that is why i'm not inclined to suspect the obama administration is pursuing some secret plan directed against. ukraine some of the server takes more cities in the east clearing the way with heavy artillery attacks and shelling of residential areas. i'm a big meal in film a four. point one conjured party meets a palestinian scene who was beaten by israeli police as protests against allegations of growing abuse of power by israel. and going for gold with germany's request just to see its stock so precious metal being held in the us gets a resounding no from washington. good

afternoon it's four pm and the russian capital you want an artsy international with me marina calls for thanks for joining us. now army tanks have flooded in east ukraine after and government forces were driven out of several he says that you see this a.b.c. is a boring which is now. self-defense fighters video taken from inside another tank shell soldiers laughing. and now here is how the battle lines have changed in recent days the army has roots taken more cities pushing on to government fighters back to the regional capitals.

now in retaken cities the military is arrest and local police officers and all men aged between twenty five and thirty five this is according to local authorities now this video actually shows a ukrainian deputy question in a man with a plastic bag on his head as you're about to see. elderly man with jail for his alleged answer government protesters who who call separatists. or load up with you when. you get. the brunt of the offensive has fallen on civilians and infrastructure here you can see the remains of a church the swords are in an air raid on come at the last the city has been under

siege and the targeted by shelling for almost two months now thousands have fled just as they have from other cities and villages in the east some of which have been reduced to rubble if you're going to you know one of the other was you know if you want you can have been going to if you let me let me go to the new wife. you would you want to be with me like you. know them i mean. some of us might not be. and there by slovyansk two thirds of its hundred thousand population have fled there's no water no electricity and lots of the city has been damaged that's why so many people have chosen to leave their homes as what half an hour from now reports . they have packed only the basics mostly warm clothes to keep the children norm that they were forced to leave their hometown of climate or ski in

and out wheeling children and entire families it wasn't an easy decision. about. when you post this video because they know if you don't just if you move your signal feel stupid to believe that they do this to look at it would. involve both of you basically because it is a fee so it's feel right it's hard to say how many people have fled kramatorsk the city that's been the target of kiev's michu admiration for months even when the army raised the ukrainian flag over the town the refugees kept coming is. that it's you know this is really about the war you feel good.

but i thought good thing you know. but it. was a. shame that. no clue about the dangers of the why do. you want to come back to. the mob many of those who have fled from where forced to leave their relatives behind. lisa's husband is still in climatologist where the sewage water short. cuts 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 full times higher costs in the buddha could be dangerous

fighting for numerous checkpoints and spheres 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 on a heavy fire. 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 aspinall to join them worried with a tract unnecessary attention. would continue the journey alone it used to be a crane 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 strong. bolland see their motherland this is one of the few places along the east

front year where there are no clashes but people are jittery already defined team could break out here is wild at any moment with the book publicly but if you would you. come out of the bush and. 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 you smile from clean. reef an ocean on t.v. in eastern ukraine. maria is also active on her twitter account where she's publishing pictures and reports of what susan counts for a while and they certainly cry and so do feel free to follow her there as well. right to see. her straight. and i think that you're.

on the record with. a fresh round of israeli airstrikes on gaza have nine plus and then soldiers that the strikes also calls injuries to civilians in gaza with women and children among those being floated in a local hospital as are all claims that was targets and terrorist sites now the two sides have been experiencing fire for at least the when the palestinian population is continuing supports mass against what they see as the on the warnings of the use of force against civilians in gaza and human rights activists say israeli law systematically ignores and violates the rights of minors and honestly in the recent incidents a fifteen year old palestinian boy was severely beaten by is that the officers he is a cousin of a palestinian teen of the duff there then. so why boston is the sort of almost new

year that the young but. tariq of the deal was the last to see his cousin move from the noise i said before he died ten minutes before he died it was like you're all right i was driving by i told him i said i had to i'm going to he didn't answer directly back to minutes later and then he got kidnapped and tonics truman did not in at moments for you know he was arrested 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 was out of me. and my number two or three soldiers so there was our friends in front of me i tried to jump right in an afro on my face and the soldiers make a my mind me put me on and film the floor. and they point to me in the face and when i'm gone too far 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 . everyone they think they'd be 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've documented many cases where palestinian youths were beaten by border police and by it's rare for these attacks to be filmed but it's not rare for them to happen this simmons has on its books hundreds of cases of the security forces using violence against palestinians but most were clues without any measures being taken against the soldiers or police involved these really police say the footage of target being beaten up was heavily edited and altered and does not represent events accurately now on the list tensions between the two sides continue to simmer and many feel it's only a matter of time. before and already tense region will be pushed over the edge.

jerusalem. and coming up shortly catastrophe avoided supercenter planes almost collide at barcelona airports as air traffic control accidentally puts them on a collision course. in the household do you have to be to drive on the streets of moscow all stay with also as we're reports on a house that's built or it sees how for the very first time passed an aggressive driving bill promising the city's road ragers. but first for decades germany believe that gold was safe and sound in the most secure vault in the world but once they can that ounce or even just second it proved difficult a serious diplomatic standoff with washington began its are all over has the story . 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 say 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 more we're still missing person who want to go by our number is 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 management. the bundesbank wouldn't say that 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 to germany safe and sound by the twenty twenty

deadline peter all of us all see. now this is new york city and we have deep on the ground as the federal reserve vaults now probably the largest gold storage in the world there is the equivalent of around four hundred billion dollars there but most of it does not belong to the u.s. in fact almost all of it comes from other nations who just like germany rely on agreements with our american partners ok and we'll be back with more news for lisa to stay with us if we can't. talk about language a little but i will only react to situations i have read the reports from. the pollution and now i will be back to state comment on your minor point. to carry out a comment on the job. thank you. when

