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kiev steps up its shelling of the government stronghold of dawn yet despite a local militia truce to avert a humanitarian catastrophe. israel and hamas agree a new three day cease fire and it hopes by prolongs truce and the devastating month long war is that more than one thousand eight hundred dead and. outrage over the police killing of a black teen a teenager in the u.s. state of missouri witnesses say the eighteen year old was unarmed when he was repeatedly shot by the officer.
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you're watching r.t. international we're coming to you live from moscow it's now nine am in the russian capital. don't yet skinny eastern ukraine is reeling from further heavy artillery fire which killed one person and injured ten others on sunday care forces pressed on with its assault despite local militia calling for a cease fire and warning of a humanitarian disaster residential areas were again pounded by shells. for the. local officials say more than ten civilian buildings were damaged including a hospital in a shop down yet the largest chemical plant has also nearly hit a spokesman there warned the bombardments are putting ukraine and its neighboring countries at risk of an ecological catastrophe this is the nearby city of tusk another anti-government stronghold and target of kiev's military operation weeks of
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fighting have turned it into a ghost town european security monitors reported gas and electricity supplies are cut off their water is barely available and shops are closed the u.n. says over a thousand people per day fleeing the war zone here's how refugees describe their ordeal. today are the reason. for you. to be here. here you. know that you know that when things get people thinking that it doesn't seem to go does that place it isn't exactly. who are you doing. what do you do to women who do. you. that you would be as good their cause is going to. be ongoing strikes of force patients and staff of this maternity unit into the basement where expectant mothers are giving birth in poor conditions nurses say they managed to get up stairs for about
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ten minutes to get food in the use of basic facilities but then the bombardment starts again. we crane's president has told america's secretary of state that he's inviting red cross coordinators to organize a for people in lugansk now the city declared a state of humanitarian disaster last week russia wants to send emergency aid and they've been trying to get permission from kiev to do so maria financial reports from the beleaguered city. the guns came a little can bend and with the rusting people here those who didn't flee have a daily struggle to survive. the city has been without electricity for more than a week now but it's the shortage of water which poses the biggest humanitarian challenge this woman is called. in russian her name means she has little of that left dr judy but when god is unique in your heart not. what we did go to the
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blue did you can chose a new being to new we've got new cheer warm up mum she got no word of what is going to shut out but. for you to my little your usual storm of you it's getting a bit of q.'s form early in the morning because people are afraid they won't be enough fuel to go around. there you've done you've still as it just has been below transcoding you're not sure of fullness to nietzsche when you yell it premiered at the new of the new chip when you did it is very rare third film yet that's really years ago the other near the edge of the us over in the. bed yourself of what i was going to say that the new book so far and you'll serve a good deal of i know it's been billionaire financier to get at or a nurse or not just the build up and some of the city's districts residents have to use water pumps because it's a no go zone for trucks that could share out the precious liquid before you out of the well off it was you were a part of much of this sort of look. that's what we're going to do. with
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this city with no water and no power also has no contact with the outside world. there are big problems with connection now in the gans going all over the city and we couldn't get any signal anywhere but there are some places where people say you might be able to connect this is one of the places we keep on trying and try and we hope but still we don't have any signal but what we don't like about this place resists warning signs say attention do not call shelly an area. but people still try their luck they say the entire cities shelling area now and at least here they can talk to relatives and friends on the phone and. every day in the guns at least a dozen apartment buildings and private houses are hate by tillery fire some of them more than once.
