it was outrageous you had amnesty international saying to quote that there was a horrifying use of live ammunition against an armed protesters now the latest figures we have from the gaza health ministry are that one hundred and nineteen people were killed in nine weeks of violence the situation on the ground is still tense and unfortunately we're bracing ourselves for those figures to climb paula slater there will journalist and filmmaker david sheen's been documenting the underlying issues in the region for nearly a decade now and last hour he told me he believes the u.s. ambassador's comment part of a concerted effort to deprive palestinians of their rights and surely he's saying you can't report on any massacre doesn't matter the death toll goes up into the triple digits or if there is medics or whatever journalists are being shot you can't report on any massacre unless you first frame it within a narrative that justifies it. you know this is ridiculous this whole trampy an attack everything is fake news on this you declare the narrative as we see it and i

think it's pretty clear that they're overwhelmingly demonstrating that the israeli government isn't just trying to defend itself but is actually trying to destroy any idea of palestinian nationalism any idea of the chance that there could be some levels some measure of equality. amnesty international is accusing the u.s. led coalition of committing potential war crimes during last year's operation to liberate the syrian city of raka from islamic state the rights group says there's strong evidence that america and its partners used into scrimmage and disproportionate force and that the impact was catastrophic and got more details earlier from anas to signature. this amnesty international report a dubbed war of and they had nation devastating tolls and civilians in iraq a syria is a very highly critical analysis of the airstrikes that were carried out by the u.s. led coalition that involved britain and france on the city of raka from june to

october twenty seventeen in their fight against isis and this amnesty international report talks of decimated families and neighborhoods says that not enough was done to protect civilians and that some of the attacks resulted in violation of international humanitarian law and indeed talks of potential war crimes as a result of the these strikes the report finds that hundreds of people died and thousands were injured despite the coalition saying they did everything they could to minimize casualties. we did everything we could in our intelligence assessment in our planning to minimize to the maximum degree possible any chance of civilian casualties the coalition's claims that it's precision air contains allowed it to bump islamic state out of iraq while causing very few civilian casualties do not stand up to scrutiny on the ground in iraq who witnessed a level of destruction comparable to anything we've seen in decades of covering the

impact of wars you know when you're fighting and me. uses noncombatants as collateral damage you know it's very difficult when you when you fight it we like to completely avoid. any casualties of war like this but i can tell you we have a process that we go through. to minimize you know civilian casualties that cost well amnesty international interviewed one hundred twelve civilians in as many as forty two locations of airstrikes for this report and some of their focus was specifically on four families who had lost very big numbers of family members in these areas. they look at one family that lost as many as eight members in one airstrike another lost sixteen another family lost and a fourth family that lost as many as thirty nine people in those airstrikes and of course while we know the coalition says that in this case as others they did all

they can to minimize casualties and in these kinds of scenarios according to them this is inevitable according to amnesty international that is just not good enough and they have called for investigations and justice for the victims of those strikes so you're going to see world news on the way i'm going to merkel's on the pressure of inaction over on the side of corruption scandal in germany the details of when we come back. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race is often very dramatic developments only. exists i

don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and you. want. to go right to be for us this is what the three of them will be good. interested always in the waters of . this ship. germany's refugee agency is being investigated for corruption it's accused of offering asylum for bribes chancellor merkel's i've also been dragged into the

scandal with claims that she was aware of the problems but did nothing to reform the organization our europe correspondent peter all of the reports next from berlin . as the cash for asylum investigation into the german federal office for migration and the refugees all come from speech public focus has turned to the german chancellor angela merkel and what she knew about the agency's problems its former heads frank here didn't fly skaven interview to a leading german someday tabloid and which he said he held a face to face meetings with the chancellor and made it explicitly clear that's his agency couldn't cope with the pressure is being put on it refugee policy. there was no structure or organized development in the form of specific tasks set of priorities or occult collation of personality acquirements since no instructions were available everyone could work as they saw feet in response to those claims a spokesperson for angle merkel had this to say. of course there was an ongoing

