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it's. not. breaking news so this hour israel approves a new twenty four hour ceasefire in gaza last until sunday at midnight hamas says it will not abide by the truce. are detained by the crimean military i was threatened with my life and i was deported from the country in bahrain for three years in a few minutes i'll be telling you the full story about my three days in detention in the. british journalist graham phillips who describes what happened after he went missing in eastern ukraine. the number of civilians killed in a military crackdown on the eastern provinces of ukraine continues forces shell. the city of brigands killing at least one thousand people. and as
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a fighting continues unabated human rights watch urges to stop using unguided rockets in densely populated residential areas saying it violates international law and could amount to a war crime. from moscow this is arch international thank you very much for chiming in you're with me . we start with breaking news israel has approved a twenty four hour extension of a cease fire in gaza which will now end at midnight on sunday local time from us however has rejected the proposal over one hundred bodies were recovered from the rubble during the low in fighting on saturday bringing the palestinian death toll to over a thousand let's get to the details now from
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a policy here in jerusalem who joins us live paula can you tell us more about the latest development including that last sees fire that just ended. well there is when security cabinet has agreed to a twenty four hour extension of those united nations humanitarian ceasefire that was first implemented early on saturday israeli officials also saying that they will however observe the cease fire if there are not any violations and that if in fact they are they reserve the right to at their also saying that during this twenty folly extension israeli soldiers will remain inside gaza where they will continue to locate destroy and dismantle tunnels now the security cabinet has situ reconvene early on sunday morning to reassess the situation however we are hearing from a hamas spokesperson that they have rejected this extension of a cease fire no reason given as of yet as to why they are rejecting it some of the
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speculation might be that hamas might be feeling that it doesn't have too much to gain on the one hand you have the israeli army continuing with its operations inside gaza while hamas is being forced to stop with any kind of law could find that at the same time we haven't had any reaction from the israeli side to news of this rejection by hamas now as i mentioned there was an initial twelve hour with you in a brokered cease fire that was implemented on saturday that was at here too by both sides it was an extended for further flowers and it was during those few hours that the israelis complained that hamas broke the truce they were at least a dozen rockets in that time they were fired at south and central israel now one of this is happening during a lot of the fighting that has allowed ordinary residents of gaza to use the opportunity to return to their homes and many did so they went back home to assess the damage to collect whatever belongings they could whether it was food or
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clothing or valuables it was also an opportunity for united nations aid workers to enter the strip to bring with them much needed medical and emergency supplies that was also an opportunity for body recovery and for injured people to be moved to various. locations there was a funerals of will hold throughout the day saturday these of course had to be very quick because many people very fearful as to whether or not those low infighting would actually last paula you're following developments out in the west bank what's the situation looking like at this moment. well the situation in gaza is having a direct spillover effect in terms of tensions both in the west bank and inside israel amongst the israeli arab community that numbers roughly around one million people we have witnessed clashes some of them violent particularly at the commander checkpoint which is the main checkpoint between the west bank city of ramallah and
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the city of jerusalem they were at least two palestinians who were killed in those demonstrate. sins of people detained here in east jerusalem the israeli police on high alert there are hundreds of police that have been deployed throughout the city they are concerned that they will be a were pissed off or as violent clashes that he saw at the panda checkpoint and also of demonstrations on happened on friday not far from where i think al aqsa mosque talking to people on the ground they say that if the situation in gaza does not stable soon what we are likely to see and again this is what people are telling me on the ground is some kind of a third intifada coming to the fall certainly tensions are running high and the anger and frustration that is being felt by people inside gaza is now manifesting itself amongst palestinians in the west bank and israeli arabs here inside israel political life from jerusalem for us there thank you but have seen and politicians and activists mostafa good teeth things that israel must be held responsible for
