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unfortunately doesn't give a dollar amount anything to nj mission to teach religion and why you should care about humans in. this is why you should care only. humanitarian ceasefire collapses in gaza barely an hour after it was declared with israel launching new strikes which have claimed the lives of up to thirty palestinians we hear what it's like to be caught in the hail of bombs. for this hour a lawless news and mayhem sees governments evacuated their citizens from libya as radicals declare an islamic emirate in the country. the us all sending its largest average shipment of hellfire missiles to help the iraqi government which has lost control of vast oil fields to jihad is. america's annus save moves to protect its own most sensitive data specifically its former director
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salary activist accused of making money out of state secrets. it is four pm a mosque you're watching r t international with me arena joshie welcome to the program a three day a minute terry and ceasefire between israel and hamas has collapsed barely an hour after it began israeli launch strikes killed up to thirty palestinians in the first few hours since the truce was proclaimed independent journalist bel true came under fire and she contacted us to describe what happened. sounds. community cooled but as we arrived the masses and had already started there was a heavy bombardment of charmin fire coming from israel into gaza in the area
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meanwhile families had been trying to access times to pull out corpses that had been watching that for several days the stench is unbearable they're all so rotten animals that have been laid just on the roads which could cause a problem in the future in terms of disease the situation become almost bearable meanwhile we have a pecial crisis here if you will crisis which is affecting electricity delivery of will and sewage and that's really the next trauma on the horizon people in gaza because the hospitals are going to be running out of addictions this week in an expletive five days and meanwhile as i said the sewage problem is going to become a humanitarian disaster with disease spreading through these very crowded communities so really not only are the gazan people on the attack at the moment but of the same time they are facing possible disease also. troubles in the future going to hospitals to treat them. now the protective adj of fans of has become
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israel's bloodiest operation in recent years with more than fourteen hundred palestinians killed as well as sixty three israelis that number even exceeds the casualties from the notorious cast lead operation the to place at the end of two thousand and eight the current conflict is seeing social media used to the max giving a platform for palestinians to report on what's going on near their homes. mates far baker a palestinian teenager has already endured three israeli offensive on twitter she's been sharing the nightmares which have become a daily reality for her has gained thousands of followers and her posts have picked out by world media we managed to speak to her father is a surgeon at a gaza hospital he told us the horrors he sees at work this is not a war this is a must not a war is something that is the perfect between two equal almost equal force is
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people come with severe injuries with diminished bodies torn apart it's been totally beyond we so in many many cases we do with the c.v. of that is but what the move makes you said very few when you see. who's lost his mother his brother has a brother who is it was his body is disabled he can live but will live with this they will take care with him i don't imagine. that amidst the this thing to continue i have to study and overdose to be free of it but i thought as. to in totality of his funds i mean he just went through. three in the most and he came back and i don't swear to diminish his house totally now israel squarely blames the civilian casualties on hamas saying it's using gaza citizens as human shields paul her son from israel's foreign ministry says the government's
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doing everything possible to limit the deaths. we're doing everything we possibly can to limit and to to to restrict the civilian casualties in very difficult circumstances you this is precisely the reason why we did not want to be in this conflict in the first place we said so repeatedly loud and clear we also did through through quietly through the diplomatic channels that that quiet would be on side with quiet it's a terrible terrible tragedy that's that's unfolding it before our eyes the responsibility for which lies dying at the doorstep of us who are deliberately locating themselves in civilian neighborhoods in order to draw fire and they have abused the palestinian people and will be judged very badly by by history for that . all the latest gaza conflict is dividing the world in paris two demonstrations took place at the same time one supporting the israeli operation the second one siding with the palestinians paris along with the other major european cities has
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been the scene of numerous pro israeli and pro palestinian rallies since the escalation began. now the latest ukrainian army air raid on the gonski has killed at least five people adding to the dozens of victims from the past few days along with deniro they are the two largest cities in the east and are currently the centers of anti-government resistance both are being blockade of by k of which is struggling to take control of the region's well gowned scales been left without power a while food and water arrested lee are running out and there is no let up for civilians from day we haveour tillery shelling and bombing exhausted from living in a war zone residents say they just want peace. oh oh. probably show you the.
