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look. this is all it's international from moscow eight pm here now headlining tonight israel lays waste of more areas of gaza and its push for the release of a soldier it says was kidnapped by hamas while the west bank will protest as a dispersed and live round. of u.s. plans to arm and train ukraine's irregular armed forces while the e.u. reportedly lifts a ban on supplying kiev with the tree technology and equipment. coming clean on hush hush interrogation tactics. we tortured some folks. we did some things that were contrary to our values president obama admits the cia crossed the
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line when interrogating suspects as analysts look forward to the release of declassified data on the disturbing techniques you. could even if you just joined us i'm kevin know in first some one hundred forty palestinians have now been killed by israeli airstrikes and artillery fire since friday's failed ceasefire and videos emerged online showing the ferocity of these attacks. it. was posted by the l r a beer t.v. channel it shows one gaza distributing turned to rubble as you can see the air is been leveled it took just one hour to do that. among the structures under israeli
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fire was the university indeed the i.d.f. said it was targeting very weapon developments facility inside the building no casualties reported from there though. so the i.d.f. is pushing deeper into guards or in search of one of the soldiers at the same time with a claim was captured by how mass violence has outraged palestinians living in the west bank but when they gathered in protest israeli soldiers to smoke grenades and opened fire killing two and injuring sub ninety others are a fears in the west bank for r.t. . given the very heavy toll felt by palestinian civilians in gaza hamas movement across the palestinian territories had called for a day of rage of protests here in the west bank over the period of yesterday across the west bank ninety palestinians were injured in various tasha's with israeli forces here and some of those clashes live fire was used to palestinian youths were killed by israeli live fire they were shot in the chest and just yesterday evening
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palestinian medical sources also report that a palestinian ambulance was hit directly with israeli life 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 ongoing operation in gaza. are a fear that while the military operation in gaza dubbed protective ages the deadliest israeli offensive in years more than sixteen hundred palestinians and sixty six israelis have so far been killed that's hundreds more than were killed in two thousand and eight so-called cast lead operation conflicts lead to demonstrations in support of both sides of the city new york two rallies took place at the same time on the same street one pro israeli the other pro palestine. and europe the demos were mainly against the israeli operation protestors in berlin here waving palestinian flags and banners denouncing the civilian death.
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let's flip the pictures from lisbon where protesters marched through the city to the israeli embassy they were demanding an end to the military action has been underway for almost four weeks now. protests as well thousands taking to the streets to voice their anger over the palestinian deaths the rally took place outside the israeli embassy one pro palestinian group projected the palestinian territories national into the houses of parliament calling on the u.k. government to impose sanctions on israel our correspondent. was in london to. well another day and another protest on the streets of london over the on going situation and gaza if you take a look behind me where outside the israeli embassy here in london and the crowd is full of not just muslims but a lot of brits as well you can see a sea of palestinian flags a lot of anti israeli slogans and it's real sense of anger over that growing
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civilian death toll now the organizers here have been talking about the british government in the way that they sell arms to israel suggesting that they could be complicit in the violence that's taking place when the conflict started it was a lot bigger that defacing it was perhaps a bit simpler fool people on the pro israeli side to come out and support that stones now as the picture of a civilian casualties of children show multiplying and are shown on t.v. screens every single day i think that's becoming a lot harder for the pro israeli community here in the u.k. now that as a result we have seen a stir in anti-semitic attacks in britain and in attacks against jewish people so tensions certainly raised polarized opinions which is affecting the streets of the capital so many thousand miles away from where they're trying to say
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ok. i'm done i'm probably like. just to be off in today's break in the set to see would take a look at the tensions in the already led to some israeli media let's take a listen. of course the rhetoric coming from some fringe elements of the israeli media couldn't be doing more to inflame tensions consider that today the times of israel published this op ed entitled when genocide is permissible and which the actual genocide of gazans is explored as the only way to bring israel peace now the article was pulled down but not before archive versions of murcia cry. the internet so for now we can only hope that calmer heads will prevail and that diplomacy will prevent the further slaughter of innocent civilians now let's break the.
