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i. israel returns to its sweeping blitz of gars as the cease fire plan falls flat and hamas rockets killed the first israeli since the conflict began. day of mourning declared in moscow as emergency crews removed the twisted wreckage of three carriages he railed in the capital's metro system killing twenty two people dozens remain in a critical condition. brics nations lay down a challenge to the west by agreeing a new global development bank and an internet free of mass surveillance. british intelligence about to get legal backing to monitor private citizens as an emergency law goes before parliament whistleblower edward snowden says it's a step too far. are
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you watching international coming to you live from moscow. pay the price for refusing to accept an egyptian brokered cease fire that is the message from israel as it regimes its heavy bombardment of gaza the palestinian death toll has now risen to almost two hundred tens of thousands of residents in northern and eastern garza were to leave their homes by the israeli military on wednesday morning an apparent warning of more airstrikes there well let's get the latest now from artie's paula slayer who's in tel aviv for us. paula it seems that the chance of hope has slipped away. that said he does seem that in the latest news at least two palestinians have been killed in
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a targeted assassination in southern gaza it comes as the israeli defense forces drops leaflets wednesday morning on the north and east of the strip urging residents to leave their homes so it does seem as if some kind of airstrikes are being planned there we are hearing that the death toll has now topped the two hundred figure mark and more than one thousand five hundred people have been killed in the gaza strip most of them are civilians and this is despite the fact that the israeli army insists that its targets are rocket launching sites and weapons depot on tuesday evening the first israeli victim was killed by mortar fire on a fire he was a volunteer who was delivering food to soldiers along the israel gaza border when he was hit now the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has responded that israel has no choice but to expand the operation what's not clear is whether or not this will mean a ground offensive and certainly for days now the mood on the ground has been that
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a ground offensive is imminent the israeli foreign minister avigdor lieberman who is known for his whole tisch views is now calling for the israeli army to quote him to go all the way he says that the only solution the only way that israel can deal once and for all with him asked an islamic jihad is to completely control the gaza strip now seventy three percent of israelis were against the truce that was brokered on tuesday by egypt most israelis want to see an expansion of this operation but analysts that i've been talking to here on the ground are warning that any kind of expansion will ultimately be very costly for the israelis and the palestinians are also calling for qatar and turkey to now act as a mediator but israel is against this saying that they support the gazans and that they would not be objective in any kind of mediation process twenty four hours ago the hopes were strong that they would. the some kind of ceasefire the question now is how many more innocent lives need to be killed we need to be taken before we
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could see an end to the truce now harry fear my colleague in gaza has been catching up with people there who are under israeli rocket fire and fall does this report. egypt cepheids to facilitate a ceasefire but he got off the starting block israel formally accepted the proposal but hamas continued firing dozens of rockets saying that it's terms were not met the islamic resistance movement says it never received any direct contact about a ceasefire and only so media reports they accuse egypt of sidelining it all the while in the middle of this truly asymmetric conflict between israel's advanced coordinated modern military and the palestinians disparate militant groups are the civilians on the receiving end even those in gaza's hospitals five rockets targeted this hospital in north gaza but palestinians also have their own crude rockets
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which are not targeted on a five indiscriminately into israel not all but certainly most palestinians in gaza believe the hundreds of these crude rockets should be fired into israel in retaliation for israel's targeting of gaza. the imbalance is evident over one hundred palestinian civilians have been killed in eight days compared to one israeli civilian there are no bomb shelters in gaza although the desire for a cease fire is universal how people here want that achieved is certainly not clear . the. glass half full route. how many don't hug now. let's settle. for a moment the way with the meal. we ever had the love of money how to have all of them your health you don't dally with them you never knew there wouldn't. have been midnight what they actually am
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a lot funnier. than eighteen year old sees things very differently a palestinian student from northern gaza his brother is a militant with hamas as armed wing of another. woman one of their own mother was shot in the. home of a little while on the whole form. using methods would probably be a serious force for for lawyers and for human rights workers and they might consider too serious violations of international law. a university lecturer and father of eight has lived through four such israeli operations since two thousand and six he's torn over garza's rocket firings rocket it's only just a tool that the palestinian can react to what gets me. in killing and
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suffering for everybody and i really do care about my children about my family above the safety of my family so i don't like the rockets but sometimes the people obliged to do use what's available to them in order to do. in order to resist the occupation. but both sides in this escalation insist they're acting in self-defense and neither is known for wanting to be the first to back down no matter what the pressure at home or abroad carry fear r.t. garceau. remark people around the world have shown their disapproval of the israeli operation here the latest pictures from places as far as field is south america and europe palestinian demonstrations are held on an almost daily basis and they are calling for an end to the offensive labeling it a massacre and a war crime. and you can get
