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let. the. prominent was will blow was julian assange announces he'll be leaving the embassy soon after having spent curios locked up in the. national guard is called up to move into the u.s. but has been not to police once again turn up the heat against protesters as a curfew is extended into a second night. of the first batch of drugs from a russian humanitarian convoy finally at the ukrainian checkpoint ready to go check for ourselves once inside. what this is why in gaza is said to expire soon fears grow of renewed suffering we report on
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a palestinian man who's been left literally speechless after being held for months in his renewed tension. international welcome it's good to have you with us here in moscow our top story this hour after a two year stalemate at there can dorian embassy in london there's been some dramatic developments today in the case of chief we can make julian assange. says that if you. are. the. charges pretty boy it was at that press conference he did very cryptic when we pressed him about it he very cryptic he said that he would be leaving the embassy
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suit now that's obviously fueled speculation there's no shortage of reporters out here and certainly police. and he would be willing to grab him should he emerge but actually off to his statement about leaving the embassy recorded continue the court jorian foreign minister stepped in and started talking about finding a diplomatic solution as quickly as possible to this stalemate that's taken two years now and not really going anywhere i can confirm that ricardo putin here left the ecuadorian embassy off to the press conference julian assange did not leave the embassy he went back to his forces and that's where. he's state now in regards to his health and he told me that his health is suffering as a result of being lost inside the building for two years but he says effectively he's been a prisoner for over four years now ever since he was taken to prison over what the
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placed in solitary confinement in prison here where he said he caught an hour outside a day that's not what he's getting here because there's no outside space in the ecuadorian embassy his he says he's got. a deficiency a victim indian. didn't respond to that specific heart condition or lung condition questions he just said that his health is suffering as any healthy human being would suffer but he said that the world require to hear and you know science great spoke about perhaps trying to find it diplomatic solution to this stalemate either organizing safe passage or finding a way of overturning that extradition request to sweden. joining us founded in two thousand and six things that the web site has been posting much information that the u.s. would like to keep classified now that includes more than ninety thousand documents
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related to the afghan war and video of a u.s. helicopter killing civilians that was posted in two thousand and ten a during the same year sweden issued an arrest warrant for him based on sexual abuse allegations in two thousand and eleven a london court approved his extradition to sweden he tried to appeal but that didn't work however he fled to the ecuadorian embassy in june twenty twenty asked for political asylum now within two months granted him asylum he's remained in the embassy since then unable to leave the building latest report due to his incarceration he's developed significant health problems that could even proof fatal. i thought to use that in the us suburb of boston have announced the deployment of the national guard to quell the ongoing violence they. are earlier police again shot. against protesters running killing of
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a black teenager by an officer last week security forces say that that was in response to protesters reportedly throwing molotov cocktails at them a curfew has now come in to mean that for second night wanting more than a week of demonstrations that's also calling for police to stop a crackdown on peaceful protests r.t. then officials you know reports from assume. control now would have been hard to imagine a moment where we would have to report in helmets from the streets of missouri 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 may have on the ground people with children still victim to the tear gas being used we know that or a woman in a chill in a wheelchair was trying to speed away from the scene and just really really hectic heavily militarized police for the second night of curfew here night after night
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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 if any at all to the death that took place and they're continuing to come out onto the streets to demand that. new details have emerged about the shooting after the victim's family ordered an independent autopsy let's take a look at the results of the report released by a well known new york based medical examiner. reiser it appears that michael brown was shot six times during the incident two of the bullets hit his head one entered the top of the teen's skull and is thought to have been the fatal shot according to the report no trace of gunpowder residue was found on the body suggesting the shots were fired at
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a distance. so the lack of details over the shooting and the heavy handed approach of police to peaceful protests in ferguson has made public anger boil here's what some of the demonstrators who've been taking part in previous rallies had to say about the police tactics so protesters on the street. to shoot and we just you know made me want to move in circling the protesters they started with you it's hard to raise a kid in a world like this where you have to worry about those boys protect you and i mean people in this community as being the normal thing for police to be just. to take your brain to situations protesters claim of the police aggression against ferguson demonstrators is out of proportion armored vehicles have been deployed to quell the west that images from one of the rallies show and also wearing some very serious calm but again let's take a look here gas mouth for to protect the policemen from the damaging effect of tear
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gas they've been launching against protesters and the military grade the weapons the smoke and stun grenades completes the equipment offices are supported by armored vehicles used before during the campaigns in iraq and afghanistan to mark mason and activists from the occupy movement is 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 over emphasize that i am old enough to see a very very frightening transition in the united states where the militarization of the police is a movement by. the owners of this country the last year alone in two thousand and thirteen one year the u.s. pentagon donated more than four hundred million dollars almost a half
