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a new kind of power of the this technology that is very tempting. israel steps up its gaza offensive killing more than one hundred palestinians overnight while hunting for a soldier it says was captured by hamas. civilian death toll mounts as the ukrainian army tightened the noose around the self-proclaimed republics in the east of the country as a second r t affiliated journalist gets deported. coming clean on a hush hush interrogation tactic we tortured some folks. who did some things that were contrary to our values barack obama says ahead of a report on cia interrogation techniques is that analysts anticipate more revelations to come.
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one pm in moscow good to have you with us our top story this hour seven hundred forty palestinians killed by israeli attacks since the collapse of the cease fire friday as israeli defense forces push deeper into gaza searching for a soldier they say was captured by hamas in the west bank israeli soldiers fired smoker unaids at a protest rally killing two and wounding about seventy others are a few reports given the very heavy toll felt by palestinian civilians in gaza the hamas movement across the palestinian territories had cooled for a day of rage of protests here in the west bank over the period of yesterday across the west bank ninety palestinian shit in various tasha's with israeli forces and some of those clashes live fire was used to punish it's what killed by israeli live fire that was shot in the chest. and just yesterday on the scene medical sources
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also report that a palestinian ambulance was hit directly with israeli fire lightly and moderately injuring six civilians this is all in the context of around three thousand palestinians coming to demonstrate yesterday across the west bank in outrage at israel's during operation in gaza three day un us sponsored cease fire which had much significance to it given the context in gaza many people on the ground believe that this ceasefire could hold we saw within two hours of the cease fire coming into place by directional fire the chronology of who shot who broke the ceasefire first is not clear but for sure that was mortar and rocket fire from gaza and from the israeli position there are reports of sniper fire palestinian civilians and also severe tank shelling of southern areas of the gaza strip within moments of those developments we saw this israeli soldier apparently kidnapped that's now said by the israeli military that this soldier. captured by palestinian fighters now in
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the last while we've heard from israeli sources that they're saying. that they're going to heavily increase their operations to find this soldier meanwhile in the hamas military wing the ultrasound brigade to said that they believe that the israeli soldier has already being killed alongside the palestinian fighters that captured him after israel heavily shelled. now if the soldier is still alive or even if he's not alive it's almost certain that israel will escalate and expand its operations certainly in southern gaza in retaliation and in effect all of this alleged kidnapping and capture. protective edge offensive has become israel's bloodiest operation in recent years with more than sixteen hundred palestinians killed as well as sixty six israelis killed by hamas rockets that number exceeding the casualties from the cast lead operation in two thousand and eight israeli
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offensive in gaza has led to large scale protests around the world appropriate group rejected the territories national flag on the house of parliament in london and called for the u.k. government to impose sanctions on israel crowds also gathered to protest the killing of civilians in gaza outside the israeli embassy in london artie's poly boyko has. the sites of folks who are crowded here outside grainy embassy and learned if you take a look behind me you can see that different ethnicities and can see a great system for the palestinian fool is that of china wanting fair free palestine and see israel the slogans being shouted very loud have you do you see the promise to me and community here but nothing also has a very big jewish population and there have been pro-choice rallies take place in london as well at the beginning of the from phoenix we had much more of it to base and there were no move through israeli commentators willing to defend israelis and israel stones however now that with the movie kids we've seen come out from gaza
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with shelled children and say many civilian civilian casualties you get the sense that it's that debases somewhat died down and perhaps people find it more difficult to support the israeli side say 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. elsewhere in europe people gathered in berlin to voice anger at israeli operation protesters wave power i mean flags and banners announcing civilian deaths also pictures from lisbon where protesters marched through the city into the israeli embassy also calling for an end to military action that's been underway for a. across the atlantic. new york also becoming a scene of demonstrations against the on the in bloodshed across the street in the palestinian protest the procession protest there was a pro israel counter protest taking place with activists supporting the operation.
