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really. what's. coming up on our t.v. the civilian death toll in gaza rises another un school was shelled by israeli defense forces during this conflict war on the violence gripping gaza and the humanitarian crisis causing just ahead. the e.u. has joined the u.s. and have launched a new round of harsher sanctions against russia over the crisis in ukraine the new measures take aim at large swaths of the russian economy but will they work. and three d. printing for food or firearms is so two thousand and thirteen the u.s. military now wants to use this technology to print warheads right on the battlefield more on that coming up.
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it's wednesday july thirtieth four pm in washington d.c. i'm manila chan your watching r.t. america. the death toll continues to climb in gaza as schools marketplaces and hospitals are being attacked by israeli defense force missiles just this morning at least nineteen palestinians were confirmed dead after a shelling at a un run school the death toll between both sides is nearing thirteen hundred but take a look at this chart of those victims more than one thousand two hundred of them were palestinians largely civilians children included now while only fifty six israelis have been killed most of which were military and only three of those were civilians. gaza just to put into perspective is only one hundred thirty nine square
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miles it's about twenty six miles long and approximately thirteen miles wide not exactly a huge swath of land to house nearly two million people that's about the size of las vegas with the population density of say boston or detroit artie's harry fear is on the ground in gaza with more after a heavy night of fighting in which at least one hundred twenty palestinians were killed the hostilities continue just in the last few hours we've seen this significant strike on this the united nations run school being used as a shelter by hundreds of families eyewitnesses say the least five israeli tank shells hit the complex different parts of the complex including classrooms belonging to normally school girls at least eight palestinian children were killed say eyewitnesses at least three women including at least one pregnant woman and also united nations security guards for this complex it's the second time in less than two weeks the nice in the united nations run shelter has come under fire we've
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been catching up with those most severely affected with worms during these ongoing hostilities. it's hard to fathom how such boss devastation can occur in three weeks of fighting. thousands of homes damaged or destroyed tens of thousands internally displaced and whenever it's found. inside gaza's main hospital in its unit are a small fraction of the surviving injured this girl three years old this israel is demolished the house of this family so we deceived. her mother two brothers with. this morning. this woman is a very severe condition she is she presented to us about five days ago with her son
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and her husband her son and husband died with severe burns and she's still surviving with a very critical condition but doctors nurses here look as stunned as the civilians who survived in heavily bombarded areas it's hard to imagine how the medical staff can cope with these truly horrendous cases human being if i see whole families the killed under the rubble of their house the house is they want to. win these people and all the family is killed. in one of the instances i have a child here he was all the time crying all his family's father his mother his brother is a grandfather and all the time he's crying he wants his mother so i closed the door of my office and i said crikey you those that survive this war will have to the physical and psychological scars you. ask what is causing these
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injuries it's not sometimes. having is very severe. destruction of the human beings those. are the people. on the ground it feels as if during this war israel is fixed on stopping harasses rockets once. darkness of the credit of the survey told. us. now following this continued tragedy could the attack on the un school and the fruit and vegetable market in gaza city finally be the tipping point mideast experts and don't see this coming to an end anytime soon israel did declare a four hour cease fire in some areas of the gaza strip citing humanitarian reasons but it ended wednesday with no extension israeli
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a news paper harris reported that the state is considering submitting a resolution to the un security council that would end the conflict similar to the one that ended the war in lebanon back in one thousand nine hundred six now earlier i was joined by al was the are a human rights attorney in gaza i first asked him what the living conditions were like there right now. it would mean given there isn't anybody you are in the human did you and human rights and you was this law and disciplined in the extreme to do it in the humanitarian situation because it's here and why this in numerous israeli military escalation and the order to continue with. just speaking about the crisis it began as a soul a lot of. us are being. damaged by israeli forces work there is.