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a full picture of events in gaza next hour in cross talk with pay to live or to take a look at the last sixty five years it's pretty clear that israel is intending to continue to barmah destroy as much as possible in gaza i think it would have been aved to expect that the cease fire would these talks would lead to anything since we have sisi on one hand who works for the israelis or the americans and we have been ateneo really has no motivation no intention to stop terrorizing and stop this brutal violence against. the palestinians in gaza. the russian capital is observing a day of mourning after the worst crash in the history of the moscow metro twenty two people were killed and more than one hundred forty taken to hospital on tuesday dozens of them remain in intensive care so let's have a look at how the tragedy unfolded the rush hour train was traveling at its top speed of seventy kilometers per hour two hundred meters away from the next station
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when the emergency brakes activated the carriages ran into each other and smashed into the tunnel war. broken bones cuts and severe head wounds these are the main injuries medics at the scene hat treat dozens to remain in critical condition on the days only in witness the tragedy and here is what he told us. i was thrown into the air there was blood on the floor heads bruised some people had broken ribs and one person's arm was injured so all in all people were hysterical we started to get out we saw a door in the tunnel wall men eventually broke the door and we saw workers constructing a parallel tunnel they helped us to get out but according to some survey russians consider the metro to be one of the most dangerous modes of transport however previous accidents in the moscow underground were without injury metro's worst breakdown happened in two thousand and five
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a power outage then left over fifty stations without electricity on one of the hottest days of the year and then a year later construction piled damaged a tunnel and shock passengers in a passing train last summer nearly five thousand people were evacuated from a station near red square because of an electrical fire and then earlier this year the foundations of from a construction site above broke through into the metro you can see the large blocks of concrete here poking through luckily no one was injured. the latest on the crisis in eastern ukraine is still to come here on r.t. international. carriers in the region are reeling from deadly artillery attacks by kiev's forces all fueling a refugee exodus in the east. now british intelligence has a wide diversity of tools the cyber spying and data manipulation that's what's been
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revealed in a document recently leaked by whistleblower edward snowden social network accounts are no longer private agents can access data even hidden and disable the page if they find it suspicious and they can even tap into skype calls and use private e-mail to send spoof letters how much you spend on e-bay or what online polls you have participated in all of this is also visible to the agents and they can even manipulate the results of the voting sarah for spoke to campaign is that see such practice is deeply illegal. there's more than one hundred projects in the listing for g c excuse joint threat research intelligence group they've all got quite eccentric names angry pirates a tool that will permanently disable targets accounts on their computers now in a statement to r.t. he say that they are not full well despite what g c h q campaigners are saying that
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if true the allegations are extremely serious if this is going to be true it's a huge deal there's a good news to see if you're actually being involved in propaganda and trying to manipulate the brains announcement before the vote to protect us there from national security not to read online poll either way the latest certainly reignited the calls the further oversight. activity it's an argument that we've heard many times before and it's not one that's looking likely to quieten down any time soon so r.t. reporting from london meanwhile the british government is far from asking me intelligence community to limit their powers a new security law that has been already approved by the house of commons will further expand monitoring capability making mobile companies keep customers private data for up to twelve months tony goes an investigative journalist says the government is interested in watching everyone. well it's certainly not going to
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protect citizens what what how on earth can you protect british citizens by eroding our civil liberties and we just had an announcement this week from david cameron that he's going to spend one billion pounds on surveillance so wrong of the running back he said norma's industry which is out of control he's actually wants to spend more money on surveillance or they've been doing this in concert with the n.s.a. for so many years now that companies like google twitter microsoft facebook are actually almost part of that surveillance system not interested anymore in going to the courts in order to ask a judge if they want to put somebody under surveillance they just assume that everybody is under surveillance. russian and u.s. ambassador to the u.n. show that even in high level diplomacy there's always room for a little sarcasm we have a look at who had the last word in this spot between the voice a bit later in the program also to come a human rights or a company asset californian activists demand that the business stop taking water
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from a drunk it reaches. despite all the democracy slogans that reference from the white house seem to believe that deep down the u.s. administration has a sort of cultural bias towards a believing that arabs or iraqis on simply not capable of democracy in the middle east is that it's been the site for multiple competitions by great powers empires no real ability to consolidate legitimate missions states except under military dictatorships i think if these parts of the world were left alone a little bit more by the rest of us it's possible that we might see more successful democratic experiment.
