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israeli regime strikes various locations in gaza, including rafa and gaza city, raising palestinians death tool to over 32,000. russia and china ves draft resolution at the us security council for failing to genuinely call for immediate seasfire in gaza. and of dozens of people have been killed as guverment attack a concert hall. russia's
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capital, moscow. hello everyone, it's a noon in moscow and you're watching press tv world news. now nearly. six months into israel's genocidal war on gaza regime's unrelenting bombardment and shelling continues to claim palestinin lives. at least 10 were killed in israeli air strikes on gaza city. and a home was struck in the southern city of rafa where eight people, mostly women and children lost their lives and three more people were killed in an air striken han unis also to the south. israel regime began its war on gaza on october the 7th and since then more than 70 or 32... people have been killed in the
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palestinian territory, most of them women and children, along with 74,300 injured. our correspondent joined us earlier from the central gaza city of their albalah to update us on the situation in the colstool's trip, including alshifa medical complex which remains under israeli siege. the continuous as israeli aggression against ashifa square enters at sixth consecutive day with continuous attacks with fierce air strikes and artillery. killing and the gunfire of the
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israeli tanks, several buildings inside the shifa compound were targeted heavily by the israeli bombardments and the israeli shilling leaving multiple buildings on fire uh over that intensive intensive attacks over that intensive attacks, in the meantime the palestinan residence are still stranded and who are still beseged inside the hospital actually are living catastrophic humanitarian. conditions, they are trapped between the continuous israeli attacks and the lack of the basic humanitarian needs as the israeli cubation forces are still denying them any entry of their basic humanitarian necessities, the surrounding areas also were targeted heavily by the israeli attacks and the israeli strikes, several horizontal buildings were destroyed in addition to the uh people who were killed over those chronic attacks against the presidental apartments in the vicinity of the ashifa. medical complex,
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multiple appeals were released by those families and those palestinian civilians in that area for the international human rights organizations to help them to be evacuated and to rescue them from this continuous israel attack that that is targeting them uh continuously when it comes to the central area of gaza strip the israeli war blins carried out uh relentless and uh cruel israel strikes against alamal town located in in the northern part of our refuji camp, it includes several residental towers that incubation forces flattened and level to the ground, several horizontal towers in that area, leaving thousands of the palestinan civilians home. the united nations top eight official and occupied palestinian territories says that more supplies and more fuel are needed to make sure the gaza hospitals can operate. i've just been inside the... coming
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of in, many coming in from the food distributions where there's been a lot of injuries, and then also because of was happening in shifa, many people are coming from shif here and it's overwhelming the hospital, so we have to get more support, more supplies and more fuel in to make sure the hospital keeps running, this comes as head of the world health organization, describes conditions inside the besige al shif hospital in central gaza as utterly inhumane, says no basic medical supplies, no dressings for wounds, and no medicine is available in al-shifa, according to who chief, over 50 health workers and 143 patients have been trapped in one of the buildings since the second day of the raid with extremely limited food and water, and
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the ongoing israeli strikes in the vicinity the hospital are making it impossible for patients to receive the care they need. the palestinian resistance movement hamas says over 100 people have been killed and israely raid on all shifa hospital. the security council has rejected a us draft resolution which linked a gaza's ceasefire to the release of captives by hamas 11th security council members back the resolution. however, permanent members, russia and china as well as rotating member algeria voted against while one country abstained. now hamas welcomed rejection of the u.s. draft resolution as the resolution resolution have given israel cover and legitimacy for what it called war of extermination of palestinians. the palestinian envoy to the un also called the resolution one-sided. riyad mansur expressed support for another draft resolution put forward by elected members of the security council expected to be voted on
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soon. the russian and chinese representatives also said the us resolution is imbalanced and does not clearly call for a cease fire in gaza. distinguished colleagues, from the very onset, it was clear that the so-called negotiations which are us colleagues have been engaged in on this issue have been focused gear merely to drag out the time, all of our comments, all of our red lines were time and time disregarded, as were the proposals of number of other delegations, this was some kind of empty retor. exercise rather than normal work document, the american product is exceedingly politicized, the soul purpose of which is to help to uh play into play to the voters to throw them a
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bone in the form of some kind of a mention of a cease fire in gaza, and to establish the us's political ambitions in the region through the... establishment of terrorist labels and to ensure the impunity of israel, whose crimes in the draft are not even assessed. i wish to draw attention to the following: the us draft contains an effective green light for israel to mount a military operation in rafah. at the very least, the authors try to make it to such that nothing would... prevent western jerusalem from continuing their brutal cleansing of the south of the gaza strip, and what is washington actually trying to achieve? we have already stated that we will no longer tolerate pointless resolutions which do not contain a call for a cease fire which lead us
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to nowhere. this draft should not pass with the majority of the membership. welcome everyone to press tv's news review program where we get in-depth in one of the days top stories: the death pull from friday's terrorist attack a concert hall near the russian capital moscow has now risen to 93 while dozens more have still sustained injuries. according to russian media, attackers dress in camouflage outfits entered the uh crocus city hall and opened fire threw grenades and other incendiary bombs. the daiish terrorist group has claimed responsibility, but authorities in moscow have dismissed the assertion, emphasizing the
