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tonight israel's lays waste to more areas of gaza and its push for the release of a soldier it says was kidnapped by us while in the west bank now antiwar protesters are dispersed with live rounds. the u.s. says it plans to arm and train ukraine's irregular armed forces while the e.u. reportedly lives a ban on supplying kiev with military technology and equipment. coming clean on hush hush interrogation tactics. we tortured some folks. who did some things that were contrary to our values president obama admits the cia crossed the line when interrogating suspects as analysts look forward to the release of declassified data on the disturbing techniques you.
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choose just past ten pm here in moscow my name is kevin now and you're watching r.t. international our top story israel is refusing to negotiate a fresh cease fire with a mass senior officials there say they see no point in holding talks now and one hundred forty palestinians have been killed by israeli airstrikes and artillery fire since friday's failed truce videos emerged to online showing the ferocity of these attacks as you're about to see. well that was posted by the a lot of t.v. channel and shows one cars a district being turned into rubble the area was leveled to the ground which is you
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could see by the time shown on the video there to barely an hour. and among the structures and israel was the islamic university to the i.d.f. said it was targeting the weapon development facility inside the building no casualties or of been reported from there. so the idea of pushing deeper into garza now in search two for one of the soldiers who they claim was captured by hamas the violence has outraged palestinians living in the west bank but when they gathered in protest israeli soldiers threw small grenades opened fire killing two and injuring some ninety others harry fears in the west bank for ati. given the very heavy toll felt by palestinian civilians in gaza the 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 clashes with israeli
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forces here and some of those clashes live fire was used to palestinian youths were killed by israeli life fire they were shot in the chest and just yesterday evening palestinian medical sources also report that a palestinian ambulance was hit directly with israeli life 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 ongoing operation in gaza. the military operation in gaza dubbed protective edges the deadliest israeli offensive in years more than sixteen hundred palestinians and sixty six israelis have been killed so far as hundreds more than were killed in two thousand and eight so-called cast lead operation in conflicts led to demonstrations in support of both sides in new york two rallies took place at the same time on the same street in the one pro israel of the other pro palestine i. i in europe now
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the same the demos who are mainly against the israeli operations as one of the same similar protesters in berlin wave palestinian flags and banners denouncing the civilian death. these pictures from lisbon where protesters marched through the city and marched through the city to the israeli embassy that's where they're heading demanding an end to the military action has been underway for almost four weeks now. and this is london thousands took to the streets there to voice their anger over the palestinian deaths the rally took place outside the israeli embassy again one of the student groups projected an image of the palestinian territories national flag on the houses of parliament calling on the u.k. government to impose sanctions on israel a correspondent reports from london. another day and another protest on the streets of london over the on going situation in gaza if you take
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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 a real sense of anger over that growing 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 the defacing it was perhaps a bit simpler fool people on the pro israeli side to come out and support that stunts and now as the picture has all but 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 surge in anti-semitic attacks in britain and
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a surgeon 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 west of violence to say ok. i'm done i'm probably like. maybe global protests and growing international outrage over civilian deaths but some israeli media are still showing all of the fires were explosions and break in the search. 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 in 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 merged across 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
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this up. ukrainian military jets are reportedly flying over eastern areas local say they could hear the sound of explosions in the distance on friday a kid to go donetsk was bombed luckily it was empty at the time because of course it's the summer break but it's still even mothers panicking over how to best try to protect their children while many residents trying to flee dangerous sports are still getting caught in the crossfire. so you you. do you feel you surely. do nurse who are prone to move a few really want to believe you should. you believe do this do you do you listen you person. the person who wasn't you goodridge. forces so they've taken control of two terms outside donetsk is government troops
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attempt to fight to try to regain the self-proclaimed republics financial reports next to and from the border between russia and ukraine. well what we can see in this new brain could definitely be described as a very dramatic status challenge in clashes there continued with the death toll including human civilian population also continuing to climb as residential areas often get called to the deadly crossfire when ukrainian army and to government forces fired from sea to center the just the gaza city itself has claimed that at least five residents were killed in the last twenty four hours humanitarian situation to see to remains a very tense electricity there has been kushal for several days already there are also problems with the running water and the officials of the self-proclaimed republic all of the guns and warn that the 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 the cross in
