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i feel. like the nation's chief condemns the latest attack on a un school in garza or at least ten have died as a criminal act as israel steps up its attacks while we deploying ground troops along the border. the german newspaper claims israel's been bugging the u.s. secretary of state's phone while he's mediated peace talks with the palestinians. russian checkpoints come under fire from the ukrainian side just as european security observers were monitoring the crossing the same attack also reportedly hit a family home. an international probe into the lazy in plane crashes
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hampered by combat in the area that's ongoing with graphics seeing show how troops are tightening the noose on antigovernment strongholds. very good morning if you just joined us my name is kevin owen it's one am in the morning here in moscow first on this high level widespread condemnation this morning over another israeli strike on a un school in gaza at least ten people died there they were queuing for food at the gates at the time the u.s. state department's commented tonight it said it was appalled by the disc race for shelling as it put it while the un secretary-general ban ki moon called the attack a moral outrage and a criminal act the i.d.f. it earlier signaled that it was winding down its operation along the border harry
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fear next than from the heart of the conflict. i would say that the israeli air force struck a motorcycle just outside of a paratrooper boy's school in the rougher city we know that at least ten palestinians were injured we believe all of them were civilians at least four children now the united nations has of course condemned this attack but the united nations has made clear that historically and recently it's told us throughout the precise location of this structure and the fact that in this school there are around three sousing palestinian civilians seeking refuge well this is not the first time that a un run school shelter has been attacked in these almost four weeks of deadly conflict in gaza just in the last couple of weeks a handful of other schools have come under direct and indirect fire killing scores of civilians we've been catching up with some of those most severely injured in gases burn unit in its main hospital. it's hard to fathom how
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such a boss devastation can occur in three weeks of fighting. thousands of homes damaged or destroyed tens of thousands internally displaced and well over a thousand killed inside gaza's main hospital in its burns unit are a small fraction of the surviving injured this girl three years old. this israeli is demolished their house of this family. so we deceive the girl her mother her two brothers with severe burns. this morning this woman is in a very severe condition and she is she presented to us about five days ago with her son and her husband his son has been died with severe burns and she's still surviving with
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a very critical condition the doctors and nurses here look. the civilians who survived in heavily bombarded areas it's hard to imagine how the medical staff can cope with these truly horrendous cases human being if i see whole families the killed under the rubble of their house the house. when these people and all the families killed and one of the instances i have a child here he was all the time claimed all his families he lost his father his mother his brother is a grandfather and all the time he's crying he wants his father his mother so i closed the door of my office and i sat crying those that survived this war will have to battle physical and psychological scars for years to come. ask her what weaponry is causing these injuries it's not entirely clear. it's very severe
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the magnitude of destruction of the of the human beings those. mass casualties of people bodies and faces badly on the ground it feels as if during this war israel is fixed on stopping her masses rockets once and for all regardless of being a credible civilian toll. now talking about what it's like on the ground there we've seen so many graphic awful terrible pictures coming up but it's still hard to get a grasp of the scale of what's happening garza's this might help put a picture on it it's a snapshot before and after time lapse photography satellite pictures that have been released by the u.n. so this is being published as a by the u.n. research organization they show the before and after of buildings before and after being bombarded by israel as you can see blocks raced to the ground nothing left in some places huge destruction there. well we spoke to
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a left turn and colonel peter lerner from the israeli army he gave this says side of it he said that the i.d.f. is only responding here to persistent militant rocket attacks israel continues to be threatened by indiscriminate rockets that are launched by hamas to israel even as we speak even during the continued days as we've seen in the last three and a half weeks they have continued to attempt to attack us through tunnels and indeed we had the incident on friday when two two soldiers and then a third were killed in an attack coming out from a tunnel and this is a repeating occurrence hamas which has hundreds and hundreds of militants are utilizing exploiting the civilian arena just yesterday i have an indication of a number of school that for eleven times during the day rockets were launched from a specific location so it's a huge challenge it's something we are facing. and want to start and how do you handle it isn't your response a bit desperate. hamas rulers would pay an intolerable prize if they continued to
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fire rockets at israel and that options are on the table then we have this huge civilian death toll among palestinians so what options do you think prime minister was talking about when he said that every single time hamas has had the opportunity to deescalate the situation with a cease fire every time they've escalated it there would have been no more people killed if hamas would have abided by the internationally brokered cease fire on friday but what did they do they chose to escalate they chose to increase aggression they chose to exasperate the situation and this is an unfortunate outcome but we cannot and we will not. be willing to live under this type of threat . attendant colonel peter learned there from the idea for his latest campaign is called protective edge it is the deadliest israeli offensive in years if you rewind the clock back to two thousand and eight then when it's happening again more than fourteen hundred palestinians died in operation cast lead as it was called then
