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instead. the ukrainian army says it's fighting anti-government forces in the streets of lugansk engineered school while russian trucks with humanitarian aid for struggling civilians border. russia ridicules reports of a bomb online that one of its ahmadi units had been destroyed in ukraine with no evidence to back up the allegations from here. armored vehicles and sniper rifles primed but not for a military operation u.s. authorities use them to disperse writers demanding justice for
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a teenager shot dead by police in the u.s. . and the e.u. approves aid to kurdish fighters in iraq pouring more weapons into the war ridden country as terrorists from this state group reporting the massacre and entire village of kurds. seven pm here in the russian capital you live with us on our to international i'm to say. the ukrainian army says it's in the last stages of its operation in the east of the country he claims street fights are underway in the near skinned lugansk as a pushes out anti-government forces locals they are suffering from shortages of food water and electricity russia is trying to send humanitarian aid to the conflict zone but the convoy is stuck at the border. is the problem
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russia's foreign ministry has criticised some of ukraine's state institutions for quotation distorting the facts about the russian humanitarian convoy currently part here in restore friesian according to some media ukraine's national security council accused mosco oh for refusing to deliver the humanitarian cargo through the areas controlled by kia but mostly argues saying that both countries agreed on initial itinerary but later it was key if that rejected this idea say it will not be able to provide security for the convoy and this is how it was decided that the trucks will be cautioning to ukraine through checkpoints controlled by n.t. government forces russia is now calling for both sides to agree and to follow the cease fire in eastern ukraine to allow the humanitarian aid reach those who are in desperate need in these regions russia has also denied the accusations of lack of
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transparency to say inverts international red cross were provided with a very detailed information about the communitarian cargo we have to say that for several days already the location where the trucks are park now is open for mass media and the driver is welcome reporters and they are ready to open any traffic they want if they require these and this is my reports from the scene. food water medicine as well as warm blankets and sleeping bags welcome relief at a time of despair. this russian convoy has hundreds of tons of humanitarian aid destined for eastern ukraine and its help that sorely needed four months of and to terrible ration has the towns and rooms more than two thousand people dead and many without clean water to drink. but a whole ritual which are more. which. will require
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a very. moderate or wonderfully credible if you're trusted nonissue that you were an idea and a shovel and you know i. don't have your ticket. you know you have to show. your mater and a handful of western governments say russia could be using it as a cover for military support to anti kiev fighters it's not just clear exactly where the convoluted headed but it was certainly we travelling through crane's war torn regions and the drivers say they're worried about the safety of gravity when you factor your support to thriller is probably literally sped up on the news but i really cannot move forward. or backward to h.q. over a. national. i was going to put you on your work with the chinese she was the old news when you were in your group. that was issued with mushroom in your brain you were with purple people which is kind of. the relieve convoys ready to go
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but the russian red cross officials say it could take another week for international and ukrainian monitors to verify the cargo and decide on the route it will take place is ceasefire could be on the cards these two hundred eighty trucks have already covered one thousand kilometer distance to reach the borders but this is not their final destination now they are waiting to cross into ukraine to bring humanitarian aid they're carrying to those wind desperate need for weeks locals have been sheltering in dark basements surviving on doing clean supplies in general terms and these are some of the people calling out for the material now that it's already tagged and waiting to be delivered any resource noti russian ukrainian border. russia has dismissed as long as the reports on social media that one of its armed patrol units crossed into the border of ukraine now the rebuttal was in response to the ukrainian president allegedly boasted that the unit had been
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destroyed there exists no russian military convoy that crossed the russian ukrainian border either at night or during the day let's hope the ukrainian army only destroyed a friend and not refugees or their own soldiers. the story was broken by a pair of british journalists working for the u.k.'s guardian and telegraph newspapers they posted on twitter that they had witnessed the incursion which happened at night as proof they posted pictures showing armored personnel carriers on a road at an undisclosed location jury the day despite the severity of their claims and lack of evidence their allegations were taken at face value by a slew of western politicians who spoke to a number of political analysts and investigative journalist on the matter but this is a vision that happens the ukrainians and nato would have been desperate to get a video of this of photographs are up on the internet on the t.v.