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a billion dollars of military grade equipment to police departments 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 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 ukraine or at the border checkpoint waiting to be let through him it's a three day numerous hundred hurdles and a great deal of uncertainty from camp to finally accept that the convoy was indeed carrying only aid before the vehicles under their very last inspection or if no one to see for herself what to fight. these sixteen trucks from the russian humanitarian convoy the first to reach the russian ukrainian border and our pockets
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here literally meters away from donetsk is right in a border checkpoint you know today the cargo these trucks carrying has only been inspected by the representatives of international red cross and now we're going to do the same i'm going to pick up this rock and really it's going to open it for us . military to see here the truck is almost. it's about the. reason we're simply carrying it. wasn't born. book wheat it's buckwheat in the bags just in case anyone suspect it's guns ammunition or something else like weapons of mass destruction. it is tells me that each bag is fifty kilograms and there are one hundred sixty bags here which means
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a tool to hold. eight tons and this is he tells me the maximum or what the 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. resolution r.t. russian crinan border. this convoy is heading for the struggling population of eastern ukraine suffering from nonstop attacks that the ukrainian army is aiming to server connections between the two largest cities as well as lugansk now in order
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to do so they're trying to take control over dozens of small little towns and villages on the road connecting the hearts now here is it musa is now anti-government fight has managed to destroy one of the rocket launchers to army uses using shells in the area and over here at john of god it also came under fire many houses were also burnt arguably the most important town as close to my care because of the proximity to the near three it's basically as close as you can get to the city without being in the city itself and fighting there doesn't stop even at night and half of the town has been badly damaged now if the army succeeds in the near school it will be completely blocked from the only humanitarian corridor left the city's authorities have already warned people that the water supply is being cut off electricity in many districts and deliveries of food and drinking water only arrive every few days on top of that bombs and rockets rained down
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killing dozens and destroying what little people have i mean all the ukrainian media are reporting that a refugee column has come under fire outside lugansk of the union in news agency quotes a ukrainian military official saying self-defense forces are behind the attack and that it resulted in a large number of casualties no evidence of the alleged assault has been proven yet a leader of the anti government forces told r.t. that even if such an attack took place the militia couldn't have carried it out. this road they're talking about is being shelled from rocket launchers all the time and the reason the army's bombing it is because it's our road of life it's being used to deliver humanitarian aid to the city and it's the exit for the refugees who are fleeing to russia so this road has been under fire for more than a month now i myself was once caught in the shelling our weapons are facing the opposite direction with our backs to the road because we're defending it there's no
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way we could have fired at it. on the diplomatic front some progress has been made in an attempt to resolve the ukrainian crisis the russian foreign minister has spoken to the press after five hours of long talks with top diplomats from germany france and ukraine he said while certain steps had been taken forward of the same stumbling blocks remain the science failed to reach an understanding on a ceasefire or the political process and other foreign ministers stress that the ceasefire must be unconditional but he said key of continues to demand a vague conditions rob underlined that national unity is key to resolving the crisis he also commented on the alleged movement of russian troops and machinery along the border saying russia is taking whatever measures needed to secure its territory. in terms of armored vehicles weapons that are own territory i'd like to stress that there is
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a war on the other side of the border and it's being waged with heavy artillery military jets rocket launchers and according to some reports even ballistic missiles and it's just cologne which is if not hundreds of meters from the russian border sheryl's flew into want territory more than once so we have every right to secure a border however we think is necessary. meanwhile care doesn't seem all that bothered over the whereabouts of a russian photographer missing in the country for two weeks now the interior ministry has said it doesn't want to be bombarded with questions over under a stone and. it did issue a search warrant and blamed anti-government forces for holding him captive ukrainian officials have repeatedly gone back and forth admitting then denying they had him sent in disappeared or with the fifth in eastern ukraine where he was covering the military crackdown on the region you can get all the details on our
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website at r.t. dot com. coming up later in the program the u.s. steps up its offensive in iraq american warplanes support kurdish forces in an assault on the country's largest dam that's while the british prime minister calls for even more involvement in the fight against the jihad. and then saying why they never strikes the same place twice and that would be true unless that is you get your hands on one of these machines which has managed to create its own vaults will have more on these stories after this. there's a media leader so we need to be. part of the scene bush and secure the place your party there's
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a bill. for shoes that no one is at stake with to get that you deserve answers from it's all politics. are. on america and the financial world. is to moments i mean not stopping to see the family take you know to the credit not going to get it in life there are good. those who want to get involved to stop isis in iraq are allied with isis is syria we still should be doing everything we can't afford 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.
