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you guys do the job well hand of the. day's top stories interview of the week ukrainian army raising entire villages in a bid to reclaim anti-government strongholds in the restive east of the country sending the civilian death toll story. as. we were poured on those unknowingly carden he has on the slot civilians the elderly even children are written off as collateral damage. geodes leader of the recently print claimed islamic caliphate apparently making his first public appearance as ruthless militants continue their advances in iraq and syria seizing control of the vast oil fields plus.
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the death of a palestinian boy in jerusalem triggering violence across the region as activists race concerns that the deaths of palestinian youngsters go ignored unlike israeli casualties. day's top stories in a look back at the week's news five pm in moscow entire villages razed to the ground dozens of civilians killed this less than a week after he had any of the cease fire with self-proclaimed republicans in the east of ukraine its army immediately resuming a so-called anti terror operation with heavy shelling and bombing the. military saying it's targeting anti-government fighters though it's hitting residential areas in the process women children and the elderly among the dead. did you do you did you go. do you do you. do you do you did you
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did someone who did. we got to blow the boat then how do. you do. the goods. it got the marginal aboard boeing. you know you do although i mean they're both very. particularly bloody attack carried out in the village of congress shoved a wednesday at least twelve people killed here but first denied responsibility though later a military commander admitted it was an accident or if an ocean it was there just to warn you some of the images in her report are disturbing. as we arrive in can just a village twenty five kilometers from the grounds house insisting. at least
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five a real bombs were dropped here he's joined an entire street and killing several people most. of them oh no browed corner unit no one knew of. alexander invites us to follow him. his backyard has become a hammock field joe you're going to go out on the water as it as it's near yeah that's all that's a good look at really big. just next door and other human tragedy i should rather of northwind mcclintock that leaves all of us knew they were glued for more than a couple and i wore it for years more as a warhol you want a bunny corneas mushy presume that it's got to get you killed hundreds family was fortunately not a time at the time of the shelling good he says it would have killed them. good do it think think is it were in their words just hours ago and the ceasefire ended and
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killed resumed good cause it's an empty terrible ration in eastern ukraine but if it is in your book moving the needle you would but that is the deal with the book was a list of who didn't put it because it war it was killing you it kills the would choose to do with you or did you think it was the reason e.g. when you dealing with it you would need to do it with we did a really good neighbors did good cable television here fortunately nurturing the floor as possible as good so you could feel as good as night suddenly we hear the sound of shells exploding you know for my football top when we're going to ship out here now i carry the bad news yes you know we have to run now. on our way back we stopped by a local hospital. a day before the local power station was heat in another shelling since then there has been new running water and no electricity. you. see you know settling for all children to believe that someone looked up with her
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you. just to. see what you need to get which we find alexander's father him and the injured he says he sees no point in leaving no one hour that his wife's down on her all. the somber moment home are present in the knowledge we are going to worry about her. it's getting dark and doctors tell us we'd better hurry up we come back to lugansk. missed this stop the phone was generals who through our driver told us that this is the last checkpoint will start again with the village and there were some bodies happened and they say they are surprised why we're also a little of the first target global sings and the check on the nearest hornsby's time clock is way it seems that no one has an answer and felice question.
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in eastern ukraine. perils of for those who are killed in the air strike took place in what was left of the village square one woman was burying both her husband and her side. we give the body to the family believe it beautifully. if you could even when you look at the book at him and you can tell your family you boys you keep your book with you the book is the only thing you puzzle over. the muslims boy was the that's good. for. the destruction of congress led to heated debates about how much force is too much here the u.s. russia west defends calling the army's actions quote an attempt to restore peace. our view is that the training in security forces operations have been modern and measured they've been taking steps to maintain calm within their own country disillusionment with the actions of ukraine's military to the country's parliament
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this is how a lawmaker interrupted president poroshenko while he was praising the armed forces i mean your cause. it should be not all computers or was it was. i did not predict a national attitude thank you any government fighters have left the cities of slovyansk and kramatorsk which were the center of resistance partly because they say both were indefensible and that they couldn't prevent civilian casualties caused by government bombardment they've now retreated toward the regional capital dynamic to regroup and reinforce the national guard saying it will search for those who refused to lay down arms in the retaking the cities and question them mark sloboda and international affairs lecturer at moscow state university says locals see the army as the opposite of liberators. the reports out this morning is that
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they are already going door to door looking for people who might have remained behind health or are perceived as having helped these self-defense forces and the local say they are being executed we have seen some very grim results in the previously occupied towns most of the young and middle aged men are rounded up what exactly is being done with them whether they are being executed or taken off is not entirely known we have heard the defense minister of the ukraine several weeks ago speak openly and without even any attempting to hide it that all of the citizens of eastern ukraine when these towns and cities or reconquered would be taken tilth women children and men would be taken to filtration camps not even really trying to hide the connection with concentration camps of course as we've also seen several run ins for russian journalists working in the conflict zone one of them fatal.
