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i don't see your facebook. this is the market and munchies here. the key eastern ukrainian cities of lugansk can done yet scar reeling from a barrage of deadly shelling attacks launched by kiev's army. this week a russian trucks have brought tons of aid to people in war torn ligaments but the u.s. and others in the west have called this humanitarian mission an invasion of ukraine . 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 journalists were harassed by the security forces. captain john said what's the reason for ordering the press out what's the reason for going right about the premise that the
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president. was rigged. and as a us a journalist is brutally beheaded by a jihad is to appears to be a britain we look into the p.r. campaign by the islamic state group that is prompting some citizens to join the militants. and broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow recapping the week's top stories with our weekly program this is our international. now another round of artillery strikes on the city of done yet killed two people as ukraine marked independence day on sunday earlier and eleven year old girl and her parents were killed while running to a bomb shelter on saturday night some residents say there were times when shelling
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went on for over twenty four hours with barely any breaks kiev is trying to take over done yet which is a key anti-government stronghold obviously there is in the city for us. this is how independence day is being marked here in didn't it's massive 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 of a have a some smoke warehouse has been hit knife we walk in here you can actually see that what was part of the market i think has been destroyed i mean the windows are 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 there. is a short visit here to really sort of goes against the idea that it's you know this is now. square in the early hours of sunday morning the local time in hospital was hit they were at least five more were fired at the local morgue for.
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this is a very different mood she was trying to make you know we're not a problem in the way of people showing this support for russia. here in laymen's way people are setting out to show that for my kids continuing military offensive they will remain we're going to go to see our senior to me eastern ukraine. is also being attacked a daily by the ukrainian government i was lucky to escape a bout of shelling attacks while filming this report. the devastation of we worried shelling we were here last fall days ago and we've returned to find guns bare in 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 all too clear every day residential areas of the city of
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lugansk have been targeted fortunately when this five story apartment building was heat 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. so. many of those still here high the elderly told to seek to leave. and like elenor they're forced to take shelter in their basements when the shelling begins they do as doug did you look at that new low home and go to a lot of the large media down here i don't know what at all events you know but there you bodily i have the hornet across our bureau get your point of doing our
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video is clear for the obama i know but i'll be it you know don't know but i'm hanging in 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 in the air and it's team in the line of fire this is a ghost city market and mon cher moved here because it was. we rushed to the nearest bomb shelter another basement. candles can still be found in the shops and they've become crucial in a city without electricity. who just about to start for the northeast ahead of her home to show her just meters away from us the near constant bombardment is taken its toll on locals who go. there and there were.
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big story tells us she has little choice but to state what you nugent only a couple. not of zero one who could be thousands of refugees have poured out of the guns to escape their recent shelling and even if they stones out to be the final assault on the city as the government in kiev claims the effects of this is stained fighting it will be felt by civilians here for many years to come. grief notion r.t. in lugansk ukraine. now these are just some of the people who also received a much needed a russian aid in lugansk the city has been facing a humanitarian catastrophe and even essential items are hard to get tons of food medicine and other supplies were delivered to mcgann's by a convoy of russian trucks you had tearing column was stalled at the border for over a week because kiev was reluctant to let it in the red cross was also involved in
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the mission it criticized the delay citing the terrible humanitarian situation in the city the i.c.r.c. regrets the customs inspector inspections as agreed to between the russian for the region and ukraine you know sir it is where the late by the ukrainian authorities there is even any german situation there is dire. we from the city with old water. with tricity without supplies. and cut off from the rest of the world and we as a mage is to as an infrastructure. killer of authorities describe the crossing of the border by the russian aid convoys as a direct invasion that is despite earlier giving of the green light to the mission of the sentiment has been echoed by a handful of western media outlets with headlines comparing the convoy to a trojan horse and even saying that the trucks were in fact artillery units however
