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if you're happy with us your kids today only roller sutured. coming up on r t a missing british journalist working for r t in ukraine has been found although ukrainian authorities claim that they didn't detain him he's reportedly being deported more on the breaking news just ahead. and while the violence rages on in gaza talks for a cease fire up here to have stalled in the west bank palestinians are gathering to protest israel's invasion of the gaza strip we'll tell you all the latest on the conflict that. and the n.y.p.d. faces a growing scandal over the use of chokehold video has surfaced of two arrests where suspects were placed and show called one of the suspects died more on the outrage
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over this practice later in the show. it's friday july twenty fifth five pm in washington d.c. i mean you're a david and you're watching our team erica. are we going with breaking news on the fate of a journalist reporting for r.t.e. in ukraine graham phillips a british national who works as a contributor for the network has been deported from the country he tweeted a short time ago he said i'm free ok deported from ukraine banned for three years because i work for our t.v. my car money bullet proof vest taken by ukrainian army he went missing while covering intense fighting around donetsk airport on tuesday but our team lost contact with him in the early hours of wednesday morning artie's i remember go has
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more on how he disappeared. the information about the beatings is coming from another journalist who was detained where the ground philip's carer men are 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. we were near the port he ran to film a group of men i followed him and that's when we were ambushed they put bags over our heads but before i noticed it was ukrainian 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 i heard graham screaming and i was screaming too it was horrible i heard they told graham they were taking him to western ukraine or to kiev then they left me outside the net. as i see marks of has mentioned they're both him and graham phillips along with two other journalists were actually near didn't scare reported
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extremely dangerous area scene of some of them will see their fighting over recent weeks over all of course the situation in the entire genetic regions remains highly volatile as described by graham's friend brian macdonald the other side of ukrainian civil war taken a captive today what are they doing. to talk to them. i mean what do you think is going to. this is not the first time that graham has been detained by ukrainian authorities his first run in with his officials was in may of this year when he was a danger the checkpoint by national guard and then transferred over to ukraine's a security services overall of course ukraine remains one of the most in fact is the mole's 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
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pretense they have not been let into the country and of course there's been a lot of international outcry on the subject matter i was artie's i really go just to recap reports out of ukraine say journalist graham phillips has been released and deported from ukraine we are trying to reach him in poland and if we do we'll bring him to you live. now the potential cease fire between israel and palestine has failed u.s. secretary of state john kerry proposed a plan that would have begun with a weeklong truce starting on sunday which coincides with the end of the muslim holy month of ramadan however israel's security cabinet rejected the plan in its current form secretary kerry spoke earlier today from cairo about the continued desire to end the violence in the region take a look. the whole world. is watching tragic moment after tragic over the fold and wondering. when is everybody going to come to their senses.
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both the israelis and the palestinians deserve a need to lead normal lives. for everyone to recognize that violence breeds violence and that the short term tactical gains that made it through a violent means simply will not inspire the long term change that is necessary and that both parties really want. this comes after thousands of palestinians in the west bank took to the streets to protest against the israeli military's ongoing offensive in gaza that protests quickly became violent after demonstrators marched from along the edges of jerusalem parties harry fear is in gaza with the very latest. this is the largest rally we've seen in the west bank of course in the west bank graphically 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
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societal level by the ongoing violence which is beautiful six street last night at least two palestinians were killed and up to two hundred injured. these clashes resoled military was being fired at israeli police as well as the right through how they responded to the school started. to gas so this is surely important benchmark how bad things are getting in in the last month or so such as such an escalation of gaza literally approximately five minutes ago that was an ass strike 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 budding 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
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extremely safe. as you can see by the looks of things and not likely not by any means i mean obviously the ongoing strikes continue here in gaza yesterday we saw a bicycle right nice nations school shelter and this was struck allegedly right. around the south fifteen were killed including two children and united nations stuff the united nations said that it's given israel historically the g.p.s. quote g.p.s. coordinates all fall of its infrastructure in gaza deliberately to try and prevent this kind of civilian object hit but this didn't happen and yesterday this school building was struck it was temporarily to these hundreds of thousands of internally displaced as almost fifty percent of the territory of god. it has been labeled by the israeli ministry effect of you know because if you go there you are likely 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. i
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was r.t. correspondent harry fear and a new update on the cease fire u.s. officials tell reuters that israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu told secretary kerry that israel will begin a twelve hour pause in gaza hostilities beginning on saturday at seven am israeli time the official spoke on the condition of anonymity. and a massive protest in central london took place today to show support for the palestinian people as artie's polly boyko reports the marchers went to the u.s. embassy with a very strong message good says the arabic word for jerusalem and this is actually and i knew would prove palestinian event had organizers of this protest say that public opinion and a palestinian community has been galvanized by that increasing civilian death toll in gaza and you get a picture just looking at the band as the chanting and the sea as people groping
