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be prepared for a change when you. get ready for a. freedom of speech and. the freedom to. israel's military operation in gaza will continue to how much time all force it takes. all districts are laid to waste meanwhile thousands of 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 forces. with military technology and equipment. coming clean on harsh interrogation tactics. we tortured some folks. who did some things that were
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contrary to our values president obama admits the cia crossed the line when interrogating suspects look forward to the release of declassified data on the disturbing techniques used. from moscow israel's prime minister to push on with the military operation in gaza against hamas he says. how much time or force it might take 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 now have been killed by israeli airstrikes and artillery fire since friday's failed truce a video. showing the ferocity of these attacks.
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posted by the al arab e a t.v. channel and shows one garza district being turned into rubble the area was level to the ground which as you can see by the time shown on the video took barely one hour . instructors on the israeli fire was the islamic university. targeting weapons development facility inside no casualties have been reported. 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 are we fear is in the west bank for ati. given the very heavy toll felt by palestinian civilians in gaza hamas
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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 on the scene 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. the operation protective edge is 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
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two thousand and eight so-called cast lead operation and experts on israeli arab relations james petras told my colleague kevin owen the despite the international shock over israel's actions in gaza precious little he's being done to end the bloodshed. they destroyed all the working facilities electricity water supply sewage systems they're making it unlivable because the ultimate coal is exclusively jewish israelis three they want 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 netanyahu is also called for the international community to stand by israel before a come back let's take a listen to that quick clip of a call responsible and remorseful lose these and people who. stood with google.
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with those rumors of the false hamas. who is who is it that it was one of the little it was group of us understood james will they stand with israel the question is who will stand with israel great gerrity of people in the world there are condemning israel and every country in the world i would say the majority condemn since real talent. or a new wave of pro-gun as a protest has swept across a number of cities worldwide in the u.s. hundreds of activists are protesting against the violence being inflicted on gaza that amman in washington and its support for israeli military campaigns against the palestinians artie's lindsay france brings us more. after yet another failed humanitarian ceasefire in gaza the people here gathered for the free palestine protest in front of the white house aren't just grieving for the tragedy happening
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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 but we're here because there's 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 a more 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 government and media bias or instigate an about face change the perception of this community in
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the government and in the media the u.s. media's role is clearly to evoke sympathy for israel and downplay if not 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. well a number of demonstrations against the israeli operation broke out in europe as well protesters in the way of palestinian and denouncing civilian deaths. and in france more than ten thousand marched through paris in support of the palestinian people country has seen weeks of protests since the start of the conflict and some demonstrations ended in clashes. international outrage at the
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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 coming up on breaking the sets it's on our website behave as a taster 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 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 the cycle. you know the news ukrainian military jets are reportedly flying over eastern areas of the country and locals say they can hear the sound of explosions at least three
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civilians have reportedly been killed over the last twenty four hours locals are increasingly being caught up in the fighting as they do what they can to stay out of harms way. yeah. and. those corporate leaders you are really going to believe. you listen you person. the person. you. care forces say they've taken control of two towns outside of don yet because government troops attempt to regain the self-proclaimed republics maria financial reports from the border between russia and ukraine. well would we can see in this new brain could definitely be described as a very dramatic status chelan in clashes there continued with the death toll including him in civilian population also continuing to climb as residential areas
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often get 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 the seat remains a very tan's electricity there has been cattle for several days already there are also problems with the running water and the officials of the self-proclaimed republic of the gaza 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 then are 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 intensified because when you get the whole city is destroyed apartment buildings and private houses alike it's been going on for about eight days there was
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a pause in the shelling when we managed to take two buses full of refugees out of town then it started again we've got no 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'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 washington now plans to train and equip its a regular forces that the national guard fighters or the e.u. is quietly lifting a balance upon ukraine with weapons under far more reports. well the latest move by the 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 the 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
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equipment in the ongoing conflict in the east of the country which moscow fears could inflame the situation. is 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. where the west has been putting pressure on russia using moscow of supplying self-defense fighters with arms foreign affairs analyst. says it's another example of double standards. it is
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blatant hypocrisy not only as the russian foreign ministry said because they wanted to ban such supplies to have a quote which but they're now giving it to this what but because they actually defused to treat this as a conflict in the first place it's simply a rebellion in the loop so-called legitimate ukrainian authorities are involved in the security operation who stabbed lish lot and all that 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 . an american journalist fawlty is right the video agency has been forced out of ukraine she was detained while filming in the west of the country after her
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ukrainian colleagues tipped off 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 shouldn't 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 some. of the officials has it right now they have all the footage that
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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 was the first to target an american citizen last month british journalist graham phillips also working for r.t. who was arrested and thrown out of the country you were ukraine's president is calling for parliament to be dissolved after nor make has refused to label the self declared independent authority as in the east as terrorist organizations it's a move that the director of studies at the institute of democracy and cooperation thinks will bury their legitimacy of the current or thirty's basically a lot of ukrainian politics is explained by money and obviously the war is costing
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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 polls 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 he gave it behavior of a european state. people in several european cities are remembering the adesa massacre that saw forty six people killed three months ago activists gathered in the spanish capital madrid to pay their respects to the victims while this is rome where people held a small demonstration to denounce fascism for dozen black balloons were then
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released into the air one for each of the victims the tragedy on may the second happened during a ferocious standoff between anti-government protesters and a group of radical yields right set to nationalist drive protesters into a government building in the city center and started for and more out of cocktails many were burned alive as they tried to escape by climbing to the roof or jumping out of windows were gunned down then beaten to death. or blaming the victims that's how journalist and filmmaker john pilger describes how western media is covering the conflict in eastern ukraine and our program going underground you can see the full interview online but here's a quick taste that the wall street journal headline blames the victims it takes the kiev regime version of the story and blames the victims can you imagine can you imagine the not troll city on the scale being reported in that way anywhere
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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 we have put 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 as to how they scale ground in iraq and syria they're also moving in on local media i mean to make the group looks look and suffering more after the break. a couple of hundred years ago sir thomas moore wrote you an abandoned ship in a storm just because he couldn't control the winds well america ain't no you don't b.s. or tommy ill stinky wind is blowing and the corporate rats are abandoning ship.
