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breaking news of this ukrainian security service reportedly says it's deporting british journalist graham phillips who disappeared three days ago with claims he'd been beaten and tortured in captivity. also this hour just as in israel and around the world event their anger against the deadly guards are offensive on a day of solidarity for palestinians. and overnight protests in the west bank and in clashes with police leaving four palestinians dead.
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for a good evening it's covered with you tonight ten pm here now in moscow and to start with there's a just mentioned the reports of emerged in the last few minutes that ukrainian security services say they're deporting british journalist graham phillips he went missing in eastern ukraine three days ago along with the ukrainian reporter care had denied ever detaining them later the local journalist was released and told r t they'd both been beaten and tortured really sums up what he told us. the 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 hospital he was released by ukrainian military on thursday and this is how he described what has happened to them. we were going. to film a group of men i followed and that's when we were ambushed they put bags over our
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heads but before. military judging by their instinct we were put in a car. firstly put in a kind of soul together but we were later separated they started torturing us. graham screaming and i was screaming too horrible they told graham they were taking him to western ukraine and. then they left me. has mentioned they're both him and graham phillips along with two other journalists were actually near denounced airport in extremely dangerous areas scene of some of them will severe fighting over recent weeks overall of course the situation in the entire regions remains highly volatile as described by graham's friend donald the other side ukrainian civil war taken a captive today what are they doing there kidnapping what talk to them.
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now 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 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 pretense they have not been let into the country obviously the situation with journalists in ukraine remains much to be desired. as we've been reporting out more on this to the ukrainian media saying that to graeme has been banned from entering the country for three years as a footnote to it as i always did has only just come through the last couple of minutes we're following the developments throughout the course of the evening i hope to speak to maybe soon as well. muslims throughout the world are marking
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international could stay it's traditionally used to express solidarity with the palestinian people this year most of the banners in the streets are denouncing israeli aggression in gaza protesters in iran were chanting on his really slogans and burning the country's flag in the capital to the rally was attended by the iranian president similar scenes today across india to the thousands of muslims marched in support of palestine and held prayers a high turnout in london as well where probably boy reports next. is the arabic word for jerusalem and this is actually an annual pro palestinian event that all deny his on this protest say that public opinion and the palestinian community has been galvanized by that increasing civilian death toll in gaza and you get a picture just looking at the banners the chanting and the sea of people working for essential lines and making their way towards the american embassy and you get
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a picture of just how strong the pro palestinian community is and how it's come together in light of recent events now lines of course has a very sizable jewish community as well some say that they feel that type of anti-semitism as a result of this conflict they say that there's an assumption that all jewish people agree with the actions of the i.c.'s and this is by no means the only rally to take place in london over the course of the conflict just several days ago i knew from israeli much well the center of the capital where there were several thousand people gathered wowed but in such a low. it's a cultural muslim religious it's a city this is a conflict that is watching people tell you are using it pinion and raising tensions by. the amounts of people that have gathered there that london is very much i think said by the bloodshed that's taking place in the middle east. and
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i'm really. talking of the bloodshed more than eight hundred palestinians have now been killed in the offensive but israel today rejected a cease fire plan proposed by u.s. secretary of state john kerry human rights activist who was at the london rally told us that people in the west are willing to protest loudly against the violence unlike their governments or roman majority of people are really feeling the pain of the palestinians they really understand that this use of israelis that this massacre is necessary for peace and security they don't accept that and they feel that israel need to be accountable and hold accountable but unfortunately the governments and the media as a whole in the west are totally biased trying to equate. sort of palestinian suffering we did needs an aspiration of israelis and i think this is disparity and
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this is why people are coming in their houses and millions in the streets to say enough is enough. arabs have also been protesting in israel a rally in jerusalem ended in clashes with police several dozen people were arrested after throwing rocks at the israeli offices the police responded with tear gas and water cannons is our middle east correspondent paula slayer. the situation here on the ground amongst israel's arab population is extremely volatile on friday there were demonstrations here in east jerusalem not far from the mosque after people prayed in here the israeli forces allowed only men over the age of fifty to enter the mosque protesters started throwing stones and rocks at israeli police responded with crowd control measures now this tension has been simmering for quite some time so we are likely to see the kind of anger that exists amongst israel's roughly one million arab population bubble to the surface it's not limited only to
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inside israel on thursday night it was clashes at the kalandia checkpoint between jerusalem and ramallah dozens of palestinians have been arrested if they we did have the throwing of stones the burning of tires and again tensions are running high on israel's border at the moment be feeling on the ground is that the gaza operation will continue and at the same time will continue to encourage anger and dissent from among these populations policia r.t. east jerusalem. ten thousand palestinian protesters took to the streets of ramallah in the west bank to voice their own group the violence in gaza that have been clashes with israeli soldiers which left four protesters dead and dozens wounded sorry fears 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 are 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 are largely affected
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to 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 there was these clashes we saw molotov cocktails and fireworks being fired at israeli border police as well as the israeli troops they responded with of course stun guns and tear gas so this is surely an important benchmark of how bad things are getting in in the west bank we're seeing such an escalation of clashing. calls for an end to the violence we just learned online as well and in a bitterly heartfelt way take a look at these photos trending right now. refuse to be enemies it was launched by us coupled with a mixed jewish background web users quickly picked up on that that responded with dozens more pictures of stories of love and friendship between arabs and jews notice a bit of good news for a change isn't it for example this woman has a jewish mother and a palestinian father she tweeted whatever we suffer hate makes it worse.
