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back russian humanitarian trucks returned home after bringing much needed supplies to eastern ukraine r.t. followed the convoy on a dangerous aid mission which was dubbed an invasion by kiev. you can see this black smoke over there shelley never stops in the city. but jury did on whether murder charges should be pressed against a police officer who shot dead an unarmed black teenager called demonstrators in ferguson missouri two weeks since march. plus. a lot of the flint. hundreds of e.u.
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citizens are volunteering to join the ranks of militants fighting in syria and iraq we report on the growing number of jihadi sympathizers in europe. are they watching r.t. international it's good to have you company the russian humanitarian trucks have come back from a mission in eastern ukraine have brought tons of vital supplies to the people in war torn mccants. followed the aid convoy on its dangerous trip. it finally happened after being stuck at the border for ten days russian trucks with relief aid for eastern ukraine start their life saving journey which took off from russia's border city of donetsk it's right here just sixty kilometers from the guns go final destination but the main road is very dangerous the rock fierce clashes
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there right now and this is why we take and turn to for a little bit to the know and this is why i will have to drive at least one hundred kilometers and still it's not completely safe the road twists through picturesque pastures the image of the coast snaking through the horizon looks so peaceful but we are in the zone of a large scale military operation there are checkpoints at every crossroads calm demand and miter the caus hides in the forest for no camp there and government forces control in this part of ukraine and they have provided security for the humanitarian convoy. that is now heading towards the gonski need way we suddenly stop and reconnaissance groups and before us reports danger had but media got all their babies and now they are not out of some ideas up off my book of the universe and. not always using it was no one knew anything about them and. two hours
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later we continue but we changed the show again for security reasons the road we had to take is a wild path this is why we are now moving very very slowly in the villages we pass through some of the few residents left to the sight of the cars. we are entering the gonski now after more than four. hours driving you can see this black smoke over there shelling never stops in the city for security reasons again the convoy divides and the trucks and to different try. we follow one of the groups the relief caravan is welcomed by locals who have become so hungry and desperate during the days of hardship wiped out of other part that i wasn't sure if you have. met my need to walk alone but you can't even ominous time of need to walk to make one
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additional panetta board to miami which can be a problem for your kid or you do you care for one for put on a minute and tell you look so you think you will. keep a watch out for new york for us which could get. you know which could awkward to carryout would be my kids got a point to cut that point finally the convoy arrives at one of the city's warehouses willing to use it here to help with downloading. the aid will first go to socially vulnerable groups and those who have been affected the most by the ongoing crisis in lugansk but also in neighboring towns and villages along the way to humanitarian aid from russia his finally now here is a look god's time as i told to take medicine and other goods that are sorely needed to tame the city that has been living under a very intense shelling for many months and recently without electricity or word to the people of this war torn region have been waiting for this convoy for many days
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within the next hours they will start receiving the first help. pre-production our team lugansk ukraine. while the city of the ganske is surrounded and constantly under attack by camps forces activists say that hundreds of civilians have died just a warning graphic images are ahead residents say gruesome scenes like this is becoming a part of everyday life five hundred thousand people used to live in advance but more than half of them have fled according to local authorities numerous residential buildings and houses have been destroyed and hardly any place in the city is unsafe. moscow pressed ahead with its delivery saying that the humanitarian situation in eastern ukraine is dire but the u.s. says the humanitarian convoys journey is a flagrant violation of ukraine's sovereignty and threatened consequences for russia while a white house security official claims russia sent repainted military trucks into
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ukraine but didn't give any proof they also said that most of the vehicles weren't inspected properly even though foreign journalists in the red cross were allowed to check out the cargo what the statement doesn't mention is the humanitarian disaster in the ganske people there have been without basic supplies for nearly three weeks now. let's think of. this little. such thing. if i. felt. like. you were. watching someone you. know the number of ukrainians fleeing violence in the east of the nation is constantly increasing more than one thousand people leave the combat zone every day the u.n. says and according to the organization for refugee agency over seven hundred
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thousand people fled ukraine from from ukraine to russia this year alone the conflict has also left more than one hundred ten thousand people internally displaced the u.n. chief for humanitarian affairs says it's crucial not to politicize the di situation many civilians in eastern ukraine i read. i think that there are politically serious which need to be addressed between your frame and the russian federation what i think is important in terms of the humanitarian aspects of. those aspects are not politicized one of the important things about humanitarian work is that it's independent it's neutral it's about bringing aid to people desperate need i regret that this whole issue of the convoy became highly politicized and i hope that that does not happen again. german chancellor angela merkel has
