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you'll spill this to shouldn't be diminished she does a. film will be treating you to beaches if it's a book you just wish to. speak to survivors of the tragic attack in the crimean city of those who lost loved ones such as three days of mourning begins for those killed and injured in the shooting a bomb attack at a college warning you may find the following footage disturbing. the city grieves chilling similarities are drawn to the columbine massacre in the u.s. almost two decades ago which took fifteen lives. venezuela
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drops the dollar in its official exchange transactions in retaliation against u.s. sanctions really get out of them all countries are also trying to lessen their dependence on the currency. and twitter releases a vast number of tweets supposedly generated by moscow's trolls meddling in u.s. politics even though they've posted mostly in russian. while the mare of an italian city orders all migrant families to provide information on their finances withholding benefits if they don't do so the move for some children losing subsidized school dinners forcing them to eat separately from a. similar system we're in the same movement we have to see that one. good evening and welcome you watching r t internet. three days of mourning are
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underway in crimea after a student carried out a bloody attack and this is the of curt's twenty one people were killed and dozens more were injured the moment of the shooting was captured on video by one of the students who was in the college at the time and warning you might find this footage disturbing. attacker also detonated a home banged bomb in a college canteen after his shooting spree he turned the gun on himself the impact of the assault was devastating as you can see in this footage. now here you can see pictures from the vigil in people been mourning the victims the priest has been reading prayers for those who died on his rag as the haves in the city for us with the latest. the words anguish sorrow grief don't begin to cover what has gripped the city all the pain all the tears here the chief
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question as it was in the beginning is why why when the first bomb exploded when the first shot sounded and when the first teenagers the first youths in the college behind me jumped out of windows and scaled the fences in an attempt to get away. to shouldn't be to just a border to. be able to do what you're doing if you could really teaches it it's a bloody good for species but i washed up on the ballot and we knew it was national we still leaves it over to go down looking but i don't see which is unit but it could be q. instructions. this is. right near the city of the mississippi you know i think you can see. the problem with so much testimony so many witness accounts is that it gets more and more difficult emotionally draining to listen to them hear friends describe how they
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witnessed their classmates died this is a good little local visual. most. of the should be on the. radio. but you. i did up as a slave that i gave. the night she was about us if you're welcome you bust as i was binoy a. doggy teacher in the open but him was just in that you know what you said about that it was a way to bring us into the boat on the trio system video which gets me which got the e.c. chests shifted to your own but gave it. to be careful for you go to get it go. on movie and then they can fall for. you in anything. they will but those of the studio. when you put it for you really should hear about the scale of this calamity how first year medical students were enlisted to
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help deal with the wounded but may get a bonus told them each one is also a good that the obama should know but ashi does snag on a problem a quarter of the state of my gear. goes at the show you go to someone and i get sick pull up on you could you could i believe believe no could be as it does when i see it but in my sin as i believe i see those. different killers i bought a new but anybody living in an extradition the state of connecticut it was the low volatility. what is clear is that no one had any sort of hint that this was coming nobody put the suspected shooter into the maniac category but it all began in the early hours of the morning with a ball. that
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it was about. to do when a cyclone asked to stop it before i got the film or. if. i had. if. you believe there's been because. you. are you. it gives you know the. clothes you're good you. know if you just did yeah yeah bizarrely. the bothered. by the logo.
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i'm one of those these i know you are the boys you thought. you know what you see you look good you really believe. me while six people injured in this old have been airlifted to moscow for the treatment accorded to moscow's mad the victims of traumatic injuries due to blast exposure three of the victims are on ventilators the gunman was identified as a nineteen year old student of the college he committed suicide after carrying out the atrocity earlier we spoke to his grandmother a knife is. let's put the fear to court it was just going to start
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a stunt. and so with you. could if for the chimp suppose we did he was sure there's just so much going on bush just like him so sure just so you know but he just wants to order him to stay out of the just acknowledge you. know me now so. it's gentle but i deeply committed like you know. this so i guess with the particular stylistic. move. we have. national marriage you do what you can and should nobody not not want. to see him do this yeah i. probably am not winning one little more. it is a measure put it in the attack buying ammunition was taken on saturday we went to the store and spoke to the seller. should be we should look into what normal
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dog bites was misquoted to the publicity the store is a buddhist a little who. only was nicopolis in. this. region of the. game your bro you can actually. hear you but i hope when you play to put on coat on purely. wednesday's attack is being compared to another atrocity carried out almost twenty years ago.
