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kiev promises it will soon control the government strongholds of lugansk. party meant the people putting their lives in danger to help refugees flee the constant bombardment. and secure for the terror not the israeli state it's playing out well some people israel when you say it's bombardment of triggering mass rallies worldwide we report from london and berlin where two of the global protests against the spiraling palestinian death toll occurred. strikes on new militant targets in iraq president obama admitting that of washington's military involvement in the country could be
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a long term operation. also that come this hour the russian navy pushes away u.s. a ton submarine lurking on the country's northern coast. just come three am this sunday morning here in moscow welcome to our team international my name's union o'neill our top story kiev says its forces are ready to take over lugansk dinette two key cities of government resistance in eastern ukraine you can see has been without water and electricity for a week according to the city council while the c.e.c. is the city was shelled for twenty two hours on thursday
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a six year old girl reportedly becoming the latest victim of the attacks there this is a map the red dots the areas which were hit marked by local residents authorities in the lugansk region. say up to one and a half thousand people died there during the anti terror campaign refinished i met some of those risking their lives to help survivors escape the war so. it's the final countdown for lugansk and demands warnings for now eastern ukraine remains under the control of and together and forces the challenge in the region is intensifying we tried to cross the border to cover reveries to come the next checkpoint at the russian ukrainian border the line of cars and people stretches for kilometers and almost nobody is willing to cross into ukraine once you are through here we're in the empty terrible ration zone where no one can guarantee your safety but few hours research for
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a driver to take us towards the guns with little success than we met and the tolly he's sixty three years old an ace from the guns almost every day he travels to russia and then betty clayton with a mission. when people escape from the attacks they took very little with that that's why many of the refugees don't even have documents when they arrive in a new place so i bring them in the way mr recently people have started to ask him to bring the ring to close they've lost hope of a quick and the crisis and the two he says sometimes he arrives too late and the house he has been sent to has either been looted or dies in ruins we ask him to take us alone on one of his salvage treats but he says he hasn't been able to get across the border for two days himself the reporter go on you don't know if you will be shot at or not when you're driving through the guards there is an area the
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army uses to attack the city where they're surrounded but they keep attacking the city. so instead we try to get to deniece we ask an anti government fighter with lies ahead and is under tells us his small town which lies between the seats and the border has seen some of the most intense shelling in the area he's driving back there and he had meets the rocky tree six. but i think they don't want to let their initial g.'s cross the russian border which is why they are shooting at the roads they're also trying to cut us off from humanitarian aid food and water the moment if that xander politely refuses to take us with him we take his number and agree to keep in touch to check on him and the route once he reaches his destination we ran several times but no one is answering raef nationality on the russian ukrainian border. the national guard is a privately funded group which is fighting alongside kiev forces many ultra
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nationalists are known to be part of those units here they are storming the heisman apparently they think he's an anti government fighter as he's being kicked the mass murder shots obscenity he's on asks where the weapon drawn then the assailants stuff their victim into a crowd and lead him away. moscow was launched support campaign for a russian photo reporter who is missing in eastern ukraine photos of underage stand in will be hunted lights and people are being urged to spread the word about him online the reason of course the employee has not been heard from since there is there it's the yemen is a veteran forty reporter who's worked in hotspots such as syria and egypt some russian security officials suggest that he may have been detained by ukrainian security authorities here hasn't commented on stand ins disappearance yet while moscow is continuing efforts to find him. the free under hush tag has emerged
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on twitter with lots of people using it to show support for the missing fourth a reporter some are saying he's being illegally detained and should be freed while other users have been offering words of encouragement for c.n.n. several other russian journalists have previously disappeared in eastern ukraine with it later transpiring they were held by kiev forces. activists continue to come by it's own the central square in the ukrainian capital the are resisting attempts by authorities to make them leave mark known as mike down some tents in the camp were briefly set on fire and then there were scuffles when police and city authorities try to force people hide some officers are injured on a number of people detained the protesters say that the revolution isn't finished so they're not ready to leave others their claim that some kiev official stole their
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money and kill people they need to face justice. ukraine's parliament will vote on tuesday on whether or not to cut russian gas transits through its territory give could implement such a measure as part of a package of sanctions against moscow but the move again could hurt ukraine's european allies as well i read english has more. obviously it will affect russia's shipments to europe but it will should look at the implications this situation will have on russia's european partners especially of the countries that are in the center in the east and in the south of europe some of them are getting as much as almost one hundred percent of their gas supply from russia via ukraine and of course with all those countries have already found themselves out in the cold literally here in this awful gas war between russia and ukraine some years back and they could be looking for another repetition of that experience if indeed ukraine does go through with its promise of sanctions and we may assume that ukraine wants to punish russia by posing these sanctions but as a result what we're looking at really is ukraine punishing its european neighbors.
