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good laboratory was able to build a new most sophisticated. fortunately. jim's mission to teach me. this is why you should. only. fears of a possible environmental catastrophe after several ukrainian army shells landed a chemical factory s.k.f. prepares for what it calls the final stage of its liberation the rest of east of the country also.
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riots along down swat teams are deployed to stop looting and street violence in the u.s. state of missouri after the killing of an unarmed black teenager by a police officer. and a new three day cease fire has so far gone and broken in gaza as really and hamas negotiators try to end the devastating war that's killed almost a thousand palestinians. to expand in moscow you want unity international with. people in ukraine's deniece go rising the alarm raising alarm rather over a looming humanitarian crisis the resistance hub has been the focal point of military action in the east for weeks now and the devastation has been a mounting thousands of locals there have been living without electricity with heavy shelling crippling power stations across the city and with one of the major
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local water filtering science now also having been restored destroyed by air raids several districts are now left without water supplies and amid the ongoing violence the patients and staff of this maternity unit have been forced to stay in a basement nurses say they managed to get upstairs for only about ten minutes to get food and use basic facilities but then the bombardment starts again. asking if tries to rest back control of the east a major new threat has emerged through. scores of industrial facilities and plant managers are raising the alarm over a potential catastrophe these are projects that landed at a major chemical plant outside of me as officials at the factory say that if the army carries on targeting it's so these there is a high risk of an environmental disaster of. robot it will get in the board of the
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city and the chemical plant continue day and night visually and knows 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 the minimal impact zone would be at least three hundred kilometers now the chemical plant stores over two thousand tons of a substance known as blood poison used in pain production if it enters the body it affect the liver a heart bone marrow and can cause death on top of that there are also thirty tons of t.n.t. at the facility and a nearby ten thousand cubic meters of liquid ammonia are reportedly stored exposure to it and high concentrations can lead to blindness long damage and death now the plant spokesperson's has a potential leak could affect an area of over three hundred kilometers in radius that goes as far as russia's region and could cause serious contamination of the
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black seas waters there's just one factory with potential biohazards out of one hundred forty five located across the net scrooge and which is now a war zone at least thirteen cities in the area were chemical plants are located are considered to be at risk alister hey a professor of mantle to the ecology told me more about the potential dangers. if d.h. is vaporized in some way and that would possibly be by direct haste with explosives . very intense fire the chemical does that's a date once it's in the air it is there for a very long time. degrades in the atmosphere very very slowly if it lives on soil towards it is also there for quite a long time it doesn't degrade it will easily that has implications obviously for people for the environment for any crops that are grown so really
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a chemical plant or to be a no go zone in any conflict. ukraine's inviting the red cross to organize aid for people in lugansk and that's what president petro poroshenko has told the u.s. secretary of state the eastern hub of resistance declared a humanitarian disaster last week and russia has tried to send in emergency aid but the offer was turned down by key of money for national is in the devastated city forests. the guns to 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 middle aged in russian her name means hope but she has little of that left that should be back when god is unique in your heart not of one couple between but we did go to the blue did you can chose
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a new prince in you we've got new cheer war got mum she got most of what's good for you and shut out the window for you to my little 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 no way were they are you going to as it just has been below grandstander me i'm not sure of well nice to meet you when you're nearly at premier you have been each year when you didn't hear of her third film yet that's the early years and the other near the edge of the us so even though the thirtieth of both of us could say that the new cook so far and you'll serve a good deal of i know but then billionaire financier gets a cut or a nurse to give the bill 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 of oil out of the woods but the motion is that americans. that's what we're going to do the city with
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no water and no power also has no contact with the outside world there are big problems with connection now in the gans we've been all over the city where 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 saying attention do not call shall an area. but people still try their luck they say then 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 flat 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 empty handed. the u.n. estimates over one hundred seventeen thousand people of confidence placed 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 the guns ukraine now the o.s.c. is demanding that a russian photojournalist who's been missing in ukraine for almost a week now be released amnesty international says when foreigners should not be
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taken hostage while moscow has urged rights groups to help understand him his colleagues from the obvious news agency have launched a twitter campaign out with a hash tag free andrew he was reportedly detained by ukraine's security services but that something keep denies and it's not the first time a journalist covering the conflict in east ukraine has gone missing last month graham phillips from britain was working for tea when he was seized by ukraine's security forces before releasing phillips they also denied detaining him. smouldering and coming up balad ground baghdad the iraqi capital is engulfed by a power struggle and that is the most insurgency and u.s. military intervention.