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president putin spoke about the tragedy of the closing session of the fall guy discussion club. we have some national security yesterday's tragedy is the result of globalization relations strange where we see you most communities have been created on social networks and internet it all began from known tragic events in american schools to mentally unstable young people have created some fake heroes for themselves so it means that all of us not only in russia all over the world are not reacting in the right way to changing conditions it means that we're not creating useful needed and interesting content for children and they grab this so rigorous heroisms and this results in such tragedies. on these issues donough reports now on the other topics pitted touched upon in that session. conversation
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covered all sorts of international topics the obvious one is syria the russian president has said that he's happy with what russia cheve did in that country saying that the primary goal of course was to stop the terror threat way before it reaches the home soil he also thanked for helping russia brokered peace to avoid anything any any bloodshed in the syrian province of idlib the last stronghold that anti assad forces have in the country and well in fact just a couple of months ago politicians and journalists they were screaming. bloody murder really warnings that russia is about to decimate the place to carry out a bloodbath of their killing civilians and with all the scaremongering russia release portrayed now is the biggest and baddest wolf. ever could be for example like with all the meddling and everything and of course the biggest concern here is was russia's nuclear potential so for all those who portrayed russia as an
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aggressor vladimir putin had a response of nashik on syria says there is no preemptive strike in a nuclear strike strategy only a counter strike we already we will use nuclear weapons only when we are sure that the aggressor is attacking russia but us well russia is big and scary not only because of its weapons it will also hack your computers brainwash your nation and probably steal those pictures you have in that secret folder on your phone to basically of course that refers to all these stereo about russia hacking elections and meddling in other country's affairs and putin was asked how he feels about that whether he feels he's weighed by that in any way here's what he had to say. just you know there's an old joke the question is how do you relax the answer is i just don't get nervous the thing for tensions in international relations we don't create problems for anyone we are the ones being accused with the phrase highly
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likely they say we meddle here we meddle there and no one is ready to show any evidence for me it is just the result of political struggle in the west europe by the way of lattimer putin also mentioned in this context will probably because it is viewed as russia's main meddling tools so to speak he said that he'd love to meet the newest channel in the r.t. family that being r.t. france given his if he's invited of course now also gave his opinion on the situation around the opposition's saudi journalist jamal to show. he disappeared a couple of weeks ago and is believed to be murdered on the orders of saudi arabia state of ludmer putin said that russia is not going to do anything about its relations or with the kingdom in fact he said that the school is going to maintain a good relation unless it is true that saudi arabia had something to do with the killing basically vladimir putin saying that it is wrong to take down the road
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that many western countries when it came through this part poisoning case when there was no evidence shown of russia's involvement in it but action ensued anyway . the u.s. is refusing to publicly put pressure on saudi arabia over its alleged role in the disappearance of a journalist in turkey secretary of state mike pompei o wouldn't be drawn on the existence of a recording supposedly handed over by ankara to the united states of jamal khashoggi suspected murder and dismemberment in the saudi consulate in istanbul puts washington in a tricky situation between two allies turkey privately accusing riyadh of killing the dissidents saudi reporter two weeks ago. i don't have anything to say about that well we know what they could have discussed they could have gotten to the bottom of whether or not jamal khashoggi was indeed killed tortured and then dismembered as the consul watched as reports seem to
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indicate however it seems that they focused rather on what seemed to be almost perfect about the u.s. saudi relationship we have lots of important relationships and then two relationships between us saudi companies government relationship things we work on together all across the world the efforts to reduce the risk to the united states of america from the world's largest state sponsor of terror ron those are elements of u.s. national policy that are for our in americans best interests. of the country. as a few. so we can say to. you. now comments referred to saudi arabia as a purchaser of american goods primarily military hardware and he seemed to talk
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about saudi arabia as an ally against what he sees as the primary source of evil in the region iran now this is not so much different from what we heard from mike pompei i was boss of the u.s. president so i did arabia has been a very important ally of ours in the middle east and we are stopping the rain and trying to stop with stopping over everyone a big step for we took away that ridiculous deal that was made by the previous administration and they are and now i have a very good allies in the middle east but if you look at saudi arabia they're an ally of tremendous purchaser donald trump's comments come as there is a huge amount of pressure mounting on the administration in response to outrage about the shoji incident president trump is. criticizing the condemnation of saudi arabia over the case of missing journalist jamal khashoggi residence stunning statement as three sources tell c.n.n. that a high ranking officer with the saudi intelligence agency oversaw the saudis are
