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in the financial world. it's. been like. thousands of palestinians in the west bank of israel and the largest protest against the ongoing gaza or offensive which has now killed more than eight hundred people. journalists who was abducted with a missing a british reporter says they were beaten by troops is still not known where graham phillips is. parliament paralysis the ruling coalition collapses the prime minister is refusing to work as the government squanders the budget on the war in the country's east.
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you're watching international coming to you live from moscow it's four pm in the russian capital it's good to have you with us ten thousand palestinian protesters took to the city of ramallah in the west bank to voice anger against violence in gaza it ended in clashes with israeli soldiers which left to protest is dead and dozens wounded in gaza for us closely following the situation. this is the largest rally we've seen in the west bank of course gasser in the west bank geographically separated but it appears that the purpose of these demonstrations is to send a very clear message that even palestinians in the west bank largely affected the societal level by the ongoing violence here which is being of course extremely bloody last night at least two palestinians were killed and up to two hundred injured as these clashes we sold molotov cocktails and fireworks being fired at
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israeli border police as well as the israeli troops they responded with of course. until gas so this is surely an important benchmark of how bad things are getting in in the west bank we're seeing such a such an escalation of clashing literally where we are approximately five minutes ago there was an airstrike about six hundred meters directly behind where i am now within about five seconds of that strike being visibly a piece of shrapnel that i'm holding my hand right here it's bumming right now landed literally four meters away from me just in front of this international hotel here one of the most expensive international hotels an area which is meant to be extremely safe in the gazan concepts as you can see here but of course things are not likely not by any means there is some unconfirmed news that hamas may accept united states secretary of state john kerry's proposal for a cease fire that's not yet confirmed and obviously the only going strikes continue
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here in gaza well yesterday we saw a very significant instance where united nations run school was being used to shelter and this was struck allegedly by israeli tank fire in one way or another we understand that at least fifteen were killed including two children and united nations stuff the united nations said that it's given israel historically the g.p.s. g.p.s. coordinates all through all of its infrastructure in gaza deliberately to try and prevent this kind of civilian object being hit but this didn't happen and yesterday this. school building was struck it was home temporarily to these hundreds of thousands of internally displaced persons as almost fifty percent of the territory of gaza has been labeled by the israeli military effect of you know what if you go here you are likely to be killed so the situation continues to be dangerous even in the safest areas of gaza as the body count continues to rise now over eight hundred palestinians killed meanwhile hamas continues foreign rockets into israel with many
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reaching as far as television witnessed israel's iron dome interception system in action. the law has just found the share intelligence so we're going to join the crowds at the everybody starts rushing to go towards the bomb shelter so the way to the bomb shelter is this way you can see that the start that people that may have come out of the building no one ever should they are people that there are walking to go towards the bomb shelter. you had that bang that was the and i'm interfacing the mess out you can actually see the white smoke over there. where it left a trail as it made that interception and some white smoke over there let's just go to the it's a safe thing to do is to get up a consequence of five off the pavement and wait there and they reconnect the iron dome anti-missile system intercepts around ninety percent. but the fear is for the ten percent that it doesn't intercept that shows you. that even as israeli ground offensive advances here in the center of israel in tel aviv the rockets keep flying
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. want to see on television. where the number of palestinians killed has now surpassed eight hundred while israel today lost one more of its soldiers bringing the army death toll to thirty three the next i.d.f. commander told us here in the way to make progress. i did three three years of service in two of them in the west bank during the second intifada and the things i've done and things i've seen in the way we treated palestinian civilians on the occupation was something that brought me to question the morality and whether we are actually standing up to our principles and what we think or what we want to be in all our relationship for things are not clear because if you look at the last few years every every two three years there is an operation there's just a serious of operations in gaza and everyone just looked at the other end in breaking a science the one thing we're trying to ask is ok so where is this one taking us
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now is it again to the next operation two years down the road shouldn't we after all these operations have been work should we try to ask ourself you know maybe we should try to change our ways and how we deal with gaza. and. people across the world taking boys in there are over the ongoing offensive these are pictures from new york where hundreds of people many of them jewish protested against israel's actions they also called on the u.s. to stop supporting israel across the atlantic hundreds of people gathered outside the israeli embassy in madrid i really was organized by a large coalition of peace groups and trade unions meanwhile muslims throughout the world are marking international crudes day is traditionally used to express solidarity with the palestinian people or the latest pictures from iran or rallies denouncing israeli aggression underway. or calls for an end to violence been just as loud online this photo tags trending right now jews and arabs refuse to be
