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absolutely doesn't give a darn about any tunes mission to teach creation and why you should care about humans. this is why you should care only on the. headlines this hour a kiev promises it will soon control the government strongholds of lugansk. our teammates those putting their lives in danger to help refugees fleete the constant bombardment. of security for the terror the israeli state is playing out well so pay as you are and use that. triggering mass rallies worldwide we report from london and berlin were two of the global protests against the spiraling palestinian debt to look her. strikes on new militant targets in iraq as president obama admits that washington's military involvement in the country could be
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a long term operation. this hour the russian navy pushes away u.s. attacks submarine lurking on the country's northern coast. you're watching from in the world welcome. to my names you know o'neill. our top story kiev say's its forces are ready to take over lugansk two key cities of government resistance in eastern ukraine and kiev's forces of. a nearby according to the government leaders the us see your earlier report that lugansk was show for twenty two hours on thursday. reportedly becoming the latest victim of the attacks there now this. of gas the red dots are areas which were hit marked by
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local residents authorities in the legalities gregson say up to one and a half thousand people died there during the our day terror campaign refinish they 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 grevilleas 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 n.t. terrible ration zone where no one can guarantee your safety few hours research for a driver to take us towards the guns with little success then we met and the tolly
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he's sixty three years old an ace from the guns almost every day he travels to russia and then betty quaint 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 what they need the way mr recently people have started to ask him to bring them into clothes they've lost hope of a quick and to 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 along 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'll be shot at or not when you're driving through the guards there is an area the 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 what lies
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ahead alexander tells us he smoked 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 lead there if you 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 at a moment if alexander politely refuses to take us with him we take his number and agree to keep in touch to check on him and the road once he reaches his destination we rung several times but no one is answering. reef notional on the russian ukrainian border. the national guard is a privately funded group which is fighting alongside keir forces many ultranationalists are known to be part of those units here they are storming the hearts of a person
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a partly this thing isn't until government fighter as he's being kicked a mass mom shuts obscenity is and asked where the weapons are when the assailants stuff their victim into a pickup truck taking him away. moscow has launched a support campaign for a russian photo reporter who is missing in eastern ukraine photos of dristan and will be hunted rights and people are being urged to spread the word bottom line the rate of loss the employee husband we heard from since thursday c.n.n. is a veteran food reporter who's worked in hotspots such as syria gals on egypt some russian security official suggest that he may have been detained by ukraine security authorities kiev hasn't commented on stand ins disappearances yet while moscow is continuing efforts to find him. the free has emerged on twitter with lots of people using it to show support for the missing for the
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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 of the russian journalists have previously disappeared in eastern ukraine with that leader transpiring they were held by kiev forces. activists continue to come down the central square in the ukrainian capital they are resisting attempts by authorities to make them leave the iconic landmark known as mind some tents in the camp were briefly set on fire in the risk of force when police and city authorities tried to force people out some officers were injured a number of people detained the protesters say that the revolution isn't finished so they're not ready to leave or there's their claim that some key officials still killed people they need to face justice. ukraine's parliament will vote and choose their own whether or not to cut transits through its territory kiev
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could implement such a measure as part of a package of sanctions against moscow but the move could hurt ukraine's european allies to really explains obviously it will affect russia's shipments to hear about it should look at the implications the situation will have on russia's european partners especially of the countries that are in the center and the east and the south of europe some of them are getting as much as almost hundred percent of their gas supply from russia ukraine and of course with all those countries have already found themselves out in the cold literally here in this so-called 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. rush has been building a sidestream pipeline so the gas deliveries can go around ukraine and to countries
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in europe but blocked its construction this summer after u.s. officials criticized the project in brussels said that it breaks the rules some nations in europe like italy want sidestream to go ahead while austria signed a pipeline construction agreement with russia. at least five palestinians have been killed in gas a day after a fragile cease fire with hamas crumbled three bodies including one of a senior hamas official were found on the ruins of a mosque in talking through a mosque were destroyed overnight as this really work means continued strikes on palestinian territories fighting erupted on friday breaching and proof in the month long conflict which is claimed in one thousand nine hundred palestinian lives and sixty seven this release. the renewed violence and increasing death toll has triggered widespread protests across the globe party fear reports for the from
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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 beside an illegal settlement nearby and earlier this morning another palestinian man a middle aged man succumbed to his words sustained in set for clashes in the south west bank yesterday hamas said code for a day of rage and thousands of palestinians came out yesterday and clash with his ready troops throwing stones and in some cases fireworks against the well armed and well ahmed israeli soldiers who responded with tear gas and in some cases gun fire 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
