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israeli warplanes bombard garza for an 8th day leaving almost $200.00 dead destroying homes and traveling power and water infrastructure. israel's prime minister vows to continue the onslaught in response to palestinian rockets while rejecting international calls for a cease fire what israelis say hamas spares responsibility for the tragic escalation. i want to see is a former commander in the i.d.f. to the citizens of gaza we love you we want you to leave and. you need to know your leadership hamas leadership making all the problems.
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so anti israel protests broke out across europe as thousands take to the streets schooling for the killing of civilians in gaza to stop. live from moscow thanks for joining us tonight here on our senior national on daniel hawkins welcome to the program. israel unleashed a series of new air strikes on gaza on monday that's palestinian militants fired hundreds of rockets at jerusalem at least 198 palestinians have been killed in gaza just in the past 7 days including 58 children in israel 10 dead including 2 youngsters and one of the latest audio of air raids it's a vehicle near the port of gaza that's leaving at least 3 people dead with many more injured it set off a large fire destroying part of a coastal complex including several cafes the locals have been working flat out to
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bring the flames under control. of families in gaza. continue the desperate search for loved ones and the aftermath of the strikes after hours of scrambling through debris want father was finally reunited with his injured child infant survived a strike on a residential building in which his mother and 4 siblings died we spoke with the father. innocent children were targeted while they were going to visit their uncle and cousins the israeli army bombed their uncle's house which led to the martyrdom of 4 of his sons and his wife as well as 4 of their uncles cousins and his wife 5 month old baby omar god survived and is now lying in hospital with what have children done to deserve being bombed with missiles from f. that the 5 aircraft what have they done to this child by rockets israel what did he do to be targeted by missiles what is happening guards is a crime against humanity houses of being bombed in collapse in their residence without warning or notification their only crime is that they are children of gaza . gaza officials say the terrorist is just days away from
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a total power blackout with the only power plant now running off you run last spring rains have also left many people without water gaza based journalist rami mcgarvie reports now from inside the territory. even stationed by israeli warplanes ofr is it being shelled homes and different parts of the gaza strip but you can literally hearing gaza city and more specifically right india where the street where we are is standing has not only left already endured many people killed and injured including women and children but also impacted the basic services of the community of the palestinian community in gaza. the whole neighborhood is suffering from a water shortage each building houses at least 80 people all of whom like drinking water or water for other purposes this causes great suffering for everyone in the
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neighborhood as for the electricity supply it's only on for a couple of hours a day. and what didn't have a couple of water containers that will only be enough for a couple of days but others don't even have that right now forced to buy drinking water for extremely high prices the price has gone up by 30 times and this happens along with other hardships with unemployment soaring and people not getting their salaries. i provided locals with water people are desperate to fill the tanks that many simply can't afford it right now receive a large number of calls from the local residents daily complaining about the power outages they ask us to fix the damage and restore the power supply many residential buildings have already been destroyed or shelled and these damaged buildings are very dangerous now because of the work recently flowing deep inside the rubble many international relief organizations mainly the united nations relief and works agency. and the gaza strip warns against. what a terms the shortest sharp shortish of power supply and water supply for the
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population of gaza specially in areas like this one that have been damaged by the israeli ever strikes or were planes the strikes against them and the past a few days and this comes under the situation the bad economic situation and the territory with about more than 50 per cent of the people live under above or to line and their employment records have recorded so high in the territory of the over the past years and that's the situation for the moment palestinians here in gaza have been badly affected or impacted by the ongoing israeli attacks on the territory of the past week. or meanwhile the palestinian prime minister's call on the international community to step in to help stop the bloodshed. what's a water lot farm the goring images and pictures of those children whose clothes are
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dripping in blood and of died so soon one of the biggest crimes punished by the international law we follow what is going on minute by minute and call upon the international community to intervene but israel until list moment is not responding to anyone. religious buildings were also destroyed in israeli airstrikes a mosque in the north of gaza was leveled with surrounding buildings suffering massive damage at least 3 civilians are reported to have died. in the 2nd i'll leave next to the mosque and the street separates my apartment from that i hugged my children and my wife thinking we would die from the intensity of the bombing but thank god we were not harmed unfortunately missile killed 3 of my brothers 2 of my sisters and one neighbor i told the jews that you are destroying the mosques of got and not bombing the security forces inside there are children the elderly and women their homes are destroyed the sarahs subdue him and there is
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no mildred presence for the resistance fighters in the 2014 war this house was bombed but it was rebuilt again the cerro does not fire on the jews and no rockets came out on what basis was the smallest destroyed. meanwhile major european cities witnessed pro palestinian protests over the weekend with thousands demanding the attacks on gaza to stop now at some demonstrators burned his very flags and threw stones and bottles police responded with tear gas and water cannon and a number of arrests were made. with. it. was.