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investigation is still underway to try to ascertain the culprits. officials say at least 11 suspects, including four assailents directly involved in the attack have been detained. according to russian. lawmaker, two the detainees were arrested in the briansk region bordering ukraine following a car chase, the law makers added the other suspects fled into a nearby forest a ukraine. which is at war with russia, had quickly denied any involvement in the shooting. meanwile reactions continue pouring in from around the world after the deadly terrorist attack in russia. un secretary general antonio gutieres condemned the attack in the strongest possible terms while the security council underlined the need to hold accountable those response. for the deadly incident. iran's foreign minister also strongly condemned the attack and extended
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condolences to the families of the victims. hussein emmy abdullahyan sayid joint and effective fight against terrorism requires serious action by the international community. the us has also sent its condolences to russia over what it described as terrible shooting attack. many other countries, including germany, france, spain and venezuela also reacted to this tragedy. meanwhile. which is at war with russia has denied any involvement in this attack. joining us now for the program is uh greg simon's independent researcher and author from upsa sweden and tim anderson director at the center for counter hegemonic studies joining us from sydney, australia. gentlemen, like to welcome you both to the program, i guess, tim, we'll start with you. 93 people dead at this uh concert hall, this active terror, what? make of it? well, it's an appolling act, and uh, the, the suspicion in
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russia, of course, initially was that it came from ukraine, which has been massing more foreign mercenaries near in the kiev region and carrying out some cross border incursions in the belgrad area. so the suspicion lay on ukraine with the claim from isis or isis k as some sources say, really points the finger back at the us uh, which had has admitted that it had uh, if not advanced knowledge, it was warning um us citizens in russia not to go to large gatherings in the moscow area, some two weeks before this happened, so lot of suspicion should land on washington, i suggest, because they showed some degree of advanced knowledge, and then after that, if it indeed is one of the isis cells that carried that out, we know that in the past. "the only operative uh capacity of isis has been to assist us operations, although they
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claim to be fighting isis in in west asia, but in practice they were an agency of the us, and president biden when he was vice president 10 years ago and the head of the us army admitted that, they said that all of the funds and arms that isis received in syria and iraq were from the um the allies of the us in that region, so it's always operated to fight..." people that the us is fighting, it never attacked the israelis for example, or they claim to be fighting some holy islamic cause, so i think suspicion should rest very squarely on the us, as it has number of agencies and proxies of course across the region and as we know also in russia, and it's backing this war uh from the ukrainian side as well. thank you, tim, greg simons, welcome to the program out of sweden, now greg, your thoughts, i mean. gram account claim responsibility and out of the blue comes the us saying they feel to a great
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extent confident that it was uh daish that was behind this uh but the only thing i can think of is uh maybe that was a response to the campaign against the terrorist group the russians carried out with their allies in syria but so much time has passed since then that it kind of makes it suspect and the russians aren't buying that it was purely a dyish operation your thoughts well. absolutely, i agree with tim to a great extent, if we look at political conflicts in the past, when the us had a problem with duerte in the philippines, all of sudden you had isis turning up in the philippines, when they had a problem with maduro, isis turned up in venezuela, and you've had department of us department of defense and fentigan uh documents such. has audit saying that they are supporting isis militarily, materially,
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and one has to look, i mean at this point, who benefits and i mean this nonsense that this is rike star uh fire incident is just a red hearing, and i mean it's the us, they've been humiliated once more, i mean they're getting humiliated in ukraine, they were not able to stop putin from being. elected, so now that they're trying political warfare using their proxies uh such as isis. okay, well thanks uh, and um, tim, it was really odd about three and a half weeks ago, suppose washington warned the russians that they're going to have a terrorist attack carried out on their soil uh most likely somewhere in around moscow uh possibly a large gathering, a concert hall, they mentioned uh the russians said it was uh very loose information they could make much of it, but but it's really wild because here's the us giving all these weapons to israel then it it
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has this like lame assemblance of all of branch by the these little package aid packets that that parachutes in in gaza and you see the same thing here, all these weapons are going to ukraine, and here's this, the slither of an olive branch, this information that amounts to absolutely nothing, just like that aid in in gaza, what's the what, what kind of role is is is it a game that the us is playing with the russians when it comes to sharing intelligence on this uh so called act of terror, that warning was obviously directed at us citizens telling warning them not to go to big gatherings in in that area, but let's not forget that when the previous terrible terrorist attack occurred in keraman in iran earlier this year, who was it the claimed responsibility there when all of the suspicion was on the us and the israelis at that time, it was also isis k, so isis is a convenient label, it's trotted out, i think to hide the real hand behind these sorts of things and as i say, my suspicion rests very firmly with washington, they're the puppet masters, let's look past the monkeys a little
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bit and look at the organ grinders and that went right over my head uh there are greg, i don't even make that. correlation that we have 100 dead in iran, not too long ago, three months ago, and now we have another 100 dead in russia, two us adversaries. absolutely, i mean, this is what they do, it's the political warfare, and the point about it, they believe that there is some kind of plausible deniability in their actions here, but let's look at what has been done uh, not only uh yesterday. but what has been done systematically in the past, it's like a copy and paste of the same kind of terrorist action in the territory of an adversarial country as means to destabilize it uh, because it's standing up, it's being a subject of international relations, it
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doesn't bowl down and become an object of us geopolitics, interesting. and do you agree that the us given the so-called luke warm warning three weeks ago and and the the the way it's condemned it and what not it's really raised more question.
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