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including more than two hundred fifty children of this time around many more of lost their lives already it's passed eighteen hundred unicef's of dated today they say at least three hundred fifty four children have died in the barrows which shows no sign of ending at anytime soon. was was was. was was. was just was that was the meantime germany's to spiegel magazine has revealed that israel spied on u.s. secretary john kerry while he mediated last year's failed peace talks with palestine so a diplomatic calls were made not by scramble channels but apparently using regular phone lines that with an apparently intercepted by israel the details about that from our middle east correspondent paula slee of the german weekly dead spiegel
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says that the israelis as well as at least one and this secret service agency eavesdropped on the phone conversations of the u.s. secretary of state john kerry it's understood that this was supposed to have happened last year at the height of the negotiations it clearly was mediating between israelis and palestinians to try and see it was some shit of the very much stored peace talks the magazine goes on to detail that the east topping happened while kerry was in a plane using a regular satellite phone that had a new kind of in question now kerry was using that phone to talk with his colleagues in the middle east as well as with leaders in china and in russia it's. follows a series of reports earlier this year and it was published by the newsweek magazine and according to that magazine it outlined a number of cases where israel head eavesdropped and spied on the united states in one reported talks about any israeli spy who hid in an aide to act in
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a hotel room of the then vice president al gore but it goes on to say that the americans laid to keep this quiet when they found out that israel was the guilty party at the same time the magazine quotes american intelligence officials who say that israel's it's been knowledge against the united states has now crossed all ridge lines certainly there are a lot of questions that are being asked and will be arsed these are two countries that are supposed to be firm friends in it so he sends a very wrong message to the united states if indeed israel is spying on her close ally. back up today the conflict in gaza spurred numerous demonstrations worldwide in europe they were mainly against the israeli operation testers in berlin waving palestinian flags and banners denouncing the civilian deaths hundreds also gathered at the israeli embassy in portugal's capital is. time let's flip over to london the scene there in the weeks thousands marching to voice their anger over the israeli
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strikes france to paris more than ten thousand well into the capital in support of the palestinian people for us to see weeks of protests since the start of the conflict with some demonstrations resulting in clashes not just in europe let's go over to new york this is the scene there two rallies held several tamia sleep on the same street one pro israel the other pro palace the. lot more to come over to stay with we'll bring you up to date on ukraine in a couple of minutes here on r.t. international including shell shock in the east more traumatized civilians caught up in the ongoing standoff between the army and local militia in the region. 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 retasking it as a counterinsurgency force it creates a lot of gaps and that's the kind of private sector stuff.
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been a series of incidents a russian checkpoint on the border with ukraine the russian t.v. crew from the channel says a shell fired from the created site exploded near them early as sunday european security one of his confirmed they'd witnessed a separate attack there while another shell reportedly damaged a nearby residential home in the week on the russian side with more of. a group of always see observers were at the checkpoint at the time along with border guards and customs services officials and so only a shell had detonated thankfully no one got injured but the federal security service claims that the shell came from the ukrainian side and there also we don't know other shell had landed in a village nearby also on russian territory and this isn't the first time that russia that area comes under fire as the fighting in eastern ukraine continues and this definitely only aggravates the situation since one person has already been
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killed by in a similar incidents another shell came from also the ukrainian side and we have heard statements from several senior russian officials including before the minister will say that so far moscow view of this incident is actually what they're warning that if it will be established that these are deliberate attacks of then russian media or. using military perhaps as well. in the deeply sensitive area around the crash site of malaysia flight m h seventeen in the wake militias report further clashes in the nearby towns of shocked and torres ukraine's president as an issue ordered a forty kilometer no combat zone around that area but that strength that strength in the weeks now down to run about twenty kilometers in radius this week international teams just about managed to get to the scene of the mh seventeen tragedy but only after having been prevented several times before because of the
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ongoing fighting there ben saturday the experts withdrew from a nearby village after they had artillery fire again kiev and anti government forces still blaming each other for getting in the way of the ongoing m.h. seventeen recovery and fact finding mission on the ground. now these latest pictures from sunday we got through from the outskirts of the regional capital donetsk which is still one of the main harv's of the anti care of resistance as you can see residents being killed in heavy shelling as ukrainian forces close in on anti government strongholds there and the latest military attack on another eastern city the ganske reportedly left three civilians dead and at least eight injured recently several buildings including a school and a supermarket also suffered heavy damage. next to some disturbing images that emerged from that city earlier on in the week a care home for the elderly was shelled there five residents died both sides again blaming each other for the deaths this is only one of many examples of populated
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areas being attacked president petro poroshenko had previously vowed that civilians would not be targeted ukrainian military forces the national guard and other units will never allow themselves to do harm to civilians ukrainian soldiers will risk their own lives but won't threaten women children and elderly men this is the eternal chivalrous nature of the ukrainian army. that's the official line but a u.n. report released this weeks raised the alarm over the growing number of civilians being killed by shelling in eastern ukraine he says not enough spring done to protect the locals are devastated by the ongoing fighting i mean you got what you said. or you still got the government you get this morning you. need to you cover the closure. this is a you know what. the.
