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the number of victims grows as. the 2nd week in the program we speak to a 10 year old girl who witnessed the destruction. every day and night. here. in the morning here. people i'm just trying. to. i. mean while sirens continue to cross israel pension. time. and even. if. it's holiday time. keeps me strong. enough
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that people. accuse us. with warnings that will only. go. well a very warm welcome to you from all of us here and also internationally. on which. the death toll in gaza has risen as israeli forces continue to shell the enclave at least 212 people including 61 kids have now been killed since the latest violence began a week ago explosions lit the night sky in gaza city as israel launched new air strikes just overnight.
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that actual buildings as well as gaza's main covais laboratory have been hit by israeli airstrikes more than 100 houses have been destroyed in the area since the start of this latest conflict with many more properties severely damaged and we spoke to people whose lives have been shattered by these latest attacks. was what was said it was my little children my poor wife why were you treated like that the children were asleep and suddenly there was an explosion my wife and i we were shocked the air strike was very strong we run to the children to drag them out into the streets and save them from the bombing we are terrified. the 1st thing was them bombing us at night suddenly it became severe and get close to us we started being shelled with tear gas canisters were suffocating from the gas we called the civil defense and 1st state in order to take us and get us out of the place and into the
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schools. when the bombing started and everyone was falling of course life is precious to everyone we left quickly we even didn't put on our shoes there was no blanket or anything thank god we got to the school we broke open the doors and sat in the school in fear we spent 5 days without water or food no one looked after us . the headquarters of a humanitarian group was also among the buildings hit in the latest raids of the red crescent society saying 2 of its staff were killed and 10 wounded there strike came a day after the doha funded group allocated a $1000000.00 to support those affected by the ongoing as strikes now a 10 year old girl also shared with us the shock and pain of seeing houses all around her bombed to the ground. i dream about a little better future i dream to be
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a doctor and i dream to be helping my people but how could that happen i'm just a kid i want the right to learn any more so what do you need to do. i'm just crying every day china stop myself well. i can't every day at night or at least when we hear the missiles in the mornings we hear the cries and screams of people so we try to do check it out so we can help those people but we even townhouse people because we can't do anything in this ward we're just kids and the parents don't know how to raise their kids in this and this just ration it's hard for them and hard for us no one is safe in palestine no one who can play with our friends all in the streets because every day missiles our age time to get ahead of us i only say a 2nd and many hours always your future in that many or 2nd or our words could be
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our death so i don't play outside everytime i hear a missile my brother shoots those missiles and he gets scared so i try to let him calm down i put me and my family when we hear missiles we stay away from windows and stay away from the glass doors like we have in our house and we put in the hallway to matches and then we fall asleep trying to sleep but i can't turn the missiles on cries of children out there the un's the middle east peace coordinator warns gauze or is rapidly running out of key resources and soon won't be able to care for those being injured in the conflict the surgery is suffering constant power blackouts and a lack of clean water a local journalist. reports. stationed by the israeli warplanes ofr is it in show homes and different parts of the gaza strip but you clearly hearing gaza city and more specifically right india where the street where we are
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is standing now 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 and gaza. the whole neighborhood is suffering from a water shortage each building houses at least 80 people all of whom like drinking water water for other purposes this causes great suffering for everyone in the 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 we are now forced to by drinking water for extremely high prices the price has gone up by 30 times and this happens along with other hardships with unemployment soaring people not getting their salaries will the middle provide locals with as right know the electricity started
