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i think it's national interest that also house its own red lines. this is the bill's city market and mon cher will. residents of eastern ukraine are stunned by the army's relentless assault which has killed over one hundred civilians so within the space of a single week. also in the week's top stories russian trucks bring tons of aid to besieged lugansk after over a week long holed up at the border the humanitarian mission being quickly dubbed an invasion by the west. calls for justice over the killing of an unarmed black teenager in the u.s. city of ferguson are replied to with tear gas and rubber bullets even journalist work arrest by the security forces. captain john said what's the reason for
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ordering the press out what's the real border guard about wrote a great lookout for your president to take out. one by the river. and a barbaric beheading of an american journalist by a radicalized britain who joined the islamic state highlights the threat of the jihad as massive p.r. campaign in europe. this is our senior national coming to you live from moscow i'm renay joshua. a family of three have been killed during shelling of residential areas in the ukrainian city offered any ask the army is tightening its grip around one of the country's largest cities and other attempt to seize it from answer government fighters a mother a father and their eleven year old daughter were running to
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a shelter when the bombing began a rocket landed next to them on the street some forty people have been killed in the d.n.c. this week as shells hit apartment buildings hospitals and churches all asleep reports you would be wrong this is how independence day is being marked here in donetsk mess of shelling particularly in the eastern part of the city as you can see there's something like thirteen fires that have broken out in the city just have a have a some smoke where our house has been hit nice we walk in here you can actually see that what was part of the market i think has been destroyed i mean the windows all blown away and you can see a lot of the mentioned dice on the ground the scary part about being here right now is that you can actually smell in the air this burning but if you do the job of musician of belief that it was a good idea they beat you with this is now the santa of donetsk where in the early
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hours of sunday morning the local canyon hospital was hit they will at least five more were fired at the local morgue were. this is a very different mood from what oh it was hard to manage you know we're not a problem in a way of people showing this support for russia. here in lenin square people are setting out to show that this is by from his continuing military offensive they will remain resolute to the core to see out senior to eastern ukraine. locals in the neighboring city of lugansk say no where is safe from the army shelling with residential areas coming under fire daily artist marie for national 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 long assault the final stage of its
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military operation and the fact it's having the locals is all too clear every day residential areas of the city of look at being targeted fortunately when this five story apartment building was hit no word was heard by the time had happened almost all of the residents have already fled minutes later we come across two of the end of people still leaving here and they're clearly terrified but. many of those still here high the elderly hold to seek to leave without you know might be unlike elinor they're forced to take shelter in their basements when the shelling begins and yet they don't realize the doc did you look out at me lo her magic of children look at the lashes media i don't know what at all events you know
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they're your buddies but i have the hornet across the globe then your point of blowing out the real fear for the obama i don't know but being yelled at oh but i hung in there the budget reading guy who was there although this is the scene in lugansk central market it was hit on monday with the smell of burning still not known to have no yanna on the street in the line of fire this is a ghost city market and mon cher who feared group. we rushed this bomb shut you know the basement. candles can still be found in the shops and they've become crucial in a city without electricity. just about to start moving our piece to have her. show her just minutes away from us the near constant
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bombardment is taken its toll on locals who don't. cool near and dear to her. victoria tells us she has little choice but to state that you. only a couple. who have a general blum. thousands of refugees have pulled out of the guns to escape the recent shelling and even if these stones out to be the final assault on the city as the government in kiev claims the effects of the sustained fighting will be felt by civilians here for many years to come. or if notion r.t. in lugansk ukraine. after weeks without food and water a russian aid convoy finally reached desperately craniums who lay lined up to get basic supplies the aid convoy is now back in russia after unloading tons of food
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medicine and water in less than twenty four hours two hundred eighty trucks made their way through a war torn eastern ukraine after being stalled ad the border for over a week before was reluctant to let the columns through citing a lack of proper checks and documentation the international red cross said it was disappointed was that a way when the aid was so desperately needed. the i.c.r.c. regrets that customs in fact inspections as agreed to between the russian federation and ukraine you know sir it is where delayed by the ukrainian authorities so that even any german situation there is dire. we phoned you the city with the water. without electricity without supplies. and cut off from the rest of the world and we said the images to it's an infrastructure. despite a humanitarian mission in the west quickly suggested the aid calling was
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a russian invasion and hysteria was found by headlines like these comparing the convoy to a trojan horse and even saying that the trucks were really artillery units we asked political analyst in belgium mileage an investigative journalist neil clark about the accusations they have off the scale isn't it 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 the ukraine we know about it would annoy the ukrainians we're not going to allow this convoy is 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 and dying 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 convoy is purely humanitarian and it's clear that the arrival of the convoy has a point underscored to the rest of the world that there is no invasion that the
