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of the, the breaking news, israel announces a new phase of war as it moves troops to it's northern and border with 11 on well pledging for turn is displaced. citizens to their homes there as, as a new wave of mobile device explosions kills at least 14 and wounds over 450 in the 11 on just in the day after 12 died and 2800 were injured there. and a mass page or bombing strikes the and a time when he's company in the hon. gary and business partner both deny producing the dudley pagers. the devices were allegedly detonated remotely by israel,
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the live in moscow on rachel ruble. you're watching r t international work covering the top news stories from around the world. we start with breaking news, as well as defense minister says the country is launching a new phase of war. he has ordered some of his troops to divert from gaza to the border with 11 on this comes shortly after that country was struck by 2 days of wide spread mobile device explosions, killing at least 26 people and wounding more than 3000 a sheet. no, it goes over the center of gravity is moving north, meaning that we are allocating forces resources and energy game for the northern arrangement. we have not forgotten the hostages. then we have not forgotten our mission in the south. we are committed to our duties and we are carrying them out simultaneously with the whole. archie correspondent,
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joelle maroon is in lebanon and brings us the latest details a non beside or some, i'm not long ago, explosions were heard across various regions of southern level. and we've received information that at least one person has confirmed it, or the more or believe to have been killed. this new wave of explosions affected wireless devices. and today we're not only talking about pagers, but also radios like walkie talkies. that's according to 11 east security source speaking with r t. the lebanese ministry of health also announced a short while ago that there are hundreds of wounded citizens and calls are going out from hospitals to donate blood. right now, we're in front of a hospital emergency room in the found right area. they route, we can see the lebanese army and security forces are setting up a security cordon around the hospitals where the wounded have begun to arrive. there are also members of the victims, families who have arrived here to find out about their relatives, the lebanese, for administer a short while ago called this new attack, a blatant violation of the country sovereignty did he also called on the
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international community to stop israel from violating lebanese sovereignty in such a manner, give me a reminder that this is the 2nd day in a row that these explosions have occurred just half an hour. after these attacks, the lebanese health ministry announced that they were more than a 100 injuries throughout the country. hundreds of injured or receiving care and again, hospitals or calling for blood donations and a mid dependent caused by the exploding devices. there are also funerals taking place for 11 on citizens. that's up to you. but the lebanese red cross reports responding to multiple explosions in different regions of the country. some of the explosion happened at funerals for the victims of tuesdays mass page, or bombings that killed at least 12 people, including 2 children in the moon. the 2800 more of course have indicated the handheld of radios were used by has will up um, members with the footage appearing to show the aftermath of explosions on the streets and inside apartments. our take our respondents here since july in the us,
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and i can have an update starters as well as the shoot a statement suggesting that this new wave of attacks is not going to go on punished . they say that they face a new challenge, of course, how his beloved plans on dealing with the wave of attacks targeting electronical as well as communications devices is going to be a matter of interest moving forward, particularly because after 24 hours after the 1st wave of the tax lies essentially suffered a very similar scenario. but the important thing here is of course, to note that the only people that have been targeted are, of course, not hezbollah members or, but the most importantly, that civilians have been caught in the crossfire. which really begs the question just about how to disrupt, go about doing this. are so many theories out there, of course, the theory that there was a site supply chain attack is picking up the most traction. the church president reached out to the lebanese prime minister, expressing his sympathies, but also his condolence, and so those that were killed and injured as
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a result of these attacks. this was early on wednesday moments before the 2nd wave of attacks. hey, it's 11 on but of course what we're looking at right now is a different approach, or at least a difference in, in this kind of attack. because on tuesday, when the attack initially took place of the devices that were targeted were pages. but today were receiving reports suggesting that the devices also include radios, whether their home radios, the car vehicles, us or our car radios, laptops fingerprint scanners, essentially anything with an electrical circuit board has also been effected as a result of this attack. and what we do know at this point, these rarely is of course have been silence. and the general theory is that israel is quiet because of operational security. but then that also makes the question then what is israel planning moving forward? because we understand this type of warfare, this hybrid warfare uses a symmetrical methods to ensure that it carries out attacks against its enemies. in this case, that is hezbollah, but also does so in a strategic sense. we understand that to the tactic that is being used is being
