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ah, a with as the 2nd day of voting begins our sake and then use a special coverage of the ongoing referenda and john ross, south hershey, and purse on on whether to join russia with international observers. monitoring the event with this is a historic day for don boss. i've been covering this issue since 2014. therefore, i know very well with the feelings of the people are here. paddling survived porter and pain, $55.00 military personnel from russia and the don balance for public have come back home after their nightmare and ukrainian captivity with the beat me with the
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chair kicked me and hit me with them on they beat me because of a broken chair, they said your cattle, you broke our chair and they started hitting me on the head again. the jab me with all sorts of needles, my ear and my nose just to mock me. and, and a rock. a legislator insists on holding the u. s. accountable after american soldiers there allegedly kill a 15 year old girl working in the field with from las go to the world. this is our to international. i'm racial blevins and here are the top stories. this our the 2nd day of voting on whether to join russia has just started. we're bringing new special coverage of the historic referendums from don bass and to other regions. ah,
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ah, ah, ah . the reverend names are being held and then don, nascar new guns people's republics, as well as the her son and zap hiroshi regions. now back in 2014 don't ask and the guns voted to declare themselves independent after they were fused to recognize the qu in kiev. in the areas there are international observers. we're monitoring the voting process. here's one from italy who gave us his impressions at the end of the 1st day. was that a shot?
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stand at a see, this is a historic day for don boss. i've been covering this issue since 2014. therefore, i know very well with the feelings of the people are here, and how many people want to return to russia. today, i had the opportunity to visit the polling stations. i was surprised how everything was in order. i was surprised how the authorities of the dentist republic protecting care about security. i saw how mobile groups went from house to house. i did not see any legal violations complete freedom. i walked took pictures. no one forbade me from anything. i have already sent my materials to the italian media. i have not seen any coercion of the people just less cross live now to rollin closer off who is in the don nest republic. now ron, what's happening there? take us through with the 2nd day is like so far. ah, well, the 1st day of the referendum turned out to be a pretty successful, according to the election committee as a, nearly
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a quarter of the population of the nest people's republic turns out to vote to join a russia in this referendum. now, according to international observers, into the election committee, there were no violations recorded during this vote. and the in general, now i joined us. one of the mobile groups on friday walked around the wood, them from house to house, and generally it was quite a festive mood among those people who were a voting. they were telling me that finally this they had it arrived and some will said that we wished as they who would have come a sooner nevertheless. so we voted one of the streets that we owe walked on. there were at least 80 people who cast their ballots and all of them said yes said to the referendum, the reason i know that because they are quite open about their choice. now also, according to local officials, a call centers that were established for this referendum. we received
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a lot of calls where people were asking how when the mobile groups would arrive to their home. so that so that they could vote. now once again, the referendum will be held over 5 days. the 1st day has already passed. weird is 2nd day now, so a 3 more days. so we'll have a voting done with the mobile groups. and on the last day, on the 27th of september, people will turn out to polling stations for the final day of the referendum. meanwhile, this is all done while ukrainian nationalists continue shelling the city of the nest, continued terrorizing local residents trying to disrupt referendum. frances, stop that them from a voting nevertheless, a voting continues on on a friday, at least at 200 various caliber shells has landed in the city of the nest on the ask her sanctioned. and those were of various calibers including of those that are
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supplied by nato countries. now air defense say here in the center of the nest was operating all day as well. we would hear shots every 5 minutes or so. so that means a ukrainian nationalists were once again trying to target that sensor of the city. unfortunately, another day has gone by and not without casualties. a one man was killed on the outskirts of the nest. kanza, 2 more civilian women were wounded. let's bring in our chains, igor, it on our now who is in the longest for public for us. now igor, what is the 2nd day looking like there so far? while it is still early in the morning, but in terms of how many people showed up and decided to share their opinion, whether or not it'll ganske people's republic should become part of russia this well, this region, this country, it trails just behind its neighbor, the nets people's republic with over 20 percent of all the population that have
