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breaking news is the saw an hour to international israel approves a new twenty four hours the spy in gaza lasting until sunday at midnight but some us says it will not abide by the truce. i was the same body pretty military i was threatened with my life but i was deported from the country environs of three years in a few minutes i'll be telling you the full story about my three days in detention in ukraine british journalist graham phillips 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 to rise in. the shells of the city of new guards killing at least nineteen people. and it's why
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didn't continue unabated human rights watch urges kiev to stop using the unguided rockets in densely populated residential areas saying it violates international law and could amount to a war crime. live from moscow this is r.t. international we're happy to have you with us this evening i'm. we start with breaking news israel has approved a twenty four hour extension of a cease fire in gaza which will now and midnight on sunday local time a mass however has rejected the proposal saying that israeli troops must first leave gaza over one hundred bodies were recovered from the rubble during the law in fighting on saturday bringing the palestinian death toll to over
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a thousand years policia with the details. when security cabinet has agreed to a twenty four hour extension of this united nations humanitarian cease fire that was first implemented early on saturday israeli officials are saying that they will however opposite of the cease fire if there are not any violations and that if in fact they are they reserve the right to act they're also saying that during this twenty four hour extension israeli soldiers will remain inside gaza where they will continue to locate destroy and dismantle tunnels now these security cabinet is set to recon early on sunday morning to reassess the situation however we are hearing from and how must spokesperson that they have rejected this extension of a cease fire that there was an initial twelve hour with you in brokered cease fire that was implemented on saturday that was at here today by both sides it was an extended fourth of the still hours and it was during those few hours that these
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were discomfited that must hold the troops there were at least a dozen rockets in that time that were fired at south and central israel but now one of this is happening during and around 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 clothing or valuables it was also an opportunity for all imaginations aid workers to enter the strip to bring with them much needed medical and emergency supplies it was also an opportunity for body recovery and for injured people to be moved to various locations there were also from those that were holed up the days saturday these of course had to be very quick because many people very fearful as to whether or not this lull in fighting would actually last 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
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people we have witnessed. clashes some of them violent here in east jerusalem the israeli police are on high alert there are hundreds of police that have been deployed throughout the city 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. sit in politician and activist mostafa good t. things that israel must be held responsible for 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 a blot on the streets and the united nations security council twice then there's a very wanted to impose its own conditions by. by having a ceasefire while keeping the siege on gaza while keeping their troops inside gaza
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while demanding that for listing and have no right to desist occupation this is unacceptable and what palestinians did should be a cease fire but also there should be a lifting of the siege 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. on saturday evening thousand. peace rally in tel aviv people called for an end to the operation in gaza which has resulted in able forty israeli deaths mostly soldiers protests against the offensive have been held across the demonstration took to the streets of paris on saturday despite a ban introduced off to a previous really turned violent. riot
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police were called to disperse the crowd forcing them back with tear gas thousands also marched in london waving bad lows with messages blaming israel for the thousand plus death toll resulting from the offensive on saturday's events came a day off to the annual alcuin sting marked by millions of muslims worldwide as a day of solidarity with the palestinian cause in some cities angry mobs burning u.s. and israeli flags rallies in the united states that's not america europe and many arab countries. a call for an end to the violence have been just as loud online on our website you can take a look at the flood of pictures being posted with the hash tag jews and arabs refuse to be enemies was launched by a u.s. couple of mix arab jewish descent. and a. british
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journalist graham phillips has been barred from entering ukraine for three iesu his reporting for our team phillips was missing for several days before kiev security services sent him out of the country and he described what happened to 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 to an artillery positions they were firing heavily from that was being fired on i was kept in a cell or was detained along with another journalist for dean he was beaten in front 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 we were kept in a cell without water or toilet facilities and then we were separated i was
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interrogated i was interrogated all day i was called a terrorist and i was told that 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 i want you to recount my e-mail account my you tube account which is obviously money in livelihood someone's deleted two thousand videos from back to every single account i have facebook contact the time that ukrainian forces have had my computer it was held by the s.p. use well they've taken out they've stripped all the passwords basically been cyberattacks and i'm just fighting now to try and get my life by having being kicked out of the country of ukraine my car was taken by the ukrainian military my