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see here is proof of a russian putin words invasion of ukraine other yours of the us this if the russians were going to invade ukraine would they just send in some armored personnel carriers whitely armored vehicles this is the twenty first century in modern times you don't wage a war by rolling in twenty three tanks warfare in modern times as waged with drones and fighter helicopters there were an actual russian military invasion of ukraine we would know about it and there would be no debate about it will be actually in strange russia too that would be absolutely in changeful full russian armored vehicles to go in they are advertising what would work knowing that everybody's got cameras everybody can take photographs and knowing the political situation regarding this conflict it would be absolutely sure charlotte russia to do that. meanwhile seventeen more ukrainian troops have crossed the border into russia fleeing fighting in the east it's the latest incident and far from the biggest two
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weeks ago more than four hundred ukrainian soldiers illegally crossed the border into russia seeking century. the e.u. has threatened more potential sanctions against russia blaming it for the violence in eastern ukraine however the unanimous support required to pass more sanctions is falling away so argues prime minister criticized them as a meaningless gesture with threaten economic growth in the e.u. member states while the czech president to claim the restrictions themselves are ineffective and could lead to a spiral of worsening relationships that achieve nothing that divide has deep into even further after russia's retaliatory ban on western produce food and leaving food x. porters facing billions in losses earlier we spoke to the european union's ambassador to russia he expressed hope for a quick return to business as usual. of course some companies.
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may face some losses. will be looking for alternatives as i said especially those countries and those exporters to the russian market who have been under scrutiny of appropriate russian situations here faced certain sanctions and barriers they have successfully overcome by finding new munitions however of course we came to maintain the trade we value russian customers and i am sure the russian customer values european product and i hope will come back to business as usual soon. here it has once again said it doesn't know where missing russian photographer andrei stanton is the interior ministry suggested end to government forces could be holding him he disappeared in eastern ukraine ten days ago and the ukrainian military has appeared conflicted on whether they have them on not at first they denied it and an interior ministry spokesperson confirmed in an
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interview to a lad via radio station they indeed held stand in captive on i.q. stations of assisting terrorists but then backtracked and blaming a bad translation russia the u.n. and international human rights cream side demanding the correspondent is immediately released a social media campaign called free andrew is now underway and the also been several flash mobs around the world in support. the police officer who shot did an unarmed teenager in the us town of fake assen has been named the death caused public outrage and subsequent rallies a strong response from the authorities and associates can i reports from the latest protest. in ferguson in the suburbs of st louis missouri protesters are continuing to come out onto the streets for justice in the case the killing of eighteen year
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old unarmed michael brown. who. was the name of the police officer behind the killing has been released aaron wilson is twenty eight years old he is white and we do know that you have been in a safe place by police here ever since to being took place earlier we spoke with one of the attorneys of michael brown's family and this is what he told about the information that's been released by the police just a name that's all we hear yes there. is a lot more we need to learn about him especially the way so you know his actions after he shot by going before he shot those things are crucial to determining what happened and we spoke to some people about this latest information i'm kind of confused their goal is like the information being released today you know with the name we kind of wanted all the information back when you know we say before things
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got to this level initially i was afraid to come out here because when i saw all the militia you know the police out here showing presenting threatening weapons in just are presenting themselves in a threatening manner i was afraid to come out here because when i saw the tear gas and and the manner that they were approaching and read arresting people the atmosphere here is certainly shifted somewhat because for the first four nights what we saw were pretty violent clashes between mostly a very heavily militarized police who were using tear gas and rubber bullets people still cold. first why. no by march. thirteenth we are not on. the protests in pakistan have achieved some criminal groups taking the opportunity to local shops some people form lines to protect businesses. protesters claim the police aggression against the rallies is out of proportion the use of tear gas in ferguson has sparked
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a somewhat unexpected online response from across the atlantic with palestinians taking to twitter advising protesters not to wash their eyes if they are hit with tear gas and also urging them to try to keep calm and twelve oid running into the wind now did i guess can have severe health effects they include temporary blindness breathing problems miscarriages as well as heart and liver damage but tear gas is not the only tool used by police to counter the mostly peaceful rallies in ferguson let's take a look here and m. four rifle is another security forces arsenal weapon used in various military conflicts police have also been reinforced by light armored vehicles which were in service in afghanistan as well as in iraq and if that's not enough an m.k. eleven sniper rifle also using combat was seen as necessary to tackle the peaceful