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washington pledging more than two hundred million dollars to bolster israel's iron dome defenses against hamas rockets more about that and other updates at r.t. dot com. ukrainian army pressing on with an advance on the capitals of two self-proclaimed republics in the east of the country towns and villages in the region scenes of shelling and battles murray if an ocean has the latest wellwood we can see in this new brain could definitely be described as a very dramatic state to school children in clashes that continued with the death toll including among civilian population also continuing to climb as residential areas holton gets called to the deadly crossfire when ukrainian army ninety government holds his final c.t.'s and religious the gaza city itself has claimed that at least five residents were killed in the last twenty four hours and receive images of a destroyed kinda gotten off to it was he to buy a shallot is in the city center humanitarian situation the seat remains
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a very tense electricity there has been cattle for several days already there are also problems with the running will to and the officials of the self-proclaimed republic all of the guns school and that this could lead to a real humanitarian catastrophe and of course in this situation people continue to flee what they call the bedouin next to the russian ukrainian border every day tens and sometimes even hundreds of people try to trolls and to cross in itself very often becomes a very dangerous journey but you. know the thing is surely. those who are proposed move a few are going to be really going to be huge if. you you believe. you. the person. who. is one local mayor who was among those organizing the evacuation at the time of the intense pain. the whole city
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was destroyed apartment buildings and private houses along like it's been going on for about eight days there was a pause in the shelling when the minutes to take two buses full of refugees out of town then it stopped again with transport fuel water we're trying to bring bread into town on the. situation on the ground remains traumatic and so you. know any indication that it's could become any better any time soon. nine rockets from ukraine struck russian territory according to the border guard service no damage or injuries reported meanwhile nato confirms ukraine's army has been using short range ballistic missiles against anti-government forces that's according to a report by german news channel deutsche avella is echoing earlier reports on c.n.n. which referred to pentagon sources here though denying the claims charles sure bridger former british army officer thinks the use of such weapons could be a war crime. it's more likely that if a large device such as this exploded that you would get very substantial damage.
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streets being destroyed whole areas not down it's equivalent to a very large. bomb when we look at the kind of problems that israel's been delivering in gaza but using very pinpoint accuracy methods notwithstanding the high civilian casualty rate that we've seen in gaza and then apply that city's weapons with a lesser degree of accuracy you look at the kind of chaos the kind of devastation and carnage that would occur in a built up residential area if they used against targets placed at misawa such large warheads with them or that of some degree of accuracy very easy to make a mistake in naming of these devices and if they used against areas that are predominant civilian or even against civilian targets that would clearly constitute a war crime. an american journalist for a t.v. believe video agency forced to leave ukraine she was detained while filming in the west of the country after her ukrainian colleagues tipped off security services
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journalist with a camera you know just that was abruptly sticker on my tripod and straightaway said you know russia today first of all they questioned me themselves about seven of them i gave them all the details that could give them i gave them my press cards i had nothing to hide and they're my colleagues of history i have i wanted to give them all the information they needed and you know when fifteen minutes later three policemen came and three officials came from national security service in ukraine and they were asking me so many questions taking all my details and then when they didn't they didn't believe that my american passport was real showed them a picture of it so they followed me to the hotel until they could see the actual passport they asked me that i absolutely had to give my footage away and they had to raise it. first of all they put it on their computers so someone out of the officials has it right now they have all the footage that it took of myself being
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questioned and also at the protest. and they gave it back to me it was blank. this isn't the first instance of a journalist being kicked out of ukraine there have been more than a dozen cases where t.v. crews were barred from entering the country or sent away as soon as officials sought russian identification papers latest case however is the first time was targeted an american citizen last month a british journalist graham phillips also working for r.t. was arrested and thrown out of the country. still to come on the program as you hide his power in iraq and syria gains ground they tighten the screws on local media aiming to make the group look at more slick and professional details still to come plus. a report on how residents of the earthquake stricken romanian capital have to wait years for the government to reinforce their houses.
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to the. thirteen minutes past the hour now president barack obama has admitted the u.s. did torture people after the nine eleven attacks the confession follows a highly anticipated report on the cia's so-called expansive methods of interrogation or he's got and he has the details. the final declassified version of the senate intelligence committee's report on the cia's torture practices has been handed back to congress intelligence committee chairwoman dianne feinstein said the report shows abuse that is chilling and far more systematic and widespread than we thought she said the six hundred page document is said to reveal new and shocking details about the cia's detention and interrogation program in the years following the nine eleven attacks those who reviewed it say it shows that the use of the
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techniques was not effective in collecting unique intelligence or thwarting plots president obama speaking ahead of the public release of the record reminded that when he became president he signed an executive order to stop porcher torture. we did some things that were contrary to our values. although it was not his administration that was responsible for the program the cia under john brennan did their best to preserve secrecy around the deeds of the previous administration the cia even tempered with the investigation this thursday the cia inspector general concluded that the agency personnel hacked into senate investigators computers and removed documents from their system back in march john brennan vigorously denied that the agency had done that this week he was forced to admit that the cia officers did hack into investigators computers have too many lies and scandals the report is finally being declassified however it stops short of using the word
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torture to describe the practices lawmakers say it's because such an accusation could have political diplomatic legal and even criminal implications. former f.b.i. agent colleen raju thinks the upcoming report could tarnish the image of the u.s. government in the public's eye for starters the cia why is the rate of this report they didn't want the american public to know what they had done in terms of the black sites in the. we are theorizing waterboarding etc that's obvious because they destroyed the tapes from before i mean there's been all kinds of cover ups on this unfortunately it's going to be kind of the tolerance of the executive branch lying to congress and all of our democratic system well we'll be heard because the best if congress cannot oversee this well we were looking at a really different form of government than what we call ourselves a democracy on our website the fad of the way and a group of russian m.p.