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essentially issued for one very a specific reason and that is to of course, boulder well lebanon's health system. this typically happens in advance of a larger campaign. of course, this would require months of planning. we understand that is we always have been planning this for months and just this past week they have decided and essentially agreed to include 11 on the southern borders, least at southern territories as part of its scope. and it's vision moving forward . of course, what that's going to look like at this guide me to think that is clear is of course as well that has about to react and retaliate against these attacks. we can expect is we all to do the same. and just because we have selected will continue, which will of course, lead to further unreal. so many leaders give them the regions suggest that there is this wave of virus that we cannot seem to get our heads around. we can simply walk away from these back and forth, and tit for tat attacks will continue and on this, something is done. this will lead into something much, much broader, which will put more wides. that risk criticism is mounting in your lawn with
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a fearful it's pointing fingers that is relevant that many labeling the recent explosions that as a waiting act of terrorism. president muscle position can also wait in today placing much of the blame on the west. it was possible support for israel and the cabinet meetings. today he describes the situation as a disgrace for as well as western allies, particularly the wes, accusing them of abandoning their principles in favor of what he calls an inhumane agenda, which he sees as a prime example of a decline in humanity within the west. using tools normally, men to enhance the welfare of humans as a means of tara and destruction, against those whose views do not. a line with us is proof of the decline of humanity and of the dominance of savagery and criminality. this event, once again showed that although the western states and americans claim they want to cease fire in practice,
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they offer full support for blind crimes killings and assassinations. they are running president task for us the, the urgent need for muslim nations to unite to guess what he termed on the ongoing atrocities committed by israel response to the incident has been really swift, especially with ice on the tip on following a reset. is that the nation or former, how much chief as might have the aid to around the country has also played a big role and of course, providing relief to those injured in the needs attack. in fact, everyone was among the 1st to dispatch medical relief teams to live in on the one in red cross and has already arrived on the scene to assess victims. i know we've learned that the several injured individuals will be transported to iran for, for their medical care. later today we had hoped to report from a metro by the airport to speak with some of those effected and getting a clear image of what happened in live in on. however, the red cross and informed us that the use of security concerns. we cannot film
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anything, anything there, of course, because many of injured are reportedly, as the members of this incident has asked for an nerve agent one and one has increased significantly as we see different iranian officials are talking about serious revenge. many are now asking the one in government here. people are asking, see, i want government to not say i opened the face of the ongoing publications on the product as well. especially when it comes to the fact that the, one of the iranian officials, they're wanting, and bassett, or to have been on much trouble. amani, i was one of those who were affected by the incident. all right, well, following the page are explosions, the taiwan based company that owns the brand, announced that did not produce the devices. it claims that contract firm based in
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the capital of hungry made them. but that business also has denied any involvement . still no official word from israel, which allegedly carried out the sophisticated attack or in the middle east bureau chief maria from ocean and provided these details earlier. a well over 24 hours since the pager explosions and 11 on still no official response from israel, despite direct accusations from his beloved as well as the lebanese government israel, and has remained dead silence and having claims responsibility for the attacks. the government press office, which typically sends out multiple updates to for and during this age day has been quiet on the, on his social media channels. there is coverage on the idea of the routine activities in dallas and, and how long the lebanese border in the countries knows what the pager bloss onto mentioned. and just recently, and you post appeared on prime ministers telegram channel, where he express condolences for the death toll for is really military personnel in
