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here you're not going to hear a new story. of reason they don't want you to know. now let's break the set. ukraine's steps up and shelling of the government stronghold of dawn yet despite local militia truce to a humanitarian catastrophe. looting and street violence in the u.s. state of missouri is anger over police killing of a black teenager gathers boils over witnesses say the eighteen year old was unarmed when he was repeatedly shot by the officer. israel and hamas agree a new three day cease fire made hopes for a prolonged truce from a devastating month long war that's left more than one thousand nine hundred dead.
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you're watching us international we're coming to you live from moscow it's now ten am here in the russian capital it's good to have you with us. don't yet skinny eastern ukraine is reeling from further heavy artillery fire which killed one person and engine ten others on sunday here 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 and a shop yet largest chemical plant was also nearly hit a spokesman there warn the bombardments are pushing ukraine and its neighboring countries at risk of an ecological catastrophe this is the nearby city of shock and
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other government strongholds and targets here as a military operation weeks of fighting have turned into a ghost town of european security monitors reports of gas and electricity supplies that cut off their water is barely available and shops are closed the u.n. says over one thousand people per day a fleeing the war zone is how refugees describe their ordeal. but there are there is. there you go girl do. you do here. well here you would rather that you know someone this could be a good looking for the sister that doesn't stink there's a walkway does a president dogs are. really the meek at who are you doing it when you were doing good or d.v.d. good poor neighborhood. you would be is there going. for the ongoing strikes of force patients and staff of this maternity
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unit into the basement where expectant mothers are giving birth in poor conditions nasa's say they managed to get upstairs for about ten minutes to get food and use basic facilities but then the bombardment starts again. where ukraine's president has told america's secretary of state that he's inviting red cross coordinators to organize aid for people in lugansk another city declared a state of humanitarian disaster last week russia wants to send emergency aid and i've been trying to get permission from the have to do so for national reports from the beleaguered city. the guns can made luke abandoned but 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 hope and she has little of that left dozens of the backbone of europe is unique in your heart not the gulf
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war but we did go to the blue did you can chose an e.p. insinuates work each award got numb she got not much of what is going to shut out. for you to miley for your usual storm and you know it's getting a bit off the queues form early in the morning because people are afraid they won't be enough water to go around still knows they were there. as it just has been below transferred me i'm not sure of wellness to meet you when you're merely at premier if you have the new chip when you get any nearer the first thirty feeling yet that's really years ago the other near the edge of the us even though the thirtieth of both of us going to say that the new cook so far you'll server good to live oh no bourbon billionaire financier gets a cut or a nurse to let you have the bill 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
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the woods you were part of much of this that americans. are that's what we're going to do. with the city with no water and no power also has no contact with the outside world. there are big problems with connection now in the guns going all over the city or 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 but what we don't like about this place resists warning signs saying attention do not call shelling area. but people still try their luck they say they in ties cities a 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 to refire some of them more than once.
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mccloy's fled is on the eighth floor fortunately none of his family was her it went was hate this plasma television is the only thing he managed to save he makes one more trip to salvage his belongings. but comes back minutes later and he 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 and duct basements and other havens which aren't always as safe as they seem many more remain. in lugansk ukraine. washington is being
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accused of hiding the truth about the malaysian plane crash in eastern ukraine former u.s. presidential candidate and congressman ron paul frames the government knows more than its letting on is what he said on his voices of liberty radio channel it's hard to believe that the u.s. with all its spy satellites available for monitoring everything in ukraine now 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 depend on 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 has yet to establish what happened to the airliner but western politicians and media might be playing local militia and point at russia aiding
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them professor peter nick who collaborated with director oliver stone on the untold history of the united states says that's misleading. we're 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 a 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 the prime minister says key have may stop any kind of transport on its territory including the transit of oil and gas now and choose day parliament is expected to vote on arson a gas nukes plan and that could mean
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a cold winter for europe and here is why russia supplies about a third of the gas the e.u. gets most of it nineteen percent is delivered via crane as you can see here it can have cuts off the roads many european countries won't have enough fuel to keep their industries running or out that people warm slovakia and bulgaria for example are the highest risk they're almost entirely powered by russian gas many others largely rely on it as well the alternative pipeline project bypassing ukraine the south stream could have this threat but its construction is being hindered by brussels citing violations of market regulations the executive director at the ron paul ince a cheat but he has plans to block russian gas supplies will hit hard both ukraine and europe really what ukraine is is doing is committing economic suicide in the u.s. 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
