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them. down the whole thing. and we're all forced to look. at international police t.v. is forced to turn back on its way to the malaysian plane crash site in eastern ukraine this heavy combat d. rails that fresh attempt to reach the scene. the number of civilians killed in army shelling grows with an entire family including a small child among the latest to fall victim to the bombs which are targeting residential areas in the city of gori of. russia's foreign minister says the moscow is not going to impose tit for tat measures in response to the ever growing clutch of sanctions from the west. and the un security council is demanding an immediate and unconditional truce in garza israel and hamas continue to exchange
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airstrikes after failing to agree on a cease fire. welcome once again my name is the harvey you're watching r.t. international. team of foreign police have had to abandon their efforts to reach the site of the malaysian plane crash in eastern ukraine they managed to reach the nearby town but the ongoing fighting prevented them from getting any further the army is waging an offensive on local militia there despite declaring a forty kilometer no combat zone around the crash site earlier auntie's around cautious following the attempts of international teams to reach the scene. international team of police force involving in australia in the netherlands nationals are unable to reach the crash site so flight m h seventeen for this
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second day in a role would be are sick and tired of being interrupted by gunfire it's despite the fact of you know if it creates that there should be a cease fire that was stopped short of reaching the site about twenty kilometers in that sound. where heavy fighting continues. and that gunfire is heard throughout the city as it people can sue for the area. now this is all despite the announcement by president build up our schenkel combat zone within forty kilometers of that area another town of shots because only about fifteen to twenty kilometers away from that site so that was clearly violated both sides are blaming each other for intensifying off the flights 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.
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now we're getting reports that five civilians have been killed in the eastern ukrainian city of lugansk that's one of the hubs of anti kiev resistance and the main target of the ukrainian military here are the pictures that we've been getting from the city that apparently show a large residential building being hit by a shell local officials claiming many of the houses were damaged as well and its most recent report the u.n. is raising the alarm over the growing number of civilians killed in the region by tele rafah heating residential areas. and earlier human rights watch confirmed the use of ground rockets in eastern ukraine condemning its use in populated areas the body has both sides to stop using the weapons if they are serious about limiting harm to civilians or ukraine's president claimed about a month ago that forces will never allow. are themselves to use force against the civilian population and that's actually the quote this just brought up by russia's foreign minister lavrov when he recalls petro poroshenko saying that threatening
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women and children is against the night's nature of the ukrainian army but unfortunately it appears that more and more civilians are being caught up in the violence is how the front lines in eastern ukraine are looking at the moment here forces closing in on the cities controlled by local militia we're getting reports of residential areas coming under fire in those antigovernment stronghold almost every day if we take a look at the town of goal of was surrounded you have as pointed out for your ghent surrounded completely there by kiev troops it's seen some of the worst spikes of violence recently and now we're about to show you what happened there after it came under heavy fire on sunday i must warn you though that the upcoming images are extremely graphic just due to. god i'm. still.
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used to digital is no liberal do. now as you've just seen the young couple and their child were killed there and they are among thirteen civilians who died in on sunday ukrainian forces say that they're planning further attacks on militia controlling the city later today here's a local residents account of the previous deadly strike which hit residential areas . while there was a strike on the city most likely from grad rocket systems there is a very popular supermarket in the city center when the shell fell onto it there 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
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four in the morning they simply raising us to the ground. russia's foreign minister says that western countries should be pushing for an immediate unconditional cease fire in ukraine riva kosovo was listening to sergei lavrov his briefing to the media the foreign minister brought up the peace plan in ukraine saying there isn't the why it failed is because the ukrainian government rejected dialogue with the opposition of resorting instead to military force he also went on to brush off allegations that russia is sending weapons to government fighters across the border highlighting russia's invitation to international monitors to go to those checkpoints in question where this is allegedly happening to see for themselves because you're. absolutely schools and invited european observers to russian border checkpoints with ukraine to observe the situation there been two weeks since died in the tunisian and u.s. or british and ukrainian diplomats have taken efforts to convince them. not to accept the offer the foreign minister said that he hopes that when international
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experts do finally get there they will see for themselves that there is no arms transportation and they will clear all of these accusations when i want to comes to the mh seventeen a plane crash that a lot of reiterated russia's calls for a fourth or an objective investigation reminding everyone that russia has presented its data regarding this tragedy and its expecting and so western counterparts partners to do the same and show their evidence as well now the foreign minister said it's still unclear exactly what the west wants russia to do or what it expects from it now as we know of course they're more a sanction slapped on russia at this point when it comes to the economic repercussions all of these sanctions sigil of of said that russia is confident that i will be able to overcome any cannot make out hardships and in fact this could actually make russia become more economically independent and also he stressed that russia will not being gaijin and for tap measures.
