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and we check out some car let's say. technology some day here on r.g.p. we've got the future. russian troops detained in ukraine after apparently crossing the border accidentally our return home and. also the seat some of ukraine's most battle hardened units are trapped in a massive counterattack with a military plane in kiev claiming a stealth russian invasion. that we have a look at how islamic state terrorists are exploiting black market trade and online p.r. to nurture their jihadism pire in iraq and syria. this
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is our senior national coming to us from moscow was marina joshing. now ten russian paratroopers have returned home after spending almost a week detained in ukraine the group was captured when they claimed they mistakenly crossed the ukrainian border while on routine patrol our disposal or as been following their story. the talks were complicated and difficult but we can now confirm that all ten of russian paratroopers crossed over into ukraine are back inside russia the negotiations were easy but thankfully common sense prevailed and the guards are back with us the soldiers were patrolling the ukrainian russian border at night when they unintentionally crossed over into ukrainian territory it was a part of the border that is not signposted they related attained by the ukrainian security services such border incidents are not uncommon and on several occasions ukrainian soldiers have in fact crossed over into russia but russia has never made
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much fanfare and as always and should that they are able to return safely back to ukraine there was an incident early in august when around some four hundred ukrainian servicemen appeal to the russian border guards for humanitarian colorado that would allow them to bring their injured and into russia at the same time it would allow them to stock up and food they'd run out of food they'd run out of ammunition they later returned to ukraine off to the wounded had been treated inside russia also around three days ago some sixty three ukrainian servicemen so to shelter on the russian side of the border this was just state the shelling they later to also returned back into ukraine every national law expert always an american tourist told us why he was delighted to put russian servicemen in the media spotlight. craning government wanted to milk the. political public. they're trying to argue and have been trying to argue for
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a long time that they're not really fighting the people of the eastern ukraine but that they're fighting the russian army so here they had ten russian actual ten actual russian soldiers and they were able to grade them and put them on television and to show them as proof of the claim that they've been making for a long time that it is the russian army that they're fighting rather than their own the evidence does not look which was convincing that there are any russian troops there but of course one can have un convincing evidence if people want to believe it and these ten russian soldiers unfortunately were if you like a gift from heaven in that respect ukraine's government forces have withdrawn from the village of crush of r.t. in the ganske a region and the rural community has been the focal point of intense fighting as you can see in these pictures with this is a large numbers of ukrainian armored vehicles and tanks have been left there many
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of them destroyed in all it's now been four months since kiev launched its military crackdown in the east. now since then it has officially admitted to the deaths of seven hundred government troops and the more than two and a half thousand injured the kid is being accused of a massive cover up at a government forces say up to fourteen thousand military service men have died and that casualties are being under-reported on purpose. in the last few days alone hundreds of government troops have reportedly been killed or taken prisoner near the town of ill advised and the deniece region their entire battalion found themselves surrounded adjoining counterattacked violence and government forces and one of the commanders of those vets accused me of abandoning them artes falsely reports on the growing frustration in ukraine on. as the fighting intensifies and anti government forces close in
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a call for hope goes on on said free enforcements foot traffic lane in troops also incoming it's not the first time kids soldiers feel abandoned let me take you needed to see if it was been a good women with little money or three dogs what a third of muslim a bloke lab i'm sure your material across the documents would tell you what the woman response go using it was when i was a regional i'm over it very unpleasant for every reason much it's a far cry from the tough talk of ukrainian president petro poroshenko talking of a strong country and strong all me instead its young and often inexperienced soldiers as suggested by an alleged conversation between a commander and a tank soldier leaked online i did five. forty five was i was already through was.
