they put a gun to my head british reporter graham phillips gives r.t. a firsthand account of his capture and interrogation by ukraine she curates the forces. human rights watch says the ukrainian military could have committed war crimes by killing civilians with unguided rockets and. israel and hamas temporarily lay down arms for a twelve hour humanitarian tracing strikes kill a family just minutes before the polls began bringing the total palestinian death toll to almost nine hundred.

coming to you live from moscow 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 dumb or even exactly sure i might just go for the border by this quite recently so i'm just kind of get my bearings place thought i'd die three days ago i went to film air or at night you told me not to go in strong terms but i went anyway with a local journalist a demon and we were taken by ukrainian soldiers and i was prepared to be the democracy front of me also i'm getting pretty severely beaten by soldiers on the ground his head in the ground just a young guy and we're punching and kicking and then you took him away and then i

was left with a soldier that had a gun in my heads i was telling me that if my details didn't check out that it wouldn't guarantee that i was going to that i was going to leave they've just wanted to film you know and i had a press vest or move on and it's just cameras a pretty he is the soldiers are taken with him off the moms left with the song seemed. pretty intent on doing some damage but luckily they kind of go into action situation that 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 need to call my things out with that they went and found my car which was nearby i'm going through all my things and asking lots of questions about that i would give answers or give any confidential information and put me in a cell with the team we spent the night in a cell together we you know we had done the war we know toilet in a in

a dark cell mr pitch black can see a thing and then the next day they dragged me out the left the now 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 gay for i don't know i was there you know for the day and and then again. the day they put me in a military vehicle i could only blindfold me again i was blindfolded for a long time to be in a military vehicle and took me off i don't know what 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. protest the next day the s.b.u. the security service. security service to me and i just had my bags a few bags and it took me off as a persian again they ask 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 don't. go well 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 will let me take your take a copy of it just said the work forty it's the enemy of your band deployed a band for the frame three as i was going to chance to defend myself on just take the board out kicked over the other basically and then you know here i am with so all of the things that i have tried to kind of piece my own life but together well ukraine security services have confirmed that graeme phillips had been detained for questioning they said and i quote he's been forcibly removed beyond the bands of ukraine for three years in the interest of national security cell phone take and territorial integrity but here's what can security forces said when graham's whereabouts. i know he's been taken hostage there's no information orders

were boats were there is a bounty hunters heard the ukrainian military don't apprehend journalists. for sure what is graeme told us his life was threatened his part of the video he uploaded to youtube but the recording obvious conversation apparently with the ukrainian security officer. so yes because our little club is anglo use those political terms night into this new years if you would in one year would you vote will carry me really. real to them with. their mug more because i thought the whole thing you. have to think of it only you could put in the four you probably knew dr if you can get it going you. know you got over it and he put you to do anything that would be worth and who do you. still believe was in the who and what is the role within the family new.

ordering white attention to events in eastern ukraine is just one of the reasons why graham phillips was detained that is according to legal expert alexander mccord yes first question that he was working for out the energies are a russian television station secondly that he was broadcasting 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 or graeme 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 enjoy and follow his twitter feed for more details of his experiences. ukrainian media reporting that a team of forty dutch police and investigators has arrived in eastern ukraine they are there to secure the scene of the malaysian airliner crash and search for the remains of victims amid the outpouring of grief for the two hundred ninety eight people killed the crash of m.h. seventeen has sparked a storm of speculation kiev and the u.s. blame ukraine's anti-government forces he they were aided by russia moscow strongly denies any involvement and has called for an independent international investigation it says radar data shows a ukrainian fighter jet may have been next to the airliner prior to it coming down meanwhile experts in the u.k. are working with the flight data recorders. you can find more about the tragic flight m.h. seventeen and the controversy surrounding it online at r.t.