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offered ukraine five hundred million euros to rebuild eastern ukraine as donbass region the money will be allocated to waste. to be created in september or the german leader discussed the situation in eastern ukraine with the nation's president during her working visit to kiev artie's porus lee has more on what was said. what many good words have been said and often these are the would say people here in half ruined dinette square want to hear but experience has shown him to be a little bit suspicious of what leaders are saying on the one hand the german chancellor angela merkel say that she does support a ceasefire she also said that the interests of russian speaking citizens in ukraine needs to be addressed she also said she supports the idea of eight decentralization of power the ukrainian president petro poroshenko said that he was setting up a fund to the tune of some five hundred million euros that was being provided for by germany now he has been asking for money to help rebuild donbass with
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essentially the ukrainian army has been active both leaders did say that they understood that a purely military solution was impossible merkel did however slip some one sided remarks she expressed unquestioning support for the kiev government she also said that they couldn't be a peace process for as long as weapons were coming across the border from russia into ukraine now this is a claim that has been made by several western leaders but none of them have been able to back up these claims with any kind of proof or evidence the german chancellor also saying that all previous ceasefires had been unilateral and broken by antigovernment fighters now this is not something that people on the ground have been telling us so many people here in the new guns going to next region say that all previous truce has happened while simultaneously you had the ukrainian military continuing with its shelling and its operations well for my state secretary to the
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german minister of defense says angela merkel's call for a cease fire gives him hope the chancellor is seeing her citizens position on ukrainian conflict. people here in germany are fed up with nato allies and they are fed up with was organized by the united states here and there and everywhere and therefore is saying it is totally unnecessary to provide president poroshenko with window off. we are not interested in having the ongoing conflict in the eastern part of the ukraine if you should do the utmost to find a peaceful solution and therefore i think most people here in glee tools ila marks . that weapons should be silent in zero clane. found on a website called me off following the fate of russian photographer stan him who disappeared in ukraine nineteen days ago he's worked for media outlets like.
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various hotspots around the world calls for his release a globally supported by a free andrew campaign on social networks. the grand jury is considering whether charges should be pressed against the us police officers suspected of killing an unarmed black teen meanwhile demonstrators in ferguson missouri two weeks. death supporters of the police said in a separate rally you nearby since the shooting was justified. as the details the anger and frustration over the fatal shooting of unarmed teenager michael brown has not gone away this community is still demanding justice and accountability for brown's death darren wilson the white police officer who shot proud six times remains on paid leave now meanwhile the st louis grand jury has begun weighing avenues to determining it. should be charged with killing the eighteen year old the
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decision is expected in october but the makeup of the jury may ignite a new wave of backlash nine white people and only three black people were chosen as jurors the odd even representation may ignite a new feeling of injustice causing the public to accuse the process of being biased now on issues of transparency surrounding the shooting the ferguson police has disclosed as little information as possible the official police incident report obtained by the a.c.l.u. is only two pages long and does not include a description of the shooting the shooting scenes or quotes from eye witnesses names of officers involved or any other piece of information normally found on such documents a spokesperson for the county police says the incident report includes the information . they are required to share by law and now michael brown's funeral is scheduled to take place on monday but over the weekend many events vigils and demonstrations are
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planned to take place with tempers still high it's not clear how quiet or violent things may get marina portnoy out r.t. ferguson well thousands in new york also protested against police brutality the demonstrators call for justice for man who died when officers wrestled him to the ground and held him in a stranglehold the protesters also expressed solidarity with activists in ferguson the rallies that are being met by offices in comeback and coast to gas rubber bullets and even wooden pellets have been fired on the angry crowd meanwhile u.s. president barack obama ordered a review of military equipment used by local police and civil war activists in iraq but for him michael prize now believes the police exercise a shoot to kill policy because they think they can get away with it. the reason that they can do this is because they know there's absolutely zero accountability
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police have a free pass to do whatever they want and you know that they're going to get away with it know that they're never going to be held accountable and the facts and racism and white supremacy of course plays so much into that because that's why these white officers can kill black people on a massive massive scale and are never punished for it and as soon as the incident happens the entire system rallies around the defense of the police officer and demonizes the victim that's what we saw with the michael brown days and the reason that there is such militarization of the police and such heavy handed tactics that we've seen used in ferguson the whole reason the national guard has drawn out is because those protests were an expression of real deep issues in american society it seems very scary to people to see all of the equipment that the police had but the fact that they need that equipment shows that they're scared. and here's one more reason why the public is outraged with the police conduct an officer in ferguson has been suspended after insulting protesters on facebook saying that and
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i quote they should have been put down like a rabid dog another policeman was also relieved of his duties after a video emerged in which he makes racist remarks and warmly stories do head to our website. and we've got more news coming your way including how more and more french citizens are joining the ranks of the jihadists in iraq. but those who want to get involved to stop isis in iraq are allied with isis in syria but we still should be doing everything we can to support the free syrian opposition we will continue to provide military assistance and advice to the iraqi government and kurdish forces as they battle these terrorist.
