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clashes leave hundreds of palestinians injured in the latest day of rage against the u.s. recognition after islam the israeli capital. just delayed its uprising quite tense and we can certainly smell tear gas every way to imply that. he hears from a fifteen year old girl who managed to escape from islamic state capital captivity in iraq. and facebook and twitter threatened with sanctions if they fail to help a british parliamentary probe into alleged russian interference in the britain's it vote.
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you're watching out international live from moscow studio with me in a day or two to welcome to the program hundreds of people have been injured in the west bank and gaza in the latest clashes with israeli security forces crowds gathered on friday for a fourth week day of rage against president trying to recognize jerusalem as the israeli capital. i'm here with these basic six points in northern ramallah where the soldiers have come all the way in and they firing tear gas so we're moving to the back of the smaller crowd here than normal but they have as always been throwing rocks and stones and sometimes molotov cocktails at the israeli soldiers this is the floor it's friday raids actually palestinians all over gaza strip east jerusalem and the west bank are demonstrating and protesting against donald trump's declaration days right behind me growing just tears on the protesters since the morning. since that announcement. well
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you can smell the tear gas from here so it's trying to made that announcement fourteen palestinians have been killed and those figures according to the palestinian health ministry they also report more than three thousand people have been injured it's escalating it's uprising but that is right the army has been it's rolling gas canisters all the protesters are running away from the buffer is done. right he's not been shooting live i mean. i was one hundred very very very close to where he was standing so. the situation here like it has been for the last month. quite tense and we can certainly smell tear gas everywhere there were. five ambulances that. for our three injuries the u.s. position on jerusalem ended decades of american neutrality on one of the most
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complex issues in the region as both israel and palestine of claims on jerusalem according to several un resolutions east jerusalem is considered to be illegally occupied by israel the u.s. some pasta to israel has accused palestinians of overreacting to trump's decision in an anti semitic way plan to relocate the u.s. embassy to root jerusalem has sparked global condemnation early this month an overwhelming majority at the un general assembly voted to reject the move. has been following the story of a palestinian boy who spent twenty days in an israeli prison to many he is seen as a symbol of the resistance against israel. so. what i was in there were there were confrontations and the demonstration of the rejects trumps decision when we were both sound cannons and gas bombs but i had no choice but to run away.
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in my chest with a weapon and i was thrown on the ground then a group of twenty three soldiers that sacked me they tied my hands and blindfolded me so i could not see anything and insulted me. to. its us for several minutes big hits us on the feet and i lost one of my shoes and that took the other one such cold water mark for. thousands of kurdish speaking as e.d.s. is still being kept hostage in iraq despite the fall of islamic state many of them the children who have been abducted and sold at slave markets senior correspondent reporting on the long way home from terrorist captivity. age ten
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location. starting bid ten thousand dollars russia age nine location turkey starting bid fifteen thousand dollars peanuts age eight location syria starting bid teen thousand dollars. age fifteen. baghdad sold for two and a hot thousand dollars was kidnapped by isis in mosul in two thousand and fifteen for near enough three years she endured horrible things things that new fifteen year old girl or any woman should ever have to endure two hours ago she was bored back by her family here in baghdad no one called the police no one
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wanted to risk her life she spent her first hour of freedom crying in the hotel room bear in mind isis tells its hostages that their families will kill them if they ever return but her arrest would be brief as to how she was shown a shelter to shelter. and up front about it with. many people who are happy that she's. shortly after our meeting her relatives took her shopping. she was rescued by a group of men who specialize in tracking down these e.d.'s kidnapped by isis they then either negotiate a sale or steal them back they have begun secrecy i know and she got you know i says say that if we show the girl still in that possession with their relatives apparent t.v. the deal will be off that they'd kill the hostages as such some of the. people