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gauze um, but as for the beepers no mention. meanwhile, the attention is slowly shifting from who is behind to how does this attack happen at? oh, it was additionally considered as cyber warfare, as you remember. but now experts suggest the pagers were fated with the remote reactivated explosive devices. citing a senior 11 a security source and another unnamed source, reuters claims, but israel's foreign intelligence agency allegedly plug into the explosives inside 5000 pagers imported by his bulk of 5 months before tuesday's designations. this operation has serious rachel, his goal of security. we have to say was months in preparation. the media says all eyes on our own gold, the poland, taiwan based company that has been a lot all the pagers from the company. c o stated that the device is used in the 11 and bloss were manufactured by its sister company located in hungary. we didn't
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design it, we didn't manufacturer it. the company just bought a license logo from us. it has nothing to do with me. well, in theory, explosives could have been placed inside the devices, often they were manufactured or even after arriving and lab and on, investigator is all considering all possibilities. but the manufacturer has been under a significant scrutiny. of course, in response to this on one to the pension, they hadn't gary and cabinet stated that the company in question is private and has never received government orders. these roles, major ally in old time supporters, the u. s. keeps insisting it had no knowledge of the attacking lab on, on. we heard that previously from pen to go in and white house officials and now secretary of state blinking commenting, cairo, egypt has rates are rated that america neither knew about not participated in the operation. the pager explosions occurred just a day after the reading president said tire on might engage in direct talks with the us potentially if washington shows
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a practice that it is not the whole style towards the public, the potential reconciliation that israel is clearly not interested in the united states did not know about uh, nor was it involved of these incidents and we're still gathering the information and gathering the facts. and we remain very clear about the importance of o r. s. avoiding any steps that could further escalate the conflict that we're trying to resolve in gaza spread to other friends. it's clearly not in the interest of anyone involved to see that happening. we're focused on getting this cease fire over the finish line. uh that would also, i think the material in terms of the prospects of actually defusing, the situation in northern israel, in southern lebanon. it's imperative that everyone is avoid taking steps that could further escalators for the conflict. the u. s. has long claims to be a peacemaker. in the region, but with little success,
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as pensions have only worse and worse and worse into times to help prevent and allow tour between tele even has bo, america's special ed voice visited israel on monday, but left the empty handed as is of defense minister, mister guidelines insisted a military operation is necessary to safely return northern residents to their homes. some argue that america acts as a mediator, but with a clear bias toward one side and the runs fingerprints are all over, all the bad things are going on in this region. and around these to edit support for these proxies. they need to do it now, and we need to more work for de escalation of this conflict as parents of paramount importance. right now. i don't know what you're talking america, secretary of defense. austin is expected and he's real next week, again unclear what will a change. meanwhile, his bola promises to retaliate with no clear indication of when exactly might happen, which leaves the situation very tense. the army, these really armin says,
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no changes to the home phones commands directives, but we hear unconfirmed reports, but the idea has re deployed. it's a lead $98.00 division from the guys us trip to the northern command in preparation for a possible escalation. and we have to understand that, remember that if his bullet answer is israel will retaliate to this retaliation, and that will put the entire region in danger. journalist and talk, show host tomorrow. awesome on spoke to us from a route and described the situation in the city amid the explosions. and i keep hearing these single defense and the ambulances of sign i was outside my house. i was recording actually in my show and i was coming back home and all hell is just like this. today my phone is larger scale because there weren't homes on fire and cards on fire. they were funerals were and this also happened in the it is the
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rather it's a small populated area of the some of the stuff people didn't say a small swath of line. but it's very, very populated. and people were having jewels for the cartridge that was yesterday because of his there was the talk. so this a talk to he repeated again on the same scale bandwidth. so a little bit on the boss where you had a walkie talkies exploiting this time and, and the to leave him a batteries exploding. and also this time with solar energy panels and connected to meetings. also exploding, which means the fires, not most of people getting injured by these exposed things. so it was a horrific scene to, to just see a signed i have to get back home to disconnect the solar panels. i have to disconnect the beach and batteries. i took everything out of the house that has that and possibly have any kind of lead the and it's, i'm operating with my phone at the moment. i not sure if this one has one or not, but i'm pretty sure we're safe so far. but we really never know because what's