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a new amnesty international report has slammed the u.s. military over the torture and killing of civilians in afghanistan calling these apparent war crimes that went on punished air strikes were responsible for approximately one thousand civilian deaths and another key source of civilian casualties was an escalation of so-called force incidents when civilians were fired on at checkpoints or near military convoys the report says the u.s. military falls far short of what is needed to ensure accountability for the alleged war crimes amnesty international steve crawshaw director of the office of the secretary-general things washington chooses to ignore the problem. we're seeing an absolute lack of accountability we're seeing a lack of investigation we're seeing a lack of any consequence and so we have as you see seem to say seeing some high profile cases in general those have tended to come when. the person's own comments have kind of brought this forward and where the authenticity really to bring it forward the trouble is we have a situation where the military is ready to investigate itself the military
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commanders can themselves over room. whether there is going to be investigations or not and we need to have external involvement we need to have above all the us or thirty is the u.s. military themselves should of course wish to get to the bottom of things they should not wish to place and if they are then they should really wish to investigate because nearly all the ones we looked at including in some way they said there was an investigation that would happen the relatives the friends the witnesses they never heard anything back nobody heard a thing so an absolute lack of transparency. and more news after the break including the racial and religious tensions flourishing in israel fueled by the latest gaza war. in december and. more likely to be raped in college and in the real world.
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israeli and palestinian delegations are in cairo hoping to secure a longer term cease fire the latest temporary truce appears to be holding after it began late on sunday the conflict now over a month long has claimed more than one thousand five hundred palestinian lives and has left gaza in ruins. those. that are. being born. in the u.s. for. some hamas officials say rocket attacks will resume in three days if negotiations brokered by egypt leave no work the militants won the blockade of gaza lifted but israel says its closure is necessary to prevent arms smuggling the previous seventy two hour truce and that on friday and at least twenty palestinians have been killed
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since them. many gaza residents are using the cease fire as an opportunity to return it to their devastated homes as they searched for their belongings in the rubble some of them found messages from israeli soldiers this one for example reads pursuit your enemy until you catch and destroy him and this one is particularly tasteless welcome dear guests it says this house was thoroughly remodeled we hope you like it. a lot of the wall of the workpiece was written in large letters even without these mocking insults the conflict is semantic anger among people on both sides of the border as harry fear now reports. since the latest israel gaza conflict began there's been a spike in racial violence and tension between jews and arabs throughout both your keep high territories and his reality beyond me install that system of checkpoints here in two thousand and six now thousands of palestinians who live in the west
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bank but work inside israel must queue from dawn to reach their workplaces for business hours or actually true 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. 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 just so i can't survive my myself. an arabic dr come to take me from
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my home and i'm scared i'm scared i'm scared to drive them because there was a case that a murder. a girl go to a while and they killed her. didn't feel special but that's politics this is the symbol. of the. hamas i did choose. they voted for him for the hamas and now though we get the bomb. needless to say the palestinian people see the current situation from a very different perspective as palestinians we cannot accept living. we cannot accept to be violated on daily bases and say we are fine with it but this to me is do not take people because what the order they hate people because they are jews simply but. do not accept your patient and its policy.