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mccloy's flood is on the eighth floor fortunately none of his family was hurried when it was he these plasma television is the only thing he managed to save he makes one more treat to salvage his belongings. but comes back minutes later empty handed. the u.n. estimates over one hundred seventeen thousand people accounted displaced inside ukraine and russia's authorities claim more than seven hundred thirty thousand ukrainians have crossed the border since the conflict started but in lugansk and other cities across eastern ukraine often huddled together terrified in dark basements and other havens which aren't always as safe as they seem many more remain. in lugansk ukraine by washington's being accused of hiding the truth about the malaysian plane crash in
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eastern ukraine former u.s. congressman ron paul claims the government knows more than its letting on it's hard to believe that the u.s. with all its spy satellites available for monitoring everything in ukraine that precise proof of who did what and when is not available when evidence contradicts our government's accusations the evidence is never revealed to the public for national security reasons of course too bad we can't be pan or our government to just tell us the truth and show us the evidence i'm convinced it knows a lot more than it's telling us. when leaving the crash site last week international investigators said they couldn't access some areas due to ongoing fighting near the scene the probe is yet to establish what happened to the airliner but western politicians and media mostly blame the local militia and point out russia for aiding them professor peter cosmic who collaborated with director oliver stone on the untold history of the united states says that it's misleading. we're
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getting a story about what's happening in the ukraine that is very very distorted that's especially the case in the us media where there's a narrative that's emerging about the evil putin who wants to expand the russian borders and recreate the soviet union so this is this vision of putin as this aggressive threat to world peace and stability is really destabilizing the region there are other forces at play there and the american public is not getting that story where ukraine is threatening sanctions against russia and some of them may end up hitting europeans prime minister says kiev may stop any kind of transport on its territory including the transit of oil and gas now on tuesday parliament is expected to vote to nasa yes nukes plan and that could mean a cold winter for europe and here is why right now the block gets about a third of its gas from russia most about is delivered three ukraine cutting off
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the roads could be harmful to industry and some european countries take slovakia garia for example which almost entirely powered by russian fuel many others rely on its gas as a main source as well of course the scheme could be replaced by the south stream pipeline project bypassing ukraine its construction is being hindered by e.u. lawmaker is this other nations say they're ready to push through its construction executive director at the ron paul institute believes that the consequences of a gas blockade will be drastic for both ukraine and the e.u. . really what ukraine is is doing is committing economic suicide in the us it's so demanding that the e.u. apply its own sanctions is demanding that the europeans commit economic suicide but remember ukraine is spending six million dollars a day on its war against the people in the east of that country this money is is borrowed money well i find it ironic that the most bellicose of nations and i'm
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thinking particularly of poland and its foreign minister radek sikorski he is the one who is taking the most pleasure and sticking it to russia while the average hall is going to have an awfully bitter winter this year thanks to use of course as you know poland i think it's around ninety percent of its gas its energy from russia so they will be cut off the baltic states are also heavily dependent they're also particularly bellicose against russia so in a way they are cutting off their own noses to spite their faces. and on the news the latest attempt at a temporary truce is underway in gaza israel and palestine agree to hold fire for three days after both accepted egypt's latest effort to broker an end to the violence the month long conflict has claimed more than one thousand nine hundred lives and if gaza in ruins. the goals are those. that. are.
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five was. was was. israel says it will send negotiators back to cairo on monday to prolong the dail if the truce holds it withdrew its delegation after the previous ceasefire ended in yet more rocket fire but while there are all hopes that this fresh rest by will last conflict has cemented an anger among people which is unlikely to fade quickly are a fair reports. since the latest israel gaza conflict began there's been a spike in racial violence and tension between jews and arabs throughout both feel keep high territories and his relet self the army installed its system of checkpoints here in two thousand and six now thousands of palestinians who live in the west bank but work inside israel must queue from dawn to reach their workplaces
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for business hours time their attitude to us since the war began has changed completely they have become more aggressive even now when we try to find transport to get to work there's discrimination regardless of how personally politically neutral they may be workers say they face discrimination and violence from some israeli colleagues because they're really bothering us they're pressuring us a lot and work and constraining our freedom they won't let us move freely inside israel. since the war began were really fear of the settlers one leaves the house with fear in his heart the situation's not like before. in new york keep in mind west bank civilians continue to suffer from what they say are random attack. by settlers in one recent incident an eight year old girl was hit by a car palestinians labeled it a settler terror incident and some israelis say they too now live in
