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exgirlfriend still pins tear jerking poetry. nora's. we post only what really matters. to your face but you speak. of. israel a ceasefire after a un school is bombed in gaza killing ten people the united nations condemning the latest attack on the shelter calling it a criminal act. civilians in east ukraine city of lugansk forced to seek shelter from the military but apartment in basements and bomb shelters witnesses say one attack targeted people who were simply lining up for food. money making scheme or backdoor immigration policy critics question a u.s. quota system that ensures tens of thousands stay behind bars sometimes for petty crimes.
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nine am in moscow good to have you with us our top story this hour israel announced a seven hour cease fire in most parts of gaza its plan to come into effect in two hours time on sunday an attack on a school run by the united nations killed ten people wouldn't say that many were lining up for food at the gates at the time of the strike. israel says the incident may be linked to an attempt by the army to kill hamas killing gunmen as they drove by the un shelter the shelling happened despite the world body repeatedly to forming israel's defense forces where exactly its facilities are located in order to avoid civilian losses despite the warnings israel pressed on just last week twenty people were killed in another bombing of a un school in guys. oh wait i should
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say. that. the united states china and even if not then you might actually have truck bombing of the gaza shelter sparking international outcry un chief ban ki moon calling it a moral outrage and a criminal act as well as a gross violation of humanitarian law saying the madness of war that's wreaking havoc in gaza must stop even israel's main backer of the us said it's appalled by what it called a disgraceful shelling still country continued to insist the schools are being used to store hamas weapons israel's army is working hard to justify its mission sunday released a video of what it says was a precision strike on a hamas rocket launcher hidden inside one of gaza's residential areas are also images that are u.s. troops removing motorbikes from what they said was a hamas tunnel my colleague maria joshie spoke with their spokesman lieutenant
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colonel peter lerner who says the military is just responding to persistent rocket attacks from hamas militants. it sort of 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 so it's a huge challenge it's something we are facing but indeed we are determined well still to do you know isn't your response a bit disproportionate prime minister netanyahu says hamas rulers would pay an intolerable price if they continue to fire rockets at israel and then options are on the table and we have this huge civilian death toll among palestinians so what
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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 threats. turkey's prime minister accused the country of deliberately killing palestinian mothers and children the well known critic of israel said this during a campaign speech ahead of a presidential vote next sunday air to one claim the country is aiming at creating a pure race just like hitler was fried there's also plenty of anti israeli sentiment in jordan where crowds gathered outside the u.s. embassy in amman burning american and israeli flags accusing washington of supporting israel's army operations and in pakistan hundreds protested against
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pardon me against the continued shelling of gaza some protesters calling for jihad against israel palestinians living in the west bank suppress their solidarity with gaza harry fear filed this report. billboards and banners across the city read here now we are going to see this though is remote now palestine's and minister to have capital since israel's campaign began nearly a month ago the outrage at the devastation gazans one point eight million inhabitants has boiled over into solidarity demonstrations and angry clashes several not so one killed some shot in the chest with life fire by israeli troops people here are in mourning their lives on hold we are living that were normal life anymore since the start of the work it's very hard and. we do not consider ourselves like a distant part of palestine living the war we watch the news. we send
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our prayers we send our thoughts and our deep our hearts is with the same people west bank palestinians see gaza as horror on their t.v.'s and in newspapers filled with harrowing images of death ruins of those stuck inside gaza what they consider a defacto ghetto just tens of kilometers away they only they are fighting comers they are not afraid to come as they are fighting their humanity i'm crying in front of the screens of the t.v.'s all all the members of my family and my. all. here are known to us never forget. to do anything to help because many palestinians here have relatives in gaza who've been injured or killed in these past weeks. lost fifteen relatives in the highly
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dangerous border neighborhood of sun in han eunice in southern gaza they're leaving you come to the war was the description and the click we have about fifteen people . till. under the rubble or was being shot in the street. in the school of this. crofts. not a single house has been escaped the surely. so the structure is totally in recent weeks not only has hamas strengthened but also the islamic jihad movement flexing against israel from within gaza despite the obvious geographical and administrative separation between the west bank and gaza it's clear that all palestinians have gaza are on their minds with prevailing anger at israel's actions frustration with their own powerlessness and dismay at the world's reaction. from