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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 doubt there would be a european aid coming into that region for them people in donetsk and lugansk there'd there's subhumans they're like the prime minister yes they're not considering these people people they're considering them rebels aggressors russians or whatever so 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. now the international red cross has joined a search for understanding a russian photojournalist who disappeared in ukraine almost three weeks ago the spite of international outcry his whereabouts remain unknown and caitiff insists there is no information the un the e.u. various rights groups and journalists around the globe are all demanding kiev secure his release the thirty three year old stand in has worked for manning
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international news organizations such as reuters and the associated press is mother hopes to see him soon. goodies the most of them in the done decoupage to pursue 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 it with the tamils because over the top of the ratio is it to get it. to. fifty. heavily armed units in armored vehicles no not a word sound bought the streets of the u.s. city of ferguson where protesters calling for justice for a teen shot dad by the police have been met by security forces wielding tear gas and rubber bullets outrage over a michael brown's killing has accurate all across the country as we're in a fortnight now reports. unrest driven by anger over michael brown's death carried
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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 night oh hour wait let's go let's go. guys can get just a it's a fair to say 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 captain john so what's the reason for ordering the press out what's really bothering her about the rest of the break that your president did not try to take
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out iran's leader take your bar where are all the ribs on the run to the back of the troika the way my photos was still in a walking with very little saw those who are all through the photos photos and butts of the office on trial decided that circles were not big enough who decided that they got to handcuff the robber all tools. roughly two hundred ten people have reportedly been arrested since the august tenth protest began including nineteen year old holocaust survivor hedy epstein the police has and try to incite the people in ferguson of the people that come to the demonstrations. so if they become my the more violent then the police will become even more violent that will be their excuse criticism surrounding heavy handed police tactics deep in 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
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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 our will people in the streets and riot. troops and soldiers in the military on his own citizens as well can the world 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 gerald 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. any york several thousand people gathered to protest against police violence. those were the last words of eric garner a forty three year old asthmatic man who died when officers wrestled him to the ground and held him in a stranglehold he and michael brown the only two names in a long list of young black man who died at the hands of police this year all this april a police officer shot dundreary how milton ten times during a struggle in a park area garner and died 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 mantilly a man was shot dead despite acting in compliance with police orders and dungy parker was killed after repeatedly being shocked with a stun gun on suspicion of robbery former police captain ri luiz 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 in the community saw that exactly for what it was and they were outraged now after that they bring in the military cops. dress these are individuals
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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 several people while one man was hit by a sam several people were arrested as well a plan around against a far right party spiraled out of control in the city of mama as clashes erupted
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between police and protesters it all started when around fifteen hundred activists gathered to disrupt a speech by the leader of the swedish new non-si party tension mounted when firecrackers and smoke bombs were thrown the end rest comes a hand of the country's parliamentary vote. we're going to international more news lou coming your way after. 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 kurdish forces as they battle these terrorists.
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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. laughing at america because every single day jamie diamond victim that is the american economy shows up in bloody ready to you know their debt and they're saying oh it wasn't me that did this it wasn't me that did this time i would love to meet these loves me and the rest the world like. welcome back this is our to international the world was left in shock this week by
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the barbarous decapitation of an american journalist by jihadists from the islamic state before being executed he was forced to denounce his country's recent airstrikes on islamic state fighters adding to the horror was their realisation down the man holding the blade was actually a radicalized britain the jihad is also threatened to kill another captured u.s. journalist if america continues its operation the islamic states p.r. campaign is having an impact not only in the u.k. but across europe are just going to church accounting for pts. the hardest of these lawmakers state to use all the west can offer to spread their message and not to hollywood in this hour long film featuring slow motion explosions you watch the soldiers digging their own graves and the catchy title the claiming of the swords for. the zombie state has flooded social media with videos of their sadistic and they worst when they stormed most or many iraqi soldiers fled their post
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apparently aware of what their fate would be if they were captured while on duty. the islamic state has launched a sophisticated social media application which allows them to use their followers accounts to send out centrally written updates thousands of already downloaded the sample occasion released simultaneously their messages swamp social media it gives isis a far larger online reach than their own accounts would otherwise allow not only images of beheadings that militants distribute through social media but also skillfully edited promo videos showing their soft side in this one jihad is are handing out ice cream to kids another video shows an islamic state militant visiting his fellow fighters in hospital with an encouraging message. to the best medium for example needs all the living usual in few years these people are able to carry arms and they will be ordered he will be implemented with this violence.