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alive now as a christian founding member of the stop the war coalition in the u.k. thanks for joining us so good to have you on the program today with us clearly what's going on in gaza has shocked the world shocked people across the planet. we have seen protests there we have seen images of incidents which have been also quite disturbing taking sinister turn just yesterday in london 4 people arrested for shouting anti semitic abuse is that something that worries you. well 1st of all i think it's very important that we. analyze and locate really in a serious way what is going on. in the in the conflict in the police because it's presented as a conflict but to me science what is happening here is a real an excel or. an intensification of a struggle by a war by one of the world's most heavily militarized one of the biggest armies in
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the world against the disenfranchised already this is a impoverished people i think it's very important that we need to start from that position and not take the media attention which is. one incomprehensible conflict between 22 sides that we have to balance our it's very very crucial that we understand who is the press who is defending themselves here in terms of the protests i mean the protests in. in london on saturday with protests we had in london on around the country were almost entirely peaceful. were right at the end hours of the demonstration in the it was a few 100 people who were indeed attacked by the planes out certain israeli embassy
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i wasn't there that time apparently one or 2 states withdraw and that may or may not be the case that was after the main protest. place clearly the anti semitic comments made by individuals who have no connection whatsoever with the demonstrations are reprehensible all anti some comments are. simply condemned and have nothing whatsoever to do with what is a massive. solidarity inside or with palestinian people. there is a real concern on the ground though i mean the meron them have to deploy extra police patrols in areas with large jewish communities people are scared do you think there's a significant security threat to the jewish communities in london and other cities it's all moot saluki frankly i don't know i mean the only being reported. involve i think 2 or 3 people. you know at the resort in situ all of.
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the conflict between jewish people and others in london which was i think that that's a huge. reaction to what is a serious situation and clearly anything that needs to be done to secure safety should be done by now is an overreaction and too much is being made. so we had hundreds of thousands of people out on the streets of britain. on saturday and sunday i think this saturday when we have our next demonstration is going to be a national demonstration i think the protests will be even bigger it's a huge our poor ends or in some of the rest in the middle east and that's something to celebrate and something very valuable. i think many of our keen to point out as you say be the peaceful nature of the majority of protests and also of course the
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separation of anti-semitism and anti signers and clearly different movements yet at the rallies in brussels london the vienna people were shouting and i quote here jews the army of mohammed is returning do you think there is a risk perhaps of this conflict which is you know a regional conflict spilling into the mixed communities within europe and london included with jewish and muslim communities as we've seen in communities in israel with clashes between arabs and jews there. no i don't think there's any risk of that happening certainly not in london i'm not on the ground anywhere else i think there's absolutely 0 risk of that happening i'm going to be on it's no examples of it being a couple of incidents of abuse which has to be in writing it has been condemned. outside it a synagogue in north london beyond that it's been no incidents at all as far as i'm not so i don't think that's a risk it all and i think this is this is
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a kind of multi-ethnic multi-state. movement support for people who are clearly going to the middle east and it's not directed at jewish people who are many jewish people on the inspiration in london sense that it would have been many jewish people on the protests right across the countries i'm sure there are in other countries as well this is not a question it. is arab or it's not a religious conflict is a conflict based on all. 4 people who are clearly as you can see who preaches being. oppressed by the israeli state and people being picked in these mosques being tracked. missiles being fired onto the carpet strip people know really. really killed including many many children this is a humanitarian or. a response of solidarity and there were all kinds of
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people. on saturday just will be. the sense that it's about standing shoulder to shoulder with other human beings under attack. all right chris thanks so much for your time here on out international that site but those protests as you say on the ground are peaceful in the coming days and we trust lot of thanks again for your type. well israel says the latest barrage of rockets from gaza has been the most intense on record here you can see the aftermath of a palestinian rocket strike on a city of ashdod in southern israel a residential building was severely damaged and at least 3 people were injured emergency workers say people managed to evacuate quickly preventing further casualties. or prime minister benjamin netanyahu has defended his country's actions saying israel is doing everything it can to avoid civilian casualties and blaming her mass for using people as human shields but then yahoo
