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well. the us soon becomes even more militarized as the national guard is deployed to help the heavily armed police topple protesters outraged over the shooting of the teen by an officer. of visibly frail julian assange says he's ready to leave his refuge in london and his supporters say only one police lives a multi-million two year old blockade and guarantees and passage. in the first russian trucks carrying humanitarian aid at the ukrainian border
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checkpoint a way to go but with little progress made towards a cease fire and it's heading into an area of chaos and violence. a very warm welcome to you if you've just joined us here on our jane to national we're live from moscow this evening you're with me with say the national guard is being deployed in the u.s. suburb of ferguson where the standoff between security forces and protesters has reached new levels of violence. police again wrongs of tear gas against protesters running over the killing of a black teenager by an officer last week curity forces say they were responding to molotov cocktails being thrown at them
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a curfew has come into effect for second night following more than a week of demonstrations which are now calling for the police to stop the crackdown on peaceful protests. and see if you can i reports from the scene. put it all 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 may have 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
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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 eighteen year old victim was shot at least six times and both bullets had the right on man to hit his head proving three told that's the conclusion of a preliminary private autopsy the doctor that examined the body concluded all the bullets were fired at the team from a distance and it was the heavy handed approach that caused so much public anger. i saw protesters in the streets at the hands of. the gun shoot and police 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 because most protect you and the people in this community as being the normal thing for police to be just. to take advantage of situations. as they did to the streets and to demand justice is
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proving a risk for demonstrators were facing police in military equipment gas marts protect the officers from the damaging effects of tear gas the launching of protesters military grade weapons smoke adna stun grenades complete the look now officers are supported us about armored vehicles that were used during the iraq and afghanistan campaigns dr mark mason an activist 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 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
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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 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. crowds of palestinians have used the fragile cease fire to display their anger at the actions of israel report on the some of those are the israeli strikes but still have to cope with the psychological trauma caused by the offense. after spending more than two years trapped in a tiny embassy room we keep leaks founder julian assange has made
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a thought an announcement. that. he. well joining us on the left out there was how exactly is he planning to do that there was somewhat cryptic hints. it was at the news conference where. well we probably haven't had this big a crowd outside london's ecuadorian embassy since julian assange first saw refuge here two years ago but the press is here because of reports that he's suffering from ill health and that he could be emerging from the embassy today to give himself up to british or 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.
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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 press is reporting i asked him about his health as well and reports that he's got a chronic lung condition and a dangerous heart condition and he didn't reply specifically about the conditions but he said that he is suffering as a result of spending two years inside the embassy now at the end of the press conference i can say that i saw ecuadorian foreign minister product leave the embassy and i saw julian assange go back to his quarters inside the embassy but for now we're outside and we're waiting in case he should make an apparent reporting from london i'm. so why would
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a son should leave now well according to his associates it is due to a new knoll that bends the extradition without charges. what's happened here which hasn't been widely reported but is certainly in print is that the laws changed regarding the european arrest warrant laws changed in the sense that no one no one now in britain can be extradited against their will to a country without being charged and of course as everybody knows what's significant about julian assange has difficulty is that he's never been charged i can feel for that he is ready to leave the embassy as soon as the police presence here is called off in the u.k. has already decided to give him a safe houses to work with or. with the foreseeable was through accordance to international agreements that they have signed. in a son's lunch we keep leaks in two thousand and six dedicating the project to making the troops public in two thousand and ten the website posted through all of
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the highly embarrassing documents maybe you as diplomatic memos and wall files the same yes we did issued an arrest warrant for an alleged sexual assault which he denied in two thousand and eleven a london court approved the extradition to sweden he tried to appeal but that didn't work so he fled to the ecuadorian embassy in june two thousand and twelve and also for political asylum within two months ecuador granted him the asylum he's remained in the embassy since unable to leave director of the center for investigative journalist gavin mcfayden who's a friend of a son says it's all taken a huge toll on his health and mental state. well it's very difficult for actively being locked in a room knowing that if you stepped outside the terrible things would happen to you the embassy itself is a warm and friendly place but but the rooms are cramped and crowded there's no sunlight there's no fresh air. it's not a great place to spend a month and a lot alone two years that's
