty two thousand videos mostly if you check up on
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and online as well for most r.t. dot com you can read how google makes certain news items disappear from its search results find out what states want goes how they decide on it and r.t. dot com. thanks for your company is twenty six minutes past ten at night here in moscow and back with more in thirty four minutes then live from r.t. h.q. now if you're still watching for next half hour hope you can get out international a new documentary about u.s. troops killed by friendly fire lined up for you and if you're watching it in the u.k. george galloway asked why the west seems unfazed by israel's response to the killing of three jewish teenagers. it's about seven years old it's one of the largest ten cities on the east coast of america and six got about one hundred people here just because of economics the
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cost of housing in this area especially is very high and i believe as an american we have a right. to 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 it if we hadn't done that we wouldn't have been home i want you to understand we don't just you know people of density we don't know anybody who needs help so tell your friend to just take care of him or a mistake i'm never going to get the internet in one thousand got a place to live once on monday i'll be out here with my dog. right on the scene. first street. and i would think that you're.
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on a reporter's twitter. and instagram. to be in the know. on. the research of dr scott's not 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 in grenada and so for years this was ninety three i had a prefer 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 to u.s. army black hawk helicopters instantly killing twenty six u.n. 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 running around on the ground or in a lot of enemy planes flying around near broad daylight unlimited visibility relatively benign conditions at the time can play in this one in 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. unbeknown to the f. fifteen pilots a last minute early morning trip was scheduled to get peacekeepers to or below the 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 the.
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