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decided to cast their ballots during the 1st day according to the official information that is just short of 300000 people. and of course, it sounds like a like a large number because both because it is. but one thing to understand about the vote here is that there are no a polling stations in their traditional sensor of the word. so you can't come to school or any other place or, well, there is stationary and well cast your vote. or instead the authorities here, the hey, they have opted for the mobile polling booths that look like a well regular bus that arrives at a designated location at a designated time and all locals, all our local citizens, they have the opportunity to well have their se, and that was done over safety concerns. now my colleague roman casa, has already talked about her all sorts of calibers of shelves that landed in the netscape here in logan's can the capital of the august people's republic yesterday
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. it was quite quiet and our, everyone, they sorta had a sigh of relief at the end of the day, but own plenty of neighboring little towns and villages. they were all so shelled by the key of forces that are trying to well basically they are trying to disrupt the referendum to make it not happen to frighten people into, to scare them into obedience and into not voting. and again, on this region, it has, while it has a walked a whole long walker of 8 years towards today, towards this a vote, we've talked to some of the locals and many of them, many of them were old enough to vote back in 2014 when the key of forces one cave, basically, while declared war on its own people under started shelling, started a fighting with it. so again, with its own people with the citizens here, when they had to mobilize themselves and that ensued a,
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what is happening today that ensued the war that we're witnessing right now. this is what, this is what caused it. and so many of them, they had hoped that back in 2014, that was it. that was the decisive moment. that was the stand they had to make to join russia or at least break away from ukraine after well after the who are in key of but that didn't happen. many of them that were unhappy, many of them were visit, visibly disturbed by this turn of events. but all of them were relieved and they were set and they were hopeful that this vo, this 5 day vote, will finally bring what i with the vote back in 2014 didn't sir. so they put a lot of hope to the pro pin a lot of hope to the process here. and so during the 5 day period of who is the 5th day will be when the polling booths open here. this is what they're hoping for. this is a, this is basically what they're saying,
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that they will finally be able to join rush and all sorts of opportunities that they expect that they will come to their to their doorsteps. are case roman casara from the diaspora, public and egos. your donna from logan's profile, like thinking about for that day the 2nd day of voting also begins and her son and zapper of she riggins the 1st day saw a military and police presence there to ensure security and sleep for explosives before residents arrive. that comes as there have been a number of terror attacks on local officials prior to the referendum. but despite the potential threats, people continue to cast their ballots. yes, michelle is direct lou chester than i believe that only with russia we will be able to revive our region, raise the economy, medicine education, revise the industries that her son region was famous for in soviet times and give a new impetus to our economy. i cast my vote for joining in russia award martin yet
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from me finally. well together, finally, well is home with the mood is excellence, high voltage for russia, my home for my motherland, especially young refresher. i want to come back home about i just want to come back home with his on his always been a russian city. they say that for a person, the native language is the one in which his mother read fairy tales for him in childhood. they read to me in russia. let's go live now to our correspondence and her san moran gods diaz. now, miranda, what is the atmosphere like there as the 2nd day of voting begins? ah, well, i could certainly tell you it is much calmer than it was. yesterday, there is still of course, a lot of fear, a lot of apprehension. there has been a campaign of terror conducted by ukrainian nations suddenly ukrainian government against people here to dissuade them from joining will from voting in this
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referenda bass. you mentioned election officials and the other officials were targeted. they were harassed, they were threatened. their property houses, cars. oh, what will vandalized what damage? some of them were killed by ukrainian nationalists. car bombs planted again to disrupt any potential referendum here in kennesaw region. nevertheless, 15 percent of the population came out yesterday and cast their vote, which is to be honest with you, more than many people thought would come out on the 1st day. it is certainly common now because people saw that. everything past everything past calmly that there were no incidence previously. ukrainian nationals that want people to stay out of voting stations for their own safety, presumably threatening to plug bonds, approved stations. none of that pond out there is very heavy security checks along the way. people came in yesterday sometimes,
