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technology innovation all the developments around russia we've got the future covered. a visibly frail julian a son says he's ready to leave his refuge in london but his supporters say only when police lived among two million two year old blockade and guaranteed safe passage. he was probable ferguson becomes even more militarized as the national guard is deployed to help and happily armed police tackle protesters outraged over the shooting of a teen by knox. and other for his russian trucks carrying humanitarian aid at the ukrainian border checkpoint ready to go but with little progress made toward the scene it's heading into an area pale and violent.
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wherever you're watching from around the world of this international law from moscow welcome you with me to bunk with say. after spending more than two years trapped in a tiny embassy room we could leaks founder julian assange has made a sudden announcement. that there is. no. right to be the. what you know son jett left out there was how exactly he's planning to do that though there was somewhat cryptic hints argues when a boy go was that the news conference for us. well we probably haven't had this big a crowd outside london's ecuadorian embassy since julian of songe first saw refuge
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here but two years ago the press is here because of reports that he's suffering from ill health and that he would be emerging from the embassy today to give himself up to the british royal forties now there's certainly no shortage of police waiting for him to grab him in case he should make an appearance he would be extradited to sweden where he's wanted for questioning and he's always said that he fears that he then be sent on to the us where he's been investigated for over four years now for publishing u.s. diplomatic cables back in two thousand and ten now i was just in a very small press conference with julian assange and ricardo patino ecuador's foreign minister inside the embassy and in response to the question that's gripping all the press outside as to whether he's leaving today or he said very cryptic clearly that he is planning on leaving very soon but not for the reasons that the
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press is reporting i asked him about his health as well and reports that he's got a lung condition and a dangerous on condition and he didn't reply specifically about the musicians but he said that he is suffering as a result of spending two years inside the embassy has no garden so he's not able to go outside to catch any sunlight to get any fresh air and he said that in the four years that he's been in fineman here in britain since he was first arrested when he was in prison in solitary confinement he did get an hour a day outside he doesn't get that now but throughout the press conference or caught a victim here was talking about needing to get to a diplomatic and legal breakthrough with the british royal for ities trying to secure safe passage for julian assange to go to ecuador or to overturn that extradition request now at the end of the press conference i can say that i saw at . jorian foreign minister protecting you leave the embassy and i saw julian assange
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go back to his forces inside the embassy but for now we're outside and we're waiting in case he should make an appearance pushing from london i'm poly boy. let's take a look at jenna sundries journey he launched a weekly leaks in two thousand and six dedicating the project to making the truth public in two thousand and ten the website person throbbed of highly embarrassing documents mainly u.s. diplomatic memos and war files now that same yes we've been issued an arrest warrant for such over an alleged sexual assault which he denied to the eleven a london court approved the extradition to sweden he tried to appeal but that didn't work so he fled to their can dorian embassy in june twenty twelve an answer for political asylum within two months ecuador granted him asylum and he has remained in the embassy since unable to leave but later reports also suggested being a hold up has led to him developing significant health problems that could even be life threatening. a little earlier we spoke to we could exist briggs prison
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christine preference and outside the embassy he told us about the preconditions which need to be met for a son to leave. i can confirm that he is ready to go and ready to leave at a very short notice if you're referring to rumors that sort of circulating some hours ago that he would be leaving today unfortunately that is not the case but i can't confirm that he is raise or leave the embassy as soon as the police presence here is called off in the u.k. authorities decided to give him space a passes to ecuador. whistle for seattle bligh's who are in accordance to a international agreement that they have signed it is a grueling approaches from international organizations in. the u.k. authorities in all honestly to support these organizations recognize and understand that the genius of us is lies are being violated and this has to be corrected and that is no two two two two heads so it's nice. crowds of
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palestinians have used the fragile cease fire to display their anger at the actions of israel now report on some of those who escape the israeli strikes but still have to cope with the psychological trauma but the offensive. the national guard is being deployed in the u.s. above ferguson where the standoff between security forces and protesters has reached new levels of violence. police again and. again protesters blending in for the hitting of a black teenager by an officer. during forces say they were responding to monetise cocktails being thrown at them a curfew that has came into effect for a second night following more than a week of demonstrations which are now calling for the police to stop their crackdown on peaceful protest i think and if you see
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a trip you know reports from you. could tell 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 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 fell 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 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. the
