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this is the best city market and none share will who. residents of eastern ukraine are stunned by the army's relentless assault which has killed over one hundred civilians within the space of a single week. also in the week's top stories russian trucks bring tons of aid to besiege will dance again after over a weeklong hold up at the border of the humanitarian mission being quickly dubbed an invasion by the west. calls for just as over the killing of unarmed black teenager in the u.s. city of ferguson are reply to with tear gas and rubber bullets even journalists were harassed by the security forces. john so what's the reason for ordering the
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press out what's the reason overnight about the right to break out the president take out. one part of the river. and barbaric the carrying of an american journalist by radicalized britain who joined the islamic state highlights the threats of the jihad as massive p.r. campaign in europe. which in turn are teen or national with me marina joshie welcome to the program the family of three have been killed in shelling of residential areas in the ukrainian city of donetsk the army is tightening its grip around one of the country's largest cities and another attempt to seize it from anti-government fighters a mother a father and the eleven year old daughter were running to a shelter. when the bombing began
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a rocket landed next to them on the street some forty people have been killed in the nancy this week as shells hit apartment buildings hospitals and churches all of the are now reports if you will they had only massive multiple attacks in neighborhoods and residential areas here in donetsk overnight saturday that was almost a continuous stream of shelling so much so that i and other colleagues here as well as local people i know what constantly it's a missing each other to make sure that we were ok the local press here is reporting that the ukrainian army has received an order to clear the city of local militia by independence day which is today now also receiving reports that in the past twenty four hour was the anti-government fighters have fratelli against the advancing ukrainian military and they've managed to isolate two units of the ukrainian army this comes as the ukrainian army evonne says on donates we do know that they are trying to completely encircled the city so the situation is escalating almost by
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the minute. neighboring lebanon has also suffered in towns shelling and numerous casualties this week locals there are saying no places say as residential areas come under fire daily artillery a phenomenal reports from the embattled city. the devastation of we worried shelling we were here last fall days ago and we've returned to find guns bearing the scars of sustained attack kiev is calling this a full on assault the final stage of its military operation and the fact it's having the locals is told to clear every day residential areas of the city of look and sky being targeted fortunately when this five story apartment building was hit no word was heard by the time it happened almost all of the residents have already fled minutes later we come across two of the handful of people still living here and they're clearly terrified. was
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yellow. the. many of those still here high the elderly hold to seek to leave. and like elenor they're forced to take shelter in their basements when the shelling begins to get a deal as the good you look out at me mohammad got a chilling look at the last media. i don't know what that will eventually they're you bodily spot i have the home it's the horse will be over then your point of. view all fearful over the couple barbara i know about being yelled at oh but i'm hanging on to the boat but it really angered her i was there although this is the scene in lugansk central market it was hit on monday but the smell of burning still hangs heavy on the air and steam in the line of fire this is the first city market
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and mon cher she moved here because it was. we rushed to the nearest bomb shelter and other basement. candles can still be found in the shops and they've become crucial in a city without electricity. just about to start with another piece of her. show you just miss one from us the near constant bombardment is taking its toll on locals who go to. school during the regular. week tory tells us she has little choice but to state what you usually only a couple. not of general gloom. thousands of refugees have pulled out of the guns to escape the recent shelling and even if the stones out to be the final assault on the city as the government in
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kiev claims the effects of this is taint tina will be felt by civilians here for many years to come. or if notion r.t. in lugansk ukraine. now after weeks without food and water a russian aid convoy finally arranged desperate ukrainians who lined up to get basic supplies the aid convoys now back in russia after unloading tons of food medicine and water in less than twenty four hours two hundred eighty six made their way through war torn eastern ukraine after being stalled at the border for over a week here was reluctant to lead the column through citing a lack of proper checks and documentation international red cross said it was disappointed with the way when the aid was so desperately needed. the i.c.r.c. regrets that customs inspector inspections has agreed to between the russian for the ration and ukraine you know sir it is where delayed by the ukrainian
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authorities there is even any current situation there is dire. we phoned the city without water. we go to look to city without supplies. and cut off from the rest of the world and with the images too as an infrastructure . the spine of humanitarian mission of the west quickly suggested that a column was a russian invasion and the hysteria was fanned by headlines like these comparing the convoy to trojan horse and even saying that the trucks were really artillery units we asked political analyst in boise mileage and investigative journalist neil clark about the accusations the hypocrisy here is really off the scale is good because it seems ok for the western powers to bomb sovereign states for humanitarian reasons but it's not ok for russia the same did a humanitarian aid convoy if russia did invade it quickly we know about it when we