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russia's been building a sidestream pipeline to a gas deliveries can go wrong in europe and into countries in europe but both garia have blocked its construction this summer after u.s. officials criticize the project and brussels said that it breaks the rules other nations in europe like italy want sidestream to go ahead while austria signed a pipeline construction agreement with russia. if in on at least five palestinians have been killed in gaza day after a fragile cease fire with hamas crumbled three bodies including one of a senior hamas official were fond under the ruins of a mosque in total three mosques were destroyed overnight as really warplanes continued strikes on palestinian territories fighting erupted on friday reaching a brief in the month long conflict which has claimed up to nine hundred palestinian
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lives and sixty seven israelis. the renewed violence an increasing death toll has triggered widespread protests across the globe hoary fear reports for r t from ramallah in the west bank where one of the fiercest clashes took place. behind me palestinian use caution with israeli troops many have just buried their relative and friend twenty year old mohammad al qatari who was killed yesterday by a gunshot to his heart in clashes with israeli soldiers this side an illegal settlement nearby here and earlier this morning another palestinian man a middle aged man succumbed to his wounds sustained in sept for clashes in the south west bank yesterday hamas said cool for a day of rage and thousands of palestinians came out yesterday and clash with his radio troops throwing stones and in some cases fireworks against well armed and well ahmed israeli soldiers who responded with tear gas and in some cases gunfire
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now inside the gaza strip several palestinians are being killed including at least three children since israel resumed its operation against hamas hamas has resumed its rocket fire into southern israel the hamas movement wants to win serious concessions from israel mainly the lifting of the eight blockade of the gaza strip inside the perceived coast along play of all of gaza almost one third of the population remain internally displaced and today israel has stepped up its airstrikes on the gaza strip. cari fear reporting for our team now hundreds of protesters marched against the israeli operation outside the united nations headquarters in new york let's say you're a chef school reports now from the rally several hundred people have gathered in new york city to protest against the military operation in gaza this is a free palestine protest and we keep hearing things about the ongoing onslaught in
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israel but essentially this is more than that this is about stopping the u.s. more machine. this protest in new york is part of a global free palestine campaign happening everywhere across the planet the cross it is a very multinational here we see flags of different countries from latin america from europe of course the palestine it is the same in terms of the slogans that what we see in europe but it's different altogether not every day you can see such a big march through the streets of new york but this is a particular city and they are going to a particular place. in the final destination of the free palestine protesters literally across the street from the u.n. headquarters in new york it's a weekend the diplomats are not in the office but this book are here pretty much tells the story of how angry the protesters are about you and according to them doing not to save people in gaza forced again this weekend diplomats and all the
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office but people here are genuinely hoping that their voices will be hard let's hear a shot ski artsy reporting from new york city. mosque protests have also taken place in london where people gathered on the streets to condemn the events and gals a cost referee reports not from the english capital. thousands of gathered here b.b.c. have quarters organizers are saying is the biggest rally to date in support of the palestinian people the rally started here because these people here are protests against what they say is the b.b.c.'s unfair and biased coverage of all the forms like in gaza for the first time they're your father back because they feel that their message is not being heard the baby thank you note chris thank you if you want to tell me now that they're not moving over to the u.s. embassy will be demanding the worst of my stops thank you rachel no thank you mangling was going to do was the reason i was also whether arms exports are always
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people who are qualified in the arm bar gold forms like sports the u.k. series or all the preschool books from the american government thank you for all of the power to ease writing so they can kill innocent children and women in kabul it's an opportunity strikes of course comes on the wheels of foreign office amid the and this was the omission overboard thank you david cameron thank you only a defensible position all the thank god will bring you the only cause we got it was a protest. in the german capital demonstrators say very rowing not against israel but against the ongoing operation which has left many innocent dead peter all over reports from berlin. here in berlin we've seen a lot of people come out into the center of the city to show their support. and their opposition to the ongoing military operation is taking place from the israeli
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military just here you can see a flag in the shape of the flag of the palestinian people. each color representing the names and the ages of somebody who's been killed since the current idea for peroration got under way what everybody is telling me here though is that this isn't an unseen israeli demonstration it's not an anti jewish demonstration but this is a demonstration against this operation it is not about israel but of course the government of israel is ordering these atrocities i would be against the same thing in the opposite side you know when and when you don't want to see. innocent people to be killed joris you have people here actually calling for we can see here for the people you caught of israeli goods saying that that's the best way to try and try and send a message to israel to stop buying their products and hit them in the pocket rather than make any kind of un-p.c. messick or anti jewish message. across the globe demonstrations have been held
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against the israeli operation in gaza which shows no sign of ending parlous was one of the all the gripping capitals to witness rallies people also protested in a rum i'm very with israel's actions elsewhere in the world from africa to a strictly a crossroads in a number of nations joined the displays. still to come in the program a huge arctic exploration project mission on u.s. soil and start drilling out the most northerly oil well in russia but i'm more after a short break. i'm abby martin the stories we cover here we're not going to hear any right other big story the extra headlines and talk there's a reason they don't want you to. leave now let's break the
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set. when the unit being union promised to net ukraine become part of it it clearly contributed to the bathtub ration of tensions within ukraine ukraine will not become part of the european union who won't tell tales ukraine absolutely doesn't have the economic level to become part of the e.u. .