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there was a thank you there was frustration is growing among the troops that will get through but it then they feel that sense i think it will it was good to begin to think that it's that deliverance and the government the head of the interior ministry is locking horns with the need of the radical nationalist white sick to group which is taking part in the fighting in the country ceased if our demands are not met will be forced to withdraw our battalions from the front line and launch a march on to key if to carry out speedy reforms in the interior ministry. yeah roche with your bragging you have deceived people who you led into illegal armed units you were turning the people who believed you into cannon daughter meanwhile losses on the battlefield are mounting. point of. eastern ukraine. earlier this week ukraine's president better version guess said russia had invaded his country international media outlets immediately ran with the story that it
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should count looks at some of the coverage. panic alert in western media after key if tweeted that russia invaded ukraine when reports started coming in that fighting broke out between the rebels and ukrainian forces in the port town of. many were quick to claim that it's russia's doing what seems to be happening on the ground however is that russian troops of pushing in from russia photos of tanks emerged in social media with nothing to suggest that they were operated by russian soldiers kill you put out this video claiming it's a russian tank. but while journalists were grappling with the new developments and struggling with the pronunciation of the town that was supposedly being invaded this is no bus got u.s. and nato officials pushed ahead with accusing russia of deploying more than one thousand troops and heavy artillery into ukraine last week ukraine called russia's
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delivery of humanitarian aid into eastern ukraine an invasion this week it accused moscow of quote unquote a full scale invasion the western media that is generally not putting much distinction between rebels and washer quickly picked up that side of the story that is despite the fact that this thursday the ois sea which is now monitoring the russian border with ukraine said they saw no evidence of russian troops and tanks crossing the border the u.n. said it could not independently verify the reports of the russian invasion but a u.n. security council meeting was called upon where its western members push to hold russia responsible russia stop this conflict at least two thousand two hundred twenty people including twenty three children have died in the conflict in eastern ukraine but we've never heard the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. call on key to stop bombing its own people in washington i'm going to check in on our team. now the russian press. it has shed some
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light on the behind the scenes diplomatic wrangling over ukraine in an interview with national media whatever putin revealed that he and he's a crane and counterpart have reached an agreement on how to peacefully resolve the conflict and he also sad there needs to be substantial talks on the status of the region and made it clear he thinks february's violence is responsible for the ongoing conflict in the country's east the russian president added that winter is coming and hardship will only increase if the fighting doesn't stop now human rights watch has again called in kiev for information on a russian photojournalist understand who's been missing in ukraine since the start of august insist it has no information about were about the watchdogs deputy director for europe and central asia says the rights of media workers are being
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violated in ukraine by both militia groups and the army adding that the authorities have a track record of detaining russian journalists. now washington is leading the charge against and state militants urging other western states to form a coalition against the jihadists in syria and iraq the u.s. has also stepped up air strikes against the group but the latest reports suggest extremist have enough funds to replace any arms and equipment destroyed by the u.s. . islamic state has managed to create one of the most successful business models in the world of terrorism with assets worth an estimated two billion dollars reports suggest a significant amount of that around two million dollars daily comes from selling oil to kurds in neighboring countries smuggling and kidnapping is also a lucrative sideline with ransom payments bringing in around ten million dollars in
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recent years and the figures are publicly available islamic state publishes a corporate style and all reported to attract new sponsors the radical group is also social media savvy and key to getting new militants join their campaign a long way from home. pictures of mutilated corpses of the so-called infidels and photoshop images of western troops involved in flames these are just some of the growth task methods employed by the islamic state illustrated in glossy magazines and online and its attempt to spread its message and message that even al qaida is uncomfortable with visit those what was striking. can produce some remarkably good visual graphics but nothing on the scale of isis the photography is hyper real islamic states markets and techniques are becoming increasingly more professional and widespread as its
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propaganda is found in different languages in news updates videos twitter accounts magazines and on t.v. the democratic they're targeting is you know they're relying on the ignorance of their distorting koran of course but they're also using various kinds of stylistic mannerisms which the youth are familiar with from the street from you tube from twitter and so forth in other words it has a very modern look and feel it feels like a media extravaganza but it's suffused with excitement now if we take a look at the cover of the islamic states latest magazine they will see that it's a play on a noah's ark in which the message is it's either them or the flood and experts say there is controversy and fear to get more followers how are they doing that they are using hate propaganda by showing their adversary is paradoxically as killing babies is they also are i think
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a remarkably harsh in their language they present their enemy is indeed humanized terms of some kind of humanity just as the nazis did so they only use pejoratives like crusades while watson nations might be trying to bomb isis out of existence. isis itself seems to have learned to those bombs that cam breach social media and therefore its existence online grow stronger than ever bring the cost of our reporting from london forty. now nato is mulling over how to combat the islamic state threat and that sparked protests over fears it could launch a new military campaign a long way from home more in doubt after the break. different leader in syria now many of the members of congress of both parties have gone to syria in recent months. yet mr president
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we choose deedes told will you can. still be nice to syria it's going to be so obvious that. your c.v. is are more than the propaganda. that is the state sponsored russia today program just words like sabean not like. and i like that that is just ridiculous not to answer to my question. john is not be supportive of their safety and sometimes their lives all over the world to bring people stories. again the child don't want you to see we told her.
