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if bomb central demands killing at least eleven and leaving scorch buildings across the city. as western politicians keep pushing for the further isolation of russia finland's president meets with latimer potent to talk business and defusing tensions plus. grounds close time square in new york has vigils for michael brown and public anger at police brutality spread nationwide.
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which market a national coming to life from moscow i'm reading josh welcome to the program how the very heart of dinny ask has been bombed by the korean military which says it's part of the final stage of freeing the city from a local militia well be aware that some of what we're about to show you contains graphic images. videos emerging online appear to show the aftermath of the attack a shopping mall and an office block were wrecked another shell hit a university building this badly injured woman who seems to have lost an arm in the assault is seen being helped to a car at least eleven people were killed in this latest bombardment over the last three days over seventy have died ukraine army is using haveour tillery such as rocket launchers but the locals claim something more sinister is also being deployed. on thursday night people in donetsk say that alongside the now familiar sound of bombing this and this video
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can be verified but locals claim it shows incendiary devices being used similar to those apparently deployed by the military during the blockade of another eastern city a few months ago. now let's look at where this all is happening the nance here is the regional capital almost a million people used to live in the city which has been under constant fire since may and three months it suffered at least one hundred twenty eight attacks from the crimean military well since the government launched what it calls an anti terror operation in the east over eight hundred people were killed in the ask region where if it is in the area for us. we witnessed dramatic escalation of the ukrainian crisis and the city often yes going to see the fiercest clashes with the shelling continue and death toll is rising dramatically hundred fortunately also including the most civilian population in the last three days seventy four civilians were
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killed including children and more than one hundred others were injured we have to say it is really complicated to count victims and one of the reasons behind that is the fighting is going to go into that we hear from the u.n. human rights watchdog that up to seventy people are killed or injured every day in eastern ukraine many have all deflowered the cities and these area and actually the country but those who still remain there ha have been there every day struggle to survive you know still a little it's still. just still if over live. i mean you want. your. stuff or. lugansk remains another epicenter willkie of course it's anti terror curation in
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eastern ukraine severe clashes erupted on the roads connecting lugansk andone as can 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 this situation on the ground has really hard situation from humanitarian point of view as well and of course from security point of view but recently we cannot do it because it became a very dangerous. for caves foreign backers the level of civilian deaths in the east as a result of having weaponry is getting tough to avoid although when washington was asked about that it wasn't enough to dent its unshakeable support fourteen. we called on the ukrainians take every step to avoid the local population as they try to free the city from the british but do you support the specific you said heavy
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artillery that could carry the risk of civilian casualties and we call on them not to use a weapon that could increase that but again we're very supportive of the ukrainians here it's a tough fight they're in and we do think that the ultimate goal here needs to be the city has not been under their control but. now as for helping the ukrainian people who are suffering from a shortage of essential supplies tons of humanitarian aid from russia has now reached the border but ukraine says it's awaiting yet more paperwork before the convoy can be lets through the cargo includes canned goods baby food sugar water and medical supplies kiev initially refused to accept any aid except from the red cross but later agreed to let rushes in bought it has to be transferred from russian trucks to other vehicles before progressing. well are still low wall of silence from kiev over the whereabouts of missing russian journalist andriy stan and that's despite global calls for his safe release from the un the e.u.