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being said at the moment because i was reading the a to i went missing reports from the people with this this 1st time they were saying that people had the 82 walkie talkies that they bought 10 years ago. so this might be something different than what you saw yesterday with the patriots. so this might actually be some sort of an internet, a wave connected infiltration communication systems, to designate them from afar and using radio waves. so this is a technology that we've never seen before. and it's an o out terrorism, this is not terrorism. i really don't know what is to of thousands of recently acquired a page or is were apparently booby trapped by israel before they reached 11 on us. according to veteran war correspondent elijah magneer. he's one of the guess and the latest episode of direct impact with rick sanchez on r t. here's a teaser of their conversation that's available in full on our website. in 2006, the only communication system that was not in deceptive body is really well the
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pager system that was used by hesper law to communicate between all the militants and to give specific boulders, according to a list of numbers that equivalent to a sentence where they give orders, for example, to cease fire or to fly had 10 or 21 to records. so all these holders were given by numbers and that this will change on the regular basis. hm. that's what the best system that. ready is not in the step did by these rate. now what happened is that these phone pages did exist in hezbollah hand and they still functioning. but several months ago has been the bolt and you batch of pages several thousands and a mother and they have sort of system charging and they don't need to buy it back free, but they can be read jobs. so all the vein you, well,
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we understand from the sole source on the ground, is that it was as a society sophisticated, emphasizing the engineer will be trapped advise that was embedded with the exclusive width of page or electronic circuit showing then advanced level of tech and the good of expertise. so what these really did, if they've sent the message is urgent and then it came as in the form of error and then it goes vibrating. so people needed to take the badger in both hands. and this is why more than 300 people know both ends of the people that i side. other people around 9 died, but there are hundreds of people who have minor injuries. so often a specific examination by has been a lot to the remaining stages. they discovered within the dominant circuit, which means that in the manufacturing of these devices, these really bright, again,
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to manage, to implement a small amount of explosive 3 to 5 grams. all say it's highly exclusive, the quantity the i'm turning into russian now where drones have a text and to our pets settlements in the, to their region overnight. with a 10 situation on the ground of the governor decided to partially evacuate it's citizens. so you wouldn't be able to filter the air defense system of the defense ministry intercepted drones that crossed the territory of russia. they were shot down a fire started after they found that we were working on the evacuation of our population residents who were staying and maintaining public order. everyone works on the territory of taura pet sports and all of the services are working together to the emergencies, ministry and the head of the district have done a lot of work with the department of internal affairs, the russian national guard,
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the prosecutor's office, the investigative committee the military all are in place and working according to plan. the air defense units of the russian armed forces continued to provide aerial security around the sector authorities report emergency services are working to put out a fire caused by debris from a falling drone casualty. numbers have not been confirmed and no official statement has been provided so far. all the reports say the situation is under control level the west. it should stop at trying to beat russia and it's time to end of the ukraine complex before it's firewall is completely out of control. as the message from the president of context on who's been hosting the german chancellor for talks . it is a fact that russia is militarily invincible. further escalation of the war will lead to a rep and will consequences for all mankind and above all,
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for all countries directly involved in the russian ukrainian conflict. and the german leaders visit comes as the us considers, allowing nato to launch long range missiles into russia with ukrainian hands. a lot . schultz made it clear that he refuses to approve such escalation. he's also been calling for russia to take part in the ukraine. p summit are to contribute to rachel mars than looks into what's driving in the chancellor's agenda. so i have basically points of the shots heads up dire consequences incoming in case you haven't already noticed. and schultz reacted by defending continued support for kias and railed about russia who's pipeline, he literally just bags cabbage stand to send more of its oil through. it's certainly a bit of a different scene. and then schultz has been seeing back home for the low cost though, where he seems to be positioning himself as some kind of a piece broker in the wake of recent german elections where fro peace parties of
