in the middle east the political realities in the region the west feel colonial agenda for the arab world is coming when it would seem the arab spring has been replaced with the summer. here as artillery zeros in on a certain ukraine second biggest metropolis a city already packed with refugees sparking fears of a new exodus also. i meet with. israeli security forces are under fire for the latest wave of violence in gaza artsy meets a palestinian boy who claims to have been savagely beaten by police. the song and then trying to repair a tree it or at least all that it's gold held in volts across the atlantic and what analysts say in america now has germany into its tune artsy explains why.

it's two pm here in the russian capital you're watching artsy international with memory of the program now this is the skyline all the city of half a million people after the shelling by government forces. that was the sound of large caliber round spalling on the city and you can see one man laying there right now and he was killed on the sponsor in the by the two sides have also been skirmish elsewhere with the.

now here is how the battle lines have changed in the last couple of days kiev's onslaught has pushed ansa government fighters back after they'd been defending slowdowns and come out the last four months but the brunt of the offensive has fallen on civilians and infrastructure now as you're about to see right there you have the remains of a church the sword during an air raid on kramatorsk the city has been overseas and targeted by shelling for almost two months thousands have fled as they have from other cities and villages in the east some of which have been reduced to rubble. you don't really know what her brother was you've heard of these are three of you do what you can a story in your life of in the going to watch if you don't mean really haven't you why after what became of you on what you have not yet come out of b.p. . well the only thing you would you want it was what you what about them i mean.

i've been i guess my daughter you know. and thereby sloviansk two thirds of its hundred thousand population have fled there's no water no electricity and most of the city has been damaged and shelling all making clear why so many people have chosen to leave their homes maria financial reports. they have packed only the basics not just the one close to keep the children whom he was forced to leave their home town of them i told him. we children and entire families. it wasn't an easy decision you. know about. when you post this in the studio because they know if you don't use it for good anymore you're supposed to feel stupid to believe that they do just that it would feel impossible as if to this day but this is a fellow if you were it's hard to say how many people had fled kramatorsk the city

that's been the target of kiev's miniature gratian for months even when the army raised the ukrainian flag over the town the refugees kept telling me. that. this is really about the war look. good. but there are good things you don't think. but it. was a. local that again years ago why do. you want to come back. to the mob many of those who have fled we're forced to move their relatives behind . ministers husband is still in climatologist florida so what. was.

the touch was russia is the closest safe haven for many ukrainians refugees the u.n. says a hundred thousand have crossed the border into russia to figure the country's federal migration says could be four times hunger is costing the buddha could be dangerous fighting for numerous times as fears and there are reports of civilians being cool to in the crossfire or even targeted themselves here a car drives up to a border post is forced to turn round and in front of. the family we spoke to had to change their plans after seeing just how hard it was even to get close to the checkpoint they decided to try their luck at another crossing asked us not to join them worried with attract unnecessary attention.

will continue the journey alone it used to be recruiting and checkpoint but as you can see now it's abandoned there is absolutely nobody here because crawls freely as you can see the ukrainian border guards left the russian side of the checkpoint seventy or northern at the ukrainian russian border people here crossed day and night as you can see there many of them running from. bolland see their model and this is one of the few places along the east front year where there are no clashes but people are jittery fight scene could break out here is while at any moment top of the book publisher but the minute you get the most abortion pushing the border and the safety beyond it is now just steps away with just one or even if these people will be able to go home this fall from cleaning a. roof notion auti in eastern ukraine. where it has also active on her

twitter account for publishing pictures and reports the water encounters policies and it's their new crank cell feel free to follow her there as well. right to see. the first straight shooter and i think the jury. on our reporters twitter. and instagram. are below. there's protests seem to show no sign of easing in palestinian cities with more reports of was writing police brutality fueling the flames people are calling for revenge against israel after the continuous crackdown of its security forces on the

