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make money based decisions are much more common than they would ever admit. on a mission to surround. on the shells hit residential buildings a hospital at a school in. western wall and they could lose billions of dollars. with the food. saying it's taking his business elsewhere. or of our military to take targeted strikes against terrorists convoys should they move toward the center. of the u.s. prepares to get involved in iraq again the islamic militants have managed to occupy large areas of territory including the country's largest christian city. the israeli offensive in gaza put jewish people worldwide at risk the violence against
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the palestinian people. across the globe. the world's top headlines are right now an international. life in moscow the ukrainian army is encroaching on the largest city in the country's east to crush the anti-government resistance that a series of attacks on the center of dawn yet to brand new apartment blocks killing at least one person. this footage right here was shot inside one of the apartments you can see how badly damaged it is and just two hundred meters from the buildings is
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a hospital its second floor completely wrecked including the walls furniture and the medical equipment i'll just give you an idea don yes because a city of almost a million people which is roughly the size of birmingham in the u.k. . let's show you a video here from a town just outside joining outskirts a church that's a fire ball after being hit by a shell as you can see it's right next to a children's playground here luckily empty at the time of the attack all of this just happening in one day and this creates here well that's actually from a previous air strike from a couple of days before. well military officials now saying that they are ready and troops for street fights enjoin yet because part of a crucial phase of the operation to take back control over the rest of regions more now with artie's maria. ukraine's national security and defense council has confirmed that the army's currently preparing to regain control of the major cities in eastern ukraine it is also now confirmed by the officials of what kiev calls its
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antiterrorist the region in these parts of the country they spokesperson has said that the military will take the city send the towns and the villages street after street building off to building without specifying which city will tom first saying that it will either be dead or lugansk these are big cities of course with these promises from cave to intensify the attacks that concerns are that they could be even more simply than deaths in less than four months of the operation in ukraine more than one thousand people have already been killed ordinary civilians we just couple of days ago visited this city all the guns going we saw a very dramatic picture all the. and many have already caved to the town but many are still inside and they're hiding in the basements they are living under constant shelling fison is also continuing at the site of the malaysian airlines airplane crash as kiev has officially suspended the cease fire has criticized this
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decision by kiev's of sorties but russia's resolution at the u.n. to try answering stated it was blocked by countries such as lethal and you know us who are saying that government forces are not following the truce. for the meantime a photo correspondent for the ria novosti news agency now missing in eastern ukraine on the very stand it was last heard of three days ago when he was filing photos from the region at first it was thought disruption to communications in the area was the reason he had gone quiet but now there is genuine concern about his whereabouts mr stein is well known for working in dangerous areas like syria and egypt he's been taking photos all over the rest of regions where a number of journalists have either been killed or abducted. now moving away from the east to the ukrainian capital kiev which is certainly witnessed a turbulent twenty four hours people back on the central square clashing with police of burning tires and then while they started dismantling the pavements it
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happened when the city both already has tried to tear down the barricades that have been on my down since last november of course that was when the original protests against the ben government first started and foreign affairs analyst says all of this well this just all too many. actually situations quite ironic to say the least since the revolution seemed to be taken to see the return of the situations that transpired today the same bunch of exit it was last november when the process took place so right now it seems to me that all the variety of different people who are greedy people dead wife's or the livelihood as far as the overall revolution is concerned are simply realizing that a government they have right now is simply replaced the other and they're simply to a point of exit right now it seems like nothing much exchange overall plus there's a civil war in east so overall if i can sum it up the whole developments in the
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ukraine is a bit of complete disaster and there's really nothing else to show for the greek destruction am. and the european a food industry is sounding the alarm over the ban that russia has placed on most imports fearing billions of euros of potential losses moscow moved to counter western nations which had resorted to sanctions over the events in ukraine is ati's peter on. no market for those that back sanctions russia's ban on the import of certain food stamps from the us canada australia norway you see the response to could not make sanctions imposed on moscow the ban will block meat fruit vegetables some dairy and fish imports for one year those watching international trade shows that russia is a different animal to other nations sanctions recently what's striking is that when the sanctions were ramped up against iran there was very little iran could do the
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west didn't really need much from iran that's not the case with russia and i think russia has made very clear that it will retaliate in a proportionate manner with the european cultures set to bear the brunt of the import ban e.u. leaders that backed sanctions against russia look likely to face farmers in export is demanding compensation for their losses there's someone there know. it's going to affect us all it will take two or three months to collect all remaining crops of oranges and we don't know what will happen if no one buys them if there isn't a sufficient market prices will go down and we don't know if we can cover the costs of production because it is so expensive. european food exports to russia worth over twelve billion euros last year if you win year and finland were the first to contact brussels about compensation some estimates suggest the ban could cost the finnish economy four hundred million euro mostly from dairy exports elsewhere the
