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as the ukrainian army drops more bombs on eastern ukraine people are forced to bury loved ones in their backyards cut off from cemeteries. islamic state militant step up their recruitment campaign with young muslims from across the globe joining the extremist we report on the scale on the threats of the jihadist movement. in the u.k. is furious over france becoming a refueling stop for migrants hoping to get to britain. you're watching international coming to you live from moscow it's good to have you
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with us. don't yet going eastern ukraine has enjoyed another twenty four hours of heavy shelling from the ukrainian army rocket launches have once again ripped entire neighborhoods apart at least two locals have been killed and many houses by and people there are learning to cope with their families and friends falling victim to kiev's assault has the story this is a place where they're living among the did and way they did being buried among the living. under this mound of dirt lies their love of pavel's life his wife's media. puzzle takes me to the place with the media was killed it's only a street away she was walking home when the missile hit.
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and i was. in the up almost any young. couple met through media ten years ago he says god smiled down on him that day. ruined their boards through. the streets quiet except for a few children who braved the sunshine in between shelling residents hunkered down in sale is as mortar and artillery fire rains down telephones are broken mobile phones almost never work and shops are boarded up and running looting the mood for anything at the stores a little bit of a geek. sway with elian. but also don't. listen to trees about five kilometers away from the town of shaft tosk it's a straight road to get there but it's a very difficult to take when you're coming under shelling. if gainey is
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a volunteer grave digger he says one hundred fifty people have died in the past three weeks that seven a day many of whom never make it here. from work for a. very. short work of them are but the bodies are piling up and like pavel residents are dazed in shock he gives us his daughter's phone number and asks if we will call her with no access to the outside world he hasn't yet told her her mother is did as the ukrainian army closes in terrified residents prepared to wait it out surrounded by the did poorly see r.t. shuttles eastern ukraine. with war waging in the a stew cranium president petro poroshenko is vowing to boost military spending by three billion dollars but where will that money come from because leading economists say care's finances are in tatters and here is why while on the surface
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things may seem rosy after the international monetary fund granted kiev a seventeen billion dollar loan but it came with conditions most importantly the national debt to g.d.p. ratio should be no higher than sixty percent it's now predicted to reach eighty seven percent in just four years economics shrinkage in economic shrinkage in july a six and a half percent last year it was only one point three percent economist jeffrey summers explains why he believes it's a catastrophe. we have this ever shrinking g.d.p. we have the loss of crimea horse the lost production in the donbass region and the cost of the civil war itself so it's really quite a catastrophe and i would say that the i.m.f. is going to know regarding the ability of ukraine to pay bondholders or itself. not only is the country's g.d.p. falling but its energy bill was increasing and this represents not only a worsening of its balance of payments position but also makes ukrainian industry
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you know what little there is left function and even less competitive even higher energy costs moreover we have the situation or it has to pay for expensive gas with a declining currency as. well a conflict has wrecked the heartland of ukraine's economy they don't yet region where the country's main plants and factories are based many of them have either been badly damaged or closed because it's due to dangerous to work in a war zone much of the regional infrastructure has also been destroyed experts in global financial markets patrick young says no one would want to invest in ukraine's economy right now if the situation in ukraine is that obviously it's incredibly difficult when you've had some sort of an insurrection on the streets a revolution lots of up evil because that impacts on the economy and therefore it's incredibly difficult to get your statistics absolutely precise in such a time it's really a tragedy for the people of ukraine and what we see at the moment is in a colony that is all the verge of a death spiral we've all the asli see all of the sorts of terrible warfare that are
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happening within the borders of the country that's a tragedy because actually it's the eastern corner of the country around were in fact the industry is that really adds to the overall g.d.p. what's the news we hear out of ukraine all the time fighting warfare terrorism problems who's going to invest in the back of the up nobody who's going to invest in a call to me where you don't have a clear rule of law where you cannot appreciably believe that your assets will not be in some way squandered taken away through bribery or indeed all right still of nobody. well argentina is the latest country to join the global movement in support of russian photojournalist andre stan him who went missing in eastern ukraine earlier this month and various rights groups and activists have launched an online appeal to kiev to do everything they can to find him.
