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pleasure to have you with us here today. ukraine steps up its. government stronghold of done yet despite a local militia a truce to a humanitarian catastrophe. meeting on street violence in the u.s. state of missouri as police killing of a black teenager boils over witnesses say the eighteen year old was when he was repeatedly shot by the officer. israel and hamas agree a new three day cease fire amid hopes for a prolonged truce in the devastating month long war that's left more than nine hundred.
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you're watching the international we're coming to you live from moscow. in the russian capital as kids have you with us. i don't yes can eastern ukraine is reeling from the heavy artillery fire which killed one person and injured ten others on sunday here forces pressed on with its a sold despite local militia calling for a ceasefire 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 then yes largest chemical plant is also nearly heads a spokesman there warn the bombardments of putting ukraine and its neighboring
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countries at risk of an ecological catastrophe this is the nearby city of shock tusk another anti-government stronghold and target of kiev the military operation weeks of 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 are fleeing the war zone is how refugees describe their ordeal. the territory. so you go. here you. tell them that you know what this could be looking at this it doesn't stink there's a war. president sarkozy. who are you doing it. doing good for the poor who do you. know if.
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you were there. the ongoing strikes of forced patients and staff of this maternity unit into the basement where expectant mothers are giving birth in poor conditions nice to say they managed to get upstairs for about ten minutes to get food in these basic facilities then the bombardment starts again. ukraine's president has told america's secretary of state that he's inviting red cross coordinators to organize aid for people in lugansk the city declared a state of humanitarian disaster last week russia wants to send a mergence the aid has been trying to get permission from kiev to do so refreshing reports from the beleaguered city. the ganske may look abandoned but there are still 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 but she has little
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of that left dozens will be back but god is unique in your heart not above one hundred couple bumpy but we did go to the blue did you can chose i need be insinuate what you cheer warm up mum she got not much of what's going to shut out. for you to my life or your usual storm i'm sure it's getting a bit of q.'s 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 grandstander me i'm not sure of well nice to meet you when you're merely a premier you have the nature of when you get any good at birth berfield new york that's really years at the other near the edge of the earth even though the thirtieth of what i was going to say that the the new coke so far and you'll still have a good deal of oh no bourbon deal in the atmosphere. not just the build up in some of the city's districts residents have to use water pumps because
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it's a no go zone for trucks that could share out the precious liquid of oil out of the well off it was you were part of much of this that americans. know 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. the big problems with connection now in the gans who've been all over the city are 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 trying 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
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them more than once. nikolai's flat is on the eighth floor fortunately none of his family was hurried when it was heat 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 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
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remain. raif notion. in lugansk ukraine where washington is being accused of hiding the truth about the malaysian plane crash in eastern ukraine a former u.s. presidential candidate and congressman ron paul believes 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 is yet to establish what happened to the line of the western
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politicians and media mostly blame local militia and point the finger at russia for aiding them professor peter nick who collaborated with director of all of a stone on the t.v. series the untold history of the united states says that's misleading. we're getting a story about what's happening in 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. well 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 on tuesday parliament is expected to vote
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on arseniy yatsenyuk plan and that could mean 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 ukraine now with care cuts off the roots of many european countries won't have enough fuel to keep their industries running or their people warm slovakia and bulgaria at the highest risk they're almost entirely powered by russian gas while many others largely rely on it as well you'll turn into a pipeline project bypassing ukraine the south stream could help avert the threats but its construction is being hindered by brussels citing violations of market regulations the executive director of the ron paul interchange these camps plans to block russian gas supplies were hit by a crane in europe pod really what ukraine is is doing is committing economic suicide in the us it's so demanding that the e.u.
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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 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 poll is going to have an awfully bitter winter this year thanks to it's 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're cutting off their own noses to spite their faces. the police killing of a black teenager in the u.s. state of missouri is descending into rioting shots have been reported until you gas used on crowds to try and prevent shops from being looted and set on fire now
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protests broke out after eighteen year old mike brown has only recently graduated was fatally shot by police on his way to visit his grandmother on saturday where this is 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 over violent police tactics and racial profiling is going to change you can report 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. every garnett died lying at the feet of those police officers leaving behind a wife and six children my son is missing this day the officer who put terry garner
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in an apparent chokehold has been stripped of his garden badge and placed on desk duty the video garners death in july would viral sparking protests in local communities why has the city not been barking at 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 what i was in violation of in california at fifty one year old marlene pinette quotes walking along the highway when a patrol officer straddled her and began repeated lee punching her upper body. the woman is known to be high. and listen reportedly suffering from psychiatric problems i think much of the brutality comes from cultural problem where police officers have been used to school in
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a power structure where they can get away 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 they really care writing course oh it's great for the conflict so i'll give you a piece of paper for prostitution we'll just the officer apologized for the statement and resigned as the case is 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
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hello hello hello. rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want. the latest attempt at a temporary truce is underway in gaza israel and palestine agreed to hold fire for three days off to both accepted age its latest effort to broker an end to the violence. more than one thousand eight hundred lives and left gaza in ruins. both are.