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or where boutique stations were set up at a business as a pig factories other times. and schools and people from the streets would come in ones and twos and cost of votes. so 50 percent of the population has now voted more . are expected to, to turn out in the 4 days and including today now that they've sheet that they have be new incidence. now that they've seen of it is been violence free. not entirely. that is to say over the nice we show and film, anti add defense missiles streaking up into the sky, presumably to intercept ukrainian. miss south here, saud likes no other province that is conducting the the referendum was targeted by american high mas missiles. almost every day you have song city, all it's outskirts struck again and again and again. and this is unfortunately, the reality of the situation. there's nothing that could be done about that. the
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referendum he's, he's being conducted in war, todd and people are used to that. nevertheless, new incidence. they're all also forward. observers here, americans and, and from frogs, observes we haven't talked to them yet, but we plan on doing so and finding out how, how they she this referendum going on. and how, how, what they plan to report about this is referenda begin. sundays expects it to be the big day when more and more people come up. that is of course, if the situation remains somewhat cobb and the people she and are confident that they will be targeted if they give to a voting station. our teeth, mariah garcia, and her son, thank you for that report. several events were held across russia to support the referendums and don bass in the city of camera and central
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russia. then there was also a rally held in moscow where thousands of people gathered near red square waving flags and banners. there was also one and grows me, the capital of the chechen republic and southern russia. the events are being attended by representatives of public associations, political parties, and civil activist. meanwhile, western countries had condemned the referendums, calling them undemocratic. this cons after years of selective policies towards the self determination of people as r t contributor rachel marson explains. question officials clearly don't support these people in ukraine having the opportunity to exercise their right to self determination is guaranteed under international law. you as a master to ukraine, bridget brink and nato secretary general against fulton berg called them quote sham referendums. and the european union's chief diplomat, joseph burrell, dismissed them as quote, illegal referendums, which are quote,
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in violation of ukraine's independence sovereignty and territorial integrity and a blatant breach of international law. when territorial integrity comes in conflict with self determination, it's apparently the people's will. that matters most. at least that's what the position was. the western officials had towards costeo's independence. that is, after nato had bombed yugoslavia and carved out kosovo from russian allied serbia under the pretext of protecting its ethnic minority sounds. a lot like the justification for the referendums now in these ukrainian regions whose people have suffered under keams attack since 2014. but unlike with the current situation in ukraine, the international community at that time agreed that coast those minority shouldn't have to live under systemic oppression. today our armed forces joined our nato allies and airstrikes against serbian forces responsible for the brutality and kosovo. oh, what i'm really proud of is what we did in class. so i really found it very
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difficult to watch when people were being killed at pleasure to united states would continue to work with those nations that have not recognized an independent kosovo to convince them to do so as quickly as possible. so apparently the western position only favor self determination if it harms their enemy and benefits the west. another example, what about of taiwan decided to hold a referendum to succeed from china to morrow? it's hard to imagine that the westwood, denounce it, and argue instead that the taiwanese have to respect the one china policy that the west supports. all wall egging on taipei provoking dang and using taiwanese chinese relations and tensions as a pretext to rack up sales for the u. s. military. industrial complex. referendums are all equal in the eyes of the west. the democracy exercise by catalonia, in its bid for independence in 2017 from spain, was denounced by most of the you under the spanish constitution. yesterday's vote
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to cut the lonia was not only go countries like france, italy, germany and the u. k. were more interested at the time in what a vote in favor of independence for catalonia could mean for their own countries as they struggled to contain independence movements on their own territories. in other words, these people over here are fighting for their own democratic self determination. but how does that affect me? that's what they were doing. as for madrid, it came down to a question of revenue loss as colonia, with just 16 percent of spain's population. also accounts for 19 percent of its gdp . another referendum may be looking on the horizon in scotland as separate a sentiment has festered since edinburgh voted to reject independence in 2014. but the u. k. 's newest prime minister list trust isn't keen on permitting a 2nd round. perhaps she's concerned that the result won't be the same. if i am elected as prime minister, i will not allow another. independent trust brings up the notion of family,
