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the anti might on protesters sought shelter in the trade union house but it was a track down supporters started throwing molotov cocktails into the building until it was engulfed in flames. people burned to death inside for trying to escape jumped from windows. although a fire station was less than a mile away it took almost half an hour for firefighters to arrive when they finally did the damage had been done. but here's an intriguing fact just a few days before those dreadful events a messenger from my don on three pair o.b. made a visit to odessa it's an interesting coincidence that some of the people he met with in odessa were seen at the scene that fateful day. but not everyone was mourning on the popular political talk show schuster live the
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news about the people burned alive in odessa was welcomed with a long round of applause just for your choice for saudi what this it but lots of your i don't want to see just to just put your story you know would you see it. on its facebook page the right sector announced the events of may second a proud moment in national history an official investigation into this sad event has been going on now for nearly two years and it's yet to reach a conclusion but it seems the experts and all the information they needed from the very beginning. you just get really keep you keep watching it. it looks like a desa really is a very important piece of real estate as it was on earth with a very special new governor appointed on may thirtieth of two thousand. fifteen.
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no old friend of the united states and born and raised in ukraine's neighboring country georgia hello oh down there in georgia a quick look at his biography gives one an understanding that he's been groomed for a special mission. mr saakashvili received a u.s. state department scholarship and he worked for a new york law firm which represented the organization commodity a group that appeared earlier when we learned about the color revolutions and we're dealing with a democratic bloodless revolution this is the revolution of roses and this is mikail saakashvili with camara busy overthrowing the legitimately elected president eduard shevardnadze. but. that's because. soon after the rose revolution blossom fully george announced its intentions to
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join nato and plant fresh nato military bases in the fertile soil right on russia's border never ever will give our freedom and independence never ever will give any piece of our territory saakashvili is mission was accomplished at least with his friends and nato the georgian populace wasn't quite as happy though in two thousand and seven they took to the streets to voice discontent and mr saakashvili responded with force. the people's discontent. saakashvili party lost parliamentary elections and the opposition took control he said this means that the parliamentary majority and new government as the president according to our constitution decided not to wait for the results of the president's election and fled the country in october two thousand and thirteen.
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so i have all this he is on his way to practice is the pressure oppressive measures being deployed against the palestinian people everywhere around the set of colonialism the theft of old man and the many many can hope for the stating things that there are so many years of doing of course began close to and uprising. in two thousand and fourteen saakashvili refused summons to appear in court as a witness in several criminal cases later that same year he was accused of misuse of power and embezzle. saakashvili wound up in the us and soon his friends in
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washington found him a new assignment. mikail actively supported my down and very soon was rewarded with a high position in the new ukrainian government. first as the president's counselor and then as the governor of odessa the day before taking this position he renounced his citizenship to georgia the country of these birth and became a ukrainian citizen. then the suggest others gordon could have done in the way explored that road in the cecil. gordon get it done in the explorer that rode in. as they say the battle is worth the blood both literally and figuratively. is now do i not somebody affordable by the us uk us reading your paper to question is now toss thought. on now going into someone's ear related to chester but i have a cut on those nights that she rang up to date on the my seal of geoffrey pyatt the u.s. ambassador to ukraine paid a visit to saakashvili just
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a month after he took office in odessa it is law the old last administration is delivering results for a you're going to see a steady flow of embassy and washington visitors coming here the meeting was fruitful and geoffrey generous. no matter how well saakashvili is job goes it looks like he shouldn't be worried about his own finances on his facebook page he posted an official document showing that the new governor of odessa gets a pretty penny from washington almost two hundred thousand dollars a year for comparison the governor of maine gets seventy thousand dollars a year so if odessa became a new u.s. state it would be at the top of the list mr saakashvili should feel right at home in his newly adopted country he is best of friends with fellow color revolutionary leader viktor yuschenko who is the godfather of his son.