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in other news islamic state militants waging war in iraq and syria have managed to carry out a successful global recruitment campaign that's according to the latest report from a syrian human rights watchdog last month more than six thousand men join the jihadists some of them from western nations and it's not just adults the extremists don't mind having the young fight for them too like this thirteen year old belgian boy earlier this year he traveled to syria with his older brother to fight alongside the radicals while canada has also become one of the recruitment centers for the islamic state militants as according to a local a man who claims the islamists are infiltrating universities and mosques across the country. you have the isis. you know recruitment into rescue or has been very successful and they have very successfully recruited canadians europeans americans and i say this is the beginning of the end for i think. people who are prominent in the game has been fighting to get their numbers you
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know hundreds and thousands of people from best and rural who are fighting b.s. i would garrido was created in a grammy. and you can see you know well what kind of destruction and atrocities get it all around or similarly i see this is worse than i will cried out and they are not going to stay just in sudan or are going to come everybody has been able to. hear it and they are not going to stay in to get it out believe me. france is being accused of planning so-called refueling stops for thousands of illegal migrants on their way to the u.k. britain is said to be furious about the french government's plans to set up a refugee center to help people get to britain i'm yelling about twelve thousand migrants use the french port town of cali as a transfer point to the u.k. has the details. in the french quarter galle this has
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become a familiar sight destitute migrants the majority from east africa and the middle east has made the town their temporary home these makeshift tents on an industrial wasteland have been nicknamed the jungle. i had never seen in my life you see i come from the war to police for example in there for the life. i live i would find the situation in europe like this the majority of the people we speak to tell us their aim is to make the journey across the english channel i am we're doing this to know what are doing how are you going to go to. the trouble big drug and do you order the. blue decided. to try a drug knowing your estimates put the number of migrants here in cali over one and
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a hard thousand of these men women and children have been queuing up for the past two hours to get some food provided for them by a volunteer organization and for many of them this is the only meal they're going to get to eat all day they're desperate to go to england you know they really that's what they want they don't want to stay here it's not a very nice place to stay and even if they ask for asylum many stay on the street for weeks or months before they have lodging cali's mess says the town is. so this seems by refugees that locals fear for their safety and it best is a pulling out of the area so frustrated as natasha bouchard that she said she's willing to buy ferry tickets to send all the migrants over to britain she's even called for the u.k.'s border to be moved from its current location in the cali ferry terminal over to the port of dover. there is only one place in the world where countries borders are not physically located in their own country and those
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here in cali clearly doesn't work we are hostages of the decisions and the policies of the british government i'm demanding that the border is moved back to its own country britain's borders should be in due were in the united kingdom it's not our job to control britain's borders kelly come to coop and they don't care how bad things are for us the u.k. government needs to start doing its job and not leaving it up to us to do it here in france. just twenty miles across the channel here in dover the u.k. hasn't exactly got its arms wide open the british government is so concerned over the migrants desperate attempts to make it to britain in dinghies and makeshift vessels that a special fleet of border force boats has been assigned to patrol this coastline locals in dover tell us that they've already had enough so there's so many that we
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can tally this from just responsibility if they reaching their shores and believes the nation maintain the responsibility golden triangle for the procession of those it's a problem that no one wants to have isn't it back in cali dinner time is over while they're here these men and women's lives are taken up by simple questions like where their next meal will come from or how they can get a shower all the authorities in france and britain continue. to wash their hands of them. kelly and dave. coming up on r t international moments of calm after weeks of rage the u.s. town of ferguson prepares to pay its final respects to a teenager shot dead by police. last night the story of one model who made his dreams fly literally out of more coming up after the break.
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but those who want to get involved to stop isis in iraq are allied with isis in syria but we still should be doing everything we can to support the free syrian opposition who will continue to provide military assistance and advice to the iraqi government and kurdish forces as they battle these terrorists. as russia and the west continue to drift apart into a new cold war russia's worldview of international politics is largely neglected in western media and in the halls of power russia will defend its national interest and also has its own red lines. eugenics but eugenics vulgarize ation of darwin science punishment for an on committed crying i was sterilized to an unfulfilling in eighty feebleminded still today for the few i don't know why.
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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. till now i'd really rather not talk about that right.