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obstructing the peace effort. 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 blocked at the day and i think speaks in the united nations security council price then there's a very wanted to impose its own conditions by him being by having a ceasefire while keeping the siege on gaza while keeping their troops inside gaza while demanding that further stimulus have to desist the pressure this is unacceptable and what palestinians did should be a cease fire but also there 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 than what prevailed in south africa. demonstrations have been held around the
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world with hundreds of thousands showing their solidarity with the palestinians protests went ahead on saturday in paris despite a ban introduced off to a previous rally turned violent oh i. right police would point to disperse the crowd forcing them back with tear gas thousands also marched in london than those with messages blaming israel for two thousand cost death toll resulting from the offensive on gaza such a day's events came a day off to the end all i could state mocked by millions of muslims worldwide as a day our solidarity with the palestinian cause in some cities angry mobs burned u.s. and israeli flags rallies in the united states latin america europe and many arab countries. calls for an end to the violence have been just as loud online on a website you can find
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a lot of pictures being posted with the hash tag jews. and arabs refused to be enemies it was launched by a u.s. couple of mixed arab jewish descent. in the. british journalist graham phillips has been barred from entering ukraine for three stooges his reporting for our team phillips was missing for several days before kiev security services sent him out of the country now he described what happened while in detention. they were sending messages from my phone that message that you go r.t. saying all these fine i didn't i didn't send that message they were going through my messages asking me about every single message who sent this to you who is this person how do you know this person was put in a room next and all to reposition that they were firing heavily from that was being fired on i was kept in a cell was detained along with another journalist the deal he was beaten in front
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of me i saw soldiers you know kick him in the face and then a soldier said if you can confirm my details and he couldn't guarantee that i was going to live i was blindfolded kept in a cell without water or toilet facilities and then we were separated i was interrogated i was interrogated all day i was called a terrorist and i was told i had a russian passport i was a russian spy they were telling me all day that i had entered ukraine through ukraine and entered it through russia it's all completely completely false they were accusing me of working for terrorists all of these accusations and interrogations and then they took my computer they took my things and i've just go are just recently been released and i was on the train to warsaw coming from the polish border and i just recently discovered that the now all of my accounts have been hacked so i want you to recount my e-mail account my you tube account which is obviously money in livelihood so many deleted two thousand videos from every single account i have facebook contact the time that ukrainian forces have had my computer
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it was held by the s.p. use well they've taken out they've stripped all the passwords are now basically being tacked and i've despite you now to try and get my life back i mean being kicked out of the country of ukraine my car was taken by the ukrainian military my money was taken my bullet proof vest i've been deported from a country i own a flat in told i'm an enemy of the state when all i ever did there would report the news would report the truth and i've been told i've been obviously banned from for three years kicked out of the border and then i've been cyberattack so basically you know my entire life has been has been taken apart i mean thankfully i'm alive and as you can see how effective your i but i'm a little shell shocked by the whole experience of just trying to kind of get my bearings and get things back together after what was an ordeal. graham phillips also recorded what he says was a conversation between him and a ukrainian security officer. cus cazalet designed.