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and another mother school bus and a lesson in lucia preconceptions that oppose the bully walk as kind of being it's just. them they've seen more cranes going out of. even though there's a double cheese of social. when yours do the work but the least of those three is if i did it with you but i'd have to stand on both. of these boys a business dinner and she would get another of this on one. just in the body others that but it's the end of the year it's just a little bonus does little to contain such. a war once launched doesn't choose its victims we are just learning at this hour that malaysian airlines has now confirmed that it has lost contact with one of its planes plane was indeed shot down by a missile while flying at a high altitude over eastern ukraine near the russian border two hundred ninety eight revised number of souls on board all feared dead it was a murder it was
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a crime there's been this odd nonchalance about pursuing the answers there was a report a very limited report put out a few months after the event but since then they said the next report will be on the first anniversary of the event but you deal with a criminal investigation before becomes a cold case so there's been this curious element of why is there not greater pressure from both the media and the the western governments to answer these questions but even without any answers the fingers were pointed immediately that's not an accident that is happening because a russian support evidence indicates that the plane was shot down by a surface to air missile that was launched from an area that is controlled by russian backed separatists inside of ukraine if you slow down so just wanted to put up a national took a stab at the question today kate. the malaysian boeing wasn't the first plane to
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play a significant part in american russian relationships on september first one thousand nine hundred three korean airlines flight double zero seven from new york to seoul via anchorage was shot down by a soviet interceptor aircraft over the territory of the u.s.s.r. in the sea of japan there was absolutely no just to pick. i don't legal or moral for what the soviets did the tragedy of the korean bowing was considered a perfect occasion to demonstrate the nato military power within dangerous proximity to the soviets on nov second one thousand nine hundred eighty three nato launched able archer attend a command post exercise simulating a conflict escalation culminating in a nuclear attack it was followed by placing pershing two nuclear missiles in europe . what reagan didn't take into consideration was the paranoid overreaction of the soviets and. a recently declassified us intelligence report shows
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that for the first time since the cuban missile crisis the world was that close to nuclear war. just like in one thousand nine hundred three the malaysian boeing crash was leveraged against the enemy. a new wave of sanctions hit russia mediately after the tragedy. the united states is imposing new sanctions in key sectors of the russian economy almost a year and three months later the dutch safety board published a report this is jeff toobin flight m.h. seventy crashed because often the end of three well for or against the today just outside of the airplane and the best the left side of the cockpit the report didn't blame any specific group or person and estimated a very wide area of three hundred twenty kilometers as a zone from which the missiles fired at the same time the russian producer of
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missiles day conducted its own independent investigation. that they speeded me up the fullest. lou of the delegates i mean the nist is up a school during the experiment they blew up a retired airliner with a bouquet missile and came to the conclusion that the malaysian plane was brought down by the older two. of missiles not used by russia anymore but still in the possession of ukraine the company claims that the missile was launched from the territory controlled by the ukrainian military. one would expect that these controversial results would again stir up public interest in the investigation but the tragedy of malaysian flight m h seventeen at already played its role in the big geopolitical game and therefore it was soon forgotten the goal was achieved after the third wave of sanctions hit russia the tensions between the two countries skyrocketed so the question presents itself are we truly witnessing
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the beginning of cold war two point zero and if so what are our chances to survive at this time. in one thousand nine hundred seven the bulletin of atomic scientists introduce the doomsday clock. it represents a countdown to global nuclear annihilation. in one nine hundred fifty three during the height of the cold war it came its closest to midnight as the superpowers were creating massive nuclear arsenal this story of america's ever expanding atomic weapons program as the world began to grasp the insane danger of nuclear warfare and took measures to control the arms race the situation steadily
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improved. in one nine hundred ninety one the doomsday clock was at its furthest from midnight seventeen minutes. the time of hope was short lived though as the world has become more and more unstable. but in two thousand and fifteen the bulletin of atomic scientists. ists moved the clock to just three minutes to midnight stay on check to climate change in a nuclear arms race resulting from modernization of huge arsenals pose extraordinary and undeniable threats to the continued existence of humanity. the united states and russia have embarked on massive programs to modernize their nuclear arsenals. undermining the existing nuclear weapons treaties.
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a decade's on debt. studying so hard it requires trying to shift. going through mediation to enter an elite society. and parching to death sometimes quite literally. want other true colors of universities in the u.s. . laughs . certain i want to do it and to show the face to be very clear. amway. management. then they have a minute. you
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this week saw one of the worst school massacre in u.s. history when a former student went on a shooting rampage in florida killing seventeen the f.b.i. has admitted receiving tip offs about the danger posed by the gunman years before the attack. the threat there for turning islamic state fighters but struggled to find a cohesive solution to deal with the. already countries need to repatriate them. deal with them using the word of the law should not be simply because they committed the crimes of all of us. russian nationals in connection with alleged meddling in the twenty six thousand election. that they're supposed to actions actually have no impact on the outcome.
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welcome to the weekly here on r.t. international on this sunday top stories of the day the main headlines of the week . wednesday saw one of the deadliest school shootings in u.s. history a former student of marjorie stoneman douglas high school in parklane florida went on a gun rampage killing seventeen and injuring a dozen more. he saw my dead body there on the floor and blood on the floor how many people like five on the third floor. it looked like students it was one teacher and four students. so they do pull the fire drill you want to side. i doze firecrackers but at their last child like oh.
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my god i. don't like to come in and being like i'm going to shoot at school you like start taking your family i love you because you never know a biggish are killed by these go word that could describe how you feel because at that moment you're wondering if it's my kid easy or casey's safe i. sure thing many of the students were holed up inside classrooms are posting and distressing posting distressing videos and pictures online we managed to speak to police a student who was in the school at the time of the sure thing.