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but apparently isn't interested in acknowledging similar family style bonds that link the rust, the phone, ukrainian regions to russia. the western hypocrisy and double standards of defending democratic principles to self determination only if and when it suits them, hasn't escaped the attention of the scottish leadership. if she governs as she has campaigned over the summer, she will be a disaster at not just for scotland, but for all of the you key, there's a tendency to denigrate or block referendums that suit the western agenda. but when the irish vote to ratify the lisbon treaty, that is the use constitution establishing a centralized leadership and foreign policy failed the 1st time while that didn't prevent them from being allowed to vote a 2nd time to secure the desired result. similarly, the dutch vote to dinner a referendum in 2016 against the you having closer linked to ukraine. but that
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didn't prevent the country's parliament for voting against the people's will. a year later, apparently it was enough to say that, well, hey, they were asked. so given the tendency of western officials to cherry pick the referendums, they support or don't, in accordance with their political agendas, while they're hardly in a position of high moral authority to be telling anyone, seizing the opportunity for self determination, what is or isn't legitimate professor at the institute of european studies in belgrade, steve and gaiety told us that western reactions to the referendum should not matter to russia. and especially to the people who are determining their future. i don't see what kind of other sanctions are going to be in polls. i mean, west is fully involved in a proxy war. it is arming one of the sides heavily and i
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think that there will be increased growth similar to what we've seen in 2014 with the frame in case. but i don't really see any kind of escalation that we haven't seen so far. of course, the west will be very disappointed and there will be a lot of a lot of, i would say, a vein barking by the politicians that are already created within their own societies. but i don't believe that russia and especially people who live in these areas, should be particularly worried about the western reaction. i think that they should be concentrated on the future. i had them and rebuilding our lives and of course of the infrastructure that was shattered. and of course li,
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rebuilding our functioning side of the awesome new trauma that started out with the euro. my done, if not even with the breakup of the soviet union in 1991. well, keep you updated with the latest news as saturday, march the 2nd day of voting for millions of residents. ah. finally, after a long separation from relatives military personnel from russia and the don baths, republics who've been in ukrainian captivity returned home ortiz maria the notion of talk to some of the service men who shared their stories of torture. a happy day for what had been some very anxious families as 55 military personnel from russia and the dunbar. republics, sons and husbands, father's and brothers,
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who had long been held in ukraine in captivity. have come back home. vice zebra storms. ain't he that he's in life that they returned my son to me. thanks everyone . god bless everyone. we are proud of him. we were afraid to lose it. not that we believed we knew that he would return to her. we prayed every morning and every evening. the whole city was waiting for him. everyone was waiting for him. all the relatives, his wife was very boring. we were very worried. it's the latest. and so far, the largest prisoners of war exchanged between moscow and kiev since the beginning of the russian offensive in february, and both sides a hail and it's a success somewhere along the most important thing is that they didn't leave us there. when we were there, there was a sense that no one wanted us in our country, but you see how it turned out. our guys quickly took us away, quickly pulled a sound among the 215 key of prisoners. the allied forces traded for the men were
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at 5 notorious as old battalion commanders, but it was a freedom at any price still to them. they said that no one was worried about you and your country will not exchange you accept trust. but we believe that would be an exchange. we'd just believe you. of course, i'm happy that i am in russia, and i'd like to thank those who were involved in the exchange that it happened when i hope that the rest of all people we taken out of that and they will also be at home. the most important thing for me now is to see my family, friends, wife. no, i haven't seen her since january or but we signed our marriage certificate and i just left right away. sometimes i talked to her via video link, but basically i haven't seen her in almost a year. 10 of the many foreigners who've been fighting on kia side were also released 5 bridge citizens to americans and fighters from the rocco, sweden and croatia. some of the release prisoners who spent months in captivity talk about torturing humiliation and also confirmed that more and more foreigners
