when it takes two tons of stuff to make one barrel. the bottles are. enough for a. child. british reporter graeme phillips gives a firsthand account of his capture and interrogation by a crane she curity forces after his deported i'm barred from the country for three years. human rights watch says the ukrainian military could have committed war crimes by killing civilians with unguided rockets plus. israel and hamas temporarily lay down arms for a twelve humanitarian truce. strikes kill a family just minutes before the polls began bringing the total palestinian death to almost nine hundred.

and you watching international 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 placed i die three days ago i went to film or 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 i saw him getting pretty severely beaten by soldiers on the ground his head in 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 you i was going to go i was going to leave they've just wanted to film you know and i had a press pest or move and just cameras save. the soldiers or take a good team off the noms left with this song it seemed. pretty intent on doing some damage but luckily they now 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 without a way into my car which was parked nearby guns all my things and asking me lots of questions that i would give answers or give any confidential information and really sail with the team we spent the night in a cell together we you know we had no war we no toilet in a in

a dark cell mr. can see a thing and then the next day they dragged me out they left the mayor 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 them i was in i was getting 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 be in a military vehicle and took me off i didn't know it was a base somewhere in a forest and i was on my knees in the middle of a forest and there are soldiers around me shouting at me. and i did in my car that you know to take my car. to the best the next day the s.b.u. the security service. 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 weirdo all of that just. got things if you buy things but i find all my talents to be in. a band for three years and the reason they do it so that was simply that i was that was all it said in the form it would let me take your technical people but just said that you work for our team it's the enemy of your band deployed a band to play into three years i was going to chance to defend myself on just taking to the border kicked over the other basically and then you know here i am with some of the things i have trying to kind of piece my own life but together well ukraine's security services have confirmed that graeme phillips had been detained for questioning they said and i quote he's being forcibly removed beyond the bands of ukraine for three years in the interests of national security sovereignty and territorial integrity but here's what kiev security forces said when graham's whereabouts still unknown. i know he's been taken hostage there's no

information orders were boats or whether there is a bounty on his heard the ukrainian military don't. know what is graeme told us his life was threatened and his part of the video here loaded. with a recording of his conversation apparently with the ukrainian security officer so yes because our little club. called into this. if you wouldn't in one year what you've told. me would be gone because we owe it to them we knew. them ordered to evacuate them wanted you to. have put it up if you put in the for you thirdly new guy to keep you and you. going it over and he put you to do anything but. what. do you.

still believe what he told me from the. weltering why detention to events in eastern ukraine is just one of the reasons why graham phillips was detained that according to legal expert alexander mccord yes first question that he was working for ati an eighty's or a russian television station secondly that he was broadcast in english and so 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. graham has been paid. thing online about

his treatment at the hands of ukraine's security forces and he spared no details on what he and his fellow journalists had to ensure you can follow his twitter feed for more details of his experiences. the ukrainian 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 for me side attacks on the opposition held city of donetsk. the group warns the grad 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 the use of unguided rockets has also been labeled a violation of other international treaties one of the authors of the report says the ukrainian 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 he use these kinds of weapons in populated areas it's a really high risk facility instead the 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 by looking at the creators 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 it we were able to establish where the attacks were coming from and in for attacks they were coming from areas under the control of the ukrainian army so in four of these attacks in which killed sixteen civilians we believe that the ukrainian army was responsible for those attacks we are calling a human rights watch 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 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. while the resistance hub of the net in eastern ukraine has enjoyed another night of shelling these are the latest pictures from the city apparently showing the bombardment by government forces have used multiple rocket launches but there's been no reports of casualties so far meanwhile morale in ukraine's army isn't the fulling soldiers

wounded on the front line say that commanders have forgotten about them as their man caused the death reports. dozens of wounded minutes or you were able to get out from encircled mines by and forces the soldiers claim that high ranking officers read accounts the front line and if they do they tried to leave as soon as possible preferably before dark so i did. you know there was a. shot in the fall of the would you. know . millions of dollars have already been spent by kiev on its punitive action against those they call terrorists now while the countries and leadership they had ordered yes and no other mobilization a round of its citizens into active armed forces the money stream to finance all

that still seems to be drying out he won't have the money to pay for a military operation after all this is the first duty of the army navy around seven hundred seventy five million dollars with just a week left before the first of august ski of a 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 operations targets are among koester of artsy donetsk ukraine. meanwhile local authorities say fifteen civilians were killed and up to sixty injured in the government shelling of the second resistance guns and amid the violence tens of thousands of people have been fleeing the region according to the united nations the number of refugees is doubled since june but. not everyone believes the 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 and many russians from ukraine have family in russia and may be staying with them but neither ukrainian border guards or nor international organizations operating in the area have 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 i quite frankly haven't seen that from u.n. reports 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 state 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. that artillery russian territory. military is going in yet even at european military out but you are convinced you see no indication she's no indication that the opposite is true that there's

something occurring while the u.s. state department says no indication that the washington comes on the fire from ukraine witnesses who live near the border inside russia offer a different perspective evidence of bashing the taxi. and all seized it was just. about the most of the people there was to be looking for a new chief justice. 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 allegations without backing them up with substantial evidence here's what she said it's not and i don't deny it was. one of the more you

know it's not a question. it's a question of whether you can you know we've put out a claim isn't when you 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 with the state department it's not so much about evidence but about trust but the fact of the matter is many journalists here do take the official word for it the media is generally slanted against russia. still to come in the program big brother likes your status update the u.s. government reportedly homes its manipulation skills with experiments on facebook and other social media. and a couple of. week it was only for the metro system itself and i. want you to see the true it's good to see. you tell us what you think great.