dot com. meanwhile the ukrainian military has killed at least sixteen civilians with unguided grad rockets and that could amount to war crimes that is according to human rights watch which documented for me style attacks on the opposition held city of donetsk. the group warns the grad system is too an accurate 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 international treaties one of the authors of the report says the ukrainian military should be called to account for the 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 proceedings for the injured and killed and that's what we saw in the district that civilians were being killed by these kinds of rockets we 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 the 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 donetsk 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 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. our evidence is quite clear and the creating government should investigate and should immediately stop the use of these weapons in populated areas while the resistance hub of the nets in eastern ukraine has enjoyed another night of shelling these are the latest pictures from the city apparently showing the bombardment local say pro-government forces have used multiple rocket launches but there's been no proof sorry no reports of casualties so far meanwhile morale in ukraine's army appears to be falling soldiers wounded on the front lines say that commanders a forgotten about them is remand corsa death reports. dozens of wounded military

were able to get out from encircled mines by and forces the soldiers claim that high ranking officers read it comes to the front line and if they do they tried to leave as soon as possible. you know the. ones who was. you know who are the fall of. the issue in the fall of the if you. look through both. 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 another mobilization a round of its citizens into the active armed forces the money stream to finance all that still seems to be dry announced he won't have the money to pay for military operations up the oldest before the army needs around seven hundred

seventy five million dollars with just two weeks 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 gets roman koester of artsy don't ask ukraine well i call authorities say fifteen civilians were killed and up to sixteen just in the government shelling of the second resistance hub and against and amid the violence tens of five mins of people have been filling the region according to the united nations the number of refugees is double cinching but is she can report not everyone believes the numbers. the un says two hundred fifty thousand ukrainians have left their homes in eastern ukraine since the fighting began that's a department had doubted the sources of the un's previous reports on ukrainian refugees and many ethnic 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 have reported any large outflows of refugees to russia but now we do colleges possibly for the first time that there is a. many terror in crisis inside ukraine i can't confirm those numbers i 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's a humanitarian crisis here in the city for whom 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 from russian territory is hitting the military is going in yet even at your immediate military outpost but you are convinced you see no indication she's no indication that the opposite is true that ukrainians are sending occur while the u.s. the 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. because of bashing the taxi. come up the moment. and all seized it was just. that it was just a little bit about how much you know the people that i wish to be welcoming. to are still. 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 allegations without backing them up with substantial evidence here's what she said it's not and i don't deny it was a. comment that. it's not a question. it's a question of whether you can do your 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 for 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's word for it the media is generally slanted against russia. so to come on the program big brother likes your status update the u.s. government reportedly honeys relations with experiments on facebook and other social media we got the details in a couple of things. we chase profits very large very attractive and now very globally recognized source of oil for the world into the future the world's cheapest and best petroleum deposits have been mined out we have to use more energy to get this energy

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a man 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 held the slip joins us now from jerusalem paula we are four hours into this cease fire how you how is it holding up. well prior to the ceasefire there was heavy fighting in gaza overnight friday into the early hours of saturday morning and just before the cease fire came into effect eighteen members of one family were killed by israeli shelling there were also rockets fired at israel there have been sirens sounding in the south and central of the country but since the truce has become effective there does seem to be in hostilities it is of course difficult to tell whether we're not fighting has indeed stopped in all parts of gaza city in the moments immediately following the start of

this truce hundreds of gazans poured into the streets they have been lining up in front of shops and banks and a.t.m.'s withdrawing cash and stock piling on food and other emergency supplies are certainly the the fear on the ground is that hostilities in this israeli ground operation will continue and continue for some time to come the agreement from the israeli side is that for the next twelve hours its soldiers will remain inside gaza they will continue looking for tunnels but that they will not explode them and israel will hold its fly a this is a human growth could humanitarian truce the idea is to allow u.n. aid workers in and out of gaza they are bringing with them emergency supplies such as medicines for the hospitals that have practically run out it is also an opportunity to evacuate the injured and it's also a chance for people to believe they did all that we know this existing cease fire is fraud job one of the hopes for a long long term ceasefire. well

in place right now is this twelve hour humanitarian ceasefire and there is talk of a seven day cease fire this is something that has been put forward by the u.s. secretary of state john kerry that israel has already rejected that proposal in its current form what her must once is a total listing of israel's siege on gaza that has been in place for the past eight years and israel rejects this all right it says it can be no preconditions a must also wants to see people who were recently listed released and also wants to see fishing rights to people using the waters off gaza extended what the israelis one for their side if indeed this weeklong cease fire is to be implemented is that its soldiers will remain inside gaza now the u.s. secretary of state was in cairo on friday that was where the first version of this seven day cease fire was hammered out as i mentioned israel has rejected it there is going to be a meeting later on saturday in paris it will be attended by the foreign ministers

