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four children are killed on a beach in garza or is israel returns to its sweeping blitz as palestinian deaths surged beyond two hundred now. protests against the israeli offensive to take hold worldwide in london is and with the b.b.c. which campaigners say is not giving the full picture of the conflict we talked to one of the protestors. brics nations there the ground to even up the world's financial influences as some of the most popular populated countries sign up multi-billion dollar cooperation deal. and from hijacking your email address to manipulating online polls british intelligence is exposed for its duty is range of spying tricks which are being branded it out right in legal we're on the case.
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leaving its own pm here in moscow my name is kevin i would you with r.t. international law top story this hour israel's intensified its anti terrorist operation in gaza following a failed ceasefire agreement proposed by egypt both sides still claim their missile volleys soli in self-defense a fresh series of strikes targeted senior hamas leaders but it's the civilian death toll that's most noticeably climbed two hundred thirteen palestinians have now been killed the majority nor militants israel sustained its first fatality just several hours after accepting the truce of volunteer help in the i.d.f. was killed these are the latest pictures released by hamas the red circles allegedly showing where their rockets hit israeli targets.
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before the group didn't stop its attacks on choose day had conducted some fifty launches that's despite israel initially agreeing to the cease fire and holding for some six hours. both sides claim the military actions are aimed solely a protecting their citizens but civilian deaths in gaza remain an avoidable risk because of its tightly packed population it compares to some of the world's most crowded cities in fact and one where almost half the population of children under fourteen years old just a few hours ago it emerged indeed that four children were killed on a beach in gaza as a result of an israeli strike i asked peter lerner from the i.d.f. if he could explain the youngsters death. i was just getting updated on this incident and i have seen some of the footage coming out of it indeed it does look tragic and we will have to look into the circumstances of what it was i don't have
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any answers at the moment you are hitting these people you may not have nothing against them but it's such a densely populated area there must be a better way to do this you've been fighting with hamas for such a long time now hamas hasn't changed what it's doing you haven't changed what you're doing is running the other way other than the carnage to get through this you know the i.d.f. is devoted and we are charged with defending the state of israel and in the reality of a huge bombardment where over a thousand four hundred rockets have been launched at the state of israel it's a reality nobody would agree to and nobody would commit and that is we are the responsible force to try and defend and stop that from happening the government and indeed ordered us to stop yesterday to let hamas calm down to calm the situation deescalate the situation but unfortunately they chose a different path they chose this path of aggression. meanwhile people around the world are shown the disapproval of the violence pro palestinian rallies were held as far afield as south america in the london activists protested against the
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b.b.c.'s coverage of the israeli military operation have started his offices he spoke to him in a solemn a two part of the demonstration she says the b.b.c. failed to provide a balanced background to the conflict. between monitoring the news coverage of what's been happening in gaza and in all of the coverage so far the way it's been reported as being a case of it's not finding itself against rockets which are you know keeping fight into israel have a what hasn't been mentioned once is that israel holds garza under occupation and it holds gaza under siege and that the palestinians in gaza are mostly refugee population they have no army air force or navy defend themselves against israel and israel is the fourth largest military power in the world so all of that background is missing or that context is missing and by leaving out by admitting those final facts b.b.c. is able to. its entire coverage and present it as being under threat from the
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palestinians. however not all pro palestinian rallies pigs from the comparison porters of israel clashed with the protesters you can see on this video the attackers used whatever it was and as weapons chairs metal bar sticks even although the rampage took place near police offices no one was arrested there. before it gets more perspectives on the events in gaza are today's cross talk to always top of conversation when people are bells involved be take a look at the last sixty five years it's pretty clear that israel is intending to continue to bomb and destroy as much as possible in gaza i think it would have been aved to expect that the cease fire would that 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 units and yeah who really has no motivation no intention to stop terrorizing and stop this brutal violence against the the palestinians in gaza. reporting x.