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is warning people off chopping into one healthy food by putting disturbing images on the packages so both of those on cigarettes also on. how far would you go to get a drink while a doctor in the u.k. allegedly exchanged human body parts for a bottle of whisky more northwest. danish and i fracking activists are preparing to block a drilling site picked by fresh energy company totalis for development those opposing gas extraction techniques are setting up a tent camp and plan to stay as long as necessary to stop the company artie's peter all over has this report when friends bombed the exploration for shale gas through fracking in twenty eleven it meant that french company total had to search for new locations in order to base their operations they set up in the u.s. the u.k. poland algeria and at the sites in northern jutland in denmark this particular site could be up and running by the end of this year or early twenty fifteen now
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fracking involves the pumping of high pressured water into the ground to create tiny cracks in the rock which allows access to the shale gas however what we have seen though is a group of activists in this area who are raising concerns over the project they say they fear could cause damage to the environment and the health. we are very concerned about the environmental pact on the ground groundwater because we have seen that lots of incidents in the space the united states and also in poland and in argentina so why not here this protest camp near to the fracking site is just getting set up right now but eventually organizers hope as many as six hundred people will become to get the message to total that the people of denmark say no to fracking here you can see the european countries that have banned the controversial gas drilling technique some u.k. citizens trying to get their country on the list as well last week a sussex court turned down a shell company exploration bid and the fracking activist nathan stride explain why
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he joined the campaign the process of fracking where it will be in the u.k. initially we've heard one well fronts in lancaster and it's cause a moratorium frights in months to stop any fracking and so for the research was carried out so the problem that we have babies from our experience here in the one ounce or one on my fire is one hundred percent right. over con of government trying to keep. this. seems to fall on deaf ears. in jones from the u.k. green party thinks there are no economic reasons for fracking obvious how these fans are benefiting because they're going to make huge profits out of the gas but in fact it's not going to benefit the economy in any way a choice second you know. ordinary people who will not see their gas prices come down actual we're not going to european pricing round four for the
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price of gas so gas prices will not go down and of course we've got the problems of of the fracking process which can be extremely polluting if you look at it from an economical point of view this is not good for britain. let's take a look at why so many people say they are concerned about fracking shell gas extraction involves thousands of liters of chemicals some of which are causing said to cause cancer in the course of the drilling and some of it ends up in the soil contaminating local water supplies up to seventy percent of chemicals pumped into the ground stay there potentially causing long term environmental impact some vaporize with time releasing greenhouse gases and potentially polluting the. we speak your language. programs and documentaries in arabic it's all here. for the world talks of the ip interview intriguing story for you.