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assesses he is the mother of invention as the saying and for one russian man that means living the high life in a home made plain mundane a question of a report on how his dreams took flight. surrogate and his eight year old son took a flight to their holiday destination there'd be nothing exceptional about that word not for one thing you've got a little i made a plane we flew in myself i know every single tiny part of it and of course it gives me great comfort i feel confident about. his spend over five years building and from scratch using mostly fiberglass plastic old machinery parts and has inexhaustible enthusiasts from sarah ganim has sunny kita spent a total of twenty three hours in the sky travelling from the heart of siberia to the coast of the black sea. i was born in a very remote area in a small village there were no roads there it was like living on an island once my
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father told me that when i grow up i would be able to build some type of cross-country vehicle that would get me anywhere i ever wanted to i was always dreaming about it but his real passion for airplanes started back in ninety seven when russia introduce a new law that allows anyone to have a private plane for personal use so we didn't use a list but i had to overcome a number of challenges because it is a self made aircraft i had to take a special certificate for the plane aviation experts had to acknowledge it is safe to operate so now i am a legal user of the flying space but the shaft cheek families and bishan reaches even further. one day we took a globe and decided we wanted to go to the equator if you draw a straight line from the city of soup to the equator you get to the multi-verse you this is the place we now dream of visiting together with my son there is only one
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thing standing in their way the himalayas sergei sas he needs to obviate the engine to increase the flying out to toot and as we've come to learn for him not even the sky's the limit and i do the question are. now from. two online and holocaust survivors lash out at israel to the ongoing military operation in gaza get the full story on our website. and if you ever wanted your own town then it's your lucky day one is up for sale in canada at a bargain price visit our website for the details. to see. first street. and i think you're.
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michael brown the teenager shot dead over two weeks ago by police in the us town of ferguson will be buried today was started as a local protest over the shooting spots a wave of rallies brutally suppressed by police which only increased public and reported reports on a community in mourning after weeks of violence. on what would have been his first day at university michael will instead be laid to rest in the coming hours an estimated five thousand five thousand people are expected to turn out first funeral including three officials from the white house on august ninth the honor teenagers were shot and killed by a white officer down we'll say and after that as the world has learned violence and police clashes with peaceful protesters i think up there in ferguson is the last or minute two weeks the past few days we have seen somewhat of
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a chaotic secretly pretty soon to see her side with the rest of us taking place but when it got very tense we saw the boards with tear gas and flash raids thrown thousands that turned out into the streets calling for calm to the libyan justice for the killing of michael brown that once one day several events took place on the scene there was sort of works including the one behind me where hundreds had gathered up holding candles and and holding a mass one corner of michael brown everything's family speaking to a crowd of hundreds or in sunday michael moore's law they're leading the community saying that he's hoping for a day. and peace for the finally there is some reporting from st louis where you know we're going to our tape to other world news now three inmates sad reports even beheaded and at least five injured in a prison riot in brazil and the seven hundred prisoners are reported to be involved in the uprising which destroyed much of the penitentiary the inmates took at least
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two dogs and other prisoners hostage's dissatisfied about how the prison is controlled as well as about food and hygiene that. the strongest quake in twenty five years to hit california has injured over one hundred twenty people six of them seriously a state of emergency has been declared after the strong earthquake hit the san francisco bay area there has been significant damage to buildings only seventy thousand homes have been left without power. and after more than a month of fighting islamist militias claim to have taken total control of tripoli international airport in libya during the raid at least ten people have been killed and dozens wounded the fight has largely destroyed the port tripoli residents say that unidentified warplanes also attacked targets in the capital. preliminary results from the presidential election in the caucuses republic of suggest the opposition candidate is leading the polls with more than half of the
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votes the country's new leader will have to deal with a legacy of years of rampant corruption that's brought the country to the brink of reports for r.t. . sunday's election a party i went through the route of protests but unlike those of the arab spring or some of the color revolutions the protests here did not snowball into vicious mylan . against the all that's the president gave up his near absolute paving the way to an early vote. against us as now people have finally realized that we need changes and not to be the nation's president now is not a privilege it's going to be hard ward as you've done to me and people have taken an active stance many showed up to cause their votes today we want the current situation in the country changed for people to have work and to feel that they're living in a free country that's. the race quickly boiled down to two candidates on the one side there is the man who championed the change and led the protest on the other