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you're watching r t international welcome back an american submarine house being chased away from russia's shores the navy spotted the vessel in the northern bar in sea and sent over an empty submarine strike group my cost for if it takes up the story the american submarine was detected near russia's northern border in the bering sea and was shadowed by a navy strike force and an aircraft then you can air powered virginia class submarine is capable of launching twelve tomahawk missiles among other armaments after about half an hour over radio contact them merican were pushed away from the border by the northern fleet reconnaissance of russia continues from under the water and in the skies in july an american spy plane the rivet joint was reportedly conducting surveillance of the russian military when detected by radar it was then forced to illegally cross into swedish airspace after being chased by a russian fighter jet swedish an american authorities kept silence about the incident for nearly
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a month but were pushed to admit swedish airspace had been violated after reports in local media over a staunch u.s. ally sweden is not a member of nato so they infringement cause some anger the swedish press along with their foreign called leagues made sure the violation of the country's borders was firmly made public knowledge ramon calls for an artsy. u.s. fighter jets and drones of card out for mortar strikes in iraq reportedly targeting just how this vehicle is firing at civilians but after president obama said that washington's resumed operation in the country is likely to be a quote long term project american fighter jets conducted two runs of a toxin friday on the pentagon has released the video of those strikes you can see an f. eighteen fighter jet obliterating artillery positions belonging to the islamic state terrorist group president obama say the operation in iraq is solely aimed at protecting u.s. personnel as well as ethnic minorities fleeing the jihadist fronts he added that he
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won't let the country be dragged into another war there where as you were picking off reports washington may have inadvertently reinforce the enemy it's not fighting a war leaving behind a sovereign stable and self-reliant iraq three years on is america coming back so they are also rise to operations in iraq. targeted airstrikes to protect our american personnel and a humanitarian effort to help save thousands of iraqi civilians the target this time is the islamic state formally known as isis a terror organization which has only been rampaging through the country with tremendous speed and extreme violence but it's even proclaimed its own state stretching from iraq to syria so radical even al qaeda says it's too much brutally murdering anyone even muslims in its way destroying holy sites attacking religious minorities taking control of key infrastructure including would refineries and dams
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military hardware as well while certainly potentially more dangerous today than al-qaeda they are very extremely radical group with increasing capabilities capabilities which you are only slightly state to set its sights way beyond iraq and syria. and could tell you. and i know i don't know how to tell another but it wasn't. always you know the. lot of the not enough to get out of the cell phone the model. because you know can't but i shall love it and i got so enough on that i think that a lot incapable of dealing with them on its own baghdad that to washington for help woodward to be slamming state or isis fighters come from we are where we are because we armed the syrian rebels we have been fighting alongside al-qaeda fighting alongside isis isis is now in golden in two countries but here's the anomaly we're with isis in syria we're on the same side of the war so those who want to get involved to stop isis in iraq are allied with isis in syria that is the
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real contradiction to this whole policy the white house says that the limited u.s. yogi action in iraq could be extended. by the state tightens its grip on iraq according to the un and around two hundred thousand new refugees have fled their homes while isis claims it's made more than a dozen military gains over the past five days alone you were just going off r t. always plenty more stories for you online including world of tanks russia holds the world by awful on championship with a dozen countries participating in the event in the competition armored vehicles must overcome obstacles and shoot up targets head to our team dot com you'll find the full story and lots of videos. plus an origami inspired robot scientists have developed and you can assemble it from a flat sheet of material or not on our website.