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they are back with us on our t. international in gaza large crowds have taken advantage of a temporary ceasefire to protest against israel's military offensive but the truth is such it's wide later today with fears growing it will mean yet more bloodshed until now the conflict has already claimed created two thousand palestinian lives and left many more scarred both physically and mentally paraphilia was therefore already has a story of one man he's been left literally speechless of what's what happened the last directory 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 on the west bank which is in part controlled by israel almost a month later he was released into palestinian jurisdiction in
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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 or a kid i was nearly frayed for him moss is the type who can't handle insult and humiliation and yet must have been a very difficult experience for him he is an extremely sensitive person and he does not accept insult or humiliation. a high flying computer engineer who is apparently a normal health until his arrest. doctors say he was injected with unknown substances that shocked his system sending him into a comatose state and the patient was given medicine during his detention which are known to us here of the emergency room of a hospital presenting symptoms of shock and he was shaken his lawyer says israel claimed he was a member of hamas and supported the movement something his father vehemently denies
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and i know my son he doesn't. remember any association even but even how much he was happy even anybody and he just being at least thirty years 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 positions and kept in total isolation in what he called a black hole all of that period i didn't see him i didn't allowed me to see him or even 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 red lines it seems that he was broken psychologically africa did from atmosphere of detention from
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that 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 victim's neighbors visited him at the hospital he too alleged he been arbitrarily targeted at the same crossing ten days ago i was on my way to saudi arabia and they sent me back to the border well this is another example. daily abuse imposed on people not just for the being of them 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 didn't get it two hundred to three hundred beslan. and this is i think just collective punishment law it's case although on usually severe
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highlights the tight control that israel's army and ministry of defense have a 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. we've got most henri's for you on our website including you might use it but should you trust it he reports from a home felt about it we keep pedia and on earth the murky side of the world's most popular encyclopedia. and the height of photography more than a million incredible photos have been taken from the international space station since it first trip to the heavens at the start of the millennium and we've got the pick of the bunch for you and arky dot com. the u.s.
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has stepped up its strikes in iraq carrying out the largest military operation there since the withdrawal of troops in two thousand and eleven american warplanes have targeted the positions and vehicles of the jihad is helping kurdish forces to retake control of iraq's largest dam the strategically important city supply of water and electricity to the north of the country and was seized by islamic state militants earlier this month as long as managed to take over large areas of iraqi territory in the month and declared caliphate. the u.k.'s prime minister has called for a broader security response towards the threat posed by the islamic state he claimed humanitarian efforts are not enough to cope with the issue and suggested using the country's military to destroy the caliphate but just an expert on iraq a summary am i danny says british army and support of rebels in neighboring syria
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has and for it spurred on the hardest in iraq. this is something. the british government should not so talk about. when it started funding. the various groups said to you over ten billion pounds were spread about sixteen billion dollars in some estimates iraqis. and within the context of syria with figures are not available but certainly. tens of millions of pounds on the. to destabilize city have basically make it open to all be separatists organization these terrorist organizations were created you used by by the west some followers including including britain and as the british leader calls for more involvement in iraq let's take a look at what the previous campaign cost there were forty six thousand british
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troops deployed to the country around one hundred and eighty of them were killed the government expected to spend two point five billion pounds but the actual cost turned out to be more than three times high am most of the spending went to the military with only just five percent of the money going to aid. well the more headlines from around the world at least two hundred and fifty people have reportedly been injured after a strong quake hit the iranian province of lama water electricity and phone lines with severe after the american crew just six quake there's no response to reports of fatalities. in pakistan tens of thousands of anti-government protesters have taken to the streets the opposition announced a forty eight hour ultimatum to the current prime minister nawaz sharif to resign and urged pakistanis not to pay taxes all utility bills police estimate around fifty five thousand people have occupied the center of the capital.
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in the liberian capital and quarantine center for it while a patients have been attacked and looted by a crowd claiming the current epidemic is a hoax at least seventeen patients are for the escape while ten others were taken away by their family for the attack has about fears the deadly virus that will now spare for the. fender and lightning for centuries mankind has been amazed as well as terrified at the threatening beauty of nature's fury but these days we can throw a thunderbolts at the push of the button as the area between its big. shooting standard 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
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that it's decades old when it can do this. this monster machine 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 as a salute we use it to test the impact of lightning on things like aircraft if a plane a struggle by a thunderbolt in could cause a disaster here we're testing models to make sure the planes are properly protected and the designers know where to place the vital equipment one such test means at 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 manmade thunderstorms has become a magnet for fans and tourists and i think i was the luckiest. finally
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dark outside and now it's only a matter of rolling this with. the train co r t. coming up the bank battle for the barrier but if he and the u.k. cross stuck people about. 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 karl 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
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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 online 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 we all the to be smacked in the face with reality as 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 healthier and family well we might have less war mongers around but that's just my opinion. talking about language is what i react to situations i have read the reports for. clues to know i will leave next tuesday.
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