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a guest of the east of law and order and this is actually a very a billion. who like milk and me personally i'm living in this interview get this city and we have neither a lot of no water and almost six days on the operating through a small. to go to that they go to. the number of and this is exceeded two hundred thousand people. mostly who will stand by you and. us over the overflow and the robot would their health and safety gear and a lot of major concern and yet these children are so remote say but the look this morning at four decision is that either the patient births were. one of the ship doors and in the north of the guests and that the ends of children being killed and
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injured literally i can say that there is no safe. right now from that bad bombing yesterday the bombing that we went through as a only power plant as well can you tell us how the territories nearly two million people are how are you guys accessing electricity right now. well actually as they told you like since five days we didn't have electricity actually. those people who have some money somebody just a few hours. or some small generators like this is this part of the this is a major. crisis that we. can imagine two thousand and ten on the list and one of the on the school in which you have the signatures or if. they have electricity or someone who is coming to help the humanitarian efforts there is anybody coming to help the palestinians. was revealed as long as this is
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a list elation because they did they are paying the price with them. one hundred the. hundreds of thousands were killed and to this moment one thousand eight hundred there since we were killed by their sense of the events you know those are not these are not numbers with human beings like me and you and other people to live and you will be near us and then we have. to look in about the disasters you made that any crisis that this. patient force of. we had we call upon all the organizations the un but this to hold up it's just going to be that they've been to so this program the start of the bloodshed now these images that are being seen here in the u.s.
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nearly thirteen hundred deaths along the gaza many many more injuries how are your hospitals coping over there how are they dealing with all the people the influx of people coming and. the. the. results they measure the system working and this situation. they don't have electricity so they have to work through. major like like some big innovation. big generation. in giant. solar or so i mean takes almost and people there were two. like. it helped people or you know to get some people who were injured and this really at that so if you want to hear them because this is like subject to c.d.'s in. serious
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danger and this is a little thing about we actually have sabina here and because of. sickness and because of the. over. all this stuff i think. it's it's hard to describe this situation. however i can. summarize that it's silly to do this are there enough hospital beds to cover all the people that are coming in you know no action and there are no. unfortunately these women. were denied access to coming to the get the so. in that dish and. they made the team spoke and from europe or you us they were prevented from coming in because of the home. and healing people. that was human rights attorney cully allow was there from god. now the u.s.
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which provides huge amounts of money to israel for defense is under pressure to help stop the rising death toll in gaza that argues america david pressed the state department today about the number of civilian casualties that are mounting. the fighting between israel and hamas is only ask in gaza with the death toll now hovering above twelve hundred people now just today there were two major disasters one of the un school and another at a busy city market killing at least thirty people and wounding over one hundred and fifty more i attended a state department briefing earlier where i asked about that extraordinarily high death toll and whether it will compel the u.s. to take a tougher stance with israel take a listen israel has long said that it has the right to self-defense of course you've echoed that sentiment and it's they've said this right this conflict and even up until now we have twelve hundred people over two hundred people that have been killed thousands more have been injured is there are going to be
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a point where you say you know this enormous amount of casualties is not justified look a lot of what you just said is true and the first part start with the first part that israel does have a right to defend itself if you lived in a city where rockets were coming from terrorists repeatedly where you had to run to a bomb shelter repeatedly i think you probably feel pretty strongly that israel has a right to defend itself we've announced again this week additional funding for the iron dome system which does exactly this but we have said that in their efforts to fight this threat they do need to take additional steps to prevent civilian casualties we know it's a challenging operating environment we know it's very densely populated you know we throughout conflicts we've fought in our history have taken extraordinary steps in afghanistan in iraq to prevent civilian casualties and we've called on the israelis to do more when it comes to the u.n. facility being targeted the state department would not go firm that they believe israel is responsible they say that they are waiting for more facts to emerge in
