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kiev bomb central don yes killing at least five and leaving school buildings across the city. as western politicians keep pushing for the further isolation of russia finland's president prepares to meet out in a putin talk business and defusing tensions. crowds close time square in new york has vigils for michael brown and public anger a police brutality spread nationwide. you're watching international coming to you live from moscow where it's now eighteen in the russian capital it's good to have you with us don't yet skies
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enjoyed a night of bombing with ukraine's military saying it's part of the final stage of freeing the city from the local militia. further scenes of devastation are emerging from across the city with many buildings riddled with holes more than seventy people have been killed in the last three days ukrainian army is using heavy artillery such as rocket launches but locals claim something more sinister is also being deployed. on thursday night people and don't yet say that alongside the now familiar sound of bombing there they suspect it's incendiary devices similar to those apparently used by the military during the blockade of another eastern city a few months ago. well let's look at where all this is happening don yes here's the
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regional capital almost a million people live in the city which has been under constant fire since may in three months it suffered at least one hundred and twenty eight attacks from the ukrainian military since the government launched what it calls an anti terror operation in the east over eight hundred civilians have been killed in the don't yet region. or maria from is in the area for us and joins us now marie spent a long time in that area how are people coping. well we can see and we can witness a dramatic escalation of the ukrainian crisis these days and indeed and yes and yes regency the pierces clash as we know that the situation there is very very dramatic right now and we hear from new sages see that in the shelling in the last three days seventy four civilians were killed including children and more than one
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hundred others were injured we have to say it is really really complicated to count victims and one of the reasons behind that is that the fighting is on to go in but we hear from the u.n. human rights watch also that every day in eastern ukraine up to seventy people are killed or injured told desktop toll is rising and unfortunately very often included in one civilian population as well lugansk remains another epicenter wilkie of calls it's anti terror curation in eastern ukraine severe clashes erupted on the roads connecting lugansk and in the as these two large cities and this is strategy to separate and to government fighters from these two big cities and also we see clashes on the roads leading from lugansk to the russian front here we are now at the russian ukrainian border and we used to cross into ukraine and to go to the guns to cover the situation on the ground has really hard situation from
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humanitarian point of view as well and of course from security point of view but recently we cannot do it because it became very dangerous back to you refer national thank you very much. there's still a wall of silence from kiev over the whereabouts of missing a russian journalist on the very stand him despite global calls for his safe release from the un the e.u. and rights groups on a renowned photographer has been covering conflicts all over the world the hash tag has since been trending on social networks he's been missing for ten days and so far there have been only mixed signals about where he may be denied detaining him and then admitted he's been arrested by security forces accused of assisting terrorists. americans fury over the police killing of an unarmed missouri teenager spreading
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nationwide even bringing new york's time square to a standstill thousands gathered there in one of the biggest protests not only to mourn michael brown but to show a united front against police brutality while ati's honestly it has been in ferguson since the trouble first broke out five nights ago let's get an update from him now i want to say good to see that. the heavily armed policing seems to be having a little effect then on people showing their deep felt anger at what's happening that's absolutely right a definitely definitely definitely loud but largely peaceful protest takes place here tonight this is the fifth night of hundreds and tonight thousands of people coming out onto the streets of ferguson to opt to show their outrage with the killing of eighteen year olds are no arms michael brown on saturday tonight thousands of people out on the streets if you can hear behind me for hours now cars honking in support passing by and crowds chanting people holding signs candles i