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ukrainian military jets reportedly flying over eastern areas locals say they could hear the sound of explosions in the distance on friday a kindergartner donates was bombed luckily it was empty because of the summer break but is still leaving mothers panicking over how to protect their children while many residents trying to flee dangerous sports are still caught up in the crossfire to. score moves do you really believe you. would listen to a person. the person who would you. care for says so the taken control of two terms now outside donetsk is government troops attempt to fight to regain the self-proclaimed republic smiff motion reports from the border between russia and ukraine next. well what we can see in this new brain definitely be described as
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a very dramatic status challenge in clashes there continued with the death toll including women civilian population also continuing to climb. and gets called in a deadly crossfire when ukrainian army ninety government forces fired from c.t.'s and religious the gaza city itself has claimed that at least five residents were killed in the last twenty four hours humanitarian situation this interim a very tense electricity there has been cut off for several days already there are also problems with the running water and the officials of the self-proclaimed republic all of the guns warn that that could lead to a real humanitarian catastrophe and of course in this situation people continue to flee what they call the war zone where no next to the russian ukrainian border every day tens and sometimes even hundreds of people try to cross and across in itself very often becomes a very dangerous journey here's one local mayor who was among those organizing the recreation at the time of the intense fighting. the whole city was destroyed
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apartment buildings and private houses alike it's been going on for about eight days there was a pause in the shelling when we managed to take two buses full of refugees out of town then it stopped again we've got no transport fuel water we're trying to bring bread into town on the. situation on the ground remains dramatic and so you try unfortunately the phrase no any indication that it's could become any better any time so well despite the ukrainian conflict claiming more lives every day kiev is getting further support from his western backers the obama administration now plans to train and equip national guard fighters while the lifting a ban on supplying ukraine with weapons and to farmer reports. well the latest move by the european union has certainly angered moscow the e.u. has lifted a ban on the supply of military equipment and technology to the ukrainian government but russia's foreign ministry says this amounts to double standards because that
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ban was actually imposed last february prevent the then president using such equipment against anti-government protesters but it now seems ok to use the very same equipment in the ongoing conflict in the east of the country which moscow fears could inflame the situation. was removed by the council of europe on the quiet according to moscow which has gone on to say the e.u. is not applying logic to the situation and is in fact just reacting to being prodded by washington washington meanwhile has announced plans to fund train and equip the ukrainian national guard we should point out that this is not part of the ukrainian regular army it's a subsidiary if you like that was recently set up that includes conscripts and also members of the far right including the right sector which is another concern for moscow the pentagon hopes to fund something like nineteen million dollars although this is still subject to congressional approval. on the west and putting pressure on russia accusing moscow of supplying self-defense fighters with foreign affairs.
