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israel military operation in gaza will continue no matter how much time or force it takes as hamas is denied a chance for a cease fire negotiations in time districts and laid to waste meanwhile thousands of protesters take to the streets over the israeli offensive as a new wave of demonstrations emerges worldwide. irregular forces for the e.u. reported units of. military technology under clinton are. coming clean on harsh interrogation tactics. we tortured some folks.
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who did some things that were 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. to watching the international we're coming to live from moscow. in the russian capital israel's prime minister is vowing to push on with the military operation in gaza against hamas quote no matter how much time or force that it takes the country is also refusing to negotiate. 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 a video has emerged online showing the ferocity of these attacks.
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well it was posted by the al arab it t.v. channel and shows one gars a district being turned into rubble the area was leveled to the ground which as you can see by the time shown on the video took barely an hour. instructions on these guys these running university the i.d.f. is targeting the weapon development facility inside no casualties have been reports it. the israeli military says an i.d.f. soldier earlier reported missing was killed in action the army originally said he'd been kidnapped by hamas a report that had israeli soldiers pushing further into gaza when palestinians living in the west bank gathered in protest israeli soldiers three smoke grenades and opened fire killing two and injuring around this is in the west bank for ati.
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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 clashes with israeli forces here in 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 policy and 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 dubbed the protective edge is the deadliest israeli offensive in years more than seven hundred
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palestinians and sixty six israelis have been killed so far that's hundreds more than were killed in two thousand and eight so-called cast lead operation and expert on israeli arab relations james petras said told kevin i would the 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 israeli state and want to drive the entire palestinian people out of inhabitable region of the world our block of opinion is shark but there is no one that's raising a hand tell the israelis you will pay a price for this but netanyahu is also called for the international community to stand by israel before i come back to you but let's take a listen to that quick clip of a call responsible lose these people who. stood with as little.
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with as little as it once hamas. who is. this is the ghost of love. it is 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 or all of them condemn israel every country in the world i would say the majority condemn says israel's brutality. a new wave of pro-gun as a protest has swept across a number of cities worldwide in the us thousands of activists have protested against the violence being inflicted on gaza that amount in washington and its support for israeli military campaigns against the palestinians are things in the frogs 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
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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 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 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 one is to proceed as before every time bombs drop on gaza organized protests and laments the government
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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. well a number of demonstrations against the israel gratian broke out in europe as well protests isn't the only way palestine frog spawn is now saying civilian deaths. lolling fronds more than ten thousand people marched through paris in support of the palestinian people the country has seen weeks of protests since the start of
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the conflict but some demonstrations ended 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 sets on our website his attacks stop. 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.
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ukrainian military jets reportedly flying over eastern areas of the country and locals say they can hear the sound of explosions at least three 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 harm's way . we're. really going to boost. you listen to part. the person who would do you good. ok your forces say they've taken control of two towns outside of don't know yet because government troops attempt to regain so for trying republics maria phenomena reports from the border between russia and ukraine. well what we can see in this new brain could definitely be described as a very dramatic statists shelling in clashes there continued with the death toll
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including him and civilian population also continuing to climb as residential areas often get called to a deadly crossfire when ukrainian army and to government forces fight from sieges and religious the gaza city itself has claimed that at least five residents were killed in the last. twenty four hours humanitarian situation this it remains a very tense electricity there has been cut off for several days already there are also problems with the running walter and the officials of the self-proclaimed republic of lugansk 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 recreation at the time of the intense fighting. the whole city is 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 got 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. despite the ukrainian conflict came in more lives every day kiev is getting further support from its western backers washington now plans to train under quick it's a regular forces not the national guard fighters well the e.u. has quietly lifting a ban on supplying ukraine with weapons under a far more reports. but 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
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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. 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 accusing moscow of supplying self defense forces with arms for
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affairs. 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 lot but because they actually defused to treat this as a conflict in the first place it's simply a rebellion and the so-called legitimate ukrainian authorities are involved in the security operation to. 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 in using indiscriminate violence in resolving the issue in beast its own weight . an american journalist fati is rightly video agency has been forced out of
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ukraine she was detained while filming in the west of the country off the 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 card that 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 national security service in ukraine and they were asking me so many questions taking all my details and then when they didn't they didn't believe that my american passport was real showed them a picture of it so they followed me to the hotel until they could see the actual passport they asked me that i absolutely had to give my footage away and they had
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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 they 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 is the first time an american citizen has been targeted last month british journalist graham phillips also working for r.t. was arrested and thrown out of the ukraine. meanwhile the country's president is calling for parliament to be dissolved after lawmakers refused to label the self declared independent or thirty's 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 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 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 he gave it behavior of a european state. people in several european cities are remembering the adesa massacre that so forty six people killed three months ago activists gathered in the
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spanish capital madrid to pay their respects to the victims well this is rome where people held a small demonstration to denounce fascism for dozen black balloons were then released one a for each of the victims the tragedy are made the second happen during a ferocious standoff between anti-government protesters and a group of radical leaves right sector nationalists drove protesters into a government building in the city center and then started throwing molotov cocktails many were burned alive those who try to escape by climbing to the really for jumping out of the windows were gunned down or beaten to death. blaming the victims that's how journalist and filmmaker john pilger describes how western media is covering the conflict in eastern ukraine as in our program going underground which you can see online but here's a quick preview 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
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you imagine the not troll city on that scale being reported in that way anywhere else in those parts of the world where there are worthy victims are reporting works or working victims and none were victims the people of eastern ukraine or in the ethnic russians in the bilingual people are unworthy victims because somehow they mixed up with the unworthy as place of war and that is russia. still to come this hour spreading the message. ground in iraq and moving in on local media to make the grid look slick more not after the break. waters.