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rallies law enforcement expert john whitehead believes the police are overreacting . a number of studies show that once you put on the gear as the policemen in your training you start acting like a military unit like you're in a patrol and unfortunately what happens is the psychology changes in a lot of these little policemen when they're approaching a house for a swat team or a it's like they're moving in on al qaida supposedly where the master's and they're the servants but you know the first and they're telling people to back off twenty five feet get in the zone they're violating their free speech rights you have a right to walk up to a civil servant and say sir why you doing this why you're here they're pointing guns at people and chasing them away that's not a policeman any more again that's the military and that's what we're dealing with most police agencies operate basically anyway the lot of the local city councils and politicians just let them go. but i've written in a number of instances i've seen. local citizens get made get down that local city council meeting they get their signs and they say we're not moving into you change
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this thing it's not you're a sheep kerry in this country this is this is the face of the government today what you're seeing in ferguson it's only going to get worse if we don't back it all and one is upcoming away off the banks stay with us. choose your language. ok we're going to. sell some. place to you it's good sense to. us that you think the right to. choose the stories that you. choose to to access. if sweden or finland to bring deep to join nato that would provoke some sort of
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free action on the part of russia and this is as far as the military calculus is concerned none of what faces humanity peace the west north and south lawn of it can't be solved by military means or fighter aircraft or satellites or nuclear weapons military is outdated it should go like cannibalism and slavery and child labor it doesn't belong to civilization to kill each other. and so stay with us here on our anti international in iraq militants from the terror group known as the islamic state have reportedly slaughtered an entire kurdish village of iran to eighteen people the jihad is like spending the borders of age of maine which is already made up of us west of land on which they now have
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proclaimed their own caliphate the village was inhabited by people of religious minority considered by the extremists to be devil worshipers thousands of them have already fled fearing the sweeping advance of the slum and stayed would reach their homes in foreign ministers have agreed to supply arms to the kurdish forces in iraq to help them fight the militants artie's poly boyko us us is what it could all be too. hot on the heels of the us and france the u.k. has announced its readiness to supply arms directly to kurdish forces which are trying to fight off for you told you how just in northern iraq the u.k. has said we will also consider favorably any requests for supplies of we already shipping ammunition and supplies from other eastern european countries into your bill but there if it is the lessons of the past haven't been learned. and it's a quick fix to sink that you can on the group or send across the bomb and so on but
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that doesn't deal with the problem main problem is that the politicians don't plan ahead and was reacting to crises in syria the west backed the rebels who then walked into the a ceramic state the very problem now being faced across the border in iraq and the two thousand and eleven western backed overthrow of colonel gadhafi led to three years of political chaos in libya with weapons again falling into the wrong hands and according to the un flooding west africa now the kurds need help fighting jihadists but what happens if they win with western weapons in hand to know on the kurdish fighters testifies to a tokenistic and indeed a short term solution to a very real problem which is to fight back isis let's not forget that by arming the kurdish fighters what is actually being encouraged is the breakup of iraq as a sovereign entity the kurds are desperate for independence from iraq and when the
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islam mix state was a problem only in the south of the country the prospect of an autonomous north began to look at spain a bowl last month one iraqi kurdish leader told local lawmakers to plan for an independence referendum i don't think we should be encouraging secession in the middle east it simply. means sort of having everything and it's quite risky independence would be complicated because you would create problems in iran turkey and syria under caution iraq itself but to encourage them in this way is. potentially great in iraq a government source says in the british media reportedly came to stress that the u.k. is not moving towards direct military intervention in iraq and that sending arms is consistent with the government's response to a humanitarian crisis. critics fear arming the kurds scared for silicate the
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breakup of iraq but for those in favor the need to stop the islamic states murderous campaign is so pressed saying that leaders may have resigned themselves to achieving their short term goal of driving terrorists out of northern iraq first and worrying about the long term consequences later boyko r.t. london well let's get more on the so from the colonel middle east journalist been covering the region extensively you live with us sir karen thank you very much for being with us so before the islamic state. appeared to how big of an issue was the minority. well the city minority is a very quiet constituency actually it's a very quiet community they lived in the area. which is called the disputed area between the kurdish sovereign between the kurdish autonomous region and the
