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heard so much to know that you can't protect our children should this. be hurting army shells deniece began killing at least eleven civilians and troubling video emerges showing what could be the use of prohibited incendiary weapons. actions fever coals in europe as leader after leader comes out against further economic restrictions on russia with businesses in their countries already feeling the sting of moscow's counter-measures also. the us government deploys armed to the teeth security officers to contain countrywide protests demanding justice over the police killing of a teenager. to
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six pm in the russian capital you watching our senior national with me marina josh the very center of the nantz has been bombed by the ukrainian military which says it's part of the final stage of freeing the city from local militia be warned the video we're about to show you contains some graphic images now this has emerged online and appears to show the aftermath of the attack a shopping center and an office block where iraq another shell hit a university building and least eleven people were killed in this latest bombardment while in the previous four days over eight have died the crimean army is using heavy artillery such as rocket launchers but locals claim something more sinister is also being deployed.
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on thursday night people he didn't ask reported that along with the now familiar sound of bombing came this the video can't be verified but locals claim it shows incendiary devices being used similar to those apparently used by the army in another eastern city a couple of months ago a former u.k. army officer charles sheer bridge believes it's now up to crane to prove that this was not an attack involving incendiaries. at the end of the day the onus i think must be on ukraine to a show or reassure the community and even reassure the people in east ukraine and donetsk in this case before as to what the kind of munition is that they're using they could have cost close up very quickly simply by revealing. having it verified by people who know what they're talking about on the ground and elsewhere as to what the weapon is all the luminance is that they're using illicit cation and that could satisfy this inquiry i think very easily or failing that of course some kind
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of independent investigation would be needed now and so look at where this all is happening then the answer here is the regional capital almost a million people used to live in the city which has been under regular fire since may and in the three months it suffered at least one hundred twenty eight attacks from the grain military and since the government launched what it calls its anti terror operation in the east over eight hundred civilians have been killed in that and ask region where international is in the area for us and can find some of the images in her report disturbing. we witnessed dramatic escalation of the ukrainian crisis and the city often yes going to ask region see the fiercest clashes with the shelling continue and death toll is rising dramatically hundred three also including among the civilian population in the last three days seventy four civilians were killed including children and more than one hundred others were injured just say it is really complicated to count victims and one of the reasons
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behind that is the fighting is going to go into that we hear from the un human rights watchdog that up to seventy people are killed or injured every day in eastern ukraine many have only fled the cities and these area and actually the country but those who still remain there how i have been there every day struggle to survive still a little it's still. just still if over live there are still. some very unusual. for the. first words you. discover in. lugansk remains another epicenter wilkie of calls it's anti terror curation in eastern ukraine severe clashes erupted on the roads connecting lugansk andone as can these two large cities and this is key of strategy to separate and to
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government fighters from these two big cities and also we see clashes on the roads leading from the guns 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 a security point of view but recently we cannot do it because it became a very dangerous. period nasr is watching the tragedy unfold in eastern ukraine. her on twitter to find interviews with the locals from the johns creek. for kids foreign backers the level of civilian deaths in the east as a result of have you weaponry is getting tough to avoid although when washington was asked about that it was no no to dent its unshakeable support fourteen of methods. we call on the ukrainians take every step to avoid the local population as
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they try to free the city from the separatists but do you support the specific use of heavy artillery that could carry the risk of civilian casualties and we've called 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 there and and we do think that the ultimate goal here needs to be the cities not being under the control of the. almost three hundred russian trucks packed with the relief supplies have reached the border obvious crane it's now being transferred to the red cross who will zan distribute it costumes officials and journalist earlier sifted through the contents and so far be found nothing out of the ordinary the spy the wild speculation that raged when the journey began instead the catalog hundreds of tons of food medical supplies and emergency equipment ukrainian border troops are now doing their paperwork after which they could set off for the busy. work hundreds of thousands of civilians are trapped by the surge when army. now several western journalists have raised the alarm over
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what they say were russian a.p.c.'s crossing into ukraine they provided these photos showing armored vehicles on the roads and on the identifiable locations a russian border guard spokesman told us what they saw could have been a local patrol group. but it will never go through and do the regular shelling of russian territory and defected ukrainian soldiers are increasingly ofi crossing the border we are taking all the necessary steps to safeguard those living near the border. does that and we create mobile groups of border guards plus into areas where locals report showing fighting i'd like to suggest that the act only on russian territory. i mean while a global campaign in support of a missing russian journalist is picking up pace the un the e.u. and a myriad of rights groups have called on king of to secure his release the ukrainian
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government though has been silent only admitting to arresting him understand him is a career photographer who's been covering conflicts all over the world and the hash tag free andrew has been trending on social networks has been missing for ten days and so far they have been only mixed signals about where he may be. hearing over the killing of an unarmed teenager by a police officer in ferguson missouri has spread to some ninety citizen across the united states from washington to los angeles demonstrators all over the country demanded that security forces be held accountable for their actions new york was shaken by one of the largest rallies s. thousands block times square despite the demonstrations remain largely peaceful who's made several arrests in ferguson people the five police warnings and gathered for fists night parties necessary to get is there i see.
