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saying this week so devastating to all to you from more conies good bye. this is about making the business survive. the. corporations don't love your parishioners told hate corporations have no feeling. corporations don't care about you or me corporations will make her book for. people come to untouched for sins and leave massive bleeds for the state come on. we're not going to quit we will not stop until it is done
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what is more precious music more moving. war without end with no pre-determined exit strategy israel's most recent invasion of gaza could last for months the humanitarian catastrophe for the palestinians is incalculable how this enhanced israel security is unclear. i think. i would like to know that you know the price is the only industry specifically mentioned in the constitution and. that's because a free and open process is critical to our democracy like ours. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of our government and across several we've been hijacked right handful of transnational corporations that will profit by destroying what our founding fathers
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once i'm job market and on this show we reveal the big picture of what's actually going on in the world we go beyond identify the problem try rational debate and real discussion critical issues things you know they're fun for you know ready to join the movement then walk a little bit. you're very welcome back to our to international i'm you know neal the spike calls for a cease fire growing ever larger kiev stepped up its military crackdown against the centers of government resistance in east ukraine this week the situation in the regional capital of the next cremains tense with explosions heard on the outskirts while daily earth raids and shelling have become every day reality for the people in the towns in the latest artillery attack on the city centers residential areas
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a kindergarten on a school were severely damaged on the army's mortar fire in broad daylight in the grounds killed at least sixteen on friday meanwhile the organization for security and cooperation in europe puts the total number of lives lost in the ground since the summer of two hundred fifty years are in a police car on the russia ukraine border with the latest updates from the area. residents have reported hearing air raid sirens again again last night. that fighting continues on the outskirts of the city now according to self-defense forces ukrainian troops are gaining ground seeking to take control over the road that is connecting the gods into this disease that are essentially capitals of the two restive regions. varying bronzer off the assaults by the ukrainian army this city has been heavily hit its infrastructure damaged people are saying they're left without water electricity gas is also something they're finding
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a shortage off of course there are instances of people being hit in the middle of the day by artillery and mortar shells at one instance eight people have died similar tenuously when a shell has hit a cross walk always the observers have said that two hundred fifty people have been killed since the beginning of june in lugansk alone previously the numbers given for civilian casualties for these how did you ration them conflict balt regions and so now we can assume that that number is probably a lot higher than those people have to in the industry they're living here. he says are peaceful life. should look like the terrorists. you know. the fighting continues and a dime's that can be heard on the border between russia and ukraine with residents complaining about shells flying into their backyards essentially despite the fact that petro poroshenko has assured that civilians are not going to be the. targets
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of the ukrainian military nevertheless they seem to be bearing the brunt of off the pressure and when exactly if at this conflict is going to end is not yet clear with of course the world's attention being on the aftermath off the disaster of flight m.h. seventeen the fighting that doesn't seem to subside in southeastern ukraine goes on before. finish customs of seize the shipment of military equipment for ukraine officials describe it as. military goods that belong to certain types of arms local media report the shipment comprised of components for guidance systems customs officials declined to confirm on it shipments was seized off the end of june at helsinki airport because it was locking necessary permits for defense material it reportedly originated from vietnam and was heading to ukraine in transit via finland the finnish military are investigating the case and this washington
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proceeds with his accusations against moscow claiming it's doing nothing to deescalate tensions in ukraine fresh sanctions have been imposed this week against major russian companies russia's biggest oil producer rosneft along with gazprom by car among those targeted just to give you an idea of the scale of all of these companies. country's third largest bank it finances some of russia's most prominent energy projects and rosneft is a vital contributor to the state budget generating over a hundred billion dollars in revenue on nearly these two along with several other firms are not forbidden from borrowing money on u.s. markets for periods longer than ninety days here's how the russian president reacted to the move. as far as sanctions are concerned they usually have a boomerang effect like i've said before and they will eventually lead russian u.s. relations to a dead end and damaging them severely i'm also positive that these measures harm america's long term strategic interests and the interests of its people. we earlier
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spoke to the editor of business new europe magazine benares he explained to us how the new sanctions could affect reeses economy. they seem to be very targeted at a few companies and specifically this is a significant scaling up because these are financial saying that until now it's been aimed mainly at individuals and their personal assets they're trying to find a tricky sort of path between on the one hand punishing russia and on the other and maintaining the businesses that are here because you have a huge business lobby both in america and particularly in europe who are invested in making most of the profits here and the european partners are putting a lot of pressure on the states you know to keep it contained to back off so that they don't lose any money it's not effective in so much as it doesn't really do much economic damage but it is effective because psychologically in all that all the sanctions have been posed who has very little economic damage directly but the psychological effect is enormous i mean the ruble has already tanked today and the
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threat that more sanctions will come has created this environment of uncertainty. washington's egoless just partly shared in europe with brussels only weighing the decision to freeze funding for future projects with russia and now it looks like e.u. is caught in an awkward position as dr richard wellings from the institute of economic affairs told us. e.u. russian trade is about ten times the size of u.s. russian tries they clearly they're potentially massive losses from the e.u. imposing two students sanctions on russia particularly given the huge dependence on russian energy opposing cocoa countries towards the sort of eastern side of the european union as so there's a big difference in emphasis and i think so extent the e.u. still at this stage of gesture politics where it's trying to if you like to please the americans but do as little as possible in reality so i think i think really we're not going to see. your much action from the they'll try and get away with as
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little as possible without really upsetting the white house. moscow suffered one of its worst ever transport accidents earlier this week during the morning rush hour on choose the three metro cars derailed killing more than twenty people and injuring at least one hundred fifty several survivors are still in intensive care this is what the aftermath looked like. here i i. i. i mean. it took emergency workers three days to remove the wreckage and the personal services could resume here's how one eyewitness described the moment of the disaster. i was thrown into the air there was blood on the floor heads
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some people had broken ribs and one person. all in all people were hysterical we started to get out we saw during the tunnel what it meant eventually broke that door russo workers constructing a parallel town. investigators are still debating the different theories as to how relatively new really a section became the scene of such a deadly accident so far they have identified and incorrectly secured trucks which is the most likely cause of the tragedy to metro workers have been detained for safety breaches and investigators say the circle of suspects could expose. be more of a box with more news in just a few minutes time excuse me you're watching do stay with us.
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we chase profit very large very attractive and now very globally recognized source of oil for the world and into the future the world's cheapest and best petroleum deposits have been mined out we have to use more energy to get this energy industries grow like a cancer in each of these squares it's ten kilometers where. and goods whole area is slated for the very end of the tour drinking water that's our world lead so everything once or fishery we chop stop this is the end game when it takes two tonnes of say to make one barrel of oil you know here at the bottom line and that's where we're at. we chill ourselves. so i mean i think the afghans are invincible they're too independent minded they love freedom . they don't want to see foreigners in their country and will fight to guerilla war
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the headlines on r.t. european monitors say they have full access to the site of a malaysian plane disaster in eastern ukraine but there's no word yet from international experts who. have to inspect the wreckage. as questions pile up over the tragedy we take a look at some of the explaining details including why the aircraft strayed from its usual route and why dispatchers told it to reduce altitude. also coming up civilian deaths go largely unnoticed in the anti-government stronghold of lugansk in eastern ukraine. in the wake of the plane crash.

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