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coming the locals who are desperately want to fill in their trunks but actually many of them just cannot 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 through city flowing deep inside the rubble 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 palestinians here in gaza have been badly affected by the ongoing israeli attacks on the territory of the past week meanwhile sirens have be. sounding in the south of israel after hamas fired more than 90 rockets on tuesday that's according to the israeli defense forces and one person reported to have died in the attack 10 more
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wounded a palestinian militants have short more than $3000.00 missiles into the country since the start of the latest confrontation forcing locals into bomb shelters so we got israeli reaction to the escalation i don't claim i think. it's not logical that hamas is dictating how we live from 10 to 12 yeah you can rest then hamas loans as rockets and cannot continue like this and want to attack gaza so they are left without weapons to launch an us. i live here in the house there was a siren and i went down on the floor to take shelter my mom is disabled but she was able to get to the shelter and that's what saved her the elderly are especially at risk during bomb attacks with health issues often making it harder for them logistically to seek shelter auntie's paulus spoke to one pensioner about her fear of getting caught up in an assault. israel has the most advanced defense system in
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the world and the army is amongst the best there is but still as much as a 3rd of his radius of vulnerable and exposed to rocket attacks from gaza. is 76 years old she's a retired artist whose husband died 10 years ago she lives alone in an apartment block in central israel unable to reach the maclet obama shelter pretty fit really for the reason that and actually to be politically to early and was very scared that there would be a. carriage and i went here obviously and advocate for the top of the flats on the 1st floor and up to the mic left only go down the stairs to the 2nd floor and the 1st thing anywhere between 2 to 3000000 israelis live in homes that do not have a bomb shelter it was only in the last 30 years that it became law for new
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apartments to build one that was fortified in older buildings such altars are either on the ground floor or outside from the moment the siren sounds he has one minute 60 seconds to get to safety that's the time it takes for a rocket fired from gaza to reach central israel but for those living close to the gaza border they have just 15 seconds when the bomb calls you hear the move move and walk us through me matt if they're being in there in fear it's frightening if they knew all of them the learn if if it's hard to entire flat among the 1st civilians to be killed in israel by a rocket from gaza was a woman you know eighty's and her indian caregiver they never made it out of their apartment immigrated to israel from south africa decades ago she's witnessed many wars over the years but feel something is different this time around she. constantly for her grandson who's in the army but wouldn't have it any other way
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but it keeps me strong the level of this country and the confidence that we've got the best defense force in the world and the korean we have 3 of them and most of math grandkids are here in israel and that keep fish that keeps me very strong and after a lot of people that are left here the biggest waste is that this war will be israel's last seen enough to know that it's unlikely policial t. . prime minister benjamin netanyahu insists the attacks will continue as long as needed to quote restore peace and security for israelis you blame hamas for garza's civilian deaths adding that it uses people as human shields and we spoke with israeli foreign ministry spokesperson paul hershel every time i hear and every time we need to learn to hear about civilian casualties on both sides of this conflict
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here in israel and in gaza i am sickened i must locating themselves deliberately in civilian neighborhoods firing from schools from hospitals from mosques each and every time a war crime in an orbit solve did liberally firing into civilian neighborhoods in israel we didn't want to be in this conflict and we were dragged into this conflict they knew what they were doing they become us knew what they were doing for biting israel with an ultimatum to to evacuate parts of jerusalem knowing full well that wouldn't happen and telling us that if that didn't happen they were going to open fire as they did with hundreds of rockets on the civilian neighborhoods until of eve me into that they wanted this to happen and that the once we were dragged into this conflict we're not in the mood to put a band-aid on it again and i think we need to pursue a must to the point they understand that they made a terrible mistake. well while some members of the u.n.