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most enough of the sooner. we start your career you can see. we never have it we do not do it do you would be modeled on that which is such a short that we've. got it more. intense clashes are taking place near to nantes continue paratroopers have been killed their army officials say they were ambushed by anti-government fighters armed with more interest and grenade launchers the survivors have been moved from the front lines of the army says anti-government forces have also suffered having lost as without specifying the numbers. locals and some a western ukrainian regions are using more and more diverse ways to raise money for the army and this mineral water is labelled sporting a local coat of arms and falling bombs is titled separatist hearers along with
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other similar merchandise like key rings and badges it's being sold to help fund the operation planned to and a month ago it's quickly burning through government funds now that either you sang actions to punish russia's financial and or g. and a fan sectors over the events in ukraine have kicked in european lawmakers have made it nearly impossible for the companies on the list to seek funding or shop for technologies in europe pete all of our reports. the full details of no come out about what the latest round of sanctions entailed what we're looking at is its targets three main sectors of the russian economy now in terms of the banking sector we've seen sanctions slapped on five of russia's biggest banks including the biggest spur bank which will stop them from being able to sell bonds to european investors with regards to the energy sector what we're going to see is anybody who
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wants to provide equipment technology to old russia they're going to have to get approval we're looking at things here like the continued exploration for oil in the arctic that could be affected by this and when it comes to defense well there is a ban on imports and exports of arms into russia however that isn't retroactive none of these are any deals that have gone on in the past any deals that have been agreed they'll all be fine and be allowed to progress but they that's basically the brass tacks of what of what these latest sanctions and tail. now this latest punitive measures on russia follow the downing of malaysian flight m.h. seventeen a fortnight ago and it's still unclear exactly what caused the plane to crash killing all two hundred ninety eight on board russia was the first to provide some evidence into what may have happened but key of claimed moscow satellite images were fabricated and released their own of photos russia defense ministry else is
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kiev's evidence is fake let's get more from our teaser in the show on this or read to tell us what the plans ministry exactly well they're essentially alleging that all the evidence that was presented by the ukraine secret services or the s.b.u. actually doesn't hold up to scrutiny when one takes into consideration such things as weather conditions time of day and the date where with that we're talking about that is july seventeenth now they're saying that the images presented by ukrainian security services actually do not match the date or the time of day or any of the other information that we have on our hands regarding the flight m.h. seventeen they simply did not match the images now also when talking about the alleged. about the alleged. the source
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has the rockets which supposedly hit seventeen this is just one of the theories. concerning its demise now there was a legations coming from as be you that supposedly the rocket launchers book which were suppose we used to shoot down the major seventeen actually were then transferred over to russia and again they supposedly presented images showing just that but russia's ministry of defense is saying that those images do not have any sort of specifics on them there is no information on the date there are no coordinates to present even the location off the images in the simply not clear what those images are showing and of course other in. is that were presented by the u.s. but you actually show clear signs of being doctored by the ukrainian side basically the ministry of defense is saying that. the information that was presented by ukraine simply does not hold up to any scrutiny and can be birthed. by facts. thanks so much for bringing us the details.
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now iraq's army is struggling to keep well trained ha disobey but america is still a planning to export a heavy weapons more and add after the break. zero casualties war this is the great fantasy of war mongering politicians. capturing people is this what do you do if the innocent killing them easy we were serve the right to kill any person anywhere any time. we could do that in the city but they come. makes these things are very. small. nuclear power yeah. that is very tempting.
