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israel approved a new twenty four hour ceasefire in gaza last thing until midnight sunday but hamas says it will not abide by the truce. train body kriti military i was threatened with my life when i was deported from the country in bonn 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 describe what happened after he went missing in eastern ukraine. the number of civilians killed in a military crackdown on the eastern provinces of ukraine continue to rise here forces a shell the city killing at least nineteen people. and us fighting continues unabated human rights watch urges kiev to stop using on guided
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rockets in densely populated residential areas saying it violates international law and could amount to a war crime. very well malcolm to you if you just joined us here on r.t. international live from moscow are you with me to say. israel has approved a twenty four hour extension of a cease fire in gaza which will now ended midnight on sunday local time hamas however says it won't stop firing rockets across the border until israeli troops leave gaza one hundred palestinian bodies were recovered from the rubble during the infighting on saturday bringing the gaza death toll to over a thousand years policia with the details. because when security cabinet has agreed
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to a twenty four hour extension of those united nations humanitarian ceasefire that was first implemented early on saturday israeli officials are 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 act they are also saying that during this twenty four hour extension israeli soldiers who may be inside gaza where they will continue to locate destroy and dismantle tunnels now the security cabinet is said to reconvene early on sunday morning to reassess the situation however we are hearing from anyhow 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 too by both sides it was in extended for further still hours and it was during those few hours that the israelis complain that hamas broke the truce there were at least
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a dozen rockets in that time they were fired at south and central israel now all of this is happening during a lull 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 united nations 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 funerals that will hold 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 people we have witnessed. clashes some of them violent here in east jerusalem the
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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 tell us the palestinian the politicization and activists most good to you things that israel must be held responsible for strutting 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 israel that blocked the united states and the united nations security council twice then there's a very wanted to impose its own conditions by in being 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 from the pressure 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 the 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 thousands attended a peace rally in tel aviv people called for and the operation in gaza which has resulted in forty israeli deaths mostly soldiers protesters against the offensive have been held across the globe with some of them turning violent. in paris the riot police were deployed to disperse a crowd forcing them back with tear gas thousands also mosques in london waving
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banners with messages blaming israel for the thousand death toll in gaza saturday's events came a day after the annual output stage marked by millions of muslims worldwide was a day of solidarity with the palestinians in some cities angry mobs burned u.s. and israeli flags and also rallies in the united states less than america europe and many arab countries. calls for an end to the volumes have been just as loud online on. website you can take a look at the flood of pictures being posted but the hash tag jews and arabs refuse to be enemies was launched by a us couple of mixed arab jewish descent. to be an. over on. british journalist graham phillips has been barred from entering ukraine for three years due to his reporting
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foreign team phillips was missing for several days before kiev security services sentiment out of the country 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 to an artillery position that they were firing heavily from that was being fired on i was kept in a cellar was detained along with another journalist for dealing with these people in front of me i saw soldiers you know kicking 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 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
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ukraine and entered it through russia it's all completely completely false they were accusing me of working for terrorists all these accusations and interrogations and then they took my computer they took my things and i've just go i have 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 of iraqis who want to go to recount my e-mail account. obviously money in livelihood someone is deleted two thousand videos from back to every single account i have facebook contact the time ukrainian forces have had my computer it was held by the s.p. hughes well they've taken out they've stripped all the passwords basically being tacked and despite in 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 was report the
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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 then i've been cyberattack so basically you know my entire life has been has been taken apart i mean thankfully i'm a lawyer and as you can see an effect of your. shell shocked by the whole experience and just trying to kind of get my bearings and get things back together after what was an ordeal graham phillips also recorded a what he said was a conversation between him and a ukrainian security officer. serious cazalet designedly. not into this new on any of that you wouldn't even hear what your role really you really don't reveal to them you need to remove your mug personally record the whole thing you. really. do need you. know you to believe in getting your.