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its rocket fire into southern israel the hamas movement wants to win serious concessions from israel mainly the lifting of the eight year long paid of the gaza strip inside the perceived coastal on flavor of almost one third of the population remain in touch and the displaced and today israel has stepped up its strikes on the gaza strip. hundreds of protesters marched against the israeli operation outside the united nations headquarters in new york alexi your shift your reports not 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 israel but essentially this is more than that this is about stopping the u.s. war machine. this protest in new york is part of
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a global free palestine campaign happening everywhere across the planet across europe 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. close to. 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 the u.n. according to them doing not enough to save people in gaza forced again this weekend diplomats and all the 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
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place in london where people on the streets to condemn the events in gaza rain across river reports now from the english couple thousands have gathered here at b.b.c. have quarters who want to organize as i say this their biggest rally today in support of the palestinian people the rally sort of here because these people you know protest against what they say is that they do seize on their advice coverage of the conflict in gaza for the first time their year but they're back because they feel. the message is not being heard the baby they do not present active you want to know that they're now moving over to the us embassy will be demanding the worst government stop so what happens to ensure that you want or are demanding the british government to do as he said i was proud of whether arms exports only people who got caught if you waited. six boys ok sue is right the pressure cooker and the american government took the why all the power to the israelis so they could kill
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innocent children who were beaten and published by it's an absolute disgrace of course comes on the wheels of foreign office and it is there are no resigning from the robison although what she says was that it was already a defensible position. to do the early as we know that it was the protesters. and berlin demonstrators say they're rallying not against israel but i can see ongoing operation which has left many innocent dead peter all of the reports from the german capital. well 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 military just here we 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
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idea or a shouldn't go it's under way what everybody is telling me here though is that this isn't an unseen israeli demonstration it's not an jewish demonstration but this is a demonstration against this operation it is not about israel but because the government of peace right now is ordering these atrocities i would be against the same thing in the opposite side you know when the when you don't want to see. innocent people to be killed by george c. of people here actually calling for we can see here for the people you call to have 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 against the israeli operation in gaza which shows no signs of ending parlous was one of the other european capitals to witness rallies people also protested and are
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angry with israel's actions elsewhere in the world from africa to astri crowds a number of nations joining this place of i'm. still to come in the program a huge arctic exploration project russian and us oil giant start drilling at the northernmost oil well in russia a story i'm more just. an american submarine being chased away from russia shores the navy spotted the vessel in the northern bar in sea and sent over an anti sabrine strike group among cos tripped 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 clear powered virginia class submarine is capable of launching twelve tomahawk missiles among other armaments after about
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half an hour of 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 one 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 a month but were pushed to admit swedish airspace had been violated after reports in local media ovo a staunch u.s. ally sweden is not a member of nato so they infringement cause some anger the swedish press so long 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 have carried out for more strikes in iraq reportedly targeting just firing civilians barak obama said that washington's resumed the
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operation the country is likely to be a quote long term project american fighter jets conducted two runs of attacks on friday on the pentagon has released the video all those are strikes here you can see an f. eighteen fighter jet obliterating artillery positions belonging to the islamic state terrorist group the presidency is not the operation in iraq is solely aimed at protecting u.s. personnel as well as ethnic minorities fleeing the us that funds obama adding that the country be dragged into another war there but as you can off reports washington may have inadvertently reinforce the enemy it's not a fight. when leaving behind a sovereign stable and self-reliant iraq three years on is america coming back today i also was two operations in iraq. targeted airstrikes to protect our american personnel and a humanitarian effort to help save thousands of iraqi civilians the target this
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time is the islamic state formally known as isis a terror organization which has it 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 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 do another thought it wasn't just to you know the can. not 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
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think a lot in keeping will of dealing with them on its own bags at the 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 i says isis is now in bold and into 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 real contradiction to this whole policy the white house says that the limited u.s. military 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. washington is also calling on baghdad to form an inclusive government that will give iraqis