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into this new area that you wouldn't in many years would you vote for a memory don't know we'll go to the moon when you remove your mug a little more just to record the one thing you did you really think it was a pretty good with you. or you to be a new dr if you go on you. go you go with me using me put me to do anything but we'll be watching you should give. advice i still didn't want anyone reading it is that in the film we need more input into. ukraine's a security services initially denied having graeme phillips in custody or targeting journalists at all here the statement they made when no one knew where phillips was . fine or has been taken hostage there's no information on as we're both spring
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where there is a downturn is heard the ukrainian military don't apprehend journalists. for sure jay political analyst patrick henningsen told us why he thinks ukraine security forces were not forthcoming about holding the british journalist. i think they're very nervous in the ukraine because they do not want information to escape the type of information that graham phillips is reporting about the true nature of the conflict what we have is clearly a civil war by anyone's definition except for the western media and politicians in europe in the united states are still calling it as as the government in kiev is an anti terror operation meanwhile civilians are being targeted that's the very thing that graham phillips is trying to relate to the world i think just looks like a policy out of care of transparency is something they're clearly not very good at . hiding cover ups right from the beginning of this crisis right all the way back
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to february to the mike on so why should we expect anything different right now. eastern ukraine has become the world's most dangerous place for journalists according to the international news safety institute now they say since the start of the cea working in eastern ukraine has been more risky than ever in iraq syria as well as pakistan seven media workers have died so slow while trying to cover the ongoing conflict between kiev and to government forces. the netherlands which lost one hundred and ninety four of its citizens on flight m.h. seventeen along with australia have sent a forensics experts to ukraine and considering deploying police at the site of the crash does officials have requested and they hinted access to wreckage to conduct a full investigation the airline was shut down on july the seventeenth on route from amsterdam to kuala lumpur killing all two hundred ninety eight passengers and
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crew on board. now the process of sending the victims' bodies home continues to military planes have transported the remains from coffin ukraine to the netherlands the flight recorders are currently being examined by experts in the u.k. given the u.s. accuses local militia groups of shooting down the boeing seven seven and claimed they will by russia moscow denies any involvement and is demanding explanations from ukraine after releasing graded data suggesting a fighter jet was near the plane at the time it went down so far there's been no response. and the first family of one of the victims of m.h. seventeen has arrived at the crash site of the a strain couple came to pay tribute to their twenty five year old daughter who was among the passengers on the doomed flight on our website our two dot com there's
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a timeline of events surrounding the crash plus the latest from the crash investigation. still ahead in the program washington again accuses russia of involvement in ukraine while with using to provide any evidence. i can underline the information that had led to that if this meant after the break a report of the mounting pressure on the u.s. to back up its allegations a with facts. the money is the root of all easy pickens and money is the root of all crashes or once every dumb dumb as to what school is one to so. government system to help poor people poor women but they're going to change their life and nobody's trying to make money out of them those who want to break them but
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. instead of. trying the whole thing to do which is. beautiful still. dramas that try to be ignored to the. stories others refused to notice. things since changing the world right. to picture of today's kids. from around the globe. looked. like will stay with us here on r.t. international in the past two months at least two hundred fifty civilians have been
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killed in the ukrainian city of new guns which is under a military siege and eight hundred fifty are wounded and the death toll continues to rise over the weekend forces shelled the city claiming another one thousand lives it is the residential areas that were hit the worst in the recent new gongs ten people were reported killed at a bus stop they came under fire mortar shells damaged more than twenty buildings including a school and a kindergarten is going to the guess how one witness described the konitz. problem with a. simple photo to do just that an awful. for the photo would you describe it. for you don't perform for you the story who did this are there other. ones will be destroyed your for the symbol of the other where you live the other new ones you don't know what you want to get where you're going to show them there are those over the originals didn't. in other developments human rights watch says the
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ukrainian army may have committed a war crime want to kill sixteen civilians with unguided gradual rockets in the region the group says the grad system is just too inaccurate to be used in unpopulated areas human rights watch is calling for this kind of weapon not to be used to avoid civilian casualties 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 you use these kinds of weapons in populated areas it's a really high risk for syrians 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 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
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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 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 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 credit weapons in
