issues that no one is there still with the guests that you deserve answers from it's all politics. they put a gun to my head british reporter graeme phillips gives a firsthand account of his capture and interrogation by ukraine's security forces. human rights watch says the trainee 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 truce in gaza airstrikes kill a family just minutes before the polls began bringing the total palestinian death toll to almost nine hundred.

company a with international. british in this graham 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 to the border by this quite recently so i'm just kind of get my bearings based 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 journalists and we were taken by ukrainian soldiers and i was prepared to be the democracy front of me i saw him getting pretty severely beaten by 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 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 best storm of. just cameras. he is the soldiers are taking video of 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 as a lot of questions about the next group public knew to call my things out with that they went and found my car which was parked nearby i'm going to all my things in asking lots of questions about that i would obviously give answers would be very confidential information including the cell with the team we spent the night in a cell together we you know we had the war we know toiler he was printed in a dark cell mr rich can see a thing and then the next day they dragged me out the letter. and then asked if i

was going to answer their questions and i said i wouldn't so you put me in a really next to their artillery position where they were firing so when they started firing pretty heavily from the extremes of the room i was in i was getting five dollars and i was there that over the day. and then i did. the day that we have a military vehicle are going to blindfold me again i want a long form it's a lot of time to get into the trivia court and took me off 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 bulletproof vest 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 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 taken to the window all of that just dumped out. all 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 your second copy of it just said that you worked forty it's the enemy of your band deployed a band to play in three years i was given a chance to defend myself on just take to the border kicked over the other basically and then you know here i am with so of the things that i have tried to kind of piece my life back together when 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 bounds of ukraine for three years in the interests of national security cell phone trade and territorial integrity but here's what kiev security forces said when graeme's whereabouts was still unknown. i know he's been taken hostage there's no information orders were boats were there is a bounty on his heard the ukrainian military don't apprehend journalists. for sure

but his gram told us his life was threatened his part of the video he had loaded to youtube with a recording of his conversation apparently with the ukrainian security officer. so yes because our little design below years those political steps not into this are yours if you were thinking when what you've all. we really don't know we'll. with them we knew we. were more just because i thought the whole thing needed. for you to operate only you could put in the for you thirdly new guy that you could go on you. do you think going it over and he put me to do anything but we do what he. did. but i still believe what is even a little bit more from we need more input. while drawing wide 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 is that he was working for out the energy so a russian television station simply did he was broadcast to me and so it was attracting an english speaking audience and so to try me sixto 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 would 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 posting online about his treatment at the hands of ukraine's security forces and he spared no details of what he and his fellow journalist had to endure you can follow his twitter feed for

more details of his experiences. meanwhile ukrainian media are reporting that a team of forty dutch police 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 who they claim were aided by russia moscow strongly denies any involvement in this call from independent international investigation it said radar data shows 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. and you can find out more about the tragic flight of m.h. seventeen and the controversy surrounding it of course online at r.t. dot com. 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 sila tax 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 is also being labeled a violation of other international treaties one of the authors of the report says the crane 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 the needs to be 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 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 we created and 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 our evidence is quite clear and the ukrainian government should investigate and should immediately stop the use of these weapons in populated areas. the resistance habit than yes can eastern ukraine has enjoyed another night of shelling these are the latest pictures from the city apparently showing the bombardment like pro-government forces of use multiple rocket launchers but there's been no reports of casualties. meanwhile morale in ukraine's army it pays to be falling soldiers wounded on the front line say that commanders have forgotten about them as well because the ref reports to thousands of wounded minutes or you are able to get out from one circle means 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 preferably before dark you know. the ones who was. you know who are the fall for. this was the follow through with that you could look to 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 no other mobilization a round of its citizens into active armed forces the money stream to finance all that 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 two weeks left before the first of

august ski have 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 parishioners targets are among koester of artsy donetsk ukraine . he say fifteen civilians with caleb end up to sixteen get in the government shelling of the second resistance have been against it and amid the violence tens of thousands of people have been fleeing the region according to the united nations the number of refugees is double cinching but is ghana chickie and riposte not everyone believes the numbers. the u.n. says two hundred fifty thousand ukrainians have left their home. ukraine since the fighting began the state department had doubted the sources of the un's previous reports on ukrainian refugees and many russians from ukraine have family in russia some may be staying with them but neither ukrainian border guards or nor

international organizations operating the area have or 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 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 in the city for him 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 that artillery russian territory. 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 there are some encouraging 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 of expense of bashing the taxi. come up the

moment. and all seized it was. that it was just a little bit but almost no doubt the people there are going to be welcoming. justice. 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. i know it was in the room and i don't understand why it's more you know it's not a question. it's a question of whether you can back your you know we've put out a plane 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 don't take the official word for it and the media is generally slanted against russia so to come in the program big brother likes your status update the u.s. government reportedly hines's manipulation skills with experiments on facebook and other social media we've got the details in a few minutes. till 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 want to sell. it was a. very hard to take over. here. have