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trouts, his own party, which obviously have escaped. schultz, whose social democratic party leadership, the federal chancellor in vladimir zalinski agree that now is a good time to intensify, efforts for peace talks, and that russia should also be present at the next piece summit. i expressly welcome this. it also opens the opportunity for other countries to become more involved in ending the hostilities. nothing quite has the ability to alter policy and political pastors like the need for political self preservation. schultz said over the weekend the unlike western allies, musing about allowing long range precision weapons destroyed deeper inside russia. he has ruled out their delivery. so one of the top leaders from germany is rapidly rising. anti establishment left recently laid out some fairly concrete suggestions for how this whole cloud show truant theoretically, be wrapped up. miss, why can connect you are calling for negotiations with the kremlin. vladimir putin
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were sitting here now and you had a negotiating mandate. what would you offer him? a call to arms deliveries if he agrees to an immediate cease fire on the current front lines. and then we would have to negotiate what happens in the areas where the russians are currently located. the right thing to do would be to ask the people in don bass and crimea in a referendum under un supervision, which country they want to belong to. this war will not. and without a compromise, we've been seeing a shift in the public discourse in western europe, at least in france and germany with prominent newspapers like live feed, yahoo and dest spiegel running analysis, basically saying that this whole idea of beating russia on the battlefield to the point of his filling all of the training and is officials, fantasies is really turning out to just be that exactly that just a fantasy. the washington post is thinking it totally different to and they've been running pieces talking about, for example,
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the ukrainians particular some souls are so it'd be really upset. a piece happened to break out project much guys over in poland. big us ally, the foreign affairs minister has taken to straight out telling ukrainians to go home and fight. there is a discussion of ukraine about a re tony ukraine. now, male: person squash. come and play a role. but is there a feasible way, thoughts on that? well, i mean, you post your mobilization little in my opinion, at least the to late as best to pass such laws when you still have got you ability is, you know, when these are, i was attacked by home us on the 7th of october is memory serves oh, sizes of these rarities, licksey dropped the jobs abroad and rushed to be mobilized full authority. and i'm not sure, as of all, i'm not sure of it. taking the box of you framing dies chairs at the local taffy's in warsaw and telling them to get their butts over to the front line is really
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going to change the course of history. but it seems like they tried just about everything else at this point, except piece for the 4th year asian women's form kicked off wednesday in saint petersburg, uniting leading female figures from some $126.00 countries across 6 continents. representatives from business, government and the philanthropic communities are attending as the event aims to build cooperation and dialogue or across the borders. the russian president took part in the 1st day panorama and emphasized the growing importance of this one to build a better future in july. so starting humanity is facing very complex problems and they can only be solved together, taking each other's interests into account women leaders from $126.00 countries have arrived in st. petersburg. the forum shows to women all around the globe that russia is an open and hospitable country. the gravity of the forum is steadily growing. your voices are being heard and governments of different countries are
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taking notice. major international organizations. consider your recommendations. such a participation in active work got extremely important for the processes of building a multi polar society adjust and truly free. will we all share these ideas and do everything possible to create a new progressive world. she was the chair of the indian women's d ton. and group made a point of how important this platform is in the pursuit of global peace. we are led by a vision of the prime minister, the not only pri, right days of the women. and one of the e. d. n. c, d privacy. yes. but also acknowledges and truly believes that with women at the forefront, nothing against the way seen in sustainably and systematically. i think be for him like this was definitely shape to enhance and to
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be the one nice and about this is one of its kind was just, i mean, expressing that he was expressing sandra ideas and also about the feelings in washington to express. this is one of the best for them, i think, and it's much needed for them to be for the way the women is the one who is it is a one of the women who is the one who is the project. us and human is a piece of the wood, the purpose of the stay with our to international off next on cost plus peter lavelle and his guests discuss washington's global war on information where descent is criminalized and questioning authority. just choose the
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