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says it's another example of double standards. it is blatant hypocrisy not only as the russian foreign ministry said because they wanted to ban such supplies to have a quote which but are now giving it to this what but because the actually fuse to treat this as a conflict in the first place it's simply a rebellion in the loot so-called legitimate ukrainian authorities are involved in the security operation to stablish law and order if they raise more weapons coming the ukrainian government's way more training more where it looks pretty green for the self-defense forces this will only embolden it to go all the way even using indiscriminate violence in resolving the issue in the east itself the way. the job of reporting back from there for some journalists at least is
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getting increasingly difficult and american journalists for ati's ruptly agency's been for study ukraine she was detained were filming in the west of the country after her ukrainian colleagues tipped off security services. journalist with a camera you know just there was a rather nice 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 fifteen minutes later three policemen came and three officials came from the 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 rio i shouldn't picture of it so they followed me to the hotel until they could see the actual passport they asked
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me that i absolutely had to give my foot into a and they had to raise it. first of all they put it on their computers so some. of the officials has it right now they have all the footage that it took of myself being questioned and also at the protest. and they gave it back to me was blank. so the first time a journalist has been booted out of ukraine the over a dozen cases were t.v. crews be barred from entering the country or sent away as soon as officials saw the russian identification papers the latest case those the first to target an american citizen last month british journalist graham phillips also working for r.t. he was arrested and thrown out of ukraine by. ukraine's president is calling for parliament to be dissolved after lawmakers refused to label the self declared independent authorities in the east is to organizations it's a move that the director of studies at the institute of democracy and cooperation thinks will bury the legitimacy of the current authorities. basically
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a lot of ukrainian politics is explained by money and obviously the war is costing money ukraine is on the brink of default and some of the political parties who are controlled by oligarchs and let's never forget the role of oligarchs is absolutely key in ukrainian politics now the new president poroshenko discovers that actually needs to purge the parliament he needs to stigmatize people who don't agree with his policies and above all he and his cronies the government itself the minute the prime minister and the other ministers they are of course trying to rig the elections by changing the electoral law in advance of the poll so that they get the parliament they want it's obvious that this is worthy of a banana republic this is not what it were the behavior behavior of a european state. people in several european cities remember the odessa massacre that sold forty six people killed three months ago and activists gathered in the
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polish capital of warsaw to pay their respects to the victims and this is so fear in bulgaria where people like candles in memory of the people lost their lives in the deadly clash that four dozen black polluters were then released into the one for each of the victims. trying to deal made a second happen during a ferocious standoff you may recall between anti-government protesters in a group of radical you right sector nationalists drove protesters into a government building in the city center and started so with molotov cocktails many victims of those who tried to skate by climbing on the roof or jumping on the windows were then. beaten to death. coming up passengers waiting for a ferry to take them to work in istanbul ended up in hospital instead something out of control bus dragging a taxi with it smashed into a waterside stop it got more and up just bit later in the program also to jihad this going roll and ground in iraq and syria they've also moved in on the local
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media and i mean to make the group look slick and savvy that after this break. language of what i will only react to situations i have read the reports. and no i will leave that to the state department to comment on your latter point. secure a car is on the docket no. thank you no more weasel words. when you vade a direct question the prepared for a chase when you find you should be ready for a. freedom of speech and little doubt the freedom to crush. dramas that can't be ignored. stories others refuse
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to notice. this is changing the world. so picture. from around the globe. to. president barack obama's admitted that the us did told should people after the nine eleven attacks the confession follows a highly anticipated report on the cia's so-called expensive methods of interrogation gone if she can 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
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thought she said the six hundred page document is said to reveal new and shocking details about the cia's detention and rendition and interrogation program in the years following the nine eleven attacks those who reviewed it say it shows that the use of the techniques was not effective in collecting unique intelligence or forwarding plots president obama speaking ahead of the public would least of the report reminded that when he became president he signed an executive order to stop . we 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
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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 after many lies and scandals the report is finally being declassified however it stops short of using the word 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 coleen rowley told us she thinks the upcoming report tarnished the u.s. government in the eyes of the public. for starters the cia was afraid of this report they didn't want the american public to know what they had done in terms of the black sites and the authorizing waterboarding etc that's obvious because they destroyed the tapes from before i mean that and that's unfortunately it's going to be kind of a tolerance of the executive branch lying to congress and all of our democratic
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system will well be hurt because of this if congress cannot oversee this well we were looking at a really different form of government than what we call ourselves a democracy. lawyer talked about today a denver coal group became the scene of some heavy handed policing recently got a lot of video views being released showing a defeating sheriff taking out his temper on a defendant vehicle to go online and also tell one of the cult lost the plot. and learn about the russian employees trying to warn people of gold to go to the healthy food now by putting some stomach churning images on packaging that some of what you see on some cigarette. right. sir strips. and i think you're. on our reporters. in.