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the ukraine is we're not going to allow this convoy is pretty clear they're going to find any excuse to stop it from going through and as they were doing this people are being killed and dying in the east of ukraine and that really is outrageous the double standards here this is the pinnacle of hypocrisy there is clear that there is no invasion it's clear that the convoy is purely humanitarian and it's clear that the arrival of the convoy has a point to underscore to the rest of the world that there is no invasion that the only people suffering here are the peaceful people in eastern ukraine that their own government is trying to murder and that's a problem and so they need to divert attention from this to some sort of hypocritical to talk of a russian invasion doubt there would be a european aid coming into that region for them people in donetsk and lugansk there's subhumans there like the prime minister yes they're not considering these people people they're considering them rebels aggressors russians or whatever so
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they're not going to help them even though by their own rhetoric and by their own values states should but i don't expect that to happen at all. but it's not only ukraine's eastern that's been left to deal with the consequences of the fighting this is the western ukrainian city of live on where eleven soldiers were buried on tuesday they died in action in the country's east family and friends gathered to pay their last respects while the coffins with carried to the sound of the national anthem. the international red cross has joined the search for andre stan in a russian photojournalist who disappeared in ukraine almost three weeks ago the spied an international outcry his whereabouts remain unknown and kiffin says there's no information the un the e.u. various rides groups and journalists around the globe are all demanding cave secure is release thirty three year old stanton has worked for mary international news organizations such as reuters and the associated press is mother hopes to see him
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soon. goodies to most of them in. the good news to do more good mom would be schools a school to get in with them with. good will this the most to lose you but you do it with the tamils because over. with the. fifty two. heavily armed units an armored vehicles no not a war zone but the streets of the u.s. city of ferguson where protesters calling for justice for a team shot down by the police have been met by security forces willing tear gas and rubber bullets outrage over michael brown's killing has all across the country as marina forty nine now reports. unrest driven by anger over michael brown's death
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carried on for a second week demonstrators on the streets of ferguson once again met with tear gas rubber bullets and flash grenades freedom of the press was also under threat as our own correspondent was engulfed in a cloud of tear gas right now you can see behind me look they're firing this is either tear gas all are small cannons that have also been used throughout these nights oh hour wait let's go let's go let's go. to some guys can get right to the states affected saying oh my god i did other reporters faced death threats from police. in the seat louis city the first amendment was confined to a media pan and at least six journalist were arrested for attempting to do their job health insurance what's the reason for ordering the press out what's the real motorcar about throwing a break out the president had no right to take out iran's leader who are where are all the revival of the bad of the troika way of life totals was still calling him
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a walking with very little saw code for all the photos photos and butts of the office and draw it decided that circles were not big enough he decided that he got handcuffed the robber all pool. roughly two hundred ten people have reportedly been arrested since the august tenth protests began including nineteen year old holocaust survivor hedy epstein police has and try to incite the people in ferguson of the people that come to the demonstrations. so if they become by the more violent then the police will become even more violent that will be their excuse criticism surrounding heavy handed police tactics deepened wednesday when a few miles from ferguson another black man who allegedly shoplifted from a store was shot dead by white police officers may powell was brandishing. a knife but instead of using
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a taser or other nonfatal methods cops fired nine shots into the twenty five year old the militarization of america's law enforcement has made front page news around the world critics say arming local cops with war weapons fuels a more aggressive type of policing that lacks accountability the ugly images of america's militarized police and beating our people in the streets and riot. troops and soldiers in the military on its own citizens as well can the world that america speaks with a four tone by the end of the week police clashes and protests decreased significantly as temperatures in ferguson havard around thirty seven degrees celsius meanwhile the st louis grand jury has already begun hearing evidence to determine if ferguson officer darren wilson should be charged with the death of michael brown a decision is expected in october but the makeup of the jury may good night a wave of backlash to see nine white people and only three black people were chosen