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put all the bankers into the circular firing squad put all the bankers the jamie diamond the lloyd blankfein the bob diamond put them into a circular firing squad and give them all the bullets and let's get rid of all the laws we've got it turns the system of this cancer of the marital dregs of the world . and i welcome back you with. this is the aftermath of an airstrike in the town of snow in eastern ukraine one of the bombs fell on an apartment block causing its partial collapse locals joined together with the rescue is to help those trapped under the rubble. he was. just a mass. of of those he was if you think this was the book
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wasn't good enough i was i was the boy is now in hospital with seven others but almost a dozen civilians have been confirmed killed the government is denying responsibility saying this was the work of an unidentified jet but scenes like these are repeated daily across the east fuelling a refugee exodus. as this report. uprooted driven out desperation these people have been flooding into the region by. trying to escape the bloody war that has engulfed the south east of ukraine this refugee camp is literally just several meters away from the ukrainian border people staying here war is still very much a part of daily routine they say recently the artillery fire at night has gotten
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closer and the memories of the bombardment back at home do not grow any less if it . but those that. did not. know the children may appear to be immune to the horrors happening in their homeland playing and carrying on as usual but once prodded they show deep emotional scars. to. show just like protocol. many who love their loved ones behind haven't heard from them for several days most . used to. the time steve.
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says refugee camps are simply temporary ports for these people who have to find new jobs new houses new ways to live not because they didn't like the lives they had but because they were denied those by census fighting in an r t. region. arena has been tweeting about the camp and you can follow her as she documents the struggle of those forced from their homes. one hundred. dollar development bank has been born in brazil as a result of the bric summit that's underway there the new financial institution is set to challenge the west financial sector monopoly to the benefit of the five emerging countries artie's poor scott is at the summit. russian president vladimir putin going to meet with the leaders of bolivia uruguay and venezuela for example
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amongst many others now these countries their populations equate to around four hundred million people if you combine that with the three billion people represented by the five brics countries then president vladimir putin has met with the ladies representing on behalf of the world's population on his latin america tour it all started the breathless two on friday with a visit to cuba he then of course went with an unannounced visit to nicaragua before stopping off in argentina and then finally in brazil brics summit hey enforcer leza hosted by brazilian president dilma rousseff who you may remember was a victim of n.s.a. surveillance size revealed by edward snowden around twelve months ago now ever since then she's been championing for change to the internet on the way that it's governed in order to protect people's privacy well earlier i managed to ask a question i asked her what changes she would like to say and what changes we have seen in the last twelve months now she told me that privacy is a fundamental civil right she also says that common laws should be extended to the
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net and they should be extended to web use reset doesn't believe that one country has the right to lead the way when it comes to internet governance and she feels that each country should have the right to its own governance to ensure privacy well we are a stage of the brics summit hey enforcer lays out what exactly has been achieved when russia agreed to write off ninety percent of cuba's soviet era debts the remaining ten percent will be reinvested in joint infrastructure projects in the country it was also a symbolic meeting with formally to fit del castro in argentina the two countries signed a peaceful nuclear power deal that will see russia help in areas such as design construction operation and decommissioning of nuclear power plants in rio president putin attended the football world cup final and received responsibility for the next competition he told me it is in russia in two thousand and eighteen one of the brics summit the nation signed off on along the. one hundred billion dollars development bank seen as a rival to the i.m.f. world bank and global dominance of the u.s.
