i was. deported i'm barred for three years british reporter graham phillips gives r.t. a firsthand account of his capture and interrogation by ukraine's security forces. human rights watch says the ukrainian military could have committed war crimes by killing civilians with unguided rockets. and israel and hamas agreed to a twelve hour humanitarian truce in garza an airstrike on friday killed dozens bringing the total palestinian death toll to around eight hundred and seventy eight .

i welcome you with r.t. international now british journalist graeme phillips who's been reporting for r.t. from eastern ukraine has been released by the country's security services he told us what happened when he went missing in the region on wednesday. i mean poland i'm not even exactly sure i might just go through the border by this quite recently so i'm just kind of get my bearings waste i die three days ago i went to film or at night you told me not to go in strong terms but i went anyway with the local journalist the diem and we were taken by ukrainian soldiers and i was prepared to be the mark of front of me also and getting pretty severely beaten by clean soldiers on the ground his head of the ground just a young guy and they were punching and kicking him and then you took him away and then i was left with a soldier that had

a gun to my heads was telling me that if my details didn't check out that it wouldn't guarantee that i was going to i was going to leave they've just wanted to film you know and why the press best all move and just cameras. he had the soldiers to take to get him off the noms left with this soldier that seemed. pretty intent on doing some damage but luckily they never kind of go into action situation it was shelling a day so rushed me into the building i was blindfolded and i was sort of kind of pushed around a little bit and kind of sat down and then interrogated us a lot of questions about the next group public and it took all my things out of every way and my car which was parked nearby i'm going to all my things and asking lots of questions about that i would give answers or give any confidential information any real sail with the team we spent the night in a cell together we you know we had the war we know toilet in a in a dark cell mr. can see as they were and then the next day they dragged me out of

the left. and then i asked if i was going to answer more questions and i said i wouldn't so you put me in a room next to their artillery position where they were firing so when they started firing pretty heavily from the extremes of the rebel i was in i was a fired on and i was there you know for the day and and then again. the day they put me in a military vehicle i don't lie i'm told me again i was blindfolded for a long time to see the military vehicle not i didn't know it was a base somewhere in a forest and i was on my knees in the forest the soldiers around me shouting at me . and i did in my car that you know to check my car. best the next day the s.b.u. the security service ukrainian security service to me and i just had my bags a few bags and he took me off his approach and again they asked for you ask you a question this is a great security service and i was put in another car taken to kiev and then today put in a band and then take it to the window all of that just dance out. things if you buy

things but i find all my talents in. a band that really isn't the reason they go it's that recently that i was forty that was all it said in the form it would let me take you or take a copy of it just said that you worked forty enemy and your band deployed bands illustrating to three years i was going to chance to defend myself on just take the word out kicked over the other basically and then you know here i am with some of the things i have tried to kind of piece my own life but together. by ukraine's security services have confirmed that graeme phillips had been detained for questioning and they said and i quote he's been forcibly removed beyond the bounds of ukraine for three years in the interests of national security sovereignty and territorial integrity but his what kiev security forces said when graham's whereabouts was still. i know he's been taken hostage there's no information orders were boats or whether there was

a brown two hundred heard the ukrainian military don't journalists. but his crime told us his life was threatened in his part of a video he uploaded to youtube with a recording of his conversation apparently with the ukrainian security officer. so yes because our little club designed. into this new viewers if you were just in one year what you. really don't know we'll. reveal. more than just the record what you needed. to be a pretty good you know what you thought when you drive it you seem to think you're . going to get over eating what you did your eating but it wasn't me who she did fly but i still believe in the real reason is that in the film we need more ample. drawing wide attention to events in eastern

ukraine is just one of the reasons why graham phillips was detained say says legal experts alexander we chorused. first question that he was working for r.t. and it is a russian television station secondly that he was broadcast in english and so it was attracting an english speaking audience and thirty if i may say so because mr phillips is a very good journalist and was broadcasting things that the ukrainian authorities don't want the world to see and he was doing that as i said in english and that was obviously unacceptable to them so presumably they will be treating our journalists who work for other russian television stations or news media organizations in the same way i find it actually very worrying. for graham has been posting online about his treatment at the hands of ukraine security forces and he spared no details on