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security council have expressed fears of an escalation in the fighting between israel and gaza efforts to bring it to an end have folded on death is because not all express a calm and a few the u.s. has blocked for the 3rd time in a week joint statement from the u.n. security council calling for an immediate cease fire but joe biden himself reiterated support for an end to hostilities and a phone call with his israeli counterpart though stressing israel's right to defend itself but washington is facing an internal scrutiny over its role in the conflict democrats are split over a planned sale to israel worth millions and one of the 1st muslim women elected to congress has called the sale of polling saying it will only provoke a situation a robot name an independent consultant on u.s. foreign policy claims biden's team knew what was coming yet still went ahead with the deal. if there is even a float if there is even
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a bill introduced in congress it would be historic it would be a historic precedent there's never been a fight like this in congress over a weapons deal to israel when the biden ministry approved this weapons deal before may 5th they knew what the israeli government was about to do in the era proving it and giving it a green light every day that this goes on and clearly the biden history has been trying to protect the israeli salt block 3 times a security council statement for a cease fire all other 14 members of the security council's where the statement so they're coming under increasing pressure both internationally by ministrations both internationally and in washington so i think we could see a shifting picture on this even in the next day i'm plenty more still to come here
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when almost seems wrong. just don't. get to seem. to stay active. and engaged with. the trail. find themselves worlds apart. she still looks for common ground. thanks for joining us for the program here will not see a deadly landmines in civilian areas or a widespread ongoing consequence of the central african republic is almost a decade long civil war and the government has been fighting rebels in the country
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since 2012 and a battle not just for valuable mineral resources but also influence with neighboring countries it's a situation that has left over a 1000000 people homeless and many more in chronic poverty. reports from the central african republic. this part of the country is considered to be under government control and that's true for the most part but there are still groups of armed rebels hiding in the jungles sometimes they lay mines in certain roads hoping to blow up a military truck and seize their weapons and supplies. we're just going to be trying to say they're supported by and we almost ran into one of those mines ourselves but luckily our ass crit group spotted it in advance and it was destroyed.
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before it went off we managed to get some close up shots of it then mine was made in belgium which of course raises a lot of questions like how and where local militias get such deadly weapons because any firearms above $14.00 centimeters caliber let alone anti-tank mines like the one we discovered aren't allowed to be sold to the central african republic under a u.n. arms embargo anyway our days started as we took off any chopper and headed to a gold mine and village that were recently freed from rebel control as we flew over the think jungle i was sitting close to a supply of hand grenades the crew keep them in case they are fired at from the ground and they need to scare the shooters off i mean it's that tough here. the village we saw was typical for see our poor and devastated people lack basic things like food and clothes but are still harassed by local gangs which usually come and take whatever they want and brutally killed those who dared to stand up against
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them and we heard accounts of entire villages being slaughtered for the equivalent of $50.00 as they had of this village told us they are lucky now to have a notary out that was nearby that is run by the local army with a rush. an instructors who work in the country under a u.n. mandate with. the government has sent russian forces here for the safety of the population is very quiet around here because the russians are here we don't want them to leave we want them to stay with sketch and finally we reached a gold mine that until a month ago was run by militants they work in primitive conditions extracting. by digging clay with shovels and then washing it in small muddy walls rebels force local villagers to work there as slaves basically and kill those who refused to do the job or who are simply too exhausted to carry on but it seems like now
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since the local army and the russians came along the poor miners can finally keep the gold for themselves i mean it doesn't get them much though and one of them told us that he'll be able to sell what he has worked for for we only for $3.00. an ounce of erotica r.t. from the central african republic. more than a 1000 fake covert certificates of been found online in the u.k. and worldwide offering vaccine untouched documents for as little as 25 pounds in the u.k. border staff say they catch around 100 people with fake covert papers each and every day mostly from africa south america and asia and we spoke with oded vanunu the head of the cyber security from behind these findings. we have large guarding the war between countries that can supply prisoners who wants to
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have and once you have. it's created a black market in the global economy and once you have black market this is created . we need to understand. darkness is a borrowed economy that supply things that are like a gap between the supply and demand in the global image what we believe that this is like that. we cannot see the darkness but we can see the trends and the trends are very clear so we believe this is much bigger operation. residents of an affluent los angeles suburb are furious at a move to howls vagrancy parks and nearby beaches because fires related to homelessness have tripled in the 1st 4 months of the year that would all comes as officials defend their plan to house the homeless and cabins and campsites