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a long long time and i think it bears on you and i think there's also the worry that should he become seriously ill which obviously we hope he never does he'd have to leave the embassy to get medical care and which case he'd be arrested and put on a plane immediately somewhere so it's a it's a very tricky situation for him and very trying i think emotionally and put him physically in every important way. still coming up as the u.s. is pushing on with his largest military operation in iraq that since the forces officially pulled out and bush and could be next decide military action as david cameron calls for a larger response to the jihad as threat posed by islamic state militants. the first of almost three hundred russian trucks destined for eastern ukraine at the border checkpoint waiting to be let through it took three days numerous hurdles and a great deal of uncertainty for kiff to finally accept that the convoy was indeed
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carrying only humanitarian aid before the vehicles undergo their very first inspection loria financial know when to see what's inside. 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 roarin a border checkpoint and you know 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 mr lee is going to open it for us. military to see here's a truck is on. it's about the last. reason we're simply carrying it. on wasn't going. book wait for
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its buckwheat and the bags are just in case anyone suspects it's guns and munition or something else like weapons of mass destruction. denise tells me that each bag is fifty kilograms and the route one hundred sixty bags here which means a tool to hold. eight tons and this is he tells me the maximum or 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. the queen in media reporting that
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a refugee column has come under fire outside no ganske ukrainian military officials say self-defense forces are behind the attack which resulted in a large number of casualties no evidence has been provided yet now we spoke to the leader of the at a government forces can quote walk. this road they're talking about is being shelled from rocket launchers all the time and the reason the army's bombing 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 way we could have fired at it. the grand national guard says it's had twenty five skirmishes with antigovernment forces over the past twenty four hours forces one to
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connections between the two largest cities in the eastern iraq as well as in lugansk now in order to do so they're trying to take control over the small towns and villages on the road connecting both cities now here in net musicians and to govern fighters destroyed a rocket launcher the army uses to shell the area and just over here in a giant of god it also came under fire many houses were burned them arguably the most important town is. because of its proximity to then yes it's basically as close as you can get to the city without being in the city itself and fighting there continues day and night and half of the town has been badly damaged and i have the army succeeds in the near to go will be completely blocked from the only humanitarian corridor left the cities of orgies have already warned people that the water supply is being cut of is no electricity in many districts and deliveries of
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food and drinking water are only every few days on top of that bombs and rockets rained down killing dozens and destroying what little people have made wrong here has offered 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 andrei stern and. about two weeks ago did issue a search warrant and accuse anti-government forces of holding him every fall that ukrainian authorities briefly admitted they had him before backtracking standen disappeared on august 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 tea dot com. one is a coming your way after the break to stay with us. do
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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. thank you for staying with us 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 the hardest and the hardware allowing kurdish forces to retake control of iraq's largest them the strategically important facilities supplies of water and electricity to the north of the country islamists have managed to take large areas of iraqi territory and declared a caliphate the aim of the u.k.'s prime minister david cameron called for
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a broader response to the threat posed by a baseline mixtape group suggesting british military involvement let's discuss is not with john a wide and author who has written extensively about the middle east he joins us live you live on our team to national mr wide this lag stage group has made a strong statement about their plans to expand a caliphate into europe is that a real threat to britain or just talk about going getting media's attention well i think is their form of a lot of i think the prospects of the islamic state or a near of of such permutation moving into europe is fanciful to say the least i think what they're doing is they're very cleverly playing on people's fears they're able to purport for your sense of moral panic and this is very evident and the bellicose statements that we're seeing from people like you that comment to david cameron is clearly the political equivalent of rip van winkle the fictional
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character goes to sleep for twenty years before waking up to find that the world has changed and the idea that countries that were responsible for destroying iraq are now going to go in and see that is really beyond party. you know research has been carried out into how much public support this lemmings to a group has in europe's biggest nations apparently in france it has reached fifteen percent how significant is that. grow a significant if you take an insulation but i think there's more than one issue being played the nice figures i think the domestic situation in france a regards to minorities in particular is not very good social cohesion is very weak we see that reflected in the success of the national front the far right and your fascist party in the recent european elections. and so i think there's
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an issue spirit of youth unemployment with the treatment of minorities through the lack of social cohesion because the french policy of assimilation of the minorities is clearly a field one if you compare that to britain where we have a poetry or a principle of multiculturalism not perfect it certainly helps and terms of respect and the right of minorities to practice their religion and culture too much most asian from the states i don't think that's the same situation in france and i think these photos reflect that there's also the fact that feed their kids are more of western intervention in the middle east the slaughtering of millions of people. or helping in the slaughter millions of people across the middle east libya syria iraq afghanistan is the standard for the times israel policy things i think this is if you dislike people in the west of public opinion not just among muslims by that in general i want to just elaborate a little bit more on what you just touched on there in terms of the demographics stay with friends those ages eighteen to twenty four showing to be the ones who are