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robots this is the problem we all face the machines are taking over those political stock machines are they buying stocks and machine stocks in the fall on companies to help software companies run by robots that are out there driving self robotic cars to work to get their software to drive their own stock price or to get a stock on the play themselves robots got out of the joint to get maybe but this is a rossley ship. as russia and the west continue to drift apart into a new cold war russia's world view of international politics is largely neglected in western media and in the halls of power russia will defend its national interest and also house its own red lines. again you without a now at least thirty five people have been killed in a string of bombings across iraq a day off for a deadly attack on a sing the mosque scores died when three splosion dropped the center of cook
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located in oil rich northern iraq to blast targeted security forces while the third went off on a market entrance another attack was carried out in baghdad a suicide bomb a drive his car into an entrance to intelligence offices killing eleven so what's come is the government launched a probe into friday's massacre when a gunman gunmen shot dead at least sixty eight worship this is a sunni mosque. it is still unclear whether the attackers wish a militia men or fighters from the islamic state or fully known as isis the jihadist group is sweeping the north of iraq in syria thirty five to trying to hold the lot of the jihadists in iraq backed by u.s. aircraft which are carrying out strikes on militant positions washington is considering expanding the strikes to syria as well meanwhile france's foreign minister has called for the flow of militant groups financial supplies to be stemmed his appeal comes at a time when support for jihadist inside france is growing. as more.
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according to a new poll fifteen percent of french people say they think positively of the a ceramic state for eighteen to twenty four year olds that figure is even higher while their government sends weapons to help the fight against jihadist extremism in iraq and is rallying world powers to help stamp out caliphate ideology it's estimated that around seven hundred french nationals have gone to become deter wrists in iraq and syria and that's raising concerns over what's in store when they come home you could see you in september eleventh to talk more look at a few good schools they came through the troubles that you had only nineteen. through twelve people imagine that know you have achieved for. people coming from western europe in training in syria. all of these people
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alone. could create a moment between the troubles in may a french algerian jihadist armed with a kalashnikov shot dead four people in brussels jewish museum he'd recently returned from fighting alongside jihadists in syria these are generally young fighters they're young people they're radicalized through two ways simultaneously either they may. somebody through an internet chat forum or on the internet who is islamic radical first or they meet them in person first as a result of travel to some of these countries but there's also a third way and that's through france's prison system muslims are thought to account for the whole of the country's prison population many inmates come from communities blighted by poverty and unemployment and they can be easy prey for jihadists recruited which means that an increasing number of young men a coming in here as petty criminals drug dealers and faves but that coming out as
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islamic fundamentalists around a fifth of the french jehad us fighting in syria and iraq are islamic converts just . a little. and then just is. in the process in paris people struggling to get their heads around the phenomenon thinking we do have a problem with extremism but it's a broader problem about france and integration and it's it's. it's not just a problem about. a religious problem it's also. is a so what is france and i think we are well she was struggling to find all our identity there are friction. of this tool do going there are three to to fight it's more like you like crusade to cruise something very like a moral kind of but do we have to show this is worrying owen asleep some analysts
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now say that the french government has to tread carefully over the situation in iraq to avoid angering radicalized muslims at home i think that they could become very angry and i think that the government is very careful if they do something besides sending food or water or. they would have looked at the old. here the french government's already forces law make militants in mali and now their affairs that the rise of the islam it states in iraq could be inspiring and new generation of would be jihadists in this the european country but the largest muslim population probably coati paris on the jihadist militants apparently have a fair number of sympathizers across the english channel as well according to reports around five hundred u.k. citizens are now fighting alongside the islamic state group in syria and iraq while
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some say the number is three fold higher journalist jonathan steele who's written extensively on the middle east says that the british government is hesitant to take action against them one of the crucial things is that the british government turned the people who go out to fight in syria or in one sense on the same side because there is a purpose to the assert government and the new form search it recently appointed and mr hammond said that there was no way that britain would tolerate it would work with reason i said and so the british government is on the same server and so the people who go out to fight in syria against has said obviously you know the british government is not supporting the beheading of people you know some of the atrocities that been committed but they are in the broader political sense on the same side and that's also one reason it has written to to prosecute these people to . no position to assume that it's automatic.