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now claiming was an interrogation and he wanted to a building in never came out of the building what are we talking about in the building was saudi if because shogi is dead said republican senator marco rubio today the u.s. must respond or it risks its own standing the administration assures us that saudi arabia will get to the bottom of what actually took place eventually we're going to give them the space to complete their investigations of this incident when they issue their report will form our judgment about their next step and the decisions they make about accountability connected to that so the world just needs to sit back and have faith in the kingdom of saudi arabia some of the governments denied any involvement in the alleged killing in the latest development the u.s. treasury secretary tweeted he won't attend an investment conference in saudi arabia should do for later this month the school comes as john white told us the way washington deals with the incident is part of a white again. the sooty government enjoys an unassailable position
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of influence when it comes to washington and london and other western allies who rely on so dearly be achieved by their weapons that they sell them by a billion dollars worth on a regular basis in washington is weighted itself to the saudis as part of its axis of germany when it comes to formating the germany in the middle east and it has nothing to do with truth and justice is a thing to do the geopolitics and the unfortunate events to please their souls but it a few months ago being used as a pretext to carry out further attacks on russia which has been designated the enemy of the moment in western capitals so this is less to do with truth and justice and everything to do with geopolitics and the drive for a germany which drives the foreign policy of western capitals. twitter has released a vast number of tweets supposedly generated by moscow trolls meddling in u.s.
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politics even though the so-called trolls posted mostly in russian most of the messages in english attacks donald trump not alleged target hillary clinton not a strictly virga breaks down some strange inconsistency in the mainstream narrative . remember those big bad russian trolls you've heard about for what heels like years now who are alleged to have up ended the us presidential election the so-called troll factory a secretive technology firm that created and distributed both fake news and divisive stories and posts these were accounts that really looked like american citizens well and a bit for transparency twitter has published some nine million tweets from thousands of accounts they believe were run by trolls and if you like us find the data more than a bit difficult to interpret we're not conclusions have already been drawn by the digital forensic research lab twitter gave the group early access to the database and they put out a four part report where they. outlined the major takeaways and some may surprise you for example the russian internet research agency's main target was apparently
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in fact russian speakers a chart breaking down what language tweets were written and shows that for years those in russian vastly outweighed those an english rather interesting given how influential the fake account activity was meant to be among american voters there is no doubt the russians are trying to influence the presidential election russia's blatant interference in the united states twenty sixteen presidential elections the fact is russia meddled in our twenty sixteen elections right speaking of influence the positive conclusion of this is that the trolls were less effective than may have been feared many achieve little or no impact and their operations were washed away in the final hours of twitter according to the group's analysis the apparently ineffective russian operation had multiple goals including to prevent hillary clinton from winning the election that's something we've heard time and again and it's true that
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a good number of the tweets are anti hillary but those post didn't gain much traction whereas an type trump account such as these did the plus side to trump becoming more on hinge by the day as more people are finally realizing that maybe having a treasonous man six your predator won't supremacist in the white house maybe isn't such a good thing repeat of you think the drill donald trump is the worst president america ever had he's not worthy to be called a human being according to the report such liberal accounts engage other users and much higher numbers meaning the trolls were much more successful at getting people to bash trump the man they were meant to be getting to the white house and the trolls were also found to have push anti russian stances they spread some content that was notably anti russian which highlights a key assessment of dissin from asian if successful in driving a country further apart rather than. we stood together internally that country would be less able to enact and russian policy those gift tweeting trolls are
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clearly so smart they even outsmarted themselves like so much of this output of the internet research agency petersburg it had nothing to do with the election two thirds of them came out after the election some supported some against him some for clinton though some against it and some in the russian language as well so it's a completely mixed bag of course you could say what are they doing it at all whatever they doing it and so you could say a lot of it is to do it with a kidnapping i mean it's not you know with twitter is different but basically like so many of these posts on social media it's all about advertising it's all about using profile so it's in my view a lot of this is making a mountain out of a molehill in the end the report warns that despite twitter's best effort and the fact that the troll farms goals went woefully unfulfilled the all mind this information war will soldier on be where. the mayor of the italian city