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walking around the police presence tonight has been much less than in previous nights of course out on wednesday night last night we saw the most of violent clashes thus far that have taken place here in ferguson throughout these nights where are are police in riot gear had used tear gas and rubber bullets tear gas was going off right next to the journalists are several crews that were affected by this oh we ourselves had a blast go off just steps from where we were standing on our so really tonight it seems to have changed even though it's extremely loud and people still continue to come out on the streets and intend to keep doing so the violence seems to have died down for now now importantly it is important to mention that in other cities throughout the united states such as new york philadelphia boston los angeles people have also been coming out onto the streets this thursday to ah us a poor. it's the cause of demanding answers and justice when it comes to this death
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of this on armed teenager that has really sparked waves of outrage throughout the united states and to say a thank you very much on a situation reporting that international well political columnist ted rall believes that until the police stop acting as an occupying force people's anger won't subside it's not the first time this has happened you know this is a situation that repeats itself in all sorts of african-american communities across the united states that are policed as though they were occupied territory by highly militarized i would say u.s. troops but local police who are equipped as though they were occupying afghanistan or iraq so you know that there is no connection whatsoever but just hostility between the communities that are being policed and the police that are supposed to be serving them that's the big issue that's the big problem and i don't see how the president in his investigation over this one incident would be able to make much
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headway there you're watching our international i'll be back with more news after a very short break stay with us. but. did you know the price is the only industry specifically mention in the constitution and. that's because a free and open press is critical to our democracy albus. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of our government and our crafts to mco we've been hijacked why a handful of transnational corporations will profit by destroying what our founding fathers but once told us i'm tom hartman and on this show we reveal the big picture of what's actually going on in the world we go beyond identifying the problem trucks rational debate and a real discussion critical issues facing america five go ready to join the movement
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even though a raft of western politicians are busy pushing sanctions on russia some nations are more interested in keeping the business wheels turning finland's president is expected to meet that amir putin late today in southern russia as well as ongoing cooperation and trade the situation in ukraine is likely to come up a lot easier in all he's going to be across what's happening at the meeting he joins me live now we go good to see there what can we expect from this meeting then this is the first time that president putin is meeting with any of the european union leaders since the e.u. introduced a lead of set of sanctions targeting the whole sectors of the russian economy and since moscow introduced food import restrictions which affect a lot of european foods and we know that finland was hit pretty hard finnish
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officials have been saying that they're not ready to take part in any further russian sanctions but the european union was hit by moscow's restrictions. pretty hard in general take a look at the graphic that we've prepared for you because of the restrictions introduced by president putin on all countries which have been taking part in the russian sanctions the european union alone is expected to lose up to seven billion dollars but more specifically the worst member states hit or the netherlands which is expected to lose up to two billion dollars lithuania around one point two billion poor and around one billion and germany around seven hundred ninety five million and many european farmers are now calling on european union officials for compensation but the thing is. actually designated fun for that is only around four hundred million euros which is obviously not enough. so i don't know what we're going to do of this continues the crops in a region or
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a threat i have people who work for me on monday morning i told them to stay home i don't know what i'm going to do. since leaving. this situation is so difficult because production is a major loss we can make up for it and we won't receive compensation from the bulgarian government or from the european union. the ban on imports to russia will mean for sure we have to stop our production its revenues will not be enough to cover the costs of things like logistics there has been a danish report published on the issue saying that the effects from moscow's restrictions on the e.u. is so strong that european officials may actually cancel the n.t. russian sanctions in the next two to three months so to wrap it up there are definitely things for the two leaders to talk about here in russia and we will of course keep across cross it here on r.t. international thank you very much for joining us. now press freedom is enshrined in