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and it seems that the plans of the islamic militants extend far beyond the frontiers of the middle a beast and an easy place have been put on alert at the world's largest buddhist temple after a threat made by isis supporters we've got the details for you and our website plus thirty four sailors have been displaced after a seven year long fraud scandal at the u.s. navy's nuclear power training site you can find out why at r.t. dot com. thousands of protesters have formed a human chain across the german polish border calling for plans to create a new open pit coal mine in the region to be scrapped not only will the mine require destroying new respect edges on both sides of the border but activists warn it could lead to an ecological disaster your car one of the organizers of the protest shared his concern. this is a form off electricity generation which is very environmentally germany ching it's
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burning off coal is still sterilizing the climate which is causing a lot of human suffering burning of coal it's also pricing the air which mercury and particles and most importantly mining is destroying entire villages forests and a lot of flow and in germany we are moving towards a little tricity system based on clean renewable energies and this is entirely possible entire regions are already using one hundred percent renewable energies a quick look now at some other world news after ten days of clashes islamist claiming to have taken have claimed to have taken control of tripoli international airport in libya during the raid at least ten people have been killed and dozens wounded the airport has been shut down for more than a month made clashes between islamised and the government funded in town militia. a new series of israeli airstrikes has brought the death toll of palestinians
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killed since the beginning of israel's assault on the garza strict over two thousand one hundred at least twenty two people including eleven children were wounded after israeli aircraft fired two missiles at a twelve story apartment block is followed several airstrikes on gaza which killed at least eight people and injured more than thirty one of the missiles his house before dawn claiming the lives of five members of the same family. sierra leone which has been hit by the epidemic has passed a law imposing prison terms of up to two years for those who try to hide people infected with the virus because outbreak has forced the nation to take serious measures in order to get residents to cooperate fully with government officials as they combat its spread new law is now waiting for presidential approval almost fifteen hundred deaths have already been recorded in the outbreak which has hit several west african nations. the aviation industry has been put on red alert over
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an icelandic volcano part of the country's airspace is being closed as the volcano is expected to spew large amounts of ash the nation's airports are currently operating as normal the back in twenty turned twenty ten year old eruption of another volcano in iceland cause huge disruptions to european flights. coming up next it's max and stacey and the kaiser report. just the other week on the program we discussed how it's technically legal but not very motivating to him. a curfew on to minors but now that adults are protesting in ferguson missouri the government is placing a curfew on them i'd like to make a small speculation warning this curfew is probably an excuse to break up the
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protesters once you disperse angry people a lot of their energy to protest is also dispersed but let's think about this if you take a look at the constitution there are two effective hours listed it doesn't say works from nine to five minutes just because crowd control in the darkness is much more difficult and scary for the police doesn't mean that your ability to protest vanishes along with the sun in the evening regardless of whether you agree with the protesters or whether you agree with the idea of protesting at night or not i think is beyond question that you cannot impose a curfew on adults in the united states just because the last two prison seats have used the constitution as toilet paper does not make it somehow invalid at night but that's just my opinion. that you know the price is the only industry specifically mentioned in the
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constitution and. that's because a free and open process is critical to our democracy which. will. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of our government and across a cynical we've been a hydrogen client handful of transnational corporations that will profit by destroying what our founding fathers what once was all just my job market and on this show we reveal the big picture of what's actually going on in the world we go beyond identifying the problem for trucks and rational debate and a real discussion of critical issues facing america for ready to join the movement then walk a little bit to. the west introduced sanctions against russia and obviously russia retaliated and based . confrontational rather it goes on and on what do you think about sanctions that
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is another way of solving economy and business hostage to politics is russia did invade east ukraine i mean that i don't think it is the west or russia would trade their lives until it's true twenty or thirty years you know this is no easy rifle wrong but it i definitely think something is better than complex. the be. the be. the be be. the.

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