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those accusations have been dismissed by many they have really 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 ukraine we know about it would only 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 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. 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 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
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hypocritical talk of russian invasion. russia's journalistic community has appealed to kiev and authorities and international organizations to do everything possible to save on the stand in the russian photojournalist has been missing in eastern ukraine since august fifth various rights groups and activists around the globe have also been involved in an online campaign calling on kidd to secure his release thirty three year old stand in has worked for many international news organizations including reuters and the associated press the international red cross has already joined the search for the missing photo journalist after his mother appealed to the committee refusing to give up hope. but goodies to most of them in the done decoupled people are 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 together with the most and was able to do them with a tenuous because over the top of the ratio is it to get this bill. introduced
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to. this teacher. heavily armed units and armored vehicles tear gas and rubber bullets authorities and ferguson the mystery consider this an appropriate response to demonstrations over the killing of an unarmed teen by a cop protestors there are calling for justice and an end to police brutality the outrage is echoing across the country as more important 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 it looks 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 hour wait let's go let's go to the. guys here gets right to the states affected saying oh my god i did other reporters face 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 reason border guard out there i want to break out the president i don't want to take out iran's leader take my word by what i was referring to the to the why don't you try to lay the life totals was still a killing in the. walking. around and. decided that's enough he decided that he got to handcuff the. roughly two hundred ten people have reportedly been arrested since the aug tenth protest began including nineteen year old holocaust survivor hedy epstein police
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has and try to incite the people in ferguson of the people that come to the demonstrations. so if they become 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 powell was brandishing a 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 military police and beating people in the streets and riot. troops and
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soldiers in the military on its own citizens 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 darren wilson should be charged with the death of michael brown a decision is expected in october but the make up of the jury made tonight 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 arena point nine r.t. ferguson. several thousand people gathered in new york to protest against police brutality. those were the last
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words of erica garner a forty three year old asthmatic man who died when officers were wrestled him to the ground and held him in an illegal stranglehold he ended michael brown are among six young black men who died at the hands of police this year meanwhile a u.s. army document that was released several months ago nearly gives the green light to the deployment of lethal response directed against civilians and the paper calls for the use of snipers small arms fire aircraft and even indirect artillery fire to crack down on what is described as unruly crowds one part of the document stressed the need to exploit the psychological effects of such lethal response an activist who was arrested in ferguson says that police officers have changed the rules of engagement to make it easier to handcuff peaceful protesters the police came at us and arrested us including coming into the crowd
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and dragging myself with another person out and then kept on ron johnson pointed it to him but for the said these to get heavier charges not just failure to disperse there is great worry about people here continuing to stand up and demand justice and that's why the police rules and regulations are changed right now people can't even congregate anywhere they have to keep moving in the protest area and if they are not walking fast enough in the protests there they get threatened with the red people who go up to cops and go hands up don't shoot get accused the rowdy provocative behavior and in some cases arrest and that reflects fear not on. only on the part of the local authorities one of the part of the whole system of people being subjected to this abuse which is a nationwide thing it's not just here in ferguson and they are afraid that the defiant spirit of the youth in ferguson could infect people all across the u.s. .
