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cherry and car doors it's the biggest number to have been evacuated from the embattled area in walking today but it's been tough to get to this stage he explains. but first it was only a trickle of civilians fleeing serious rebel held territory of eastern data it's now become a flood thousands have been given safe passage out of the embattled and play. just to get out in august you know your. mother said. one woman from moody. look you know. what. i'm doing alive but why do not follow little no budget when to say you had three
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hundred on another service on me and laura didn't want to. and it was a struggle initially some of the militants were reportedly threatening to punish those trying to leave and shouting the path to safety there are even accounts of insurgents hiding in civilian houses taking people hostage and using them as human shields. from where we left eastern ghouta it was so difficult that when we tried to leave earlier we were not allowed as it was controlled by terrorists. terrorists use people as human shields they wouldn't let us fully they hid behind our barracks we wanted to leave a year and a half ago but they wouldn't let us so there were militants from. which is all kind of there they killed everyone who spoke against them they took them and killed them they killed my cousin and his two sons the push by russia on syria to
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establish this humanitarian corridor however with snubbed out first russia has called for these jokes like humanitarian corridors russia needs to just do what the united nations had agreed to and voted on and that is a countrywide cease fire the russian military says the situation in parts of eastern ghouta has significantly stabilized over the past few days but that is far from over. as long as people keep leaving the area we will keep on working and stay here until we see the last person leave a more yeah but it's a bargaining game at times the syrian government and russia have how to agree to allow safe passage to rebel fighters in order to get the civilians out its hopes that the rebels crumbling grip on power in the region along with a deliveries and evacuations will soon bring to a close one of the most brutal chapters in the syrian conflicts well that is the
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hope but right now getting aid into eastern ghouta is proving as difficult as getting residents aren't. well here you're seeing water runs it's near red crescent trucks as volunteers on the red fresh food parcels and bags of flour the delivery was resume shortly afterwards thursday's joint aid convoy brought essential to almost thirty thousand people in the syrian town of duma. well eastern cuba came under rebel control and twenty twelve since then the syrian army has been trying to recapture the area fighting intensified last month militants have been driven into three pockets with the syrian government now holding large parts of the territory but the situation for civilians trapped in the embattled areas remains dire we know the music wish and with defeating terrorism the would they will leave this is the same story with
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these two bottles. we know from our experience a lot of evidence is a lot of people took what happened with them with these terrorists the where the hostage is nothing but let me quickly here the other side the word is these western campaign why they are not to helping these people who are talked more than one week that they are doing. ok let's turn our attention to other global news this hour migrants clashed with riot police in the spanish capital on thursday night following the death of a man from a cynical. i. was. the thirty five year old was reportedly chased by police conducting an inspection of
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street vendors before suffering a fatal cardiac arrest witnesses say the man was chased by officers on the motorbikes his death saw around one hundred migrants take to the streets burning waste bins and throwing bottles and stones emergency services say four rioters and sixteen police officers were treated for minor injuries the mayor of madrid is promising an investigation into the loop instead. you choose stepping into the ring in the fight against fake news but its choice of sparring partner has drawn a barrage of criticism. conspiracy videos like so inspection for people who don't understand they're watching science fiction to face a strong criticism after spread conspiracy theories in the aftermath of the deadly school shooting in florida it took to tell a video but this isn't the first time they have been an able or unwilling to stop
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the spread of conspiracy theories. do you believe. that the media information coming out of iraq show i'm serious injuries and will be enough of. this.