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thousands of people filled the streets of ferguson get again to demonstrate following the killing of eighteen year olds are norm teen michael brown. a popular opinion among ferguson residents is that what has been going on here has been largely misrepresented by the media do you think that i had our coverage that these protests are received in the media or they go there you know. because they showed us that we have freedom of speech because protests anytime we want twenty four hours a day of the beatles obviously outrage continues to be the prevailing emotion here on these streets i just want to justice for here i really do. on wednesday night we saw the most of violent clashes thus far. clashes between police and riot gear and protesters where tear gas was used our problem bullets were flying the street was battered with the tear gas cannons and certainly it was extremely
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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 an independent investigation remains just words and not deeds this community intends to keep coming out on to the streets until those promises become reality. now mine are resistant to military vehicles that once roamed the sands of iraq and policemen armed to the teeth at rallies in ferguson these have caused a social media eruption mocking tweets pointed that officers were in fact better equipped than wartime soldiers have a look at this picture from one of the rallies and this officer has some very serious combat gear on his shoulder and let's look more closely at what he's actually hit it out with what his head gear includes
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a military helmet and tactical gogol's weapon of choice possibly a grenade or tear gas launcher with an advanced side and on the side two knives the deployment of this kind of equipment has led some to go as far as comparing the whole situation to something you'd find only in a police state this hit map or a here shows how the hashtag fergusson spread across twitter and it didn't take long for the subject to involve the u.s. before spreading across the atlantic to you were only after this kind of reaction and nights of protests have the police finally revealed the name of the officer who shot the teenager it's derren wilson political columnist have all 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
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streets that are policed has 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 these 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 headway there. well the shooting of michael brown is just the latest scandal revolving around mass outrage over police were telling the in the u.s. in july and this magic man died after an officer put him in a chokehold even though the victim repeatedly said that he had difficulty bringing this month a mentally ill man who was gunned down by police during an investigative stop and one of the most distressing incidents took place in georgia in may when
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a baby was severely injured by a stun grenade in a police raid officers heads got the wrong house coming up here on your national hiding your source of information from the u.s. authorities could cost you dear press freedom once again suffers a blow in america with a new york times investigative journalist facing prison for keeping his lips sealed plus. while thousands in israel call for the government to put an end to have a mosque presence in the west bank and launch a mass boycott of products in the town to undermine television's economy that more is coming your way after the break. on america in the financial world. to moment i mean it's.
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welcome back this is our team international san juan and russia have both voiced concern over the scale of the military operation in ukraine and the humanitarian disaster it's created the statement was made jointly in sochi where the visiting finnish leader of the republican let's now cross to our can offer who is following the meeting for us. so the president as we know have already met what more can you tell us well both president said that they are extremely concerned about the ongoing violence in the south eastern ukraine calling it a humanitarian catastrophe which must be resolved immediately the finnish leader also supported the humanitarian operation currently being conducted by moscow it's sending humanitarian aid to eastern ukraine saying that these types of steps help to rebuild trust which is vital to help to deescalate the tensions in the region
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and also of course both leaders discussed trade ties between russia and finland which recently have gone down by eighty percent. but you know if you get them of the finnish president tonight discuss the negative impact of sanctions you can occasionally measure. trade and business development in other countries and as a result to the world economy of kenya. this is president putin's first meeting with leaders since the european union introduced the latest set of sanctions targeting a whole sector of the russian economy and since moscow introduced the ban on a wide range of products imported from the e.u. and it has caused quite a strong effect on european producers take a look at this graphic that we've prepared for you the because of these limitations which have been imposed on all countries which have been taking part in the russian sanctions the european union alone is expected to lose up to see. one billion
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dollars more specifically the worst hit member states or the netherlands which could lose up to two billion dollars lithuania one point two billion poland around one billion dollars and germany around seven hundred ninety five million dollars many european farmers are now asking e.u. officials for compensation but the problem is the european union's emergency fund which is designated for these purposes is only around four hundred million euros which is obviously not enough. i don't know what we're going to do of this continues the crops in our region are threatened 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 it 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
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mean a collapse for sure we have to stop our production its revenues will not be enough to cover the costs of things like logistics now the meeting between the russian and the finnish president seems to have taken place in a friendly atmosphere and a constructive atmosphere the same perhaps can be said about the emergency meeting of e.u. foreign ministers brussels more accusations coming from them. using moscow of escalating the tensions in that region. while the region were borders with ukraine escalating the whole conflict in fact more accusations specifically for from the foreign ministers of sweden and at least when they said that they have reports of russian military hardware crossing the border to ukraine overnight but these are some quite strong accusations which haven't been backed by any concrete evidence only rumors and reports from unnamed journalists so it's very unlikely