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also whole ball. of. fire was was. before the latest truce took effect this discouraging factory in gaza went up in flames after they hit by an israeli air strike late on sunday for now both sides are sticking to the cease fire while there were hopes that this fresh rest by will last the conflict is already cemented and i don't go along people that are unlikely to fade very 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 israel itself beyond the installed it system of checkpoints here in two thousand and six now thousands of palestinians who live in
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the west bank but work inside israel must queue from dawn to reach their workplaces 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 in new york you find 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'm a midwife and. and i when i walk him back i'm really religious so i can't drive my thought myself and arabic drive come to take me from my home and i'm scared yeah i'm scared i'm scared to a drive to them because there was a case that
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a murder a girl that i go to have woke and they killed her i'm living here for eight years 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've been was 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 bases and say we are fine with it by listing years do not take people because of what they are or they don't hit people because they are jews simply by listing ians do not accept your patient and its policy. see jerusalem. allotting dot com has analysis and updates on the latest
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israeli palestinian conflict which is the most deadly news we've also gathered personal stories from people across social networks and also online blinding justice lake says america's notorious spy agency has been delivering core transcriptions over fears they may reveal too much and i'm missing the moon right now it's on its closest and brightest in two decades and it's brought out the photographer and many think with some stunning you know 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 almost vehicles and soldiers have also cordoned off baghdad's diplomatic hub where most state institutions are located. nouri al maliki then gave a tough speech accusing the president of violating the constitution and promise to take nation to court molecules i resisted calls to quit saying that the president's stance is harming the country's independence washington's calling for
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a more inclusive government in iraq and pledged its full support for the president john this lowry evarist who's written widely on america's record in iraq and the us 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 it is more comfortable with it is couching all of this in the name of humanitarianism and the unity of iraq. well iraq's power struggle could hardly common it was time the country is
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under attack by islamic state jihadists who have already carved out swathes of the northwest for self declared caliphate thousands of iraqi religious minorities have fled into remote areas to escape slaughter by a group that even al qaeda rejects. thousands from the as eighty minority have been trapped by the militants on a mountain near the turkish border cut his forces managed to free some of them and many more remain in danger of jihadists consider the devil was schippers and already executed those that they've captured the u.s. has conducted a strike to the militants in iraq targeting now to reposition convoys filmmakers in washington wanted direct invasion fearing that the u.s. risks an attack on home soil from the from nine eleven well to phase jenna's as a k way believes the jihad based cultivated by the us in the first by. the intervention of the united states several weeks ago by deploying so-called military
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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 in frost the border into iraq are in fact. by the united states. meanwhile
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demonstrations against islamic state militants have taken place in the netherlands scuffles broke out with police all demonstrators were also seen clashing with protesters account a rally the netherlands has witnessed several cry and anti islamic state for a test in recent months as well as in sending public speeches on the rise in hate crimes earlier this month the country became the first in europe to ban the flying of the movement's black flag. a suspected case of ebola in remaining has got people off going to hospital after a man was admitted to an infectious disease unit he recently returned from nigeria displaying symptoms connected to him the doctors are yet to give a conclusive diagnosis has become the fourth west african country to declare a national emergency over the virus. in a mass rally in pakistan in support of an exiled cleric would claim the government was corrupt and the prime minister should be ousted the thousands of demonstrators who turned out in the hall vowed to start
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a revolution also protests today over the deaths of fourteen anti-government campaign is emerging in another gatherings by going to slam about later this week to highlight alleged vote rigging. turkey's prime minister has addressed a cheering crowd in istanbul often we can't country's first direct presidential election type other ones victory takes him a step closer to the executive presidency that is longing for the first time the turkish head of state has been elected directly by the population as opposed to being appointed by the grand national assembly i don't want to know aggression will take place later this month. coming up next cross talk looks at the ramifications of washington's policy of containing its biggest rivals on our team international well if you're in britain one about the wall of silence of a sexual assault in u.s. colleges 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 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 usa he 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 cation why does the us need to infiltrate cuba and by what right do you want doesn't have nukes put in
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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 opinion. and. more likely to be raped in college and in the real. world. i don't think that. when they knew each other i thought it was a stranger in the bushes. complaining about the son of an alumni. millions of dollars from the school why listen to somebody who's going to lose money at the school of schools that make money based decisions are much more common than they
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and welcoming for all things are considered on peter lavelle the western interest crisis in ukraine has revealed the extent of western media as you know ability or unwillingness to report this important story the western narrative has closely mirror talking points generated for the powers that be this makes the following question is what stream media merely the instrument of the rich and powerful. crosstown media coverage of ukraine i'm joined by my guest minimal oxon writer in berlin he's an editor and reporter and in moscow we cross to dimitri bobbitt he's a political analyst with the voice of russia radio station right gentlemen cross-talk roles in fact that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it before you start the program graham phillips who works as a string of for r t was arrested in eastern ukraine a few hours ago he was supposed to join us i hope that he's going to be taken care
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of being treated fairly because we know that journalism journalists are very much in danger reporting trying to do their job in ukraine. start out with you first in this very general program on western media coverage of the crisis in ukraine in a nutshell how would you describe it well i would describe it to not show as a bolshevist but maybe the problem is not that the media is controlled by reach and paul full that has always been the case unfortunately but in the case of ukraine that western media is controlled by stupid then venturous so what their western media did in ukraine it was exactly what can a long the lines outlined by bloody middle lane and. moral rules are very simple everything that benefits the so-called revolution is moral and democratic everything that doesn't benefit everybody mission is undemocratic.
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