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a climate of fear i am in the wife and and i when i walk him back i'm really religious so i can't divide my myself. an arabic drive come to take me from my home and i'm scared i'm scared i'm scared to drive them because there was a case that a murder. a girl go to hell woke as i killed her israel and the palestinians are war in gaza with vastly imbalance military means and both societies are overwhelmingly supportive of their own people so yes i'm living for eight years didn't feel any special but it's politics this is this it. is the only form here of the but hamas i didn't choose. to vote they voted for him for the hamas and now though we've been
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a get the bomb but. needless to say the palestinian people see the current situation from a very different perspective as palestinians we cannot accept living patient we cannot accept will be violated on daily basis and say we are fine with it by listing the people because of what they are or are they. people because they are jews simply but i do not accept occupation and its policies within the guards a war zone israeli soldiers have been accused of scrolling racist graffiti inside homes and needlessly destroying belongings locals see this as a way of demeaning them because they feel their humanity has been taken away from them so it's also a lot of humiliation in there that they're not allowed to live as normal. human beings for generations now empathy is a human trait and palestinians just like other humans around the road you know they just react to how they're being treated it's not clear whether the faltering cease
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fire negotiations process will fruit any sense of security and peace for both peoples here in israel it seems that many of blinded by fear unable to see why palestinians may have any animosity towards them and civilians from the west bank and those inside the gaza strip clearly on the receiving end of discrimination for the mere fact that they are palestinians harry fear azzi jerusalem. latte dot com has analysis i'm not dates on the latest israeli palestinian conflict which is the most deadly in years we've also gathered personal stories from people across social networks still to come they were naughty international. terrified and starving in the wilderness thousands of iraqi minorities flee for their lives in the jihad is graham page but in the capital the prime minister is
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busy trying to tighten his political grip they say i'm more after the break. you've got a lot of sneering and negative press for your engagements here in russia especially for your public appearances with food and even though they weren't explicitly political you were just supporting sports. people regime has become very adept at is controlling the media for example right here c.n.n. do i think c.n.n. is you know completely telling it like it is no i think we have an agenda i think through jim is is bought and paid for. dramas that can't be ignored to. stories others refuse
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to notice. the faces changing the world lights never. a full picture of today's news. on demand from around the globe. up to. fifty. now we're getting details of increasing street violence in the u.s. state of missouri in the wake of the killing of a teenager by a police officer there are reports of shots being fired and tear gas being used on crowds to try and prevent shops from being looted and set on fire now protests broke out after eighteen year old mike brown who'd only recently graduated was fatally shot by police on his way to visit his grandmother witnesses say he was on and had his hands up when an officer shot him multiple times tensions reportedly
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grew overnight with several cars destroyed and shops looted and set on fire by brown's killing drew criticism from civil rights advocates i have a violent police tactics and racial profiling is going to change you can report police brutality is seen as commonplace rather than unusual or. it was captured on a bystander's camera new york police suspect the man of selling individual cigarettes i do so. moments later an officer puts him in what appears to be a choke hold and brings him to the ground where forty three year old eric gardner can be heard saying i can't breathe several times. eric garner died lying at the feet of those police officers leaving behind a wife and six children my son is missing. the officer who put their garner in an apparent chokehold has been stripped of his gun and badge and placed on desk duty video garners death in july would viral sparking protests in local communities why
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has the city not been barking a campaign that targets zero deaths of police brutality but it's not just new york police that has been accused of using excessive force in recent months in arizona police confronted university professors solo or for jaywalking. it was back i was never asked what my name was as never told but i was in violation of in california at fifty one year old marlene pinecones walking along the highway when a patrol officer straddled her and began repeated lee punching her upper body. the woman is known to be homeless and reportedly suffering from psychiatric problems i think much of the brutality sounds firm cultural problem with police officers have been used to school in a power structure where a get away where almost anything because they are the police video cameras have
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only captured some incidents but many more took place away from the public eye more and more people filmed their interactions with the police on camera one officer from new jersey was caught saying this to someone who argued he had a constitutional right to take pictures in a certain area or carry a writing course for office that's really pretty colorful so i'm sure there's a forecast for you if the officer apologized for the statement and resigned you know that the cases of brutality well documented on camera casts a shadow on the thousands upon thousands of police officers who diligently do their work in cities across america but the hope is that greater public awareness will make some police officers think twice before abusing someone in washington i'm going to check in on our team. our justice should be blind but america's notorious