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involved didn't want to appear on camera but their stories i've. heard this one of the girls was kidnapped when she was sad and nice of rapes for three years consecutive house here where there are several girls san eleven twelve years old who were all rate they were gifted or sold as many as fifteen signs. if not for sexual pleasure isis brainwashes u.c.d. children and sends them on suicide missions or sells them for money oh when isis fighters flee to turkey they sell their slaves because they need money to go back to their home countries. you may not know but when the u.s. led coalition and their allies in syria reportedly led hundreds of isis fighters need to vent besieged graca those jihad this took not only the guns and families
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but also the hostages and slaves the same people that are now being boarded back of the prices vary depending on where there are if they're in dangerous place you can be eighty thousand dollars otherwise around fifteen thousand. others also tracking down missing people one iraqi m.p. has made a name for herself rescuing children. she spend her own money buying out several of these kids and then to have you know one of the girls told me the story of her escape she and her aunts were in isis captivity two of the terrorists watched them day and night to prevent them from running away then the girl told one of them that she couldn't sleep and asked to see a doctor the isis fights or gave her some sleeping pills she kept them and put them
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in the street the terrorist fell asleep and she and her managed to escape the girl was eight years old and was too terrified to do anything so the girl told her let's try and run away they will kill us anyway and they escaped three thousand years e.d.'s is still missing hundreds presumed held by isis the international community no longer really care as they see these. do to track the same ratings now that they aren't being slaughtered so it's up to them to recover their children and to help them heal from what isis has done to them more our guys the odd see from the hawk iraq. contacted several human rights organizations about what's being done to help the victims of these crimes so far only a few have responded including the red cross. the battles in mosul and
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ramadi and fallujah all over iraq have yielded an overwhelming overwhelmingly large or high amount of missing people people who whose fate are unknown the families are still looking for them whether they are in captivity with islam mix a group or any other party in iraq families do not know the fate of their loved ones and if they have the right to know the fate of the loved ones whether they have been dead or are still alive somewhere in iraq being held by a certain party to a conflict what we do to assist because we know that the process to look and search for missing loved ones is a really painful process that can go on for many many years and we call on anyone who has a missing person in iraq to approach the international committee of the red cross and to report the missing case so that we can assist in the search and identification of people who are missing as you just heard many people went missing
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in the face battle for mosul in iraq much of the city was reduced to rubble during its liberation from islamic state in the air the red squares on the map showed just how much of mosul has been obliterated yet falling ice with the locals say little effort has been made to rebuild what was once considered one of iraq's most beautiful thirteenth. comma the. one we haven't received any aid from the government really going.
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and i feel completely destroyed i don't feel like coming back to his home i've lost all hope of living here after seeing all this devastation. if you thought that installing latest antivirus software would protect you from being hacked think again even the leading cyber security guru john mica v.a. has been hacked and here's what's happened.
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my account was hacked has been notified and the calling of the it was not me. john mike of a spoke and he explained why some forms of hacking are impossible to prevent and why cryptocurrency it has made people more vulnerable than love. we rely on a number of people we will rely on our carriers the telephone carers rely on twitter my father was hacked through my carrier eighteen t. prior to being hacked my phone was totally disabled you couldn't call in to it i could not call out from it they sent to my phone number
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a special code so that i could get in but it wasn't me it was the hacker. this is something totally out of my control totally out of everyone's control what happened to me is not a threat but there's a great threat to all minus is a great threat to all people who oppose crypto conses most people do not keep their currencies on their own while we're living in a new world of hacking and a new world of risks for all of us using the internet actors are becoming more and more efficient and more sophisticated in their hacking techniques it's just going to happen to me i promise you it can happen to him or. politicians in the u.k. a warning on possible sanctions against us tech giants that story animal still to come.
