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but not for money promotion. is the coveted crimson but. the ukrainian army says it's fighting government forces in the streets of lugansk while russian trucks with humanitarian aid the struggling civilians are being stalled at the border. russia ridiculed online reports that one of its armored units has been destroyed in ukraine with no evidence to back up the allegations from kiev. armored vehicles and sniper rifles prime but not for military operation u.s. authorities use them to disperse rioters demanding justice for a teenager shot dead by police in the u.s. town of. a year approves a kurdish fighters in iraq pouring more weapons into the war ridden country as
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terrorists from the islamic state group fourteen months of time and village of kurds. you're watching r.t. international coming to you live from moscow where it's now ten pm in the russian capital it's good to have you with us the ukrainian army says it's in the last stages of its operation in the east of the country they claim street fights underway and on yet as it pushes the government forces this is what constant shelling has been doing to the cities at least four civilians were killed in the latest attacks and local say they don't know why they're being targeted. do you think god just told you. but. i'd. like to. do it from the net. but it's to.
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leave. me alone or should we are. probably a little. apart from the constant fighting and destruction locals in east ukraine is suffering from shortages of food water and electricity russia's trying to send humanitarian aid to the conflict zone the convoy is stuck at the border with the sides trying to agree how to get it through maria from russia is there. a few over six hours of negotiations with russian border control the international red cross spokesperson said that both russian and ukrainian governments have agreed on the humanitarian aid from russia will be delivered to war torn eastern ukraine adding though that there's still remain two major challengers one is of course security concerns directly to trucks carrying humanitarian cargo or he's expected to travel through red cross will be waiting for your insides to give them guarantees that the
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kind of on will be safe with another challenge and this is maybe even more important he's a convoy cannot start moving until it's checked by the red cross and the red cross is hardly wait in ukraine to give them green light to start inspections the aid convoy from russia has been stuck with the russian ukrainian border for almost three days already and one of the major reasons behind that has that here too many questions to moscow regarding the congo itself at its root accusing more but it is trying to use the humanitarian corn boy as a pretext to send troops and weapons to support and t. key a farces in eastern ukraine we have to say though that for all of these time the location where two hundred eighty trucks are currently parked was open to media and many journalists including our channel have visited the location this is my reports from there food water medicine as well as room blankets and
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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 saudi needed four months of end to tear up the ration has their towns and rooms more than two thousand people dead and many without clean water to drink. water which you will cure more. which. will require a very. moderate or wonderfully credible what your task you don't usually do when i go on the job and you know i. don't have to. you know mean 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 and fighters it's not just clear exactly where the convoluted headed but it has certainly be travelling through crane's war torn
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regions and the drivers say they're worried about the safety of gravity when you factor your support to thriller the subaltern literally sped up in the bronx from billy kaufman for. a buck or two h.q. up if you. actually. are going to put your wallet your mouth with the chinese critical person should know what the old news when you bring your proof new slimmer for the new trick was issued with mushroom in your brain you're on the correct order which is from the american relief convoys ready to go 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 a cease fire 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
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sheltering in dark basements surviving on doing glean supplies of food and water and these are some. of the people calling out for the material that's already packed and waiting to be delivered. refinish naughty russian ukrainian border. russia has dismissed as nonsense reports on social media that one of its armored patrol units crossed the border into ukraine the rebuttal was in response to the ukrainian president who allegedly boasted that the units had been 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 or the story was broken by a pair of british journalist 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 during the day the spy the severity of the claims
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on lack of evidence the allegations were taken at face value by a number of western politicians we spoke to political analyst and investigative journalist on the matter. this invasion had happened the ukrainians the nato would have been desperate to get video of this of photographs are up on the internet on the t.v. saying here is proof of a russian putin led invasion of ukraine other yourself this if the russians were going to invade ukraine would they just send in some armored personnel carriers lightly 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 would be absolutely insane to russia do that would it absolutely in changeful the russian armored vehicles to go in day in court day like advertising what would work knowing that