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meeting with you wasn't he. he. still didn't want to. read it. mr mean you wouldn't. ukraine's security services initially denied having graham phillips in custody and rejected allegations of targeting journalists but they later announced that phillips had been deported as a statement that ukraine's security forces made to when no one knew where the journalist was. there is no information as were both where there is a downturn is heard ukrainian military don't apprehend journalists. 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
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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 they're graham phillips is trying to relate to the world i think just like a policy out of care of transparency is something they're clearly not very good at it's been hiding in cover ups 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. is saying ukraine has become the world's most dangerous place for journalists according to the international news safety institute they say that so so the start of the euro working in eastern ukraine has been more risky than even
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in iraq syria and pakistan seven media workers have died in the region so far while covering the ongoing conflict between kiev and anti-government forces and for those people where employees of russian newspapers and poll costas. 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 deploying police at the site of the crash dutch officials have requested unhindered access to the wreckage to conduct a full investigation and i know a sadhana in july the seventeenth andrzej from amsterdam to kuala lumpur killing all two hundred ninety eight passengers and crew on board. the process of sending the victims' bodies home continues to military planes have transported the remains from in ukraine to the netherlands the flight recorders are currently being
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examined by experts in the u.k. given the us accuse local militia groups of shooting down the boeing triple seven it claims they were armed by russia moscow denies any involvement and is demanding an explanation from ukraine after release and raided data suggesting a flight to jet was near the plane at the time it went down so far there's been no response. the first family of flight m.h. seventy the victim has arrived at the crash site an australian couple came to pay tribute to their twenty five year old daughter who was among the passengers on the flight on our website as a timeline of events surrounding the tragedy plus the latest on the investigation. still ahead on the program washington again accuses russia of involvement in. provide any evidence. i can underline the information i had but to that effect when
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shortly we report on the mounting pressure on the us to back up its allegations with back. in the past two months at least two hundred fifty civilians have been killed in the ukrainian city of lee guns which is under a military siege and over eight hundred fifty are wounded and the death toll continues to rise over the weekend killed forces shelled the city claiming another one thousand lives it is the residential areas that were hit the worst in the recent bombardment of lugansk ten people were reported killed at a bus stop that came under fire mortar shells damaged more than twenty buildings including a school and again the gotten is how one eyewitness described the carnage would be wrong with rock. the boat burial you just heard an awful. lot about you would read forever. would you top of the world are you discovering your concern over. what's
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more beautiful for you or for example or the other where you live rather miserable and you can hear what you want to get while you're probably still going to those few over rolls before. and other developments human rights watch says the ukrainian army may have committed a war crime when it killed sixteen civilians with unguided grad rockets in the deadly it's gregan the group says the grad system is just too in accurate to be used in 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 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
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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 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
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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 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 by saying also continues unabated and skill with forces advancing to the outskirts of the city and thousands of civilians have fled the area. then you knew you were a woman for doing your. region has seen a sustained fighting for several weeks now and the military bombardment was stepped up overnight according to the city's gas pipeline and dozens of homes were damaged by mortar fire some buildings left in ruins train services have ground come to
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a ground to a standstill with mass cancellations making it increasingly difficult to leave the area. furthermore into government forces are claiming they hear every use banned or wide forceful response during the latest shelling of the nearest they posted this video of the alleged attack online which hasn't been independently verified moscow meanwhile says it has proof that kiff has used the controversial weapon on or at least six different occasions russia's defense ministry claims there were a number of indicators which i characteristic of phosphorous bombs is denying these allegations earlier we got the thoughts of a british army officer charles shoot bridge. shows many of the characteristics one would associate with white phosphorous use in particular it looks like it's an air burst device that's to say it's been delivered by mortars or artillery or props in aircraft it covers quite some substantial areas you can see by the time it reaches the ground and also you've got this very characteristic. features of breaking into
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very small very bright burning particles which as indeed military spokespeople elsewhere have commented upon in their right to do so that it falls very quickly to the ground this is a fear some device white phosphorus will burn it intense heat will burn right through to the bone it's it can't be put out by using water and if civilians are in the air it's all my sense of course widespread damage as well as fear and of course very serious injuries if it can be proved that white phosphorus has been used against either civilian targets or in an area where it's very likely civilians will be harmed that could well be repercussions in terms of crimes actions for example ukraine is indeed a signatory to the convention the u.n. convention which governs the use of in sentry weapons. ukraine's president petro poroshenko has visited an army training base in donetsk