gaza and then later to show violence the fifteen year old palestinian boy was allegedly severely beaten by police officers he is the cousin of a palestinian seen up at the burnt alive last week in jerusalem israeli police have already of us that six jewish suspects over the murder itself the youngster was killed in the battle for the killing of three jewish teenagers which israel blames on hamas hamas leader managed to catch up with them but. the deal was the last to see his cousin muhammad naive i said before he died ten minutes before he died and he was going to. driving by told him so i said i'd. be right back ten minutes later and then he got kidnapped and tonics truman did not in the. moments for you know he was wasted and beaten up by israeli soldiers i was actually standing there watching the protest while i heard some

people screaming from the left side of me i heard some people screaming out of me. and my number two or three soldiers so there was a friend some front of me and i tried to jump. in there for my face and the soldiers make a my mind. for a moment for. point to me in the face and when i'm gone through you know we're going to monitor his mother says the soldier's intention was clear if you want to take somebody you have to beat them up like this. every one day. but not i mean i've never seen anybody to this extent the beating to kill you know it's like attempted murder it's not the first time the i.d.f. has faced this kind of criticism we document. many cases where palestinian youths will be by border police and by it's rare for these attacks to be filmed but it's not rare for them to be seen in the house on its books hundreds of cases of the security forces using violence against from the state but most would clues without

any measures being taken against the soldiers and police involved these really police say the footage of tired being beaten up was heavily edited and altered and does not represent events accurately nonetheless tensions between the two sides continue to simmer and many fear it's only a matter of time before and already tense region will be pushed over the edge. jerusalem. and coming up for you later on ard see who's the light is the man of your well it's not c.s. the law in five years these days work so i brits at least according to the new reports i will tell you more about it. also how they have to be to drive on the streets of moscow will stay with also reports on how. the very first time passed in the process of driving bill and the polish and the city's road ragers. as a pillar of economic developments gold has seen wars fought over its and it has been

at the epicenter of one of the most serious diplomatic conflicts between germany and the us that's after berlin failed to repack all that its precious metal reserves or put it all over has the store. there was a time when taking gold out of the u.s. federal reserve was only for hollywood to suggest. and bruce willis to stop because of the financial crisis in europe soared germany decided it wanted to bring home a significant chunk of the precious metal from the united states despite the aim to ship three hundred tons to frankfurt by twenty twenty so far they've only managed to bring back just over ten percent of. the americans are taking good care of our gold we have no reasons for mistrust. not so critics of the slow progress the six hundred thirty five billion dollars of gold in u.s.

faults has never been fully inspected by germany on. why we haven't been allowed to spread this escapes me i'm no conspiracy theories but the blunders bank should be able to audit the gold once a year like it does with the reserves in frankfurt. the lack of inspection has led some to question if it's still there even after at least one dk to ask when this bank and there is still no shred of evidence that the german gold is untouched in the new york it's more we're still missing pretty sample published go by our number lists even though the us the federal reserve does publish these lists for their own gold germany has the world's second largest gold reserves worth one hundred and forty one billion dollars currently forty five percent of that is stored in new york thirteen percent in london eleven percent in paris although the three hundred seventy four tons in france is set to be all returned to germany the rest is in the

bond buying vaults in frankfurt anyone questioning the safety of the gold reserves being left office conspiracy theorists by those in charge they say it's solid financial money. the bundesbank minutes their plan is truck however they do face a potential logistical headache as they try and return almost seven hundred tons of gold from new york and paris bucky it's a germany safe and sound by the twenty twenty deadline. now this is new york city where a quarter of the world's existing reserves as locked up so let's put it into perspective for you the reserves include some six and a half a thousand tons of gold belonging to sixty countries that makes up for ninety eight percent of all precious metals kept in the treasury as only super sense of the gold and the vault is owned by washington and then for national monetary fund well there's stay with us because we have more news coming your way after

a short break. i'm happy martin the stories we cover here and here in iraq other big story headlines and there's a reason they don't want you to. know reset. now let's break the set.