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for essential lines and making their way towards the american embassy and you get a picture of just how strong the pro palestinian community is and how it's come together in light of recent events now lunch is of course has a very sizable jewish community as well some say that they feel a tide of anti-semitism as a result of this conflict they say accept it as 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 huge row misreading much for the center of the capital where that was several thousand people got those well but in such a multi-cultural motive religious think it's a city this is a conflict that is touching people polarizing opinion and raising tensions who can see by the way the crowd at the huge amount of people that have gathered he said
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that london is very much at stake said so by the bloodshed that's taking place in the middle of this reporter who runs and i really like a. i mean thousand days of attacks between israel and gaza we've heard a lot about israel's iron dome system it's a missile defense apparatus that's been in operation since two thousand and eleven it's applied to intercept short range missiles and mortars with the goal of protecting civil. in the path of rockets and artillery shells israel says its slow death toll in this latest conflict is a result of the iron dome interception of rockets fired over the border from gaza it's a system that israel has been able to develop because of hefty investments by the u.s. and that just this week some of the pins and democrats are introducing competing bills to meet a pentagon request for an additional additional two hundred twenty five million dollars in aid to the program artie's policy clear gets an up close look at the
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system from the center of tel aviv. the last sound the share intelligence is going to join the call to see what he starts rushing to go towards the bomb shelter so the way to the bomb shelter is this way you can see that the sun the people everywhere come out of the building no one ever show they are people that are there are walking to go towards a bomb shelter. big you have no bank there was the iron dome interceptor missile you can actually see the white smoke over there. where it lift your trail as it made that interception and there's some white smoke over. this just go to the it just safest thing to do is to actually get out because to go to the side of the pavement and wait there they reconnect the iron dome anti-missile system into sits around ninety percent of records. but the fear is for the ten percent that it doesn't into sit the shows to. that even as israeli ground offensive a bond says so here in the center of israel in tel aviv the rockets keep flying. to
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see on t.v. television. while the mood was somber at a military base another lens where the bodies of seventy four victims of malaysia airlines flight m h seventeen were taken for forensic identification today thousands of people have turned out this week to line the one hundred sixty mile route where possessions of horses have driven the coffins to the military facility the first forty coffins were flown from the crash site to ukraine in ukraine on wednesday followed by seventy four more on thursday and the same number again today meanwhile a small group of dutch and australian investigators arrived at the crash site and began to sift through the wreckage their governments are now preparing to send dozens of police to the site to help protect the crash area the scene has been one of chaos in the last week since the plane was shot down but crash investigators do have the aircraft's black box and are currently analyzing its contents results
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could be made available as early as next week. well a week after eric garner died after being held in a chokehold by a new york police officer video of another man being wrestled to the ground in a similar fashion has surfaced and it's fuel to critics who say that using this outdated tactic is equivalent to attempting murder artie's on a sufi a turk in a reports. allah in new york yet another death after an altercation with police and asthmatic forty three year old father of six eric garner died after an officer called while being detained for allegedly selling bootleg cigarettes and this is also. a moment that we know witnesses say this actually occurred because eric garner broke up a fight on the street if you think. being in
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a video has gone viral the man audibly says i can't breathe at least ten times the choke hold that put on eric garner has been outlawed banned by the n.y.p.d. for twenty. but there have been one thousand complaints. several investigations into the cause of gardner's death are currently ongoing while the local community demands justice calling what happened an execution long time anti police brutality activist who claims chokeholds are much more common than the public is aware of despite being a legal this is something that is there within the code of the police department is like a trademark for them to do that is to go in somebody down and bring in their logs from the city civilian complete review board which investigates allegations of police abuse show chokehold complaints are growing two hundred thirty three allegations involving chokeholds were recorded last year alone even after the public outreach caused by eric garners death another chokehold incident took place
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just days later as a twenty two year old was being detained for reportedly not paying a subway fare the chill cold was initially banned in new york two decades ago but shortly after and the tourist petty ultra cation led to it being used. a police officer choked. in one thousand nine hundred ninety four he choked him because his football here. the officer involved. it was imprisoned for seven years oh really i go there go across the country the practice of chokehold has gone through different stages of acceptability probably a little over thirty years ago. police agencies started bearing the restraint or at least moving higher. so that they were right up there with deadly force when it shouldn't this retired l.a.p.d. captain says today about half of the agencies in the us still allow the use of