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one hundred billion dollar development bank spin established by the world's top five emerging nations the deal was signed at the bric summit in brazil where leaders agreed to align their efforts to move away from the west's financial dominance paul scott said gathering in four to later force. it's been a productive tour for our russian president vladimir putin it all concludes later on wednesday with the ending of the brics summit here in brazil but putin is also meeting with the leaders of the south american community of nations this is their equivalent of the european union it represents twelve countries with a population of around four hundred million people and if you combine that with the three billion population represented by the five brics nations then putin has met with world leaders representing around half of the globe's population on this whistle stop tour of latin america it all started in cuba last friday before an unannounced stop off in nicaragua then on to argentina and finally here in brazil but what has been achieved during this breathless whistle stop tour when russia has
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agreed to write off ninety percent of cuba's soviet era debt the other ten percent will be reinvested in joint infrastructure projects there was also a symbolic meeting with former leader fidel 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 power plants in rio putin attended the world cup final and received responsibility for the next competition the next tournament is in russia in two thousand and eighteen while at the bric summit here in force a laser the nation signed off on that long awaited one hundred billion dollars development bank which is being seen as a rival to the international monetary fund the world bank and the dominance of the global dominance of the u.s. dollar this is on top of our other numerous trade deals so the whole toe may have taken less than awake to president putin no doubt hoping other the whistle stop tour of latin america has helped cement russian latin american ties while let's
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examine the prospects show a professor from the jindal school of international affairs joins us now live to talk about it hi there thanks to be with us so the briggs's got his own bank now what do you make of that we'll talk about that and also is this a rival coming up to the g seven grouping do you think or not. the bank is very significant institution development i think in the economic history of the last of post-war the last sixty sixty five years i don't think we have seen anything of this nature because it's a paradigm shift we're talking about a bank where you know washington or the europeans. presence to have a warning here don't have a dominance and we're talking about are different ideologies not going to be neoliberal it's not going to be all privatization liberalization it's going to be promoting infrastructure growth that will help societies that lots of promote strong states and reaffirm the role of government in shaping markets really and in
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economies i think sort of be philosophical shift and it's going to also reduce the power of the new liberal institutions the washington consensus we're looking now at a brics conference is a totally different game because in the automotive or awards we're global finance is going to be level and i think the lending capacity of the bank to start with these two hundred billion dollars but in the long run you can overtake and surpass the bridges with institutions because the last good prospects are because you come with a do that you have been under a billion dollars is a lot of money but it's not the same players as they are my for the world but you think it can deliver the punch needed yes it will eventually overtake it came in because the good credit freeze in the emerging economies are much stronger and the fundamentals are stronger in the long run even though of late brics of a slowdown a bit and the other point is that you know their stuff is often for other emerging economies to also invest so i think the ball is going to expand and eventually it will certainly overtake us because the trends the economic history sides would you
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move away from the west to the rest and i think brics is in many ways capturing that prince is writing this new confirmation for some of the stories are given everything you've said i want to see us in the e.u. the movie front to put some spokes in the wheel any time so do you think so or not . they're always skeptical about bridges and they've been trying to be cynical and trying to dismiss it but the point is now we have come up with our own competence to shield and i think we have become unstoppable and in the long run they don't realize that they have to go up in fact that's why we have the g. twenty where they have given emerging economies a seat at the table but now the point. we are no longer asking we are in a position god to give and the british bank is going to change this we we have become donors china is the world's largest donor it's head of the world bank individually and now greece together i think we're going to change this whole debt or credit or donor recipient all of these diets are going to be imported and we're looking at the new world with they cannot call the shots in the economy and
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eventually in politics and secondly what a positive mind you are professor of shelley love of the program thanks for being with us appreciate it. this coming up is the aftermath of an airstrike. in eastern ukraine one of the bombs fall in a block of flats there it caused a partial collapse locals joined together with rescuers to try to help those trapped under the rubble. and he was right. after. the others he was with you when you. were watching the. beat. was. much what you see
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a little miracle to come out of the misery of that boy we can report in a hospital with seven others who think he's going to be ok but a dozen civilians didn't come through they've been killed the government is denying responsibility for it so this was the work of nine identified jet but these are repeated daily across the east fueling a refugee exodus. this refugee camp where i'm standing right now just twelve hours ago was about twenty. however the people running the camp decided to move out because it was not safe to be that close to the border where the attacks where the stray or intentional shelling from. fire coming in from ukrainian side actually has been increasing in recent days and force people are staying in these refugee camps that's just another addition to an already long list of tragedies that have happened to them. uprooted driven out these people have been flooding into the
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region by. trying to escape the bloody war that has engulfed the song. east of ukraine this refugee camp is literally just several meters away from the ukrainian border so for people staying here war is still very much a part of daily routine they say recently the artillery fire at night has gotten closer and the memories of the bombardment back at home do not grow any less if it . but those that. live. on. monday should get a chance but it would be a hope. did the muscle to pull out. you know the children may appear to be immune to the horrors happening in their homeland plane carrying on as usual but once prodded they show deep emotional scars
