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questions that no one is asking with the guests that deserve answers from. politics only on our t.v. . ukraine steps up its shelling of the antigovernment stronghold of dawn yet despite local militia urging a truce to avert a humanitarian catastrophe plus. looting and street violence in the u.s. state of missouri is anger over police killing of a black teenager boils over witnesses say the eighteen year old was unarmed when he was repeatedly shot by the officer. and israel of hamas agree a new three day cease fire made hopes for a prolonged a truce from the devastating month long war has left more than one thousand eight hundred dead.
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you're watching r.t. international. don't yet skin eastern ukraine is reeling from further heavy artillery fire which killed one person i mean ten others on sunday here forces pressed on with its assault despite local militia calling for a ceasefire and warning of a humanitarian disaster resident eventually areas were again pounded by shells. local officials say more than ten civilian buildings were damaged including a hospital and a shop this is the nearby city of shut down other government strongholds in targeted clears the military operation weeks of fighting have turned it into a ghost town european security monitors reported gas and electricity supplies are
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cut off their water is barely available and shops are closed the u.n. says over a thousand people per day a fleeing the war zone is how refugees describe their ordeal. so you go. here you we've done it you know when this get people thinking that. it was instinct as it was does that place it is interesting. when you look at who are you doing it when you. get what do you need. who do. you have. that you would feel if their clothes were going. the 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 ten minutes to get food in use use basic facilities but then the bombardment
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starts again. and a chemical plant in eastern ukraine has come under shelling risking the possibility of an ecological disaster officials at the facility called sterile so it's frequently being targeted by care forces. but it just took me in the past three weeks and the grounds of ukraine's largest chemical plants to roll in particular has come under a mortar shelling by ukrainian troops multiple rocket launchers are being used on the fifth of august five strikes targeting the role launched by the most powerful weapons of mass destruction the ukrainian army has you know you were a gun multiple rocket launcher system and there were also several strikes by grad systems of the city and the chemical plants continued day and night i officially announced that due to the irresponsible actions of the ukrainian army the citizens of ukraine russia and belarus are exposed to the deadly threat of an ecological disaster on a daily bases the size of which cannot be calculated an incident that cyril would
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cause a leak from the chemical plant where it talks to benzene is the minimal impact zone would be at least three hundred kilometers i don't understand why this fact is being silos about all ukrainian media that. ukraine's president has told america's secretary of state that he's inviting red cross coordinators to organize aid for people in 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 rif national reports from the beleaguered city. the ganske made luke abandoned but the rusty people here. those who didn't 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 that she has little of
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that left but it should be but one job is unique in your city not the gulf war between but we did go to the blue giddy concho it's a new being to new we've got new cheer war got mum she got not much of what is going to shut out but. what 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. but there you turn you've still as it just has been below grandstanding you're not going to pull most you need you when you yell it premiered you knew it would be nietzsche when you didn't get it breath berfield near that studio earlier years ago the other near the edge of the us even though coke that gives us a bit of us going to say that the the new coke so far and you'll still have a good book to live 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 will fly off well or go up a new way of the work but the logic is that americans. that's a weird little. bit of the city with no water and no power also has no income to the outside world. there are big problems with connection now in the guns 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 but what we don't like about this place resists warning signs say attention do not call shelling area. but people still try their luck they say the entire cities shelling area now and at least 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. mccloy's flat 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
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remain. in the gonski ukraine the u.n. says it hopes that a russian journalist who's gone missing in ukraine will soon be found photographer andre sten and was working for the real novice the news agency when he disappeared almost a week ago the reports he may have been detained by ukraine security services he has yet to comment on andre stonings disappearance it's not the first time a journalist covering the conflict in ukraine has gone missing a string of journalists working for the russian media have been snatched by authorities. washington is being accused of hiding the truth about the malaysian plane crash in eastern ukraine a former us presidential candidate and congressman ron paul claims the government knows more than it's letting on he's 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 the precise proof of who did what and when is not available when evidence contradicts
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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 airliner but western politicians and media mostly blame local militia important finger russia for aiding them professor peter nick who collaborated with director about 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
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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. ukraine is threatening sanctions against russia and some of them may end up hitting europeans the prime minister says kiev may stop any kind of transport on its territory and that's including the transit of oil and gas now on tuesday parliament is expected to vote on arseniy yatsenyuk plan and that could mean a cold winter for europe and here is why now russia supplies about a third of the gas the gets most of it past nineteen percent is delivered via ukraine care of cuts off the roads many european countries won't have enough fuel to get their industries running or their people warm slovakia and bulgaria 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 that's the
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south stream could help avert the threat but its construction is being hindered by brussels citing violations of market regulations the executive director of the ron paul institute please keep his plans to block russian gas supplies will hit by the ukraine and europe hard 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 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
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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. coming up later in the show terrified and starving in the wilderness. thousands of iraqi minorities flee for their lives from the jihadist rampage but in the capital the prime minister is busy trying to tighten his political grip. the police killing of a black teenager in the u.s. state 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 now protests broke out after eighteen year old mike brown who'd only recently
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graduated was fatally shot by police on his way to visit his grandmother on saturday 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 over violent police tactics on racial profiling as you can 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 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
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apparent chokehold has been stripped of his garden badge and placed on desk duty video garners death in july would viral sparking protests in local communities why has the city not a bargain a campaign that targets zero deaths of police brutality but it's not just the. york police that has been accused of using excessive force in recent months in arizona police confronted university professors solo or for jaywalking. was back i was never asked what my name was as 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 repeatedly 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 or a cultural problem where police officers have been used to school in
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a power structure where the breaking 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 of their care or writing course for office this very pretty colorful so i'm sure there's a photograph for you if the officer apologized for the statement then 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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going to check out party. time we've got more news after the break including the racial and religious tensions flourishing in israel filled by the latest gaza war. 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. certain people who she has become very adept at is controlling immediately example right here c.n.n. do i think c.n.n. is you know completely telling it like it is no i see you have an agenda i think through is is bought and paid for. lead.