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another story of over the top police actions of this time in europe though coming up later in the program. a horrific video of an american journalist to being beheaded by the hardest from the islamic state group has left the whole world terrified before his own killing the man was forced to read a statement blaming the u.s. for his death also chilling was of the revelation that his killer is likely to be a radicalized britain according to media sources. has already identified him through voice recognition in the video the jihadist says that the beheading is in retaliation for u.s. airstrikes on iraq the islamic state has also threatened to execute another captive american journalist if washington does not halt its operation the group has been
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effectively recruiting new members across europe thanks to a broad online p.r. campaign as our team is advantage to cap the ports the hottest of these lawmakers state use all the west can offer to spread their message and not to hollywood in this hour long film featuring slow motion explosions you walk to soldiers digging their own graves and a catchy title the clanging of the swords for. these lawmakers state has flooded social media with videos of their sadistic and they were when they stormed most so many rock to soldiers fled their post 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
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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 video showing their soft side in this one jihad is sore handing out ice cream to kids another video shows an islamic state militant visiting his fellow fighters in hospital with an encouraging message kids. of the best medium for them to need all the living the usual in few years these people are able to carry arms and they would be ordered he will be in book three mated with this violent pursuit of 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 the knowledge to popular video games like call of duty some of the images look like postcards with
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historic european sites in the background jihadi sympathizers or even calling for people to join the islamic state on the streets of london or using a western a methodology in terms of advertisement very well islamic state finders 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 even promoting the hips. third 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 there recruitment propaganda targets young people those who use modern gadgets who play video games and watch hollywood movies and those who are perhaps
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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 our team. the merciless islamic state a group whose speedy advance in syria and iraq remains very troubling seems to have a weak spot and that is female kurdish soldiers they are willing to fight alongside male soldiers to avenge for the hundreds of women captured and killed by the hardest and it is not only their vigor that is posing a threat to the islamic state the jihadists believe that they will not go to heaven if they are killed by a woman in battle here's a video of a group of these kurdish fighters in training they will be forming all female units to join male soldiers in. now at least ten people were injured five of them and seriously when mounted riot police charged demonstrators in sweden on saturday police forces trampled several people while one
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man was hit by a van a few arrests were also made there it occurred when a planned rally against a far right party spiraled out of control in the city have with clashes erupting between the police and protesters fifteen hundred activists had gathered to disrupt a speech by the leader of a swedish neo nazi party tension mounted when firecrackers and smoke bombs were thrown the unrest comes ahead of the country's parliamentary vote now the chairman of the communist party of sweden told my colleague you know neal that in his country the police can do whatever they like. we have seen many truth is against anyone that says groups is three or four months in the. police don't want to you know this kind of thrill is to be disturbed so it would be good. control in the case at least ten people ended up in hospital do you believe that the police will be held accountable for their actions and not is sweden never
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a police accountable for these sort of things we have seen situations similar to the. several times no and. europeans have been growing increasingly critical of brussels the decision to impose sanctions on the russian economy the move has triggered fears of considerable trade losses as moscow in response banned a certain european foods. spanish farmers have been dumping produce in the streets and burning new flags angry over lost revenue some producers there are bracing for a sharp drop in prices due to the recently imposed russian embargo trade unions say that this will also mean significant job losses farmers have. now been left wondering how they're going to make ends meet. not sure which i think will fix them so the sanctions people are very pessimistic know nobody explains to farmers what's happening they don't know what the future will hold but right now we have no other
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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 group we've come to a dead end nobody cares about the success nobody cares how much money we need to look how are we going to support. seeking to neutralize any backlash from russia's food ban brussels has been offering compensation into producers the european commission plans to spend one hundred twenty five million euros to help cover the losses the numbers however show that this is only a drop in the ocean as this cost that the worst hit nations is expected to be up to nine times that amount. so take a look at some other news making headlines around the world at this hour starting california where the strongest quake in twenty five years to hit that state has injured over one hundred twenty people six of them critically a state of emergency has been declared after the six point zero magnitude
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earthquake hit the san francisco bay area there has been significant damage to buildings and public facilities nearly seventy thousand homes have been left without power. thousands of pro and anti-government protesters have gathered in the yemeni capital after negotiations with shiite rebels failed president hardy's envoys held talks with the rebels commander asking him to abandon protests demanding the resignation of the government. the government later halted talks with the shiite rebels accusing them of attempting to restart the fighting. according to preliminary results of the presidential election and the opposition leader has won the first round with nearly fifty one percent of the vote. reports from the scene for r.t. . this election is seen as a race between two main contenders on the one hand there's the opposition leader who led the protest the spring while on the other there's the form of the oil
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soldier of the old president been seen as his successor the security services minister they've both got very similar programs they both promise to lift the country out the poll that seeks to utilize its tremendous resources and to secure more international recognition for this tiny location state as you can see the ballot boxes being empty but. they will be counted long into the night but turnout has been found in this polling station alone seventy two percent of registered voters turned out supposed across the country more than fifty percent turned out of this election by the country's religion is considered legitimate now it's no surprise the residents of the high turnout given the lead up to this early election the president puts alstad after a series of protests this spring to protest against corruption protest against rob and years of broken promises. after the break we follow several young men in their journey to reach their dream and join russia as a special forces stay with us. on
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