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israel fulfills its threat to deliver devastating strikes on gaza with dozens of palestinians killed in attacks from land and sea overnight as the prime minister vows a prolonged campaign. more graphic images emerge from residential areas in eastern ukraine with a care home elderly people coming under a deadly army shelling. the dutch prime minister calls on the ukrainian president to stop the fighting in the area around the malaysian plane crash site which is that foreign police and experts stranded. on the
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ugly side of the beautiful game migrant workers for the twenty twenty two world cup in kandahar have been waiting for a year to get paid for the luxury offices they built organizes. welcome and thanks for joining us this hour my name's neil harvey and you're watching r.t. international israel has come through on its overnight promise to deliver a devastating strike on gaza it suffered one of the bloodiest nights of israeli bombardments of the television warned of a protracted campaign and the sixty palestinians were killed. luu. there you know. it
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was. a prolonged campaign would inevitably mean brawling using numbers of dead which already staggering more than eleven hundred people most of them civilians and children are being killed in the campaign so far israel has lost more than fifty soldiers and three civilians. one of the latest attacks that on a refugee camp was one that caused a spike in the death toll a correspondent centers an only witness video from the scene. knowing children decapitated and see really wounded another but the i.d.f.
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denied it had anything to do with it claiming this was a botched launch. from the heart of the conflict. extraordinary scenes were flares drops by the israeli military lit up vast neighborhoods of smoke crossed the skyline an extraordinary number of flares it was an extraordinary scene almost was not like the night anymore here we've seen significant strikes overnight people have called some of the instance massacres just north of here about two minutes drive we saw the demolition of the home of the gas the prime minister ismail haniya five minutes drive from here we saw attacks we believe f. sixteen strikes on the top of the tower media building on the top floor is high masses t.v. station we also saw just a few hours ago the targeting of basically gases main and only power station we've been looking at the plight of those caught up injured and displaced as the
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hostilities continue it's meant to be a time of celebration the beginning of the islamic eve holiday most of garza's population its children are entirely deprived of stability and security of photos and my. mom has now paralyzed live on like a mother and two sisters killed rates on the gas of the seven year old thought she died when she woke up with no feeling in their kids they don't have any guns they don't have any they have you to dream i want to lay i want. still generally i want to have the big. chill then what has it for for this country just along the corridor abu abdullah waits as his son undergoes surgery having lost a hand in the attacks his pregnant wife lost their baby to top it off like hundreds
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of others they also lost their homes totally destroyed it strikes on the pummel sure your neighborhood palestinians are in every way fatigued by this war it's bitterly felt all the more during the supposed holy days now palestinians call this the age of martyrs harry fear r.t. garson. before showering garza with the rockets israel air dropped leaflets instructing palestinians to leave their homes and take shelter but most of the people didn't have enough time to flee or simply refused to do so earlier ilana starting from the israeli foreign ministry told me she thinks palestinians have made the wrong choice in backing him up. we even had a running joke saying do they understand the word ceasefire or maybe it was lost in translation ceasefire means ceasefire and they kept firing rockets so we are going to cease fire the un said it should be done with the calibration of egypt we are very open to that so we don't have an argument with the international community and
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you will prime minister says that israel will act aggressively and responsibly until this mission is completed do you think that killing civilians is responsible the people in gaza could have had amazing freedom we counted the number of cash that was put into the terror ten dollars it's one point three twenty five billion dollars with that amount of money they could have had a hospital they could have three malls they could have had twenty schools they could have had so much economy going on but they decided to put it into tunnels where it's are supposed to bring terrorists into israel they are doing it using these children it's human shields but when you consider that god is so densely populated even the best of times it can be almost impossible to accurately identify the people you're trying to hit with these missiles and they're always going to be innocent victims sometimes we're bored missions we show footage how sometimes a person tells the pilot aboard the mission we cannot we have civilians we abort missions when we know there are children around we truly do everything possible not
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to harm them but when they actually physically use them as a human shield well that's what happens unfortunately. over dot com we have more updates social media reaction and the latest pictures from the unrest you can get it all just a click away. next ukrainian forces a closing in on anti government strongholds in the country's east with civilians increasingly being caught up in the assault more graphic images are emerging from residential areas in the hubs of resistance which of come under army shelling the following video must warn you unfortunately contains some graphic images this is a care home for the elderly in the city of lugansk apparently after it was pounded by shells five people were killed there in the army strike and eight more injured