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i marinate join me. for in-depth impartial and financial reporting commentary interviews and much much. only on going bust and on. 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 egypt's latest effort to broker and to the violence the month long conflict has claimed more than nine hundred lives. it's. those are those. that are our.
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lads. that. i was i was. not a palestinian soldier has been killed in a standoff with israeli border police will rise to arrest him near his home and israeli delegation is now in copyright the talks in a prolonged cease fire the senior u.n. aid official warns that a new round of fighting is likely to resume unless television lifts its blockade of gaza and more there are hopes that this fresh rest quite will last the conflict has already cemented an ongoing long the people is unlikely to fade arief a report. 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 relit self beyond me install that system of
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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 business salads pamelor and to treat 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 this 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 as 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 israel. lease a day to now live in a climate of fear i am a midwife and and i when i walk him back i'm just so i
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can't survive my thought myself and arabic drive come to take me from my home and i'm scared i'm scared i'm scared to a drive to them because there was a case that a murder. a girl that i go to have woke up and they killed her i'm living here for eight years i didn't feel any special hate but it's politics this is the symbol . that only from here to the but to choose the hamas i didn't choose. to vote they voted for him for the from us and now though we've been 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 occupation we cannot accept to be violated on daily bases and say we are fine with it but history as do not people because of what they are or they hate people because they are jews
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simply palestinians do not accept your patient and its policy azzi jerusalem. dot com has lined up a picture gallery called stolen childhood with the images of gaza's children trapped in the violence. also online blinding justice and leaks as america's notorious spy agency has been deleting court transcripts of the phase they may reveal too much. and there is no missing marine right now it's at its closest i'm brightest in two decades and it's brought out the photographer in many people with some stunning images or long lines. iraq's prime minister has mobilized special forces loyal to him after being rebuffed over getting a third term in office by the president. it's all made vehicles and soldiers have also cordoned off baghdad's diplomatic op where most state institutions are located nouri al maliki then gave a tough speech accusing the president of violating the constitution and promise to
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take the issue to courts molecule say resisted calls to quit saying that the president's 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 janice lowry average who has 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 cantons carried out this crimes against the sunni population and the us as a gun bombing iraq wants again so i would not doubt that the united states is manoeuvering behind the scenes to put in power every day the more comfortable we
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have it it's how tomorrow all of this in the name of humanitarianism and the unity of iraq. well iraq's power struggle could hardly comedy was time the country is under attack by islamic state jihadists they've already carved out swathes of the northwest for a south 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 a the 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 jihadists consider them devil worshipers and have already executed those they've captured and while the u.s. has conducted strikes at the militants in iraq targeting that auto repositions and convoys filmmakers in washington want a direct invasion fearing the u.s. risks an attack on home soil similar to nine eleven but world affairs janet as
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a key way believes the jihadists will cultivated by the u.s. in the first place the intervention of the united states several weeks ago by deploying the problem military advisers 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
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militarily the government bashar al assad in syria today these elements were spread out across the border into iraq are in fact being bombed by the united states. more demonstrations against islamic state militants have taken place in the netherlands scuffles broke out with police full demonstrators were also seen clashing with protesters at a counter-rally the netherlands has witnessed several pro and 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 including its black flag and other world headlines this hour says but express a suspected case of ebola in romania has scared people off going to hospital after a man was admitted to an infectious disease unit he had recently returned from nigeria displaying symptoms similar to 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
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a mass rally in pakistan in support of an exiled cleric who trained the government was corrupt and the prime minister should be ousted thousands of demonstrators who turned out in the whole valley to start a revolution and also protested over the deaths of forty nine to government campaign is in june another gathering is planned in islamabad later this week to highlight alleged vote rigging. that's all the news often now but next i learned all about the wall of silence over sexual assault cases in the united states and in the colleges stay with us. 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.
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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 what is the justification why does the us need 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 opinion.
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when the unit being union from is to make you create become part of it it clearly contributed to the bathtub ration of tensions within ukraine ukraine will not become part of the european union the won't tell tales ukraine ops. he doesn't have the economic level to become part of the e.u. and. america's colleges which through hollywood television and the media have become very familiar. with campuses american football its cheerleaders and the notorious parties.
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it's a life young people dream of but behind the picture post is a nightmare for female students. one in five will be a victim of rape during this studies according to the figures published by the department of justice. how and why is this happening. for the first time some of the victims of the epidemic. we are in los angeles. tells her story. iris raped in december two thousand and ten. the morning of december fourth two thousand and ten in my bed. in the cardinal gardens housing contacts at the university of california. i didn't know what to do . over and over again. and i stopped after.

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