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breaking news an r.t. international a shell fired from ukraine kills a russian citizen in the rostov region near the border with ukraine it is the second attack in the region in twenty four hours. hello welcome we start with breaking news here on r.t. international a russian citizen has been killed after a shell fired from ukraine landed in the yards of private houses in russia's rostov region four more people have reportedly been injured in the blast near the border with ukraine investigators are working at the scene of the attack well the tragic
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incident in rostov highlights a dangerous escalation on russia's border with ukraine that is the statement coming from russia's foreign ministry adding moscow's reaction to the death will be harsh and specific. well this is the second case of violence in the past twenty four hours earlier a russian border checkpoint came under attack gunfire was reported on both sides of the border russia's foreign ministry has said it has evidence the checkpoint was fired at by ukrainians who had crossed over and prepared position for attack before hand. course we'll have more on the story and the details from it as we get them now despite renewed assurances from kiev that it's ready for a ceasefire there's been little relief for the people in ukraine's defined eastern regions according to anti-government forces more than thirty five people have been
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killed in shelling in the last twenty four hours plumes of smoke covered the skyline in the city of le guen is it enjoyed another round of deadly government air raids people have been fleeing the outskirts of another resistance to the nets which has been shelled since friday and they ceased to stay there live in fear that their families could be hit in a nonstop attacks marie fanaa chena met some of them. a new day brings more sorrow to the city of the guns. this girl's mother has just been killed when a shell landed on her fourth floor balcony it was up to the daughter to tell her father. you know. this young man was lucky he was through to the hospital with
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a gunshot wound and thought unlikely to survive can regain consciousness just minutes before we arrived. yes could use a few here i didn't use the sinful bullshit to get only. a sales pitch or. a subtle call for the wallet to somebody. they still want to use it. or no way out of the hospital we made him dre who just brought his wife here this is where she was sitting you can see one bullet here in the water another stuck somewhere inside the metal part and drays still in shock and can't believe his wife survived the silmarillion i was in the shop and i heard someone scream lay down on the ground but i yelled that my wife was in the car so i looked out of the window and saw that she wasn't there and heard her knocking on
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the shop door but that's not enough to switch it so that a lot of his just moved with his family from the suburbs of lugansk into the city itself to skate fighting between anti government forces and the ukrainian army first and get the slow i don't know what to say why are they doing this to us civilians we asked the operation commanders in kiev what's they're trying to achieve with the main goal now is to act carefully so civilians won't get hurt we don't have any definite numbers of civilian casualties we only have the numbers of dead and injured fighters of the anti terror operation the same day ukraine's deputy health minister reported four hundred seventy eight civilians have died since the beginning of the operation in one pro including seven children but just hours later the ministry denied his statistics without giving any time to figures we meet with the health minister of the self-proclaimed people's independent
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republic of the guns. at the aircraft siren starts before we even osco first question. we have to continue the interview in a basement. here in the yeah i can't give any definite numbers concerning civilian casualties because many people died when we couldn't get to them so i don't have the statistics ukrainian media doesn't say anything about those casualties they are not allowed to show that they believe that only terrorists are dying here i ask whether they tell kiev about the civilian casualties no one requested this information no one is interested in that i even have statistics on the ukrainian soldiers but they have their own numbers no one asks us about our statistics and when the lugansk of know exactly how many men women and children have been killed the civilian toll is high and it's likely
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to rise refuel. in eastern ukraine. in other news this friday soldiers have entered garza to take several missile launch sites ending in armed clashes with hamas there a knife is the move for spark a ground invasion into the enclave clear has this report from tel aviv twenty soldiers briefly entered northern gaza the i.d.f. says that the purpose of the mission was to destroy rocket launching sites we understand that there was a brief exchange of fire during which four israeli soldiers were likely wounded but the army has since returned to israel of course the question being asked is whether or not this is a precursor. of certainly the sense of the witnessing the amassing of tanks and armored personnel vehicles and troops along the border it does seem as if a ground offensive could be imminent and certainly the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has indicated that this is an option that he is considering the
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word from the israeli army however is that they are ready for a ground offensive but that ultimately this is a political decision. meanwhile israel says its air raids are aimed at rooting out how massing garza but they also kill innocent people along the way the total number of palestinians who have died in the offensive has reached at least one hundred fifty nine most of them civilians. and yet and. they. are tired of the sea for. israel launched the offensive on tuesday and is claiming it only targets how mass militants the united nations is calling for a cease fire saying that most of the casualties are civilians but israel is abounding to press on with its campaign until hamas stops it stops its rocket attacks or we fear reports now from gaza. on a visit to garza's main hospital we met four year old shame mastery she was injured