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that's according to local officials they also say that a medical university clinic and several residential houses have also come under fire despite earlier pledges not to target the densely populated areas during what it calls its operation. the area around the malaysian plane crash site is caught up in combat as well despite the ukrainian president ordering a no combat zone there in the wake of that tragedy for those prime minister is now urging petro poroshenko to stop the military operation in the area as it's still preventing international teams from reaching the crash site artie's around cautious following the fighting force in eastern ukraine. fighting has certainly intensified in and around the city of donetsk in eastern ukraine now city of gori lefkow was one of the heaviest hits and according to local authorities at least thirty one people had died as a result of artillery fire including eight children now people continue to flee
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that sound. and one of the buses as they reached the town all shots are square it was shelled once again and another child had been killed and twelve people were injured now that particular area is very close to the site of the crash of flight m.h. seventeen it's only about fifteen to seventeen kilometers away and the heavy shelling continues there as well and a key event as government forces continue to blame each other for disability and said meanwhile the holy see the mission as well as the international police force including such as trained in nationals cannot get to the sites of m h seven seen for the third day in a row now all this is happening despite the announcement of a forty kilometer no call bad zone by president bush on call obviously that has been violated said numerous times as the international observing mission and the
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police force cannot get to the sites of the crash. images released by washington to back allegations of russia's attacks on ukraine have triggered a media storm many outlets along with the state department opposing the pitches as a smoking gun has dismissed them as fike he's going to check out and cut through the frenzy. some journalist received the satellite pictures which the u.s. presents as evidence of russian shelling into ukraine via e-mail but much of the world found out about it from the twitter account of the u.s. ambassador to ukraine one of the images according to u.s. officials shows russian self-propelled artillery in washer and the other part of that same image u.s. intelligence determined shows craters inside ukraine indicating strikes from artillery the date on the picture is july twenty third these images have changed quite a few hands before they made their way into the investors tweets on all of these
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pictures you see the name of the company digital globe which is a commercial provider of satellite imagery and aerial photos the office of the director of national intelligence is said to have analyzed the pictures and written all these captions with their analysis and then they handed it to the city apartment to be released twitter the spokesperson of the russian defense ministry had this to say such materials were posted on twitter coincidentally since it's impossible to establish their authenticity due to lack of exact reference to the location and the extremely low resolution. journalists now operate in an environment where both sides that is the u.s. and russia brushoff evidence put forward by the other u.s. officials attack media that they're to even question the information that they put forward so r t came under yet another attack this time on twitter here's the u.s. embassy in washington responding to our news tweets about the satellite images it
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says considering who pays artists bills it's not surprising there are to questions validity of u.s. satellite evidence and then there is another tweet saying given some of the experts shown on our teeth very hard to believe anything they say one has to wonder if the underlying implication is that everybody absolutely must believe everything the us government says and presents this evidence well there's not much questioning in the u.s. mainstream media c.n.n. has learned u.s. intelligence satellites and radars have monitored repeated are chilling retired from the russian side of the border for the last several days in washington i'm going to check out our. russia's military industries moving to quickly make its forces self-sufficient and this comes after ukraine which had been supplying around thirty percent of all parts for russian military hardware broke off cooperation with in moscow. ukraine used to provide engines for me twenty four attack helicopters and those have been in operation for decades and are currently used by
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fifty eight different countries and one of russia's newest jets the state of the art yang one thirty and advanced training aircraft also received some of its parts from ukraine the guidance systems for the backbone of russia's nuclear deterrent the s.s. eight hundred intercontinental ballistic missiles they were made in ukraine also soyuz rockets which are currently the only way for mountain flights to the international space station were also made with some ukrainian components it's estimated the total cost of setting up the production of all these parts in russia would come to around two hundred fifty million dollars but one expert says that it shouldn't take much more than a couple of years to plug the production gap. in finland because we never bought any complete weapons from ukraine they simply supplied us with parts or sections of various hardware so in that sense we were never fully dependent on ukraine in the first place right now we're only talking about parts and it's much easier to start making them here in russia instead of producing something
