really. well. the number of palestinians killed in gaza has reportedly passed one thousand dozens of bodies are pulled from the rubble after days of shelling joy humanitarian truce between israel and hamas. human rights watch says the ukrainian military could have committed war crimes by killing civilians with unguided rockets and. they put a gun to my head british reporter graham phillips gives r.t. a first hand account of his capture on interrogation by ukraine's security forces.

are welcome along the international we're coming to you live from moscow where it's now three pm here in the russian caps and it's good to have you with us and our top story this hour more than a thousand palestinians are now thought to have been killed in the israeli offensive in gaza the spike in numbers is due to bodies being recovered after days of shelling a twelve hour humanitarian truce is in effect but none of the previous pauses in fighting have held the israeli army continue to pound gaza in the final minutes before the cease fire took effect on saturday morning medics a tank shelling killed nineteen members of one palestinian family right before the truce started the dead include ten children emergency crews had to pull bodies from the rubble and the family's house collapsed. it is. it's using the humanitarian

window to demolish the masses underground tunnels airstrikes killed nearly seventy people in gaza on friday that's according to the u.n. thirty eight israelis have also been killed in the conflict there are fears battles will soon pour into the west bank and bethlehem palestinians have been hurling stones and fire bombs at israeli police the clashes left at least five people that were asleep were just more from jerusalem 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 there the fear on the ground is that hostilities and this israeli ground operation will continue and continue for some time to come this is a u.n. brokered 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 well in addition to this twelve hour humanitarian ceasefire there is a seven day truth that is in the pipeline this is something that has been proposed by the u.s. secretary of state john kerry he was in talks in cairo on friday that israel has rejected a new version of this proposal as it currently stands what hamas is insisting on is that there is a total lifting of israel sees on the gaza strip but israel says if there was no way that it can agree to this and it also won't agree to any kind of preconditions a must is also asking people who were recently arrested to be released there is a meeting in paris attended by the foreign ministers of qatar and turkey to support a mass as well as high level delegations from pushing and france and that meeting is being brokered by the u.s. secretary of state john kerry parallel to this flurry of diplomatic activity the violence and the tension in the ground continues to skyrocket. well israel

maintains it after hamas says if it's attacked during the humanitarian truce it will retaliate we spoke with palestinian politician activist mustafa barghouti 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 asked the united nations security council to issue a cease fire. resolution it was. the united states and the united nations security council twice then israel wanted to impose its own conditions by. having a ceasefire while keeping the siege on gaza while keeping their troops inside while demanding that palestinians have no right to desist. this is unacceptable. that should be a cease fire but also that would be a lifting of the sea so in reality what you see here is a struggle of people who are fighting for their freedom for the 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 then what prevailed in south africa where the israeli offensive on gaza has made the annual al quds day even more resonant this year millions of muslims worldwide expressed their solidarity with the plight of the palestinian people protesters in tehran chanted anti israel slogans and the israeli flag with the iranian president attending a rally in the capital similar outpourings came from india rallies were held in several european countries and police had to step in to prevent clashes between rival crowds while in spain people on the streets demanded to halt the killing garza. elsewhere british journalist graham phillips has 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 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 also i'm 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 and 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 and it's just cameras. he is the soldiers are taking with him often arms 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 good 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 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 pitch black can see a thing and then the next day they dragged me out they left the there 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 rebel 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 you know that long told me again i was blindfolded for

a long time took me in a military vehicle and took me off i don't know what it was a bay somewhere in a forest and i was on my knees in the middle of a forest and soldiers around me shouting at me and i did in my car that you know to take my car. at 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 it took me off as a persian again they ask you ask you a question this is a crazy curious 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 hall and it just doesn'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 into that was simply that i was that was all it said in the form it would let me take your second copy of it just said that it will work for our team it's the enemy and your band deployed a band playing three years i was going to chance to defend myself and to take the ball without kicked over the other basically and then you know here i am with some

of the things i have tried to kind of piece my own life but together well ukraine's the security services confirm that the 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 here's what care of security forces said when graham's whereabouts are still unknown. i know he's been taken hostage there's no information on as we're both spring where there is a bounty on his heard the ukrainian military don't apprehend journalists. as well as graham told us his life was threatened has part of a video here uploaded to you with a recording of his conversation apparently with a ukrainian security officer so yes because our little designedly steps not into this new area that you wouldn't see me or what you will carry me really don't you

think we'll. move. a little more to go back up what you needed. to keep up with the only you could put in the for you thirdly new guy that you seem to think. do you think you're going to what he thinks put me to do anything but it wasn't me who she did. but i still believe it was a new reason is that mr mueller and the. drawing wide attention to events in eastern ukraine is just one of the reasons why graham phillips was detained that's according to legal experts alexander macoris. first question that he was working for ought to be an eighty's or a russian television station simply did he was broadcast to me and so it was exactly an english speaking audience to me so you so because this 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 would be treating our journalists who work for the russian television stations or news media organizations in the same work i find it actually very worrying. graham has been posting online about his treatment of the hands of ukraine's security forces he spared no details on what he and his fellow journalists how to enjoy follow his twitter feed for more details of his experience. now ukrainian media are reporting that a team of forty dutch police and twenty 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 and 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 was quote 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. and you can find out more about the tragic flight m.h. seven seen on the controversy surrounding it online on our website r.t. dot com. still ahead at this hour resistance hobbs' of donetsk and lugansk in eastern ukraine enjoy intense government shelling overnight with civilian casualties piling up we bring you the details after the break also also ahead for you big brother like your status updates the u.s. government reports of the hundreds it's manipulation skills experiments on facebook and other social media all the details in

a few moments. crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want.