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world will. see is praised you know i do not know what i will you go. to libya going or you go door. you know you know that i will start. this it will. be. the. this is what it will be for the city. for the future. meeting as it were some of. the suit was literally just a rust belt. and see quite a crisis unfolds the mainstream media across the atlantic seem to be focusing on just one person the russian president granted you can next takes a look at where the american media's real interest lie than.
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president obama said he does not believe this growing tension with russia could be the beginning of a new cold war no. no it's not a new cold world one could only wish journalists thought the same or at least those who are making covers of magazines because some of them hark back to cold war as if they were made back in the day no matter how complicated an issue you can be almost certain that the media are going to boil it down to personalities well with ukraine it's one personality the russian president what does he do when he's working all for an outdoor adventure and why don't we see him smiling very much he's not really driven by by women or by we're distracted by alcohol he's very tough he's a very arrogant. person to deal with and what kind of diplomacy can you expect moving forward when diplomats use this kind of language this is the you came back to to the united states speaking to me three adjectives
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you'd use to describe a lot of your proof. i'm not a poet but. i think. dishonest afraid comes to mind because we've had all these lies. but i think it's a reckless to makes one wonder if they really want to solve the problem or if they're good with the current state of affairs the media focus on the russian president has had its effect on twitter where users came up with the hash tag putin and now many use it to comment on pretty much anything it didn't rain in my country today i blame voting for it or a mosquito just bit me blame putin and then to the report that former georgian president saakashvili doesn't want to go back to his country to stand trial and says he blames putin this use of goes if you are in trouble just doing. it in washington i'm going to check out our. the strongest sanctions against russia since
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the cold war ended have been put in place of the creating crisis and erika's latest measures stop some of russia's banking heavyweight small parading in the united states on the list d.t.b. bank russia's second largest bank which also operates in europe asia and africa as well as its subsidiary the bank of moscow and russia's agricultural bank which funds the farming sector is being targeted the united shipbuilding corporation which is the country's largest holding also coming on the punitive measures too but it seems the us senate isn't unanimous in its support for sanctions you know after the sort union fell there was a tremendous potential to making russia our friend of tremendous potential they withdraw their troops from eastern europe. the russians. were open to all kinds of interacting and being coming part of the world community and a horrible tremendous opportunity i should say was squandered. russel's is also barred some of russia's banks from trading in european markets and puts the
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country's biggest and oldest bank spurring in the firing line the energy sector too has been targeted western know how and equipment for offshore fuel explorations under embargo from russian companies and arms sales have been restricted worth noting in twenty thirty russia's global weapons export market was worth about fifteen billion dollars a lot of money a lot of jobs at stake here will talk about the jobs at the minute analysts tell us that the measures are a two way street though and european businesses should now prepare for cuts as well estimates in germany let's look at that suggest it could lose six billion euros in exports to russia this year alone as moscow's number one e.u. trading partner berlin's got plenty at stake the annual turnover of fact between the two comes to some seventy six billion euros six thousand german companies operate in russia right now that could there have of course a far reaching effect on hundreds of thousands of german jobs dependent on business here in russia economist michael ross believes europeans will have to pay the price
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for this political gamble. when you talk to the people on the street when you talk to people who have a run a business or executives in a big company there are not for the for the sanctions i can tell this to you because sanctions never a one way street always a reaction to a sanction and when it comes to this imposed sanctions or the sanctions it will be imposed on russia then of course the germans are the ones who are suffering was this easy for united states to shop for sanctions but the ones who are suffering are the germans or those countries who are close to russia because they naturally have the biggest business implications. on a website which of course got more analysis more perspective on what repercussions these fresh sanctions are likely to have on russia and the global economy and also our dot com as well away from all that for a minute you know seeing double here this is a parade in the u.s.