what he and his fellow journalists had to endure do follow his twitter feed for more details of his experiences. craney military has killed at least sixteen civilians with unguided grad rockets and that could amount to war crimes that's according to human rights watch which documented formis are attacks on the opposition held city of donetsk the group warns the grand system is too inaccurate to be used on populated areas human rights watch is calling on both sides of the conflict to stop using this kind of weapon system if they want to save civilian lives one of the authors of the report says the trainee military should be called to account for killing civilians. neither side really seems to take enough precautions to make sure that civilians are not killed or injured and when you use these kinds of weapons in populated areas it's a really high risk receiving in street injured and killed and that's what we saw in

the pitofsky district that civilians were being killed by these kinds of rockets you were able to buy in looking at the creator's looking at the direction from where the rockets were coming from looking at the. walls that were hit by these rockets so if it's if the rocket hits the western wall of a building it's coming from the west by doing that we were being we were able to establish where the attacks were coming from in for attacks they were coming from areas under the control of the ukrainian army so in four of these attacks in the nets which killed sixteen civilians we believe that the ukrainian army was responsible for those attacks we are calling it human rights which is calling on both the ukrainian government and on separatist forces to immediately stop using grad rockets these kinds of indiscriminate weapons in populated areas and the ukrainian government should also investigate these cases where there are where

there is reason to believe that ukrainian government forces were responsible for for the killing of civilians and both sides are denying the use of granite weapons or the use of at least the use of grad weapons in populated areas. that are evidence is quite clear and the ukrainian government should investigate and should immediately stop the use of these weapons in populated areas. the resistance hub of the net in eastern ukraine has enjoyed another night of shelling hand amid the violence more people have been fleeing the region the latest u.n. report puts the number of refugees two hundred fifty thousand people however as you can report not everyone is convinced by the shocking numbers. the u.n. says two hundred fifty thousand ukrainians have left their homes in eastern ukraine since the fighting began say department had doubted the sources of the un's previous reports on ukrainian refugees many russians from ukraine have family in

russia some may be staying with them but neither ukrainian border guards or nor international organizations operating in the area ever boarded any large outflows of refugees to russia but now we do colleges possibly for the first time that there is a humanitarian crisis inside ukraine i can't confirm those numbers and quite frankly haven't seen that from a u.n. report so i'm happy to fact check that for you and see if we can confirm what we think the numbers are we know there is a humanitarian crisis here at the same department believes ukrainian military posts came under fire from the russian territory the spokesperson did not go into detail of where such information comes from you are in that artillery russian territory the military is going into a not your immediate military outpost but you are convinced you see no indication she's no indication that the opposite is true that ukrainians are still incurring while the u.s. state department says no indication that the washington area comes on the fire from

witnesses who live near the border inside russia offer a different perspective. because of bashing the taxi. the moment. and all serious there was. no doubt the people there are going to be looking. just as. the u.s. is now saying that russia prepares to send powerful missile launchers into ukraine but again does not specify what evidence such allegation is based on i can underline the information that had led to that assessment and we don't have specifics about what those systems might look like to outline when pressed on how officials can put out such allegation. without backing them up with substantial evidence here's what she said it's not and i don't deny that i question her and i don't what i think might have more you know shit it's not a question of me if trust it's a question of whether you can back your you know we've put out

a plane isn't to new to put out information that we will continue to do so and it's difficult and we're happy to put out as much as we can all that appears for the state department is not so much about evidence but about trust but the fact of the matter is many journalists here don't take the official word for it and the media is generally slanted against russia. meanwhile morale in ukraine's army appears to be you so which is wounded on the front line side that commanders have forgotten about them is their online course the ref reports dozens of wounded minutes or you were able to get out from encircled ones by and forces the soldiers claim that high ranking officers read it come to the front line and if they do they tried to leave as soon as possible preferably before dark so i did go to the. root of the ones who was. you know who are the fault of.

the folks who would you come to both the millions of dollars have already been spent by kiev and it's punitive action against those they call terrorists now while the countries and leadership they had ordered yes and another mobilization a round of its citizens into active armed forces the money stream to finance all of that still seems to be drying out he won't have the money to pay for a military operation after all because of the force of the army needs around seven hundred seventy five million dollars with just a week left before the first of august ski of the scrambling for support all that said punitive action in the east of the country but morale of the soldiers on the grounds and the collapsing parliament could become a barrier for their peroration star get him on costs or have artsy done s.q. crane. still to come big brother likes your status update the us gov portably hines's manipulation skills with experiments on facebook and other social media

