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international investigators say they can't drinks the malaysian airliner crash site in ukraine g. to heavy fighting and a turning back is intensifying assault despite declaring the area a no conflict zone. russia's foreign minister says the groundless allegations against moscow over ukraine need to stop but it says there will be no tit for tat response to any western sanctions. a mother and child shelled in a park the latest graphic images to come out of the region at least thirteen people were killed when the streets of call of care became the new target for kids artillery. and the u.n. security council calls for an immediate cease fire in gaza where fighting is
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continued after failed attempts to agree on a truce between hamas and israel. welcome my name is neil harvey and you're watching r.t. international. international police and investigators are turning back from the crash site of the malaysian airliner which came down in east ukraine government troops have stepped up their assault on resistance forces in the region and that despite earlier declaring the area around the passenger jet a no combat zone around the russia ukraine border and he joins us live from mine good to speak to you what more can you tell us. that's right said the international team of police force involving australia in the netherlands nationals are
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unable to reach the crash sites of flight m h seventeen for the second day in a role they were stopped short of reaching the side about twenty kilometers in the sound of your school where heavy fighting continues. are still aree and the gunfire is heard throughout the city as people continue to flee the area now this is all despite the announcement by president bill to par schenkel off an old combat zone within forty kilometers of that area another town of shots are only about fifteen to twenty kilometers away from that site so that was clearly violated meanwhile the civilians continued to die at the sites and near the sites near the site of the crash and they continue to flee as well despite that announcements now both sides are blaming each other for intensifying off the lights in the air the crash sites of malaysia airlines flights and meanwhile the always see and the international team of experts are still trying to get to the side of the tragedy ok
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thanks very much that's of course want to remind culture of keeping us up to date from the russia ukraine border. speed almost a month since ukraine's president vowed he wouldn't allow any civilian blood to be spilled in eastern ukraine. we will advance and we will liberate our land of ukraine's armed forces the national guard and other divisions will never use force against civilians they will never target residential areas. so let's examine what's come out of the late stages of his so-called anti terror operation as we can see here kid has been tightening the noose around the centers of resistance the town of the town is being besieged not to mention the two biggest cities down yet and lugansk the approach of ukraine's military is often marked by the shelling of peoples. and one of the latest targets for kids i'll tell you was the city of goal of the pitches coming from that illustrate how small that anything
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the real victims of a war such as this the following images i must warn you are extremely graphic. still. to see martin. is no liberal do. the couple and their child are among at least thirteen people who were killed in goal of during sunday's bombardment maternity home and the church were damaged in the attack something that happened elsewhere in the region here's a local residents account of what they saw while there was a strike on the city it most likely from grad rocket systems there is a very popular supermarket in the city center when the shell fell on to it there
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were a lot of customers there another fell in a residential yard in another near the city's maternity home causing all the windows to blow out explosions could be heard all through the day starting from four in the morning they simply raising us to the ground. the launching of an guy did grad rockets into populated areas has been strongly condemned by human rights watch the group warns that the weapons are in precise and that they use in residential areas could be classified a war crime and the media briefing in moscow russia's foreign minister offered a reminder of what the ukrainian president and promised. to go to the ukrainian soldiers and guardsmen will risk their own lives in order to ensure the safety of women children and elderly people but it will that's an eternal likely nature of a ukrainian warrior. russia's foreign minister is also accused the west of returning to a policy of containing russia with
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a look at what else sergey lavrov had to say at a media briefing kids marina. that a gale of of set up the peace plan has failed because they cranium the government has rejected any dialogue with the opposition of resorting and that's in military force and as a result civilians continue to die and then he went on to brush off allegations that russia is sending in their heavy weaponry to answer government fighters across the border highlight saying in fact the russians invitation to international monitors to go to those checkpoints and question and see for themselves all to examine and no one has even stepped foot there. president putin invited european observers to russian border checkpoints with ukraine to observe the situation there well it's been two weeks since that invitation and u.s. british and ukrainian diplomats have taken efforts to convince the o.s.c. each not to accept their offer were hoping that such an observing mission would dispel any allegations that these checkpoints are being used to smuggle weapons