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welcome back to the program powerful painkillers are affecting life expectancy in america figures show opioids played a bigger role in overdose deaths last year than any other drug legal or illegal oxys samir khan reports the nation's opioid epidemic drug overdoses this country's recent surge in opioid addiction incredible epidemic one of the most serious crises facing people in this country. i don't know what is the average life expectancy in the u.s. is getting shorter for the second year in a row now that's according to the center for disease control and prevention and they predict this day. downward trend will only continue it doesn't look any better we haven't seen more than two years in the row in decline in life expectancy since the spanish flu one hundred years ago would be entering the sorts of territory
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which is extremely concerning now this is all while other major causes of death like heart disease and cancer have dropped however overdose deaths have been on the rise estimated to be around sixty three thousand six hundred that's more than the number of us soldiers that died during the vietnam war around fifty eight thousand and that's not it about two thirds of drug related deaths were linked to opioid use so it's pretty safe to say that america's been dealing with an opioid crisis that's only getting worse. every one of those little old represents the person that we lost. those epidemic has resulted in a few shocking cases in the u.s. in ohio
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a coroner's office ran out of space to store dead bodies in west virginia officials had to send over a million dollars just to transport dead bodies and you would think that this would raise some concern in washington and it did in my administration is officially declaring the opioid crisis a national public health emergency under federal law and why i am directing all executive agencies to use every appropriate emergency authority to fight the opioid crisis however the government has an allocated any additional funding to deal with this crisis while the former c.e.o. of a company that produces opioid meds as a nominated as health and human services secretary we are a country a culture that tends to look for quick fixes for simple solutions. and particularly as it as it relates to drug use you know we think drug users are criminals or they're morally the fact that we stigmatize them or we offer them you
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know adequate treatments the overemphasis drugs prescribed rather than on seeking more comprehensive more complex solutions both to the problem of addiction but more generally. problems of human suffering and while people expect the government to act life expectancy continues to drop samir khan r t washington d.c. . in the u.k. facebook and twitter could face sanctions if they don't help a parliamentary investigation into alleged russian interference in the brig said but the head of the so-called fake news inquiry m.p. damian collins has now given the social media giants almost three weeks to hand over all the information his request it. they need to be able to tell us what they can do about it and what we need to be able to do is say to the companies we recognize that you are best placed to meet with so what is going on your insights but if you fail to police the search effectively and deal with highly problematic
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contant then it has to be some sort of sanction against you damian collins the chair of the department of culture media and sports select committee in the u.k. parliament he's leading this investigation into so-called alleged russian interference in the e.u. referendum and he's really slammed these tech giants the social media giant saying that they aren't handing over enough information and that the information that they are handing over is the same that they handed over to the electoral commission earlier this month and we can look at some of the numbers of come forward facebook for example handing over information which says that story russian ads were taken out with only two hundred views or two hundred people viewing those ads and the total cost of ninety seven cents spent on the damian collins saying that no work has been done by facebook to look for other fake accounts and twitter as well
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handing over information saying that only six tweets from r.t. accounts at a cost of a thousand dollars again mr collins saying that twitter information that they've shared is completely inadequate now we've spoken to facebook they've told us that they are closely cooperating with the electoral committee but that they don't have any evidence thus far of russian actors attempting to influence the brig's that vote but this all is very similar to the types of inquiries we've been seeing in the us and looking into the presidential election there and again alleged russian interference and we've also heard from the us senator mark warner who's also been very critical of those social media giants i was concerned at first. in the social media platform companies did not take this threat seriously enough i believe they are recognizing that threat now they've provided us with information because these social media giants they've continuously stratton's russia is very small in
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comparison to other adverts taken out and of course very little has been spoken about for example president obama before the briggs's referendum came to the u.k. contacted facebook for a comment warning it told us it had responded fully to all the inquiries that the electoral commission independent political commentator adam carroll thanks for the inquiries into alleged russian meddling have reached a point of absurdity to sign of desperation isn't it with someone that wants to go to a very nice restaurant in the no tables if the guy is really desperate to get in there can you check again or are you sure you don't have any tables it really is just ridiculous they want to prolong and prolong and on scandal when frankly all they need to do is look at the facebook ads it's all a matter of public record and yes the fingers might get a bit sore scrolling down through the past but it doesn't take it you don't need to be some sort of super james bond in order to conduct this it really comes down to