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the u.s. constitution although it seems it's not enough to show the new york times journalist james rosen has exclusive revealing how the cia trying to undermine iran's nuclear program has seen him broiled with the government and the courts he now faces jail for not revealing his whistleblowing source but he's not going into battle. explains this is a petition with one hundred thousand signatures on it demanding that the u.s. government stop it's to see the new york times journalist james writes that the u.s. justice department wants him to give up the name of the source which james lies and as we've seen through time and time again now the justice department considers forcing. him to change pricing continues to refuse he may go to jail the source has provided him with information about a bungled cia operation in iran which the journalist used in his two thousand and six book state of war. two thousand and eight to testify against james
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sterling the former cia employee who was later charged under the espionage act for allegedly disclosing secrets to the reporter was an appeal to the u.s. supreme court earlier this year to get the justice department to revoke its request for him to testify but to no avail only given any details about the case but i can just say that you know i think this is really all about. the issue of press freedom in america and whether or not we're going to have. to continue you know the gross of investigative reporting in america that's the central issue. rising if the two time pulitzer prize winner one of his pulitzer was for his reporting on the warrantless wiretapping program under george w. bush and another for reporting in the aftermath of the nine eleven attacks numerous press freedom groups and prominent journalists are now backing him by shedding. light on his persecution. we think people like james rising of the new york times
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should be put on a pedestal. and the people in this department of justice building think he should be put in prison we can't get the story unless people who know the story. can talk to us without fear of. retaliation the obama administration has already prosecuted more whistleblowers than all previous administrations combined and the view that many people share here is that if the government is indeed successful in forcing the journey trains rice to testify against his alleged sorts it could be a major blow to investigative journalism and to the west in washington i'm going to check on our tea. party that used to be on the fringe of british politics is hitting the donations the deeply. independence party has managed to raise more money in the junior government the liberal democrats. story. we've all got
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used to exploring cities through google street view but how about heading underwater online and how we could soon explore the beauty beneath the sea. the twentieth century left an indelible image in our minds of nazi supporters of radical ruthless skinheads eager for violence but there's a group of far right who want an image make all of our reports. the modern face of the far right in germany fs in t.v. is an online show that preaches that it's ok to hold these political beliefs in a country with a dark history of dealing with fascism the star of the show is thirty one year old patrick schroeder he told me that it's time to change the image of the right wing. for that we want to rebrand our image to show we aren't crazies who want to show their ideas aren't dramatic in the media were called nazis fascists all that they also wash our broadcast understand that we are and radicals. with strong views on
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immigration on t l g b t rights and a firm belief that multiculturalism is wrong schroeder along with his anonymous co-host vendetta have been labeled as part of a new wave of neo nazi hipster in germany called by some we don't refer to ourselves as mysterious if people want to call us that then they can go ahead we're willing to use any possibilities to present ourselves as well as the show should also give seminars to educate followers how to present themselves to the public these mentions seeds when you see a person like that what do you think even if you use right i'm not voting for him clothes and music are a big part of the movement targeting under thirty who aren't happy with the current government and what they see as the glorification of the extreme left. here we have one of our t. shirt is that we sell the shows the one hundred thirty million plus victims murdered by communists over the years. the former skinhead speaks like a p.r.
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manager a consummate showman schroeder is articulate funny and gregarious. meeting left me wondering about the message he selling. after spending some time with patrick it's hard not to be intimate by him but i wanted to speak to somebody to find out if there's any potential risks of packaging ideas this way. the danger is that you don't see the real. behind the candy cigarette it's actually a quite quite a good example a good metaphor of that you have something that is particularly appealing or might be appealing to a young person you have attractive office to engage. in chic counterculture youth cultural practices of various sorts which are systematically put in place to attract people and silently smokefree combined with messages toward treatments and show to insists he is nonviolent but nip still or not and face n.t.v.