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itself very often becomes a very dangerous journey here's one local mayor who was among those organizing the evacuation at the time of the intense fire taint. the whole city is destroyed 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 started again transport fuel water we're trying to bring bread into town on the fire. situation on the ground remains dramatic and so far unfortunately the phrase no any indication that it could become any better any time soon. despite the ukrainian conflict claiming more lives every day care is getting further support from western backers the obama administration plans to train a crew of irregular forces the national guard fighters for the use quietly lifting about supplying ukraine with weapons to farm reports but the latest move by the
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european union has certainly angered moscow the 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 ban was actually imposed last february prevent the then present 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 the actual ban 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
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moscow the pen pentagon hopes to fund to the tune of something like nineteen million dollars although this is still subject to congressional approval. or further to the west has been putting pressure of course russia are accusing moscow of supplying self-defense fighters with arms for all of. it 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 code 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 restart lish law and order if they raise more weapons coming the ukrainian government's way more training more where it looks
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pretty green for the self-defense forces this will only embolden it to go all the way in using indiscriminate violence in resolving the issue in beast itself the way . it is getting harder and harder for some journalists to report the news back to for instance an american journalist for artie's roughly video agency's been for study ukraine she was detained while 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. i gave them all the details that could give them i gave them my press card that had nothing to hide and they're my colleagues. i wanted to give them all the information they needed and when fifteen minutes later dream policemen came and three officials came from national
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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 i should try 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 foot into a and they had to raise it. first of all they put it on their computers so some. specialists has it right now they have all the footage that it took of myself being questioned and also at the protest. and even back to me it was blank. and i was you know if you want to use is not the first time far from it the journalist of the boot of ukraine the been over a dozen cases where t.v. crews have been barred from entering the country or sent away as soon as officials or the russian id papers the latest case that is the first to target an american citizen last month a british journalist grown phillips also working for r.t.
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was arrested and thrown out of ukraine. there are reports president is calling for parliament to be dissolved off the lawmakers refuse to label the solve the independent authorities in the east as terrorist organizations it's a move that the director of studies at the institute of democracy in cooperation thinks will bury the for the legitimacy of the current authorities. basically 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 in it let's never forget the role of oligarchy is absolutely key in ukrainian politics now the new president poroshenko discovers that actually he 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
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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. and people in several european cities are remembering the odessa massacre that saw forty six people killed three months ago activists gathered in the spanish capital madrid to pay their respects to the victims and coming up to the scene in rome where people held a small demonstration to denounce fascism four dozen black balloons were then released into the air one for each of the victims of the tragedy of may the second happened during a ferocious standoff between anti-government protesters and a group of radical moves right sector nationalists drove those protesters into a government building the city center he started throwing molotov cocktails many were burned alive those who try to escape by climbing on the roof or jumping out of windows would. be to the. head of the program passengers
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waiting for a ferry to turn to work in istanbul with a nasty shock we ended up in hospital some of them instead after another controlled bus dragging a taxi with it smashed into a waterside stop but thankfully it did stop eventually more on that later in the program and coming up to as you had the scale ground in iraq and syria there are also moving in the local media aiming to make the group look slick and savvy more than after the break as. well talking about language as well but i will only react to situations i have read the reports i'm like. no i will leave the state department comment on your latter point. to carry out a call as are you talking no. thank you no more weasel words. when you vade a direct question the prepared for
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a chase when you when you should be ready for a. freedom of speech a little different to last. stories others refuse to see. this is changing. so picture. from a road. block to. president barack obama's admitted 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
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interrogation he's going to chicanos 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 techniques was not effective in collecting unique intelligence or thwarting 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. do some things that were contrary to our values. although it was not his administration
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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 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. for the tanishq the u.s. government millions of the public. for starters the cia was afraid of this report