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completely new the main efforts will be focused on making engineers because that is a labor intensive process however i think that within two and a half years our military industrial complex will be able to start mass producing the engines we used to buy from ukraine. and you find all the very latest in the ongoing ukraine crisis both on air and online at r.t.s. website do stay with us if you can after the break we'll have a report on migrant workers in cattle living in what's been described as modern day slavery. iran like syria has been george very harshly on the leaves on the constant sad. isn't it justified in it's not pursuing the. you know raising to spectrum off pursuit of the government like the new one you know who. he was developing
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nuclear weapons in the home. to see who is being made the fall. we would be stupid not to take you. welcome back next migrant workers in cattle helping to build lavish premises for
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the twenty twenty two world cup officials are still waiting to be paid out for a year all while having to endure conditions that have been described as inhumane and they are literally trapped in the gulf state as they can only leave with the permission of their employer britain's guardian newspaper has conducted an investigation on how foreign workers are finding themselves trapped in modern day slavery not to mention unsanitary conditions and power cuts up to ten men have to squeeze into tiny rooms and that's all while working six to seven days a week for ten hours in scorching heat and then you have reportedly died of strokes and cardiac arrest the investigation also discovered the paperwork is illegally taken from them and no medical care is provided salaries are being paid only for the first few months then the money stops sharan burrow from the international trade union confederation believes that other governments have chosen to turn a blind eye to the situation. tower is a slave state it's
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a modern day slave state you are our own by one person so your contract is signed before you leave your home country but when you get to get to the employer can often simply tear it up or not pay your wages or trade you in any oppressive way they like work as above desperate for work in poor countries so most of these migrants are from nepal india philippines parts of africa and they don't understand because nobody tells them what they will face when they get tickets. it's not given enough attention by international governments companies governments they can send a ticket we don't want to work with you until you change the lords until you are balazs the caviler system until you put in place a fundamental labor right. let's get some more news now from around the world
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starting with a fire at the oil depo which supplies the airport in the libyan capital tripoli that's continued to rage for a second straight day was struck in the crossfire between militias battling for control of the airfield the blaze is now spreading to a second oil depot libya's interim government appealed for international help to extinguish the inferno so when the fire could trigger a humanitarian and environmental disaster in the city. elsewhere thousands of filipinos protested the president's state of the nation address in several cities across the country angry demonstrators said that his speech gave many false facts decrying corruption in government and constitutional violations of police use water cannons to disperse the crowd but outraged protesters continue shouting slogans and asking for affordable and adequate social services the president is currently facing no less than three separate impeachment child's. wildfires
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continue to spread to torching many parts of the famous yosemite national park in the u.s. state of california firefighters have been digging fire lines and cutting trees hoping to stop the blades from spreading further three campsites and several roads have been closed around the park thirty seven evacuated hundreds of homes. and so more than a thousand policemen have been deployed to clear a building reportedly occupied by anarchists in the austrian capital vienna eviction more than ten hours and at least ninety people were arrested police were forced to use a vehicle to ram the building's entrance to squatters block to move furniture and set traps inside twenty to fifty people inside the building of been occupying it for over two years in support of the tenants who are refusing to leave to make way for a real estate project. now as jihadist militants known as these law make state of iraq are sinking their teeth deeper into syria and iraq
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a pro islamist rally has been held right in the middle of europe and this rally in support for a detained dutch jihadist recruiter was deemed legitimate by the hague city council demonstrators shouted anti semitic slogans and called on european muslims to join the wars in syria and iraq outraged locals now want to see the city's mayor sacked geo political analyst william angle believes that this is just another indication of a worrying trend gaining ground. there are large muslim communities throughout europe and germany where are the. at least seven million. women the muslim faith their organisation it's a jihad is for evolution to try to recruit from young muslim youth a certain way and in holland with these dutch demonstrations of crisis i question the sanity of the dutch government for allowing it in the first place the very fact that they are loudest on the. demonstrators were chanting death so the jews quite
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loudly streets of a european country is this really what we could call what's what's going on here. and while isis battles on in iraq and syria the group is now trying to expand its influence is now open an office of registering women willing to marry its militants read all about it on our website. plus a potentially deadly security blunder when thousands of guns intended for the army go missing had to auntie dot com to find out more about how these weapons are now you know. thousands of britons have installed thrifty and eco friendly solar panels on their houses trying to save on their electricity bills and all would have been good if only a proper set up instruction hadn't been missing these martin andrews has more. the great solar power blunder according to the university they've announced