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a lot. more details on the israeli gaza conflict on our web site r.t. dot com. yeah the defense minister says he's sure his troops are only a few steps away from victory over anti-government forces in east ukraine people in the regions second largest city lugansk suffering severe water and food shortages and power cuts long lines outside shops and aid distribution centers in the besieged city one of them shelled by the kiev army according to witnesses. there was a crowd of thirty to forty people standing outside but then came a loud whistling noise and a flash of the explosion was just across the road about fifteen meters away we opened the shop door so everyone could hide there were splinters all over the place the shop windows in front is damaged as you can see in. another artillery round struck a kindergarden. many of the residents say they are too scared
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to leave their homes let alone send children to school luckily no one was inside the building when i was hit by rockets reports of civilians being killed coming in almost daily as more areas become the target of the army. another group of journalists caught in the fighting not even when not on ukrainian territory a crew from russia's visit dodge travel had to take cover after shell struck their filming position on the russian side of the border here's how one of the journalists described the incident should not go on national security. the you can only. lose. to something. in the sky then we had the massive fragment skipped it in different directions. and the area. with the trick. has even been a series of incidents at a russian border checkpoint in the same area sunday o.c.e. monitors confirm they saw an attack there while another shell reportedly damaged
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nearby home on the russian side denies attacking russian territory are going off as more a group of always sea observers were at the checkpoint at the time along with border guards and customs services officials and suddenly a shell had detonated thankfully no one got injured but the federal security service claims that the shells came from the ukrainian side and there are also reports that another 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 is already being killed by in a similar incidents another shell came from the ukrainian side and we have heard statements from several senior russian officials including before and minister who say that so far moscow on this incident is actually what they're warning that if it
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will be established that these are deliberate attacks of that russian media was he . using military perhaps as well. meanwhile in southeast crane a group of far right protesters clashed with police at a nightclub in odessa masked men armed with baseball bats tried to disrupt the concert of a ukrainian singer several people were injured and three activists detained in may forty eight people most of them anti-government protesters were killed in odessa during a bloody standoff with radicals. keeping on top of all the updates coming out of ukraine on air and online that are. still to come gender neutral toys and no concept of race we look at latest attempts in europe for the collar and . in justifying their stance they're citing all sorts of what they see as
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international passage in cost of coming referendum in scotland and but the response that they're hearing from the one is that what you're doing is illegitimate what we have been doing. the merger if you break into there still. america does is right. the people for sundries like russia will countries like this trade. back to america does is right because america does it.
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a record number of illegal immigrants have been locked up in the u.s. officials driven by a federal mandate that obliges them to keep thirty four thousand behind bars every day critics of the system say it's nothing more than a money making scheme while others claim it's a backdoor way to curb immigration were important to exploit. the country that once opened its doors to immigrants. is becoming better known as the land that jails them the congress for the past several years has set a mandatory requirement on the federal government to maintaining thirty four thousand detention beds for immigration detention purposes it's otherwise known as detention bed quota exclusive to america's immigration and customs enforcement agency. with a minimum of thirty four thousand beds the quota serves as incentive to keep the jails filled at full occupancy yours is going to know about my profit nasri was
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stuck him served three hundred and thirteen days in an immigrant detention facility unable to post bail or receive a bond hearing. and see. how it affected the guys in there a lot of the guy just had expired visa or something they are not criminals not immigrated to the country legally at thirteen and his wife is a u.s. citizen he was arrested at his home in two thousand and eleven in connection with a four year old guilty plea for drug possession we never had any encounters with immigration. before he and i was a green card was renewed every ten years ago now is the extent of it the us is immigrant and customs enforcement agency has a budget of nearly two billion dollars a budget put it by american taxpayers in two thousand and twelve the agency detain nearly one hundred and seventy eight thousand immigrants many of whom are housed in
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private corporate or detention centers top contracted by the u.s. government to make me sick because just bad quality to. me. the. poor high amount of money five hundred or nine hundred sixty hundred sixty dollars a night. in the city you know i keep me working my family disowned it because there is this company can make money out of me and locking up immigrants is hardly the only option available to the u.s. government congress or at least many members who are pushing this agenda don't trust the president to enforce immigration laws and they think that by requiring these people to be detained that it's going to urge the president actually effectuate their eventual removal from the country there are other methods such as
