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he states it to be. speech. ukraine steps off its shelling of the anti-government stronghold of deniece despite local militia urging a truce to avert a humanitarian catastrophe plus. some street violence in the u.s. state of missouri as anger over police killing a black teenager boils over witnesses say the eighteen year old was unarmed when he was repeatedly shot by the officer. also israel and hamas agree a new three day cease fire amid hopes for a prolonged truce from the devastating month long war that's left more than one thousand nine hundred dead.
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it is three pm in moscow what you heard here national i'm marina joshing the army has renewed of shelling of donetsk in eastern ukraine it's less than twenty four hours since the previous round of heavy artillery fire killed one person and injured ten others in anti-government stronghold forces are pressing on with the air assault despite local militia calling for a ceasefire and warning of a humanitarian disaster residential areas were damned pounded by shells more evolution. we were. the only. for the sure it was the local officials say more than ten civilian buildings were damaged including a hospital and a shop for this is the nearby city of tourist another anti-government stronghold and target of caves military operation weeks of fighting have to. it into go stop
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european security monitors reported gas and electricity supplies are cut off their water is barely available and shops per day are selling a war zone and here's how refugees describe the ordeal. to do go to school or go to a football group who. who grew up will do or more new yorkers who do feel warmth of course for who are here you were a good student but that you know that when these good people said look at that there's still a dozen students who will. president sarkozy. who didn't. really do in movement who would you go forward with who do. you with these there was a woman. of the ongoing strikes have forced 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 upstairs for about ten minutes to get food and use
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basic facilities but then the bombardment starts again a chemical plant in eastern ukraine has come under shelling a risking the possibility of an ecological disaster officials at the facility called sterol say it's frequently being targeted by key forces for what to do with the border of the city and the chemical plant continue 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 can be calculated an incident that cyril would cause a leak from the chemical plant in gori where the talks acknowledged folklore of benzene is stored in the minimal impact zone would be at least three hundred kilometers i don't understand why this fact is being silenced by all ukrainian media. now the chemical plants in stores over a two thousand tons of a substance known as blood poison it and here's the body it affects the liver hard
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bone marrow and may even cause death on top of that there are also thirty tons of t.n.t. at the facility and nearby at the factory ten thousand cubic meters of liquid ammonia are stirred stored rather exposure to its high concentrations can lead to blindness long damage and death. ukraine's president has told america's secretary of state that he's inviting red cross coordination to organize aid for people in low gowns the city declared a state of man a tarion disaster last week russia wants to send emergency aid and has been trying to get permission from kiev to do so refreshing reports from the beleaguered city. the goans khamees luke abandoned but the rusty with 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
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challenge. this woman is called nadezhda in russian her name means hope but she has little of that left dozens of the buckboard got busy even yesterday most of. what we did go to the blue good you can chose a new pin sinew we've got new cheer warm up mum she got most of what's going to be shut out but even so i bought you to miley for your usual storm and you know it's getting a bit of queues form early in the morning because people are afraid they won't be enough water to go around still knows who they were. as it just has been below transferred me i'm not sure of fullness to meet you when you're merely at premier you have the nici when you didn't is there at birth her feeling near the ups to the earlier years and the other near the edge of the earth even though the thirtieth of both of us going to say that the the new coke so far and you'll still have a good deal of a nose job and billionaire financier to get at or
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a nurse or not you have the build up and some of the city's district's 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 woods you were part of much of this that americans. know that's what we're going to do 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 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 shelling area but people still try their luck they say the entire city is a shelling area now and at least here they can talk to relatives and friends on the phone. every day in the guns at least
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a dozen apartment buildings and private houses are hate by tillery fire some of them more than once. nicholas flood is on the eighth floor fortunately none of his family was her it when it 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 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 lieu guns ukraine the i want to see a representative for media freedom is calling for the release of the russian journalist who's gone missing in ukraine moscow meanwhile is urging international rise groups to help find photographer understand amnesty international said reporters should not be limited in the course of their work and become hostages russian photographer was working for the re analogous to news agency when he disappeared almost a week ago his colleagues have launched a twitter campaign with a hash tag for andrew and there are reports he may have been detained by ukraine security services the cave officials say they're not holding on three it's not the first time a journalist covering the conflict in ukraine has gone missing last month graham phillips from britain was working for a team when he was taken by ukraine security forces and before releasing phillips he also denied detaining him. coming up later in the show terrified and starving in
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the wilderness thousands of iraqi minorities flee for their lives from the jihad as rampage but in the capital the prime minister is busy trying to tighten his political grip. anger at the police killing of a black teenager in the u.s. state of missouri is descending into rioting shots have reportedly been fired and tear gas used in crowds to try and prevent shops from being looted and set on fire protests broke out after eighteen year old mind brown had only recently graduated was fatally shot by police on his way to visit his grandmother on saturday witnesses say he was armed and had his hands up when an officer shot him multiple times by brown's killing drew criticism from civil rights advocates over violence police tactics and racial profiling scottish to count reports police brutality seen as commonplace rather than using unusual. captured on a bystanders camera new york police suspect the men of selling individual
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cigarettes it is so easy to think that. 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 at night. and being very guarded died lying at the feet of those police officers leaving behind a wife and six children my son is missing is the day the officer who put their garner 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 a bargain a campaign that targets zero deaths of police brutality but it's not just new york police that is being accused of using excessive force in recent months in arizona police confronted university professors solo or for jaywalking.