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so-called neck restraint holds where it is is a carotid where. the azzurri is there are. two. sides not the front of the side in order to put pressure on the rod and arteries and base of. supporters of the practice states not deadly if used correctly and that the alternatives to the choke hold like night sticks are more dangerous causing graver injuries both to police and those being detained because a very garners death following the choke hold is officially got to be determined officials have promised that they can wipe out the will undergo retraining and a forum you detention practices still police brutality is a contentious topic in new york given that the perpetrators often seem to go unpunished there for local and long time after that largely was just the place if
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you're going to parties. and breaking update to our story on the deportation of journalist graham phillips from ukraine i'm joined now by the man himself he's in poland graham thank you so much for coming on the program and first let me just say that i'm so glad that you're ok and you're safe. but take us back to the beginning of all of this a lot of people are confused on the details where were you and what were you doing when you were detained. well i just got back to record a new craze you know it was well wasn't deployed in may i was taken into captivity by ukrainian military asked to leave the country which i agreed on the basis that i could return to record time the future so i went to the work up and was ill and then just returned so i've driven from england across over the nets to continue reporting there two months after so i just arrived in the one dead at a busy first day the second had already been out of the reporting this was at night and i got some information that it was going to be an action about to its internet
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scary course i had in along there was some other journalists to see if i could still not if i could capture what was going on there and i was going to the airport i was getting very close to the airport than actually going to the airport itself over the local journalists from amman news and then we must stop my ukraine soldiers and they took us on the ground guns i had the need the demarcated from a. young guy on our just with a camera and i watched the soldiers get mark when they took him away and i was left with a soldier that didn't believe i was from in england i was telling me that if you didn't check out if i if i wasn't confirm speak from england you would guarantee my my life or my health and then explosions started going off so we were taken into the building blindfolded pushed around a little bit put in a cell with the team and then i was taken the next day to try and tell again ask me questions about well as they call them the terrorist in the next call publicly they have this idea you know these ukrainian soldiers they were speaking to me i was in
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the soldiers' room and they kept telling me you know they were fighting against russians they kept saying you know we're fighting arms telling them that you know you understand that you're not going against russia i'm just coming from the nets these are local people you're fighting against local people and the soldiers had all these ideas they were telling me that you know you were russian spy and he kept saying to me that you entered ukraine through russian territory you didn't come through ukraine you got no passport. from ukraine to tell me all this stuff. i'm thinking more you know what's going on the it's all insinuate i had a gun that they were saying the last time i was found with a gun. telling all these things and so you know trying to get information out of me about the the next republican asked me all these questions i would give them any information saying that i'm not i do a passport stamped i don't have a gun i'm not a russian spy or even a russian from england and then they put me in a room next to where their artillery positions were so that also the members being shelled the rooms. on fire so i was in that room for the day and then
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it took me out of blindfold put me in a military vehicle took me off somewhere that or where it was in the middle of a forest i was on my needs it was monday i was surrounded by soldiers the could be in the barracks somewhere or beds next morning i was taken off by the s.t. you this is the crazy quilt service that's if it's an s.p. you base interrogated more asked me more questions and i took it to kiev and by this time you know what's happened is obviously left a netsky of course on why things back but you know they've taken my car and you criminal tree is taking my car there was no reason it was nearby they could have given it to the other journalists that were with me because i left it there but they took it and they said that you know we look after it but they didn't pay and i was later told that they'd been seen driving around in it so they took my car to take him on to the protest it's the one it was in the car and then in the s.p. you know took my computer and you know i got it back in the white everything every single file my every single file to my computer is gone and then i've been taken
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put in a van i wasn't allowed to sit in my representatives any of the british council i was taken in a van you know initially we were there we were to go that it would be right through ukraine so we saw the border parlance there was given this or this official three years because of what an enemy company that produces material against ukraine stay or i did have a chance to defend myself just read it because it sounds like a van for three days and i want to go to one other thing ill as i understand ukrainian authorities said that they actually didn't have you and that was the latest report we heard can you explain that was that just misreported. same as last time you know there's no control when you quit the last time i was taken by the national guard it with already said that they do not mistake that there are no consequences it's ukraine at the moment it's anarchy no one controls anything all these military units are telling us do whatever they want no reports that everyone equally was complete anarchy everyone do where they want the army taking you in
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africa you know being of the dea this is a young man being a mark for no reason taking my car but i want files and bally for the country because of what a company a legitimate news company i did even the chance to defend i'm a journalist they kept saying you know you're a terrorist all these things it's completely untrue that if kicked me over the world i'm just here trying to get my bearings where i am and try to kind of piece together what's happened after three days that you know obviously you come out the other end and you try to work out what you've got and what's gone the i account what has come on my facebook account of a contact their accounts been hacked so they've been communicating to my accounts as me so you know the whole i can imagine you know all of this they are trying to digest rain now it's all happen so recently and i wanted to get your thoughts on the fact that you've been deported at least for three years what's your reaction to that is there anything that you can do to fight that that that ruling at this point
