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sure you get all we're there is. moved. this is the best city market and mon cher here who flew through. the. presidents 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 here and here a national russian drugs bring tons of aid to besieged lugansk after over a week long holed up at the border humanitarian mission big quickly dob an invasion by the west. calls for justice over the
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killing of an unarmed black teenager in the u.s. city of ferguson are replied to with tear gas and rubber bullets even journalists were harassed by the security forces. and johnson what's the reason for ordering the press out what's the reason the other night about reading the thread about the arrest and the take out i don't want to borrow. and i've been very beheading of an american journalist by radicalized britain who joined the islamic state highlights the threats of the jihadist massive p.r. campaign in europe. this expanding moscow you're watching are to international with me marina joshing. a 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
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country's largest cities in another attempt to seize it from anti-government fighters a mother father and their eleven year old daughter were running to a shelter when the bombing began a rocket landed next to them on the street and some forty people have been killed in the nets this week as shells hit apartment buildings hospitals and churches flawlessly are now reports. you want to be there have been 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 would constantly islamists in 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 fight his 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
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evonne says on donates we do know that they are trying to completely encircled the city so to me the situation is escalating almost by the minute. now as people in the east of ukraine woke up yet again to scenes of destruction king of residents watched a festive military parade people in the capital were divided over whether independence day should be commemorated in this way some said a parade it would help boost morale while others said it was inappropriate to flaunt military might while people are dying in the east still others believe a parade is a waste of much needed budget funds. now locals in the city of will ganske say no worries safe from the army shelling with residential areas coming under fire daily artist maria financial 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
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there in the scars of sustained attack kiev is calling this long assault the final stage of its military operation and the fact it's having the locals is all too clear every day residential areas of the city of look on sky being targeted fortunately when this five story apartment building was hit no word was heard by the time had happened almost all the residents have already fled minutes later we come across two of the handful of people still living here and they're clearly terrified that. so. many of those still here high the elderly hold to seek to leave them again like elenor they're forced to take shelter in their basements when the shelling begins
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yet they do realize the good you look out at me mohammad got children look at the national media i don't know what that will eventually they are going to spot i am the one it across will be over then your point of going out the real fear for the couple barbara i know but being yelled at oh but i'm hanging in there the budget really anger who was there although this is the scene in lugansk central market it was hit on monday but the smell of burning still haunts have you know the area and the city in the line of fire this is the basque city market and mon cher she moved here groups. this is. we rush to the terrorist bomb shelter in other basement. candles can still be found in the shops and they've become crucial in a city without electricity. just about to start to have another piece of
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her. show just mears one from us the near constant bombardment is taken its toll on locals who took. a cool during their regular. week tour it tells us she has little choice but to state what you knew i knew. 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 kiev claims the effects of the sustained tina will be felt by civilians here for many years to come. or even ocean r.t. in lugansk ukraine. now after weeks without food and water a russian aid convoy finally reached desperate ukrainians who lined up to get basic
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supplies they had convoy is now back in russia after unloading tons of food medicine and water in less than twenty four hours two hundred eighty trucks made their way through war torn eastern ukraine after being stalled at the border for over a week cave was reluctant to lead the column through citing a lack of proper checks and documentation the international red cross sad it was disappointed with a delay when the aid was so desperately needed. the i.c.r.c. regrets that customs in fact inspections as agreed to between the russian for the ration and ukraine you know sir it is where delayed by the ukrainian authorities that even any german situation there is dire. we from the city without water. without electricity without supplies. and cut off from the rest of the world and we said the images to essentials infrastructure
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. despite a monetary mission in the west quickly suggested the aid calling was a russian invasion addon the hysteria was fanned by headlines like these comparing a convoy to a trojan horse and even saying that the trucks were really artillery units we asked political analyst the boys in march 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 to say they did a humanitarian aid convoy if russia did invade ukraine we know what about the way the ukraine is will allow these convoys pretty clear they're going to find any excuse to stop it from going through that as they were doing this people are being killed or died in the east of ukraine and that really is outrageous the double standards here this is the pinnacle of hypocrisy there it's clear that there is no invasion it's clear that the cause was purely humanitarian and it's clear that
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the arrival of the convoys has point underscored 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 talk of russian invasion i doubt there would be a european aid coming into that region for them people who don't have to move there they're subhumans they're like the prime minister yes they're not considering these people people they're considering them rebels or dressers russians or whatever so they're not going to help them even though by their own rhetoric and by their own values they should but i don't expect that to happen at all. but it's not only ukraine's east and has been left to deal with the consequences of the fighting. this is the western ukrainian city of office where eleven soldiers were buried on tuesday they died in action in the country's east family and friends gathered to
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pay their last respects while the costin's were carried to the sound of the national anthem. they do national record has joined the search for understanding a russian photojournalist who disappeared in ukraine almost three weeks ago despite an international outcry his whereabouts remain unknown and insists there's no information the un the e.u. various ryans groups and a journalist around the globe are all demanding kiev secure his release the thirty three year old stanton has worked for manny international news organizations such as reuters and the associated press is mother hopes to see him soon. from a good use to most of them in the done to keep your still what are some of the you know saddam was a good mom would be schools a school to get in with them would. have to push those to get the good of the most and was able to do with the tamils because able to put it together.