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was back i was never asked what my name was out was never told what i was a violation of in california fifty one year old marlene pinette quote is walking along the highway when a patrol officer straddled her and began with peter lee punching her upper body. the woman is known to be homeless and reportedly suffering from psychiatric problems i think much of the roots now of the town's farm or cultural problem with police officers have been used to school and 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 or carry
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a writing course or office pretty cold so. there's a good solution for this the officer apologized for the statement and resigned as 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 and more news after the break including the racial and religious tensions flourishing in israel fueled by the latest gaza war. dramas the truth be ignored to the. stories others to a few still noticing. the faces changing the world right.
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to picture of today's. from around the globe. dropped in. to. 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. is that certain people's regime 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 think they have an agenda i think through genda is is bought and paid for.
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welcome back this is r.t. now israeli and palestinian delegations are in cairo right now trying to secure a more lasting truce the two have already agreed to hold fire for three days after both accepted it gets latest effort to broker an end to the violence and the month long conflict has claimed more than one thousand two hundred lives and left gaza in ruins. far it would enable the girls. though fall in love carol been born. in the usual war. to lose. a senior u.n. aid official warns that
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a new round of fighting is likely to resume unless israel lifts its blockade of gaza and while they are hopes that this fresh respite will last the conflict has already cemented anger among people it's unlikely to fade quickly terry fear reports. since the latest israel gaza conflict begun there's been a spike in racial violence and tense. between jews and arabs throughout both the occupied territories and his relatives 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 for 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 yorkie pined west bank civilians continue to suffer from what they say are random attacks by settlers in one recent incident an eight
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year old girl was hit by a car palestinians labeled it a settler terror incident. since the war began were really few 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 religious so i can't survive my myself. an arabic dr 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 that go to hell woke and they killed her own living. didn't feel special but that's politics this is the symbol. of the. hamas i didn't choose. to vote they voted for him for the hamas though we've
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got the bomb but. needless to say the palestinian people see the current situation from a very different perspective as palestinians we cannot accept living. we cannot accept will be violated on daily basis and say we are fine with it but. people. because what the. people because the jews simply but. do not accept. see jerusalem. has lined up a picture gallery called stolen childhood with images of gaza's children who are trapped in the violence. also line lining justice and leaks as america's notorious spy agency has been do leading for a transcriptions over fears they may reveal too much. there's no missing the moon right now it's at its closest and brightest in two decades and it's brought out the
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photographer in many people with some stunning the other images online take a look. right to see. first street. and i think that you're. on our reporters there. in. the in the. iraq's prime minister has mobilized special forces loyal to him after being rebuffed over getting a third term in office by the president armored vehicles and soldiers have also cordoned off baghdad's diplomatic hub where most state institutions are located there i am ali king then he gave a tough speech resisting calls to quit accusing the president of violating the
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constitution but he's got the backing of an iraqi court which has ruled the case parliament block is the largest so he's entitled to continue as pm washington was a more inclusive government in iraq and has pledged its full support for the president iraq's power struggle could hardly come at a worse time the country's under attack by islamic state jihad is already. doubts ways of the north west for itself declared caliphate thousands of iraqi really just minorities have fled into remote areas to scapes water by a group that even though qaida rejects the u.s. has conducted air strikes against the extreme islamists and iraq targeting theory tell repositions and convoys lawmakers in washington want to direct invasion fear and doubt the u.s. risks and now their nine eleven but world affairs journalist of a new mexico believes these latest hottest were called made by the u.s. in the first place. the intervention of the united states several weeks ago by deploying so-called military advisors and intelligence specialists today has
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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 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 being bombed by the united states. demonstrations against islamic state militants have taken place in the netherlands