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welcome back you're watching r t international line from moscow slovakia could veto that his attempt to impose more trade sanctions against russia next week the country's prime minister called the measures meaningless and the counterproductive adding that there is no point in supporting sanctions that could hurt the economy and that was echoed by is check out a part who wants to revise the blog strategy the further restrictions announced by european leaders at a summit in brussels will be the latest escalation in a trade war since moscow clamp down on food imports as the e.u. tries to curb the impact of the ban some politicians there have their own ideas on how to ease the pain. keeps food you know but.
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germany's agriculture minister believes it ing out the food which was supposed to go to russia could help local producers money wise and also put additional pressure on moscow. early estimates show the you could lose up to seven billion euros over the food in bargo and that around one hundred thirty thousand people could lose jobs. now this polish farmers are seeking full compensation for their losses they don't several tons of peppers outside the parliament building in brussels some german politicians saying sanctions were a big mistake. especially does was different sanctions than the trade war i know means to improve the situation on the country we have a spiral of exclusion that hurts the german and european economies many people object to the sanctions trite from the start they have a right to feelings and this is not due to achieving. sanctions or always
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prove that the political means feel they are useless and they are harming the population sanctions always lead to losses on both sides you can already see the backlash from the sanctions but in the next couple of months it will be even more obvious. from the beginning it was the wrong approach because sanctions escalated the situation and did not ease the tensions it was clear when the imposed sanctions that there would be a counter reaction and the stakes would be raised now because of that a lot of entrepreneurs as well as the general public in germany has been affected by that. and poland's prime minister is to be the next president doll to takes over on december the first from of our own party who says that the major challenges are the economy ukraine and britain's place in europe. the block's leaders have also nominated italian foreign minister federica margarita to be their new foreign
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policy chief political commentator ana vanden skee thinks the two new leaders hold very different political views and that might prove to be a problem for the future of the e.u. maurine is seen very much as tolerant candid as towards russia while donald tusk is seen as tough men who will are wrestle with president putin about it small to about it it's about this relationship should be functional and unfortunately it's not because the contradictions are so profound and that there is no other way that the states worlds try to built up by a letter all relations with russia because more complicated it's more profound the debate in europe is. less less vision common vision is represented towards russia are less chance is for european union to become a real player and fulfill its role or its ambition to become a saver off ukraine two nations have
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a plenty more for you on line including pools of fade blodgett in a belgian airport. activist had a brush with the law when they splash data across one of the terminals find out why they did it on r t dot com. also online souses of germans have rallied to tell their government to get its prying eyes out of their private lives the details are on our website. threat posed by islamic state terrorist will be high on the agenda at the upcoming nato summit and the welsh it is of cardiff and newport is harry fear reports hundreds have already gathered to protest the threat of yet more military action amid fears the alliance might decide to launch itself into another distant war. i love the leaders the organizers of this protest movement against an h o but in the coming hours and days ten to twenty thousand protesters from across wales the u.k. on even some coming from mainland europe going to a commie here type protest
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a toast summit which is taking place on thursday and friday around sixty leaders from around the world coming off for this very high profile and significant conference protesters here are against nato itself the the answer to which they see as they say just waging war torn countries they say it is symbolic of global you know i want to see now to protect the nato summit taking place in the next few days has been on track precedented security operation by the police close to ten thousand police officers have been drafted in from across the u.k. now this operation that critics say has cost up to fifteen million pounds to secure a part of new port this city and also wells capital cardiff which has also been caught up significantly in the security preparations including tens of kilometers
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of security barrier is being put in the center of the south wales cities the police are trying to do many things first protect the nato summit itself second to also facilitate the democratic protests of peaceful protesters and third to try and keep wales on the u.k. secure given the increased terror threat which was raised just in the last couple of days of france's interior minister has squashed plans for a temporary shelter for thousands of u.k. bound illegal immigrants stuck in france british politicians earlier can down the idea by the mayor of cali accusing france of being a refueling stop for illegal migration kalai were britain has a border checkpoint is overrun by sounds of people trying to reach the u.k. every year probably won't go reports. in the french more to galle this has become a familiar sight destitute migrants the majority from east africa and the middle
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east have made the town that temporary home these makeshift tents on an industrial wasteland have been nicknamed the jungle. i have never seen in my life you see i come from the blue the war to produce for example in gaza for their life is a bit of gum disease estimates put the number of migrants here in cali over one on the hoff thousand on 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 are going to get to eat all day the majority of the people we speak to tell us their aim is to make the journey across the english channel it's believed hundreds try to get to the u.k. illegally each week stowed away in lorries 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
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a very nice place to stay and even if they ask for asylum many stay on the street for weeks or months before the have lodging cali's mess says the town is so besieged by refugees that locals fear for their safety and investors 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. jova. there is only one place in the world where countries borders are not physically located in their own country and those here in cali that clearly doesn't work and 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 do work 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.