i married him join me. in our home and finance our. very interview and much. only on bombast and. welcome back to our tea and from national continue now with other news the former georgian prize then that torch of our knowledge there has died today at the age of eighty six he ended his term as the country's president after the rise from the rose revolution in two thousand and one which feels like a shrewdly taking over also haven't served as the last foreign minister of the u.s.s.r. short of odds it was known for his work and helping sobrang down the berlin wall and the cold war here's what he once said about that. we go to i'm proud goes

along with another figure has i devoted all my life to stop the cold war and bring peace to the war. there when i left the rocky offensive of militants from a group formerly known as isis has brought new terror to the war torn region now and apparently in his first video message the elusive leader of the radicals called all muslims to pledge allegiance to him but it was a message not all received very well there was a one detail that lured attention away from his talks of hell brought to the heads of nonbelievers and that was a shiny watch experts claim the accessory he flashed resembled an expensive omega a rolex which could be or thousands of dollars the pictures were immediately ridiculed prints in confusion even among followers or later this hour today's edition of crosstalk delves deeper into the radicalization of the middle east. what we're seeing is by and large not simply the aftermath of the arab spring but also

very much part of the effects. by the american invasion of iraq i doubt if i go to you in washington i mean you get this situation where the u.s. is still obsessed with overthrowing saddam and then assad is going after isis and you have the iranians coming in to protect the government in baghdad i mean this is it gets complicated doesn't it it is very much and the middle east has always been complicated that are religious. conflicts and as inevitable and as old as old system doesn't alter want to go our way and it takes some time for design new emerging system. to make. just one point i have to say this i agree with scott about. responsible for a disorder voter or instability in the middle east. for

centuries they have been the driving force behind their country's economic success but now instead of employers' thing in their praises bret's us workers are being criticized for being lazy but how do they feel about this will probably boycott once find out. the great british work force one that gave birth to an industrial revolution helped build an empire and pull the world the railway the telephone the jet engine and the t.v. brits may insist they still work their fingers to the bone but that actually found to be less productive than in countries like the us germany and even those old rivals france and the former conservative deputy prime minister lord has all time says he knows why but the veteran heavyweights great stone get up early enough they aren't ambitious enough and they simply don't work hard enough tough as it was to steel myself from an afternoon down the pop i bucked myself up to ask the

successful entrepreneur whether he agrees that brits are just lazy unfortunately you know we have situations where they come in for interviews they've got no if you just churn off one charm the scruffy that's what we want we have a lot of people climbing beneficial we would want to go work you know which is a friction economy and obviously it's allowing us to bring in a lot of forwardness earn employee i mean it's an actual fact you know i mean i want to be sure i am but it's a fact about ten percent of charlie's two hundred staff and now foreign and that figure is likely to grow because he says they simply pull their weight but try telling that to london's office workers who are quite frankly insulted what a treat so you don't think brits are lazy absolutely nor are not the working for example they work too many maybe compared to the coaches we have more of a work life balance but don't think that's necessarily

a bad thing. but no i wouldn't say when they see what we do work quite hard just because europeans i was here have really no. summer holidays and they take time out also take time off in the office to me yeah it was a lot of them to be in the office right now where. it's lunchtime. and yet british but his produce about a bit less for every hour worked than any of the g seven nation even celebrity employees like madonna accuse the brits of indolence top chef jamie oliver has said that his restaurants would close if there went any european immigrants to work in them but charlie mullins the work ethic starts at school i believe if we can my work more attractive then we're going to get a lot more people a lot more bricks in the workplace and we need school level you know we need to go into schools. questions will work ethics offering unfortunately you know we're going by the why should the consequence according to the international monetary

fund this month is that slight star pose a major risk to britain's future economic health but if that's not enough to get brits off the couch perhaps charlie's an example of just how far good old fashioned british heart for asked can get. twenty point zero r.t. london. and let's take a look at what we have for you on line wanted children to receive the education all that's easier said than done as the soaring fees the british boarding schools educates and one child alone can cost you around a million pound head to our website to find out more. also there are the temperatures at the tsunami hits focusing more nuclear power plants in japan of risks even maximum levels after a water leak forced the temperature shut down all that schooling system all the details are available on artsy dot com. that was one of those moments when every second counts in the lives of hundreds depend on the quick