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journalists ducking for cover on monday when their bus came under fire at night a sixty eight year old camera man was shot in the incident he died within an hour of this being filmed. on thursday his colleagues from the same travel came under artillery fire you can hear the explosions as the team tries to hide from the bombardment. we've been chronicling the events of the last week and before in detail on our web site more images and analysis of what's happening in eastern ukraine on our team dot com. this week leader of the jihadi group known as the islamic state has made his first public appearance he gave a sermon on the second largest city of iraq praising the creation of an islamic caliphate on the occupied territories militants making major gains capturing an oil field along those. pardon me syrian border on top of the other resource rich sites
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they've already snatched from baghdad let's take a look at how much land the islamic state group already has under its control now this black area you've got syria here in iraq this area is what they control the yellow line is the border between the two countries now the success of the islamic state group has seen a number of rebel factions in syria now pledge allegiance to it the group is eager to show off its military might and perswade other fighters to join their cause a parade of tanks and other vehicles some of them of u.s. origin was filmed in eastern syria iraq insists it can defeat the jihad it's. explains though that could be a tall order for. jihad is formally known as isis this week to clear the completion of their islamic state this. but now this is one country. the iraqi army meanwhile is finding back in televised news briefings the government. weeks of victoria's
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tone. come from the information that the isis leaders have started to flee but on the ground we've found little evidence to back up those claims this used to be territory controlled by the central government but the iraqi army fled this area the same day that the city of mosul was captured by isis millions of dollars of u.s. made equipment abandoned uniforms shared in haste. now this looks like a hat a breakout from the special forces iraqi special forces this is obviously a vest that they discarded left behind they dressed in civilian clothes ran away essentially abandoned their posts and that's how in part isis has been able to see it so much territory so quickly the fighting has displaced hundreds of thousands of iraqis that many are scarred by the two thousand and three invasion and describe a sense of deja vu with the current crisis again from two thousand and three it's
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coming back so it's a disaster actually things are getting worse we want to tell them to stand first hand how this war was playing out we're on our way right now to one of the front lines the village of mobbed up until about five days ago when isis insurgents leave the country but entire territory village stands on a strategic road from mosul the next several of the provinces so they really want to insist to a benchmark lost soldiers have been able to clear bits of it but they're still clashes ongoing and that's what we're getting right now. at the base commanders take us to an outpost overlooking an area controlled by militants this is the very first defensive position against the isis militants just two kilometers that way every single day there's been sniper fire attempts by the jihadist to enter this territory if they can push through the defensive position they would potentially take your coupe and move into the territories and that could be a massive battle just waiting to happen moment. slater we have to leave and we just
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got word that the isis jihad just might be willing for what it's all the soldiers have been told to evacuate this area we're going to get out before things get intense we know that there was clashes last night and we definitely don't want to be here if that happens again it was apparent just how fluid a conflict this was the front lines change daily and no matter what military gains each team may bring the iraqi civilians who lose as the war rages on to see calf no party to kook province in iraq while the caliphate rolls out the u.s. is releasing half a billion dollars in military support to the moderate syrian opposition although some still fear that the money might fall into extremist hands investigative journalist matt carr thinks the us helped bring about the islamic state movement in the first place isis is not just creation of the syria or isis has its origins in iraq itself in the jihad its resistance to the u.s. occupation when they would do troops in iraq them up the so-called surge there was
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a be. one of those groups have been defeated or at least neutralized that probably never really happened and isis has been an hour to iraq not just because it was out in syria but also by the incompetence or terrorism and corruption of the i'm a leaky government in iraq so all these different forces of crevasses generation 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 and sectarian movement that could overcome the division routing rock to shreds. still to come japan's reviving its military machine but that. thousands there over the thought of the country's a battling the passive ism it's held since world war two. and it's a blackwater's reputation wasn't bad enough the new york times says a notorious security contractor threatened to kill a state department official trying to expose its criminal behavior during the iraq
