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israel's military operation in gaza will continue no matter how much time or force . is denied a chance for a cease fire negotiations. districts are laid to waste. protesters take to the streets over the israeli offensive as a new wave of demonstrations emerges why. the u.s. plans to train ukraine's irregular armed forces reportedly. supplying kiev with military technology. coming clean on harsh interrogation tactics. we tortured some folks. who did some things that were contrary to our
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values president obama admits the cia crossed the line when interrogating suspects as i look forward to the release of the classified data on the distributing disturbing techniques. are you watching r.t. international we're coming to you live from moscow in the russian capital it's good to have you with us israel's prime minister is vowing to push on with a military operation in gaza against hamas how much time or force it might take on the country is also refusing to negotiate a fresh cease fire with the palestinian group senior officials say they see no point in holding talks around one hundred forty palestinians have now been killed by israeli airstrikes and artillery fire since friday's failed truce now a video has emerged online showing the ferocity of these attacks.
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it was posted by the t.v. channel and shows one district being turned into rubble the area was leveled to the ground which as you can see by the time shown on the video barely an hour. restructures under israeli fire was the islamic university the i.d.f. says it was targeting the weapon development facility inside no casualties have been reported where the i.d.f. is pushing deeper into gaza in search of one of their soldiers who they claim has been captured by hamas the violence has outraged palestinians living in the west bank when they gathered in protest israeli soldiers threw smoke grenades and opened fire killing two and injuring around ninety others in the west bank for ati. given
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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 forces here in 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 holocene medical sources also report that a palestinian ambulance was hit directly with israeli live 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. where the operation protective edge is the deadliest israeli offensive in years more than sixteen hundred palestinians
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and sixty six israelis have been killed so far as hundreds more the more killed in two thousand and eight so-called cast lead operation and experts on israeli arab relations james petras told my colleague kevin i went there despite the international shock over israel's actions in gaza precious little is being done to end the bloodshed. they destroyed are they working for civil liberties electricity water supply sewage systems or they're making it unlivable because the ultimate coal is exclusively jewish israelis three and one to drive the entire palestinian people out of inhabitable region of the world our political opinion is shark but there is no one that's raising a hand to tell the israelis you will pay a price for this but not me i was also called for the international community to stand by israel before i come back let's take a listen to that quick clip of
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a call responsible and remorseful lose these and people who. stood with the world. with those rumors of the false hamas. who is who is it that those who it was called was the way it was group of us understood james will they stand with israel the question is who will stand with israel great britain gerrity of people in the world there are condemn israel every country in the world i would say the majority condemn since real talent. or a new wave of progress as a protest has swept across a number of cities worldwide in the us hundreds of activists protesting against the violence being inflicted on gaza that amount in washington end its support for israeli military campaigns against the palestinians ati's lindsay france brings us more. after yet another failed humanitarian ceasefire in gaza the people
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here gathered for the free palestine protest in front of the white house aren't just grieving for the tragedy happening overseas they're also feeling a lot of impatience impatience because their relatives are the ones ducking for cover in gaza and many of them say this is not just a war of weapons and of ideology it's also a war of rhetoric and perception probably here because this is obviously a devastation that's going on right now in gaza and we're calling for an end to the conflict there the freeing of the siege also the end occupation that is all over the west bank and gaza and to really point out the fact that there is something that is immoral on josh and in equal that is going on here representatives of this community here in washington say that based on what we've seen so far just this summer alone there are two clans for moving forward from here a line is to proceed as before every time bombs drop on gaza organize the protests and laments the
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government and media bias or instigate an about face change the perception of this community in the government and in the media the u.s. media's role is clearly to evoke sympathy for israel and downplay if not covered all the palestinian boy as first generation americans and immigrants many of them from palestinians these people here residents of washington many of them know that they are their relatives best representatives for what needs to change in the perceptions of gaza and its residents. the number of demonstrations against the israeli operation broke out in europe as well protesters in bali and why palestinian floods and crime is announcing a civilian deaths. and in france more than ten thousand marched through paris in support of the
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palestinian people and the country has seen weeks of protests since the start of the conflict and some demonstrations ending in clashes. well international outrage at the civilian deaths in gaza may be spreading but parts of the israeli media aren't hesitating to throw more oil on the fire that's on breaking the set on our website but here is a taste. 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 in titled 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 archived versions emerged 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 this up.