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welcome back to watching our to international live from moscow now the u.s. is planning its largest ever shipment of hellfire missiles to iraq which is locked in a desperate fighting with al qaeda linked militants now radicals how ready snatched large swathes of land in the north west of the country and
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a cleric an islamic caliphate on the occupied territories and they control or overage regions and their well trained troops pose a significant threat to the iraqi army and a secure ghana explains the dangers of america's exports. 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 about three hundred hellfire missiles this june and
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a previous delivery of an additional eight hundred missiles had already been approved to be sent over so this latest large planned 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 and 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 know 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 says r t. well hellfire missiles are primarily used against armored targets and can be fired either from the air or ground it's a guided system which locks on its door get a speedy one to the missile covers four hundred fifty meters per second and as you
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can imagine not cheap a single unit is worth more than one hundred thousand dollars but there is a potential downside to the iraqi army having such a powerful weapon. now in the past the militants have already outmaneuvered the army seizing dozens of u.s. supplied howitzers and they also added four thousand machine guns to their arsenal plus fifteen hundred humvees that the iraqi army abandoned so it's a real fear that the hellfire missiles could end up in the hands of the extremists to anti-war activist brian backer thinks that arms dealers are the ones who will benefit most from the shipment its five thousand missiles these are important unishe and they could be have a devastating impact on the battlefield it's good for us arms manufacturers and puts the us back in a position of perhaps a strategic significance in competition with iran with the central government in iraq will it change the equation on the battlefield we don't know that if we step
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back and look at what's really happened since two thousand and three the united states because of its military intervention in iraq fractured the country and fractured it along ethno sectarian lines of finance shiite militias that playing in sunni militias that financed the kurds the u.s. as a matter of policy for three years has funneled arms and weapons to arm the so-called islamic extremists in syria and have now back should serious the u.s. is trying to get back into iraq to have a decisive impact but it's a divide and rule and strategy that we've seen unfold in both syria and in iraq. now the beheading of a filipino construction worker and the gang rape of a nurse has led the philippines to urgently evacuate thirteen thousand of its citizens from libya governments worldwide are telling people to leave the region which was plunged into chaos after the twenty eleven revolution on thursday militias declared libya's second largest city was an islamic emirate and that's after the force the army out of the area and have a fighting using rockets in the capital tripoli at least
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a hundred people have been killed in the past couple of weeks and that's led some nations to shut the or embassies in the country but little alice to succumb to explains what happened to once thriving state. ground was laid for this situation by nato and its allied forces on the ground throughout twenty twenty eleven and former leader from libya moment gadhafi made it very clear during the twenty eleven that if you want to turn libya into a country with lawlessness and no no central governance like somalia or afghanistan etc then nato and its allies are doing the right thing since october twenty levon when the foreman fell there is no national government there is no national army or national police force it's plain for all to see that the nato project failed but that's to assume that nato attended to bring any type of stability to libya they have been made to put you in this mess i'm going to remain putting you in this mess
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and such as the innocents in libya that libyan oil production is not even thought of what it was in the foreseeable future it looks highly unlikely they'll be any stability let alone democracy in libya. britain is moving to investigate a cold case after eighty years it's hoping to shed light on the death of the former russian intelligence officer that story's online for you today. and twitter reveals a high ranking government request for users of personal data for the u.s. topping the list learn more parity dot com. america's national security agency is being sued for refusing to reveal its former directors earnings he reportedly has a lucrative sideline as a private consultant worth millions of dollars but activists claim he is cashing in on state secrets as a marine a fortnight now explains the agency that eroded the meaning of privacy and indiscriminately peered into the lives of millions of citizens around the world is
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suddenly subscribing to protecting personal information but only if that person happens to be the former director of the national security agency keith alexander. to release the financial disclosures of the four star general who according to reports is currently raking in some one million dollars a month for his cyber security consulting services this has raised ethical questions and concerns that the former spy chief may be selling high level security secrets and classified information for a lucrative paycheck misusing classified information for profit is a federal felony critics say the only thing alexander has to offer potential clients is the state secrets he knows investigative journalist jason leopold is now suing the spy agency for the release of alexander's documents arguing they're being withheld unlawfully experts say alexander's financial disclosures can only be suppressed by the u.s.
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president this is just the latest in a string of lawsuits filed against the n.s.a. since former contractor edward snowden revealed the agency's global surveillance programs and while washington is still struggling to regain trust with americans and allies around the world the man who spearheaded the indiscriminate spy programs remains protected and profitable. r.t. new york. now the n.s.a. is also notably absent from the stage of what is arguably the world's largest computer security convention let's get more on this from security researcher carson . carson for joining us here on or to international to discuss this well certainly now is not a good time to be in a say director before kids alexander step down he want to listen i guess hacker conference and his speech was met by this let's take a listen. we stand for freedom oh. not that. no.