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everybody's got cameras everybody could take photographs and knowing the little situation regarding this conflict it would be absolutely sure sidelobe russia to do that anymore seventeen more ukrainian troops across the border into russia fleeing fighting in the east it's the latest incident but far from the biggest two weeks ago more than four hundred ukrainian soldiers illegally crossed the border into russia seeking sanctuary. the e.u. is threatening more potential sanctions against russia blaming it for the violence in eastern ukraine however the unanimous support required is falling away so that his prime minister criticized them as a meaningless gesture that would threaten economic growth in the e.u. member states meanwhile the czech president claims the restrictions themselves are ineffective and could lead to a spiral of worsening relations that achieve nothing that divide has deepened even further after russia's retaliatory ban on western produced food even food exporters
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facing billions in losses earlier we spoke to the european union's ambassador to russia he hopes for a quick return to business as usual. of course some companies. may face some losses. will be looking for alternatives as i said specially those countries and those exporters russian market who have been under scrutiny of appropriate russian situations here faced certain sanctions and barriers they have successfully overcome by finding a new new new however of course we came to maintain the trade value customer. show the russian customer values product and i hope we'll come back to business as usual soon kiev has reiterated it doesn't know where missing russian photographer andre standing is the interior ministry suggested and to government forces could be holding him he disappeared in eastern ukraine ten days ago and the
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ukrainian military has appeared conflicted and whether or not they have him at first they denied it then an interior ministry spokesperson confirmed in an interview to a latvian radio station they indeed held standing captive on accusations of assisting terrorists but then they backtracked blaming a bad translation russia the u.n. and international human rights groups are demanding the correspondent is immediately released a social media campaign called three hundred is now under way and they have been several flash mobs around the world in support of. the police officer who shot dead an unarmed teenager in the us town of ferguson has been named the death called public outrage and subsequent rallies matter a strong response from your thorough and associate charkha reports from the latest protest. ferguson in the suburbs of st louis missouri protesters are continuing to
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come out onto the streets for justice in the case killing of eighteen year old unarmed michael brown. 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 a safe place by police here ever since 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 have yes there. is a lot more we need to learn about him especially in the race to you know his actions after he shot by going before he shot those things that crucial to determining. what happened that night we spoke to some people about this latest information i'm kind of confused their goal is like the information being released
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today you know with the names we kind of wanted all the information back when you know we before things 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 our weapons in just are presenting themselves in a threatening manner i was afraid to come out here because when i saw your guess 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 a loathly of very heavily militarized police who were using tear gas and rubber bullets people still don't understand why this yet to be killed by multiple gunshots by i. think we are not on the dam that. all the protests in ferguson have led to some criminal groups taking the opportunity to move local shops on. people formed lines to protect businesses protesters claim the
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police aggression against the rallies is out of proportion the use of tear gas in ferguson sparked a somewhat unexpected online response from across the atlantic with palestinians taking to twitter and devising protestors not to watch their eyes if they're hit and also urging them to keep calm and try to avoid running into the wind or tear gas can have severe health effects they include temporary blindness breathing problems miscarriages as well as heart and liver damage but a gas is not the only tool used by police to counter the mostly peaceful rallies in ferguson and m. four rifle is also in the security forces arsenal a weapon used in various military conflict police have also been reinforced by light armored vehicles which were in service in iraq and afghanistan also and m.k. eleven sniper rifle used in combat was seen as necessary to tackle the peaceful rallies nor enforcement expert john whitehead believes the police are over reacting . a number of studies show that once you put on the gear as
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a policeman and you're trained 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 local 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 it 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 there pointing guns at people and chasing them away that's not a policeman a more again that's the military and that's what we're dealing with most police agencies operate basically any way they want of the local law of city councils and politicians just let them go. as i've written in the number of instances i've seen . it was innocence get they get down to local city council meeting they get their signs and they say we're not moving into you change this thing it's not your own seat kerry in this country and this is this is the face of the government that they what you're seeing in ferguson and it's only going to get worse if we don't back at
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all. that we've got more news coming your way including reports of an entire cut disadvantages massacred in iraq stay with us. ingenues but eugenics vulgarized darwin science and punishment for an uncommitted crying i was sterilized when none could believe in eighty feebleminded still today for the few i don't know why he moved by i still don't know why genetic improvement through forced sterilization the basis for nazi ideology don't stop at just sterilizing and now go to the point of death. for years rarely discussed on till now really rather not talk about that right.