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you have in the whole. drama in the judicial inquiry further more restrictions. really knows what's. down in the final. days. and the rest. will be.
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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 so-called expansive methods of interrogation . if you 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 that would use that is chilling and far more systematic and widespread than we thought she said the six hundred page document. program in the years following the nine eleven attacks those who are due to say it shows that the use of the techniques was not effective in collecting intelligence or. president obama speaking ahead of the public release of the record reminded
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that when he became president he signed an executive order to stop. 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 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 thinks the upcoming report could further tarnish the u.s. government in the eyes of the public for starters the cia why is the braid of this report they didn't want the american public to know what they had done in church. 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 the united kingdom is dragging spy training into the mainstream six british universities are being given the green light to give a generation of talkers the skills they need to pry into the dark underbelly of the
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world wide web that's on our website salty dog called. also that they might look small soft and in need of a hug but argentinian scientists say the uncertainties of the penguins we know today those tools basketball players who are not on our website. because nomic 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 caliphates have to be reviewed by the group's so-called information office on the group or already has a media presence on the web including twitter to its where they post videos and photos promoting their cause even posed as foreign muslims to join the jihad to become martyrs i think 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 and said in terms of the media
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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 to use 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 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 assuming the attributes of a genuine nation it has its own legal code a strict brand of sharia law its budget is an estimated two billion dollars which some of which is stolen or the one nine hundred by a generous sponsors in the gulf and it controls vast oil fields of the snatching them from syria and iraq along with an army which is now more than seven thousand
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strong plus an ever expanding arsenal. the persecution of christians by iraq islam is militancy seen thousands protest in sydney and melbourne australia iraqi community warns that christians could disappear from the seized areas of iraq in syria as thousands flee on mass from the had a struggling to kill those who refused to convert to his life. 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 thousands of foreigners are fleeing libya many of them egyptians more than two hundred people have been killed in the fighting 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 thought someone may have lit a fire in america intending flammable dust local officials describe the incident is
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a serious breach of safety factories manages have been arrested by safety standards are a common problem in china is what i see as last year a fire the poultry plant killed one hundred nineteen people. and the tornado has swept across the stamboul causing floods. traffic across the capital three people were injured in accidents forecasters have warned the downpours are expected to continue over the next few days. up next on r.t. international blood sweat and tears as one of the key russian battles of world war one is brought to life for you in the u.k. everyday talks twitter data mining and surveillance and boom bust.
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a 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 inflict massive damage causing instant death every time i think lethal 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 eyes allows the dirty deed to be done without the hassle of ugly news footage i
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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. talking about language you. react to such a. i have read the reports for less. no i will leave them to stay current to comment on your paying the monthly say. no more weasel or. when you question me prepared for a change when you should be ready for a. freedom of speech little down to freedom to.
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nice and fifteen. this is simon's needs to crush is more terrifying than i could have imagined. weeks travelling i finally made it to the eastern front where pitched battles daily occurrence for months now the russian army has been pushed back by the german. forces but they make them work for every inch the fine is deafening and the bravery of the soldiers difficult to have a state. that's for myself i'm already taking pictures i never thought possible. i just need to make sure i don't run out.

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