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enemies it says it was launched by a u.s. couple of mixed arab jewish background web users quickly picked up on it responding with dozens more pictures and stories of love and friendship between arabs and jews for example this woman has a jewish mother and a palestinian father she tweeted whatever we suffer hate makes it worse. the whereabouts of a british journalist who disappeared in east ukraine three days ago remain unknown but a fellow reporter who was with graham phillips when the pair were abducted was released and told r.t. they've been beaten or in english for sums up what details we know. information about the beatings is coming from another journalist who was detained where the ground philips cameramen working for the news agency we spoke to him as he was on his way to the hospital he was released by ukrainian military on thursday and this is how he described what has happened to them. from
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a group of men i followed and that's when we were pushed to put bags over our heads . military. we were put in a car. firstly put in a kind of cell to go but we were later separated they started torturing us. graham screaming and i was screaming horrible. graham they were trying to western ukraine . has mentioned they're both him and ground phillips along with two other journalists were actually near denounced airport extremely dangerous area scene of some of them of severe fighting over recent weeks overall of course the situation in the entire donetsk regions remains highly volatile as described by graham's friend ryan mcdonald the other side ukrainian civil war taking a captive today what are they doing there kidnapping
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a lot talk to them. this is not the first time graham has been detained by authorities his first run in with his officials was in may of this year when he was a danger to checkpoint by national guard and then transferred over to the ukraine security services overall of course ukraine remains one of the most in fact it is the e-mails to dangerous place for journalists specified by the international news safety institute seven journalists have been killed there just in the first half of this year a lot more primarily russians have been either detained or apprehended with no prita. they have not been let into the country and of course there's been a lot of international outcry on the subject matter and judging by the fact that graham phillips along with several other journalists is still missing and his fate is largely unknown obviously the situation with journalists in ukraine remains much to be desired. a save the graham phillips has tag is gaining momentum on twitter
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social network uses a for the release of the journalist and the protection of others working in ukraine or just one ukraine needs some solid leadership those in power have put the country into political paralysis the ruling coalition has collapsed parliament could be dissolved and the prime minister says he's quit while the deputies still haven't had his resignation resignation letter for them to vote on war makers now face a choice either forge a new majority group or get ready for elections and judging by the state of the ukrainian economy this is no time to put crust in a fast running out of cash dithering about much needed reforms and focusing its energies on the military operation in the east plus ukraine says the loans promised by the e.u. will not be enough while europe itself is hesitating over the funds already set aside political science professor nikolai petro told us the crisis is here to stay but one thing i think the political parties want to avoid that are currently there
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is being laid for the price hikes the significant price hikes for utilities. are under water that are more that are coming in the pipeline first of all there will be political crisis which is just you know nouns while there is a political necessity as europe's as the e.u. sees it to support and disburse money into ukraine it will actually not do that indefinitely and the problem is ukraine is running out of money even if there is an army the money to pay its soldiers will run out next week. while the ruling ruling coalitions collapse has made it possible for the ukrainian president to dissolve the parliament but just before this opportunity emerged lawmakers voted to expel the communists meaning they'll have next to no chance of becoming part of the next parliament the faction was deemed not to have enough deputies two years ago the communist. secured thirteen percent of the vote representing more than two and
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a half million people since then the faction has shrunk by nearly a third due to the political turmoil in the country the parliament speaker saw the party's exclusion as a triumph that he hoped they'd never return to the communist leader described the ousting as a political lynching a senior british communist party official says that a new should distance itself from kiev i don't think there's been any attempt to ban political party of the size of the ukrainian communist party since the burning of parts is the question in greece or earlier when the nazis came to power in germany they still represent that to a million voters they will now have the rights to political association negated in a way that is contrary to the european charter of human rights as well as the terms of the european union treaty it is. religious that the european
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union should be giving sanction to this government well over two hundred thousand people have been displaced in eastern ukraine since kiev began its crackdown on anti-government forces in march the u.n. says over half of them have fled to russia towns and villages a falling to military that's using all available means to take control of the restive provinces have reports now on the consequences for civilians. girls are good for. eastern ukraine homes ablaze cars riddled with bullets this is what locals here have been waking up to the day after day for the past several weeks and the human cost of this is stained government assaults has been steadily rising but the journey of us children and journey and then waiting to fall on. some you know maybe ten year but by my own being i am right here with many hundreds killed since the ukrainian army's operation began half a million have already packed up their belongings and fled across the border to
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russia but for those who stayed on constant reminders that nobody is safe and he's not. really been hiding here for two months already sharing can start any time so monday i went outside to some water and it was a miracle that we survived we had to hide from shells this plaintiff behind. every single moment we're free today i don't need skis one of ukraine's largest cities home to a million people many called in the crossfire between and fighters who have made the city their stronghold and government forces the ukrainian authorities pledged to begin a series about what it calls terrorists but that means locals here have a long soft fights of their own the head of them don't know that's the largest six am eastern ukraine it was once full of life and accommodated the locals and for interest on a couple of years ago it welcomes thousands of football fans to the european