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that these types of statements will help decrease the tensions between russia and the european union. right or thanks for following this meeting for us we can offer a portie there. and statement by statement leaders are changing their tune with regards to sanctions now that they are on the receiving end hungary's prime minister has stated that by imposing sanctions on russia you are up is shooting itself in the food while nearby austria's agriculture minister confirmed that the industry there has already lost six million dollars as a result of russia's retail bargo a member of the european parliament america drift from the front national party says it's time to deescalate. first we decide to stop. the face but sometimes it's. wise to decide to stop the first
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very big. and little bit the face of. the european economy is now in a very bad situation we have very low growth we have. no growth so we need we we cannot afford to have problems in viagra or sector or france but also for spain for denmark for so many countries now the press freedom is a basic right written in the caza to sion us constitution but it's one apparently not enjoyed by new york times journalist james rise and he's now facing jail for not revealing a whistleblower source as ganesh cow reports this could result in a major blow to investigative journalism in the us. this is a petition with one hundred thousand signatures on it demanding that the u.s. government stop its to see the new york times journalist james writes that the u.s. justice department wants him to give up the name of sorts which changed lives and
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as we've seen some time and time again now the justice department considers forcing . him to change lives and continues to refuse he may go to jail the source has provided wising with information about a bungled cia operation in iran which the journalist used in his two thousand and six book war is and was first subpoenaed in two thousand and eight to testify against james sterling a 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 word quest 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 about whether or not we're going to have. continued you know the press of investigative reporting in america that's the central issue
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getting streisand is a two time pulitzer prize winner one of his pulitzer swas 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 risin of the new york times 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 in the view that many people share here is that if the government does indeed successful in forcing the journey james writes in to testify against his alleged source it could be
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a major blow to investigative journalism and to the west in washington i'm going to check on our chief. national security and human rights lawyer kathleen mcclelland told us that rises cases political revenge against whistleblowing rather than a security measure. what the justice department is demanding now from jim arising is completely unnecessary and is more about political vendetta against mr rise and 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 illegal 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
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a party that used to be on the fringe of british politics is hitting the nation's jack thought deeply euro skeptic and the pianist party has managed to raise more money than the junior government group the liberal democrats argue dot com has got the story. and we've all got used to exploring cities through google street view but how about heading out there water online learn how we could soon explore the beauty beneath the sea. now thousands of people have marched in tel aviv to stank the military for its offensive against the palestinians demonstrators called on the government and the army to and hamas rocket attacks from gaza once and for all an estimated ten thousand israelis gathered for the first major demonstration backing the military campaign in gaza israel spent more than a month already the territory and the fans from hamas rocket fire the land sea and air assault killed nearly two thousand palestinians and also them civilians and
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children israel lost sixty four soldiers during the campaign but as harry fear reports forty people in the west bank are now using another kind of weapon to support gaza and her television. a boycott of his read the goods in the west bank has gained momentum during israel's war in gaza given the trade between israel and the palestinian territories is worth hundreds of millions of dollars a mass boy called goods could be a significant development. when i pick something i stick with wood if it is made in israel or outside if i buy some israeli stuff the money would go to the military who are the gumbo who is going who is bombing my brothers and it feels amazing it feels like and it's so way if there's a sense they feel they can resisting in a way and it's not just consumers taking the initiative shops themselves including launch supermarket chains have joined into some scenes previously fifty percent of
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all sales were israeli goods now it's dropped to five percent however israeli economists generally disagree i doubt that it will have any serious effect on the economy because. the palestinian the market is not a big market in israel this wave of boycotts in israeli goods is making people feel empowered not since the second intifada has a campaign gain so much momentum say palestinians they hope that they'll be an impact that will change the dynamic of the israeli palestinian conflict but it seems unlikely that they'll be any meaningful impact on the broader israeli economy fia auti jerusalem and buses next with erin are digging deeper into why mexico is opening up its oil and gas resources to the market.
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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 living in the greatest country on earth and how many freedoms we have in america
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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 let me put a curfew in my neighborhood in the ninety's but that's just my opinion.
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hello there i'm marinating this is boom bust and these are some of the stories that we're tracking for you today. we have one oily tech show in store for you today and we're starting off in mexico where the fifteen that largest economy in the world is opening up its oil and gas resources to the private market so what does this mean for state run oil company coming up so we look into it coming right up and senior fellow at the post carbon institute richard heinberg sat down with me earlier today to talk about the latest news coming out of mexico and what it means for oil production and edward harrison is back he is back with the wonderful.
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