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one. i haven't lied to congress. all right well you have heard the reception that he got of the skunk friends and you know this is something the fact that made the agency keep a low profile and not give any keynotes this year what do you make of this. appearance of the selling stand in front of the anchor conference last year is very well remembered as their only attempt to have. bridged the gap between what they are doing in computer security and what everybody publicly saying stay should be doing and that attempt was a complete failure and xander after there was not just no one has to guide with lie to congress but also as to guy who lied to the public repeatedly and was called out for it and didn't respond to it all right well nonetheless the n.s.a. officials will attend
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a conference in vegas what do you think they have planned this time. it's very much in. going to close to what the n.s.a. will come up with this time because they have already gone over the entire agenda and pretended that they wanted to work along to have. to fight terrorism was the theme of last year's talk if that still is to say that they want to come public with that's not what the public at least one suit. and they say seems to have a conflict. in on the one hand collecting information and stealing secrets elsewhere and only as a hand protecting american companies and american government from others doing it to them and that second part is what everybody wants to see more action and ironically he's alexander who's not out of the n.s.a. anymore is booted out for trying to help companies protect themselves well again i
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mean protection is something i'd like to he i'd like you to elaborate on as you rightly said the n.s.a. especially the u.s. government says that the n.s.a. striving to protect people from potential threats that sounds reasonable and fair don't you think absolutely and as far as i understand the mission and very much is it part of to mission protect and that you cannot just from terrorists but from from any type of cyber espionage and they're doing pretty badly at least judging from the companies who get no support whatsoever to protect themselves in fact what he's telling xander is not criticize for charging lots of money for protecting companies that shouldn't even be as lucrative to n.s.a. should be sharing their insights and help companies to protect themselves so that the information is plentiful and not was millions of dollars which the one person in the know now gets it for. carson thanks so much for letting us know what you
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think on this issue that was carson no security researcher talking us here in our to international thank you very much. now next year in our senior national meets the within finding against austerity measures in greece and their former state sector employees who claim their jobs vanished without warning and that they are now being held back from speaking out arches wearing a cross or a spoke to the women who aren't afraid to stand up to bullies. they've been called a symbol of resistance or lobby not. so who are they they are ordinary women mostly aged between forty five and sixty who claim the tax offices the ministry of finance and customs service up until september last year when the ministerial decree so hundreds of them suspended and later fired. by many who went bad with the job and work without suddenly our lives were destroyed we had
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two options to cry over decisions that were made for us or stand up and fight these women staged protests and occasionally block the entrance of the finance ministry demanding the government stop ruining lives with their austerity measures recently these demonstrations turned violent with some of them and then up in the hospital accusing riot police of beating them up. the police didn't want us there and they started pushing us of run with the shields the twisted my arm and they took my friend and stuff and the police car even amnesty international accused local cops of abusing their powers and violates in human rights but little has been done to bring those responsible to justice. this policy is part of the austerity measures agreed upon with our lenders our country can house six hundred seventy thousand public servants this will help our private sector which has been battered so many businesses have shut down and over one million private sector workers were made
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redundant sooner or later hundreds of thousands will have to depart from the public sector but that will create work for private business. this is where the cleaners are camped out every single day reminding the government that they're not going anywhere and informing the public of what they see as a great injustice the greek supreme court seems to agree with them at one point ordering the finance minister to rehire them only to have that will an awful turn but it's not over yet as these women are prepared to go back. court this september . some experts claim that even if these women managed to get their jobs back they will never enjoy the same salaries or benefits as they did before but at this point the only thing these women care about is reclaiming their rights even if that means spending more months protesting merino call survive reports in from athens forty. and after the break the nobel prize winner has made it her mission to rid the world of deadly droughns don't tell me.
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sometimes i am baffled by the closed little world that a lot of people in the mainstream media must live in they seem shocked and appalled at the fact that around forty percent of the weapons supplied to afghanistan have gone missing let's ignore the fact that while americans are going broke the u.s. must rebuild the afghan military and think for just a second what would happen if you sent a lot of weapons into a country in dire economic suffering i'm sure you've heard reports that say that afghan farmers could only make a living off of poppy crops because they just have no at the resort so if you throw a bunch of guns and ammo into the hands of people who have the career choices of poppies or starvation yeah that someone might be willing to sell some bullets to
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get by also we shouldn't forget that every government on earth has people in it working for their old self interests or others interests it is totally naive to think that every person involved in the process of transferring weapons will be loyal to the afghan government which seems to have been put in place by a certain hyper power who remain nameless in short if you find this story shocking then you really need to get off the couch and see how the world really works but that's just my opinion.
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