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to. their goal isis is also working to recruit young people all over the world bragging about their advances leaflets like these are spread through social media sometimes their call for martyrdom comes with a nod to popular video games like call of duty some of the images look like postcards with his story gear appeals sites in the background jihadi sympathizers or even calling for people to join the islamic state on street the. it's of london . using west. in terms of advertisement very well islamic state fighters post photos of their day to day life on social media my first time writes one british jihadi underneath a facebook photograph of his bloody tent apparently after killing someone first of many writes a friend after images with severed heads some post pictures of their cats. state is
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even promoting a hipster variation of a jihadi this is a law school graduate from cairo who before joining the isis was apparently preoccupied with his body having posted a series of photos in a gym their recruitment propaganda targets young people those who use modern gadgets who play video games and watch hollywood movies and those who are perhaps going through an identity crisis of some sort in this self promotion the islamic state has gone farther than any other jihadi group in washington i'm going to check on r.t. . now the islamic state is considered a primary threat by the u.s. and apparently dangerous enough for washington to join sides with former anime's according to media reports america has been giving intelligence to syria about the location of islamic state militants that are operating in a war torn country sounds the spine to west publicly dismissing the possibility of joining forces with damascus political analyst mark macaulay saying savan surely
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the west will have to talk to syria's president so. iraq is one game with syria and sooner or later they'll have to take on the. syria so therefore what do they do do they actually unite with assad a gauge the u.s. in syria or do they fight against. syria sooner or later they'll have to come to some agreement because. these red. on their side he's opposed to islamic state. america is opposed to islamic state britains posed with the state so therefore it seems sooner or later they'll be some kind of agreement that assad is in fact not or anyway it's our he's our friend because the enemy of our enemy is our friend. islamic state militants are planning to expand their domain far beyond iraq and syria into the asian police have been put on alert after
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the jihad has threatened to strike the world's largest buddhist temple our website has a full story. and. tens of thousands of new jobs fully renewable energy and free higher education this is the ambitious platform of a new party in new zealand founded by came dot com and a tourist activist dubbed by supporters as the country's newest superhero had to r.t. dot com for more details. now the u.s. has invited a british security company g four asked to run the tour is going tobe a prison in cuba striking a deal worth more than one hundred million dollars but critics say the reputation of the world's largest security firm as far from spotless while we look back at some of the company's recent p.r. failures and it was supposed to maintain security at the london olympics two years ago by didn't supply enough erson allen exceeded its budget eight times it's not
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too gentle when it comes to the treatment of detainees either not hundreds of complaints have been made over racism and assaults one example is when a deportation supervised by g four asked went wrong with an end goal a man dying while being guarded by the company and even managed to lose the keys to a prison that ran that left dozens of inmates trapped in their cells and cost more than four hundred four hundred thousand dollars to fix and finally the un watchdog blasted the firm's a military contract there for its lack of competence michael rattie from a london based anti-war group says the list goes on. well this latest contract is there's multiple levels of scandal involved over in the u.k. it's been submitted to overbilling the ministry of justice over a police officer euphemism for the theft but the scandals don't stop there we've
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we've seen. g four s. find in australia for the death in custody of a bridge all my money has been transported there's also a death of a young fifteen year old prisoner in the last few years so there's been multiple deaths in custody they also serve israeli prisons where there are thousands of palestinians killed many of them children. in guantanamo by the obviously maintaining destruction in defiance of the geneva conventions now after years of corruption large scale protests and the president's resignation a posse has reached a decisive moment in its political life citizens are having to the polls to pick a new leader whose first task will be to bring the country back from the brink ragas de explains for r.t. . 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 do of being that said one by one and it doesn't look like it's not in doubt ask for the candidates here they are these four men the election is
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really according to the polls between this man and this man this is an opposition leader this man led the protests from the spring this year that eventually forced the outs the president this is seen as his successor he was the four man security service to the public security so their programs pretty much identical both promise and then to what would see both promise more international recognition for a project to reform a government that's been dubbed as a washing machine of the dirty money we spoke to some of the people here and they say that this time they really expect change he didn't not old enough for you from a to z. and we need to stop dividing the present to the friends of this country should belong to the whole nation not to an exclusive group of people of the but it's against of these meaningless to do what we need jobs and i want to feel we're living in a free country but i 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
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five years a policy it may cease to exist. and coming up on our c.n.n. national i reports on the child vaccine debate in the u.s. and for our u.k. viewers it's the latest episode. just the other week on the program we discussed how it's technically legal but not very motivating to impose 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 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 the darkness is much
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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 presidents have used the constitution as toilet paper does not make it somehow invalid at night but that's just my opinion. the biology teaches their. gender experts and they came to the conclusion that the metaphor that the students are active and so passive in their reproduction process reinforces gender.

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