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is how should. i. i think it's an interesting decision by you tube to link to wikipedia i imagine part of the reason is that the whatever the criticisms of were competing because it's donation funded there's no advertising no one really would question that it has any ulterior motive. what makes this whole thing sort of fascinating and problematic of course is that you know who's to decide what is misinformation you know in two thousand and three before the invasion of iraq as far as the establishment was concerned it was a conspiracy theory to say that there were actually no weapons of mass destruction
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and that the invasion of iraq was was you know based on a bogus pretext cooked up beforehand by bush and his cronies what we've seen what we sort of the years afterwards is that that previously conspiracy theory was absolutely true and only the powerful of the world to conspire a lot of the time to try and make sure that they're interested in what happens in the world so this is an inherently complicated and messy area i would say. ok back to our top story that of the news briefing we brought you at the start of the program where the russian foreign minister was asked about plummeting western relations in recent days surrogate lavrov accused the u.k. violating international law by refusing to cooperate with russia in the investigation into the poisoning of a former spy his daughter let's go live now to wrinkle who is to attended the media conference in hialeah you asked for surrogate thoughts on recent
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developments take us through what he told you. you didn't hello well as you were saying this press conference was taking place in astronaut in six done in it was about syria with the foreign ministers of turkey and iran all. so taken part but the longest and the most emotional answer of the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov was to my question actually a couple of questions which were about the recent scree poisoning scandal and all the international reaction from around the world to what i have to say that mr allowed began with criticizing the most influential news organizations around the world and he was saying that he believes the news organizations have abandoned the standards of journalism and reduced their coverage of the situation
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to basically two elements saying that the entire international community as they put it but that means basically donald trump emanuel macron angle markel uniting with to reason may and their condemnation of russia which again that's a quote highly likely was behind that poisoning and the second thing is saying that russia does denies that all that's it according to certain of the international media fails to mention the rest of the things the fact that actually and many ways the u.k. government refuses to cooperate with moscow on various issues the fact that the investigation is actually still on go and no evidence or facts have been presented to the other side and also. really here cooperating with russia on the issue of bringing this to the w.p.c.
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which is the organization that's responsible for these kind of issues with chemical weapons around the world now i also also asked the russian foreign minister about the latest remarks by the british secretary of defense i'll just take a listen to what he said a little earlier. is absolutely atrocious treacherous and outrageous what russia to it and souls great we have responded to that country should go away should church up. well again a specific part of my question was whether sergey lavrov remembers when was the last time that such a high ranking foreign official addressed russia in such a language and circular said that it's highly possible to remember that obviously poking fun at the u.k. prime minister to resign may she was the one who. famously said that it's highly
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likely that russia is behind the poisoning something else or you lavrov was said that perhaps gavin williamson the u.k. defense secretary is trying to do this because he wants to go into history books called him a handsome young man who perhaps lacks manners and education. thanks very much for the article. in kazakhstan this hour. moving on the u.s. central command has admitted it doesn't know how resources it gives to the saudi led coalition are being used in the conflict with yemen does sit com track the purpose of the missions that it is refueling what targets it strikes and the results of the mission sounder we do not ok reuters recently reported on a saudi coalition air strike in late february that killed five civilians is said
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come able to tell whether the u.s. fuel or u.s. munitions were used as part of that strike. or not i don't believe we are ok well last month a group of u.s. senators introduced a joint resolution on yemen it aims to limit the president's power to wage war without or thrice ation from congress it also wanes the cuts america's support for saudi arabia and disentangle it from saudi involvement in the yemeni civil war the vote on the resolution is to be held soon. well in twenty seventeen the u.s. and saudi arabia signed an arms deal worth almost one hundred ten billion dollars it was described as one of the largest arms sales in american history you know there are these are pictures of the saudi led coalition's latest terrorist strikes in yemen a dozen or raids have been carried out against the airport destroying most of the planes war broke out in yemen three years ago but the saudi led coalition bombing
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campaign against the rebels claiming thousands of civilian lives the u.n. describes the situation as the worst man made humanitarian crisis in modern history . look at right well. let's. see. if. they're crying a few men at the crime gulf war crimes against humanity and trying for that are being committed to war. and the u.s.