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german trade union that deals with wholesale foreign trade said that posed a risk to the economy in his country in greece the opposition party says accuse the current government's actions of being detrimental to farming and in ireland the minister for agriculture said there was real worry particularly regarding cheese eggs. ports which were valued at four point five million euro in twenty thirteen european analysts are warning that sanctions are the way to find a solution the trade is a key for peace we shouldn't be in this game of tit for tat thing or we sanction as we we should be negotiating on the same table but as it stands russian consumers are going to have to go with certain imports western exports is going to be locked out the russian market peter all over. and we love it when you get involved you can head to our web site to tell us who you think will be hit hardest by the sanctions
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over the crisis in ukraine are bringing up some numbers for you here are the options for you right now there are the majority believing that the e.u. and the u.s. could suffer the biggest losses only a little less feel both russia and western nations will be affected equally and the rest of you say it's either russia or no one as the world will adjust very very quickly not to worry carter vote r.t. dot com. for now on the channel president obama has given permission to launch u.s. airstrikes on jihadist militants of the so-called islamic state that have occupied northwest iraq however he said the strikes will only take place in the event of islamists attacking the kurdish city of erbil where u.s. diplomatic personnel are based now this comes as the militants have stepped up their offensive capturing the largest christian city of osh it's thought some two hundred thousand people have fled fighting in the area in recent days meanwhile
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bombs went off in baghdad in the oil town of kota cook killing dozens at the latest on that now with r.t. is a must see a truckin. the mission of the u.s. to get in the way of the humanitarian crisis in raveling in the country as these state and al-qaeda affiliated groups also known as isis ravages through northern iraq pushing two hundred thousand iraqis to flee and trapping about forty thousand religious minorities on mount sin jar where according to unicef forty children have already died from heat and dehydration air drops of humanitarian aid in iraq are now being conducted by the u.s. these climate militants have been sweeping through northwestern iraq taking over multiple towns and cities as well as the country's largest dam intensifying concerns that this is only the tip of the iceberg and that the instability in the country will only keep growing directed our military to take targeted strikes against eisel terrorist convoys should they move toward the city. we intend to stay vigilant and take action if these terrorist forces threaten our personnel or
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facilities anywhere in iraq but are there any other options one of those is actually putting together a nato type organization which consists of jordan turkey egypt saudi arabia you can organize the sunni nations which we've helped train and equip to go take care of this nobody wants isis to be successful even the so many was so you've got to look at this realistically and frankly the american people are tired of war so which steps if any could actually bring more stability to the chaos torn country and how far could any u.s. involvement lead these are sensitive questions after almost a decade of a u.s. presence in iraq which cost over seven hundred fifty billion dollars and the country is now at the point of catastrophe and chaos and six syrian violence continues to rage on and if they are. well previously the u.s. incursion into iraq was a very costly and science costly both in terms of human life and financially let's take a look at the white house spend a whopping one point seven trillion dollars on the holo deal that's five thousand
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dollars per second of all keep ation each american soldier costs three hundred fifty thousand dollars to deploy and the government will still need to give billions to its veterans and pension payments and he will activist richard becker he says washington will still need to pull even more money into iraq. the cost of the war has not really been added up yet in terms of the damage done in iraq the damage done to people who died in it from the united states and the actual cost which will be i'm going and hundreds of billions if not trillions of dollars will be added to that in terms of health care in the future and i think people are quite aware of that now what a catastrophe that war was for the people in iraq and also for the people in the united states are still to come here on the parents and bloggers in the u.s. are up in arms over a controversial book promoting gun rights to children more than the rest of the
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world's top headlines all for you in just a moment. we'll talk about language as well but i will only react to situations i have read the reports so i'm likely to put the no i will leave them to the state department to comment on your latter point of the month to say it's secure yet a car is on the docket no. thank you no more weasel words. when you need a direct question be prepared for a change when you when you should be ready for a. freedom of speech and slid down to freedom to question. choose your language. because we know if. it's in the sixth. place of a sick child it's good it's good consents to. choose the opinions that you think
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are great to. choose to stories could impact your. choose the access to. i'm marinating in the financial world. to talk to cease to goldman's cannot stop because it is very slowly taking on the demand to credit it not going to get any economic benefit in life there and then on top. of. the. league it was terrible they are looking very hard to take another look to get along here a lot that are not exactly that hurt their little. league.