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next just when ukraine needs some solid leadership those in power of put the political the country into a political paralysis the ruling coalitions collapsed parliament could be dissolved in the prime minister says he's quit although deputies still haven't had his resignation letter of them to vote on lawmakers now face a choice either forge a new majority group or get ready for early elections and judging by the state of the ukrainian economy it's no time to procrastinate either kiev's fast running out a cash dithering about much needed reforms and focusing all its energies to on the military operation in the east plus ukraine says the loans promised by the e.u. won't be enough while europe itself is hesitating over the funds already set aside as part of political science professor petro he told me the crisis is here to stay thinks the one playing i think the political parties want to avoid that are currently there is being blamed for the price hikes the significant price hikes for
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utilities and gas that are under water that are going to 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 for an army the money to be paid in soldiers will run out next week. a group of russian investigators have come in the shelling on the russia ukraine border moscow's investor committee says the shells were fired deliberately from ukrainian territory a total of forty seven of them roman cossar of so in the region for us. well the investigative committee personnel were wearing uniforms so they could not have been mistaken for anyone else and while they were scouring the area another two russian
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border checkpoints had been shelled as well and a nearby residential areas to apparently six houses had been damaged and one person it's an age girl in fact had been injured this is not the first time that russian territory is being shelled previously one russian border guard was injured and one civilian was killed as a result sell for ukrainian army shell and now russia had demanded for ukraine to stop artillery fire and shelling against its territory but it continues in any case meanwhile ukrainian army is using all the means available and necessary to fight against that restive regions here in eastern ukraine you and i already said that's at least two hundred thousand people have been displaced as the result of that half of them have fled to a nearby russian nearly five hundred people have been killed by the ukrainian military since this punitive operation the so-called and its era separation began against the rest of regions here in eastern ukraine.
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eastern ukraine homes ablaze cars riddled with bullets this is what locals here have been waking up to day after day for the past several weeks and the human cost of the sustained government assault has been steadily rising by junior their children in jenin and then waiting to. be chained yearbook by them i don't you know you're right here with the 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 russia but for those who stayed on constant reminders that nobody is safe it's not . really been hiding here for two months already sharing can start any time so mom and i went outside for some water and it was a. cool that we survived we had to hide from shells and splinters behind a lurch car every single moment we're free to die don't netsky is one of the ukraine's largest cities home to
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a million people many caught in the crossfire between and secure fighters who have made the city their stronghold and government forces the ukrainian authorities pledged to continue their onslaughts who ruled out what it calls terrorists but that means locals here have a long fight of their own set of them don't know it's the largest city in a certain ukraine it was once full of life that accommodated the locals and for interest only a couple of years ago it welcomes thousands of football fans to the european football championships now however it's slowly 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 culture of artsy donetsk ukraine. if you just joined us one of the breaking news we've been reporting the last couple of minutes or so pretty sure describe phillips has been reporting for our team ukraine is apparently being deported from the country according to its security services disappeared internet
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sc in the east three days ago is whereabouts had remained officially known a fellow journalist who was detained along with grown look and later released told us they'd both been beaten in captivity hoping to talk to graham tsunami she's got a long list plate right now but if we can get contact with him we will try to soon as we can through the evening updates about what's happening there. if you stay with me kevin i mean you're not international coming up after a quick break the latest on the investigation into the malaysian airliner crash in ukraine and the ongoing report creation of more victims bodies. three years ago the european union was spending several hundred billion a few. underestimation each. twenty sort of two sometimes even fifty percent of the money spent on corruption.