intense process of changing the work of the german federal office of migrations and refugees when the refugee crisis broke out i'm just trying to make clear that mr vice as repeated reported on these changes in the prove months to the how the federal states the blunder struck the cabinet he spoke at press conferences and again and again to the public and major league the chancellor was informed about the plan of the reform and the measures taken in this agency. the investigation began after it was alleged that an employee at the time fought for us in bremen wrongfully granted asylum to twelve hundred people on the list though security services say were two islamic extremists one of whom they describe as an actual terror threat while forty four others belonged to islamist groups prosecutors allege that the female employee took both money and gifts to grant asylum wrongfully between twenty thirteen and twenty sixteen as the investigation

continues she did nice those charges against her politicians both from the opposition and from within and glimmer of course on coalition partners saying they want answers. it is not about accusations it is not about the vindication of a conspiracy theory but rather about a sober investigation. we have to investigate the accusations of negligence and corruption and you have to do it quickly and everyone who was involved should give testimony the former refugee card to nato and the interior ministry there is a way to be done in this investigation last month the country's largest opposition party alternative for germany launched a last. suit against anglo merkel's refugee policy they say that the chancellor's decision to welcome around one of the half a million refugees to the country should have gone through a vote in the stock and the fact that it didn't is unconstitutional and so we put the legal course in front of the court to question whether there there is

a legal. explanation or a legal reason to open our borders hopefully we'll have a special committee to go into that scandal well the point we're making is probably the scandal is not something about the facts so one. office environment and has to do with political responsibility and we have to look who is responsible for everything what has happened there before now the big question remains if the chancellor knew that the migration refugee agency was struggling why was nothing done to relieve the pressure betrayal of r.t. . but it's nine days and counting until football showpiece tournament kicks off right here in moscow thirty today sions will battle it out to get their hands on the world cup trophy and a bit earlier today we got a close up look at the biggest prize in football. i'm really proud to tell you that there is more than just

a special reason for me to be wearing this golden tide because here in this studio right now we're going to show you a very special shiny golden guest can we please have a lot for. the actual true free world cup winners get their hands on after the final the winning team will lift this exact trophy above their heads and this is the one that they keep only for a short while. for the ultimate possession they get a called the so-called winners trophy which it looks like exactly this one but only made of bronze and it's a gold plated bronze so even lionel messi seen as the best footballer today can't touch it indeed this is the one in on li made of eighteen karat solid gold. official fee for world cup trophy and only heads of state and people world cup

winners can touch this magnificent full price how far has the trophy traveled on its tour trophy traveled from kaliningrad to a lot of us talk literally a massive geography we estimated that around forty million people lives in the nearest proximity to the cities where the traffic visited any special moments in russia including russia for instance a young guy made american marriage proposal to his girl and it was really really touching and almost you know i almost had tears in my eyes and a lot of new words coming to see this trophy after their wedding there was. a longtime fan of food bowl he was around sixty years of age and the guy was crying and i haven't seen you know a sixty year old guy crying at the side of the trophy. looking good isn't it well as the excitement builds over which country will lift that world

cup in the final in moscow next month been picking the brains of one of the best football coaches around to say marino on how the tournament might play out and we're inviting you to challenge the special one make your own predictions or those sort of emotional to be good to the traditions because the lives lose two with the also world where it is the world it is so this is what is of it to us. but if you feel like testing your knowledge against the might of merino head to our facebook or twitter pages follow the hash tag match marino to make sure that you don't miss any of the games they'll be two rounds of predictions from the group stage to the knockout with the first starting of this wednesday you can head to r.t. dot com you can get more information about all our world cup coverage with cho same arena football ingrates on team. next u.s. federal prosecutors working on the trouble russia probe of accused donald trump's former campaign manager pressuring witnesses to give false evidence ahead of