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want to treat. the situation with the clear our president has already said we cannot ignore this but getting hysterical and responding with the backlash is beneath a large country and we do not want any histeria we have dignity and will proceed from that a so-called enforced for also brought up and said again lover of us said that western media are actually of a few cents to consider russia's version of events and what's troubling him the most that minette is the fact that regulators in the u.k. are trying to clamp down on r.t. is a coverage of the ukrainian crisis and he wrapped up the conference by sayin by saying it's really important right now to show the four picture of what is happening n. ukraine and that the only thing that russia wants to achieve there is peace and the only way that this can be achieved according to said a gay lover of is through an all inclusive dialogue. russia's defense ministry says the satellite images released by washington is evidence that russia has been firing
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across the border into ukraine but they say they are fake according to the u.s. the images show blasts marks on the russian side and impact craters on the ukrainian side moscow says there are no precise coordinates on the pictures and that they cannot be authenticated also inspectors from various countries including the u.s. have been on the ground but found no evidence of russia violating ukraine's border and former white house official paul craig roberts doubts the credibility of washington's latest allegations only. do you sure information. by email early on a sunday morning this is a completely dead time in news many american cities aren't even up yet san francisco 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
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was a assistant secretary the united states treasury i was headed to the wall street journal this is not the way important news is released ever. maintains that its forces are not firing into ukraine while on the commentary there is being sporadic shelling of rushes that hostile phrasing which lies along the border. a 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 that the attacks all deliberate and has demanded an explanation from kiev which denies any involvement. with plenty more to come for you this hour stay with me for the latest updates on ukraine you can also get more news and analysis of course on our web site that's. dot com still to come for you though the hague does russia to pay more than fifty billion dollars to make of. oil heavyweights you cause we'll bring you more expert opinion of the controller sees
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about ruling very shortly. and also on the way pay for pac we'll take a look at how tenants in washington d.c. you're forced to pay overwhelming rents by their landlords under the threat of eviction. iran like syria has been georgia very harshly on the leaves and the constant. isn't it justified in if not pursuing the weapon down you know raising the spectrum of personal revenue would lead to one you know who say move on you see we've developing nuclear weapons. recently did they want to see. me before may inform. we would be stupid not to take you.
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choose your language. choose to consume. choose. the great. choose the stories get him. to to speak. welcome back the israeli army says a single rocket was launched from gaza on monday forcing it to respond with three air strikes a four year old palestinian boy was reportedly killed in the areas north that was after tank shells hit his house the u.n. secretary general has called on both sides of the conflict we knew
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a humanitarian truce in gaza and reiterated his appeal for a cease fire although macedonia announced a halt to fighting and was 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 fired barrels of rockets from gaza into israel saying it couldn't agree to a deal until israel pulled out of gaza this prompted israel to shell the area and then later hamas relented and called for the truce to be reinstated fighting subsided during the day but there is still no real truce in place harry fear reports now from gaza. this is meant to be a day of celebration giving the islamic context of a holy a holiday about really on the ground palestinians are extremely fatigued by this conflict which is called. in los almost everyone you speak to quite literally knows
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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 for r.t. 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. the place looks like an incredible war zone i'm joined now by. he is a resident of beit lahiya 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. we we hear a sheltie and a security in our in our quarters to evacuate our homes weekly.