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two more planes carrying victims from flight m.h. seventeen of landed at military airport in the netherlands the last bodies will be sent from ukraine on saturday the remains and i've been transported into a military base for examination and i'm sure. all of the victims have been found yet in a special international team is being prepared to secure the crash site. experts working with the flight recorders say the data they contain hasn't been tampered with. several theories too about what could have brought down the malaysian plane of emerged since the disaster the latest a source in the ukrainian military says anti air defense drills taking place at the time with the crash may be to blame but kiev at the moment did not raise any such exercises ever happened also having her say in what happened has been america's intelligence community they accuse antigovernment fighters of downing the plane by mistake and also admit that most of
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their evidence comes from social networks so for journalists at the state department briefings that's just not being good enough for some anyway i would like to know what you're basing this new evidence that the russians intend to send any heavier quit on her face was a mentality the formation i can't get into the 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 could point us to that i mean you know anything just wondering if you what it is i did that i wasn't going to give you the underlying force for it really did you slightly out of love want me working its magic you're sure i don't give you more information just say no i think the source not actually asked you a question here but i can't give you the source and i think we should refrain not give you the information theory think that it would be best for all concerned here in the other question you when you make an allegation like that you're able to back it up with something more than just because i say so international media is using america's assumed evidence to round on russia girl and she can next breakstone some
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of her latest moves. 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 other potential sources for such a plume in the area including a coal mine nearby she also asked locals what they saw in the sky that day. there were two explosions in the sky with their how the plane broke apart with pieces falling everywhere and there was an ounce of military jet flying near everyone so it yes everyone saw it flying a little below the present plane. we heard explosions in the sky and then the plane suddenly turned around changed its flight path and headed that way. when the video
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was taken off the site many internet users were keen to know why the b.b.c. said the report did not live up to the editorial values of b.p. see. 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 ukrainian he was not picked up on it even as pictures and video poor end of the war raging in the country since. the us media is once again taking aim at our t.v. or what c.n.n. discussed as the impact of russia's media machine for all the talk about propaganda which by definition is you know misinformation i would say russia's when it chris cuomo and r.t. spittle of l became a you tube head after a heated interview maybe you haven't been following it but the u.s. is actually coming out with
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a lot of its own intelligence are bad connects 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 life when this what a horrible operation frantically 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 pointedly say declaring it's been there and really really kind of phenomenon very flippant about it 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.
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draws a connection between the russian president at a church and the downing of the malaysian airliner and global outrage grew putin try to appear pious photographed praying at an orthodox church the russian president continuing his drumbeat blaming ukraine and its western backers he is no one should and no one has the right to use this tragedy to achieve their own selfish political goal is a vent should not divide 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 gun issue gun or t. washington d.c. while the lack of conclusive evidence to explain the fate of m.h. seventeen hasn't stopped the e.u. from expanding sanctions on russia following the united states late brussels is now
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out of fifteen people in eighteen companies to the blacklist of its own peter all of a next on what the new measures include. what we've seen is an extension to the list of names that sanctions have been imposed on these sanctions will take the form of visa bans asset freezes in some cases but they're individually targeted sanction is the current law that's just the new agreed on targets and urged to fifteen individuals and eighteen companies and these are wide ranging sanctions that some in europe had been calling for and the united states had hoped that europe would push forward with particular in europe david cameron the british prime minister had been pushing for further sanctions also here in the netherlands there had been calls for further sanctions as well we haven't seen that yet this is just something that shows the the over symbiotic relationship between the the russian economy and the economies of those nations in europe with they will try to impose any real far
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reaching economic sanctions against russia european nations economies are going to suffer at the hands of their own sanctions so with that that's what we've seen so far we're expecting further talks on sanctions next week though but for now just more individual sanctions and an expanding of the list civil rights campaigners are calling for greater transparency of the death penalty process after another execution of the us went terribly wrong it took murder joseph two hours to die after he was given a lethal injection and supposed to take no longer than ten minutes the details were important. 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 would was go ping like a fish on land and the sounds that he was making between snoring in 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 the a.p. said that wood's jaw dropped and he was gasping repeatedly every twelve seconds and
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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 seen a recent executions similar to the one i'm speaking about now for example an oklahoma
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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. correspondent new york city there we're back to our breaking news ukraine's security services reportedly it within the last hour just decided to kick british journalist graham phillips out of the country he disappeared three days ago in eastern ukraine but authorities in kiev said they knew nothing about his whereabouts and even insisted that they never detained journalists. i know he's been taken hostage there's no information orders were
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boats or whether there is a bounty on his heard the ukrainian military don't journalists. that's not the experience of the journalist who is with graham at the time he was later released but told us on his way to hospital that they'd both been beaten and tortured. there . we were near them yet scared port he ran to film a group of men i followed him and that's when we were they put bags over our heads but before i noticed it was you cranium military judging by their insignia we were put in a car and driven somewhere first they put us in a kind of cell together but we were later separated they started torturing us beating my head graham screaming and i was screaming too it was horrible i didn't tell them i was a journalist so they accused me of being a self-defense fighter but it seems that they knew who graham was they beat me so badly i finally told them i was a journalist in the net i told them i had a child and if they killed me he'd have no one else they said if they catch me
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again they'll kill me later fighting broke out at the airport we heard gun sounds so we were taken to a different location i don't know where they put plastic bags on our heads i think it was a checkpoint i heard they told graham they were taking him to western ukraine or to kiev then they left me outside then yet. well there was not a good time later is not the first time he's been detained back in may he was seized by security forces needs to create he was questioned in connection with possible espionage wings then released about thirty six hours later he left ukraine but went back a few days ago the ukrainian media no says he's been banned from entering the country for the next three years we'll keep you posted throughout the evening. thanks for choosing us is twenty eight minutes past ten at night here in moscow next live update just off with me kevin owen next the meet the man whose mission it is to root run corruption in the european union he talks to sophie shevardnadze after the break.
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a friend of mine flew in from germany and he said that as he was leaving he looked into 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.
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