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and rights groups i'm crazy are renowned photographer as been covering conflicts all over the world the hash tag for it has since been trending on social networks and has been missing for ten days and so far there have been only mixed signals about where he may be at first kiev denied detaining him but then a bit he has been arrested by security forces accused of assisting terrorist. now what started as a local protest over the police killing of an ar missouri teenager has ballooned into a nationwide fury crowds turned out a ninety american cities from washington to a sounder was and there were also major rallies in chicago boston san francisco to pay tribute to michael brown to make police account for their actions one of the largest rallies was an oracle thousands of protesters angry at police brutality block the iconic times square despite the demonstrations remaining largely peaceful
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security forces made several arrests and ferguson people gathered for assists and ny despite police warnings jesus who took an hour is there for us. to see. that he was a people filled the streets of ferguson yet again to demonstrate following the killing of eighteen year old unarmed teen michael brown. a popular opinion among ferguson residents is that what has been going on here has been largely misrepresented by the media here i think i had our coverage that these protests have received in the media coverage over there you know. because they showed us that we have freedom of speech because protests anytime we want twenty four hours a day at the beach old obviously outrage continues to be the prevailing emotion here on these streets that you must see justice for here i really do. on wednesday night we saw the most of violent clashes thus far. clashes between police and
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riot gear and protesters where a tear gas was used our problem bullets were flying the street was battered with the tear gas cannons and certainly it was extremely chaotic on the ground and arrest of two journalists took place some journalists were hit with some tear gas including ourselves we had a blast take place just steps away from we were standing for no. political statements about accountability justice and independent investigation remains just words and not deeds this community intends to keep coming out onto the streets until those promises become reality. the most recent gatherings in ferguson over michael brown's killing remain largely peaceful but police still turned out in full riot gear that spurred online ridicule with people mocking security forces for having more body armor than combat soldiers in iraq other web users voiced fears
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over the us descending into a police state that shoots at its own people. the death of michael brown falls a sad trend of police abuse and negligence against u.s. citizens in recent months and this hate map shows how the hashtag ferguson case spread across twitter and it didn't take long for the subject to the us before spreading across atlanta across the atlantic to europe a political columnist have all believe that until the police stop acting as an occupying force people's anger won't subside. it's not the first time this is 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 do i think just though they were occupying afghanistan or iraq so you know that there is no connection whatsoever but just hostility between
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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 headway there now the death of michael brown is the latest incident to have roused public resentment at police actions in the recent months in july and his magic man died after an officer put him in a choke hold even though the victim repeatedly said that he had difficulty brazing this month samantha what you know man was shot down by police during an investigative stop and one of the most distressing incidents took place in georgia in may when a baby was severely injured by a stun grenade during a police raid when officers got the wrong house. i have for you here and here national polls a blog on investigative journalism were reported on the u.s. government's pursuit of a new york times journalist to give then and maybe he has
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a list of lowing source and testified against him. and they seem rebranded here how a group of nazi supporters in germany is striving to improve their public image. i'm abby martin the stories we cover here are not going to hear any other big story . there's a reason they don't want and do not. want to raise that we don't think. now let's break the set. sure language. could make it without any federal officials. but he was sure she was going to. choose. the great. choose the stories get him.
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access to. welcome back to what you are to international now in the last few weeks there have been some quite pessimistic statements from your leaders hungary's prime minister has stated that by opposing sanctions on russia you are shooting itself in the food while strip austria's every culture minister confirmed that the industry there is
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expected to lose six million dollars as a result of russia's retail uterine food now some other nations though are eager to keep the business wheels turning in salem's president is currently meeting or board in southern russia talking going cooperation and trade as well as the situation in ukraine is going off as more on that. this is the first time that president putin is meeting with any of the european union leaders since the e.u. introduced a lot 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 finish 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 along is expected to lose up to seven billion
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dollars but more specifically the worst member states hit or the netherlands which is expected to lose up to two billion dollars a little when you're around one point two billion paul 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 the use specially 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 this continues the crops in the region are 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 but since leaving the. 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. but it is the ban on impulse to
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rush for sure we have to stop our production its revenues will not be enough to cover the costs of things like logistics but there has been a danish report published on the six you 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 a party that used to be on the fringe of british politics is hitting the donations jackpot the deeper euro skeptic became the panel's party has managed to raise more money than the junior government group the liberal democrats are you know has got that story. we've all got used to exploring cities through google street view but how about having underwater online alert now we could soon explore the beauty with the city. press freedom is in the shrine and the u.s.