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. just like protocol. but. many who left their loved ones behind haven't heard from them for several days. when you put up most of. the time for you. but. scott. 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 since this fighting in an r t. the region at. that. time this is the scene across the border in the west ukrainian city of. the mothers and wives of reservists have been protesting about their loved ones being caught up
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in the fight against there's also a similar protest to in kiev where soldiers mothers called on the government to let their sons come home many troops in the east of already completed the tour of duty but aren't being allowed to return because of a lack of new recruits. are you still with me kevin i went to night a few minutes will tell you whether washington might go it alone and impose unilateral sanctions on russia sometime soon. this is about making the business survive. corporations don't love your parishioners told hate corporations have no feeling. corporations don't care about you or me corporations only care about profit. people
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come to untouched forests and leave massive bleeds for the state come on. we're not going to quit we will not stop until it is done what is more precious music more more. i look and the u.s. could be lining up a unilateral sanctions against russia washington's thought to be considering the move because of europe's hesitation and backing the restrictions gutted should come as the details. the u.s. is trying to isolate russia economically by working to get europe to agree on six
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toral sanctions against russia but here the u.s. may be facing the risk of isolating itself as european leaders meet to discuss this word is that at least nine european countries are prepared to block six toral sanctions including germany france and austria one source said they might agree on a modest expansion of sanctions but are definitely not prepared to cut their multibillion dollar partnership and trade with russia thousands of european companies are doing business with russia the jobs of hundreds of thousands of people could be on the line the decision on sanctions would have to be unanimous to pass and that kind of unanimity seems unlikely u.s. officials know this of course and yet the obama administration says they're considering unilateral sanctions against russia. and europe first of all we don't know exactly what unilateral sanctions the u.s. is considering but there may be several hours come save the sanctions are unilateral and europe does not go for long then they put u.s.
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businesses that are disadvantaged because many of those services and acknowledges that u.s. companies sell to european companies have and sell this way the u.s. isolates itself from a lot of business that could be done but if the u.s. exerts enough pressure on europe to go ahead with strong sanctions against russia then u.s. businesses get a competitive advantage especially u.s. energy companies so this could be more about business than we think. moscow is marking a day of mourning after the worst accident taken place on the city's metro system twenty three people died after a train derailed at high speed yes there are one hundred forty remain in hospital dozens are in intensive care this is another tragedy unfolded the train traveling along one of the lines in the west the capital was reached is top speed then suddenly the emergency brakes activated the first three carriages piled one on the other blocking the tunnel it happened two under meters from the next stop medics
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rushed to the see what they witnessed there what they found were broken bones severe head wounds as well greeted them first and a lot of other injuries to the emergency services set up work trying to pull those trapped eighty meters below ground out of those mangled carriages volunteers did the best they could do to try to help above ground helicopters and dozens of ambulances took people to hospital for several hours nonstop andre's then in witnessed the tragedy. when you go see a thing you know i was thrown into the yeah there was blood on the floor heads some people had broken only one person in. all in all the people were hysterical we started to get out what we saw during the tunnel will be the men eventually broke that door and you saw workers constructing a parallel time they helped us to get out. on the two metro employees have been detained in connection with the crash investigators suspect their negligence may
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have led to the accident and as we've mentioned this was the worst tragedy on the ground accident as it was in moscow metro's near eighty year history they've been other incidents though in two thousand and five more than fifty stations were left without electricity on a sweltering hot day a year later a construction damaged a tunnel and shot passengers in a passing train obviously lost someone early five thousand people revaluated from one of the busiest transit points in the system because of a fire station next to red square and earlier this year the foundations of a construction site above penetrated into an underground tunnel luckily no one was injured we got more pictures more details more eyewitness accounts of the moscow metro derailment that happened in the last twenty four hours at r.t. dot com also there to the story of a nurse who was defying orders in guantanamo prison refusing to force feed detainee's its reportedly the first case then of medical staff protesting against the method which the rights groups label as torture and humane. reckless road rage
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in moscow check out the story this heartless driver ran down an elderly man. but only stopped to check that there was no damage caused to his car as a result results store got pictures video. spying is obviously a devious business goes without saying but there's a code of honor or so we thought british intelligence has now been revealed that have a range of tricks and tools that would make even james bond's q. blush and all of them are. cyber snooping maybe that's no surprise for example when it comes to social networking they can look at your private photos and her don't like what they see they can disable your facebook account right chatting with your friends or relatives well juicy age queue agents can listen they know your conversation even read your messages and peruse you can't list as well shocked there's more their money even hijacked your email address and use it to send messages themselves how much you spend on e-bay for instance or what online polls
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you've participated in all that is visible to agents if they want to see it they can even manipulate the results of the voting surf doubt. emplacing page he counts speaking email addresses and manipulating online polls these are just some of the tools and tactics it's been alleged that you see it here they using google quite eccentric code names angry pirates a tool that will permanently disable a target's account on their computer now there's more than one hundred projects in the listing for g c excuse joint threat research intelligence group now in a statement to r.t. he say that they are not at fault let's take a look at what they said all of g c h q was work is carried out in accordance with a strict legal and policy framework which ensures that our two beauties are authorised necessary and proportionate well despite what t.c. h.q.
