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to teach me why you should care about. why you should care only. told. police. people protesting that the police killing of. the first batch of trucks from a russian humanitarian convoy finally at the ukrainian checkpoint. the trucks. and with the cease fire. grow over a nude suffering we report on the. headlines
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live. with me thank you for joining us and we begin with the ongoing violence in the u.s. city of. people the police using tear gas against the protesters. thank you for the all the latest pictures from a rally over the police killing of a black teenager last week a curfew has now come into effect for a second night following more than a week of demonstrations against the police crackdown on peaceful protests let's cross live now to our. starting by frost in ferguson right now good to see you it's just after midnight your your time of the curfew just coming into effect what is
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the situation i see the police apparently behind you. already the situation has been quite hectic it's actually taking it's very complicated for journalists to get around town right now we were literally rushing into this so-called safe area for journalists as the curfew was about to start police are giving conflicting information as to where we're supposed to be headed to be in a safer area are quite aggressive really speaking with journalists and of course earlier just hours ago complete mayhem and chaos was already unraveling on the streets hours before the curfew began where police were firing tear gas at protesters l. rods were being used we know that at least one person was injured really mayhem on the ground people with children still victim to the tear gas being used we know that a woman in a chill a wheelchair was trying to speed away from the scene and just really really hectic a heavily militarized police for the second night of curfew here in ferguson as protesters continue to clash right now as we speak the curfew has just begun
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seconds ago it's complete silence in the city but of course as we witnessed last night about twenty minutes into the curfew all hell broke loose on the streets of ferguson so we are going to be on standby here to wait and see how events on ravel certainly night after night this is exactly a week now since clashes began here between protesters and police after the death of unarmed eighteen year old michael brown because of multiple shots fired bullets by a police officer the community has been coming out on to the streets demanding accountability and justice they have not seen many answers. any at all to even the good the death that took place and they're continuing to come out onto the streets to demand that so we'll be here bringing you all the latest as events here on travel as you now begins data about us three and a half minutes into the cuff you will check in with you later. thank you. now protesters claim the police aggression against ferguson demonstrators is out of proportion vehicles have been deployed to quell the unrest but also images from one
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of the rallies are showing at least one officer wearing some very serious combat gear is equipment including a military helmet tactical goggles his weapon of choice possibly a grenade launcher or two gas launch of that with a nice slight but on top of it on his hip are a pair of knives and talk to mark mason an activist from the occupy movement is very worried about the militarization of the police what we have now on the streets these are not police these are paramilitary troops you go to central america and sure going to find the same thing i cannot overemphasize that i am old enough to see of very very frightening transition in the united states where the militarization of the police is a movement by. the owners of this country in the last year alone in twenty thirteen one year u.s.
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pentagon donated more than four hundred million dollars almost a half a billion dollars of great equipment to least apartments in the united states that's one year alone almost half a billion dollars of material they are not trained to use this material they don't know what they're doing with it and we should not have paramilitary troops not on the streets of ferguson and not in the streets of central america either this is clear violent state suppression of dissent. the first of almost three hundred russian trucks destined for eastern ukraine are at the border checkpoint they are now waiting to be let through though it's taken three days numerous hurdles and a great deal of uncertainty for kiev to finally accept that indeed the convoy was actually carrying on to humanitarian aid before the vehicles undergo the very last inspection artie's more if an officer went to check out for herself what's actually inside the big eighteen. these sixteen tracks from the russian humanitarian
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convoy are the first to reach the russian ukrainian border they are now parked here literally meters away from donetsk is right in a border checkpoint and you know today the cargo of these trucks are carrying has only been expected by the representatives of the international red cross and now we're going to do the same i'm going to pick up and really it's going to open it for us. military to see here. is about the last. resume western carrying it. wasn't on. book wheat. it's in the bags are just in case anyone suspects it's guns or munition or something else like weapons of mass destruction. it is tells me that each bag is
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fifty kilograms and there are one hundred sixty bags here which means a tool till. eight tons and this is he tells me the maximum of what they struck can carry where these trucks are now ready to cross the border to deliver its humanitarian cargo to those in eastern ukraine who are in desperate need the driver as we have been able to speak to here told me that there will be two more inspections at the checkpoint from the russian and from the ukrainian side and after that security will be the major challenge for these tracks as the convoy is supposed to travel through regions in eastern ukraine where clashes are still continuing. right now r.t. russian here kryten border a convoy is heading for the struggling population of eastern ukraine which is suffering from nonstop attacks the crimean army is aiming to sever connections
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between the two largest city that of dawn yet scope lugansk in the corner right here in order to do so they're trying to take control over dozens of small towns and villages peppered along the main road right there connecting the hubs fighting doesn't stop there even at night half of the towns have been severely damaged to date now if indeed the army succeeds donetsk will be completely blocked from the only humanitarian corridor all that's left the cities or thora he's over eighty warn people that the water supply is being cut off there's no electricity in most districts and deliveries of food and drinking water only arrive every few days on top of the bombs and rockets continue raining down killing dozens and destroying what little people have left. who. is ensure that was for both of those. but. just because. the party before that this was it could lead to what do you