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eighteen year old victim was shot at least six times four bullets hit his right arm and two hits his head proving fatal that's the conclusion of a preliminary private autopsy the doctor that examined the body concluded all the bullets were fired at the teen from a distance and it was the heavy handed approach that course so much public anger i saw protesters in the street at the hands of. the gun shoot and we just you know made a move 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 most protect you in the form of people in this community as being your normal day for police to be just. to take your friends to situations. take you to the streets to demand justice is proving a risk for demonstrators who are facing police in military equipment gas mafia protect officers from the damaging effects of the tear gas they launching against
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protesters military grade weapons smoke and stun grenades complete the look now officers are supported by armored vehicles that were used during the iraq and afghanistan campaigns 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 of theory 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 a billion dollars of military grade equipment to police departments in the united
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states that's when you're alone almost half a billion dollars of material they are not trained to use this material day don't know what they're doing with it and we should not have paramilitary troops not on the streets of bout 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 youth in ukraine at the border checkpoint waiting to be left three it took three days numerous hurdles and a great deal of uncertainty for kids to finally accept that the convoy it was indeed carrying only humanitarian aid now before the wiggles undergo their very losses. and also not want to see them. these sixteen tracks from the russian humanitarian convoy others first to reach the russian ukrainian border they are now parked here literally meters away from donetsk is right in
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a border checkpoint earlier today the cargo these trucks are carrying has only been inspected by the representatives of the international red cross and now we're going to do the same i'm going to pick out this route and lastly it's going to require us . military to see here's a truck. it's about the last. fifty kilograms and the right one hundred sixty bags here which means a tool to hold. eight tons and this is he tells me the maximum or
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what they struck in carry well 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 here kryten border. the ukrainian media reporting that a refugee com has come under fire outside lugansk ukrainian military officials say self-defense forces are behind the attack which resulted in a large number of casualties no evidence has been proved you provided it yet and we spoke to the leader of the anti government forces. what. this room they're talking
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about is being shot from route it launches all the time and the reason the army's booming is because it's so rude of noise it's being used to deliver the humanitarian aid to the city and it's the exit for the refugees who are fleeing to russia so this rule has been under fire for more than a month now i myself was one school in the shelling our weapons are facing the opposite direction with our backs to the road because we're defending there's no way we could afford it. they were going imaginal god says it is hard it had twenty five skirmishes with into government forces over the past twenty four hours not killed forces one to serve a connections between the two largest cities in the east there will be denounced and lugansk in order to do so they are trying to take control of dozens of small little villages on the road connecting them now here in mears didn't care antigovernment fighters destroyed a rocket launcher the army uses to the area and over here as don of it also came
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under fire many houses or were bridge arguably the most important town is just. because of its proximity to the nearby it's basically as close as you can get to the city without being in the city itself fighting continues day and night and half of the town has been badly damaged if the army succeeds demand school 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 there's no electricity in many districts and deliveries of food and drinking water arrive only every few days on top of that bombs and rockets rained down killing dozens and destroying what little people have. meanwhile kiev has offered a little help in the search for a russian photographer who has been missing in ukraine for two weeks now the interior ministry now says it doesn't want to be bombarded with questions about
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understanding although about two weeks ago it did issue a search warrant and accuse and to government forces of holding him before that ukrainian authorities briefly admitted to they had him before backtracking stannin disappeared on august the fifth in eastern ukraine where he was covering the military crackdown on the region you can get all the details on our website at our t. dot com. the u.s. is a pushing on with its love this military operation in iraq has since its forces officially pulled out and britain could be next to start military action as david cameron calls for a larger response to the jihad as thread by islamic state militants still ahead for you. and. soviet machine made to create their own balls
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proved that like mean can in fact strike the same place twice that's always after this. there was very interesting because it was dropped out of the sky all of the rohrbach up there were shipped across a few degrees. of the circle and at a speed but you know just astronomical speeds. on marriage in the financial world. moments i mean not stop exuberance only takes no demand for credit. in life there are jews. those who want to get involved to stop isis in iraq are allied with isis in syria
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but 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. thank you for staying with us in gaza people have used the last day of a temporary ceasefire to call on the israel tiring to remain not to renew its military offensive but as the truth is expected to expire later today it's here the bloodshed will begin again and now the month long a complex has claimed to be only two thousand palestinian lives with many of us left with physical and mental scars airy fairy was a far timid one man who is a literally been left beach less. the law after