welcome to r.t. international the resistant hobbs' of donetsk and lugansk have come under fresh fire from the ukrainian military you may find some of the following images disturbing these are the latest scenes in the gun squarely fifteen people have reportedly been killed during the shelling of a residential area several civilians this bus stop or among the victims a number of apartment blocks school and the kinda got them also hit in the attack is how one eyewitness describes the carnage. although. the full value of really just heard an awful. look like it would read further. for you to perform for you the story you see on the other. was probably true for your brother or the other

where you live the other near where you can hear the words you would use what you heard was a little bit of those few over the rolls. or the ukraine military has previously 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 missile attacks on the opposition held city of donetsk. where 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 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 receiving the danger 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 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 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 that our evidence is quite clear and the korean government should investigate it should immediately stop the use of these weapons in populated areas. well a self-proclaimed wealth or a tease in ukraine's eastern breakaway regions are claiming that k. have has used white phosphorous bombs in its latest shelling of don't you ask me what russia has proof having used the controversial weapon or at least six different occasions the most exciting attacks on the city of slovyansk which used to be a major resistance harbor in the region and was almost leveled by the army residents in the area helping find the remains of shells with the car its characteristics of

incendiary bombs they also said the ground there had been a blaze for hours after such attacks. we all saw what happened here yesterday they used rocket launchers as well as incendiary bombs against us the ground was on fire the ground burned by itself for about forty minutes. starting from ten am everyone every man has a sore throat and all the time i think this is because it will burn i think will feel the true consequences later there are still people here it's a lot of children we haven't managed to get out yet. 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 is going to reports not everyone needs the numbers. the u.n. says two hundred fifty thousand ukrainians have left their homes in eastern ukraine

since the fighting began to say department had doubted the sources of the un's previous reports on ukrainian refugees and many russians from ukraine have family interactions and may be staying with them but neither ukrainian border guards or nor international organizations operating in the area have ever boarded any large outflows of refugees to russia but now we do colleges possibly for the first time that there is a humanitarian crisis inside ukraine but 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 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 and that artillery russian territory is hitting the military is going in yet even at your immediate military outpost but you are convinced we have seen no indication she no indication that the opposite is

true that ukrainians are some encouraging while the u.s. state department says no indication that the russian territory comes under fire from ukraine witnesses who live near the border inside russia offer a different perspective. as a last minute. but they are. not saying you don't know when you seem to be in uganda with them but that will stop or you know you can't do what the u.s. was a bit are you with us would be a sense of it's a bit odd because it's a bit with the would would have wanted to get them the truth but the most part the but the much is. the u.s. is now saying that russia prepares to send powerful men. 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 that i don't. know much. it's not a question. it's a question of whether you can you know we've put out a new to put out information that we will continue to do so it is 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. a look now at some other news from around the world on the french president announced that were no survivors from the algeri jet that crashed in mali contact was lost with the plane after requests to change course to choice of a sandstorm only half of the one hundred sixteen people on board were french. and these fifteen people have been killed in a militant assault a northern afghanistan that's according to officials the attackers stopped too many

buses and shot the passengers dead no one has claimed responsibility for the shooting but the taliban is known to be active in the area. man has died from an ebola infection in the nigerian capital lagos it's the first confirmed case of the deadly fever in africa's most populous nation the latest outbreak began in getting in february to spreading to liberia and then sierra leone claiming the six hundred sixty lives no cure or vaccine for the virus exists. now 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 and as marina reports washington has an appetite for this kind of research when the world's largest social media platform be trees its users there is going to be outreach 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 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 in. 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 the top doing and conducting propaganda campaigns via social media translation when anti-government messages gain ground virally washington wants to find a way to spread counter opinion they want to dominate what they call the

information battle space. so what they're looking at is developing methods into techniques in order to do that and it gets very scary from the standpoint of where our rights can be violated and you know not knowing whether we're receiving accurate information security and privacy researcher kevin gallagher says one way the u.s. government can spread misinformation is through fake bots on twitter you're followed by a lot of these accounts to. having really set up their profiles apparently i have a bit of a fake following 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

manipulating messages is quickly growing into a valuable tool of the u.s. military arena porton i.r.t. new york. and we have plenty of stories for you online including biting the bullet americans go on a buying frenzy for the a k forty seven of the fare as you could soon struggle to get one in the united states find out more on the ox on our website www dot com plus. iraqi shrine a revered post by christians on muslims has been reduced to rubble by the islamic state jihadist group after they crammed the ancient monument with explosives head online for the building full of video and background to the story. here without international i'll be martin's coming up next with breaking the stat.

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 soldier in 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 them. so it's 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. you should. be.

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