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will you know have come out and obviously that have seen in the news that the ukrainian government has fallen apart with the coalition has collapsed so you know they were saying to me the s.b.u. said to me that you can appeal this when there's a new power but there is no power and ukraine is in a state of chaos is in a state of anarchy it's in a state of collapse so you lose that by me three years but who knows if that's even been registered or process because ukraine as we know it changes and it collapses every single day just for the state of anarchy professionally that's the position but what we've got is you know i'm not even sure what ukraine is anymore because they were telling me the next care what that dinette because ukraine but you know i was at that place for the referendum in the ganske i remember mariupol all the stars the people vote. to be a thomas vova federalization so what even ukraine is anymore is another question itself but as for the mobile way over is i'm not any part of it because i've been deployed and as i said the border is an attack it's a persecution of right and this is a country which says it wants to be in europe was a doing is oppressing the rights of journalists it's persecuting freedom of speech
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and is in the case of the deed being not a man's young guys we're just out trying to do some reporting and that's all it is if you don't report you can in propaganda you're accused of being the enemy you be an op you take out the country you have your things taken from europe and that is ukraine as it is today now in poland and it's weird to think that this is the neighboring country and it's so calm and it's so peaceful and i've just come from ukraine you can't even come from hand the absolute chaos that is in ukraine at the moment so i just got back to work i was just back as you know i'm going to continue to work you know i really feel i've got a job to do there are important job but i defended my record and my of my journalism and i defended our tears a channel that's provided objective consistent clearly coverage of ukraine but all is now is if you're not producing and promoting a perpetuating equally position that's it if you use as an enemy or good just as these you can soldiers think that they're fighting against russians when ashley they're fighting against their own people that is ukraine and as as it is today and
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i'm you know the other side i'm kind of piecing myself together but i just want to i want to get back to work in america do you have any i don't have you back stats at this point i mean what would you like to do right now. i just don't know your the i'm not even sure the name of the turn i'm trying to kind of i'm trying to kind of get there and just look through my belongings and see what go and what's to be returned to what hasn't tried to get more on facebook account to get my records act or account back you know contacts people had a lot of messages a lot messages of support i really appreciate it. so much account in accounting and so you know i'm grateful and it really means it means i will we we have been following your case for the last three days and sense of really were so glad like i said earlier that you are ok and safe and that's the most important thing and thank you so much for joining us to really debrief and so on that experience the release that he's ok so thanks very much it's been great we've heard that and that's also
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really good news ok freelance journalist graham phillips thanks so much for joining us thanks very much and that does it for now i'm a mirror david have a great weekend. so you like me what's your comedy news and some. comedy news to be a bear for us to no holds barred fight to the dead. empire fighting into the next in the corporate elites the billionaire freaks well they're going. to that's what you get with my news show projected tonight.
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governments are up to no good they're plotting terrible things generally for the gain of the ruling class not even for the betterment of their own citizens right now there's a hell of a lot of plotting and lying flying around all over the globe but it's nothing new because it's been going on since the dawn of man and it certainly was going on in the one nine hundred fifty s. when the us plotted to nuke the mood for real listen to that back then two political races were going on between the us and the u.s.s.r. the space race and the nuclear raised one to throttle humanity forward and one to a blow it out of existence gotta love it after the development of the first nuclear warheads in the one nine hundred forty s. the us spent almost nineteen trillion dollars to produce about seventy thousand nuclear missiles according to the n.r.d.c.
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people embrace to be atomic they thought we never ever need another weapon again and we found this great news source of clean energy the us was feeling good about its position in the nuclear race. but it wasn't feeling so hot about the space race one nine hundred fifty seven the soviets successfully launched sputnik one the u.s. wanted to restore american faith in our ability to win the space race so they came up with a project titled a study of lunar research flights or project a one nineteen it was a top secret plan to nuke the mood that they wanted to cause an explosion so big to be visible from earth to both boost american confidence and show the soviets what big muscle we had. we're now physicist leonard rifle headed the project and carl sagan was also brought in to work on it in an interview with c.n.n. decades later rifle said motivation for the project which threefold scientific military and political the plan was to detonate and nuke on the dark side of the
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moon which would create a dust cloud that would be lit by the sun making it a visible from earth where americans would i guess be sitting on the lawn chairs watching and cheering go usa or something like that obviously never happened in the mid sixty's project files disappeared from the pentagon and the government tried to cover it all up even after carl sagan accidentally revealed details years later project a one nineteen was just one of many crazy plans devised by many governments that despite logic and are covered up expertly for years make no mistake the same crap is going on today and it's being covered up just as well for the next time you're under a night sky and here's someone blindly trusting their government maybe pulling up to the moon and tell them the story.

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