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of lodhi has ordered all migrant families to provide documentation of their financial status including property they own in the home countries to comply could result in loss of social benefits including transportation and school lunch subsidies for children. that's just we're in the same room but we have to say in the back corner. if there are people who have money houses or land in their home countries why should we give them services for free while the talent's before everything in up the gravy train is finished this is not racism it's justice and good sense. once you notice what i don't have my son what should i say we as foreigners have to
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do to talk to. one of my classmates that will stink he sent us. to build the very best of misunderstood it should be forbidden to impede gratian of kids with others it's a pity for a town children who've lost. track to other cultures so look for the really similar but ok i completely agree with the missed decision because all those foreigners have trouble is in the countries of origin. because of this and that. the mayor's measure is unfair it's just because they might have property of broad doesn't mean they're rich here. that'll keep me from rockets another issue could easily get the papers through the conscious i can nevertheless kids still have to be respected more than a dog. a
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very large majority of migrants actually aren't migrants so they do not follow. five for refugee status and in that case you know most of these children as a result of that come from families who have taken a risk and who have put their families at risk and their children at risk just to take advantage of a system that is really fair has been put in place by italian families over generations so it's not about excluding them but asking them to to follow the same laws that apply to tie in families it's nothing else than that so if anything it's about equality not discrimination. remarks by the outgoing u.s. ambassador to the don't of nations during a secret meeting of conservatives have been leaked the caley claim she was
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initially offered the post of secretary of state by president truman but turned it down as she didn't feel qualified and she felt much the same about a position at the un. i thought the job should go to someone who didn't have the same there in carriers i don't draw on the street i don't even know what the un does. nikki haley called money by surprise when she announced she was quitting as envoy to the u.n. she will step down in january. and senior editor at the real news was also at the event and gave us his view on haley's remarks. she revealed that her learning curve was too steep to be secretary of state something we all knew because she had just been governor of south carolina before and had a foreign policy experience limited to having lunch at the international house of pancakes maybe she was playing to the crowd but i think you know in a setting like that where she thinks that there is no media present doesn't know that there is
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a journalist there i think her comments should be taken very seriously and received as her most candid some of her most candid remarks today. donald trump obviously was not basing his decision to ask nikki haley to be u.n. ambassador on her experience but more on her profile he wanted to diversify his cabinet have an up and coming female republican who was a minority she's of indian descent probably people within the pro israel lobby who are pushing trump's transition team to appoint her so that they could make sure that the u.s. would represent israel's interests at the u.n. and that's exactly what happened. nikki haley during the meeting with the council for national policy boasted of how tough the trumpet ministration was on russia she boasted that the trumpet ministration had expelled over one
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hundred diplomats that the trumpet ministration had imposed harsh sanctions that it wrecked russia's economy and she boasted of arms sales to the ukrainian military and she said the obama administration can't even hold a candle to us on russia and this earned her lots of applause. a senior official in the german defense ministries faced a barrage of criticism after paying tribute to the nazi general in rubble rubble service field-marshal during world war two he came to prominence following successes in the north african campaign where we even addressed petition for chivalry among british soldiers in ninety four he was involved in a plot to assassinate hitler given his achievements public fame hitler wanted him eliminated quietly and not publicly executed he was eventually forced by the nazi leadership to commit suicide. earlier we spoke with the today from the lincoln party who says that rommel should never be regarded as
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a hero no matter what. he's not a hero because he had some military success in africa that's not the reason and i think the history is in that dialectic that people are sometimes very strong and very weak together and his character. was the character of a nazi and then the in the last months he got a distance and i think we should approach that kind of distance today that some people let's leave the right. and all that right people will. the nazis too and come to the progressive discourse. his tweet was condemned by the leading left wing politician better power who said that robin was a war criminal and even questioned whether tower was accounted been hacked
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a green party colleague also lashed out saying ramos crimes in italy can never be forgotten in an interview defended his tweet saying the nazi general repeatedly disregarded criminal orders and heroically plotted against. you today again think such tweets and sympathies wouldn't produce a popular if left it's found a better way to engage with the public. on the weekend there were over. two hundred thousand people demonstrating against rasmussen and for trade union rights and i think it's a good sign that on the same weekend and other places of germany where thousands and thousands also demonstrating on. targets the left lost some people who were earning lower than two thousand.

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