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to find out more visit our big i don't know it's called. as hot as militants known as the islamic states occur secure control of huge parts of syria and iraq they're also imposing tight media restrictions on occupied territories and the reports from there now have to be reviewed by the group's so-called information office this photo of it as lawmakers state fighter made the rounds online last month already dubbed their first hipster the group is believed to have one of the most sophisticated social media strategies that has a twitter account and regularly post videos popularizing the movement edmund ghareeb a middle east expert thinks the media has proved to be an effective tool in promoting the group's beliefs if we take a look at some of the things that they have done and said in terms of the media they have shown some sophistication in dealing with the media clearly trying to control the message of the various social media outlets to get their
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message across some of it to use brutality in fact to send a message those took tried to show how effective they are. in terms of fighting and part of it they're also using it to recruit fighters by trying to explain and putting on the best image of what their ideological beliefs and to recruit followers. some say the islamic state is getting the attributes of an actual country with its own legislation through a strict band brand of shari'a law a budget of estimated two billion dollars including cash pilfered from iraq's bank in mosul and generous donations from gulf sponsors and as natural resources after seizing control of the oil fields in syria and iraq it has an army which is more than seven thousand strong and expanding weapons arsenal. take a look now at some other stories making global headlines at least sixty five people have been killed and dozens injured in a powerful explosion of factory in the east of china the accident blamed on
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carelessness when handling flammable materials industrial accidents happen fairly regularly in china because of lack safety standards a fire at a poultry plant last year killed one hundred nineteen people. two american aid workers infected with the deadly ebola virus sweeping through west africa they're due to be medivac to the u.s. for treatment the highly contagious virus has killed more than seven hundred twenty people and more than one thousand have been infected one hundred million dollars campaign is planned by the world health organization and is part of efforts to curb the outbreak. as if your gas explosion at a power station in argentina is central cordoba province has left at least one dead and seven wounded all the victims mostly with burns appeared to be motorists as part of the facilities pipeline runs the road the fire is now under control and power to the road surrounding area has been restored. finally in the bulletin romania's capital bucharest said to be one of the most earthquake prone spots in
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europe but suffering from tremors from time to time isn't bad enough for the residents the government seems in no rush to help them protect their homes or heat up a second awful ports. illumine piano has been living in this building most of her life first working as a manager and leader getting a flat of her own on one of the top floors and even though it's officially been determined that it may collapse true fuses to move anywhere else that that. this house a strong nothing happened before it can withstand an earthquake it was designed by a famous well architect. out of all the e.u. capitals book grist has the highest risk when earthquake small tremors occur every year but in the twentieth century there were two major quakes as well the one thousand nine hundred seventy seven left more than fifteen hundred people dead and injured up to eleven thousand. but all of this is often even ordered by the residents. the government is ready to give loans to owners to reinforce their
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buildings but they refuse is because the people who agreed and moved out were promised that it wouldn't be for long and then in some cases it took up to ten years most people simply do not trust the government now. throughout the years only twenty six houses have been reinforced using this program. well around four thousand buildings in bucharest are believed to be in danger in the case of a strong earthquake they're marked with special warning signs but even if they weren't often you don't have to be an expert to figure out there are a hazard it's not only about the risk to those living inside these buildings many especially the taller ones have been falling apart even without any major earthquakes and often pieces of plaster fall down right on the heads of the pedestrians yes those this is been his since one nine hundred seventy seven built in the one nine hundred twenty s. this building is also in danger of collapsing previous earthquakes left scars all over the structure would due to the low rent this also doesn't scare off neither
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its tenants or the owners despite the obvious. if a major earthquake strikes it will go down i believe. experts say a major tremor shakes bucharest every thirty to forty years which means the next one may not be too far off you go to school r.t.e. look arrest. max and stacey explore the global financial headlines or if you watch us from the u.k. you're going underground with optional rentals. in fish farms waters today you have a pond to me because. i saw it spread all over and over this is the most toxic food you have in the whole. process drowns out in the tissue inquiry furthermore tells restrictions. that.
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really knows what's inside the feeling. death row inmate joseph would rise in pain during a two hour execution this prolonged suffering was not part of the plan and not constitutional but an accident and not quite a unique wanted that just this year in both oklahoma and my native ohio there have been botched executions due to complications with lethal injection one judge alex kozinski who voted to give would a stay of execution due to the questionable nature of lethal injection drugs said that the good old firing squad would be a lot more humane and his opinion eight or ten large caliber bullets fired at close range and massive damage causing instant death every time i think lethal injection
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is popular not for the executed but for society as judge kozinski said shooting someone in the head with a machine gun is instant death so why don't they use the firing squad because that would be messy and raise questions quietly injecting people way from prying public eyes allows the dirty deed to be done without the hassle of ugly news footage i think that it says something odd about society that we must kill the wicked and murderous but could you do it in a bloodless way completely out of sight i don't want to lose my appetite but that's just my opinion.
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clean zero casualties war this is the great fantasy of war mongering politicians. capturing people is this is what you do there and this is killing them. we reserve the right to kill any person anywhere any time. you don't listen to the camp drone makes these things are very. small. nuclear power via this technology that is very tempting.
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welcome to the kaiser report imax kaiser a couple of hundred years ago sir thomas moore wrote you would abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn't control the winds well america ain't no eutopia us or tommy it will stink the wind is blowing and the corporate rats are abandoning ship this is right stacy. we've seen these tax inversions where u.s. corporations no longer want to be american citizens because remember they have personhood there they want to become british citizens and you know pfizer of course tried to buy the british company astra zeneca and a one hundred seventeen billion dollar bid that was rejected by astra zeneca shareholders here in the u.k. but they're still trying pfizer c.e.o. still hunting for deals and willing to go big this is c.e.o. ian reed and he says there's no substantial advantage.
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