a trial on a ford is said to have failed to register as a foreign agent when he lobbied for ukraine in two thousand and twelve but it's an intercept you know explains when it comes to interfering the u.s. is a past master the magic meddling in the two thousand and sixteen u.s. presidential election still dominates headlines stateside russian meddling into the twenty sixteen election russian interference russia is again trying to disrupt our elections for russia did meddle in the two thousand and sixteen election but he didn't need a history lesson to understand that foreign meddling is a global game one that the u.s. plays very well. through our history when we tried to manipulate or influence elections or even overturn to governments it was done with the best interests of the people of that country in mind given the traditional reverence for human rights according to studies between nine hundred forty six and their two thousand great powers intervened one hundred seventeen times in foreign affairs with the u.s.

making up a large chunk of those statistics. part design of the cold interventions and i do it situations when great powers that intervene in elections in other countries in an attempt to determine the election result the united states intervened in elections of this. election's in this manner in forty seven countries for this purpose between one thousand nine hundred eighty six and two thousand here's a few examples the say i publicly admitted it was behind the notorious nine hundred fifty three k. of iran's democratically elected prime minister he insisted on oil should be nationalized which perhaps wasn't in the best interest of iranians or washington's it seems so he was overthrown and the shells were installed for the next twenty six years to safeguard the west all ambitions in the country until it all ended and the west an islamic revolution. the one who's in the me is america there is not

based on prejudice or pessimistic points of view but rather it stems from experience from a crippling real understanding of the actual realities of the world from a wrong to chile two decades on and the cia is supporting a bloody military coup in south america the pinochet government prisoned torches and killed some forty thousand and also political enemies including us citizens and the f.b.i. surveillance like caesar peering into the colonies from distant rome nixon said the choice of government by the chileans wasn't acceptable to the president of the united states but the attitude in the white. have seemed to be if in the wake of vietnam i can no longer stand in the marines then i will send in the cia with this in mind is alleging russian meddling in the us election a little hypocritical the reelection campaign a former russian president boris yeltsin was secretly managed by three american political consultants they spilled the beans to

a us magazine about their collaboration with the clinton white house to bump up his approval ratings although the americans spoke no russian and worked through translators they began secretly laying out an american style campaign to counter the public sentiment running against yeltsin the plot was thrilling so much so showtime made a movie about it based on a true story told the russians how to play dirty bomb that you could not just. whether they wanted. to look out today apparently stalin. it seems as though outside intervention in domestic politics is as old as politics itself and when it comes to us meddling it's all change your country for the best whether you want it or not. the fifty six mission to the international space station is set to blast off on wednesday from the bike and a long flight in kazakstan on border an international crew of three are expected to take two days to reach the orbiting laboratory at the launch site. we rode into the

baikonur cosmodrome as the sun was rising in order to catch the first glimpses of the craft as it left the assembly platform to slowly surely and ever so cautiously make its way to the launch pad. the so you system is actually made up of two parts the rocket and the spacecraft itself first out of the gate was the rocket which contains the most i catch in aspect the first stage boosters which measure around twenty meters long they will burn for only one hundred eighteen seconds before falling away at which point the second the third stage rockets take over the top half is the actual spacecraft and it can also be broken down into three sections at the very top of the orbital module where the crew will sit for takeoff. currently the site you system is the

only one in the world used to get crewmembers back and forth to the international space station behind me you can see the rocket taking its final position on the platform before takeoff. the science system is finally in place here at launch pad one also known as the garden start named in honor of your car and the first man ever launched in the space back in one nine hundred sixty one and that was just a few years after the first artificial satellite was also launched right from here and on wednesday i'm going to get a chance to witness my very own liftoff. jack either if you're excited about it too will probably be showing it to you live in just about nineteen hours from now to blast off it'll be streaming on our website to no doubt all to you don't call from a unit i nailed got you covered for your next news and a lot less time in about half an hour from now.