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populated areas. that are evidence is quite clear and the ukrainian government should investigate and should immediately stop the use of these weapons in populated areas fighting also continues unabated and school with forces advancing to the outskirts of the city thousands of civilians have fled the area and then you have guys then you need your own that's why do you need. the region has seen sustained fighting for several weeks now and the military bombardment was stepped up overnight according to the city council a gas pipeline and dozens of homes were damaged by mortar fire with some buildings left in ruins at least one person has been reported injured. ukraine's president petro poroshenko has visited an army training base in near here you can see the head of state firing a few rounds but despite the terms to encourage the army more all appears to be
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lower than ever soldiers injured on the front line say their commanders are showing no regard for their safety and for ports from donetsk. dozens of wounded minutes or we were able to get out from encircled ones by and forces the soldiers and 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 they're in the. soup of. the with. the with the. shut the fuck would you put 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 another mobilization a round of its citizens into active armed forces the money stream to finance all
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that still seems to be dry announced he won't have the money to pay for a military operation after all because of the first duty of 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 peroration star get him on cos or have artsy done esky crane. meanwhile russia's foreign ministry has issued a strongly worded statement on the ukrainian crisis it christmas criticizes washington saying it bez postle responsibility for the conflict and its deadly consequences must also accuses the obama administration of relying on false hoods to implemented foreign policy according to the united nations the number of refugees from eastern ukraine has doubled since june tens of thousands have fled the area to escape the on the onslaught but as reports the findings
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a simply do not fit washington's narrative. 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 in russia and may be staying with them but neither ukrainian border guards or nor international organizations operating in 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 but 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 at 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 you are interested that artillery russian
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territory is hitting the military is going to even out your immediate military outpost but you are convinced you see no indication she's no indication that the at this it is true that just an incursion while the u.s. department says no indication that the washing territory comes on the fire from ukraine witnesses who live near the border inside russia offer a different perspective yes you do not. know this and you don't know when you see him to begin you would know with him. that will stop or you know you can't have a harder with the expense of cherry blossoms. the idea which was a bit are you with us would be a sense of so did i because it's a much better book to go with would have one of these than the true but the most part the with them which is. 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
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underline the information that had led to that assessment 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. it's not a question. it's a question of whether you can you know we've put out a plain isn't when you put out information that we will continue to do so 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. as always plenty more for you on our website including star wars and game of stories characters along with ninja turtles flock to you was then diego friends from all over the world gather for the adult comic-con international festival head to r.t.
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dot com for all the details and pictures. plus hundreds of people in bolivia perform their national dance in attempt to break a world record the story and much more on line. and a look now at some other news from around the world a violent clash between two communities in northern india has left three people dead and over nine hundred injured police fired rubber bullets to break up the rival groups who were hurling bricks at each other the clash was sparked by a long running land dispute between sikhs and muslims the dispute flared up after a court ruled in favor of the sikhs. japans a hot summer has turned deadly eight people have died of heat stroke on the west coast where temperatures above thirty eight degrees over a thousand eight hundred were taken to the hospital many of them elderly depends on whether forecasters are expecting another heat wave to hit the country on sunday
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and advising people to drink plenty of water. i'm the brave to watch engineering students from around the electronic bikes against each other for wasting glory but here in the u.k. it's beginning say with our teams. a friend of mine flew in from germany and he said that as he was leaving he looked in to do stand at the airport and on the front page of twelve german publications were basically titles like putin's missile destroyers airplane alluding to the crash malaysian airplane that fell into the combat zone 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
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for two reasons one the way that the mainstream press jumped onto the story with exactly the same headlines and exactly the same angles really makes me want to start believing in conspiracy theories especially when an investigation had been conducted yet there wasn't any formal evidence yet but from fox to c.n.n. to medium sized german newspapers the speculation of who was at fault for the crash is identical and absolute and to the western media which feels justified to push for war with anyone who doesn't adopt western values have themselves completely forgotten just what those values are i thought in the glorious west everyone gets a fair trial with due process evidence and a conviction only after their guilt has been proven beyond a reasonable doubt but when enemies of washington need to be demonized i guess all those principles just fly right out the door but that's just my opinion.
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hello and welcome to technology updates the world cups over but if you think you've seen the end of countries going head to head in the heats think again because we can check out the national teams looking for racing glory here in barcelona. but first glance the catalonian capital seems more touristy than tacky but it looks can be deceiving already home to the world's largest mobile tech conference in two thousand and thirteen barcelona became the birthplace of the smarts moto challenge where it seems of engineering students from around.
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