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across the border from russia. set a goal of reiterated russia's desire for a fourth or an objective investigation into the mh seventeen a plane crash and reminding once again that russia made public ed state of regarding the crash and now it expects its western partners to do the same because so far the u.s. is only side saying classified intelligence data providing zero evidence at the same time as we know the west continues to slap russia with more sanctions even though it's unclear what they want it to do now in terms of the economic sanctions and the economic repercussions the foreign minister said that he's confident that pretty much russia will no indulgence an eye for a nice an aria. and this latest allegation against moscow the u.s. state department to send out e-mails with satellite images it says proves that russia has been firing across the border into ukraine orton's ambassador to kiev also put the pictures on twitter citing u.s. intelligence as the source according to washington the images show ukrainian
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military units have been fired on with heavy weapons which only russia could have used moscow has denied those allegations the russian defense ministry says inspectors from various countries including the u.s. have been on the ground but found no trace of russia violating ukraine's border and former white house official paul craig roberts doubts the credibility of washington's latest allegations someone leaves the air state department did they issue this information by e-mail early on a sunday morning this is a completely dead time in news many american cities are you going to. so it's just go los angeles seattle it's still early hours in the morning so. if this was released by the state department which i doubt it's so unprofessional i was a assistant sector the united states treasury hours ago to the wall street journal
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this is not the way important news is released ever. well moscow maintains its forces are not firing into ukraine but civilian casualties on the russian side of the border are mounting the real stuff region has been coming under sporadic shelling the russian civilian was killed and several others wounded during one such attack on july thirteenth the military says at least nine such strikes have taken place moscow believes the attacks all deliberate and demanded an explanation from kiev which denies involvement. plenty more to come for you this hour do stay with us here on r.t. for the latest updates on ukraine and you can also get more news and analysis on our web site dot com. it's low income families kicked to the curb. just people always in people. we tell you how tenants in d.c. are being told to come up with more than eight hundred thousand dollars each or get
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local. t.v. . welcome back the israeli army says a single rocket has been launched from gaza on monday and it responded with three air strikes also a four year old palestinian boy was reportedly killed in the areas north after tank shells hit his house the u.n. security council is calling for an immediate and unconditional cease fire in gaza and macedonia announced a halt to the fighting ahead of celebrations to mark the end of ramadan a twenty four hour ceasefire extension failed to hold on sunday first the palestinian militant group rejected the deal of firing barrels of rockets from gaza into israel and saying it could not agree to a truce until israel pulled out of gaza this prompted israel to shell the area later hamas relented and called for the truce to be reinstated fighting subsided
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during the day but there is still no official truce in place harry fear reports for us from gaza. this is meant to be a day of celebration giving the islamic context of a holy holiday about really on the ground palestinians are extremely fatigued by this conflict which has caused incredible civilian loss almost everyone you speak to quite literally knows a relative or has themselves directly been caught up in the operation which is lost of course over twenty days and killed hundreds of women and children we've seen hospitals hit directly or indirectly and of course hundreds of homes just a few days ago a taxi driver that the crew here in gaza fought see has been frequenting he was actually assassinated says by a drone missile a few hours after we were using him for filming a report for r.t.
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the place looks like an incredible war zone i'm joined now by shah he is a resident of beit lahia in the north area of the gaza strip just a couple of days ago his home was demolished by israel can you tell us what happened. in the morning as we were taking water. we we hear a sheltie and a scary in our. quarters to evacuate our homes quickly we have volk it sixteen bombs in our homes we found my cousin he's did. my my cousin's some of my cousins were injured and despond we are not hamas and we are not just by the senior this is an incredible horrible awful war against the civil be bold here in bali c.n.n. in gaza strip actually in what's happened in the north.