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center of iraq they live together with christians and was struck mans and was of course arabs of sunni. believe as well so they were very quiet group but of course religiously a little bit suspect to dramatic muslims or even yes specially muslims dogmatic muslims and i must say as well that they live in an area between the syrian border and muscle and beer which is known to be a very hard time ground they have wheat they have water so there had been before disputes about the land between the bedouins and the nomads and. people like you see this and christians who have been living there and working the ground for sentries right so let's talk about what's been happening the last couple of
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months and weeks recently we've seen the u.s. bombing dropping humanitarian supplies to the kurds. yet we still hear reports of if they're true of the whole village being massacred what enables they slam mixtape to have to withstand the west some pressure. well it looks surface to fall as if these airstrikes by the u.s. air force drones happen always after the isis attacks certain areas certain villages and people so. as somebody said in your report before they are reacting they are not pretty active in preventing actually the civilians of being attacked by isis groups and these isis troops they are well known where they are where they move because they move along the big
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streets. and along the river where there's water of where there is strategic. jumped on you know so they could be attacked before hand that they are not doing this. leads to the conclusion from my side that these isis groups are working in some way in coordination with western interests so . so what you're saying is that there could be a european and american interest in. not really crushing isis or what you know this let me state at this point what do you think those points are what do you think is their relationship all about. i think they are afraid of isis moving forward into iraq especially towards the oil fields of kirkuk which are very close to bill and to to mosul
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and they are afraid of isis getting strategic. you know strategic ground in. but as far as syria is concerned that's where isis has grown over the last year or so and they did not do anything to stop isis in syria and we know that the ice is has been provided by free entrance into syria and iraq through turkey so i think the western countries specially the nato countries united states and they should talk tough with their partner in nato turkey to do something about isis not to proceed the way they have been doing it over the last year karen look field we have to leave it right there thank you very much
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a middle east journalist who spent some time out in iraq thank you very much for being with us right. those who want to get involved to stop isis you know right are allied with isis in syria we still should be doing everything we can to support the free syrian opposition who will continue to provide military assistance and advice to the iraqi government and kurdish forces as they battle these terrorists. well as a plan to move for you online including a scandal in the u.k.'s private health sector where victims of botched eye operations challenge government plans to give more work to contractors outside of the free and. also online always a retainer when you have to close all the pop up ads maybe an apology from the it creates a will also some kind of conflict it's hard to find. a
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dozen men on by israel for saving a jewish child during the second. world war has returned to his medal off to six of his relatives were killed in gaza a ninety one year old hanged as annoying for a moving that touch of the israeli ambassador he said keeping the ana israel granted to him would be an insult to his mother as well as to other family members who were attacked by the attack in gaza those who survived the strike dealing with the shock of what happened. half an hour before our house was shelled two cars from gaza came to take us away coming to a new place i went to buy some food and when i came back my uncle told me my father was dead my younger brothers think our father went to heaven and my sisters were told he went to egypt for presents an article in this house was shelled on july
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twentieth by israeli air forces without any warning my six family members were killed as a result my mother three brothers my brother's wife and a nephew in this four story house was completely destroyed what's going on in gaza at the moment is an aggression of occupation forces against the people who live under occupation is seek justice and stand for their independence eighty percent of the victims is civilians with children and women among them no doubt what's going on is an aggression strikes on houses and schools without a warning the shelling of playgrounds bombardments on the first day of festivities what other thing can you call it the shelling of hospitals and emergency vehicles what can you call it break of the said coming up next i'll see you tomorrow.
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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 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
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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. it was very interesting because there were dropped out of the sky the rohrbach up the a shift across a few degrees. and do a circle in combat at a speed but you know just astronomical speeds. what's really good folks some and all ruffle oh filling in for abby martin this is breaking the set so with all the terrible news going on in the world right now we thought it.
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