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live . live live. live. live a a of the. your friend posts a photo. different. repeats the same joke. poetry.
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or facebook. the truce between the sides has now expired. failed. with most of the. reporting from the. well the situation is extremely tense it's a lecture rick here in the west bank over the last month of the crisis we've seen real increasing tension over one hundred twenty palestinians have been arrested just in the last eight days on choose day more than two dozen arrested overnight we've seen several killed in clashes with israeli troops and the human rights watch
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here on the ground says that at least some of those deaths of palestinian are protesting a stance of the constitutional crime are facing war crimes the result of these ready force used here the situation has its own kind of crisis and we've seen vast amount of terror in efforts here in the west bank for the gaza strip gaza has on has experienced incredible human loss of these last thirty days we've seen tens of thousands of palestinians have lost their homes their homes have either been partially or totally destroyed meanwhile it's not just homes but also schools and mosques that have been attacked more than one hundred schools have been damaged more than one hundred mosques have been down and damaged a quarter of the population of gaza quarter one point eight million people have been in tunney displaced and one million palestinians do not have access to water in gaza. now hundreds of protesters in madrid have taken to the streets in protest of the violence in gaza demonstrators demanding israel put an end to its military
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ambitions and lift the occupation of palestinian territories this is just the latest in a series of rallies that have swept across the world during the month long offensive . but it's not just protests and demonstrations that have been sparked by the israeli operation tel aviv's military campaign is also given away to a growing anti semitic sentiment and attacks on jewish people world wide. looking at the latest incidents. we've seen the tragic images. and the public outrage that followed. i and now it appears that backlash is being directed at anyone who has any links to israel or judaism. in sydney australia five teenagers were arrested for allegedly screaming and systematic abuse at a group of jewish school children as young as five. in the french city of toulouse
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police arrested a man for throwing fire bombs at a local jewish center in the danish capital copenhagen police had to disperse a pro israel rally fearing for the safety of those taken parts in italy rome's historic jewish area has been transformed by graffiti and flyers covering shops and walls and even the berlin german protesters were seen barren and systematic banners and chance in hate slogans that lessons of great show up at each procrustean rally calling for an answer israel's operation and demanding that the stop sign buttons to the. foreign office minister baroness policy also quit calling david cameron suspicion on the morally indefensible others and their anger destructively. according to the metropolitan police and systematic crimes have doubled in london over the past year and these figures predates israel's a recent operation in gaza on the fish really it appears there's been an even
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sharper rises since the conflict began and jewish communities living here in the capital and beyond are now warning everyone to take extra care with over three hundred and systematic incidents recorded across the u.k. in the first half of the year including twenty two quadrants attacks their concerns are understandable while politicians scramble to find a peaceful way out of the israeli palestinian conflict there are many other issues which will need resolving too far away from gaza marina cost of our reporting from london for r.t. and over on our website for you this hour to protect and sometimes blow off the constitution and why one police officer in america says he doesn't need to follow the country's basic laws that full story right now on our web site. also this hour we tell you how google is favoring web site owners who are boosting their online security more in just about.