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want to spoil. that's a chuckle that i was not going to want to remember when i got a little bit of this i know you don't. say ok you know why you get only long enough for your book except love joe coincidence and move. on the diplomatic front some progress has been made in an attempt to resolve the ukrainian crisis after a two month hiatus top diplomats of germany france ukraine and russia have been given direct talks another try a picture all of it with the latest m.-bone. well after five hours of what seemed to it being quite tough negotiations at times we heard from frank walter steinmeier the german foreign minister saying that some progress had been made he talked about what had been discussed in this meeting between the foreign ministers of germany france. and russia now he said that they were looking at how to sure up
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border security from the russian ukrainian borders also that they spent a lot of time discussing the ongoing humanitarian disaster in the east of the country and they ended by saying this all of the foreign ministers will be reporting back to their relevant to their own presidents and heads of government and that they would be pushing for more negotiations in the future in terms of what we've heard from other representatives at these meetings the ukrainian foreign minister powerful claim can he tweeted as he was driving away that it be five hours of very tough negotiations but that it would take perhaps five times not before any real steps were taken towards a peaceful diplomatic solution to the crisis in the country and with regards to russia so again allow for over now he's going to be meeting with journalists that eight am local time here in central in he's going to be running through what he took away from this meeting it does seem though that there have been some steps taken forward but there's
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a long way to go before any real framework for peace is put in place in these negotiations look set to continue for a long while yet marty spitter all about now there's still no word about a missing russian photojournalist kiev has issued a search warrant for andre stan and the interior ministry asked not to be bothered with questions on his whereabouts i heard see we are very closely monitoring developments we're posting all the latest updates on our website. coming up just a bit later in the program here on our team international the u.s. steps up its offensive in iraq american warplanes support kurdish forces and sold on the country's largest. while the british prime minister calls for even more involvement in the fight against jihadists. and they say that lightning never strikes the same place twice that's only if you don't have one of these machines which has managed to domesticate. stories just around the corner.
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we still should be doing everything we can to support the free syrian opposition we will continue to provide military assistance and advice to the iraqi government and kurdish forces as they battle these terrorists. are joining us this is a national to god. now where large crowds of taking advantage of a temporary ceasefire in order to protest against israel's military offensive the truce is set to expire later today with fears growing it means yet more bloodshed and so now the conflict has already claimed nearly two thousand palestinian lives and left many more scarred both physically and mentally ati's harry fear has the story of one man who's been left literally speechless by what's happened. after
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a day from the north and west bank is still unable to speak properly or move his legs following twenty eight days of israeli detention the thirty year old was returning home having attended job interviews in the united arab emirates when he was arrested at the crossing point between jordan and the west bank which is in part controlled by israel almost a month later he was released into palestinian jurisdiction in a critical condition with his medical records withheld doctors say when he arrived at the hospital he was rigid unable to move his wife says he could move nothing by his eyes and appeared to be dead a kid i was merely frayed for him is the type who can't handle insult and humiliation must have been a very difficult experience for him he's an extremely sensitive person and he does not except in subtle humiliation. a high flying computer engineer who is apparently a normal health until his arrest doctors say he was injected with unknown
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substances that shocked his system sending him into a comatose state then the patient was given medicine you during his detention which are known to us that the emergency room of our hospital presents and symptoms of stroke and he was shaking his lawyer says israel claimed he was a member of hamas and supported the movement something his father vehemently denies and i know my son he doesn't. remember any searches even but even how much he was happy even anybody and he just he is thirty years and he just good with his home with his family with his war with his job until a few days ago it was mute and unconscious now able to mumble words he took hours to tell his father he did allegedly undergone harsh treatment forced into stress
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positions and kept in total. leisel ation in what he called a black hole all of that period i didn't see him i did didn't allowed me to see him or even to see him a field research or for an israeli human rights group says the evidence suggest mark was subjected to treatment that exceeds israel's own redlines it seems that he was broken psychologically africa did from the atmosphere of detention from where we deal with him no one from the israeli prison service or army was available to respond to these serious accusations but a spokesperson for the defense ministry said no one is ever detained without a security matter connected to them one of the victims neighbors visited him at the hospital he too alleged he been arbitrary targeted at the same crossing ten days ago i was on my way to saudi arabia and they sent me back from the border this is
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another example of the daily abuse imposed on people not just for their being palestinians without having committed any crime. investigator abdul karim says israel stepped up its policy of restrictions since the beginning of the recent gaza conflict sometimes if you don't get it to hand it to three hundred besson deny access and this is i think a disconnection vanishment mosque case although on usually sylvia highlights the tight control that israel's army and ministry of defense have of the palestinians freedom of movement both inside and while returning to their own occupied territory the message from palestinians here is that it's not just the blockaded gaza strip that is at the mercy of israel's security apparatus harry fear r.t. the occupied west bank. many more stories for you on our website including.