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dollar on top of numerous trade deals so it may have taken less than a week but president vladimir putin no doubt hoping that his whistle stop tour will cement russia latin america ties. what are you times correspondent pepe escobar says the new brics financial institution will create sustainable development for its members what do we have in our days is the predominance of i call it casino capitalism in fact which is a speculative capitalism which you know hot money a traverse in the world digital speech. has nothing to do with productive investment and sustainable development what the brics are the brics are trying to steer the debate and in fact the conditions of all that investment towards productive capitalism now that they have this mechanism of
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a developing bank and a contingency reserve a mechanism they can help all their countries up part from themselves in terms of infrastructure projects and sustainable development. if you hungry for some more financial spin the chain into artie's boom bust program with. a bit later today. now u.n. security council meeting is famous not only for its decisions but also for the diplomats battle of words the tally tork in and samantha power among the leaders once russia's ambassador told his american counterpart ended on the level of the tabloids when she said that his speech showed more imagination than tolstoy chekov artie's marina portnoy found out who had the last word in the latest high profile
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ban it. the russian and american ambassadors to the united nations usually keep their negotiations and debates within the chambers of the world body headquarters however a tit for tat between the two diplomats is currently playing out in the public domain barak's by something written in the pages of a glossy magazine the august issue of vanity fair features an article on samantha power in which she strikes a bit of a verbal job against her russian counterpart here's the context the reporter says he reminded miss power that ambassador vitaly churkin jokingly asked her if she'd join the russian punk group pussy riot after she met with the two famous band members and bassett her power says she told mr churkin that their first concert stop on tour would be where russia holds its political prisoners though regrettably she can't sing the u.s. envoy claims she got the last word in that conversation saying it's what passes as a small victory oh if only the verbal jabs and snarky miss ended there it doesn't
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in a statement posted on facebook ambassador churkin says while it did stoke his vanity to see himself referenced in the article he found powers pussy riot tore stop comment to be rather lame saying quote they never performed in guantanamo after all ouch a reference to america's biggest stain on international law and human rights violations ambassador churkin also sets the record straight saying quote i called samantha and explained to her that russia did not have any political prisoners she seemed to be amused and promised to get back to me on this she never did unquote ambassador churkin claims that miss power told him he got the upper hand in that exchange but he says he will claim it as a small victory hopefully when the two diplomats meet once again face to face at the u.n. there will be no hard feelings and the debates can go back to revolve around issues such as creating more peace and less calm. but. new york more
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news for you on our website to including a first medic to protest against force feeding. on a website a story that stands up detainees rights to hunger strike. that this google own which can carry up to one hundred eighty kilograms and move. some credible it's already being tested during military drills in hawaii and you can look at it and touch more detail on our website. campaign is recusing food giant nestlé of making millions at the expense of ordinary people they say the company is taking water from a canyon in california to bottle and sell but as the region faces a third year of drank activists wanted to stop talk to pay to click president of pacific institute says a great debate is looming on the case one of the problems with this polling plant
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is that every bit of water that goes to the bottling plant is water taken away from the system there's also concern among some local communities about the impacts on groundwater in that they will building ground water. uses in the local area this water is bottled gets put on trucks it's shipped out of the community. it's not available to the local community so it's increasing a source of tension and concern in the area the water in the desert is very rare and this is an example where perhaps we should question the value of putting a bottled water plant in the desert. coming up next is another look behind the scenes here at say with the new steak. so we believe that maybe. the scene pushes security. for the musical.
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