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government needs to start doing its job and not leaving it up to us to do it here in france are. 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 deniz and makeshift vessels that a special fleet of border force boats has been assigned to patrol this coastline as for the suggestion to move the u.k.'s borders away from france the u.k. government has told us it's not in their plans locals in dover tell us that they've already had enough we said there's so many that we can tell he has france's responsibility if they reaching their shores and believes that they should maintain the responsibility to go from no place else where it's a simple as that it's
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a problem that no one wants to have isn't it back in cali a dinner time is over while they're here these men and women's lives are taken up by simple questions like where the next meal will come from or how they can get a shower while the authorities in france and britain continue to wash their hands of them. kalai and over. now every year thousands of refugees try to cross from cali in from northern france to britain attracted by a favorable migrant policy and the situation is growing worse by the year french police have prevented over seven thousand illegal border crossings in the last six months alone and that's already more than double the previous year. tell us stories now from around the world and islam this militant group in libya has reportedly secured a vacant u.s. embassy compound in tripoli and washington evacuated staff from the premises at the end of july amid clashes between rival gangs the country plunged into
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a lawless this after former leader water khadafi was one of. the fro of. farms allowed various militant groups to accumulate power. pakistan three protesters have been killed in clashes with police as they demand of the prime minister's resignation hundreds more were injured violence broke out as thousands of people tried to force their way through barricades to the prime minister's official residence police made dozens of arrests and demonstrators have vowed to continue to camp out in the capital until their demands are met the prime minister nawaz sharif is accused of bringing in last year's general election has refused to step down. a child has been killed and eleven other people injured when a blast caused a residential building to partially collapse in a suburb of paris emergency teams are trying to rescue another ten people who they
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say could still be trapped underneath the rubble it's thought a gas leak could have triggered the explosion but authorities have not yet said what caused the collapse. and the news continues at the top of the hour do stay with us. know a famous politician is tweeting that a for government is using excessive force against protesting citizens does this mean we're going to see yet another intervention to democratise their government into the dirt like in iraq or libya wait wait nothing is going to happen because that politician is russian but why is this so why can the police beat up or terrorize protesters in some countries but in others if you lift one finger you are going to get
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a needle lesson in human rights well the answer is simple this tweet and any attempts to intervene from do a member of what happened because unlike what they tell you in school might does it make right for you young that's out there old group occurred. remembers the cold war and back when there were two great powers they had to at least behave well to woo people into believing that one side were the good guys no that's all gone the problem is they model polar world that we live in heck if the us still had to deal with soviet or some other propaganda we would never see as much footage of flagrant police misconduct that we do now absolute power corrupts absolutely and the geo political monopoly that we all live in really isn't good for the average person in or outside of america especially if they want to protest but that's just my opinion . well. would show british transport gets
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a facelift and you can see the board makes the most of the sun in. the science flourishes in homes and we check out some car let's say. technology update here on r.g.p. we've got the future. my name is time to practice and i have a ph d. in mathematics on the mathematician and i'm also a blogger and i write about this week general mess. i will develop this documentary in parts to my grandmother that passed away two years ago because she'd allowed to us.
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