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only between. twins go r.t. dot com more pictures from this colorful. and slightly ahead of it is now a women of prayer two leaders of germany three largest religions is set to build a joint place of worship we've got that story too now that all the need is the money trying to get people to donate the nearly fifty million euros online for when we get more about that because get it from us party dot com. story even track you for a year now indeed more migrant workers in cattle who've been building luxury offices for the organizers of the twenty twenty two world cup haven't been paid for a year i was stranded in the gulf state with their paperwork after their employer went bust britain's guardian newspaper has been investigating how far a work is of having to endure conditions described as inhumane indeed as bad as modern day slavery it discovered how they were living in unsanitary conditions with power cuts sometimes up to ten men living in tiny rooms together while working six
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to seven days a week for ten hours in. torching heat is qatar many reportedly died of heat stroke and cardiac arrest investigation also discovered other id papers have been illegally taken from them sometimes no medical care provided as i just know salaries are probably paid for the first few months then dried up sharon borrow from international trade union confederation believes other governments have chosen to turn a blind eye to the situation here. look at tao is a slave state it some more than de slave state you are our own by one person so your contract is signed before you leave your home country but when you get to get to the employer can often simply tear it up or not pay your wages or trades you in any oppressive way they like work as above desperate for work in coal country so most of these migrants are from nepal india the philippines parts of africa and i
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don't understand because nobody tells them what they will face when they get to guitar it's not given enough attention by international governments companies governments they can say thank you we don't want to work with you until you change the words until you abolish the foulest system until you put in place fundamental like the right. as scripts speed known some war will do stories this hour an intense earthquake hit southwest china is now a no hundred killed at least three hundred sixty seven people injured and then two thousand dollars the six point one magnitude quake of cracked open and toppled buildings forcing people to rush into the streets for safety some survivors describe seeing nothing but ruins and buildings reduced to rubble the state news agency says it's the strongest to have hit the union province in fourteen years big mess the. militants from the jihadist group islamic state of continue their armed
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sweep through iraq now taking control of the country's largest dam they've also taken three more towns under their control as well as an oil field overrunning that dam those a major coup for the militants and can use it to stage attacks on yet more cities formally done as isis the islamic states declared a caliphate over a large swathe of land extending from southern syria deep into iraq stay in the middle east next to at least thirteen soldiers and two civilians have been killed in northeastern lebanon as syrian rebels clashed with the army thirteen security force members were taken hostage by them to be on the street from militias have attacked several military checkpoints on the border as they tried to release a fighter held by the lebanese army. for his area and one armenian soldier have been killed as skirmishes continue in a in a region that's been contested by both azerbaijan and armenia increasing tensions between the two caucasus states of course fighting the break which has left at least fifteen people dead this week rival countries have been locked in dispute of
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the area since the collapse of the soviet union. well you see seven twenty four seven dot com thank you for choosing us international we appreciate it pulls here for the night with the headlines but for a short break here a firsthand account of what it's like to sow the waters of the atlantic in an eighteenth century ship. a few weeks ago we discussed detroit's plans to shut off water to those who can't pay their bills logically what a basic human the sesame could get taken away some protesters gathered to give their opinion on the issue at our plaza and what is the response from the state maybe some sort of dialogue or explanation as to why they have to turn off the water you know they turned up on the high tech quote non lethal weaponry against the protesters they used an l. red system which basically blasted the protesters with sound which sounds
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unintended humane until you look into it and read that the weapon can cause permanent hearing loss the company even admits this is true at less than fifty meters we see all across the country so-called non-lethal weapons being used to very harmful and even to well we thought ns but why does this happen because they make breaking up protest easy unsafe for the cops remember in the old days when you had to physically break up protests well things like el read allow any coward to just flip a switch to disperse a crowd with not a drop of blood visible and the fact that it seems not harmful as the police to be justified in using it whatever they want for the sake of the constitution i think no police forces should be able to use this technology but that's just my opinion. is water. do you have a bomb to me because the. spread all over norway is the most toxic food you have in
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