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as jurors the on even representation may spark a new feeling of injustice causing the public to accuse the process of being bias in a poor nial r.t. ferguson and york several thousand people gathered to protest against police violence. and those were the last words of eric garner a forty three year old as magic man who died when officers wrestled him to the ground and held him in a stranglehold he and michael brown are only two names in a long list of young black man who died at the hands of police this year. well this april as we saw this rashad andre hamilton ten times during a struggle in a park area gardner died in only three months later and earlier this month john crawford was gunned down when he picked up an air rifle from
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a shop shelf in ohio also in august this mentally ill man was shot dead while in compliance with police orders and dante parker was killed after repeatedly being shocked with a stun gun on suspicion of robbery well former police captain ray lewis says the actions of officers have infuriated the public just like in ferguson. the fact that the police chief jackson took several days to come out with any information and identifying the officer is outrageous when something like this happens then information has to be given to the public as quickly as possible when he came out with the information about who the officer was what he did was he made michael brown look like a thief of the community saw that exactly for what it was and they were outraged now after that they bring in the military cops right they dress these are
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individuals as occupying officers their armored from head to toe and when you bring when you dress officers like an occupying army they act like an occupying army and we all know what happens in other countries that we have occupied atrocities are committed. at least ten people were injured five of them seriously when mounted riot police charged and demonstrators in sweden on saturday police horses trampled over several people while one man was hit by a van several people were arrested as well a planned rally against a swedish neo nazi party spiraled out of control in the city of mamma as clashes
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erupted between police and protesters it's all started when around fifteen hundred activists gathered to disrupt a speech by the leader of the swedish neo nazi party tension mounted when firecrackers and smoke bombs were thrown the unrest comes ahead of the country's parliamentary vote. russia's embargo european products. it isn't seen as a peachy idea in the e.u. but farmers bracing for the worst following russia's e.u. food embargo in response to western sanctions and emptying crates of fruit in protest this and more coming your way after the break. 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 we will continue to provide military assistance and advice to the iraqi government and
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kurdish forces as they battle these terrorists. eugenics but eugenics vulgarize ation of darwin science punishment for an uncommitted crying i was there are things to learn from believing in eighty feebleminded still today for the future i 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 yet again and now go to the point of death . for years rarely discussed. until now i'd really rather not talk about that right.
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welcome back this is our team now the world was left in shock this week by the barbarian use the cavitation of an american journalist by a job as from the islamic state adding to the horror i was a realisation that the man holding the blade was actually a radicalized briton artie's in her far reports on the aftershocks of the tragedy sent around the globe. the brutal killing of an american journalist by a british citizen grizzly footage posted online showing james foley beheaded by an islamic state militant his execution a speaking in english with an english accent blaming recent days strikes by america in iraq we are in the slumming on a state that has been accepted by a large number of muslims worldwide it prompted the british prime minister to cut short his holiday while ten downing street called the brutal murder shocking and deprived but it's also prompted calls by some and pays for the west to rethink its
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policy in syria and iraq we have blood supplied some stuff in terms of communication to these people all of these people got a hold of this but domremy. types of niceness type who are now turned into a formidable force however foreign secretary philip hammond made it very clear there will be no change in britain's approach but i reject any suggestion that british foreign policy is providing any kind of excuse for what i salute doing i still has a poisonous ideology we will support moderate. secular democratic oppositions to murderous dictatorships whether it's by sil all whether it's the assad regime in syria but the brutal murder of james foley has raised other all good questions for the government namely the growing number of
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britons fighting alongside jihadists around four hundred thought to have taken up arms in syria and iraq and some experts believe it's a tight that will be difficult to reverse the counter extremism units have not been very effective and the reason they're not very effective is because they're dealing in a framework which they cannot change they cannot change the social situation of many young minority brits in this country they cannot change the foreign policy of great britain and given those. limitations it's on surprising that they have been unable to fix the situation on their own last year britain was shocked by the horrific killing of british soldier lee rigby inside his london barracks to death by two u.k. nationals who converted to islam and claimed they were avenging the deaths of muslims killed by british forces but despite the outrage that followed hundreds of britons have continued to join the mixtape while there's been widespread condemnation of that you have this it is clear they do have this sympathizes and for britain some still very close to home. and. london. now