reaction of those at the controls what your panel to seize an hour a skate that could have ended in disaster planes were moments from collision at barcelona airports a boeing from russian airlines you tara had almost touched down when an argentinian air bus straight for it across its thanks to the russian pilots the plane took a risky maneuver harshly pulling up and only that helped to avoid catastrophe the spanish public body that controls most airports claimed there had never been any danger of collision between the two planes. and for more international news in brief now australia has joined the ranks of countries protesting against their its policies mass demonstrations have sparked similar tenuously across the country against the prime minister's austerity budget and that includes health and welfare cuts according to the organizers of the rally in sydney up to fifteen thousand people gathered in the central business district although police put that number at six thousand it is said to be the first show of anger against the budget in thirty

years. police in eastern china have released a graphic video showing a man cession himself on fire on the rush hour. of the passengers were injured more than twenty of them seriously and that's us passengers tried to flee the burning view. well and panic play say they're not treating the incidents as a terror type but have yet to release any further details you can use. your career has called for its outer neighbor it's a put an end to crime has still it seems killing young has proposed measures time sense on the peninsula a statement calls for all if seems to be settled without external interference and for so soon suspend all military exercises with other states as a gesture towards peace there are clues of conscience says it will also send a sports allegation with the cheerleading squad to participate in the asian games that are being held and south korea. now have an eye on management troubles

well that's certainly true for most drivers and many of them have been caught on camera finally at striking other traffic dwellers reports. unfortunately they sort of seeing too common in russia so common in fact we make use of recently for the first time will be introduced an aggressive driving bail hearing punishing those used as vehicles to intimidate or harass other road users campaigners say it's a step in the right direction however they still have concerns. legislation is all rapidly getting tougher in russia but it isn't in the place was to have a long way to go before we learned to implement and how do you control its enforcement how do you make sure it isn't abused as a gravy train by all the dirty cops at times central moscow resembles a car park rather than a road network stationary traffic from bumper to bumper as far as the eye can see

even while speaking to dimitri examples of road rage where i think. there are many ways in which aggressive driving manifests itself driving too close to the car in front impatiently flashing your lights or sounding you who on and skipping the red line to just some examples and on occasions these displays of frustration to violence. so how common is aggressive driving we are some drivers cool to moscow russia. but road rage is all around men show no respect for female drivers find this is what came out i can see no other way just now i guess it's inevitable on the road it doesn't go as far as to killing somebody but fights do take place and i was a witness to one and yes sure men do it especially often can you recall something particularly unpleasant given the middle finger. how did you respond paid you the see. so why do people become so aggressive behind the wheel. such

people are probably prone to mood swings and on able to control themselves so road rage is just one manifestation of this disorder is just that the car gives you an illusion of a safe place to be the decision to pass the aggressive driving bill says authorities all keen to be seen to be addressing the issue but with a maximum fine of five thousand rubles around one hundred fifty dollars there's a concern the deterrent isn't strong enough this could be seen for some time to come. and go back where the morning is about half an hour from now coming up on r.t.e. international it's cross talk with peter la belle but if you're watching us from the u.k. . when people talk about human rights violations you should involve some pro western

protestors getting beaten up and response from mainstream media is usually to bomb somebody somewhere so good thing they haven't picked up a story from detroit that the u.n. is calling a human rights violation residents of the motor city are sadly the former motor city who are hundred fifty dollars or more behind on their water bills are getting their water shut off completely the water and sewage department is fire. billion dollars in debt and that is a justification to crack down on deadbeats on the surface the seems like it open and shut case of course everyone has the right to water especially detroit which is near huge bodies of fresh water that other cities can only dream of but on the other hand if the poor don't pay for water then us taxpayers will be paying for it for them and that's not fair i think this is not so much a case of a right to water but a right to decent employment and a corruption free city government back when people in detroit had good salaries and a government that wasn't flagrantly corrupt they would have any problems paying for their water bills but that's just my pain.

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the leap. below and welcome to crossfire where all things are considered on peter lavelle redrawing the map the rise of the islamic state or isis in the middle east is said to reorder political realities in the region the west neocolonial agenda for the arab world is coming to an end it would seem the arab spring has been replaced with a jihadi summer. to cross not to be shaping of the middle east i'm joined by my guest michael barnett in washington he is a professor of international affairs at the george washington university as well as a member of the council on foreign relations also in washington we have got up by god he is a professor.