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added he sees no clear end in sight to the violence. well our correspondent paula salie has been speaking to a former i.d.f. officer about his experiences in gaza and also the current tensions. when i'm seeing what's happening now in the gaza border it's killing me from the inside because you know i'm thinking. about what i read through and about the friends i lost fighting for this concrete for our robes and jews in the same way. i'm asking myself sometimes if it will all worth it to last part of your hands to the last part of your body the last part of your soul if this situation will continue and i answer in myself every single time that yes as if she spent 6 years in the israeli army 3 of them in gaza where he
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commanded $130.00 combat soldiers an i.e.d. improvised explosive device ended his service and almost his life it was 6 in the morning id of tanks were waiting to return to israeli territory and because of sniper threats xiv advanced alone to open the gate separating gaza and israel the id blew up in his face i opened my eyes and all the pain filled my body and i medically noticed that my left hand was missing there was blood everywhere and i remember myself trying to reach and apply pressure on the room but nothing happened and i looked on my right arm and i realized exactly why it was also almost disconnected lying on the flaming hot soil hanging all small pieces of skin and flesh for days it was touch and go no one thought he'd pull through $700.00 and nearly a year of intensively habitation has lifted with 10 percent movement in his left
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arm and a prosthetic arm on his right now he's taken it upon himself to make sure the world understands what it's like for israeli soldiers fighting in gaza i risked my life so many times just to make sure that no civilians from the palestinian side really hurt and they were very complicated operations i risked my soldiers we walk. exposed completely instead of send sending a tank or a missile from a plane just to make sure that no child or no innocent people will be on dispersive like place in the gaza border here and recent video of the israeli army stopping in a strike after seen children playing in the area looking acquainted with the way to get my open ended up playing in a limited quantity. and the members a 14 year old child riding a donkey and approaching him and his soldiers they yelled at him repeatedly not to
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come any closer after that we decided not to shoot this child at all he ran away and the donkey was close to us and it was explode. in. such a powerful way that it. destroyed completely the fence we will rock you that really was under shelters and not to me and not my soldier was harmed by this incident if israel want considering only the power of the army. could be vanished in 24 hours but we're not doing it we're not doing it just because we know that many civilians that live there i want to say as a former commander in the i.d.f. to the citizens of gaza we love you we want you to live
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a normal life you need to know that your leadership hamas leadership making all the problems as contrasted to teach continue to heat up the prospect to turn into normal life seems in small ways in police here on t.v. and syria. where news just coming in now the red crescent society has set its headquarters in gaza. has been hit by an israeli bombardment according to the organization 2 people killed and wounded. the forest fires that are sweeping through parts of siberia driven by an early heat wave hundreds of square kilometers an hour in flames over the vast territory these images we're showing you now off of russia's 2 main region where temperatures have been hovering over 30 degrees celsius more than 1500 firefighters and are working to contain the blaze. in other news 2 russian prank is
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known for targeting celebrities and officials from elton john to the turkish president have struck again this time they made their way into a conference call of the american national endowment for democracy by posing as belarus opposition leaders and they got some surprising insights on how the u.s. government funds opposition movements in eastern europe. generally a prank is supposed to be funny and isn't supposed to make a sit up straight and raise the hair on your arms at the seriousness of what you just heard the national endowment for democracy or neb recruits funds and uses what it calls journalists to track russian troops the numbers of naaman's in russia and beyond we don't we don't know what the strategy is going to be nobody really knows but we're concerned that there may be russian troops even and you know there are so this is a concert to us and these are the immediate problems that we. are different media
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have left and. that we have really a grand relationship couldn't record relationship with looking at the deployment of russian military. in the country and how that may be changing. we should be raising our some of our time to do this work with the group and others you know tracking what these question but official forces and unofficial forces. doing the takeaway here is that ned is essentially a u.s. state intelligence organization we have libya on field and tempting to recruit who they believe is the form of the russian presidential candidate to gather information on the movement of government officials and the russian military and apparently offering the money for it so we need the money in the how would we how
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could be arranged. well you know i think you're already. you know you're in touch with with us with with other institutions with european and down and with with our government and i know our government wants to be a socal as possible already in contact presumably those are the entities that have already bankrolled something that the real deal had all sky would have already know and now the intelligence community has has no known what the hell ned really is and why it was banned in russia as to know next is appropriate it's in the russian now . well that's just as well. you know we don't have we don't have offices so far up there they can't kick us out so we had a very employ him in russia it's a mention those rest probably. a lot outside of