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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 thinking particularly of poland and its foreign minister radek sikorski he is the one who is taking the most pleasure in sticking it to russia while the average poll is going to have an awfully bitter winter this year thanks to sikorsky 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're cutting off their own noses to spite their faces. the police killing of a black teenager in the united states states of missouri is descending into rioting shots are reportedly being fired and tear gas used on crowds to try and prevent shops from being looted and set on fire protest broke out off the eighteen year old
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mike brown he done a recently graduated was fatally shot by police on his way to visit his grandmother witnesses say he was unarmed and had his hands up when an officer shot him multiple times mike brown's killing drew criticism from civil rights advocates violent police tactics and racial profiling is going to reports police brutality is seen as commonplace rather than unusual. 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 barry gardner can be heard saying i can't breathe several times. eric garnett died lying at the feet of those police officers leaving behind a wife and six children my son this is the day of the officer who put terry garner in an apparent chokehold has been stripped of his garden badge and placed on desk
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duty the video garners death in july would viral sparking protests in local communities why has the city not a bargain a campaign. 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. i was never asked what my name was others never told but i was out. in california at fifty one year old marlene pinette quotes walking along the highway when a patrol officer straddled heard begin 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 comes from cultural problem one of police officers have been used to school in a power structure where they make
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a getaway where almost anything because they are the police video cameras have 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 there are terror right includes all this very pretty colorful so i think there's a good for nothing for you if the officer apologized for the statement and resigned . the cases so brutality and 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 out our team. now we've got more news after the break including the
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racial and religious tensions flourishing in israel field by the latest gaza war stay with us. there's a media lead also we leave that may be. part of the scene motions to the play your party there's a good. shoes that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from. politicking only on our t.v. . when the unit union promised to net ukraine become part of it it clearly contributed to the exact abrasion 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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the latest attempt at a temporary truce is underway in gaza israel and palestine agreed 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 eight hundred lives and left gaza in ruins.
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that. was. israel says it will send negotiators back to cairo on monday to prolong the deal if the truce holds it withdrew its delegation after the previous ceasefire ended in yet more rocket fire while there are hopes that this fresh rest by will last the conflict is cemented in 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 keep high territories and israel itself the army installed that 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 for
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business hours 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 in the occupied west bank civilians continue to suffer from what they say are random attacks by settlers in one recent incident an eight year old girl was hit by a car palestinians labeled it a settler terror incident. 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 and some israelis say they too now live in a climate of fear i am in the wife and and i when i walk him back i'm really just so. drive my thought myself and 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 murderer and
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a girl that i go to have woke and they killed her i'm living here for eight years i didn't feel any suspicion hate but it's politics this is the symbol. that only from here to the but to choose the hamas i did choose. to vote they voted for him for the from us and now though we'd be was a day 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 in occupation we cannot accept to be violated on daily basis and say we are fine with it by listening as do not hate people because of what they are or they don't hate people because they are jews simply palestinians do not accept your patient and its policy . see jerusalem. dot com has analysis and updates on the latest
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israeli palestinian conflict which is the most deadly in years we've also gathered personal stories from people across social networks. also online blinding justice league says america's notorious spy agency has been delays in court transcriptions of it is they may reveal too much. on this night missing in the moon right now it's at its closest i'm brightest in two decades it's both about the photographer and many people with some stunning images online. iraq's prime minister has mobilized special forces loyal to him after being rebuffed over getting a third time in office by the president ahmed vehicles and soldiers have also cordoned off baghdad's diplomatic hub when my state. situations are located nouri al maliki then gave a tough speech accusing the president of violating the constitution and promised to take it to cool moloch he also resisted calls to quit saying that the president's
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stance is harming the country's independence washington's calling for a more inclusive government in iraq and pledged its full support for the president generous larry evarist 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 was put in power by the united states is a product of the two thousand and three invasion it is a pro imperialist very reactionary very repressive regime it is fueled sectarian cantons carried out vicious crimes that you know the sunni population and the us as a gun bombing iraq once again so i would not doubt that the united states is maneuvering behind the scenes to put in power. that is more comfortable with. couching all of this in the name of humanitarianism and the unity of iraq.