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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 was report the news which report the truth and i've been told i've been obviously banned from for three years kicked out of the border and there have been cyber attack so basically my entire life has been has been taken apart i mean thankfully i'm alive and as you can see i'm effective your i but i'm a little shell shocked by the whole experience i'm 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. serious cazalet a club. that you wouldn't in one year what you wrote very me really don't have real. we need your money a little more just to work with the one thing you. really want
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a pretty good when you go through macor you could be a new bride if you didn't get to go on you. do you think you are using me put me to do anything but maybe. you should give. advice i still didn't want anyone reading it is that enough for me newcomer impled. ukraine's a security services initially denied that having graham phillips in custody and rejected all allegations of targeting journalists but they later announced that phillips had been deported is a statement that ukraine security forces made when no one knew where the journalists was. run or has been taken hostage there is no information on this we're both screwed whether there's a bounty on his heard the ukrainian military don't apprehend journalists. geo political analyst patrick hemmings and told us why he thinks ukraine security
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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 care there's an anti terror operation meanwhile civilians are being targeted that's the very thing that the graham phillips is trying to relate to the world i think this is like a policy out of care of transparency is something they're clearly not very good at expend heidi and coverups right from the beginning of this crisis right all the way back to february to the mike on so why should we expect anything different right now it's in ukraine has become the world's most dangerous place for journalists
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according to the international news safety institute now they say that since the start of the yeah working in a sing you claim has been more risky than even in iraq syria and pakistan seven media workers have died so far while trying to cover the ongoing conflict between kiev and to government forces. the netherlands which lost one hundred ninety four of its citizens on flight m.h. seventeen along with australia have sent forensics experts to ukraine and are considering the point police at the site off the crash officials have requested handed access to the wreckage to come talk to a full investigation the airliner dawned on july the seventeenth on route from amsterdam to kuala lumpur killing all two hundred and ninety eight passengers and crew onboard. other persons of sending the victims the bodies home continues
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to military planes have transported the remains from golf in ukraine to the netherlands five recorders are currently being examined by experts in the u.k. given the us accuse local militia groups of shooting down the boeing triple seven planes and by russia moscow denies any involvement and is demanding explanations from ukraine after releasing reda data suggesting a flight to jet was near the plane at the time it went on so far there's been no response. because it is. the first family of a flight seventeen seventeen victims have arrived at the crash site and australian couple came to pay tribute to the twenty five year old daughter who was among the passengers on the flight on our website archie dot com the timeline of events is surrounding the tragedy plus the latest from the investigation. still ahead in the program a washington again
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a good news of russia involvement in ukraine while refusing to provide any evidence i can underline the information that had led to that effect meant after the break you were reporting on the mounting pressure on the u.s. to back up its allegations with facts. and. this immediately though shall we leave that may be. part of the she pushes she truly play your part of the vision. or shoes that no one is there with the guess that you deserve answers from. politics. government system is to help poor people poor women but they're going to leak to change their life and nobody's trying to make money out of them those who want to make money out of them but misusing. the time to begin to launch
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a can do their shit and get off or still show. up as a large international in the past two months at these two hundred fifty civilians have been killed in the ukrainian city of new gods which isn't a military siege and over eight hundred and fifty are wounded and the death toll continues to rise over the weekend killed forces shelled the city claiming another
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one thousand lives it is the residential areas that were hit the worst in the recent bombardment of lugansk and people with reported killed at a bus stop they came under fire i want to shells damage more than twenty buildings including a school and a kindergarten that's how one eyewitness described the qana church which will be open with all. the full photo you just heard an awful. but it looks like they want you to fight it. with you to perform for you before you get busier than ever. before you'll for example a movie the other way you live rhythm you're born you don't know what you want to get where you're going to show there's those few overrules good. in other developments human rights watch says the ukrainian army may have committed a war crime when they killed sixteen civilians with unguided grad rockets in the dennett's gregan the group says the grad system is just too in accurate should be
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used on populated 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 that the ukrainian military should be called for count 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 civilians 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 buy in 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 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
