girlfriend still works in poetry. nor it. really matters. to your face. they put a gun to my head british reporter graham phillips gives firsthand accounts of his capture and interrogation by ukraine's security forces. human rights watch says the ukrainian military committed war crimes by killing civilians with unguided rockets plus. israel and hamas temporarily laid down twelve hour humanitarian truce in gaza. really just minutes before the polls began bringing the total palestinian death toll to around nine hundred and forty people.

you're watching international we're coming to you live from moscow a british journalist graham phillips who's been reporting for us from eastern ukraine has been released by the country's security services he told us what happened when he went missing 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 way started by 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 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 head i was telling you that if my details didn't check out that it would 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 fest or move and it's just cameras 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 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 off me 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 give answers we give any confidential information including the cell with the dean we spent the night in

a cell together we you know we had no war we no toilet. in the dark cell mr. insidious thing and then the next day they dragged me out they left within a hour and then i asked if i was going to answer more questions and i said i wouldn't so they 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 room i was in i was getting fired on and i was there you know for the day. and then again. the day the. military vehicle i get out of line told me again i was blindfolded for a lot of time took me to the three vehicles 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 middle of a forest soldiers around me shouting at me and i did in my car that you know to check my car. the 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 as a persian again they asked are you asking 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 don't. go with things if you buy things but i find all my talents to be no hacked and i'm banned to three years and the reason they gave that was simply that i was forty that was all it said in the form it would let me take it all were taken copy of it just said the work fourteen it's the enemy of your band deployed a band to play in three years i was going to chance to defend myself and just take . it 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 well ukraine security services confirm that graham phillips was detained for questioning they say 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 will k.f. security forces said when graham's whereabouts were still unknown. i know he's been

taken hostage there's no information on as we're both whether there's a bounty on his heard the ukrainian military don't apprehend journalists. well as graham told us his life was threatened his part of a video he uploaded to you with a recording of his conversation apparently with a ukrainian security officer. designedly. steps not into this new idea that you wouldn't in one year but you vote for a you really don't you can reveal it to them with. your mom who doesn't believe them or just exactly what they needed this just for you to keep up with the only you like what you thought when you drive it you seem to. do you think going into it with an easy thing to do anything but it was a teaching position. i still believe in the reason it is the rule

but listen 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's according to legal expert alexander mccord s. first unquestionably he was working for out the energies a russian television station secondly he was broadcast the any english and so it was attracting an english speaking audience and thirdly funny so you so because visibility is a very good journalist and it 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

posting online about his treatment of the hands of ukraine security forces he spared no details on what he and his fellow journalist had to enjoy or follow his twitter feed for more details of his experience. by ukrainian media are reporting that a team of forty dutch police investigators have arrived in eastern ukraine 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. seventy eight has sparked a storm of speculation here in the u.s. blame ukraine's anti-government forces who they claim were aided by russia moscow strongly denies any involvement in this call for an independent international investigation he 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.

and find out more about the tragic flight m h seventy nine the controversy surrounding it 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's according to human rights watch which documented full tax on the opposition held city of donetsk. the group warns the gratis system is too inaccurate to be used on the populated areas human rights watch is calling on both sides of the conflict to stop using this kind these kind of weapons systems 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 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 uses these kinds of weapons in populated areas it's a really high risk for solutions to the danger and killed and that's what we saw in the pitofsky district that civilians were being killed by these kinds of rockets and 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 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 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 create in 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 korean government should investigate and should immediately stop the use of these weapons in populated areas . well the resistance how i don't yet scan eastern ukraine has enjoyed another night of shelling these are the latest pictures from the city apparently showing the bombardment local government forces have used multiple rocket launches there's been no reports of casualties i saw meanwhile morale in ukraine's army appears to be folding soldiers wounded on the front line side at commandos a neglecting them as are monocultural 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 accounts the front line and if they do they tried to leave as soon as possible preferably before dark did you. see the. ones who. did you know who are still in the fall of. the fall of the would you put them to both the 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 because of the first the army needs 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 don't ask you crane. well local authorities say fifteen civilians were killed and up to sixty injured in government shelling of the second resistance and amid the violence tens of thousands of people have been fleeing the region according to the united nations the number of refugees has doubled since june but as you can reports 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 to say to parchman 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 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 humanitarian crisis inside ukraine i can't confirm those numbers and 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 your immediate military outpost but you are convinced you see no indication she's no indication that the opposite is true that ukrainians are something occurred while the u.s. state department says no indication that the washing territory comes on the fire from ukraine witnesses who live near the border inside russia offer