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well iraq's power struggle could hardly comedy was time the country is under attack by islamic state jihadists we've already carved house ways of the northwest for itself to caliphate thousands of iraqi religious minorities fled into remote areas to escape slaughter by a group that even al qaeda rejects. thousands from the as eighty my noisey have been trapped by the militants on a mountain near the turkish border cut its forces managed to free some of them many more remain in danger of jihadists consider the devil worshippers and have already executed they've captured the u.s. has conducted a strike to the militants in iraq targeting military positions and convoys filmmakers in washington want to direct invasion fearing that the u.s. risks an attack on home soil similar to nine eleven while the phase generous. as it came away believes the jihadists were cultivated by the u.s.
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in the first by. the intervention of the united states several weeks ago by 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 were 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
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crossed the border into iraq are in fact. by the united states. elsewhere around the world demonstrations against islamic state group militants have taken place in the netherlands scuffles broke out with police while demonstrators were also seen clashing with protesters at a counter-rally the netherlands has witnessed several pro and anti islamic state protest in recent months as well as incendiary public speeches on a rise in hate crimes earlier this month the country became the first in europe to ban the flying of the movement's black flag. cases by case of ebola in romania has scared people off going to hospital after a man was admitted to an infectious disease unit he recently returned from nigeria displaying symptoms connected to a bowl of what doctors say yet to give a conclusive diagnosis nigeria's become the fourth west african country to declare a national emergency over the virus. has been a mass rally in pakistan in support of next hour
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a cleric could claim the government was corrupt and the prime minister should be ousted the thousands of demonstrators who turned out in the whole valley to start a revolution initially protest to their deaths of fourteen and two government campaigners in june another gatherings planned in islamabad later this week to highlight alleged vote rigging. prime minister has addressed a cheering crowd in istanbul after winning the country's first direct presidential election. victory takes him a step closer to the presidency he's known and for time the talking head of state has been elected directly by the population as opposed to being appointed by the grand national assembly i do want integration will take place later this month. coming next france's outspoken euro skeptic anita is on sophie and cohen r.t. international but in the u.k. it's playing to the votes close to.
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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 now but these well funded travelers 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 was just why does the us need
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to infiltrate cuba and by what right cuba doesn't have nukes put in america 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 state department's help but that's just my. but. you 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 this seems silly people who zoom has become very adept at is controlling the media for example. c.n.n. do i think c.n.n. is you know completely telling it like it is no i see it is a have a new gender i think through gender is is bought and paid for. led.
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by marinating join me on boom bust into impartial and financial reporting commentary contributes and much much. only on the bus and only on. l.o.l. come to said to me a column sophie shevardnadze a political earthquake has hit zero and france's national front is its epicenter
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how much are they hoping to achieve with their sweeping victory in the e.u. elections we ask the leader of the bloc but the magnet then is my guest today. just contempt of the brussels bureaucracy. has broken through as you voters swept euro skeptic parties into the parliament but do they have what it takes to take on the system. be bracing for change or is this just a passing storm. but in a band leader of france's from the us tonight welcome to the program it's great to have you here i am of. the bend the last time i was spoke you predicted in the election should become the number one party in france and here we are you're number one so what's the very first thing you're going to do if. the first thing that i will do is constitute a group in the european parliament to be able to prevent any new advances towards
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european federalism which i consider to be profoundly antidemocratic i believe that it goes against the sovereignty of the people and the economic social and international interest of france. so along with our allies will now be able to provide a new voice different from the one which dominates and the european union to form a more. talk a little bit more about the european elections now when you look at the bigger picture right you are skeptics are in a minority in the chamber and they aren't even forming and bloc yet so there wasn't really a victory so to say why do you think there's so much talk in the press as well. in this political earthquake that's taking place. the rules of operation of the european parliament will oblige the left wing and right wing parties of the parliament the europeans.

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