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a loyal follower of the as the president who served as minister of security. both promise a new age for uprising and then to mass poverty pandemic corruption and government excess. playing exactly on the citizens desire. the election was caught the turnout high by any standard and vote counting is now wrapping up officials told us they did all they could to allow her to have to say the elections unfolded in a calm atmosphere we didn't ever think what we could get all that because people can company hold despite the very small budget almost one hundred international observers from twenty four countries were here joined by the locals we ran into them and various polling stations they went about their duties and that's what they thought of this poll. when you put them in the voting is gone really well the election is fair open and has been held in accordance with the nation's laws. tuesday will mark six years since surprise you have received its first
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international independence recognition there was a believe that from that day on life would change for the better unfortunately the . didn't happen but the hope is now back for a guarantee of hard see a positive. now in the u.k. dog owners are said to be killing their pets with kindness with britain's canines now some of the fattest in the world there's artie's andrew farmer reports it's not just poorly pets that might need to look at their diets. bruce the boxer is fact and he's trying to shed some pounds lack of exercise import diet saw him balloon in size to almost twice he's ideal weight. honey and goat's milk every morning and any dinner in the evening and obviously the few treats of biscuits only goes into he's in good company though research shows over half of britain's dogs are in fact obese that's up fifteen percent in four years and makes them some of the
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fattest in the world a quick straw poll of our own helped explain why what treats to give them chicken fillets. sticks and if you can get their arms will actually over fish and chips put in a ball through for the same results we don't get. that julie jones is only too aware of the problem but says often dog owners aren't feeding their pet just one cup of tea is the human equivalent of eating a hamburger and being overweight consider fairly effect a dog's health is their pets and they love him dearly and i generally say you killing with love they get joint problems ok then they get heart problems and then there's difficulty of proving. but surgeries like julie's are offering help in fact three courses if you kate betts now have the city clinics chubby canines including bruce being put on a diet of wholesome food and exercise well fifty five kilograms proof he used to be
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known as rochester's heavyweight boxer he's now down to forty nine kilograms but the thing is. he's not the only saggy dog story in the u.k. there are currently four million dogs that are overweight. and animal experts don't expect that figure to fall fast dogs are like their owners so the saying goes and with over sixty percent of britons now obese that is becoming the new norm but individual owners you can do something about it only quickly but again i think just like with human obesity now it's got to the point of being so common that it's going to take a long time to do with. the proof so there's no looking back the smart is losing his gut as an impressive rate for him at least it's nothing tastes as good as slim felix andry farmer farty london now in the way a report i read medical condition that makes people age prematurely but for you in
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the u.k. it's sophie shevardnadze and sophie stay with us. if you look at my generation of americans and even more so at the millennium there are a lot of people with all sorts of piercings and tattoos everyone wants to express themselves by getting the exact same cliched tattoos and piercings as everyone else but can we discriminate against these people because of their in doubt appearance normally people are against discrimination because it punishes people for the way they were born their rays search gender but no one was born with big metal loops stretching out their ear lobes so essentially yes you can't judge someone by their tattoos and piercings because they got these done consciously as an adult i mean we all know that you need to dress up on a first date or job interview to make a good impression and all having the words thug life written up your forearm are
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not very convincing to me that you are going to make a valuable employee or girlfriend one of the worst things that we tell children is that you should never judge a book by its cover the problem is that no one has the time to open up all these books and investigate so obviously ninety percent of the time we're going to be judging each other by the cover of our book and if that cover is full of dead fetus tattoos like one guy i know that you should expect a lot of bigoted reactions over the course of your life but that's just my opinion . on air and in the final. moments. only take it no demand. in life.
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my name is time you're right and i have a ph d. in mathematics and i'm a magician and i also blogger and i write about the swedish general mess. i will devote this documentary in parts to my grandmother that passed away two years ago because she loved russia and she's in heaven now but she would want me to do this that's why i think about yesterday am i doing the right thing should i do to should i expose the gender madness or not but my grandmother mother would want
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me to do this. fight you guys just to get my brain function. this is the feminist party that wants to come into the parliament can i ask you again english i'm swedish absolute but yet read it we have them we do a documentary about the gender issue in sweden and of course i know that your gender aware and so little we're all for equality between men and women but in my opinion is has gone too far the gender they meet and for example in the educational system they say that the.

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