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the aftermath of those incidents however the israeli military offered a four hour humanitarian ceasefire in specific areas of the gaza strip but hamas dismissed that partial temporary truths. as a media stunt saying it would not allow rescue workers time to retrieve casualties in combat zones that israel had excluded from that ceasefire here's what the state department had to say about that what we're focused on is an unconditional humanitarian ceasefire the last woman enough. to allow for serious negotiations to begin in cairo and for urgently needed humanitarian assistance to get in so obviously that's longer than four hours so we're working with the parties and with that my israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu was due to review progress on a ceasefire with his security cabinet today at the same time a palestinian delegation was expected in cairo for discussions it's unclear what will come out of this latest round of talks last week secretary of state john kerry
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failed to achieve a breakthrough and this latest explosion of violence is only further dashing international hopes of garnering a long term ceasefire reporting and washington a mirror david. frustration is growing as violence in eastern ukraine deterred international investigators from inspecting the malaysian airlines crash site for the fourth day fighting between ukrainian forces and anti-government separatists has intensified now with the military claiming separatists are laying landmines to prevent the site from being properly investigated a claim that cannot be independently confirmed meanwhile the ukrainian military is advancing in the region c.n.n. is reporting that the ukrainian government may be using its most deadly weapons yet in the conflict c.n.n. says u.s. officials tell the military forces fired several short range ballistic missiles
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into eastern ukraine in the past few days each said to be carrying warheads of up to a thousand pounds potentially further adding to the mounting civilian death toll this week the u.n. released their estimated no. of casualties from the month long conflict the u.n. says at least eleven hundred civilians have been killed and nearly four thousand injured and that death toll keeps growing just today the town of bor low in eastern ukraine saw more shelling after thirty one civilians have died there in the last two days according to local authorities that is and here's what residents have to say about the violence in their own words. praised you know what don't cover up what i were you know when you. really are going to go to war. you know you know it's going to go. it's.
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going. to support you really really really. push the need arose need in the streets there was a movie. there she was literally just. the lows were some locals responding to the violence in the town of course in eastern ukraine. the u.s. and e.u. are expanding sanctions against russia it's too early to tell how this new round of sanctions will affect the russian economy but what they have affected without question is the relationship between the u.s. the e.u. and russia in fact u.s. congresswoman dana rohrbacher believes the potential for good relations between moscow and d.c. have been lost sentiment not seen since the cold war. now after the soviet union
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fell there was a tremendous potential to making russia our friend of tremendous potential they withdraw their troops from eastern europe. the russians. were open to all kinds of interactive eamonn being come in part of the world community and. a horrible tremendous opportunity i should say was squandered whether closer look at the e.u. sanctions may affect the russian economy here's artie's peter oliver. leaders of put forward sweeping sanctions against russia in a joint statement the president of the european council home and been run by the head of the european commission or is it manuel but also said that these sanctions were intended to send a strong warning to russia where is previously sanctions imposed by the e.u. it targeted individuals or one particular company these are targeting huge sectors of the russian economy so what they are looking at is energy where russia will have
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restricted access to technologies in the financial sector would be blocking russian access to e.u. funds that are available and in defense a. binding both the import and export of weapons into or out of russia however any previously existing contracts won't be affected by that now the united kingdom has announced that it wants to push ahead with even further stronger sanctions against russia but we are expecting is to hear the full wording of the sanctions agreed on by all the e.u. heads of government and these sides are expected to come into effect on the first of all this will be reviewed after three months whereby they come be scrapped all continue depending on what european leaders decide. that was artie's peter all over . anti-nuclear weapon activists are up in arms over the ten year extension of the mutual defense agreement between the us and the united kingdom the mostly
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classified agreement was formed back in one nine hundred fifty eight and has been renewed regularly ever since most recently in two thousand and four the obama administration issued a one page message to congress on july twenty fourth stating that he signed off on the renewal that will quote permit the transfer between the united states and the united kingdom of classified information concerning atomic weapons nuclear technology and controlled nuclear information the agreement also includes the training of personnel evaluation of potential enemy capability development of delivery systems and the research development and design of military reactors. you clear information service a u.k. based watchdog group issued a report before the current renewal that raised strong concerns that the agreement may not be compatible with the nonproliferation nuclear weapons treaty in which