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and all the borders of gaza strip showband we're very sorry to hear about your story both of the parties israel and hamas are both strong in. position wanting to gain concessions israel wants to destroy hamas infrastructure the palestinians here have mass want to gain concessions with respect to the siege of gaza the fighting continues and the civilian loss continues. the israeli army has now admitted it fired a mortar round into the courtyard of the u.n. shelter in gaza last week while fighting come out but it says the compound was at the time denied responsibility for the deaths of at least fifteen people there many weapons being used by israel come from the us which is a major supplier to the idea. as more. while u.s. president barack obama has joined the global worse of world leaders calling for an immediate cease fire in the middle east the un fortunate irony is that america has provided most of the weapons the israeli military is currently using to wage war on
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to gaza washington is the largest single supplier of military equipment to tell of it as of two thousand nine israel receives more than ninety five percent of its weapons from the united states that's according to britain's former foreign minister david miliband israel also remains the top recipient of u.s. international aid receiving three point one billion dollars in annual foreign military funding during the most recent budget year the us provided two hundred thirty five million dollars towards the production of israel's iron dome anti rocket system and nearly three hundred million dollars of additional u.s. funding towards other missile defense programs these figures are warning to u.s. congress's own think tanks since israel launched operation protective edge three weeks ago hundreds upon hundreds of palestinians have been killed and according to the u.n. one out of every three killed in gaza is a child an additional one hundred forty thousand civilians on the strip have been
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displaced and while the u.s. has invested in the midst capital in building up israel's military might intend has much less control little influence over how tough it is using the american made missiles and guns it's more. artsy me. trying though some of the world news for you now from around the globe more than one hundred fifty people have died during two weeks of militia clashes in libya the fizzes fighting was for control of tripoli and postponed playing for most a hundred lives france the u.k. germany and italy have the nationals to leave the country the u.s. and british embassies have been evacuated. it is suffering its worst violence since the two thousand and eleven civil war with the government routinely outgunned by islamist rebels. elsewhere liberia is trying to prevent the spread of the deadly ebola virus mass gatherings in the country are now prohibited and border crossings
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are shut the fatal incurable disease has already claimed more than six hundred seventy lives in west africa yet the demick which began in february is the most severe in recorded history. and russia fifty billion dollars to the former shareholders of. oil giant you cos that is the ruling from the arbitration court in the hague after a legal process that lasted nearly a decade the court ruled that you cos was in fact expropriated by the russian government always insisted the business was split up in accordance with market regulations russia now has ten days in which to appeal the court's decision. the downfall of you costs that began with the arrest of its c.e.o. . fraud charges back in two thousand and three the company's assets where they're frozen while the investigation was carried out seven months later moscow said that you cost the government twenty seven billion dollars in tax the oil giant shares
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plummeted and it was sold off to other russian companies for the decimated you cost finally filed for bankruptcy in two thousand and six in july and then a year ago the european court of human rights ruled that the case was in fact not politically motivated because of the cost to himself spent more than a decade behind bars before president putin granted him an early release one analyst told us that the hague court's ruling appears biased. it strikes me as a very political decision the west manages to create this illusion of fair play of rule of law of staring is in the judicial process and this is a bad joke mr holder coast ski and his crew is have been found guilty not only in russian courts but that guilty sentence for tax evasion and fraud was upheld by the european court of human rights it is outrageous that anyone should imagine that russia is going to pay fifty billion dollars to these criminals. hand over
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two hundred fifty million dollars or pack your things that's not a ransom but in fact a landlord ultimatum to some of his low income tenants in washington he's gonna teach account investigate how rising rents are pushing whole families into homelessness. we are in a part of washington that was once an impoverished area although just a twenty minute walk from the white house that is changing rapidly you have luxury apartment buildings popping up everywhere around here and standing next to them is this building for low income families has been here for a while all tenants receive government subsidy here they pay just thirty percent of what they make that contract is about to expire in a cobra and the owner of the building doesn't want to renew it it's hot property now and the owner wants to sell under the law the tenants have the right of first refusal to buy it it seems the owner wants just that the price they're asking for is two hundred fifty million dollars which means for every unit tenants would have