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russian and american oil giants have launched a joint project to explore the arctic rosneft on exxon mobil are using a huge rig owned by a norwegian company north atlantic drilling to work on the most northern oil well in russia russian president vladimir putin speaking joining tele conference to mark the launch compliment of america's exxon mobile on its cooperation in the project the u.s. and russian companies have both expressed their long term commitment to the joint venture. but the potential resources in this project can be compared with the biggest loser lives in saudi arabia and much be given the resources of the mexican govt a loss to canada so we're paying special attention. the platform is located far out on the open sea so there's a multi level system of security here and we're using the latest technology. to more world news and brief a tour bus has fallen off
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a ten meter cliff in tibet killing forty four people the bus careened after crashing into a pile up involving a pick up truck on a sports utility vehicle the road where the accident occurred how experienced the massive landslide earlier in the week roads in that the best mountains are known for being especially dangerous during the summer rainy season. and how long is raging through science western japan claiming the lives of four people and injuring more than twenty six storm winds reaching speeds of almost two hundred kilometers per hour have been accompanied by torrential rain the country's meteorology agency has issued the highest red level alert several thousand homes remain without electricity and almost one and a half million people have been told to evacuate skyrocketing tuition fees in america leaving many students struggling to even feed themselves on
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us to see a church in reports on how some universities are helping their pupils simply make it through the day. college enter a world of possibilities. well crippling student debt after leaving these stores is one pandemic that's already well established in the u.s. what's not often talked about is another dangerous trend college student hunger. i've often seen students in my classes you know eating chips or something like that and my first reaction is oh it's a little snack but very often that could be lunch that summer time so most colleges around america are largely deserted but even so in schools like this one preparations are well underway to feed those in need when they come back in september according to the college and university food bank alliance there are about one hundred twenty food pantries at higher education institutions throughout the u.s. dozens more are in the process of being set up like here at nassau community college in new york's long island they're choosing to do something to help
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themselves and to improve their lot in life by going to school they have to decide where their funds are going to go so some of it's going to textbooks and to tuition that leaves less money for people to put food on their tables the food pantry boom is only beginning as prices for education skyrocket having grown by five hundred forty percent since the eighty's according to the u.s. department of labor so people are coming here in the not even way. they can barely afford the tuition nineteen year old stacy abby is a originally from an upper middle class family in india living below the poverty line since moving to america it's a negative mentality sometimes when people say oh you're coming to a country and you're taking all the lead and all the food stamps we don't use any of that is my family this kid never going to take it stacey says there are many more students like her most of them she says keep their hunger to themselves it's kind of embarrassing to go and tell that to people when you see that other people
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have it and you don't. but i've seen a lot of students who are hungry and the. they say a muffin or something and you know. did you what did you have today a muffin is what they tell me it's that it's very sad in this community of twenty three thousand people the pantry is not only meant for students but also college staff who are in need the plight of college students as part of a broader struggle in america where food security is a problem while the policies to keep up with those in need often ignore reality when you listen to people in congress talking about yeah we'll cook food stamps by fifteen dollars a month they should try it well they should try to feed their families on food stamps so on they have to see and see what a fifteen dollars cup would do well politicians narrow in on cutting costs rather than seeing the bigger picture it's volunteers like stacey along with two other students and faculty that are trying to help however they can by building and
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running what is for now a small space you don't have to be scared you don't have to be hungry there's someone out there who cares that they hope will make a real difference and r.t. long island new york. coming up after the break it's the kaiser report here on our to international stay with us. in fish farms waters do you have a problem a because the ice size spread all over norway is the most toxic food you have in the whole world. drama zones in the judicial inquiry furthermore those restrictions . on them so i am.
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really knows what's inside the feeling of fish. og. i asked ray. in december two thousand and ten. more likely to be raped in college than in the real world. and unthinkable did that to each other when they knew each other i thought rape was a stranger in the precious. girl complaining about the son of an alumni gives millions of dollars to the school why listen to somebody who's going to lose money at a school of schools that make money base decisions are much more common than they would ever admit publicly.
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right from the scene. of. the first street to use and i would think richard. welcome to the kaiser report imax kaiser as f. scott fitzgerald might have said free trade agreements are a racket like the movies and the brokerage business you cannot be honest without admitting that it's going to struct of contribution to humanity is.

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