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corporations don't care about you or me corporations we care about profit. people come to untouched forests and leave massively in the sea come on. we're not going to quit we will not stop until it is done what is more precious music more moving. this is art to international reporting this school is shelled in east ukraine as the army attacks the city of the console of the resistance that follows artillery attacks to their another regional which left multiple civilian casualties. russian citizens killed by shell fired from ukraine moscow warns of heavy consequences but kiev denies attacking russian territory also ahead.
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the deadliest night of israeli pauline's pushes the number of palestinian deaths to over on the sixty was when the commandos briefly entered gaza to wait a minute to. talk about how to be a. lot of fights on how putin is going to tell you by the world cup it's half time as yet there's no score still nil both sides will update you on that shortly but first. ukraine there's been heavy artillery fire in residential areas in the southern outskirts of lugansk earlier tension escalated on the border with russia after a rocket launch from ukraine that killed a russian citizen let's get more from rif national she's in lugansk this is her report ok will be coming up
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shortly across border instance becoming increasingly frequent on saturday a vehicle carrying russian border guards came under fire originating from the ukrainian side the car was riddled with bullet holes but the men escaped on harm there but just we go earlier rockets hit a russian border checkpoint near the scene of saturday's incident the crossing then was packed with refugees trying to enter russia and escape the war zone. elsewhere it's emerged this weekend that eighteen workers were killed in army shelling of two minus settlements on the outskirts of did netscape one of the strongholds of resistance the city's residential areas were also targeted that led to numerous deaths though the exact numbers still yet to be confirmed the pictures coming out you're about to see are from dinette skidmarks find them upsetting here
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we go and what you're seeing here is just two minutes drive from the city center residential buildings are almost leveled by strikes and often age was destroyed the two there are conflicting reports as to the number of civilians killed ranging from six to maybe over thirty thousands of families have decided now to flee their nets because the army tightens its grip on the city with tailback stretching for several kilometers along local roads. the situation surrounding ukraine's being discussed during a meeting between president putin and chancellor merkel in brazil both leaders agree that the crisis is deteriorating that work within the contact group needs to resume as soon as possible perhaps even by video conference they also called for immediate cease fire and for monitoring activity in ukraine to be restarted. and you can get the full picture of how the ukrainian crisis is unfolding with the latest images minute by minute updates by logging onto r.t. dot com.
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the head of the palestinian ministration has appealed now to the un asking for international protection for people in gaza more than fifty palestinians died from yet more israeli bombardment saturday night they only a week into the offensive the total number of dead has risen above one hundred sixty more than half of them are civilians including dozens of children this is what was left after one of the deadliest israeli airstrikes which destroyed the home of a local police chief eighteen members of the same family died there the un security council's call for a ceasefire but as yet israel said no international pressure will stop it from pursuing its offensive despite its claims its only aiming at militant targets though more and more civilians are being caught up in the violence. before.
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israeli missiles have struck over a thousand sites in gaza this week a mosque a home for people with disabilities even a beach calif they filled with football fans will among those hit harry fear sent this report from gaza for. on a visit to gaza's main hospital we met four year old shame on mastery she was injured in abdomen she became collateral damage in a drone strike but i have yet. not about how well him i don't have them but i want the end of that i will settle how i let them and
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know that i met them. furnace that's had that. well i've been going to tell it tell her she'll get the hang hello is this heather that you where they thought i thought of the 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. and there's a lot of. that is a lot of there's a. gun in. london it's a few miles. it's been a traumatizing couple of days for the civilians of han eunice in the south of the gaza strip to during its operation israel says that it's going after hamas
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militants those ledges 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. almost but still so subtle from the. moment of. the israel has made clear that it's not interested in restraining its operation on gaza so long as hamas rocket fire continues. azzi gaza. meanwhile israeli commandos conducted a raid on a rocket launching site in gaza room sunday morning that triggered fears that a full scale ground invasion was imminent the i.d.f. screen massing troops on the border for several days now is our middle east correspondent paula slowly. twenty soldiers briefly entered northern gaza the
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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 his role of course the question being asked is whether or not this is a precursor for a ground offensive certainly the sense on the ground and from me 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 word from the israeli army however is that they are ready for a ground offensive but that ultimately this is a political decision. to avenge for all the attacks on gaza and has been running more rockets on the way israel but no deaths of yet been reported anyway in israel the worst this week hit a petrol station in the south of the country. oh our r r r r r r
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r r o o r i was severely injured in that attack all in all in fact five israelis have been wounded by hamas strikes this week sirens sounded several times a day across israel with people rushing to bomb shelters when the rockets are being intercepted by the anti missile system that's been casualties to a minimum you know in a last night the spokes person whether she considers israel's more lethal israeli attacks on gaza the plea for force should look to the threat. 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 just get some more figures since two thousand and eight
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over a sausan civilians were killed in gaza that's right 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 accept we make unbounded efforts to protect the civilian population in the gaza strip before any attack is taken against hamas which include text messages to people in civilian areas phone calls to their homes the end of the day and why and as you say yes margaret but why then is the u.n. security general urging israel to show restraint but prime minister netanyahu is vowing to step off the offensive so international calls are simply being ignored are things i and he calls 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
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in israel and to teach. thomas that there is a very very heavy price to pay to committing acts of terror. when correspondents are following this story as well on line twenty four seven for most of r.t. dot com let's go back to one of our top stories it's because of the news from there that's in eastern ukraine it's been hit with more artillery fire and the russian citizens being killed by a rocket launch from the ukrainian border we try to bring it to a cloud so we've got it now his roof nationals report. well we have to say that the situation here in the city of lugansk is very tense and a t's deteriorating dramatically meanwhile challis more choice and multiple rocket launchers known as grad or hail can teen years in the outskirts of the city of lugansk the raw many victims killed and injured mostly including civilians it's now listen to what i witnesses say. where being shelled by mortars or schools and sandwiched the cleaning lady was killed and a fourteen year old boy. also he's
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a kindergarten or the block of flats in the neighboring yards has been destroyed there are cranes everywhere. people say the bathroom is the safest place to hide her husband and since and together we can sleep people or if we creating their homes around here we spent to actually several hours today at the ambulance station we saw people come in with gunshot wounds from absolutely different parts of the city mostly from residential areas the most difficult to hear today is that you cannot say for sure you cannot know exactly when and from which direction a shell may lend in your house or on you and also we hear it about clashes happening along the ukrainian russian border we received information that several shells fired from the ukrainian territory lended in the russian border town
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a private house was hit by witnesses say they were at least six shells and a man was killed and. injured he had a big family and four children throughout the school to have a last resort. because you can just. if you catch a puppy in your primo. the key if already denied any responsibility for this attack while russia's reaction was very strong on russia's foreign ministry can dance violence and these spilling over say that if it happens again russia keeps its right to defend its citizens and its security and while the ukrainian crisis is now as we can see spirited over to neighboring russia people from ukraine. ironically they say
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a war zone and russia is amend this to nation where the where the way they go is you can see it's very close we're now in the city center and have been just just very near rofl national correspondent in the east of ukraine thanks being with us is forty minutes past midnight and i must go time now checking back on the fifa world cup finals still scoreless i can report between argentina and germany but nine minutes into the second half will update you on the much shortly but right now it's budged capital with business news from post capability. this is what we do we kill people and break. we can see something as simple as people playing soccer you can see individual players and you can see the.

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