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the the in. islamic caliphate shown here that was recently declared by jihadist militants on occupied lands in syria and iraq now has its own media censorship program its harsh new regulations dictate that any reports from the caliphate have to be reviewed by the group's so-called information office where the group's already got a media presence on the web including twitter where they post videos and photos promoting the cause even posted for muslims to join the jihad and become martyrs edmund ghareeb is next period on middle east affairs believes the media is proving to be an effective tool to promote the group's belief 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 try to
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control the message their views the various social media outlets to get their message across some of it to use brutality in fact to send a message of those took tried to show how effective. in terms of fighting and part of it they're also using it to recruit fighters by trying to explain and putting the best image of what their ideological beliefs into to recruit followers. well it's not just a well organized media the self-proclaimed islamic states rapidly assuming the attributes of a genuine nation it's got its own legal code a strict brand of sharia law also its budget is an estimated two billion dollars some of which is stolen some of which is donated by general sponsors in the gulf and it controls vast oil fields too after snatching them from syria and iraq along with an army which is now more than seven thousand strong plus to an ever expanding arsenal. the persecution of christians by iraq's islam this militancy sink
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thousands protested in sydney melbourne australia as a rocky community warns that christians could disappear from the seized areas of iraq and syria as thousands flee amounts from jihadists threaten to kill those who refuse to convert to islam. other headlines this hour a powerful blast of the through a car parts factory in eastern china it's killed sixty eight workers and injured nearly two hundred more it's thought someone murdered knighted an area filled with flammable dust a known problem for factories with poor ventilation factories managers have been arrested safety standards are a common problem in china's workplaces or a fire at a poultry plant killed one hundred nineteen people. in istanbul a bus has smashed through the entrance of a ferry station look at that ramming its way into a taxi on route security video shows how dramatic that crash was luckily no one killed eighteen people were injured though two reportedly critical it's unclear why
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the driver lost control of the vehicle and once what's a badly wrong ferry service is from the station have been halted. romania's capital bucharest is said to be one of the most earthquake prone spots in europe but they're suffering tremors from time to time was bad enough for residents the government seems in no rush to help the protect their homes as ego up is going off. illumine tiana 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 she refuses to move anywhere else that that. this house is strong nothing happened before and can withstand an earthquake it was designed by a famous well architect. out of all the e.u. capitals bucharest has the highest risk when earthquakes small tremors occur every year but in the twentieth century there were two major quakes as well the one
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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 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 while 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 while seven falling apart even without any major earthquakes and often pieces of plaster fall down right on the heads of the pedestrians yes
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there was the this is been here since one nine hundred seventy seven built in the main nine hundred twenty s. this building is also in beings or of collapsing previous earthquakes left scars all over the structure would due to the low rent this also doesn't scare off neither its tenants or the owners despite the obvious. that if a major earthquake strikes it will go down up believe me. experts see a major tremor shakes bucharest every thirty to forty years which means the next one me not be too far off you go to school not r t look rest. all on you see fingertips three four seven and r.t. dot com of course i'm back with more and bad thirty three minutes time live from moscow after a break here back to stacey next look at why american corporate big shots and try to move the businesses to the u.k. these days the kaiser report a couple of minutes. ago
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that's right. people are going to thank you for your life or just taking everything. um hum a. laugh oh well. my. wife would have to. say the. least pieces of meat. sometimes for nothing which. is so we have. to look just keep still he is still be jobst
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if you see a stage eight lupita but speech was. live . clean more zero casualties war this is the great fantasy of war mongering politicians. capturing people is this see what do you do if the innocent killing them easy we were serve the right to kill any person anywhere any time. soon but they can be trained to muslims makes these things are heard and politicians get a new kind of power via this technology that is very tempting.
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to. 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 utopias or tommy ill stink the wind is blowing and the corporate rats are abandoning ship this is right stacey yes max 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 one hundred seventeen billion dollars bid that was rejected by astra zeneca shareholders here in the u.k. but they're still.

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