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football championships now however it's slow it's turning into a ghost town as local businesses close their doors and residents to leave the area from constant shelling that hasn't stopped in over a month from our call for an artsy donetsk ukraine. coming up the latest on the investigation into the malaysian airliner crash in ukraine and the repatriation of the victims' bodies. three years ago the european union was spending several hundred billion a few are also in the public procurement and there are estimates show each over. twenty a sort of two sometimes fifty percent of the money spent on corruption. economic
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down in the final. days of the old sang night and the rest because i think we will be if we only. on america in the financial world. cannot stop it is the only take credit. in life there are. another military aircraft carrying bodies of those killed in the mh seventeen tragedy has just taken off from the city of product of and is heading towards the
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netherlands the malaysian airlines plane came down in eastern ukraine just over a week ago the bodies are now being transported to a military base for examination and identification it's thought that not all the remains of yet been found and especially to national team is being prepared to secure the crash site meanwhile experts working with the flight recorders say the data they contain hasn't been tampered with. or several theories about what could have brought the plane down have emerged since the disaster now a source in the ukrainian military says i'm t. air defense drills taking place at the time of the crash may be to blame but kiev denies any such exercises ever happened russia's aviation authority is demanding answers from ukraine about the crash further support urgency of the russian federation. through the ukrainian side to go and. investigation of malaysian. both earn it crash or the agency has made
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a number of requests that it says will help the investigation along it's asking for air traffic communications with flight m h seven saying it also wants a copy of the plane's original flight plan then information about ukraine's military on the day of the disaster including what exercises were taking place participants and what missiles were fired were also having their say in what happened has been america's intelligence community they accuse anti-government fighters of downing the plane by mistake but admit they base the bulk of their proof on social networks and for journalists at the state department briefings that's not good enough. i would like to know what you're basing this new evidence that the russians intend to send in any heavier equipment based on some intelligence information i can't get into sources and methods behind it but i was able to be able to tell you that is there a youtube video or something that you can point us to that i mean you know engines and i'm just wondering if you what what what it is i just said i wasn't going to
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give you the underline for story me did you say they had a loved one in many ways it's not with us you're right i don't give you more information just saying that i think the source not actually asked you a question here i can't give you the source or method would you prefer i not give you the information. i think that it would be best for all concerned here in the other question here you know when you make an allegation like that you're able to back it up with something more than just because i say so. the international media have been using america's assumed evidence to round on russia breaks down some of the latest news b.b.c. russian deleted an online report by their correspondent from eastern ukraine it was recorded by all good if shaina who went to the site where ukrainian intelligence says rebels fired a missile at the malaysian airlines plane which she took the photo showing a rising plume of smoke which the ukrainians intelligence service provided as evidence of where the missile was launched the reporter identified at least two
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other potential sources for such a plume in the area including a coal mine nearby she also asked a local us what they saw in the sky that day. there were two explosions in the sky we saw how the plane broke apart with pieces falling everywhere and they were seen as a military jet flying near everyone saw it yes everyone saw it flying a little below the present a plane. we had explosions in the sky and then the plane suddenly turned around changed its flight path and headed that way. when the video was taken off the site many internet users were keen to know why the b.b.c. said they were poor did not live up to the editorial values of b.b.c. . some journalists have taken sides to the point that when the ukrainian president said this ukrainian nation now are united we don't have any conflicts inside ukraine and he was not picked up on it even as pictures and video pour in of your
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wages in the country since. the us media is once again taking aim at our. c.n.n. discuss this because you are the impact of russia's nuclear machines for all the talk about propaganda which by definition is you know misinformation i would say russia's when it chris cuomo and artie's piddle of l u two states after a seat it's interesting. maybe you haven't been following it but the u.s. is actually coming out with a lot of its own intelligence back connex what happened i made seventeen to the acts of russian militants and perhaps of the involvement of russia in either training equipping or maybe even assisting one when this is what a horrible operation friendly to atlanta are you talking about what what forensic evidence are you referring to. twitter very or release intelligence information about the trajectory no not twitter i do not think peter this is something to be flip about two hundred ninety eight people lost their lives let's now i don't want