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a base to conjure the jihadist threat on their own but some experts think that militants were given more than a leg up by the u.s. in the first instance. we really have to look at the real deal of western foreign policy in the middle east that has to the place because right now we have a situation where the west is opposing isis rebels in northern iraq and rightly so but has been tacitly or of personally supporting them in syria is madness these are us weapons us weapons on both sides in this combat just as three years ago in libya and in so many wars when you are the top supplier of weapons to the world seventy nine percent of weapons transfers into the middle east or from the united states you're going to have u.s. weapons all that on all sides which is just fine for absolutely our weapons makers looking for a profit but it fuels just struction. lots more stories waiting for you online including world of time russia holds the world's time by
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a full on championship with a dozen countries participating in the event in the competition armored vehicles must overcome obstacles and shoot up targets of course had to r.t. dot com you've got the full story in video there. plus an origami inspired robot scientists have developed and you can assemble itself from a floppy sheet of material more all not on our website. russian on 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 during a tele conference to mark the launch complimented some erika's exxon mobile on its cooperation and project the u.s. and russian companies have both expressed their long term commitment to the joint venture. but what if the potential resources in this project can be
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compared with the biggest reserves in saudi arabia and much bigger than. the resources of the mexican gold alaska canada so we're paying special attention. for the most on your skin from is located far out on the open sea so there's a multi-level system of security here and we're using the lead to stick knowledge in. the water speech swear the companies operate is covered but thick ice for most of the year but underneath is an estimated six billion tons of extractable oil it belongs to the west side period province which already provides russia with most of its oil and gas the platform is capable of drilling down seven kilometers keep boy field of the center for policy studies think believes despite sanctions this will be a successful example of international cooperation this particular project they've been working on it for several years. mobile have already invested many many millions of
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dollars they could do with the oil and they're going ahead the sanctions do not apply to this particular project because the deal was already signed the russian state oil company has a twenty percent investment by b p a mobile exxon are already looking to find new sources of hydrocarbons so they really need this find and they've already invested a considerable amount of money so they'd have to write that off if things didn't go ahead so i think in that respect prospects are relatively optimistic. the leaders of armenia and azerbaijan are now in soft she were they are expected to join russian brokered talks about the armed conflict in one corner an ethnically armenian enclave in azerbaijan and territory the only going tensions there go back
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decades in the beginning of the ninety's the region wanted to obtain independence which led to a war between the nations the conflict claimed some thirty thousand lives and officially ended in one thousand nine hundred four when a cease fire was proclaimed the independence of the region was not recognized since then occasional shooting incidents have occurred in the violence that erupted at the start of august has led to both armenia and azerbaijan accusing each other of breaking the cease fire. in an attempt to promote peace talks the russian president has held separate meetings with is armenian azerbaijani counterparts in sochi all three presidents met together some of the evening of a some bold martial arts event according to putin spokesperson all three parties could meet at the same table on sunday. two more world news in brief a tour bus was falling off a ten meter cliff into bed killing forty four people the bus careens after crashing
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into a pileup which involves a pickup truck and a sports utility vehicle the road where the accident occurred had experienced the massive landslide earlier in the week roads in tibet and are known for being especially dangerous during the summer rainy season. several african countries have declared a state of emergency as the deadly ebola virus continues to spread throughout the continent nigerian authorities have call for volunteers to come forward to help fight the outbreak officials in guinea say the nation has closed its lumb borders with liberia and sierra leone and zambia has announced that it is travelers from a bull the affected countries the u.n. and world health organization are coordinating preventive measures to stop the spread of the deadly virus. in the u.s. skyrocketing tuition fees are leaving many students struggling to feed themselves to see a church in reports on how some universities are helping their pupils make it through
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the day. college and to the world of possibilities. well crippling student debt after leaving these doors 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. and 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 summertime 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 into 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 our country and you're taking all the lead and all the food stamps we don't use any of that is my family is scared that we're going to get 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 have it and you don't. but i've seen
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a lot of students who are hungry and they eat say a muffin or something and you know. did you what did you have today. is what they tell me it's like 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 policies to keep up with those in need often ignore reality when you listen to people in congress talking about yeah we'll cut food stamps by fifteen dollars a month they should try it well they should try to feed their families on food stamps on a.f.d.c. and see what a fifteen dollar cut 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 running what is for now
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a small space you don't have to be scared you don't have to be hungry there's someone out there who cares about you that they hope will make a real difference and r.t. long island new york coming up here on r t international a closer look at america's use of drones in iraq stay with us. we'll be. sorry it's technology innovation all the lives developments from around russia we've got the future covered. it was a. very hard to take a. look again there was a lot that you ever had sex with her right there.

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