of turkey and qatar who support a mass and a high level political delegation from both france and far. from the u.k. now that is a meeting that is being brokered by the u.s. secretary of state it's difficult at this stage and questionable whether or not something will come out of it but if indeed something happens that will be the next step but i must mention that aside from all of this kind of diplomatic flurry that is happening the tensions on the ground are extremely high and the situation continues to skyrocket. ok thank you paul of its artie's policy live from jerusalem . we are spoke with palestinian politician and activist mr t. 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 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 and while demanding that palestinians have no right to desist occupation this is unacceptable to me and should be as he's fired about also that should be a lifting of the sea so in. it 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 before apartheid and discrimination and segregation that is much worse one what than what prevailed in south africa. while the israeli offensive on gaza has maybe on your could stay even more resonant this year millions of muslims worldwide express their solidarity with the plight of the palestinian people protesters in toronto chanted and. the flag the iranian president attending

a rally in the capital similar pouring skein from india iranis were held in several european countries in berlin police had to step in to prevent clashes between rival cracks that while in spain people on the streets demanded a halt to the killing in gaza for you both spoke to some of the protestors there. is the arabic word for terrorists i mean this is actually and i knew a very polished thing in event agonizes over this protest say that public opinion and hypothesizing in community has been galvanized by that increasing civilian death toll in gaza and you get a picture just laughing at the banners the chanting and the c.s. people rooting for essential lines and making their way towards the american embassy and 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 give them a structural support to my my fibro in paris originally kicked out in nineteen forty eight out there and my mom's family must could and. this course is not just important to me because i am palestinian it's important to me because it's blatant ok patient it's it's blatant oppression and it's it's our duty to do what little we can't just do and this what they're doing. innocent children bombing indiscriminately not a proportionate afraid you have to know they are just a moron to themselves of what i just was not doing 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 it's being children die dying god being floor to cut in pieces and we're sitting here in come to our homes this is by no means the only rallied to take place in london a force of the conflict just several days ago i viewed from israeli much fault the

center of the capital where there were several thousand people gathered as well but in such a multicultural multi-religious acted so city this is a conflict that is touching people polarizing opinion and raising tensions who can see by the way the crowd the huge amount of people that have gathered where that london is very much i think said by the bloodshed that's taken place in the middle east reporting runs out that really broke a. bunch of stories online for you to the moment including biting the bullet americans go on a shopping spree for the a k forty seven over fears you could soon struggle to get one in the u.s. you can find that story at r.t. dot com also. an iraqi shrine revered by both christians and muslims has been reduced to rubble by the islamic state jihadi street after they filled the ancient monument with explosives

to head online the full video and background to that story. i previously watchdogs are in uproar over claims 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 is marína portnoy reports washington does have an appetite for this kind of research when the world's largest social media platform be trees its user. there is going to be outrage in the 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 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 the initiative 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 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 because this account it's been treating me using my probably all of your colleagues trying to get you guys interested in this link according to the guardian some of the d.o.d. funded research monitored and analog. it's 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 the newbie leaving messages is quickly growing into a valuable tool of the u.s. military very important i.r.t. new york. boom bust is next here not in looks at why facebook shares have hit a record high and if you're watching us in the u.k. it's time for us but nick and george galloway.

in florida the debate over whether illegal immigrants should be able to get driver's licenses is heating up one group called the living with angels says that they should be allowed behind the wheel to support this view they use a classic argument that comes up a lot in the media they say that not a lot of people for it are legal so if you're not legal you can't have a driver's license what's with that this is like when people say well we should legalize drugs because people use them anyway or we should legalize prostitution because people will do it anyway so such i think they mean that it's everyone comes here illegally anyways we may as well let them drive so if enough people do something we currently consider illegal does that make it ok maybe sometimes but in

the case of illegal immigration rolling out the red carpet for people to come to our nation illegally just empowers more people to come and it certainly spits in the face of locals and legal immigrants who do obey the rules of bureaucracy so here i would say no driver's licenses for illegals in florida yeah there might be millions of them in the usa but that doesn't justify society bending over to make their lives comfortable if you want to drive in america be born american or become one the legal way but that's just. my opinion. live. live there's no illusion there were no way over. good. luck.