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both countries are signatories article six of the nonproliferation treaty does state that signatories should pursue nuclear disarmament the letter to congress states that the amendments have been added regarding nuclear threat reduction but those changes are not clear and the full details of the deal are classified by both the u.s. and the united kingdom leaving many guessing if the extent of nuclear production is comparable to the amount of nuclear support the agreement does detail. the iraqi government is struggling to stave off insurgents that have launched a powerful push to win over parts of the country but in this effort human rights advocates are accusing the iraqi government. of indiscriminantly bombing a number of areas near flu shot meanwhile the u.s. government is planning on a very big defense deal the pentagon is considering sending the biggest shipment of
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hellfire missiles to the region ever artie's on a stasia churkin to has more on the story. a record size shipment of hellfire missiles to the iraqi government from the us is in the works the u.s. state department is reported to have approved and the pentagon is in the process of preparing to send over five thousand a.g.m. one fourteen type and our missiles and related parts to iraq the cost of this deal is estimated at a whopping seven hundred million dollars american aerospace giant lockheed martin is the prime contractor for the production and supply of these hellfire missiles this comes as the iraqi government continues the fight against isis the islamist militants al qaeda affiliated group who have been raging in the west and north of the country the iraq military is reported to have used up about three hundred hellfire missiles this june and a previous delivery of an additional eight hundred missiles had already been approved to be sent over by the end of this month so this latest large plan
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shipment is in addition to the missiles that had already been sent over by the u.s. according to a pentagon press release on this issue the missile directly supports the government of iraq and serves the interests of the people of iraq in the united states it also says that iraq will use the hellfire missile to help improve iraq's security forces capability to support current ongoing ground operations we now human rights groups have been critical of the use of missiles since they have reportedly been fired at residential neighborhoods and cities where isis has been present specifically human rights watch has called on the u.s. to not send weapons to iraq until baghdad acts in accordance with international law and r.t. new york. still ahead here on our teeth three d. printing technology has already been used for guns but what about military warheads the u.s. army says that could be the future more on that after the break. i'm happy martin the stories we cover here are not going here in iraq that are fixed or have
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the hour that's what you get with my new show redacted in night. three d. printing it's revolutionized the world once just a concept like the holodeck from star trek you can pretty much print any three d. print that you want these days maybe even a warhead artie's mega lopez explores this new armies technology. we've heard of three d. printed guns or bubble heads or pizza space x. founder elan musk even prove to the world that you can three d. printing a rocket engine but as is the case with most up and coming technology the military has taken particularly interest in the concept the army is working on a way to three d. prince get this war heads the july issue of army technology magazine spoke at length about the u.s. army armament research development and engineering centers ventures into the realm
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of three d. printing now a three d. printing is a process of making something from stock materials such as metal or plastic powder by adding in material in a successive layer it's also known as additive manufacturing or a m. with an entire warhead being three d. printed designers can more closely controlled the design aspects down to how the warhead breaks apart during detonation engineer james izumi knows hold army magazine quote once you get into detonation physics you open up a whole new universe the real value you get is that you can get more safety lethality and operational capability from the same space the military would be able to program a blast radius as well for each individual warhead given specific needs to climb warhead creation methods were developed back during world war two or even before that and they have not varied dramatically each warhead consists of over one hundred complex parts which could be reduced to just
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a few if that warhead is in fact printed now the goal of the project is to save money and to give the military the capability to access weaponry without waiting for a depot to ship the materials out quote if you are a soldier in a f.o.b. or forward operational base in afghanistan everything is different it's not as easy as running down to the home depot and picking up a screwdriver and when it comes to money those costs add up when you add all the transportation costs. fuel security is then might be cheaper to print one and that's not to mention the safety aspects since american troops frequently face threats while transporting equipment between bases the army is also researching ways to three d. print food for troops in the field and even skin for soldiers who have been injured and are in need of skin grafts currently get none of these manufacturing processes are up to military standards and are not ready to be put into use but with more research and more development the future is closer than ever reporting in
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