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opponents say children would no longer be safe in the areas authorities and sister the entire move is temporary almost $21000.00 people have now signed a petition against the county sides highlighting the use of drugs and mental illness among the homeless on the risk of fire they also say that i believe temporary means temporary so we got reaction on the streets. handling the homeless situation by the local county and the state government it's criminal there has been so much money. shoved off by the state government by the taxpayers of los angeles county by the federal government and this problem we need a portable housing we don't need campsites we don't he's storage cards we need what we were promised 10 years ago i think it's a good idea i mean it's a tricky situation because the homeless people need to live somewhere but i also see the other side of it were some of the homeowners around their area don't want
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this area homeless people living with them this whole proposal just putting people in parks and on beaches just like trying to put a band-aid over a gunshot. just seems like politicians trying to. make themselves look good that car can serve double duty it can't be a full time. homeless camp and serve as a residential camp where people actually go down spaces right out you know. ok that makes our clamoring for all positions that are new online stuff up the promises no not woke education of the founder of matthew paul tells us why it was created from from my perspective personally you know as as somebody who it happens to be openly gay. i i have seen discrimination gone down going down significantly what i see as being extraordinarily dangerous with
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a lot of these new theories again with critical race theory and cancel culture. is a reversal of a lot of that where people cannot go beyond their identities where people live and breathe and act based upon the color of their skin based upon their sexual orientation based simply upon surface characteristics and that defines exactly who they are and how they should be treated that cuts against the american spirit and the american identity and i see that movement being very very dangerous and again that's why american scholars exists and that is among the problems that we are seeking assaults. one of the main drivers behind the online program is a us movement which doesn't see race as a biological feature but as
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a social construct which benefits white elite so the concept of critical race theory is seen as maintaining social economic and political inequality while recognizing systematic racism as a part of american society critics argue however that it rejects the concepts of truth and merit and opposes liberalism well the new platform gives a recent example of a math framework were a correct answer is seen as white supremacies invading the classroom it also highlights issues caused by movements committed to the racist and biased teachings such as disrupt texts which won the great gatsby in some shakespeare plays replaced with books believed to better represent known white people but many parents oppose what culture and education in the texas town of south lake parents have voted against plans to hire an equity and inclusion director in some states including tennessee and idaho have banned critical race theory classes and some families are
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so angry they have up to move to florida where schools don't teach white privilege michel reckon walt who was responsible for the scholarly standards of the platform gave us his thoughts. american education today a case through 12 that is great schools or primary and secondary education as well as college education is shot through with ideology and a very pernicious ideology. critical race theory and. localness as we call it here in the i'm not opposed to the discipline of themselves i'm opposed to the way they're being taught they're being taught through an ideological lens. through critical race theory which is a way of demonstrating whites and telling them they're all racists and that there is systemic racism in the united states so we want to stablish
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a platform for non indoctrinating education where students and parents and adults can receive education without being indoctrinated and without having to go through the kind of shaming routine we're going to be delivering this content free of this ideology and underwritten by the value that are enshrined in the american constitution which are we think should be common to every place that is the free speech freedom of self-determination the right to own property. thanks for sharing some of your tuesday with us here r.c. international live from moscow nearly half past 3 now we are back at the top of the hour perhaps we'll see you then. the 1st like when you all know it's coming through and spoke proper if somebody would have been told me because i'm going to spend my life replying to get as i'll
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talk to story person of the soldier was clearly seen. every night although we were attacked by the arabs or we were attacking them and we were extremely shocked. saying that's not possible oh i'll make those moves into such scenes and then the soldiers simply myself some of those books wobble some of the house without the prison or revolver go over they all. believe much 2nd class citizens in the on call. it was like a let me get my head that there is no way to be able to live together without tearing down the street was. so we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be
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an arms race is on all sides very dramatic developments only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. a new gold rush is underway and gonna thousands of ill equipped workers are flocking to the gold fields hoping to strike it rich here's a good. as they are particles that work children are torn between gold. my family was very poor i thought i was doing my best to get back to school which side will have the strongest appeal. and.
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