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are fighting on ukraine's side. no. those for yellows. dubuque, yes, they stood armed with clubs from the very beginning. they began to beat me with a bass on unused electric shocks. then with every incorrect answer or action i said or did they shocked me beat me with a bass on all my legs until i had bruises or threw up at her so as to why the wooded crew. they beat me with a chair, kicked me and hit me with the mom. they beat me because of a broken chair. they said your cattle, you broke our chair. they started hitting me on the head against the jagged me with all sorts of needles. my ear, my nose just to mock me crash, but the more on the home on the road, they threatened me with a knife. then they threw me into a pickup truck and we drove off similar, another 15 people ran up there and they started taking pictures with me to pay my look there. they caught an orc and occupier took pictures and from the videos they lifted me by the head and took pictures of the what it was clear from their voices that there were not only ukrainian staircases, a foreign speech was heard arabic speech was heard somewhere after that they took
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pictures with me there while they continued to beat me to put a knife to my eyes. so they put a knife to my groin. he said we will cut everything off of you. now if you do not confess, phonemic with the holes. they also explain why capturing members of the russian military and he's such a desired trophy for those fighting for keith expense thought. and that's is what on line is that they are. nancy's not the i'm for you get the denazi's receive money for the military presenting. so for surgeon, it's about $300.00 for officers after thousands liang, although his former prisoners released during this recent exchange are currently being treated in various russian hospitals. if military dr. commissions decide their feet, they service men may soon return to the front lines raving ocean on naughty moscow re aah! or ron is dealing with mass riots organized by both supporters of the government and those who are protesting police brutality. the demonstrations are in response
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to the news that a young woman died in custody after being arrested by the country's morality, police allegedly breaching strict rules of wearing a heap job. police insist that she had a heart attack saying their treatment had nothing to do with her death. however, the family claimed she didn't have any health issues. and demonstrators believe that 22 year old ma ha, me was beaten there, now demanding justice for her, and burning police stations and vehicles and several cities as well as torching. he jobs and public, the pro government supporters took to the streets and response calling for execution of the protesters, calling them quote, israel soldiers. meanwhile, in a rock, a legislator has called on the countries authorities to hold the u. s. accountable for the killing of a 15 year old girl, allegedly at by a stray bullet, fired by an american soldier. he says this islands on the issue is disrespectful
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and that the nearby weapons range should be shut down. the teenage girl was killed by a bullet fired during u. s. military exercises near they base outside of baghdad. the u. s. embassy has not bother to issue an official apology for the in just incident. the death which occurred as a result of the use of life routes to were military drill, snow residential neighborhoods, exhibits an outrageous disregard for the iraqi blood and a blatant disrespect for the country sovereignty. the incident occurred earlier this week on a farm situated near the baghdad international airport, where american military forces regularly conduct girls, family and friends are convinced the u. s. soldiers are to blame for the tragedy. the now houses in the vicinity of the student region, and there is no amity between her family and that anyone in the area in the army soldiers, haitian outside baghdad, airport,
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them dollar media. and she got charged with hall was in that stable. you know, i called them on the market much, oh, you're wildly and, and that help parents, children with that all they wanted to do was to leave in the rock peacefully. but that was in vain. endings in the middle of our villa repeal dozens of times about is this place is a populated area with your residents, farmers, and their lifestyle. oh ever. we got no responses from you to florida except for calls to lead area. we don't like out via we endured a lot because our intensity of the shooting, which is locked in our homes. recently, i lost my brother who's left 7 children or one, and now i've lost my granddaughter here. the case brings up the double standards in the western media, which in contrast to the coverage of the recent killing and neighboring iran, have ignored the death of the teenager and a rock co director of the international action center. sarah flanders says that the location of the incident makes it even more significant. this is on ending its
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outrageous. and this latest killing of a young, 15 year old student working in her father's field is just the latest absolute outrage most outrageous that took place in abu great. now that it's a site of the notorious torture prison. a huge us, great, and a giant prison camp for iraqi prisoners. people around the world saw those for lenders, pictures of what happened in that prison. the fact that they didn't close it down, the base continues and they continue with a live fire range. it's really passed fine for us to hear about that's all for now. be sure to check out our t dot com for all the latest breaking news and updates. we'll see you right back here at the top of the hour.

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