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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 private 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 fighting also continues unabated as in the nets call with forces
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advance into the outskirts of the city thousands of civilians have fled the area. then you knew you were all in favor of doing here almost near. the region has seen sustained fighting for several weeks now and the military bombardment was over night according to the city council gas pipeline and dozens of homes were damaged by a 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 a dozen years here you can see him see the head of state firing a few rounds but despite attempts to encourage the army more raul appears to be lower than ever soldiers injured on the front lines say their commanders are showing no regard for the safety among kozyrev reports from donetsk. dozens of wounded minutes or you were able to get out from one circle means by and forces the
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soldiers claim that high ranking officers read it comes to the front line and if they do they try to leave as soon as possible preferably before dark you know they're in the. soup of. the with. the with. the flow the 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 now they're mobilization a round of its citizens into active armed forces the money stream to finance all that still seems to be dry announced he won't have the money to pay for a military operation after all because of the first the army needs around seven hundred seventy five million dollars well just
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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 parishioners targets are among koester of artsy don't ask you crane. medo russia's a foreign ministry has issued a strongly worded statement on the ukrainian crisis it criticizes washington saying it but as postle responsibility for the conflict and its deadly consequences moscow also accuses the obama administration of relying on false hopes to implement its foreign policy go to the united nations and the number of refugees from eastern ukraine has doubled since june and some thousands of fled the area to escape the onslaught that's got a chicken reports the findings simply do not fit washington's narrative. the u.n. says two hundred fifty thousand ukrainians have left their homes in eastern ukraine
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since the fighting began to say department had dallied 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 i can't confirm those numbers and 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 that artillery russian territory the military is going into a not your immediate military outpost but you are convinced we have seen no indication she no indication that the at this it is true that there are some
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encouraging while the u.s. 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. than you don't you can you would know with them. but there must not bore you so you can't have a harder with the eloquence of cherry blossoms. the idea which was a bit are you with us would be a sense of the bit i because it's a much better book to go with would have one of these than the true but the most part the but the much 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 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
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evidence here's what she said it's not and i don't. know but i think it's more you know 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'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. there's always plenty more for you on our website including a star wars gables word along with mr turtle the flock to the u.s. city of san diego as fans from all over the world together for the and world comic-con international festival head to r.t. dot com for all the details and pictures. hundreds of people in bolivia perform their national dance in attempt to break
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a world record the story and much more online. and a look now at some other news of the world a turkish court has ordered the arrest of twelve collusion. charges of wiretapping the prime minister the former head of istanbul's intelligence unit is believed to be among those detained earlier this week one hundred fifteen police officers was seized in overnight raids and it led to a growing political standoff. at least two tunisian soldiers have been killed in a militant ambush in the north of the country islamist fighters a strong army checkpoint close to the algerian border security forces have been waging a long running campaign to destroy terrorist bases in the mountainous area. a violent clash between two communities in northern india has left three people dead in over nineteen injured police fired rubber bullets to break up the rival groups
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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 a way temperatures are nearing forty degrees celsius over one hundred thousand eight hundred are being treated in hospital or exhaustion many of them elderly or the forecasters i spoke to more extreme temperatures sunday and and rising people to drink plenty of water. britain's the daily mirror a tabloid newspaper has been left red faced after failing to do some fact checking when putting together friday's front page the paper published a cover photo saying it was the russian president and his daughter the story claimed she had fled her home in the netherlands but the woman next to putin turns
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out to have no connection to him she is in fact a lawyer who was working for russia's federal agency for youth affairs at the time the picture was taken we managed to speak to her. because she was a nice sunny day the president was walking on my left so i remembered that the photo was taken by chance in two thousand and eight someone posted it on the internet without checking the facts it's strange that now a media organization with such a big name has decided to use it. coming up max and stacy look at whether the world is on the brink of another financial crisis. we chase profit very large very attractive and now very globally recognized source of oil for the world looking into the future the world's cheapest and and best
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