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this is r t international live at ten pm moscow time tonight a humanitarian ceasefire collapses in gaza just a couple of hours after it was declared that israel launching new strikes which is plain to live up to thirty more palestinians we hear what it's like to be caught up in the hail of. russia says contradictory images from ukraine show. evidence of weapons facilities close to the crash site of flight m.h. seventeen. u.s. small sending its largest ever shipment of hellfire missiles to help the iraqi government which has lost control now a vast oil field jihadists. and america's n.s.a.
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moves to protect its own most sensitive data specifically its former directors salary who activists accuse of making money out of state secrets we've got that coming up. good evening thanks for joining us i'm kevin first this hour the three day humanitarian ceasefire between israel and hamas has collapsed barely two hours after it began israeli launch strikes killed up to thirty palestinians in the first few hours of the agreed truce independent journalist bell true came under fire she contacted us to describe what she was going through. my job down south. community called and as we are right they had already started there was a heavy bombardment of china and fire coming from israel in gaza in that area
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meanwhile families had been trying to access times to pull out corpses and i've been watching that for several days the stench bearable 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 here it's become almost bearable meanwhile we have a pecial crisis here fuel crisis which is affecting electricity delivery of water and sewage and that's really the next trauma on the horizon people in gaza because the hospitals are going to be running out but i can see in the next four to five days and meanwhile as you said the sewage problem is going to become a humanitarian disaster with disease spreading through these very overcrowded communities so really not only are the gazan people on attack at the moment but at the same time they are facing possible disease. troubles in the future going to hospitals to treat them. the protective edge of friends he has become israel's bloodiest operation in recent years with more than fourteen hundred palestinians
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killed as well as sixty three israelis but number even exceeds the casualties from the tories cast lead operation that took place at the end of two thousand and eight the conflict in gaza city people across the globe marched in protest against the killing of palestinians by israel one of such rallies taking place in london. because there. it was such a focus group crowd here outside the israeli embassy and let me take a look behind me you can see that it's not just muslims the amount to support the palestinian cause you can see that different ethnicities and didn't see it doesn't really a lot of chance willing fair free palestine and see israeli slogans being shouted very loud here but. still here in central london you do see the proof palestinian community here but nothing also has a very big jewish population and there have been approaching rallies take place in london as well at the beginning of the conflicts we had much more of it to base and
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there were a lot more pro israeli commentators willing to defend israelis israel start however now that with the move cheers we've seen come out from gaza with shells children and so many civilian civilian casualties you get the sense that that debases somewhat died down and perhaps people find it more difficult to support the israeli side so certainly a lot of polarized opinions tensions raised very high despite the fact that several thousand miles away from where the violence is taking place. in london with the current conflict saying social media used to the max to giving a platform for palestinians to report on what's going on near their homes let's tell you then about sixteen year old photo for instance a posting in girl is already in jude three israeli offensive on twitter she's been sharing the nightmares which have become a daily reality for her she's going to thousands of followers in the process of be
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picked up by world media but most suspect her father he's a surgeon for the gaza hospital he told us the horrors he sees at work. this is not or this is a must not a war is something is of the equal almost equal force as people. if you inject it with diminished but these are part of. we so in many many cases we would do with this if you had. but what you love makes you so very so when you see. who lost his mother as a brother. or brother. his body is disabled. live but will live with. this to continue i have a friend over the last three three four has. been totally in his for me he just. came
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and rockets were to diminish his house totally. israel's casualties are of course lessened by the iron dome defense system now the united states has pledged hundreds of millions more dollars to ball stripped when read up more about that comes the place to see. the latest ukrainian army air raid on a ganske has killed at least five people adding to the dozens of victims from the past few days don't have somebody who small here are the two largest cities in the east the currently the center still of anti-government resistance both being blockaded by is still struggling to take control over the regions the ganske has been left without power while food and water are rapidly running out and there's no let up for civilians from daily are heavy artillery shelling and bombing exhausted from living in a war zone residents say they just want peace. oh
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. yes just a lot of. this is. if we start to walk or use the yak you've see over here we do not talk to you would be . and i would just said sure that we. are the developments to tell you about nate has confirmed ukraine has been using short range ballistic missiles against self defense forces in the east most according to a report by the german news channel doug chevelle or indeed the same was said two days ago on c.n.n. which was referring to its sources in the pentagon kiev strangely denying sputum those weapons in the east it's worth noting such missiles are able to carry a large payload and could inflict huge destruction deep into enemy lines. and a producer for artie's ruptly video agency's been seized by ukraine's security service while she was filming in western ukraine trying to do
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a job lot of over the journalists there let's now talk to alina. on the phone either alina you're live on r.t. i'm kevin owen thanks for being with us as i was saying there's a sad trend we've been seeing so much recently of journalist simply doing the job being booted out of the country sums a couple of our reporters is how do you now tell us your story and are you ok. if you're really out of. people now but i would i do. you know in a very small. one of. our local journalists here you know that. tiny russia we incur. about an hour. on the way. russia
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and it went on. now you've got dual citizenship i gather american possible and a russian passport. how do you feel about being kicked while you have. i still have no word on. what they have done basically i entered the ukraine on an american passport. from the and then base only when they're telling me that i have needs. within the next few days to see me only as the russians. claim. my gun. is not knowledge in their final statement that i am an american citizen and that i have entered ukraine. with my horse. race. a little let me just get this straight are you in ukraine as
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a mole have you been and how you treated if so in those final hours. at the moment. i was applied. for the morning. i was. told the. there were. complaining about my congress. saying. and. doing something. i was facing minds how do you know over the many reasons you think that you had been provoking the protest has had you given reason to accuse you of this do you think we'll know. not at all i will end. up with the other earner. you know i. never here are.