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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 there's been all kinds of cover ups on this unfortunately it's going to be kind of a tolerance of the executive branch lying to congress and all of our democratic system well will be heard 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. does the courtroom became the signal some heavy handed policing recently we've got these pictures to show you a video has been released showing a deputy sheriff taking out his temper on a handcuffed offended well got him so riled we got the story we'll tell you why the cops lost the plot. well you that to learn about russia then please try to warn people of gorging on the healthy food make it into fat by planting stomach churning
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images on packaging some of the kind of thing you get on cigarette packs. right to see. her street. and i think the trick. on our reporters. islamic caliphate shown here that you see on screen in black that was recently declared by jihadist militants in occupied lands in syria and iraq now has its own media censorship program its harsh new regulations dictate that any reports from a caliphate have to be reviewed by the group's so-called information office now the group's already got a media presence on the web of course including twitter where they post videos and
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photos promoting their cause even posted surgeon for a muslims to join the jihad to become martyrs and gary who's an expert on middle east affairs believes the media is proving to be an effective tool to promote the group's beliefs if we take a look at some of the things that they have done in terms of the media they are showing some sophistication in dealing with the media clearly trying to control the message use the various social media outlets to get their message across some of it to use brutality in fact to send a message are those look trying to show how effective they are. in terms of fighting in parts of it were also using it to recruit fighters by trying to explain and putting the best image of what their ideological beliefs into to recruit followers and it's not just a well organized media the self-proclaimed islamic states rapidly in the attributes
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of a genuine nation it's got its own legal code a strict brand the sharia law indeed it's estimated to have a budget of around two billion dollars some of which has been stolen some of which has been generously donated by sponsors in the gulf it controls vast oil fields after snatching them from syria and iraq and along with an army which is no more seven thousand strong it's got an ever expanding arsenal to. the persecution of christians by iraq's islamist militants is seen thousands meantime protested sydney or melbourne australia as iraqi community warns that christians could disappear from the seized areas of iraq and syria as thousands flee on mass from jihad this threatening to kill those who refused to convert to islam. other headlines we're covering this hour a powerful blast has ripped through this car parts factor in eastern china it killed sixty nine workers and injured nearly two hundred it's thought someone may have lit a fire there in an area containing flammable dust local officials describe the incident as
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a serious breach of safety the factory managers have been arrested poor safety standards are a common problem in china's workplaces last year a fire at a poultry plant killed a hundred ninety. in istanbul a bus that is a smashed through the entrance of a ferry station ramming into a taxi on the way people a lucky escape there it shows the dramatic crash but luckily enormous kill eighteen people were injured two reported critical tonight it's unclear what went so wrong why the driver lost control of the vehicle needless to say free services from the station have been halted for a while. romania's capital bucharest is said to be one of those earthquake prone spots in europe but if suffering tremors from time to time wasn't bad enough for residents the government seems to be in no rush to help them protect their homes either as it is a good place going off. 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
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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 bucharest 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 in one nine hundred seventy seven left more than fifteen hundred people dead and injured up to eleven thousand. but all of this is often even north where 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
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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 their hazard it's not only about the risk to those living inside these buildings many especially the taller once 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 the this is been here since one nine hundred seventy seven built in the main 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 its tenants nor the owners despite the obvious. if a major earthquake strikes it will go down up believe me. 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 it's going off r.t.
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the greatest. thanks to choosing out international ready watch around the world coming up breaking the set after the break looking into why guards his most recent ceasefire failed to hold sad situation they're watching us in britain george galloway's along with his thoughts on the inflated middle east. and.
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clean more 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 reserve the right to kill any person anywhere any time. they can do that in the future for they can drone that little makes these things are very. small. new kind of power via this technology that is very tempting.
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but. what's really good folks know rob lowe filling in for abby martin and this is breaking the set so yesterday we reported on this show that hamas and israel had reached a seventy two hour ceasefire agreement three weeks after the start of israel's operation protective edge against the gaza strip and the campaign has now resulted in the deaths of over four thousand five hundred palestinians including three hundred children according to gaza health ministry well israel has lost three civilians and over sixty soldiers according to the i.d.f. well sadly less than two hours into the new a cease fire and israeli shelling in the southern gaza city of haifa killed over sixty two palestinians and injured.
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