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. and the comic relief in this case the u.s. is a supporter of this coalition. for the u.s. to admit that yes we know what is happening i would choose a more likely thing if. it has consequent even to consequences in addition to the u.s. law that prevents the country of few weaponry to use it except themselves differently. committing war crimes and. if you want to. so there are legal liability both mental moushumi. grabbing a coffee a less knock on the go in the us is a straightforward procedure in the main but there are increasing cases where cuff fazer kicking customers are if their views don't chime with the owners and even police officers are to assume your account reports. a donut and
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a coffee your cliche stereotype when it comes to american cops but at one oakland cafe they're not likely to get either the us or were to a coffee shop has refused to serve unformed police claiming that their presence threatens emotional and physical safety we know in our experience working on complaints against police brutality that we are not alone in saying that police presence compromises our feeling of physical emotional safety the local police department responded saying that this would serve as a teaching moment to practice actual tolerance i think their position is very clear that they don't want the police in there and i can respect that if they do call the police for any need we're going to give them the same level of service as anyone else regardless of their position you might not expect police to be targeted but it follows a pattern at least for groups that haven't actually experienced discrimination before for example a gay own seattle coffee shop kicked out christian activists who were handing out anti-abortion leaflets and they weren't asked nicely. and you have to leave so you
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are or are you denying a service here i don't have to tolerate this but then we always tell all my friends don't come here ok. a gay couple faced similar treatment from a christian own bakery who refused to sell them a wedding cake saying it would violate freedom of expression and it turns out political affiliations can also make you a victim of discrimination republicans and trump supporters aren't welcome at certain places like this one new york coffee shop. somewhere where your pastor votes and yet. he's a mormon. and since it's usually minorities being discriminated against police conservatives republicans might be surprised happening to them as well people think that it's ok and if they do it sometimes they don't think it's a person is on they think it's ok like they separate rooms for people of color so
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to speak like in colleges they have the. people of color only don't room they think they're doing a good thing by providing them a safe space well they're doing is doing what was in an impasse but the reality is doing a bad thing and i blame it on a lack of education or the missed education about that kind of ideology and where it comes from so yeah i think some people think they're being their oppressors but some are praising not really knowing what they're doing and thinking you're doing the right thing some would argue that it serves them right but others believe the oppressed shouldn't become the oppressor samir khan artie's washington d.c. well that is the world news for this hour we appreciate you tuning in you know neal back with your headline stories in one minute. hey everybody i'm stephen bob. taft hollywood guy you know suspects every proud
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plan. our headline stories this hour more than thirty thousand civilians mileage to syria is. the largest evacuation since militants took control there. so russia's top diplomatic uses the u.k. of violating international law. to cooperate with moscow in the case of the former russian double agent poisoned in britain. are a good response some of the talking points being used by britain and its allies to accuse the kremlin of poisoning former spy. on his deal. with russia's presidential election fast approaching r.t.
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takes a look at how international media covering the. same rigorous standards they would in their home countries. wherever you're shooting in from right around the world this hour welcome to moscow and to r.t. international my name's o'neill our top story over thirteen thousand people have to escape the militant controlled syrian enclave of eastern using russia's sponsored humanitarian corridor it's the largest number to have been evacuated from the embattled area to date the first movement of people is mainly comprised of children women. according to the russian defense ministry but it has been tough to get to this point and. it was only
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a trickle of civilians fleeing serious rebel held. territory of east and data it's now become a flood thousands have been given safe passage out of the embattled and clave. all. the way it was just this in august in august you know more of the. mother said she did not know that one woman from moodiest. look you know. her. daughter just i'm good. alive but why do not or will little know that there were two slayers were handling another service tell me and laura do you know what to. do and it was a struggle initially some of the militants were reportedly threatening to punish
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those trying to leave and shouting the path to safety there are even accounts of insurgents hiding in civilian houses taking people hostage and using them as human shields. and him when we left eastern ghouta it was so difficult that when we tried to leave earlier we were not allowed as it was controlled by terrorists. terrorists use people as human shields they wouldn't let us fully they hid behind our backs we wanted to leave a year and a half ago they wouldn't let us out so they were militants from ship. which is all kind of there they killed everyone who spoke against them they took them and killed them they killed my cousin and his two sons the push by russia on syria to establish this humanitarian corridor however was snubbed out first russia has called for these jokes like humanitarian corridor wars russia needs to just do what
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the united nations had agreed to and voted on and that is a countrywide cease fire the russian military says the situation in parts of eastern computer has significantly stabilized over the past few days but that is far from over but. as long as people keep leaving the area we will keep on working and stay here until we see the last person leave a more yeah but it's a bargaining game at times the syrian government and russia have how to agree to allow safe passage to rebel fighters in order to get the civilians out its hopes that the rebels crumbling grip on power in the region along with a deliveries and evacuations will soon bring to a close one of the most brutal chapters in the syrian conflicts but right now getting aid into eastern kitty is proving as difficult as getting residents out.