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to pay just under nine hundred thousand dollars now even some of the apartments in new buildings don't cost that much with these low income families it's not an offer it's an eviction notice. what i don't know out on having the money to buy the building you know and they say we have first option you know the building we know about here having the kind of money is not right you know because you just people people can get a job and be put on a quick i'm going to go in a well so area is right by d.c. chinatown half of the tenants in this government subsidized building are chinese but as real estate here is booming the chinese community is dwindling this facts not just the chinese community and not just low income families of washington d.c. you have this trend across the us in san francisco one property owner is now trying to evict a ninety eight year old woman from a home where she had lived for three years i am kilo i'm glad to nine hundred and
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i'm too old to pack up and they. just can't do buckle right here that several dozen protesters rallied today calling. and to the rising number of the victims in san francisco now it's really worth it reporter you know this country in our it or you know it has been for quite some time but it's just getting worse a real estate boom may be a wonderful thing but for low income families it can be devastating in washington i'm going to check on. online now at r.t. dot com when your children suffer racism even before they're born that's the subject of a scandal in calgary after it was revealed the city's only fertility clinic bound patients from choosing nonwhite donors read all about it on our website. also that for you is believed to be the first american to blow himself up in a suicide attack in syria this video was reportedly shot before he went on these
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fateful terror mission. next the european commission is set on unraveling the mysteries of the human mind but the multi billion euro project to simulate the workings of the brain has been criticised by neuroscientists who fear it is doomed to be an expensive lottie's peeta all of it puts his mind to the matter. the human brain it's incredibly complex so complex in fact we know little about how it works european scientists of planning to supercomputers to try and change that all parts of the human brain project with this technology we can do behavioral experiments in simulation with a degree of fidelity that wasn't possible before and know about its platform will provide interfaces to real systems in simulation we consider this a starting point for completely new develop development in the bottoms it's not
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only in robotics that they hope to break ground the program will also seek out new ways to treat brain injuries and mental health problems the project is based in switzerland but over the next ten years will involve institutions europe wide one of the sticking points though is the cost currently estimated at around one point two billion euro but funding that's prompted an open letter of protest from neuroscientists who are concerned the money is not going to the right place i find it very nice to have such a large amount of money devoted to nurse science but then first of all it should indeed be devoted to nurse science and not the computer in st and there are worries the approach could be all wrong in the end you have two problems rather than one mainly you have still the brain that you don't understand and in addition you agree it is the machine that you don't understand with europe still not out of the woods
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economically and barking on such a project with e.u. money is risky with only one real loser with. the tax paying and they pay twice additional costs increase national debt so tax payers pay first for the initial cost then they face extra costs that come in post planning. all of which has sparked a debate in scientific circles whether it's bet is to keep your mind on your money when it comes to this project or whether the e.u. is correct in spending money on the mind peter all over r.t. the. and staying with us here on our tail of the very latest headlines for you at the top of the hour up next they can get a firsthand account of what it's like to travel the atlantic on an eighteenth century tall ship and for u.k. views sylvie cross-talk with peta the fallacies.
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of death row inmate joseph would rise in pain during a two hour execution this prolonged suffering was not part of the plan and not constitutional but an accident and not quite a unique wanted that just this year in both oklahoma and my native ohio there have been botched executions due to complications with lethal injection one judge alex kozinski who voted to give would a stay of execution due to the questionable nature of lethal injection drugs said that the good old firing squad would be a lot more humane and his opinion eight or ten large caliber bullets fired at close range inflict massive damage causing instant death every time i think with the injection is popular not for the executed but for society as judge kozinski said shooting someone in the head with a machine gun is instant death so why don't they use the firing squad because that
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would be messy and raise questions quietly injecting people way from prying public eyes allows the dirty deed to be done without the hassle of ugly news footage i think that it says something odd about society that we must kill the wicked and murderous but could you do it in a bloodless way completely out of sight i don't want to lose my appetite but that's just my opinion. given that system is to help poor people who are women but you can only change their life and nobody's trying to make money out of them those who want to make money out. but misusing government concept turned the whole thing into action and we're all forced to move. cheese from now you'll be more disappointed part of things you didn't do them by the ones you did to proof the power line away from the safe harbor to trade winds
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