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in. the future. heavily armed units and armored vehicles no not a war zone bought the streets of the us city off ferguson where for tacitus calling for justice for a team shot dead by the police have been met by security forces wielding tear gas and rubber bullets rage over michael brown's killing as all across the country as a marine aboard not now reports. unrest driven by anger over michael brown's death 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 so 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
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nights oh our wait let's go let's go. guys can get just a it's a fake accent oh my god i did other reporters faced death threats from police. there. 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 kevin johnson what's the reason for ordering the press out what's the real border guard about throwing a break out your president i don't know to take out iran's reporter who are on the river on the phone to the why don't you try to lead by photos was still occurring in a walking with very little saw code for all of the photos photos and butts of the office on trial it's decided that's going to give up who decided that they got to handcuff the robber all tools. roughly two hundred ten people have reportedly been arrested
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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 liable more violent then the police will become even more violent there 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. and knife but instead of using 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 are will people in the streets and riot.
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troops and soldiers in the military on his own citizens has woken the world up that america speaks for by the end of the week police clashes and protests decreased significantly as temperatures in ferguson have around thirty seven degrees celsius meanwhile the st louis grand jury has already begun hearing evidence to determine if ferguson officer darren wilson is should be charged with the death of michael brown a decision is expected in october but the make up of the jury made knight a wave of backlash you see nine white people and only three black people were chosen as jurors the on even representation may spark a new feeling of injustice causing the public to accuse the process of being bias. r.t. ferguson. the mainstream media have been accused of launching a smear campaign against michael brown prompting hundreds of protesters to march on
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the have quaters of c.n.n. in atlanta demonstrators say the channel has focused on the slain teen's past actions in a bid to incriminate him independent media editor daniel sanders says the mainstream is racially biased. one thing a lot of the media people are why they don't know much about what's happening in the black community they tend to buy into a lot of the stereotypes where they don't really have good sources and on the other side a community doesn't have the same level of organization and leadership to challenge that you know when some white defendant you know commits a crime that's a tendency to say well he's such a good boy we can't understand how this could have happened but when a young black man is in the same situation in a community where you know young black people are being criminalized numbers this is that of sympathy and lack of empathy a lack of compassion a lack of understanding this is a story of how the poor in
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a way are also being demonized and made invisible in our society it's much deeper than just racial in its outcome you know it may look racial but it's also economic and often that's what's not being covered in any real way. and human rights watch dogs are investigating allegations that police brutality across the u.s. could be racially motivated the american civil liberties union has released a report in reaction to the violence in ferguson the group says historical issues have created a climate of racial profiling targeting the black population human rights advocates to stress that young black americans in particular are subjected to killings beatings and are otherwise harassed by police even when they are doing nothing wrong.
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at least ten people were injured five of them seriously when mounted riot police charged and demonstrators in sweden on saturday police horses trampled several people while one man was hit by a van several people were arrested a plan to rally against the swedish neo nazi party spiraled out of control in the city of mama as clashes erupted between police and protesters it 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 and rest comes ahead of the country's parliamentary vote. and one is after the break here on t.v. national. the
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west introduced sanctions against russia and office there russia retaliated and based. confrontational rhetoric goes on and on what do you think about sanctions that is another 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 trade. between. you know this is no easy rifle wrong but it i definitely think sanctions are better than complete. it's like a. you know when the bullets to start. because it's like duck duck duck that's the back back back back up mode so it's it's almost like there's
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a big blue and then you just see the big sound it's like a bass. welcome back this is our t. international the world was left in shock this week by the barbers decapitation of an american journalist by john is from the islamic state adding to the horror was the realization that the man holding the blade was actually a radicalized britain are just under far more reports on the aftershocks 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
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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 he's also prompted cools by some m.p.'s acquits to the west to rethink its 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
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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 britons fighting alongside jihadists around four hundred thought to have taken up arms in syria and iraq and some experts believe it's a tide 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 outside his london barracks hacked to death by two u.k. nationals who converted to islam and claimed they were avenging the deaths of
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muslims killed by british forces but despite the outrage that followed hundreds of britons have continued to join the islamic state while there's been widespread condemnation of the jihadists it is clear they do have this sympathizes and for britain still very close to home. and. now islamic state militants are planning to expand their domain far beyond iraq and syria. indonesian police have been put on alert after the jihad is threatening to strike the world's largest buddhist temple our website has a full story. and tens of thousands of new jobs are fully renewal energy and free higher education this is the ambitious lap for all the new party and new zealand founded by came dot com editorials after was dubbed by supporters as a country's newest superhero had to our website r.t.