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all very nice no way. at all i guess. and why it's such a sad situation. at least as far as you're concerned we're glad you're ok take care of yourself and no doubt will talk to you again at some point soon thanks for being with every opinion on the phone are journalists about to be kicked out of ukraine. president putin has called extension of sanctions over the events in ukraine counterproductive that's news in the last few hours he discussed the situation apparently with president obama both leaders concluded that the current state of affairs suits neither moscow nor washington e.u. sanctions a kicked in designed to punish russia's financial energy and defense sectors european lawmakers have made it nearly impossible for the companies in its list to seek funding or shop for technologies in europe from now on the sanction financial institutions including instantly russia's biggest bank won't have access to funds
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from e.u. markets if the loan is for more than ninety days when it comes to defense and energy companies on the list they'll no longer get the most advanced e.u. quitman for at least the next three months after that european leaders will decide whether to go on with the measures. but for now business is in the west optically happy with the way politicians are trying to solve the ukrainian prices the c.e.o. indeed of the world's largest chemical company in germany has doubts about the efficiency of sanctions overall and the executive vice president of the u.s. chamber of commerce also comment to make as well say on nerves of concern that the measures could have a boomerang effect we spoke to the president of the association of a tally of businesses in russia who told us that sanctions come at a price for those imposing them. between europe and russia. doors. you know the. normal russian federation and the second investor so we have more than fifty years
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of friendly relations with russia we cannot destroy and let me see. the section would be a hundred billion dollars from the russian federation i think that. would be only you. that's for sure. well this latest punitive measures follow the course of malaysia flight m.h. seventeen a fortnight ago still unclear exactly what caused the plane to crash killing all two hundred ninety eight on board russia was first to provide some evidence as to what may have been releasing satellite images purporting to show the deployment of ukrainian anti-aircraft batteries around the crash site but kiev claimed those images were fabricated and then they release their own photos in response to that russia's defense ministry says key evidence is fake. explains why well actually to put it bluntly they're saying that everything ukraine has presented as evidence is
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to put it simply is a lie and here is why first of all we're looking at a group of images that show a different time and date why they were presented as evidence by ukraine is completely clear secondly there is a group of images. that was falsified and that can be proven by detailed analysis of weather conditions on that particular location on that date finally there is a third government images which according to ministry of defense show that they have been doctored or altered to digitally obviously played with by the ukrainian side on top of that ukrainians have alleged that they have images which supposedly show the movement of russia's military machinery across the border and now minister of defense says that the quality of images does. not really allowed to make that statement first of all they do not have a date stamp or it is impossible to say where and when those images were taken because they do not have the geographical coordinates on them and none of the images show a road that crosses the border and therefore his view is unsubstantiated claims
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that the tracks were made by russian military simply did not hold up to scrutiny on top of that the image quality is really poor and therefore it is impossible to say whether those tire tracks are indeed from a military vehicle and not for example from something else and of course it is even less awful to say that those vehicles actually do belong to russia there by the minister of defense says that all evidence that was presented by ukraine simply does not bear up to scrutiny coming up the national security agency goods targeted keeping his own secrets will tell you why after the break. you have a point to me because. you have a new. drama in the tissue inquiry furthermore restriction.