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that the panels which are actually built in the southerly direction are facing the wrong way now there are around half a million homes in the u.k. which have these panels on the roofs it comes at a price too it costs around five thousand to ten thousand pounds to have them erected onto your roof but it does come with money saving of course you can actually get back around eight hundred pounds a year why are they saying that it's facing the wrong direction well that's because of the sun's movement it means that it peaks during mid day this isn't about actually the pros and cons of electricity but the valuable stance that it has of the sun's rays during the day and they're saying that if they're actually following germany's new policy which they had of having them east and west it means that you have less shadow it means that you are be able to you can actually have more panels on your west speccing roof and more importantly it means that you can use it when
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you come home from work after sort of late afternoon however according to renewable energy world dot com in the states it's a little bit more complicated than that as it's all about where you actually live the climate involved and the value of electricity that you use if you're not enjoying the day before midday to use the electricity then you're going to lose that traditional london pub could soon be pulling its last pint british watering holes are closing down faster being snapped at by developers eager to replace them with lucrative apartment buildings auntie's police found more. there are a few things more quintessentially british than the pub where pulling pints is a tradition dating back centuries some of the capital's oldest watering holes have been graced by the likes of byron keats charles dickens and even queen elizabeth the first but it could soon be lost orders for the u.k.'s taverns the british beer
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and public says they're disappearing at a rate of fifty per week mutating into ubiquitous convenience store chains supermarkets and most often housing this house has been part of old london town for the seventeen hundreds it looks quaint but it was recently sold by its owners first staggering twenty seven million pounds and guess what the developers want to do yes turn it into apartments calling time on centuries of ales willing socialising prices for housing in the capital are sky high which is why pub landlords are cashing in to ego property developers they're intrinsically appealing well built often in the victorian era with current touristic attractive to residential. it's happening across the whole of the caption at the moment the
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resolute pub in london's east end didn't live up to its name after the landlady knocked it down and turned it into flats during because at the star in north london have included paul mccartney and dustin hoffman but that's not stopped owners punch taverns from selling out to developers who want to deal the death blow to the friendly local converting it into a luxury mansion worth millions of pounds many a celebrity and regular have taken to trying to save it the castle in south london has been shut down but the local community is still putting up fortifications after the pub group that owned it sold out to developers that want to bulldoze it. or wait for it luxury flats however in a sign that local authorities could be waking up to the prospect of a pub apocalypse an application to convert the old white bear in north london into you know what was more than the council could bear so they rejected it but what is it that makes this the really british institution worth saving london pubs.
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british pubs are unique in the world they have been described to social level as and what that means is there are many places where barrister so i could rub shoulders alongside a bin man apart from the bar counter has heritage it's been going on for many years it's been here since time began london it's about you know tourism is well you know and people want to come to a traditional hall to have traditional. folk which they've got nowhere to go where we're going to go to the community you know when you see it all over the country so many pubs are closing down but it's not right and yet in the last decade alone london has lost over a thousand of its legendary watering holes and once they're gone they usually last forever which is why campaigners say or thirty's need to step up their protection of the public house before times called on the tradition for the final time. a
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london. but it's time now for now the dressing down for the profit hungry coming up could say of max and stacy don't miss the kaiser report after the break. ali. pleasure to have you with us here on t.v. today i'm role research or.
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welcome to the kaiser report max kaiser. this is the economy for nouns out with the nouns and with the verbs place yes according to our first headline here max why can't make ends meet trumps poverty this week the center for community change released new research that details of the way low income americans think and talk about living on the edge of the language being used by policymakers and others to describe them is turning off the very people it is supposed to help this is from bill moyers and he spoke to one of these people from this community center for community change what they found is that poor people don't like to be called poor because it's a bad term in america and it means that you failed at the american dream so they prefer verbs instead you know those in america it's the winner take all mentality the casino good leg if you will be willing to live in a.

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