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scuffles broke out with police while demonstrators were also seen clashing with protesters at a counter rally and madeline's has witnessed several pro and anti islamic state protests in recent months as well as you see here in 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's black flag on. world headlines now. as a speck the case of a boat in romania has scared people off going to hospital after a man was admitted to infectious disease unit he had recently returned from nigeria displaying symptoms connected to volver but doctors are yet to give a conclusive diagnosis as areas become the fourth west african country to declare a national emergency over the virus. and there's been a mass rally in pakistan in support of an exiled cleric who claimed the government was corrupt and the prime minister should be ousted thousands of demonstrators who turned out a lot who are about to start
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a revolution and also protested over the deaths of fourteen anti-government campaigners in june and other gathering splendid in islamabad later this week to highlight alleged vote rigging. so. greece may still be mired in a dead that's almost twice the size of its economy but the e.u. is considering disbanding the financial troika and giving athens greater freedoms to chart its own path have but it will be cold comfort for greeks enduring massive unemployment and painful austerity and with widespread discontent at a government they say has failed as marina costs are now reports. enough is enough to take troika with you and let's us live that is the message from the greek taxi operators association to the government topped with demands the prime minister step down for failing to stop the economic crisis and the strict austerity measures which resulted in poverty and desperation this one with the biggest problem in our
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industry is the message to the self-employed workers insurance organization and heavy taxation if it takes you makes a profit of five thousand euros the government takes almost seventy percent of that it's not the first time great taxi drivers have reached boiling point but this new calculation which requires them to pay tax on money they haven't even earned yet could send money and so financial debt and. unfortunately our country's becoming the pakistan of europe history will repeat itself will have riots it will get ugly no one is offering any solutions so people don't know what to do the government is nonexistent it's subservient to the troika and their economic interest union reps say they feel like slaves working under a government that doesn't serve their interests it's already hard to find a job in this economy and also lucky enough to have one fear that heavy taxation will eventually force them out onto the streets and the rise in fact is a mental make up our taxi drivers making ends meet let's find out. the many.
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many times we return home unable to cover our basic needs they're taxing everything that moves and they expect you to pay for it somehow if you don't you're in danger of going to prison having your house repossessed we mortgage our lives our children's and grandchildren's lives to pay off debts that we didn't create and we're sitting here taking it with our hands tied by fools most greeks is the old tacitly of the government to increase the already high burden of responsibility workers have tried to contact the finance ministry so on the stand how they justify their latest tax increases and where they expect people. to find this extra money their response was no comments. but i think this it's been four years of the most draconian austerity measures in europe the troika has destroyed greece that program failed the only thing they achieved was to drag greek society into poverty unemployment of twenty seven percent salary decreases a forty percent unemployment of twenty seven percent salary decreases
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a forty percent skyrocketing taxes in some cases with increases of seven hundred percent it's a disaster and they need to admit it and apologize strikes are out of the question since taxi drivers can't afford to skip a day's work but the revolutionary spirit is the only game in momentum and many here believe that it's only a matter of time before it spills over again during a cost survive reports in from athens for r.t. and that's the news for now next in our senior national learn about the wall of silence over sexual assault in u.s. colleges and u.k. though it's peter all about trust.
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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 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. 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
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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. such. people are going to be. here. for the sort of thing every minute. now with. a law like that. to say. these cases. sometimes for nothing. this. is
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not just a good story can still be just if you see the state take the t.v. . speech was. a good. america's colleges switch to hollywood television and the media have become very familiar. with their vast. campuses american football its cheerleaders and the notorious parties. it's a life young people dream of but behind the picture post is a nightmare for female students. one in five will be
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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 speaking out. we are in los angeles. tells her story. i was raped in december two thousand and ten. the morning of december fourth two thousand and ten in my bed. in the cardinal gardens housing complex at the university of california . i didn't know what to do. over and over and over again. and i stopped after meeting. her assailants was a boyfriend. do you remember anything happen last night and.

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