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to notice. faces change the world writes never. the old picture of today's you know. from around the globe. seventeen minutes past the hour suspects arrested over the murder of a palestinian teenager who was thought to have been slaughtered in a revenge killing and autopsy suggest the teen was burned alive. his death sparking fears clashes between the arab population and israeli police the boy believed to have been murdered over the killing of three jewish teenagers whose bodies were found last monday in sit ins sent tension soaring in the region within
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days israel arrested hundreds of palestinians and raided thousands of homes while trying to find the jewish teens the jewish teens killers but several political experts say that israel's heavy handed approach isn't the way out. dental fitting three teenagers in banksy deals he problem this does not justify a tool that could not be on the palestinians most of them leaders and hamas in the west bank airstrikes mightly peace is on the does a stream is continuous this is overwhelming situation israelis unfortunately the main neighborhood but there is no way to stop those killings on both sides by making a beautician the only way to blake this. is by sitting together and talking justly and fairly about a bit of everybody. emergence of this video isn't helping allegedly showing israeli police beating the cousin of the murdered palestinian teenager he arrived in
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jerusalem for the funeral but was arrested arrested several hours before thursday's ceremony as the street clashes erupted. the brutal deaths of the israeli teenagers was given emotional coverage or across western channels. sense that there will be some retaliation for the it's becoming increasingly apparent that his promise to make our must pay for the three teenagers found dead on monday there is a huge amount of grief discovering the grim discovery of the three bodies of those israeli teenagers late yesterday israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu said the three teenagers were murdered in cold blood by what he described as animals what hasn't been seen so much are the hundreds of palestinian families that have been left to grieve for their children more than fifteen hundred palestinian children have died six thousand injured by israeli forces since two thousand as these
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figures show it's one palestinian child killed every theory days local activists fear the international media repeatedly chooses to turn a blind eye to israel's deadly raid. israeli army has been killing palestinians in cold blood. we are talking about thousands and thousands of palestinians would killed by the israeli army and tens of thousands of people would enjoy doing forty seven years of military occupation that is the only army now is demolishing houses and the actions of collective punishment out of continuing gold in the form of raids on gaza which the israeli army is using to provoke reactions from palestinians and then it isn't these the abbey the actions as close as the reason for the openness of behavior in gaza strip and in other places and palestinian territories hopes of finding life elsewhere in the universe have received a blow after astrophysicist admit that two planets described as the most earth like ever found don't actually exist get the full story on our t.
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dot com plus. toxic substances on the streets of mexico city but radioactive ones our website explains how the material was found. tell us more contractor in iraq threaten to kill a state department official who is looking into wrongdoings at the firm that used to be called blackwater the new york times published a report that claims the manager gloated that there was little investigators could do about it because the organization was so heavily involved in the u.s. work there document indicating up blackwater's top manager in a low even tone of voice said the government agent told a government agent that he could kill him without blinking an eye state department investigators who are in iraq had to curb further investigation after that describing the staff at the notorious for him as out of control and that it was operating above the law but the american embassy at the time sided with blackwater former state department official peter van buren says that washington knew about the recklessness and dangerous behavior. the state department was so afraid of its
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mission in iraq being slowed down or delayed by replacing blackwater as a contractor that they were willing to accept almost any standards of behavior out of the company in order to continue the contract even though they understood it was detrimental to us aims blackwater was an organization out of control in iraq and we now have absolute proof that the state department who was supposed to control them knew that they were out of control knew that they were dangerous people knew that they were acting contrary to u.s. policy aims and did nothing. just weeks after the death threat blackwater unit murdered seventeen people in the iraqi capital u.s. officials said they were shooting without cause and innocent lives were lost not that it stopped the firm go from getting other lucrative contracts it's believed to have assisted the cia drone mission in pakistan and also got millions of dollars from washington for housing troops in afghanistan. two separate attacks on