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world. like about to leave school suppose to end years before the bell rang supposed to ring. but the final lot of and we're starting to ogle out but down right the school the door the bullets. and cry because it's not a fire drill it was school grads and it's first like everybody still thought it's kind of feel like they dream of that they do in the schools but then we just here are the people second talking about life. is short you know like in the next village and. i'm still stunned already got killed and this is serious. world as i told us still be on the floor like so nobody can see us and all that stuff like not to be on our phones and. they said i am like most here when they
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realize this for real and they would just like it waiting at some point and they came and they told us like like thirty minutes later they told us like everything was clear around but like we're not going to let you out like right now because we still don't like you know the school everybody was just trying to reach out of their friends and their family. world a much harm i just like feel very kind of lost because like i don't know what so rigid so well i call it sort of like it's all stuff because like it's just never have been so me and so i just don't think that going to school is going to be like the same up there with fun because i think like knowledgeable claassen the view of the shooting was. well the police have identified the suspect as nicholas cruz in one thousand year old former student of the school who was expelled for disciplinary reasons police said he was armed with a semiautomatic rifle and had multiple magazines
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a cruise has told police that he did carry out the shooting and he's been charged with seventeen counts of premeditated murder one of students at the school described the suspect as troubled it's been reported teachers were warned about him some years ago given his enthusiasm for firearms in his free time and significantly the f.b.i. and the police have admitted they had received tip offs about the gunman prior to the attack but failed to investigate. we have on target at the broward sheriff's office that we've had approximately twenty calls for service over the last two years regarding the killer the f.b.i. has a term and their protocol was not followed. the information was not provided. and no further investigation was conducted that. we've seen time and time again over the last he is our intelligence agencies across the west dropping the pool in terms
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of getting tips being aware of potential threats and not following up on those threats and. taking out fences measures it seems lessons not being learned they need to have a proper view about you know what exactly are the threats what are they trying to do how can they best protect the people if they country to protect against these threats and that doesn't seem to be done unfortunately the u.s. does have a long history of school shootings almost three hundred incidents of occurred since two thousand and thirteen that's an average of nearly one in every single week eighteen shootings have been reported in schools since the start of twenty eight teen we spoke to investigative reporter dave lindorff he says it's alarming how easily the average person gets access to firearms over three hundred million guns is enough for every person in the united states to have a gun it's insane and you know we license cars you can't just get in a car and drive it but you can get
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a gun and shoot it you don't need any training you don't need any weiss and saying . and a lot of states now you can carry them. under cover and legally there's a lot of nuttiness in this country about how guns make you safer and they evidence is all to the contrary. in france intelligence sources say that over almost two thousand citizens known to have traveled to join islamic state in the middle east sixty seven of them came from one particular. shot that. a short train ride from paris is trapped on the surface there's nothing much to set aside from the thousands of other towns in the country but you don't have to scratch very deep to see that trap is very different where you won't see any non how the butcher shops there were i think at the moment over fifteen hundred prayer rooms and five mosques if you look at people on the street you won't see couples
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holding hands you'll see the women are dressed in strict islamic dress. there's a lot of home schooling so you couldn't really consider trap. typical french town anymore it's a little bit like a state within a state for decades it's been considered a magnet for muslim fundamentalists hardline salafism and one hobby is a widely practiced and trap has become synonymous with jihadism. and dozens of people. islamic state i was have carried out attacks on french soil have been linked. in two thousand and fifteen while with her right appears to. think that. there is some plain white pride remaining bad but your heart is only a matter of time before we have another attack the basic problem is that the
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ideology that's driving this and this goes much deeper than terrorist cells planning and executing attacks that ideology is so ingrained that last year a poll of french high school students revealed thirty two percent of muslim students believed islamic doctrine was superior to scientific fact another in two thousand and sixteen showed that sixty eight percent believed islamic law was superior to french law there's also concern that in an area like this that was once branded. by the authorities. but syria is becoming. the full veil covering has been burned to the eighty's yet the police are often reluctant to intervene off the riots in two thousand and thirteen when officers try to i.d. a woman who is fully covered with a very very fragile situation which the government doesn't want to provoke urban
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riots which would quickly spread like wildfire all over france. president mccord says he wants to reorganize islam in a bid to fight fundamentalism but some experts say that's a pipe dream radicalization in places like this they say he's already far too deep rooted to take out jollity pinski r.t. trap. but u.s. is joining in the chorus of growing concern coming out of europe over foreign i saw fighters returning to their countries of residence and washington has over its allies particularly britain to pay more attention to citizens who fled europe to join the terrorist organization earlier the u.k. defense secretary said they should not be allowed to return home i don't think they should ever set foot in this country again they turned their back.
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