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jerusalem. and that our website r t dot com we've compiled a picture gallery called stolen childhood containing images of children in gaza trapped in the violence. with iraqi government under pressure from the islamist insurgency in the country a power struggle has erupted in baghdad the country's president has named a new prime minister after the incumbent premier new reality was denied a third term by lawmakers but moloch is refusing to step down and some officials say he's preparing a military coup some of his forces are reportedly taking up positions across baghdad moggy has already launched a verbal assault on the country's president accusing him of violating the constitution in dealing with parliament says he'll file an official complaint over president must rooms actions meanwhile the u.s. has urged iraq to form an inclusive government and is backing that country's
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president with. the political rally in baghdad comes amid washington's ongoing intervention against islamic state militants in northern iraq u.s. jets how ready carried out at least for air strikes against insurgents washington has now reportedly also begun directly arming kurdish resistance fighters in the country's north and some american lawmakers have called for an even tougher response they claim the islamists are a direct threat to america but journalist a human is a kiwi says the jihadists were in fact cultivated by washington. the intervention of the united states several weeks ago to play. so-called 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
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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 crossed the border into iraq are in fact being bombed by the united states well back in two thousand and six when molecule to couple the premier's post he was chatty and approved by the cia and he positioned himself as a close friend of washington always eager to shake hands with george w. bush in december two thousand and six he signed them sainz death warrant claiming
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the execution was necessary to pay homage to human rights however moggy apparently took a different approach to freedom of speech and has been accused of cracking down on the rocky media now in the twenty town he also proclaimed self interior minister in four saying is a grip on power mark you said it was a temporary move but he still holds the post for years on and on top of that while he has his own private army a shia militia which base his orders alone. other stories riots erupted overnight in the u.s. state of missouri over the fields shooting of an armed black teenager by a police officer locals say they've had enough of law enforcement brutality and what they call racial profiling now is chris live to our correspondent john for the very latest on this either going to so what are officials and witnesses saying about the shooting and the riots that ensued while moreno
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this monday michael brown black teenager was to begin his first day in college a crowd gathered to hold a vigil for him on sunday with people struggling to understand how police could shoot an unarmed teenager in broad daylight but the gathering quickly turned violent as anger and frustration took over about one hundred fifty officers in riot gear along with a swat team were sent to the area the teenager was shot eight times the officer involved in michael brown's killing has not been identified he was reportedly put on administrative leave this shooting triggered a deep frustration in the country about police brutality. and the fact that many officers get away with it they were protests huge protests when trayvon martin was killed a young seventeen year old teenager. on armed and. shrewder
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george zimmerman he his trial ended in acquittal and here's my report on some of the recent recent cases. where the police crossed the line. nothing was captured on the bystanders camera new york police suspect the man of selling individual cigarettes i do so do you think it's 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 garner died lying at the feet of those police officers leaving behind a wife and six children my son is missing this day and the officer who put very garner in an apparent chokehold has been stripped of his gun and badge and placed on desk duty the video garners death in july would viral sparking protests in local
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communities why has the city not been barking 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. was back i was never asked what my name was i was never told what i was a violation of in california at fifty one year old marlene pinette quotes 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 for. psychiatric problems i think much of the roots now of you comes from cultural problem with police officers have you to school in a power structure where they can get away where almost anything because they are
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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 selling this to someone who argued he had a constitutional right to take pictures in a certain area near a writing course. that's really only so out of your papers or in the forecast for you if the officer apologized for the statement then resigned as the cases so brutality well documented on camera casts a shadow on the thousands upon thousands of police officers who diligently do their work in cities across america but the hope is that greater public awareness will make some police officers think twice before abusing someone in washington i'm going to check out our team. and some more of this hour's world headlines now around hundred inmates have escaped from the main prison of haiti after it's
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attacked by armed gunmen the raiders met almost no resistance among those who escaped was a wealthy nation being held on kidnapping charges so far only ten of the inmates have been recaptured. the president of liberia has now quarantined an entire conti to contain that you bowl our brains there and the army it will force in the region which has a population of two hundred seventy thousand the move comes on the same day as the ivory coast banned all flights from of all affect the countries globally almost a thousand people have been killed by an incurable virus since december twenty thirty. turkey's current prime ministership to you are due on as one of the country's first ever direct presidential elections there were fifty two percent of the vote is two rivals were a little known diplomat and a kurdish politician the presidential vote took place just three months after the
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ones ruling conservative party one local elections. now after the break a special report on rape culture in american colleges and for our u.k. viewers it's going underground with if she returns here. 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
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fated cuban television airplane that was supposed to bombard the island with western media that was totally blocked by the government during the cold war i could see the justification to dominate cuba if the us didn't have influence in a country that automatically the soviets did but now what is just why does the us need to infiltrate cuba and by what right cuban 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. when the european union to make ukraine become part of it it clearly contributed to the south and ration of tensions within ukraine ukraine looks become part of the us union the won't tell tales ukraine absolutely doesn't have the economic level to
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