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a you can see the head of state firing a few rounds but despite attempts to encourage the army morale appears to be lower than ever soldiers injured on the front line say their commanders are showing no regard for their safety when one costs referee posts from twentieth. dozens of wounded minutes or we were able to get out from one circle means by and forces the soldiers claim that high ranking officers read it comes to the front line and if they do they tried to leave as soon as possible preferably before dark if they're in the. soup of the ones who was in the. car with the bar. and 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
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they had ordered yes and another 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 military operation after all because of the first duty of the army of 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 cos or have artsy done s.q. crane. meanwhile russia's foreign ministry has issued a strongly worded statement on the ukrainian crisis it criticizes washington saying it is possible responsibility for the conflict and its deadly consequences moscow also accuses the obama administration of relying on falls implemented foreign policy according to the united nations the number of refugees from eastern ukraine
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has doubled since june tens of thousands have fled the area to escape the army onslaught but as 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 since the fighting began the state department had doubted the sources of the un's previous reports on ukrainian refugees and many russians from ukraine have family in russia some may be staying with them but neither ukrainian border guards or nor international organizations operating 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 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 city for whom believes ukrainian military posts
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came under fire from the russian territory the spokesperson did not go into detail of where such information comes from you are just that artillery russian territory the military is going in even out your immediate military outpost but you are convinced we have seen no indication she's no indication that the at this it is true that there's an incursion while the u.s. department says no indication that the washington comes on the fire from ukraine witnesses who live near the border inside russia offer a different perspective the issue not. only does when you jumped on. you seem to be in uganda with them but they will stop for you so you can preserve our with the eloquence of cherry blossoms. the idea which was a bit are you with us with visions of the bit i visit. with what i want to give them the truth for the most part the put them which is. the u.s. is now saying that russia prepares to send powerful missile launchers into ukraine
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but again does not specify what evidence such allegation is based on i can underline the information that had led to that assessment and we don't have specifics about what those systems might look like to outline when pressed on how officials can put out such allegations without backing them up with substantial evidence here's what she said it's not and i don't deny it. 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's word for it and the media is generally slanted against russia. as always plenty of oil for you on our website to including star wars and game of thrones characters along with ninja turtles flock to the u.s.
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city of san diego as fans from all over the world together for their all comic-con international festival head to r.t. dot com for the details and pictures. hundreds of people in bolivia perform their national guards in attempt to break the world record the story and much more online . now a look now at some other news from around the world a turkish court has ordered the arrest of twelve police officers on the ferry wired to the prime minister from a little bit symbols intelligence unit is believed to be among those detained earlier this week one hundred fifteen police officers were seized in overnight graves in a case that's led to the growing of standoff. at least shootin soldiers have been killed in a militant ambush in the north of the country islamist fighters stormed an army checkpoint close to the algerian border security forces have been waging
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a long running campaign to destroy terrorist bases in the mountainous area. a violent clash between two communities in india has left three people dead and over nineteen injured police fired rubber bullets to break up the rival groups who were hurling bricks at each other a 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. the parents of summer has turned deadly eight people have died of heat stroke on the west coast where temperatures are nearly nearing forty degrees celsius and over a thousand eight hundred are being treated in hospital for heat exhaustion many of them elderly weather forecasters are expecting more extreme temperatures on sunday and are advising people to drink plenty of water. britain's daily mirror tabloid newspaper has been left to red faced after failing to do more fact
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checking when putting together friday's front page the paper published a couple photos saying it was the russian president and his daughter has already claimed that she had fled her home in the netherlands but the woman next to me a putin turns out to have no connection to him she is in fact the lawyer who was working for russia's federal agency for use of as at the time the picture was taken we managed to speak to her. just because she wants a nice sunny day the president was walking on my left so i remember that day but 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. after the break watch engineering students from iran hero put the electronic bikes against each other for racing.
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