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the media leave us so we leave that maybe. five the scene pushes to truly play your part of the physical. push use that no one is there still with the guests that you deserve answers from it's all politics. are to. in iraq militants from the terror group known as the islamic states have reportedly slaughtered an entire kurdish village of around eighty people the jihadists are expanding the borders of their domain which is already made up of vast swathes of land on which they proclaimed their own caliphate the village was inhabited by people a religious minority considered by the extremist to be devil worshipers thousands of them have already fled fearing the sweeping advance of the islamic state would
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reach their high as a foreign ministers have agreed to supply arms to the kurdish forces in iraq to help them fight the militants says is what it could lead to. hot on the heels of the u.s. and france the u.k. has announced its readiness to supply arms directly to kurdish forces which are trying to fight off brutal jihadists in northern iraq the u.k. has said we will also consider favorably any requests for supplies of arms we are already shipping ammunition and supplies mother eastern european countries into a bill but there are fears the lessons of the past haven't been learnt it's a quick fix to to think that you can arm a group or send an aircraft and bomb and so on but 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
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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 islam makes 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
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independence referendum i don't think we should be encouraging secession in the middle east it simply. means sort of having everything it's quite risky independence would be complicated because you would create problems. turkey syria and of course rockets it to encourage them in this way. potentially breaking in iraq government sources 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 facilitate the 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
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and worrying about the long term consequences later boyko artsy london. a middle east journalist who's covered the region extensively believes the e.u. and us are not interested in totally crushing the islamic state they are reacting 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 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 this is syria is concerned that's where isis has grown over the last year or so and they did not do
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anything to stop isis in syria. those who want to get involved to stop isis in iraq are allied with isis in syria but 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. a dutchman i wanted by israel for saving a jewish child during the second world war has returned his medal off to six of his relatives were killed in gaza and ninety one year old hank sonali writes a moving letter to the israeli ambassador he says keeping the on israel granted him would be an insult to his mother as well as to other family members who were affected by the attack in gaza those who survived the strike a dealing with the shock of what happened. half an hour before our house was
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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 that this house was shelled on july 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 a 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 are 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 festivities what other thing can you call it the shelling of hospitals and emergency vehicles
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what can you call it. in four years since its launch london's bike hire scheme has proven to be one of the most efficient and popular cycling systems in europe but there are also problems that can't be soft pedaled including the mounting costs and cycling safety issues probed by campaigners voiced concerns that almost sixty people have been killed and more than two thousand severely injured in cycling incidents since the scheme's introduction activists say london streets are not safe enough despite the government's promises to make the city bicycle friendly. and now with one of the major sponsors ending its involvement in the program its success is being questioned further outings martin andrews reports. there are now over five hundred bike sharing programs around the world double the number from just a few years ago london's bike scheme set up by the previous mad ken livingstone is now the second largest cycle highest system in europe it remains an affordable and
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enjoy the way to travel around the city so far so good but what's the future for cyclists in the british capital arrange a voyage being put in place which allowed cyclists to go either direction around the city on quieter less populous roads. cycle superhighways there's already several of those in the city and another five i think planned for next couple of years but to the math adds up the project is draining enormous funds and barclays will end its association next year the bank pays just a sixth of the cost of keeping the bicycles on the road and transport for london said it was left with a bill of over eleven million pounds last year that leaves the u.k. taxpayer remaining one thousand three hundred and eighty eight pounds per bike cycling safety is also a major concern after a number of deaths a major accidents are london's roads safe enough campaign is have said that local
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authorities need to do more to protect the people on bikes the mare of london has promised segregated cycle tracks and you traffic free public spaces putting almost a billion pounds into pro bike reforms this includes redesigning london's roads transforming badly designed junctions and banning lorries that lack up to date safety features. however as the scheme expands companies say that more should be done but when it came in we said to the mayor you need a good network of routes easy routes that people can get to where they want to go and easy to easy to follow with good directions and they haven't done that they still talking about doing that the push bikes become and integra part of traveling around london and the numbers of uses both new and regular continues to grow but despite the dangers it doesn't seem to be putting londoners all tourists off myself
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included. with rapid expansion it's obvious that the bara spikes here in london are a great success rolling the idea out around cities in the u.k. and around the world as a healthy eco friendly form of transport the benefits are clear but the public safety traffic issues and road infrastructure must stay the mayor's main priority of the scheme martin andrews r.t. london. more news from around the world now thousands of protesters gathered in pakistan's capital islamabad after a three hundred kilometer march in support of opposition. group was not by politicians. to continue until the current prime minister resigned. from cleric a green revolution protestors accuse the government of causing an economic downturn militancy and a failure to deliver core services. clashes in
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a tripoli apple between two. parts of the. battlefield rivalries are up to the month between the groups including former rebels who took part in the uprising that ousted moammar gadhafi the country's newly elected parliament. the united nations for an international intervention and voted to dismantle the militia responsible for. coming up on international we slice through the spin in breaking. with george galloway stay with us. it was recently revealed that under the guise of hiv prevention workshop and as tourists you know latin americans were sent to cuba by the u.s. government to overthrow that government yes the u.s.
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agency for international development organized for these young people to go to cuba to recruit and set up new political activists however the infiltrators were not very good at their jobs in the cuban authorities were able to these well funded travelers in their country this is nowhere near the first time that the u.s. government has tried to meddle in cuba in two thousand and nine u.s.a.t. tried to set up a twitter like program to organize people in cuba and we can't forget about the ill fated cuban television airplane that was supposed to bombard the island with western media that was totally blocked. by the government during the cold war i could see the justification to dominate cuba if the us didn't have influence in a country that automatically the soviets did but now what is just why does the us need to infiltrate cuba and by what right cuba doesn't have nukes put it america and they have limited industrial capacity they can't do anything to anyone just leave the poor island alone and let the people there figure out their own future without the us state department's help but that's just my opinion.
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if sweden or finland to bring deep to join nato that would provoke some sort of free action on the part of russia at the same as far as military calculus is concerned none of what faces humanity east the west north and south lawn of it can 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. what's really good folks some in iraq below filling in for abby more.

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