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constitutional though it seems it's not enough to shield new york times journalist . revealing how the cia tried to undermine iran's nuclear program has seen him in broiled where the government and the courts and you know faces jail for not revealing his whistleblowing source but he's not going into battle alone and it's down 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 sorts which james lies and as we see through time and time again now the justice department considers forcing . him to change flies and 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 or as it was first subpoenaed in two thousand and eight to
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testify against james sterling the form a 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 that only given any details about the case but i can just say that i you know i think this is really all about. the issue of press freedom in america and about whether or not we're going to have. that continue you know the graphs of investigative reporting in america that's the central issue jane streisand if the two time pulitzer prize winner one of his pulitzers 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
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light on his persecution. we think people like james risin of the new york times should be put on a pet. and the people in this department of justice building think you should be put in prison we can't get the story and most 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 james writes in to testify against his alleged sorts it could be a major blow to investigative journalism in the west in washington i'm going to check on our team. and asses security and human rights laura taslima callan told us of that rise in skase as political revenge against a whistleblower rather than a security measure what the justice department is demanding now from jim risin is
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completely unnecessary and is more about political vendetta against mr risin for publishing information the government doesn't like rather than protecting national security but whistle blowing is in the public interest it's not simply spouting off secret the government likes to portray it that way but if you look at these cases the information revealed is not just ragtag bunch of secrets it's work crimes in the case of chelsea manning it's evil surveillance in the case of thomas drake and in the case of edward snowden in fact the government hasn't been able to show that there's been any damage to national security in reality in any of these cases. thousands of people have marched in tel aviv to thank the military for its offensive against the palestinians the pro task called on the government and the army to and hamas rocket attacks from gaza once and for all and estimated ten thousand israelis gathered for the first major demonstration backing the military campaign in gaza israel spent more than
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a month in the territory in the fans from hamas rocket fire the land sea and air assault killed nearly two thousand palestinians most of them civilians and children israel lost sixty four soldiers during a campaign. more news from around the world now. clashes erupted in pakistan after shots were fired at the opposition leaders vehicle during a three hundred kilometer march to the capital imran khan was not injured but it led to skirmishes between demonstrators and government supporters tens of thousands have joined the rally from lahore to islamabad in a major opposition call for the prime minister to quit over corruption and vote rigging. and the world health organization says the magnitude of the break is vastly underestimated there have been nearly two thousand reported victims of the worst affected countries in west africa where medical services are at breaking point the u.n. agencies approved the use of an experimental vaccine for us scientists believe they
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have discovered how a bowl paralyzes the immune system which could help develop new treatments. iraq's prime minister nuri al maliki has agreed to step down and give way to his newly appointed successor in a televised address he offered his support to the new premier the president approved moloch his replacement earlier this week but the embattled politician refused to go his western educated replacement is also a shia muslim and it's hoped to form a more inclusive government to help terri intentions. style vegan diets and a friendly approach are not what usually springs to mind when you picture nazi supporters but a group of germans wants to change their image a bit all over examine what's behind their make over. 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
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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 as. we want to rebrand our image to show we aren't crazies we want to show their ideas aren't dramatic in the media were called nazis fascists all of that the also washer broadcast understand that we are and radical with strong views on 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 mr 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 even mention
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feed 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 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. sure 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. manager a consummate showman schroeder is articulate funny and gregarious our meeting left me wondering about the message he selling. after spending some time with patrick it's hard not to be in now made 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. that behind the counter cigarette is actually quite critical to
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confound pull 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 and youth cultural practice so various sorts which are systematically put in place to attract people and then silently it's mostly combined with messages toward one of the three ms i'm sure to insists he is nonviolent but nip still or not and face n.t.v. is here to stay 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 that it's ok to turn to the far right peter all over r.t. germany. now i have the world's top stories in just over thirty minutes time for you after we've sliced through the span end of breaking the sound statements.
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baltimore is considering making their curfew for minors even stricter for the last twenty years children caught on the street up until midnight were in deep trouble with the police but now this will be made even earlier starting at nine or ten pm depending on their age and the day of the week can the government impose a curfew on youths well yes if we think about it people under eighteen can't sign contracts join the army smoke cigarettes or vote because they're legally not responsible for their own actions so yeah that whole freedom of association guaranteed by the constitution really only applies once you're an adult who can in theory be responsible for associating with certain people on a street corner at midnight although legally this is ok ideologically there's something wrong with the idea i remember hearing in school all the talk about
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living in the greatest country on earth and how many freedoms we have in america but the problem is that it is hard for teenagers to believe all these nice slogans when they have to dodge police just for walking down the street in their own home town getting a two hundred fifty dollar fine for leaving your house doesn't make you feel like you're living in the greatest country on earth i mean it sure didn't when they put a curfew in my neighborhood in the ninety's but that's just my opinion.
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i marinate join me on. that impartial and financial reporting commentary interview and much much. only on the bus and. it'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 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 it seems that no one was
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exempt in the chaos surrounding the protests in ferguson missouri last night even cure an a-list covering the protests got locked up in it too many foreigners arrested at a local mcdonald's while they were recharging their phone batteries i don't want to 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 the 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 you need more than that you're going to writing this for other people in that community a steely the people in that community are. syrup says that any way they react why do they have to shoot to kill why can't they shoot a warning shot in the air.
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