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right to see the. first strike. and i think you're. going to. be in the. update for now though a new children's book that teaches youngsters about gun rights. raising and more than a few eyebrows in america and lashing out of the idea is completely inappropriate all those have leapt to the defense of the authors. reporting on how the gun advocacy groups taking the fight for their rights to a new level. a new children's book has hit the bookshelves of america my parents' open carry is designed to explain to children why it is a great idea for their parents to be carrying guns with them everywhere to the
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thirteen year old character in the books the parents say when seconds count police are minutes away the book already has its supporters and its haters. why do you think it's because people need to know how to take care of themselves protect themselves and to protect the children in the home if they know how to use them in their safe with them are you are you a father very much i have three boys but i don't think that that's good for example why i think that we already have a pretty violent nation as it is so i think that we have a nation so that just promotes it in a sense some in social media hit back at gun advocates by changing the book's cover irenaeus site the american academy of pediatrics points to grim statistics firearms are one of the top three causes of death among children in the u.s. killing twice as many as cancer injuries from fire arms send an estimated seven thousand children to casualty every year and an additional three thousand died from
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gunshot wounds before they get to a hospital and despite the growing number of deaths among children gun culture in america seems to be gaining momentum. the documentary film kids and guns features american families who encourage their young children to own and shoot arms . and those who regret ever having given a gun to their child he had a little twenty two thank you twenty take he and i had just purchased it for him first and have purchased from us. obviously are a great purchase. and this hank was crossing the creek they said there's little room slipped. and when he did the better to get hit the guy on. you know we're not working american children younger than fifteen or nine times more likely to die in a gun related accident and those in the rest of the developed world gun advocates
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in the us invariably see all attempts to restrict the use of guns as an encroachment on the constitution so all meaningful efforts to bring about policy change have hit a dead end in washington i'm going to check on our part to mexico we go now to open up the r.t. world it's where more than two thousand people had to be evacuated from the town of san pedro after a gas line exploded creating a burning crater you can see that in the middle of a highway it's thought that a water leak toppled an electricity pole onto the pipeline causing this big explosion so far though no injuries reported. human rights watchers said civilians in south sudan have been subjected to extraordinary acts of cruelty including ethnically motivated murder and widespread gang rape the international body says members of the army and rebel forces have committed widespread killings looting of property and potentially crimes against humanity the violence erupted in
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december when the president accused his deputy of plotting a coup the eight month conflict has left thousands dead and forced at least one point five million to flee their homes that's according to the u.n. . bangladeshi police have stormed the factory in the capital dhaka firing rubber bullets on tear gas to disperse striking workers the protesters retaliated by lobbing bricks hundreds of garment workers have been on indefinite hunger strike demanding a payment of three months salary and promised bonuses reports say several workers and journalists have been injured in the clashes. all right next the islamification of the united kingdom so sure sophie shevardnadze taking a very close going to. clean
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more zero casualties war this is the great fantasy of war mongering politicians. capturing people is this what do you do if they're innocent killing them easy we reserve the right to kill any person anywhere any time. they can do that listen but they can do a tremendous amount of makes these things are very dangerous and politicians gain a new kind of power via this technology that is very tempting. once you in fish farms waters today you have a problem a because. i saw it spread all over and over is the most toxic food you have in the
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whole. drowned zone in the fischel inquiry furthermore those restrictions. really knows what's inside the feeling. i strain. in december two thousand and ten. more likely to be raped in college and in the real world. i don't think simple did that to each other when they knew each other i thought rape was a stranger in the bushes. girl complaining about the son of an alumni who gives millions of dollars to the school why listen to somebody who's going to lose money
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at the school if schools that make money based decisions are much more common than they would ever admit publicly. it looks like. we're going to go digital the price is the only industry specifically mentioned in the constitution and. that's because a free and open process is critical to our democracy like all books. will. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of our government and i was crushed cynical we've been a hydrogen why handful of trans national corporations that will profit by destroying what our founding fathers once it's all just my job market and on this show we reveal the big picture of what's actually going on in the world we go beyond identifying the problem you're trying to fix and rational debate in
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a real discussion of critical issues facing me not to find the book deal ready to join the movement then walk away from the big picture. hello and welcome to sophia chaos sophie shevardnadze migration has always been seen as a way to find a better living. than a grand cleaner from the troubles of your homeland risk conflicts and economic shake ups have gotten to me and said like one strike you're out and they stared out stronger on time i broke the links then your neighbors leave me in peace and what should be done for that.

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