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mostly supportive of this islamic state group. the demographic culpable role do they play in things like this and should we be worried that like you said minorities and those who feel that they a little bit sidelined in society actually going to join and supporting such radical groups. well we should definitely be worried i mean the only way to defeat an idea is with a more powerful idea and that more powerful idea at this point is locking. parties for war and i am quite consensus when it comes to be economy when it comes to foreign policy. never more never be more unique it all across europe under the rubric of austerity which is really just a mass experiment in human disappear the young people especially for minorities and from low income backgrounds are having a hard hard time so this is going to create a backlash and proceed not by quite clearly is a worry that the the sentiment towards our opposition is being funneled to fanatics
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such as the islamic state from we called isis has sent me a cell nobody but i think there's more than one issue you play the new figures as i said i think the mistake issues in france the mystic situation in germany and all across europe is being burned up in the spirit of young people will never have never been more dealing need to. know this clearly something has to be done to your address their concerns right staying with the what you just said domestic issues could be behind some of the think it's thirty three percent on that same. research say that they blamed iraq instability on the u.s. led war do you agree with that. think that subsequently self-evident was what we have seen exposed to know after we close or is that the moral high ground from which the us and its allies have long lectured the way of the rest of the world on democracy and human rights and international law is in truth
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a stinking smoldering dung heap of hypocrisy and double standards were are now of implementing and cutting out your strikes in northern iraq where were the airstrikes over gaza against israeli military forces as they were slaughtering women and children there was a no fly zone and this these fanatics have been running rampant in syria for the last few years and videos forms and we have been extending ourselves in trying to undermine the sitting government not waste in a year ago we were contemplating bombing the sitting government in the city and forces so the whole procedure is very real why suddenly this call to arms when isis still islamic still running rampant in northern iraq i wonder if it's anything to do with the fact that the u.p.a. the us and the west have extensive interests in oil production per purpose don't have anything to do with it i think to ask that person is that sort of john white asking some very tough questions they on this issue author who has written
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extensively about the middle east thank you i know we have we're getting new information right now brokaw's from open space way to russian cosmonauts carrying out a spacewalk they are launching on a go no said i did created by students from russia and the room now the device is called tusky which means korea in the language of to reveal an indian's student spend three designing its satellite weighs just one kilo its memory contains information about human civilization including things like children's drawings that will be launched into altus wave as a message to anyone who finds that twenty two but that's not. all be monitored from the earth every day for half a year because we're not launching it will spend around six hours outside the international space station they will also carry out a number of scientific talks before returning to their colleagues and there you're watching footage live of that happening right now.
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moving on to other stories and people have used the last day of a temporary ceasefire to call on israel to renew not to renew rather its military offensive but also true as is expected to expire later today it's feared the bloodshed will begin again after another month long conflict has more than two thousand palestinian lives with many others left with physical and mental scars is in gaza party and met one man who has literally been left beaches. after eighty 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
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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 merely freight for him he's the type who can't handle insult and humiliation and you must have been a very difficult experience for him doctors say he was injected with unknown substances that shocked his system sending him into a comatose state the patient was given during his detention which are known to us that the emergency room of a hospital presenting 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 of any decision even but even hammers he was heavy even anybody and he just he engaged and he's thirty years and he
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just good with his home with his familiar with his war with his job until a few days ago was mute and unconscious now able to mumble words he took hours to tell his father he did legibly undergone harsh treatment forced into stress positions and kept in total isolation in what he called a black hole no one from the israeli prison service or army was available to respond to these serious accusations moths case although on usually severe 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
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r.t. the occupied west bank. coming up after the big battle for the barrier for british heroes it's going underground. 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 once was journalist in something very unusual to step his kids back into the real world journalist karl magnus held a green son 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 it 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
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method of parenting works and his children have stopped their on line war this strategy might sound a little extreme and while 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 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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