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the u.k. is far from alone in having citizens ready to fight alongside the jihadists in iraq in syria there's a lot of state considered too brutal even by al qaida it's called evading an ever increasing found base in europe. and of france a poll suggests fifteen percent of the population support the islamic state at a third of those are aged between eighteen and twenty four meaning the extremist sentiment is most popular among young people some of the islamic states popularity is being attributed to its p.r. campaign on the web social media has been swarming with images of european landmarks serving as a backdrop for slogans such as long live the islamic state. and islamic state militants are planning to expand their domain far beyond iraq and syria indonesian police have been put on alert after the jihad has threatened to strike the world's
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largest buddhist temple our website has the full story. and tens of thousands of new jobs for renewable energy and free higher education this is the ambitions of vicious platform for a new party in new zealand founded by kim dotcom and a tory as activists dubbed by supporters as a country's newest superhero had to r.t. to calm for the details. russia's ban on importing certain european foods in response to western sanctions has triggered concern across the bloc. is spain farmers step down crates of fruit and burned e.u. flags venting their anger and brussels some producers there are bracing for a sharp drop in prices due to the recently imposed russian embargo trade unions say this will also mean significant job losses and it's not just a concern of spanish farmers. russia which i think will fix them so the sanctions
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people are very pessimistic know nobody explains to farmers what's happening they don't know what the future will hold right now we have no other market to send produce to apart from the russian one i really disagree with the used to ceasing to impose these sanctions on russia it was a big mistake because we never had any problems with russia. listen we're broke we've come to a dead end nobody cares about us except gold nobody cares how much money we need how are we going to survive. now the e.u. is planning to cushion the blow with up to one hundred and twenty five million euros in compensation for producers the numbers however show this is only a drop in the ocean as the cost to the worst hit nations is expected to be up to nine times that. we can they so founder julian assange dropped another bombshell this week but his latest revelation actually concerned his two year of on
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tour confinement in the ecuadorian embassy in london. but. the. the british authorities are threatening to extradite assange just sweden the moment he steps outside the embassy and he's one of their over accusations of sexual assault though the whistleblower denies the allegations and fears that he will end up in the hands of the u.s. which is hunting him in connection with his revelations so why would he leave now according to his associates it's due to a new law that bans extradition without charges. what's happened here which hasn't been widely reported but it's certainly important is that the laws changed regarding the european arrest warrant the 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
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about julian assange has difficulty is that he's never been charged for of that he is ready to leave the embassy as soon as the police presence here is called off in the u.k. authorities decide to give him safe houses to work with or. with of course the hope was to accordance to international agreements that they have signed a more headlines and brief around the world and starting in the gaza strip and office building at a shopping center have been leveled by israeli airstrikes in the southern town of rafah the day before israeli raids killed ten palestinians most of them women and children a number of people killed in gaza surpassed the twenty one hundred mark this weekend. two strong earthquakes registering five in magnitude on the richter scale have shaken the area surrounding it as line it will cain day before i view the words were issued to rattle lurd that the mccain could spew large amounts of ash imminently airspace above it has been closed so i. iceland's airports are
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operating as normal for now back in two thousand and ten the eruption of another volcano in iceland not only caused a week of chaos in your were but also created a challenge for us news presenters who struggled to pronounce his name. yeah let's see out here cal. i asked the. agent i am tired could do a just because of ok no one did anything look at glacier. your good bill well whether or not we should brace ourselves for another travel nightmare is still unclear but good news is for presenters that isn't travelers like iceland has already issued a pronunciation guide for the new ok no bow to the. boat of the. boat of the. bit of
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a tongue twister but after the break here in cedar national we follow several young man on their journey to fulfill their dream and join russia's special forces and for our u.k. viewers we take a closer look at the child vaccine debate in the u.s. . 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 we journalist it's 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 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 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 all the to be smacked in the face with reality as a man there's something attractive about roman conquests. a 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. and west introduced sanctions against russia and obviously russia retaliated and. confrontational rather it goes on and on what do you think about sanctions that isn't a way of solving economy and business hostage to politics is russia did invade east ukraine i mean that i don't think. the west or russia would try to get.
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