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in her abdomen she became collateral damage in a drone strike but i have. to go went to visit her sister with her parents on the road they came under fire when she tried to avoid once she was hit by a second her mother and brother were killed she and her sister were left in a critical condition in the system. and the girl is still under good care. no one knows if she's going to make it. doctors tell me they've been dealing with the biting shortage of medical supplies in gaza for the last three weeks as a result of the ongoing siege but even civilians that survive the violence suffer the mental effects of living in a war zone our bed lives in a neighborhood of shaikh road one that was targeted last night. sitting by the entrance when the first missile hit the house of the second one soon followed and we carried the sleeping children out and run away the children began screaming
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through fear. it's been a traumatizing. of days for the civilians of high newness in the south of the gaza strip to during its operation israel says that it's going after hamas militants those that alleges are hamas militants however it's willing to go as far as targeting their homes and in this case israel killed six children and two adults when it struck this family home the family didn't have time to heed the warning drone missile which arrived four minutes before the main strike. we were shocked when the missile hit my brother's house after we hurried out our house was hit by the house was a children's playground where most of the heat again israel has made clear that it's not interested in restraining its operation on gaza so long as hamas rocket fire continues it's a recipe for further conflict and inevitable suffering for gaza civilian population
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carry fear see gaza. and israel is facing its share of attacks too it retaliated with artillery fire twice this week after being hit by rockets from lebanon has also been a barrage from gaza overnight oh wow are i was . really a rocket fire from gaza struck a petrol station in the southern israeli town of ashdod all in all five israelis were wounded crisply two of them seriously i.d.f. spokeswoman libby vice told r.t. why they are pursuing the offensive. this is not an operation in any capacity against the people of gaza this is an operation against hamas against an organization that purposely and specifically uses the civilian population of gaza as human shields the point is is that you're defending your people but thankfully no israelis have been killed by hamas rockets in the last number of days but let's
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just get some more figures because in gaza since two thousand and eight over a sausan civilians were killed and twenty times more than the israeli civilian death toll is israel's reaction to rockets fired by hamas measured unjustified there are four with five million men women and children living in shelters that is something with which we cannot continue and which no other country would except we make unbounded efforts to protect the civilian population in the gaza strip before any attack is taken against hamas we take measures that no other military or no other country takes in the world which include text messages to people in civilian areas phone calls to their homes to do this because if the end of the day and what i because i don't and you say yes margaret but why then is the u.n. security general urging israel to show restraint but prime minister netanyahu is. so international calls are simply being ignored i think. again i only calls
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about international claims really should be directed towards the prime minister at the end of the day as a military big been given a very clear mission that mission is to restore quiet to the people that are living in israel and to teach hamas that there is a very very heavy price to pay to committing acts of terror and questions that were guarding these civilian casualties in the gaza strip i believe should also be directed towards the leadership within gaza that actively and purposefully puts its own civilians in in danger. and tragically the most vulnerable are also coming under fire reports say as many as thirty children have been killed so far and from two thousand to twenty thirteen the alarming data puts the total number of deaths of mine is more than one thousand and as well from human rights watch things that disregard for civilian lives in the guards or attack could amount to war crimes. the civilian suffering is not getting enough attention it's not getting enough attention from the israeli forces who are conducting those air strikes naval
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strikes tank shelling and other forms of attack under the laws of war which bind israel as they bind any military force you cannot shoot first and ask questions later you have got to make sure that what you're shooting at is a legitimate target and if there's any doubt in your mind whether it might be civilian you have to hold fire and i'm very concerned that we're not seeing that we may be seeing the opposite we've seen virtually no accountability for very well documented past cases of abuse of violations and even war crimes and without accountability and with impunity then abuses will obviously continue you you weaken your enemy by by attacking their fighters and their military objects you do nothing to weaken your enemy by attacking a civilian population who is not fighting you it does nothing for you it's a war crime. but we are keeping a close watch of course and the latest updates coming out of gaza and israel on air and online dot com we'll bring you the latest news as we get it.
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for a mind of our breaking news here in r.t. a russian citizen has been killed after a shell fired from ukraine landed in the yards of private houses in russia's russia region four more people have reportedly been injured in the blast near the border with ukraine investigators are working at the scene of the attack the tragic incident in rostov highlights a dangerous escalation on russia's border with ukraine that's the statement coming from russia's foreign ministry adding moscow's reaction to the death will be harsh and specific. when used in a few minutes time before that they would venture capital with. your friend post a photo from a vacation you can't afford college different. the boss
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