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is here to stage with an eighty eight episode set to air at the end of august they are looking to convince more of germany's youth disenchanted with the status quo it's ok to turn to the far right peter all over germany. who headlines from around the world on a marathon three hundred kilometer march in pakistan has reached the capital in a major opposition call for the prime minister to quit over corruption and vote rigging tens of thousands joined the rally from the halter islamabad which put security forces on alert riot police blocked the main roads into the capital the interior minister later like the march into the city. world health organization says the magnitude of the ebola outbreak is vastly underestimated the nearly two thousand reported victims in the worst affected countries in west africa where medical services are breaking point the un agencies approved the use of an experimental vaccine elsewhere you are scientists believe they've discovered how
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a bowl of paralyzes the immune system which could help develop new treatments. for . iraq's prime minister nuri al maliki has agreed to step down and give. a to his newly appointed successor in a televised address he offered his support to the new premier the president approved maliki's replacement earlier this week the embattled politician refused to go his western educated replacement is also a shia muslim and his hoped to form a more inclusive government to help the sectarian tensions. now freedom of information or as in britain are supposed to get official bodies to come clean while the government has julie released a fresh reports on the impacts of drilling for shale gas but only after having edited or completely blacked out over sixty elements of it pretty boy has more on what's suspected what's being hidden whatever that his papers published by the government don't tend to rival agatha christie in the relative harmony but this
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draft report put out by staff for the department for environment food in rural affairs has an air of mystery around it that's because i'm a good chunk of this study relating to the controversial issue of the right thing and the fact that running on the right thing then said the word redacted appears sixty three times in this report so it's not so much of a whodunit because we know it was a white hole but it is a wide on in the draft report was released not long after westminster offered up two thirds of england to any energy companies that want to bid for shale gas drilling licenses to people desperate to find out what the sense of parts are hiding a roland and the retailer they've been trying to sell their home in rasika in lancashire last year they found by as and agreed
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a price but the sale fell through when plans to frack in the area emerged they've even put the price of the house down by twenty five thousand pounds but still no one wants that are good. all our money. we were. some m.p.'s have been calling for the government to offer financial compensation to homeowners like bowl and annmarie who could lose money because of neighbor i dreaming but westminster has so far refused to offer payouts saying that fracking will herald a new era of cheap energy and boost the economy we asked defra why they had sent said parts of the shale gas study a government spokesperson said there is no evidence that house prices have been affected in over half a century of oil and gas exploration in the u.k. or evidence that this would be the case with shale this government believes that
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shale has a positive part to play in our future energy mix providing energy security driving growth integrating jobs unfortunately for the tellez that government assurance isn't exactly driving swarms of potential house baez to that goal that they. own them. i don't want. people to know what the problems of. report there were some. credit for sales of people with the point you hope are all one. campaign as have accused the government of trying to hide the risks of fracking for local communities they're demanding the release of the full on a bridge government study in a bid to try and solve this fracking mystery before it turns into a horror for those affected by it pony boy london. i'll be back with the world's
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top stories in just over thirty minutes time after we slice through the spin in breaking the set to stay with us. in december and. more likely to be raped in college and in the real world. i don't think people do that to each other when they knew each other i thought rape was a stranger and the precious. girl complaining about the son of an alumni. millions of dollars in the school why listen to somebody who's going to lose money at the school of schools that make money base decisions are much more common than they would ever admit publicly.
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post only what really matters at r.t. to your facebook. what's really good folks i'm in all rob lowe filling in for abby martin and this is breaking the set so for the last five nights the st louis suburb of ferguson missouri has seen large protests over the killing of african-american teen michael brown by a yet to be named police officer and it's no surprise that the response to these mostly peaceful demonstrations has been a full on military operation by the ferguson police force in fact no one has been spared from the tear gas rubber bullets and mass arrests even journalists check out how some of the news outlets have been covering the story same thing no one was exempt in the chaos surrounding the protests in ferguson missouri last night even the journalists covering the protests got left out in it too many foreigners arrested at a local mcdonald's while they were recharging their phone batteries i do want to
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say. if i saw that video and my son was the one that the police arrested that for that episode i say joe here's a clue when the cops tell you like a thirty it's time let's go you know what that. means let's go we have a black attorney general who's a liberal in this country all right and he's certainly not going to let this go by the wayside as a result of this that people in that community is saying shoot the police whatever let's roll some video of people in that you're going to writing this for other people in that community is stealing that people in that community. they are. upset about that is that any way to react why do they have to shoot to kill why can't they shoot a warning shot in the air scare someone if they think they're in danger why can't they shoot to injure shall we say why do they have to shoot to kill the next time a police officer tells you that you've got to move along because you've got riots outside well you probably should move along. listen it's far past time
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we cut through this talking head absurdity and break the set on the reality of police brutality. the. the please please take a look very hard to take. that back would that make their lives.

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