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they didn't evacuate don't because my his his wife. so we evacuated don't then and they've been coming and will we see how volk it's sixteen bombs in our homes we found my cousin he's dead. and my my cousins some of my cousins were injured in this bomb we are not hamas and we are not just palestinian both of the parties israel and hamas are both strong in that position wanting to gain concessions israel wants destroy hamas infrastructure the palestinians here hamas want to gain concessions with respect to the siege of gaza the fighting continues and the civilian loss continues. israel is now acknowledged it unintentionally bombarded the courtyard of a un school in gaza last week but it denies it's responsible for at least fifteen deaths there say the compound was empty at the time of the strike and any weapons
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in israel's arsenal come from the us which is a major supplier to the i.d.f. rina portnoy has more. u.s. president barack obama has joined the global worse of world leaders calling for an immediate ceasefire 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 to gaza washington is the largest single supplier of military equipment to tell of the as of two thousand and 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
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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 displaced and while the u.s. has invested in her midst capital in building up israel's military might in turn has much less control little influence over how television is using the american made missiles and guns it's more. artsy. i found plenty more a new stories that we're covering all no website so does the u.k. is going to allow fracking in national parks and heritage sites but only in exceptional circumstances off the u.k.'s now open to shale gas drilling to spoil
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the growing public concerns over the environmental impacts read all about it on our website. he's believed to be the first american to blow himself up in a suicide attack in syria this is the final footage of him alive before he carried out these deadly attack find out more about it at r.t. dot com. low income families in the u.s. are being pushed to the edge with landlords hiking rents to new heights as you can went to see why some families in washington were told to come up with almost nine hundred thousand dollars each or pack their bags. 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 kinds we see of government subsidy here they pay just thirty percent of
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what they make that contract is about to expire in october 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 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 options you know the building we know about here having that kind of money is not right you know because you just people people can get a job in the book and i. am going to go into what they say area is right by d.c. chinatown half of the tenants in this government subsidized building our chinese
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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 the home where she had lived for fifteen years i am kilo i'm clad in the hundreds and i'm too old to pack up and. just. to buckle right here that several dozen protesters rallied today calling. point and to the rising number of the vixens in san francisco now it's really worth it reporter you know to structure 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. have
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a trace in court in the hague has ordered russia to pay more than fifty billion dollars to the former shareholders of the or john you cos really marks a milestone in a more than a decade long legal process according to that ruling you cos owned by former tycoon mikhail khodorkovsky was in fact expropriated by the kremlin and it contradicts moscow's claims that the business was split up in accordance with market regulations russia now has ten days in which to appeal the court's decision one analyst told us that the ruling is just another ball in the political games being played. it strikes me as a very political decision the west manages to create this illusion of. law. staring this in the judicial process and this is the. mr sort of cold ski and he is he's had been found guilty not only in russian courts but is that guilty sentence for tax evasion and fraud which was uphill by the european court of human rights it
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is outrageous that anyone should imagine that russia is going to pay sixty billion dollars to these criminals. fast food john mcdonald's has found itself on the battlefield with russia's officials once again in federal consumer protection agency has lashed out at the chain of restaurants after numerous violations were found during checks a corresponding riff an option to investigate russia's consumer rights watch is definitely not loving it and they stricker a drink is just one product in the firing line in may regional broncho frost but i've not sold watched ones to checkpoint one of the fast food chains outfits in nizhny novgorod not far from most going to claim the caesar sandwiches wrap sandwiches and vegetable salad were contaminated with e. coli bacteria but also complained that to make those is deceiving people about the energy and traditional value of its cheeseburgers milkshakes and ice cream although
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the food giant denied everything officials are going to call it a new way to raised the possibility of further inspect a she is included here in moscow and other russian regions and we can expect that some items could soon be taken off the menu russian officials though stressed that they're not planning any kind of ban of the brand itself here in the country spain twenty five years since may goes first came to russia has opened more than four hundred restaurants all across the country and these latest developments have met a mixed public reaction in some russian cities people took to the. streets calling on the authorities to shut down the chain restaurant they were carrying banners we quite insulting masters on them accusing us of poisoning the russian people but others expressed their concerns about any possible ban complaining that they would be nice their favorite burger the court will hold a preliminary hearing in august but the key hearing is likely to happen in september well let's see. it on three more news from around the world now starting
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with the wildfire in a california national park that quadrupled in size overnight attacking two communities in forest and. blazes so far destroyed one home and endangered areas have been evacuated two shelters have been set up for people forced from their homes it's actually the second wildfire in that area firefighters are already battling against flames in the north of the state which already destroyed hundreds of homes. where dozens of people have been trapped on two buses after heavy rain caused flash flooding in eastern china floods caused more than ten vehicles and two buses filled with civilians to be trapped on a low lying section of road firefighters took forty minutes to rescue the passengers. are back in just over half an hour the very latest news for you stay with us after a short break you get a firsthand account of what life is like on board an eighteenth century tall ship
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in the middle of the atlantic and if you are watching those on dry land in the u.k. it's time to go underground with returns and join. death row inmate just of would rise in pain during a two hour execution this prolonged suffering was not part of the player and not. situational 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 what 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 and massive damage causing instant death every time i think lethal injection
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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 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 is trying to make money out of them those who want to make money out of them. have tons of. shocking diction and force to.
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