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mortar rounds hits near red crescent truck sells volunteers on the fresh food parcels of flour the delivery was resumed afterwards thursday's joint aid convoy brought essential to almost thirty thousand people in the syrian town of duma. just some background to this eastern came under rebel control and twenty twelve since then the syrian army has been trying to recapture the area fighting intensified last month and militants have been driven into three pockets with the syrian government now holding large parts of the territory but the situation for civilians trapped in the embattled areas remains dire. we know the music within when we are defeated is in the media be who they will leave this is the same story with these two bottles. we know from our experience a lot of evidence is
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a lot of people looking at what happened with them with these terrorists they where the hostage is nothing but i think lee near the other side the word is these western. pain why they are not to have been these be boys who are talked more than one week that they are doing. well within the past hour we know that russia's top diplomat has accused the u.k. of violating international law by refusing to cooperate with moscow in the investigation into the poisoning of a former spy daughter surrogate lover off was the by plummeting western relations of a news conference in. well. it was also there for us listening in and also making contact with circular for a few ask him for his thoughts that on recent developments that what did he tell you. yes you know hi
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a lot of serious discussion on serious matters that have to do with syria with the foreign ministers of iran turkey being president and serve as you said but his longest and most emotional answer during that press conference was about something else it was about something that right now worries everyone around the world it is the screwball poisoning scandal and all the international reaction that we've been getting to this and the last few days or. even a bit more than that and sergey lavrov began with criticizing the most influential news organizations in the west for basically abandoning standards of journalism and reducing their coverage of the investigation and the issue and general to two elements one element according to sergei lavrov is basically saying that the international community which here means donald trump the president of france
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emmanuel macron angle marco uniting with to reason may end their condemnation of what's being called russia being highly likely behind the attempted murder of mr st paul and the second element according to russia's top diplomat is just saying that russia denies it all but the russian foreign minister is saying that the journalists are failing to talk about some very serious elements the fact that the investigation is still ongoing and the fact that no specific results have been announced yet the fact that london is not being transparent enough in not even giving the m.p.'s from the opposition a chance to gain access to some details of the investigation also refusing to cooperate with russia on many issues. that have to do with this investigation and
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by doing this violating some of the international law that has to do to investigating such cases of the use of chemical weapons in we also remember that as a result of the attempted murder of a former spy screwball the defense secretary said some very nasty things about russia he was asked about moscow's potential reaction to the expulsion of a large number of russian embassy diplomats so let's just remember what he said. this is absolutely atrocious an outrageous what. we have responded to that country should go away. while my second question to sergei lavrov was whether he can remember when was the last time someone who's such a high ranking international official was addressing russia in such manner and.
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calling. quite a handsome young man who was however perhaps not. being taught good manners and maybe lacking some education. version as to why he did it was because he wanted to go into history books with comments like that. for the update for an hour from us then i encountered an hour to. go well the diplomatic road between britain and russia has indeed deepened over the past twenty four hours with prime minister treason may promising more sanctions over the poisoning of former double agent circus cripple since the u.k. directly blamed moscow for the incident its allies have lined up to back london here's a look at so.

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