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alternatives to detention use of intensive supervision custody checks on the person telephonic monitoring but the cost effective options would necessarily benefit the corporations behind america's detention and deportation machine you realize early on when you start reading if you article that oh there's something called you know group in the cia and they make billions of dollars off of this and then you start seeing how a line out paralleled with like the lack of medical adequate medical care in the food quality and why they don't even allow contact that it's cheaper for them to allow you to visit only through glass and use those kind of big start making it a reality in which that puts a price tag on the lives of tens of thousands of immigrants bring up or not r.t. new york. charges militants from the islamic state group have made a major advance in northern iraq seizing another oil field three towns and the
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country's largest dam holding the mosul dam allows jihad is to manipulate power output to major iraqi cities or even flood them it's the latest setback to the embattled government in baghdad that failed to contain the insurgency. formerly known as isis the self-proclaimed islamic state has expanded across northern parts of syria and iraq geodes control five oil fields and reportedly sell the crude on the black market to fund their insurgency they also control a total of five dams and several key military bases including one of saddam hussein's former chemical weapons sites the radical groups ultimate goal is to forge a massive islamic state in the region. quote they'd find a cure for a bowl if it came to london that's according to britain's top doctor you can head to r.t. dot com to find out how he lent vast and pharmaceutical companies for their response to the viral outbreak also online. almost half a million residents in the u.s. state of ohio warned not to use tap water learn what's behind the mass alert on our
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web site. right see. first rate. and i think that you're. on a reporter's. instrument. and attempt to battle racism the swedish government plans to scrap all mentions of race from legislation artie's peter all overlooks the latest attempts in scandinavia to promote tolerance. scandinavia has long being billed as something of a trailblazer when it comes to tolerance and multiculturalism in society the latest move in sweden could see all references to race or ethnicity removed from the
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country's legislation currently in sweden there are twenty laws that make reference to race or ethnicity and these include laws covering the country's criminal code student financing a on things like credit information law now the integration minister in sweden says that he's putting this forward because there's no such thing as race in his society anymore however it has come in for criticism from the national road swedish association who say that just legislating a review or removing this wording from legislature isn't going to stop racist and in fact could harm any future discussions about the issues of race in swedish society and it's not just in sweden that new laws on tolerance are coming into place here in denmark new legislation is set to make it easier for transgender people to officially register their change of gender without having previously had to undergo sexual reassignment surgery now this is a move that's been highly praised by amnesty international who see it as
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a shining example to societies around the world but also what's going on here in scandinavia is a toy company is trying to set out the message of not gender stereotyping early on by issuing a catalogue in time for christmas it's going to show gender neutral toyah advertisements meaning little boys and it will go as playing with things like toy ovens and toy workbenches not dependent on their gender in a message to try and spread the word to a quality and tolerance across the region. in a number of european countries people can change their gender in official documents without undergoing surgery or any treatment german parents of babies born with characteristics of both sexes no longer have to classify them as either male or female creating in fact a third gender in the public registry and france officials tried to introduce gender equality in classes in primary schools but the initiative was scrapped after massive protests from parents. turning now to some other stories making global
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headlines beginning with an earthquake that struck southwest china killing at least three hundred eighty one people and injuring nearly two thousand others six point one magnitude quake toppled buildings forced people on to the streets for safety survivors describing seeing nothing but ruins and buildings turned to rubble the quake the strongest to hit the united province in fourteen years. the british royal navy ship evacuated one hundred ten people from libya as militant projects continue in the capital tripoli passengers british irish and german citizens being taken to malta more than one hundred forty people have been killed five hundred wounded since july as pro and anti-government militia fight for control of tripoli as there are all. heavy rains lashed southern europe bringing areas in a handful of countries to a standstill in northern italy at least four people were killed more than twenty wounded when a flash flood tore through a festival two people drowned in bulgaria and nine hundred of their homes when
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a river burst its banks and floods have paralyzed turkey's city of stand before backing up traffic across the city. still to come on out here national special report on the murky side of the fishing industry or if you're watching in the u.k. an interview with the founder of blackwater the blackwater we're bringing. 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 assessor he 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
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the protesters they used an l. red system which basically blasted the protesters with sound which sounds 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 fifteen 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 protests 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 a spell read technology but that's just my opinion.
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