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tells restriction. if you. really know what's inside that feeling. again welcome back now israel and hamas have agreed to a humanitarian tracing gaza to allow aid supplies in and to recover the dead and wounded it is supposed to last twelve hours previous pauses in fighting have ended prematurely with both sides blaming each other for opening fire porous layer joins me now from jerusalem paula the twelve hour truce is officially back to start but can we expect both sides to stick to it this time. when as you see this twelve hour

troops has officially actually started it is an opportunity for humanitarian aid to get into gaza aid workers have been struggling to do this for several days now it is a chance for both sides to have it they were injured and they faded out of the standing is that during this truce these really defense forces will remain cool side gaza and continue to locate tunnels as indeed they have been doing ever since they launched the fence or is that they will not use explosives to to destroy those tunnels anyway and the israeli army will fall to its fire the idea is that this twelve hour truce a seven day truce that is the proposal that is on the the on. right now and that during this week both sides will have a chance to assess each of these demands if indeed this seven day truce goes into effect it will begin on sunday at this stage and nine decide has agreed to it one

of the major disagreements is that israel wants to be even soldiers inside gaza the hamas is not agreed to this and must for its side is insisting that they all know that fishing lines in gaza be extended and that at the same time it's prisoners that are being held in israeli jails will rearrested be released in this long saying well this is just too many preconditions for it to be too for any kind of movement to be made so at the moment paula would you say there's any long term hope for a solution to this conflict. let the moment it certainly doesn't seem as if private side is willing to budge anything to get willing to budge we're talking about temporary cease fires twelve days in seven days where them or not this can material not into the not so troops so getting on the ground is quite pessimistic at the moment the israeli cabinet is still to decide whether or not they were in accept this similar to a cease fire that is being put forward by the united states the year of secretary of state john kerry was in cairo on friday we meet with the chief banking move as

well as the arab league say it could be in and out of the later today they will be meeting in paris between kerry and the foreign ministers of qatar and turkey who support hamas and on the other side the group behind me who delegations from both britain and hans and this will spark a new round of international efforts to try and jumpstart the stalled negotiations and to bring the needed to this is made gaza confrontation but it is worth mentioning that all previous cease fires have been broken as these diplomatic efforts are happening violence on the ground is skyrocketing certainly what international leaders are seeking is some kind of holes in the fighting that ultimately they hope will lead to a more long term since and thanks paula that's. a live from jerusalem we earlier spoke with a palestinian politician and activist mr t.

and he believes israel should be held responsible for the ongoing conflict. the first people who are for the cease fire were the palestinians and we are the united nations security council to issue a cease fire. resolution it was to block the united states and the united nations security council twice then there's a very low wanted to impose its own conditions by. having a cease fire while keeping the siege on gaza while keeping their troops inside while demanding that palestinians have no right to desist occupation this is unacceptable to me and that should be a cease fire but also that should be a lifting of the sea so in reality what you see here is a struggle of people who are fighting for their freedom from military occupation but has become the longest in modern history from a system of apartheid and discrimination and segregation that is much worse than

what prevailed in south africa. is really offensive on gaza has maybe on you. even more resonant this year millions of muslims worldwide expressed solidarity with the plight of the palestinian people protesters in toronto chanted anti israel and the flag with iranian president attending a rally in the capital similar kind from india and rallies were held in several european countries to. police had to step in to prevent clashes between rival crimes while in spain people on the streets demanded a halt to the killings. in london spoke to some of the protesters that. the arabic what motorists and i mean this is actually and i knew it cried palestinian and then again i don't this protest say that public opinion and the thing in 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 of people rooting for sanctions. and then making their way towards the american embassy you get a picture of just how strong the palestinian community is that we're here to fight against israel to get the word across that palestinians are the ones are victims they're not pursing they're being oppressed so we're trying to get the mistrust our support to them my my fibro parents originally kicked out in one nine hundred forty eight out their homeland my mom's family must hurt and. and this course is not just important to me because i am palestinian it's important to me because it's blatant occupation it's it's blatant oppression and it's it's our duty to do what little we can just when this what they're doing women are innocent children bombing indiscriminately not proportional for you know so they are just a moron to themselves of little dishes but do everything to stop them i think