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irresponsible corporate governance irresponsible political governance and a lack of transparency on both sides and in order to stir hoodwink the public about this of this sort of back scratching competition which occasionally draws blood they need a distraction it's either a sex scandal it's russian meddling. the first ship carrying russian produced gas has reached the u.k. and a new energy deal the liquefied natural gas is produced by a company which the u.s. put on its sanctions list in a move strongly supported by london at the time the first round of washington sanctions were imposed in twenty fourteen in response to russia's alleged involvement in the ukraine conflict the us has always been critical of russia's gas supplies to europe saying they undermine europe's energy security with moscow using the energy sector as a foreign policy tool of you britain has backed it's not in europe's interests it's
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not in our interests it's also a political rather than a commercial undertaking there is an existing framework in place for the e.u. to take more aggressive action on more trim too and similar projects if you wish to do so politically we have seen how countries such as putin's russia use their guest supplies is a tool of foreign policy threatening to cut off supplies address tickle increased prices however the end of twenty seventeen has seen the u.k. out in the cold and in need of russian gas it all started around three weeks ago when the most important pipeline to britain was shut down due to a crack then one of the biggest hubs in europe suffered an explosion which led to a spike in gas prices moreover britain has faced an unusually cold winter with blizzards and freezing temperatures we discuss the story with oil and gas expert. why is the european union abba and britain sub borke us sanctions when it comes to their own needs they can put aside our share of the sanctions
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for their own benefit and that is the situation with the united kingdom now russia has is a very liable supplier so i think that will continue of course the united states would like to be able to reduce europe's dependence on russian gas and russian oil but they cannot they might try through sanctions to increase their supplies over. to you old but it will not dwell on it because barry can and he is far more expensive than the russian gas. i'm not fond of the news and i don't get to check it out on social media or on facebook twitter on you tube and the website is all calm i'll be back at the top of the out with mobile so don't go away.
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have been a legend to keep it so it's at the back. in one thousand nine hundred two that much forty five for the european championships at the very last moment no one believed in us but we won and i'm hoping to bring some of that waiting spirit to the r.c.t. . recently i've had a lot of practice so i can guarantee you that peter schmeichel will be on the best fall since my last will call him that story three. thousand zero zero zero zero zero russia. twice thrice. left left left more or less ok. that's really. the big countdown the ball is going to draw new years starting resolutions will be created it's all so very exciting let's check in.
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a robot governments can be much more rational and much more compassionate than the current oligarchs human governments that we have people will be more happy with the new situation than there are with the. following welcome to cross talk we're all things considered i'm peter lavelle this is the last edition of cross talk for the year and we're doing something different we answer questions from you our viewers.
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crosstalk in the year that was i'm joined by my guest mark sloboda he's an international affairs and security analyst we also have victrola bitch he is a political analyst as well as a leading expert at the center for actual politics and we have dmitri bob it is a political analyst with sputnik international or a german crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciated before we go to war our viewers' questions i'd like each one of you maybe i will start here because of some up some of the most important things that happened in the last twelve months and i think i'm going to kind of end the year in kind of a dramatic note i think we face in the united states a constitutional crisis it's really very much coming to. ahead we have a congress that is not answering demands. we have good department of justice in the f.b.i. they're not answering demands from congress we see an outright media war depending on what station you look at you could be looking at a very different country and i'm looking at like fox versus like c.n.n.
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very different views of the world it's getting to a critical point it didn't happen in two thousand and seventeen i think it's going to happen in two thousand and eighteen which your major takeaway picture thirteen changer in two thousand and seventeen is. russia syria and their allies against terrorist organizations that period for years against isis against a new city against other others and this is really a game changer not just for syria but for the middle east as a whole when i don't think it's over yet two thousand and over again but the severity very major step and it's a major setback for the united states and their allies mark if you take away from the viewpoint.
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