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neighboring coastal districts in kenya have killed at least twenty nine people according to the country's interior ministry during the first assault gunmen stormed a police station releasing several detainees some of them linked to previous to terrorize and the second heavily armed militants raided a trading center in the village of the hindi islamist group al-shabaab saying it was behind both attacks. foreign engineers thought to have been kidnapped in libya admitted to tearing security situation there saturday night security forces and armed militias engaged in street battles in tripoli one soldier reportedly killed fighting between government forces and various armed groups on the rise since the downfall of colonel gadhafi in twenty eleven. a long distance swimmer attacked by a great white shark off california's manhattan beach pier one of the u.s. busiest beaches the victim who survived was bitten by the two metre long predator after it apparently became agitated about trying to free itself from a fishing hook us pacific coast has one of the world's highest concentrations are
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great whites attacks are rare. and japan's ruling parties agreed to lift a self-imposed ban on overseas military operations for the first time since world war two the decision to change the constitution provoked a wave of protests the video you're about to see contains graphic imagery though one man going so far as to set himself on fire and protest he's currently in the hospital latest rally outside the prime minister's office in tokyo attracted around ten thousand people who clashed with police protestors criticize the government for failing to hold a referendum on expanding japan's military plans. defense analysts say the change may affect the balance of regional powers japan could help its allies fighting overseas the u.s. at the moment is deploying more troops to the area more than eighty thousand personnel are more than forty bases across the asia pacific while some experts don't don't see this shift as particularly serious others want to could have grave consequences consequences in future conflict. whether the car is going to break you
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are just there for people. further profit contribution to your impact you need more it will be united you know if they google all the world they're worried now that great things and they want their characters bigger role this move by the japanese prime minister to essentially change the constitution i see we have two very powerful countries china japan and japan has a military alliance with the united states so if circe any kind of dust up trying to plan and try to then we're talking back to nuclear powers butting heads and i'm a little surprised that people are not maybe more concerned about this situation and they are they have to have two thirds majority from both houses and then it will become a referendum for the people what ave has done has circumvented all of that and
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declared that his resolution can't just reinterpret the constitution and that's a very dangerous power even if you agree with what he's doing and process fairly he's doing it he's completely unable. still to come we'll look at doctors involved in the torture and abuse of detainees. yes it's official the mainstream media must be made up of stereotypical gossipy teenage girls i mean how else can you explain the fact that michelle obama using the term chipped has become a scandal i don't white house summit on working families mrs obama explained that when she was working part time she realized she was getting gypped because she was actually going full time but only getting paid the part time salary technically the
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term gypped is somewhat racist and implies the gypsies are all con men but in the modern world i think most people don't even know where the term comes from i doubt michelle obama likes a medieval peasant shield her children from wandering gypsies who could give them the evil eye i seriously question if there is any deep racial intent in the statement i personally would let the first lady off the hook but the question is would she do the same for me or any other person in the media probably not but thankfully for mrs obama she can't be fired from being the first lady only divorced or her husband's term ends now for me and every other person saying their opinion on camera we've got to be a lot more careful but that's just my opinion. after
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seven years in prison mohammed jawad was finally released eric montel though kept his promise to be in kabul when the young man arrived and his mother couldn't even recognize him because he had physically changed so much because he was just a boy and he apparently had a certain shape to the back of his head from either
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a fall what have you and she. was in total disbelief until she felt the shape of his head and then at that point she knew in the collapsed on the floor. in the case of involvement of health professionals when does it rise to the level of national scandal. how many more revelations about physician involvement about research about approval of interrogations from people who are clearly injured to be injured again. how much more. the american public does not hear much about dr involvement in detainee abuse since the abu ghraib scandal both administrations have gone to great lengths to
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present detainee treatment as humane. we are going to try that. right now we're going to treat them mainly. reacted or certainly. the press has given tours that modern medical facilities in guantanamo and army psychologist who report on the condition of detainees make no mention of symptoms of trauma. diagnosis we see are the same ones we see in the state the main or most problem diagnosis diagnosis here are personality disorders. do you see any signs of disparate but in some of these high is. not really well. made that a few of them have maybe. maybe a few of them.

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