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the u.s. is putting its largest of a shipment of health missiles to iraq which is of course in desperate fighting right now with al qaeda linked militants missiles which are able to inflict huge destruction come with a significant price tag hundred thousand dollars the move comes as radicals of already snatched large swathes of land in the northwest of the country and declared an islamic caliphate on the occupied territories they control all rich regions now in their well trained troops pose a significant threat to the iraqi army and explains the dangers then of america's exports. a record sized 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
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is the prime contractor for the production and supply of these hellfire missiles and this comes as the iraqi government continues the fight against isis the islamist militants al qaeda affiliated group who have been reaching 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 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
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and r.t. . however the supply of weapons may bring about even more problems to the past the militants are already maneuvered the seizing dozens of u.s. supplied howitzers they also voted for those machine guns to the small plus fifteen hundred humvees not so long ago that the iraqi army so it's a real fear that the help could end up in the extremists too. thinks that arms dealers are the ones who benefit most from the shipment of the. it's 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 back and look at what's really happened since two thousand and three the united
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states because of its military intervention in iraq fractured the country and fractured it along ethno sectarian lines and finance shiite militias that finance sunni militias that financed the kurds the us as a matter of policy for three years has funneled arms and weapons to arm the same so-called islamic extremists in syria and have now brack should serious the u.s. is trying to get back into iraq to have a decisive impact but it's a divide and rule in strategy that we've seen unfold in both syria and in iraq. the beheading of the filipino construction worker and the gang rape of a nurse has led the philippines now 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 and is loving emirate after they forced the army out of the area and heavy fighting using rockets in the capital tripoli meantime at least one hundred people have been killed in the past two weeks that said some nations to shut their embassies in the country political analysts
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who can charm that explains what happened to a once thriving state. ground was laid for the situation by nato and its allied forces on the ground throughout twenty twenty eleven and for many it often to be a mama gadhafi made it very clear during the twenty eleven that if you want to turn libya into a country with bullets in this and no no central governance like somalia off honest on it set for the nato and its allies are doing the right thing since october twenty levon when the foreman john maria well 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 haven't nato put you in this mess i'm going to remain putting you in this mess on such as the lawlessness in the 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. and then his
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thoughts russia's popular blog is that i need to watch their online language a controversial new law has just come into effect to tell you about it on our website dot com if you want to check out the revocations also to how far would you go to get your hands on hard liquor while adult apparently in the u.k. allegedly exchanged human body parts for a bottle of whiskey. right see. sir street. and i would think that you're. on a regular splitter. and still. be in the. again america's national security agency's big sued for refusing to reveal its
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former director he reportedly has got a lucrative sideline as a private consultant with millions of dollars but activists claim state secrets explains. the agency that eroded the meaning of privacy and indiscriminately peered into the lives of millions of citizens around the world is suddenly subscribing to protecting personal information but only if that person happens to be the former director of the national security agency keith alexander the n.s.a. work uses 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
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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. 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. the n.s.a. is also notably absent from the stage of what saga be the world's largest computer security convention secured such a cost of knoll believes the n.s.a. can't seem to figure itself. appearance of the celtics and conference of last year's very well remembered as their only attempt to. bridge the gap between what
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they are doing in computer security and what everybody publicly things they should be doing and that it was a complete failure we stand for freedom. not. my. wife you know. i haven't lied to congress and he seems to have a conflict. on the one hand collecting information and stealing secrets elsewhere and already has and protecting american companies and the american government from oz's doing it to them and that second part is what everybody wants to see more action and ironically he's alexander who's down not out of tennessee anymore is put out for trying to help companies protect themselves. will do some prefer to go back
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to iraq for this first one a car bombs going off in a busy commercial street in baghdad it's killed six and injured more than a dozen others iraq seen a very unfortunate upsurge in violence and sunni militants seized cities in the north west over seventeen hundred people mostly civilians were killed in the country last month. the head of the world health organization says the deadly a bowl of virus is spreading faster than the efforts currently to contain w.h.o. in the west african countries hit hardest by the disease there for now planning one hundred million dollars sports more than seven hundred people have died in what's been described as the worst of both a break in history the easily spread disease kills up to ninety percent of those infected if it's not treated early enough. rescuers say the chances of finding any more survivors now from wednesday's landslide that engulfed an entire village in western india are slim sixty three bodies have been discovered so far and dozens remain missing bad weather is hampering emergency crews efforts eight people pulled
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out alive in the first few hours but no survivors have been found since. heavy rains have caused widespread damage in central and western boag area flooding caused bridges to collapse a number of villages were left with drinking water to receive big will to stay away from the affected regions a state of emergency has been declared in several villages throughout the country. music you think it is twenty four seven dot com thanks for being with us on back with more just over half an hour's time but a couple of minutes after the break we want you to meet the nobel prize winner who's made it her mission to rid the world of deadly drugs. sometimes i am baffled by the closed little world that
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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 said 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 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 get by also we shouldn't forget that every government our 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
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