atrocious i think it's disgusting that in this day and age we are living in a place where we seeing children die dying of being snorted cut in pieces and we're sitting here and come to our homes this is by no means the only rallied to take place in london a because of the conflict just several days ago. from israeli much walked around the center of the capital where that was several thousand people gathered as well but in such a multicultural multi-religious it's a city this is a conflict that is touching people oh no izing opinions and raising tensions we can see by the crowds at the huge amounts of people that have gathered here that london is very much i think said by the bloodshed that's taken place in the middle of course in ruins and i really woke up. a quick look now at some other world news the french president has announced there were no survivors from the jet that crashed in

mali contact with the plane was lost after request to change course due to a severe sandstorm. nearly half of one hundred sixteen people on board were french at least fifteen people have been killed in a militant assault in northern afghanistan according to officials the attackers stopped too many buses and shot the passengers dead no one has claimed responsibility for the shooting but the taliban is known to be active in the area a man has died from an evo infection in the nigerian capital lagos it is the first conversion case of the deadly fever in africa's most populous nation the latest outbreak begat began in guinea in february later spreading to liberia and sierra leone claiming at least six hundred sixty lives no cure or vaccine for the virus exists previously watchdogs are in uproar following revelations the u.s. government may have been behind the recent facebook experiment the social media site try to manipulate the emotions of users by showing them different news feeds and

this marina portnoy reports washington has an appetite for this kind of research. when the world's largest social media platform betrays its users there's going to be outrage will study to see whether facebook could influence the emotional state of its users on that news feed it allowed researchers to manipulate almost seven hundred thousand users newsfeeds some saw more positive news about their friends others saw a more negative bomb not surprised i mean we're all kind of lab rats in the big facebook experiment but it wasn't only facebook's experiment turns out the psychological study was connected to the u.s. government's research on social unrest this is really kind of creepy shit here and it gets worse what you may not know is that the u.s. department of defense has reportedly spent roughly twenty million dollars conducting studies aimed at learning how to manipulate online behavior in order to influence opinion a mission it was launched in two thousand and eleven by the pentagon's defense

advanced research projects agency otherwise known as darpa the program is best described as the u.s. media's effort to become better at detecting and conducting propaganda campaigns via social media translation when anti-government messages gain ground virally washington wants to find a way to spread counter opinion they want to dominate what they call the information battle space. so what they're looking at is developing methods into techniques in order to do that and it gets very scary from the standpoint of where our rights can be violated and you know not knowing whether we're receiving accurate information security and privacy researcher kevin gallagher says one way the u.s. government can spread misinformation is through fake bots on twitter you're followed by a lot of these accounts to. having really set up their profiles apparently i have a bit of a fake following look at this account it's been treating me using my probably all

of your colleagues trying to get you guys interested in this link. into the guardian some of the d.o.d. funded research monitored and analyzed the twitter feeds of occupy activists and reportedly went so far as to message on winning social media users in order to track and study how they responded in an era of mass information critics say that manipulating messages is quickly growing into of valuable tool of the u.s. military here in a port ny r.t. new york. city is coming up tough hostile pair moscow going bust is coming your way next but if you're watching us in the u.k. it's going underground with action returns. the money is the root of all easy pickens and money is the root of all crashes or once every dumb dumb ass but to what fool is one to so.

what i think the error is happening in the west is that people essentially believing in this world when they believe that you know that me to. hear them talk to them. they simply don't realize when propaganda is being parts of down we need to go by beyond that and actually gauge with the ideas information that is presented as well and confront that information and i think that's something that as you mentioned before not everything is black and white not everything isn't taken istic and the more that we can be i guess an open open minded con a source of information regardless of the source i think we're all going to be. your friend post a photo from a vacation you can't afford college it's different. your boss

repeats the same old joke of course you like. your ex-girlfriend still pins tear jerking poetry. norrish. we post only what really matters at r.t. to your facebook news feed. there i marinate this is boston these are some of the stories that we're tracking for you today. first up the rupert murdoch is consolidating his european pay t.v. assets in the hopes of coming up with enough cash to buy time warner and we'll look into what this means for the european media industry coming right up then we'll bring you part two of my interview with dr stephen hankie now some voices in the u.s. want to block russia from using u.s. dollar clearing facilities and steve is telling us what effect that could have on

the dollar and it's the end of the week which means it's viewer feedback day here on boom bust edward harrison i address your questions comments concerns are live on the show you won't want to miss the moment when it all starts right. now and. rupert murdoch wants time warner and he's selling off assets to get it friday twenty first century fox said that it was selling its italian and german paid television assets to british sky broadcasting better known as b. sky b. which is by the way thirty nine percent owned by fox for more than nine billion dollars now this is.