choose the stories did you. choose. to. one thing air is the last is. essentially leaving in this world when they believe that you know that media. tactic. they simply don't realize when propaganda is the courts and we need to go beyond that and actually gauge with the ideas in the 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 is in taken a stick and the more that we can be i guess an. open minded common source of information regardless of the source i think we're all going to be.

welcome back now humanitarian truce is officially in effect in gaza to allow aid supplies in and to recover the dead and wounded israel and hamas agreed to hold fire for twelve hours but none of the previous pauses in fighting have failed to negotiate a weeklong cease fire a still long. the israeli army continued to pound garza until the last minute before the humanitarian pause took effect on saturday morning medics a tank shelling killed eighteen members of a single palestinian family right before the truce started. israel says its usually humanitarian window to demolish masses underground tunnels strikes killed nearly seventy people in gaza on friday and that's according to the un the total

number of palestinian deaths is now more than eight hundred eighty thirty eight israelis have also been killed in the conflict meanwhile palestinians have been hurling stones and firebombs that israeli place early saturday in the west bank city of bethlehem the clashes left at least five people dead or a slayer brings us more now from jerusalem. the idea is that this twelve hour truce will become a seven day truce that is the proposal that is on the on the cards right now and that during this week both sides will have a chance to cease each instant martens if indeed this seven day truce goes into effect it will begin on sunday at this stage tonight this side has agreed to it one of the major disagreements is that it's not wants to even soldiers inside gaza the hamas does not agree to this and must for its side is insisting its prisoners that are being held in israeli jails we race to be released and it's wrong saying that this is just too many preconditions for two three two for any kind of movement to

be meet it certainly doesn't seem as if private side is willing to wear them or not this can material not since we're not troops serving on the ground is quite pessimistic at the moment the israeli cabinet is still to decide whether or not they were except in the cease fire that is being put forward by the united states the year of secretary of state john kerry who was in cairo on friday really made even chief banking move as well as the arab league say could there be an end of the play to today they will be meeting in paris for two in kerry and the foreign ministers of qatar and turkey who support hamas and the other side they will be fine people delegations from both britain and hans it is worth mentioning that all previous ceasefires have been broken as these diplomatic efforts a happening finance on the ground is skyrocketing certainly what international leaders are seeking is some kind of force in the fighting that ultimately they hope

will lead to a more long term solution. we earlier spoke with a palestinian politician and activist mr guzzi and he believes israel should be held responsible for the ongoing conflict. the first people who are asked for the cease fire were the palestinians and we asked the united nations security council to issue a cease fire. resolution it was israel that blocked the through the united states and the united nations security council twice then israel wanted to impose its own conditions by. by having a ceasefire 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 about 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 that has become the longest in modern history from

a system of apartheid and discrimination and segregation that is much worse one what done what prevailed in south africa it is ready offensive on gaza has ninety and you could. millions of muslims worldwide express their solidarity with the plight of the palestinian people protest isn't around chanted anti israel slogans and the flags the iranian president and being a rally in the capital similar pouring skein from india iranis were held in several european countries too in berlin place had to step in to prevent clashes between rival cries while in spain people on the streets demand the halt to the killing in gaza london spoke to some of the protesters that. i read says the arabic word for jerusalem and this is actually and i knew a pro palestinian event had organized his own this protest say that public opinion in the five 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 rooting for essential lines and making their way towards the american embassy you get a picture of just how strong the problem 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 charming i must rush our support to my my fibro parents originally kicked out 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 remember what they're doing. innocent children bombing indiscriminately not proportionate a fight you know so they are just

a moron to themselves of little dishes but doing everything to stop them i think it looks russian i think it's disgusting that in this day and age we are living in a place where is seeing children die dying. being snorted cut in pieces and we're sitting here in come to our homes this is by no means the only rally to take place in london today but the force of the conflict just several days ago i viewed promus premier watch all experience at the center of the capital where there were several thousand people gathered. in such a multicultural motif were lit yes that's all said see this is a conflict that is touching people coercing opinions and raising tensions conceived by those that sprouted the amount of people that have gathered hair that london is very much at stake said by the bloodshed that's taking place in the middle of the forty one said i really work out. some international news in brief now the french

president has announced there are no survivors from the jet that crashed in mali contact was lost with the plane after request to change course due to a severe sandstorm nearly half of the hundred sixteen people on board were french at least fifteen people have been killed in the militant assault in northern afghanistan according to officials the attackers stopped two mini buses in short 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 ebola infection in the nigerian capital lagos it is the first confirmed case of the deadly fever in africa's most populous nation the latest outbreak began in guinea in february later spreading to liberia and sierra leone claiming at least six hundred sixty lives no cure or vaccine exists for the virus. previously watchdogs are in uproar over claims the u.s. government may have been behind

a recent facebook experiment the social media site try to manipulate the emotions of users by showing them different news feeds news marina porn i 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 and 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 zero 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 new 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 seeing it 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 a valuable tool of the u.s. military very important i.r.t. new york we have plenty of stories online for you too including biting the bullet americans go on a buying frenzy for the a k forty seven over fears you could soon struggle to get one in the u.s. you can find out more about that story at r.t. dot com also there. an iraqi shrine revered by both christians and muslims has been reduced to rubble by

the islamic state jihadi screen part of a filthy ancient monument with explosives had online for the full video background to that story. this month that technology update brings the latest gadgets and scientific advances that's right up to the break here in our international. 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 soldier and 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 the western media which feels justified to push for war with anyone who doesn't adopt western values have themselves completely forgotten just what those values are i thought in the glorious west everyone gets a fair trial with due process evidence and a conviction only after their guilt has been proven beyond a reasonable doubt but when enemies of washington need to be demonized i guess all those principles just fly right out the door but that's just my opinion.

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