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dot com for more details. russia's ban on importing certain european foods in response to western sanctions has triggered concern across the block. in spain farmers tipped out crates of fruit and burnt flags venting their anger at 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. and that's what i think will fix them so the sanctions people are very pessimistic no 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 use decision to impose these sanctions on russia it was a big mistake because we never had any problems with russia. listen we're broke
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we've come to a dead end nobody cares about us except gold nobody cares how much money we need and how are we going to survive. now the e.u. is planning to question the blow with up to one hundred twenty five million years in compensation for producers the numbers however show this is only a drop in the ocean as the cost of the worst hit nation is expected to be up to nine times that. we lease co-founder joyous dropped another bombshell this week but is the latest revelation actually concerning his two year voluntary confinement in the ecuadorian embassy in london. is that. right the. the british authorities are threatening to extradite assange to sweden the moment he steps outside the embassy and he's one of their over of his ations of sexual
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assault though the whistleblower denies the allegations and fears that have will and in the hands of the u.s. which is funding 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 is 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 about julian assange the difficulty is that he's never been charged a couple for of that he is raise or leave the embassy as soon as the police presence here is called off in the u.k. authorities decide to give him but say passes to ecuador. with the foreseeable bligh's to it accordance to international agreements that they have signed. after
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years of corruption a large scale protest and the president's resignation of hi-z. has reached a decisive moment and his political life citizens are having to the polls to pick a new leader whose first task will be to bring in a country back from the brink ragas de of explains for a team. it's early election day here in sukhumi and we're at one of the polling stations in the capital there's a large can with the door being that's and one by one and it doesn't look like it's not in doubt ask the candidates here they are these four men the election is really according to the polls between this and this this is an opposition leader this man led the protests from spring this year that eventually forced the out of the president this is seen as his successor was the former three steps to the public through their programs of pretty much identical both promises and then the public see both promise more international recognition for apology or for the reform of
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government that's being dubbed as a washing machine with dirty money we spoke to some of the people here they say that this time they really expect change if you did you not old enough for you so much as you we need to stop dividing the presence of friends in this country should belong to the foley nation not to an exclusive group of people over the cut use to be meaningless to do we need jobs we want to feel we're living in a free country and we don't want to wait for centuries for us to happen my goodness to point to a story people has realized we can't carry on living like this if it happens in five years a policy may cease to exist. around lines and brief around the world now starting in the gaza strip at least five people have been killed in a fresh series of israeli airstrikes music store and three large buildings and several vehicles on saturday israeli strikes killed ten palestinians most of them women and children number of people killed in gaza surpassed the twenty one hundred
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mark this weekend. the number of people who have lost their lives as a result of landslides in the japanese city of hiroshima in the middle of the week has risen to fifty several thousand rescue workers are at the side looking for the thirty eight people who are still missing the last lines were caused by torrential rains four days ago. and coming up after the break excitable it looks at the geopolitical tit for tat between russia and the way this is affecting european business. trust me i like video games you could tell from my physique but they like all media can distort reality in the minds of kids and one swedish journalist in something very unusual to step his kids back into the real world journalist carl magnus held in sun seemed almost addicted to the legendary military first person shooter game
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call of duty so since they like killing people online with guns he decided to take them to the gaza strip to show them what war is all about mr helder and brought his boys to a refugee camp where they could see injured kids just like themselves getting their wounds to stop they got to see all the blood and tears apparently this in your face method of parenting works and his children have stopped their online war this strategy might sound a little extreme and we're all very expensive i can't afford to fly my family to israel to prove a point but sometimes we all the to be smacked in the face with reality as a man there's something attractive about roman conquests our ranks of musket fire and a pulley on a conflict those images are nice but the reality is blood and death and if more kids could have the same experience as a healthier and family well we might have less war mongers around but that's just my opinion. i was taught in medical school that.
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