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the u.s. military was built to square off against the soviet union. over western europe and when you take that conventional military and now try to retire ask it as a counterinsurgency force it creates a lot of gaps and that's the kind of private sector stuff. dramas that can't be ignored. stories others refuse to notice. faces changing the world writes new. picture of today's. from around the globe.
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president barack obama admits 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. 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 techniques was not effective in collecting unique intelligence or thwarting plots president obama speaking ahead of the public release of the report reminded that when he became president he signed an executive order to stop. we torture. we did some
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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 describe the practices lawmakers say it's because such an accusation could have political diplomatic legal and even criminal implications. former f.b.i.
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agent coding rally thinks the upcoming report could further tarnish the u.s. government in the eyes of the public. first 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 tower instead of the executive branch lying to congress and all of our democratic system well will 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 the united kingdom is dragging spy training into the mainstream six british universities are being given the green light to give a new generation of hackers the skills they need to pry into the dark underbelly of the world wide web that's on our website called. bill so that it might look.
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down and didn't need a hug but argentinian scientists say the ancestors of the penguins we know today were as tall as basketball players you can get more on that on our web site. the islamic caliphate 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 so-called information office or the group has already already has a media presence on the web including twitter where they post videos and photos promoting their cause even post as foreign muslims to join the jihad to become martyrs at macquarie 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 and said in terms of the media
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they have shown some sophistication in dealing with the media clearly try to control the message they have used the various social media outlets to get their message across some of it used brutality in fact to send a message of 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 in the best image of what their ideological beliefs and to recruit followers. well it's not just a well organized media the self-proclaimed islamic state is rapidly issue many attributes of a genuine nation now has its own legal carry district brand of sharia law its budget is an estimated two billion dollars some of which is stolen some donated by generous sponsors in the gulf and it controls vast oil fields after snatching them from syria and iraq along with an army which is now more than seven thousand strong
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plus an ever expanding arsenal as well now the persecution of christians by iraqi islamists militants is in thousands protest in sydney in melbourne australia iraqi community warns that christians could disappear from the seized areas of iraq in syria as thousands flee on mass from jihadists threatening to kill those who refuse to convert to islam. elsewhere the u.k.'s 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 two hundred people having been killed in the last two weeks. powerful blast has ripped through a factory in eastern china killing sixty nine workers and injuring nearly two hundred is there someone may have lit a 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
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are a common problem in china's workplaces last year far as a poultry plant killed one hundred ninety people. in a bowl of buses smashed through the entrance of a ferry station ramming into a taxi on the way security video shows the dramatic crash you can see it there however no one was killed eighteen people were injured two are reportedly in critical condition it's unclear why the driver lost control of the vehicle very services from the station have been halted. when next on r.t. international it's max kaiser on why america. corporate big shots want to move it that businesses across the atlantic stay with us.
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sometimes i am baffled by the closed little world that a lot of people in the mainstream media must live in they seem shocked and appalled at the fact that around forty percent of the weapons supplied to afghanistan have gone missing let's ignore the fact that while americans are going broke the u.s. must rebuild the afghan military and think for just a second what would happen if you set a lot of weapons into a country in dire economic suffering i'm sure you've heard reports that say that afghan farmers could only make a living off of poppy crops because they just have no other resort so if you throw a bunch of guns and ammo into the hands of people who have the career choices of poppies or starvation yeah that someone might be willing to sell some bullets to get by also we shouldn't forget that every government on earth has people in it working for their old self interests or others interests it is totally naive to think that every person involved in the process of transferring weapons will be loyal to the afghan government which seems to have been put in place by a certain hyper power who remain nameless in short if you find this story shocking
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welcome to the kaiser report imax kaiser a couple of hundred years ago sir thomas moore wrote you an abandoned ship in a storm just because he couldn't control the winds well america ain't no utopia to tommy and ill stinky wind is blowing and the corporate rats are abandoning ship this is right stacy.
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