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wiki pedia. the world's most. more than one point three jaw dropping taken from the international space station. four hundred. the u.s. has stepped up its airstrikes in iraq the largest military operation since the official withdrawal of troops and twenty eleven american warplanes have targeted the positions and vehicles of. forces to retake control of iraq's largest. important facility supplies water electricity to the north of the country and was seized by islamic state militants earlier this month is the midst of managed to take over large areas of iraqi territory in the north. a caliphate now this is the
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u.k.'s prime minister has called for a broader security response towards the threat posed by the islamic state he claimed humanitarian efforts were not enough to cope with the issue and suggested using the country's military to destroy the caliphate but sociologist and expert on iraq says the british support of rebels in neighboring syria has in fact. in iraq. this is something. the british government so. well that started funding arming. groups. you know over ten billion pounds were spread about fifteen billion dollars and some estimates iraqis. and within the context of syria. figures are not available but certainly. tens of millions of pounds on the. to destabilize syria basically and make
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it open to all the separatists organizations these terrorist organizations will be . used by the rest of it including including britain and as the british leader calls for more involvement in iraq let's have a look at what the previous campaign totaled there were forty six thousand british troops deployed to the country forty six thousand of their about one hundred eighty of them were killed the government expected to spend two point five billion but the actual cost turned out to be three times higher and most of our spending went to the military with only barely five percent of the money going to humanitarian aid efforts well let's get to some other international headlines for your time for the world update now to pakistan we go away tens of thousands of antigovernment protests have taken to the streets the opposition announced a forty eight hour ultimatum to the current prime minister nawaz sharif to resign and pakistanis not to pay taxes although utility bills police estimate around fifty
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five thousand people have occupied the center of the capital i and to the liberian capital where a quarantine center for ebola patients has been attacked and looted by a crowd claiming the current epidemic is a hoax at least seventeen patients reportedly yes while ten others were taken away by their families the attack has sparked fears the deadly virus when else spread. to indonesia where thirteen more survivors have been found after a tourist boat sank on saturday to foreign nationals are still missing more than a dozen people were on board the boat when they hit a coral reef and went down off the east coast of indonesia. the founder of the wiki leaks whistle blowing service julian our son will be giving a press conference today from inside the ecuadorian embassy in london it's now been two years since he took refuge there knowing very well he'll be arrested if he
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steps outside we spoke to an investigative journalist and a friend of a songe christian trumps and. never expected to be such a long time and it's absolutely outrageous that he has been in the i would never see for more than that i treat them more than two years because of the embassy on june nineteenth two thousand and twelve so his human rights are being violated and the situation must come to an end into goes without saying that this of course has some effect for the well being referred to joel to be in an enclosed space of being able to be outside this is even a little worse comes to the condition in most prisons at least people get at least one. day he hasn't been out to the side for more than two years thunder and lightning for centuries mankind has been amazed as well as terrified at the threatening beauty of nature's fury but these days it's actually been domesticated
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and now we can even throw thunderbolts at the push of a button. up a trunk of reports. shooting thunderbolts at the click of a button. that takes something as tall curvy and alien looking as these three hundred tons of capacitors and wires deep in the woods and who cares that it's decades old when it can do this. this monster machines split second output is enough to power a city like moscow twice over but it's not there to kick out power stations hollywood effects maybe no but it could save your life. we use it to test the impact of like ning on things like aircraft if a plane a struggle by a thunderbolt and it could cause a disaster here we're testing models to make sure the planes are properly protected and the designers know where to place their vital equipment one such test means at
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least a couple of thousand zaps the longest lightning zigzag ever produced here was over two hundred meters no surprise then that the home of man made thunderstorms has become a magnet for fans and tourists and i think i was the luckiest. it's finally dark outside now it's only a matter of this with. the train co r t. joining us on c.n.n. international coming up after the break experienced the rigors of life as a trainee russian soldier lester in the u.k. good morning to you you'll be joined by sophie seven chatting to the former canadian minister of defense who insists that humans don't.
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trust me i like video games you could tell from my physique but they like all media can distort reality in the minds of kids and one swedish journalist in something very unusual to step his kids back into the real world journalist carl magnus held in sun seemed almost addicted to the legendary military first person shooter game call of duty so since they like killing people online with guns he decided to take them to the gaza strip to show them what war is all about mr helder and brought his boys to a refugee camp where they could see injured kids just like themselves getting their wounds to stop they got to see all the blood and tears apparently this in your face method of parenting works and his children have stopped their on line war this strategy might sound a little extreme and we're all very expensive i can't afford to fly my family to israel to prove a point but sometimes all the to be smacked in the face with reality as
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a man there's something attractive about roman conquests our ranks of musket fire and a pulley on a conflict those images are nice but the reality is blood and death and if more kids could have the same experience as a healthy family well we might have less war mongers around but that's just my opinion. lemme see the series of golf the tried to play a player's alum a poem is more. like for the story taking every minute. of the lead. mummy lola the web of. life the claim. was false thing the same old
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