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a question. it's a question of whether you can 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 do take the official word or the media is generally slanted against russia. coming up big brother likes your status update the u.s. government reportedly honed his manipulation skills experiments on facebook and other social media all the details coming up in a few minutes. join us this month in fossil on as we follow the international teams vying for gracie glory ultimate triumph. one holds homage we delve into the mysterious cost of

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welcome back to r.t. international the number of palestinians killed in the israeli offensive in gaza is now thought to be around nine hundred forty people the spike in numbers is due to bodies now being recovered after days of shelling a twelve hour humanitarian truce is in effect but none of the previous pauses pauses in fighting have held and the israeli army continue to pound garzon until the last minutes before the humanitarian pause took effect on saturday morning medics a tank shelling killed nineteen members of a single palestinian family right before the truce started the dead included ten children in the family's house collapsed and rescuers had to pull bodies from the rubble. israel says it's using the humanitarian window to demolish the masses underground tunnels airstrikes killed nearly seventy people in gaza on friday as according to the united nations thirty eight israelis have also been killed in the conflict there are fears battles will soon pour into the west bank in bethlehem

palestinians have been hurling stones and fire bombs at israeli police early on saturday the clashes left at least five people dead brings us more from jerusalem.

it's. while israel maintains its after hamas but says if it's attacks during the humanitarian truce it will retaliate we spoke with palestinian police politician and activist mr for barghouti 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 ending the 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 what palestinians did 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 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. when the israeli offensive on gaza has

made the annual al quds day even more resonant this year millions of muslims worldwide express their solidarity with the plight of the palestinian people protesters in tehran chanted anti israel slogans and burn the israeli flag with the iranian president attending a rally in the capital it's similar orange came from india rallies were held in several european countries in berlin police had to step in to prevent clashes between rival crowds well in spain people on the streets demanded a halt the killing in gaza only boycott in london based on some of the protesters that i read says the arabic word for jerusalem and this is actually and i knew it cried palestinian event and organizes all 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 looking at the banners the chanting and the sea of people rooting

for essential lines and making their way towards the american embassy and you get a picture of just how strong the pro palestinian community is 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 mistrust our support to my my fibrin parents originally kicked out nine hundred forty eight out their homes and my mom's family massacred 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 to end this what they're doing. anderson children bombing indiscriminately not proportionate afraid you know so they are just a more to themselves of what i just was not doing everything to stop them i think it looks russian i think it's disgusting. in this day and age we are living in

a place where we seeing children die dieing of being snorted 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 over the course of the conflict just several days ago i think you progress really much all through the center of the capital where there were several thousand people gathered as well but in such a multicultural multi-religious counted so city this is a conflict that is touching people polarizing opinion and raising tensions we can see by the way the crowds the amount of people that have gathered there that london is very much in fact said by the bloodshed that's taken place in the middle east reporting ruins and i'm really very kind of. a second look now at some other news from around the world and the french president has announced there were no survivors yeah algeria the jet that crashed in mali contact was lost with the plane after a question changed course due to

a severe sandstorm nearly half of the one hundred sixteen people on board were french. and these fifteen people have been killed in a militant assault in northern afghanistan that's according to officials the attackers stopped two mini buses and shot the passengers dead no one has claimed responsibility for the shooting the taliban is one to be active in the area. now privacy watchdogs in aprile i've 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 and as 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 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 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 that happening 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 where they were 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 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 colleagues of your colleagues trying to get you guys interested in the celing 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 manipulating messages is quickly growing into a valuable tool of the u.s.

military very important i r t new york. well technology update is coming up next here on r.t. international but if you're watching in the u.k. it's time for the latest kaiser reports. 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 through the 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 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 a 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 illegal. 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. we profit very large very attractive and now very globally recognized source of oil for the world into the world's cheapest and best petroleum deposits have been mined out we have to use more energy to get this energy

industries grow like a cancer each of these squares and ten kilometers where. and this whole area is slated for the way of that's her drinking water that's our wildlife service search fisheries we can't stop this is the end game when it takes two tons of sand to make one barrel of oil you know here at the bottom of the mine and that's where we're at. the cio ourselves. hello and welcome to technology updates there will collapse over but if you think you've seen the end of countries going head to head in the heats.