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has say campaigners are saying that if the allegations are extremely serious to huge do because again it is to see if you are actually being involved in propaganda and trying to manipulate debate that's not the best for them to protect their financial security not to read online polls either way the latest can certainly be reignited the calls the further oversight. activities 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. reporting from london. syria's president assad's been sworn in for a new seven year term after his landslide election victory in which he secured almost ninety percent of the vote. despite the ongoing civil war is tearing the country apart which has killed over one hundred sixty thousand let's get some reaction on this new turn them from a syrian political activist on the work of joining the line from london are either . ok's into a third term just started what's going to happen or stabilize the country given the
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situation it's in. well i think he started already stabilizing the situation so to speak stabilizing the country it's going to be a long process whereby you know the. missions that are taking place and the syrian army progressing slowly there is a change so to speak that we can notice now in the international community take into consideration what's happening in iraq and the imminent threat of the hardest sort is growing by the day so i think he feels that he can take a breath now and start focusing on stabilizing the country slowly hopefully virtual it says third seven year term i guess is written in the constitution as to be seven years but maybe given all the uncertainty that's come up to this is seven years a bit too long. when it depends how you
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measure it if you think that it's going to be like seven long years without any significant changes but some of it is a political process in syria. well that's what some would say. yet if it is going to be without any significant political process yes there will be long but if you're thinking about the possible political buildup especially or change especially as a poll into realize that he's not going anywhere and the syrian government is not going to fall then seven years is actually good enough time to stabilize and build a new political process in syria it does need a little bit of time within the framework of a stable government in order for it to be you know to take shape and be a good springboard for the future he won by a big majority but as we've been saying it's not the first time he's been in power if he was doing so well why is the country in such a mess. well this is the big question isn't it there are
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so many fault lines that are all reacting at the same time it's all happening at the moment not only in c. while syria is where it's really most badly manifested but this just about a change in the nation there are quite a few. issues like there has been a lot of propaganda to push various sections in the middle east towards confrontation and this is now taking shape in the sunni shiite strife this is all politics doesn't have a hasn't got to do anything with the religion but at the same time this is about the middle east syria in particular taking a step ahead to the syrian people especially taking the step ahead to move away to work to to move away from subjective identities and mentalities to words more shared identities and mentalities towards citizenship and so on and so forth and
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this is the real fault line in syria at the moment between those who believe that they can build bridges with each other and those who say well we happen to be of this skin color and we happen to be the majority. so this shift in mentality is what's taken place the history books will show i'm afraid we're going to add to a break in our next programs just around the corner but for now i'm aware of syrian political analyst thanks for your time talking about a program aaron aides said just off the break she gets to crunch the numbers to see whether the new bricks but. the punch we've just been talking about. surviving the onslaught israel's continued assault on gaza has brought about international outrage and condemnation what does israel hope to achieve and will gaza suffering ever.
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there i marinate it this is boom bust and these are some of the stories that we're tracking for you today. it's day two of the brics summit in a quarterly is a brazil and some big news coming out of there this afternoon you'll definitely want to hear what's been decided upon there and what it means around the world the big big news and victor she is on the program today the professor of economics that u.c. san diego is giving us his thoughts on an emerging markets development bank and reserve fund and in today's big deal edward harrison are discussing what a slump in crude price means for the strength of the u.s. economy it all starts right now.

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