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a day from the northern 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 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 here early freight for him lost his the type who can't handle insult and humiliation can you 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 was 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 and the patient was given months new during his detention which are known to us that the hospital presented 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 association even but even how much he was happy even anybody and just seeing these thirty years. just get 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
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a black hole all of the i didn't see him i did 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 the atmosphere of detention from that we have. 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 to the border this is
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another example. daily abuse and tolls on people not just with their being a palestinian problem 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 besson deny access and this is i think a disconnect in richmond moth's 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. we've got more stories for you on our website including you might use it but should you trust argy reports from a conference held about
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a week u.p.d. and on the earth the murky side of the world's most popular encyclopedia. and at the height of photography more than a million photos have been taken from the international space station since it first showed to the happens at the start of the millennium and we've got the pick of the planet for you on our t.v. dot com. the u.s. has stepped up its strikes in iraq making it the largest military operation there since its troops withdrew in two thousand and eleven american warplanes have been targeting jihad it's and the hard way allowing kurdish forces to retake control of iraq's largest dam the strategically important for cities applies water and electricity to the north of the country islamists have managed to take over large areas of iraqi territory and declared a caliphate there you case prime minister david cameron called for
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a broader response to the threat posed by b. islamic state group suggesting british military involvement but so shortages an expert on iraq some me ramadani says by army and supporting the rebels in neighboring syria britain has in fact spurred on the jihad as in you rock. this is something. the british government so it's about. whether it started fund. groups. to you know over ten billion. dollars in some estimates i.p.s. . and within the context of syria. not available but certainly. tens of millions of pounds. to destabilize syria basically to make it open to all the separatists organizations these terrorist organizations were.
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used by by the worst of it including including britain and as the british leader called for more involvement in iraq let's take a look at what the previous campaign caught a total of about forty six thousand british troops put their lives on the line in iraq the government expected to spend on two point five billion pounds but eventually the campaign calls them more than three times as much most of that spending went to the military was just five percent going to the post conflict aid efforts. from to enlightening for centuries mankind has been amazed as well as terrified at the threatening beauty of nature but these days it's actually been domesticated and now we can even throw thunderbolts at the push of a button. report. shooting thunderbolts at the click of a button. that takes something as tall curvy and alien looking
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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 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 suspiciously it 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 man made thunderstorms has
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become a magnet for fans and tourists and i think i was the luckiest. finally dark outside and now it's only a matter of rolling this with. the train co r t. by some headlines from around the world now clashes between two rival militias have turned parts of the libyan capital into a battlefield and even the country's weak government with almost no control over tripoli rivalries erupted a month ago between the groups including brigades of former rebels who took part in the uprising that ousted one my gadhafi the battles have forced the united nations and western governments to evacuate their diplomats fearing libya is sliding into another civil war. tens of thousands opposition
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supporters have gathered in pakistan's capital of islamabad for an anti-government protest to separate groups occupying the city's main streets saying they will stay there until prime minister nawaz sharif's steps down it's been given until monday night to which time opposition leaders have threatened to call for a macho on top level government buildings. i'll be back in the about thirty minutes time with more news don't go away stay with us. trust me i like video games you could tell from my physique but feel like all beat it could distort reality in the minds of kids and one swedish journalist it's very unusual to step his kids back into the real world journalist karl magnus tell
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grandson 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 there's a whole group 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 online war this strategy might sound a little. extreme and all very expensive i can't afford to fly my family to israel to prove a point but sometimes we're 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 helper and family well we might have less war mongers around but that's just my opinion.
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those who want to get involved to stop isis in iraq 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. to genetics but eugenics vulgarize ation of darwin science punishment for an uncommitted crying i was never supposed to learn to believe in eighty feebleminded still today if you don't know why. but 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.
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