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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 held efforts to negotiate a weeklong ceasefire is still ongoing. well the israeli army continued to pound guards until the last minutes 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 the dead included ten children the family's house collapsed and rescuers have to pull people from the rubble. israel says it's using the home humanitarian window to demolish the masses underground tunnels strikes killed nearly seventy people in gaza on friday that's according to the un the total number of palestinian deaths is now more than eight hundred thirty eight israelis have also been killed in the conflict meanwhile palestinians have been hurling stones and firebombs of israeli police early on saturday in the west bank city of bethlehem the clashes left at least five people

dead or a slave brings us more now from jerusalem. the idea is that this twelve hour truce 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 but 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 is not agree to this and that's where its side is insisting that it's prisoners that are being held in israeli jails we arrested be released and it's wrong saying well this is just too many preconditions to need to fully kind of movement meet it certainly doesn't seem as if private side is willing to wear them or not this can material not into their long term troops sitting on the ground as practice mystic at the moment the israeli cabinet is still to decide whether or not

they were in accept this cease fire that is being put forward by the united states the euro secretary of state john kerry who was in cairo on friday really will meet with the chief banking move as well as the arab league secretary never be. in and out of the play to 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 it will be high mutual delegations from both britain and hans but it is worth mentioning that all previous cease fires have been brokered as these diplomatic efforts are happening violence 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 since and earlier we spoke with a palestinian politician an activist mystified 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 israel that blocked 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 ceasefire every while keeping the siege on gaza while keeping their troops inside while demanding that palestinians have no right to desist occupation this is unacceptable what palestinian 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 one what than what prevailed in south africa. while the israeli offensive on gaza has made the and you could stay even more resonant this year millions of muslims worldwide express their solidarity with the plight of the palestinian people

protesters in toronto and. israeli flag with the iranian president attending a rally in the capital similar pouring came from india and rallies were held in several european countries too in berlin place had to step in to prevent clashes between rival crank while inspiring people on the streets demanding to hold to the killing. now the news previously watchdogs are in uproar over claims the us 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 in this arena portnoy reports washington does have an appetite for this kind of research when the world's largest social media platform betrays its users there's going to be outrage the study to see whether facebook couldn't win. 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 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 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. have a 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 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 it may be leaving messages is equally growing into a valuable tool of the u.s. military very important i our team new york. there are plenty of stories online he too including biting the bullet and eric is going on a shopping spree for the a k forty seven over a fish you could soon struggle to get one in the u.s. you can find out more about r.t. dot com also. 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 to head online for the full video and background to that story. thanks for being with us today up next it's the cars report and if you're in the u.k. it's time to go underground with action by times.

a friend of mine flew in from germany and he said that as he was leaving he looked up to do stand at the airport and on the front page of twelve german publications were basically titles like putin's missile destroyers airplane alluding to the crash malaysian airplane that fell into the combat zone craig 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 hadn't been conducted yet there. 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. one thing air if you don't want to stay is sad people essentially believing in this world when they believe that you know that me to be an active. they simply don't realize when propaganda is being pointed out we need to go by 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 isn't taken istic and the more that we can be i guess an open open minded khana source of information regardless of the source i think we're all going to be. we profit very large very attractive and now very globally recognize the source of oil for the world and into the future the world's cheapest and best petroleum deposits have been going down we have to use more energy to get this energy industries grow like a cancer each of the squares it's ten kilometers poor. and good old area is slated to be. it's her drinking water that's our wildlife service sir

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same hour we received this tweet from reuters jamie i.m.f. cuts u.s. twenty fourteen growth forecasts to one point seven percent from two percent only a month ago well yes well this is an interesting study on market behavior mass psychology and prices so the fact is that markets tend to go up when there is a feeling out there that the fed is going to have to stimulate because the activity on main stream is weak that's why when things like the unemployment numbers go up stocks might go up as well because the idea is zero zero the fed is going to inject lots of money this will cause stocks to go higher so there's a very often a disconnect between main street and wall street but over the past. twenty years there's been a new trend and that is that interest rates have been trending.