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strong. in two thousand and thirteen i meet clinton young who was on death row in texas making a documentary on the death penalty and talked to him about his situation but he's been here for a long time rate of his two thousand and three. i was not a much better although it seemed like other days were they are now thirty thirty just. tower the president i'll just say regulations but at the. present all star may have. had some i won't why did they guy will make it to thirty

you know and now that later this light was spent on my twenty's on death row. and his being constricted of murder being involved in gang culture he refuses to talk to the police when he's arrested and he's also on trial from juvenile prison where he had done some time for burglary. had a residence there for clinton it goes without saying that you don't inform the terrorists but the other young three men arrested with him have no such qualms they will claim that clinton is the killer. comes from around the house used to like group close to those cars by walking around this one clean up shop. more. all the. stuff you. have to. go back to the polls.

after i told clinton asks me in a letter to look at this case with an open mind he says he's not the killer and claims his co-defendants make plea deals with the da when i look at this case i immediately know something is seriously wrong. there are no fingerprints or d.n.a. or any other evidence that clinton committed the two murders only statements by his fellow suspects mark darnell and they fit which show substantial discrepancies. they realize all the stuff i have in my face they don't want me to get it before the courts for they don't know it when i say it's not about justice it's about. a cold and the statistic and one major vehicle copout. ok the best four years i examined testimonies and got a good health information such as crucial ballistic research i also talked to me involved parties and witnesses i hope to get an answer to the question how could it

really be that the wrong man is on death row. to go get him a bigger. still put your eye on him in this deal he'll. be is no excuse. but. my defense is i didn't kill nobody and i was on the way we're supposed to that you know who's going to go boston blunt's or want to see yours you know and things took a turn they got shot and then at that point i was where he was you can show.

they were patient and al saw the car and mark rey shot him later on this is what happened but i don't have a fear from the troops. were their buddies the or all of the way your job. and i was in the middle of time in the middle market is right. next to the sea. danielle she should have seen what happened right so he was leaving he last about where he was sitting at yeah i guess he was in and they all it was it was not the middle he said directly behind me because i had turned like this and talked to all of them because margaret says he was there it wasn't my larry while i was there i guess because he thinks i did it so he'll want to be lined raw behind me in case i try he said he was in the middle so he could i rather guess i guess that's the only thing i could think of but he was not sit in the middle that car i

don't know if that's the car seating what do you think was the car sitting on our member of course it was told me david paid mark rey and darnell mccoy ok so no one actually said that that was the car singing so i would end up saying four versions i may have i remember like i can even say the song it was playing on the radio at the time i had was a superman by three doors down i mean i just lost i remember i have i guess i got a better memory than i am right now you know now that everybody is in the car. or wound to. where not you want to round the house where you are. while you. know what i do most of us we were promised out of the. blue jay are you. and. the three of you all. want to. j.r.

come from around the house and use kind of like group close to those cars by walking around that's one. and they would pay to stand outside the coral walking up to the core shot and they had page shot here since once they had the windows rolled down and the like that when he had a. good natural reflexes dorsett back up and fell forward and as one pace i'm going to back out ahead and then i jumped out the car so we're playing it they are somewhere outside of coral mere. one point. it was then right in front by the do research then there is. a car relation oh you're so right what will come flying no one on the car right before and during. that point show she go wow. ok before you were sitting like clint was there no witness no

way like this and he said the gentleman you're aware of is. when he was gone as one was going to you know was paying attention to two of jr. reach and open the door so jr reaches over the door. with his son. so what quit flying i don't want to do exist so hard on son he says far. what can you remember how you felt when the first shots were fired it was like. i don't know i mean. i can't really describe it yes and it was like. i just i was thinking damn well listen. you know and. i don't know if it's because of commitment to be in a social extremely violent environment that it actually i mean in some ways no

mates and violence i mean but it's different when someone right before your eyes gets shots shot in the head right i wasn't looking so i mean it was i got hurt i was looking out the car like this and i heard. our. first ideas that what happened. keep mom said rob a side door and this dude shooting into the car so i started because they paid and i didn't know what he was doing i didn't snap and so i look we're gonna do all i was like man. likely is it because the two co-defendants who a lot of time.