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ukrainian military jets are reportedly flying over eastern areas of the country locals say they can hear the sound of explosions in the distance on friday a kindergarten a don't yet was bombed luckily it was empty because of the summer break but it's still leaving mothers panicking over how to protect their children while many residents trying to flee dangerous spots are still getting caught in the crossfire but. we're. really going to believe if. you listen you part. the person. ok if forces say they've taken control of two towns outside don't yet as government troops attempt to regain the self proclaimed republics the real financial reports from the border between russia and ukraine. well would we can see in this new brain
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could definitely be described as a very dramatic state to score a challenge in clashes there continued with the death toll including among civilian population also continuing to climb as residential areas often get called to the deadly crossfire when ukrainian army and to government forces fight for c.t.'s and religious lugansk c.t.'s so just claim that at least five residents were killed in the last twenty four hours humanitarian situation the seat remains a very tan's 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 ganske warn that this 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 itself very often becomes a very dangerous journey here's one local mayor who was among those organizing the
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recreation at the time of the intensified tain. the whole city was 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 the next up again we've got no transport fuel water we're trying to bring bread into town on the fire. situation on the ground or mainstream mass. of the race no any indication that it's could become any better any time so. despite the ukrainian conflict claiming more lives every day kiev is getting further support from its western backers the obama administration now plans to train and equip its a regular forces the national guard fighters where they use quietly mixing about and supplying ukraine with weapons far more reports but 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
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but russia's foreign ministry says this amounts to double standards because that 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. 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 to the tune of something like nineteen million dollars although this is still subject to congressional approval. while the west
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has been putting pressure on russia accusing moscow of supplying self-defense fighters with arms foreign affairs analyst surge a trip which 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 they are now giving it to this what but because they actually defused the treat this as a conflict in the first place it's simply a rebellion in the late so-called legitimate ukrainian authorities are involved in the security operation who. law and order if they raise more weapons coming the ukrainian government's way more training more where it looks pretty grim 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 its own weight
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. the american journalist bought up the video agency has been forced out of ukraine she was detained while filming in the west of the country after her ukrainian colleagues to top security services journalist with a camera you know just there was a rug please stick around my tripod and straight away said you russia today first of all they question 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 there 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 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
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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 questioned and also at the protest. and they gave it back to me it was blank. well it's not the first time a journalist has been booted out of ukraine there have been over a dozen cases where t.v. crews have been barred from entering the country or sent away as soon as official saw their russian identification papers the latest case though it was the first to target american citizen last month british journalist graham phillips also working for r.t. was arrested and thrown out of the country. ukraine's president is calling for parliament to be dissolved after nor makers refused to enable the self declared independent authority in the east as terrorist organizations it's a move that the director of studies at the institute of democracy in cooperation
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thinks will bury them in just a messy 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 oligarchy and it let's never forget the role of oligarchs is absolutely key and 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 will be and have it behavior of a european state. people in several european cities are remembering the odessa
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massacre that saw forty six people killed three months ago activists gathered in the spanish capital madrid to pay their respects to the victims this is 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 on may the second happened during a ferocious standoff between anti-government protesters and the group of radical leaves right sector nationalists drove protesters into a government building in the city center and started throwing molotov cocktails many were burnt alive as he tried to escape by climbing to the roof or jumping out of the windows were gunned down or beaten to death. now blaming the victim starts how journalist and filmmaker john pilger describes how western media is covering the conflict in eastern ukraine that's in our program going underground you can watch the full interview online but here's a quick taste the wall street journal headline blames the victims it takes
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the kiev regime version of the story and blames the victims can you imagine can you imagine another troll city on the whole being reported in that way anywhere else in those parts of the world where there are worthy victims reporting works or working victims and non-working victims the people of eastern ukraine or russians on the bilingual people are unworthy victims because somehow they are mixed up with the unworthy as place of war and that is russia. still to come this hour spreading the message has jihadists gained ground in iraq and syria they're also moving in on local media aiming to make the group. more not after the break. waters. of the plunder me because.
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president barack obama admits the us and 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. 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 blocks 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. who 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 torture to
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describe the practices lawmakers say it's because such an accusation could have political diplomatic legal and even criminal implications. for former f.b.i. agent colin riley thinks the upcoming report could further tanishq 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 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 we'll be heard because if congress cannot oversee this well we were looking at a really different form of government than what we call ourselves a democracy. elsewhere the united kingdom is dragging spy training into the
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mainstream six british universities are being given the green light to give a new generation of the skills they need to pry into the dark underbelly of the world wide web sites on our website r.t. don't call. also that now they might look small soft and in need of a hug but argentinian scientists say the ancestors of the penguins we know today who was told this basketball players you can get more on our website. has now made caliphate shown here that has recently declared been recently defeated by jihadist militants on occupied lands in syria and iraq now has its own media censorship program it's harsh new regulations dictate that any reports from the caliphates have to be reviewed by the group's so-called information office the group already has a media presence on the web including twitter where they post videos and photos promoting their cause and even post foreign muslims to join the jihad to become
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martyrs adman go to who's an expert on middle east affairs believe 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 and said in terms of the media they have shown some sophistication when dealing with the media clearly try to control the message views the various social media outlets to get their message across some of it used brutality in fact to send a message are those look try 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 but it's not just a well organized media the self-proclaimed islamic state is rapidly issue of natural beauty of a genuine nation has its own legal code a strict brand of sharia law its budget is an estimated two billion dollars some of
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which is stolen some donated by generous sponsors in the gulf and they control vast oil fields after snatching them from syria and iraq along with an army which is now more than seven thousand strong plus an ever expanding arsenal. the persecution of christians by iraqi islamists militants has in thousands protest in sydney and melbourne australia's iraqi community warns that christians could disappear from the seized areas of iraq in syria as thousands flee on march from jihadists threatening to kill those who refused to convert to islam. elsewhere the u.k. has evacuated its citizens from libya and closed its embassy in the capital tripoli as violence rages between different militias several countries including russia and the united states have already shipped their workers out of the country thousands of foreigners are fleeing libya many of them egyptians with more than three hundred people having been killed in the last two weeks. of losses ripped through
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a factory in eastern china killing sixty nine workers and injuring nearly two hundred is there someone it may have little fire in an area containing flammable dust local officials describe the incident as a serious breach of safety the factories managers have been arrested safety standards are a common cause of problems in chinese workplaces last year a fire at a poultry plant killed one hundred nineteen people. tornado has swept across the stamboul causing floods and backing up traffic across the city at least three men were injured in road accidents forecasters have warned that downpours are expected to continue over the next few days. now you're watching international coming up travel back with us to world war one and get in the thick of the so-called attack of the dead men and for you in the spotlight with george galloway stay with us.
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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 we feel injection 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
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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. but with economic downturns in the final. days. the london new york sang i and the rest of life during the if you will be everything thing. waters be. spread all over norway is the
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