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west it's very deep it's very bright they also complained for a while about how tough it has become to meddle in russian elections as a bad foreign organization bent and regime change in russia the poor things but they aren't giving up they had needed help in those and financing those who would destabilize in russia staging protests and running for office on american money and that too is an important area of dialogue between your movement on the russian movement as to you know how to carry to struggle forward. you know with the combination of both the protests that they've been having but also now preparing for the elections and local elections as well and so we're very very committed to helping on that on that front and we will working with our networks and our
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institutes for an organization that aims to overthrow governments and install puppet leave as negs who is remarkably loose lipped they like villains out of cartoons that that boast about how grand their plan these for world domination but ultimately they fall in their butts in all seriousness the seas moring stuff perhaps the sort of meddling is worth bringing up here and glad to me of putin's proposed meeting with joe biden the sama if you will unite with the russian opposition we can. make a big pressure to reach right right right. and obviously i think you know with the . with the new administration here in washington. there is a great readiness to help a great readiness to help i think we are really wonderful people in this new administration i for 1 am not looking forward to watching these wonderful people tear apart what remains of relations between russia and the us suffice to say at
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the very least ned has been bored out a notch it's always fun isn't it seeing the spiders behind the scenes in the dark blues that think that they pull the strings and nice world it's always nice to see the dumb look on their faces when they realize they aren't as smart as they think what is the my ass troops realize they fell for a pride and call me this is made ok just do your billers so it's you know we have listened to everything that you have said you know they're right. and you figure it's a cave be used against you courts you know the right to talk to a lawyer. is that you which you have the right lawyer will use your equation in egypt and it's not like oh you were going to ask the national merican national element for democracy to comment on the story we'll let you know if we do
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hear about from. the top french police officer has lashed out at former officers for asking for more help for the security forces just under 100 have signed a petition to help ask the president stations be protected from hordes of lost individuals shot at human skin investigate. this is another warning of a security threat faced by france by what's described as being a violent minority with they keep everywhere that's the warning from around 100 retired police officers that we've had warnings in the last few weeks from retired generals and also from currently serving soldiers that there is a grueling civil war here but what's different on this occasion is unlike back then when the majority didn't keep any names didn't give their ranks the police officers with this letter this petition the president not going to have not just signed that name but also the ranks of the chief before they left office they calling for
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effect information to be able to recall the country today the authority of the state is undermined by violent minorities those are no longer applied in the last series years of the republic the increase in attacks and the violence directed against guardians of the public peace demonstrate rejection of our republican values our customs and our model of society in entire sectors of our nation that like to not just highlights 2 recent attacks that saw the deaths of police officers in graham lake which was being treated as a terror attack and also just off the bat in our field where a police officer was shot as you try to stop a drug raid but it also talks about the continuing attacks the open attacks on police officers generally on their cars and also police stations which it says is now becoming a regular occurrence to. go 2. oh
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. 6 well the for to. she is calling for reform of the people who code in front saying it wants the sentences to reflect the severity of the crimes that have been committed not only has it gone to more than 40000 signatures to date it's also attracted the attention of police is top officer here in france this is said to be group who is unhappy with this letter from this retired police officer saying that he does more to damage the institution of the police than it does to strengthen its and he's talked to them about the idea of looking at what the government is implementing at the moment saying that these measures should to make things better for the police seize perhaps referring that to the controversial global security
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law which is being passed by parliament ariens but it's not yet been ratified into law the so-called see it separatism rule and the fact that the prime minister jocasta it in the last week or so said that he would be looking for tougher sentences i think to those who attack and kill police officers spite that of course this reflects a war issue this is not the 1st time in the last month or so that the rulings about the security right to wrong this time coming from which i believe so says previously soldiers and retired generals so really you can imagine there's a lot of consternation immediately say at the moment about what we can do to perhaps stem the tide of people deciding that they not doing enough to protect the security services. 1000000 american dreamz. explores what lies behind the curtain of one of the world's most iconic cities u.k. views it's going on the grounds we're back in half an hour with the next.
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