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to say declaring isn't there when human intelligence i mean you're out there we flip and dividing and narrative is being pushed in the media that clearly spells cold war to. the russian president is the fight on the covers of major magazines and newspapers is personality is the main focus of media attention. this news week article titled inside the bulletproof bubble of the west's public enemy number one begins by looking into what putin eats for breakfast c.n.n. he draws a connection between the russia which as you know your photo editor church and the downing of the malaysian airliner and global outrage grew try to appear pious photographed praying at an orthodox church the russian president continuing his drumbeat blaming ukraine and its western backers the us no one should and no one has the right to use this tragedy to achieve their own selfish political goals
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these events should not divide the united people by fixing its gaze on the russian president the media has excelled at what he does best acting as judge and jury and simplifying a complex situation by focusing on just one person. r.t. washington d.c. . you know that he is an illegal protests have landed some of russia's top opposition activists in jail two key figures have been given years behind bars for masterminding unrest in russia read more on our website. so online a bribe for compensation u.k. authorities offer up to a million pounds to communities that agree to bury nuclear waste in their region. the french government is being accused of jeopardizing democracy with its latest latest anti-terrorism bill campaign is say the legislation could easily be exploited to invade people's privacy the law would allow the government to monitor
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anyone's online activity including emails browsing history and online chats blocking websites something widely seen as a form of censorship would also become easy on the authorities would be able to ban citizens from leaving the country if they decide the purpose of the trial travel is terrorism or jeremy zimmerman an internet freedom activist and the bill is outrageous. this low speaks of terrorists to be and is about combating the intent of people who may become terrorists even before they start doing anything so in practice it would be to the police and to the government to the executive to decide whenever someone is a potential terrorist who may do something and then it would be a load to infiltrate his computer to try to to decrypt encrypted data to block him from leaving friends where is the limit between being a terrorist and being
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a suspected terrorists when it is the police or the government that decides if it's not the judicial judge that takes this decision then we're breaking the fundamental values of democracy. civil rights campaigners are calling for greater transparency over the death penalty process after another execution in the u.s. went terribly wrong it's a murderer joseph for two hours to die after he was given a lethal injection and supposed to take no longer than ten minutes the details come from marina portnoy. lawyers for arizona inmate joseph would say that after their client was lethally injected he proceeded to gasp for more than an hour a journalist from the arizona republic reports that wood was gulping like a fish on land and the sounds that he was making between snoring and and sucking in air was similar to like the sound as a swimming pool filter makes what it starts to take in air another journalist from
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the a.p. said that wood's jaw dropped and he was gasping repeatedly every twelve seconds and this continued hundreds of times now nearly two hours into the process the fifty five year old finally died which lawyer had sought to delay the execution over concerns about the source of the lethal injection drugs and the qualifications of the executioners. we went to the department of corrections and asked it to give us information about the source of the drugs the qualifications of the persons who would be conducting the execution as well as how we came up with the formula that it decided to use and it refused to provide us that information the shortage of lethal drugs has led many states in the u.s. to see controversial alternatives including drugs from undisclosed pharmacies now america's capital punishment system has come under heightened scrutiny after we've
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seen a recent executions similar to the one i'm speaking about now for example in oklahoma inmate died of a heart attack more than thirty minutes following his botched execution earlier this year and at the start of the year in january and in may in ohio suffered for more than twenty six minutes before dying now arizona state officials say wood was in comatose and didn't suffer they claim he was sleeping and snoring not gasping the governor of arizona has ordered an investigation into the procedure but expressed no sympathy for wood who was sentenced to death for fatally shooting his ex-girlfriend and her father. well just his campaign alexander simpson says the drugs used for executions are experimental making the death penalty an inhumane way to end a life this is a cocktail of drugs that is really by definition experimental there aren't really any kind of track records about how these frogs are or used to special with regards to lethal injection and so this is
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a new cocktail of drugs. that obviously did not work out at all in these last few executions and lethal injection was not necessarily conceived as cruel or unusual because it doesn't take that long and because it's primarily kind of puts the person to sleep and then shuts down the systems if you're talking about somebody who's writhing in pain for two hours at a certain point it becomes cruel and unusual and therefore it's a violation of the person's rights even if they're executed they have to be done in a way that doesn't violate their constitutional rights. next meet the man whose mission is to root how rampant corruption in the european union he speaks to safety shevardnadze after the break stay with us.
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a friend of mine flew in from germany and he said that as he was leaving he looked in to do stand at the airport and on the front page of twelve german publications were basically titles like tunes missile destroyers airplane alluding to the crash malaysian airplane that fell into the combat zone in eastern ukraine this isn't just some fluke that my friend saw all these newspapers together the entire mainstream media has made the same bold speculations i think this is interesting for two reasons one the way that the mainstream press jumped onto the story with exactly the same headlines and exactly the same angles really makes me want to start believing in conspiracy theories especially when an investigation had been conducted yet there wasn't any formal evidence yet but from fox to c.n.n. to medium sized german newspapers the speculation of who was at fault for the crash is identical and absolute and to.

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