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spy agency has been caught taking out a step of the latest leak suggest is going as far as deleting court transcriptions of affairs they may reveal too much deep much data for details on that on our website elsie dot com. there's no missing the moon right now it's at its closest brightest in two decades this will tell the photographer in many people with some stunning luna images online. visit our website for more. special forces and security offices loyal to iraq's prime minister have taken control of the capital armored vehicles and soldiers have also cordoned off baghdad's diplomatic op where most state institutions are located nouri al maliki earlier gave a tough speech accusing the president of violating the constitution by failing to support his bid for a third term as prime minister maliki also resisted calls to quit saying that the president stands is harming the country's independence washington is calling for a more inclusive government in iraq and pledged its full support for the
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president's jenice larry average who's written widely on america's record in iraq thinks the u.s. would like to see the embattled prime minister removed. the molecule regime has put in power by the united states is a product of the two thousand three invasion it is a pro imperialist very reactionary very repressive regime it is fueled sectarian into and carried out crimes against the sunni population and the us is a gun bombing iraq wants again so i would not doubt the united states is maneuvering behind the scenes to put in power every be. more comfortable with it it is all of this in the name of humanitarianism and the unity over iraq while iraq's power struggle could hardly come at a worse time the country is under attack by islamic state jihadists who have
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already carved out swathes of the northwest for itself declared caliphate thousands of iraqi religious minorities have fled into remote areas to escape slaughter by a group that even al qaida rejects. thousands from the yazidi minority have been trapped by the militants on a mountain near the turkish border kurdish forces managed to free some of them but many more remain in danger jadis consider the devil worshippers and have already executed those they've captured. for the u.s. has conducted asterix out the militants in iraq targeting the artillery positions and convoys nor makers in washington want to direct an invasion fearing that the u.s. risks an attack on home soil similar to nine eleven the world affairs journalist as a quake believes the jihadists a cultivated by the u.s. in the first place. the intervention of the united states several weeks ago
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deploying local military advisors and intelligence specialists today has resulted in aerial bombardments which they say could go on perhaps for several weeks what the united states government is not saying is that they gave at least tactical support to elements from the islamic state of iraq and syria now calling itself the islamic state of course they fought for several years by supplying arms and other intelligence and tackle support to the armed opposition groups in syria some of the same elements that last year with fighting very fiercely with the support of the united states and turkey and other western states to defeat militarily the government of bashar al assad in syria today these elements were spread out and crossed the border into iraq are in fact being bombed by the united states.
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elsewhere around the world in demonstrations against islamic state great militants have taken place in the netherlands scuffles broke out with police all demonstrators we're also seeing clashing with protesters at the counter rally them and has witnessed several pry out. anti islamic state protests in recent months as well as incendiary public speeches and a rise in hate crimes earlier this month the country became the first in europe to ban the flying of the movement black flag. i suspect a case of the voter in remain here has got people off going to hospital after a man was admitted to an infectious disease unit it recently returned from nigeria displaying symptoms connected to ebola but doctors are yet to give a conclusive diagnosis ideas become the fourth west african country to declare a national emergency over the virus. has been a mass rally in pakistan in support of an exiled cleric who claimed the government was corrupt and that the prime minister should be ousted the thousands of demonstrators who turned out in lahore vowed to start
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a revolution and also protested over the deaths of fourteen anti-government campaign is in june another gatherings planned in islamabad later this week to highlight alleged vote rigging. turkey's prime minister has addressed a cheering crowd in istanbul after winning the country's first direct presidential election. victory but take him a step closer to the executive presidency that he's longing for it's the first time that it is head of state has been elected directly by the population as opposed to being appointed by the grand national assembly at the ones you know gratian will take place later this month. coming up a look at how sexual assault in u.s. colleges is being kept quiet while in the u.k. you have spoken the differences euro skeptics talks to safety shevardnadze stay with us.
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it was recently revealed that under the guise of an hiv prevention workshop and as tourists you know latin americans were sent to cuba by the u.s. government to overthrow that government yes the u.s. agency for international development organized for these young people to go to cuba to recruit and set up new political activists however the infiltrators were not very good at their jobs and the cuban authorities were able to nab these well funded travellers in their country this is nowhere near the first time that the u.s. government has tried to meddle in cuba in two thousand and nine u.s.a.t. tried to set up a twitter like program to organize people in cuba and we can't forget about the ill fated cuban television airplane that was supposed to bombard the island with western media that was totally blocked by the government during the cold war i could see the justification to dominate cuba if the us didn't have influence in a country that automatically the soviets did but now what is just why does the us need to infiltrate cuba and by what right cuba doesn't have nukes put in america
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and they have limited industrial capacity they can't do anything to anyone just leave the poor island alone and let the people there figure out their own future without the us to. departments help but that's just my pink. slip play. live. live. live live. live.
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