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back to artsy international the former georgian president that has passed away eighty six aside from being boarders leader until the rose revolution in two thousand and three he was also the last foreign minister of the u.s.s.r. and that position he actively worked to bring down the berlin wall and put an end to the cold war here's what he once said about those events. he goes rooster i'm proud that along with another figure has i devoted all my life to stop the cold war and bring peace to the world. and you can find more on the life and political legacy of edward snowden out there on our website r.t. dot com also there on the edge of the nuclear design again the cooling system magic hands crippled fukushima nuclear plant is switched off after a newly discovered find out about the dangers of poses. plus the wrong is all the real transformers a british defense company reveals plans to make drones that can flex themselves and

change shape there in a mission. well it released video shows the moments see passenger planes almost collided at barcelona airports that one was crossed in the wrong way on the ground as the other team and so and the borrowing from russian airlines pulled up at the last minutes avoided the argentinian air boss spanners a flight controllers insists the two would have known why that you should expect to see eight told me earlier that graphic crystal was tickling. uncontrolled can quite clearly be at fault because both of these airplanes were trying to control instruction at the time so the jets landing would have been listening to the. traffic controller giving him instruction. the argentinean jets would probably have been listening to ground control giving him instructions on

what to do and quite frankly the crowd from the ground to the argentinian jets should have been given instruction to hold church of the runway the two pilots in the jets not noticed the argentinian jets crossing the room why it might have been the jet come down straight. into i mean. for centuries british workers have been at the coal face of the country's economic success but these days everyone from lords popstars and celebrity chefs so their countrymen have grown so how fair is that only boycotts find that. the great british work force one that gave birth to an industrial revolution helped build an empire and pull the world the railways 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 former conservative deputy prime minister lord has all time says he knows why but the veteran heavyweights great story 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 people that want to go work and you know which is a fiction economy overseas 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 you say you don't think brits are lazy absolutely no more not the working for example i work too many hours maybe compared to the coaches we have more the work life balance by that that's necessarily a bad thing. but no i wouldn't say we're lazy but 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. slughorn. and yet british workers produce about a fifth less for every hour worked than any of the g seven nation even celebrity employers like madonna accused of brit's of indolence top chef jamie oliver has

said that his restaurants would close if there weren't any european immigrants to work in them but charlie mullins the work ethic starts at school i believe if we can buy more trucks. we're going to get a lot more people a lot more in the workplace and we need to start this is school level you know we need to go into schools. fortunately you know. the consequence according to the international monetary fund this month is that slacks 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 hard graft can get you. know artsy london. and more international news in brief for you right now police in kuwait fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of protesters who are demanding the release of a former or position politician he was detained on suspicion of insulting the

judiciary after revealing documents about judges allegedly taken bribes security forces arrested some of the demonstrators of the rallies over judicial corrupt from have continued for several days now. over two months ago now were a deadly stampede at a concert involving thousands of people caused a war to collapse there have been confirmed dead and over a dozen were injured officials say people rushed forward after shots were heard in the midst of the crowd. sort of move with a. military helicopter has crashed near vietnam's capital one noir killing sixteen people five others survived the accident but chopper came down while taking part in a parachute and exercise the cause is unknown. radical militants from the so-called islamic state group have reportedly expelled sixty thousand people from their homes in the eastern syria the jihad this have managed to take over large swaths of syria and iraq it's territory and insulting

islam and how if it's on the occupied lands there are reports that radicals are demolishing crimes all over northern iraq that they see as being against islam their eyes of experiments movements in the middle instead of the subject of today's edition of crossfire going to watch the full show next hour. 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 i says 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 it is 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 i disagree with scott about. responsible for a disorder daughter or stability in the middle east. after the declaration of a caliphate the islamist leader has made his first public appearance calling on all muslims to play legions to the states. but there is all of that soul detail call that caught the attention during his speech he was boasting of our expensive water for thousands of dollars and that prompted ridicule across social media users have mocked his love of luxury western brands while he publicly denounces western culture. alan law schools traffic jam highways and

byways road rights can strike at any time and thought the roads are becoming so aggressive the authorities are stepping in as paul scott now reports. unfortunately they sort of seeing is. so common in fact will make his have recently for the first time will be introduced and aggressive driving bail hearing punishing those who use their vehicles to intimidate or harass other road users campaigners say it's a step in the right direction however they still have concerns this is a small legislation is all rationally getting tougher in russia but it foresman it just isn't in place we still have a long way to go before we learn to implement laws how do you control its enforcement how do you make sure it won't be used as a gravy train by all the dirty cops that 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 were evident. there are many

ways in which aggressive driving manifest itself driving too close to the car in front impatiently flashing your lights or sounding your horn and skipping a red light are just some examples and on occasions these displays of frustration need to violence so how common is aggressive driving we are some drivers caught in the moscow rush hour. road rage is all around men show no respect for female drivers fines this is what can help i can see no other way. it doesn't go as far as to killing somebody but fights do take place i was a witness to one. sure men do it especially often can you recall something particularly unpleasant given the middle finger. how did you respond i did the same. 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 ca gives you an illusion of a safe place to be the decision to post the aggressive driving bill shows your thirty's all keen to be seen to be addressing the issue but with a maximum fine of five thousand roubles or around one hundred fifty dollars there's a concern the deterrent isn't strong enough being seen this could be seen for some time to come to moscow. mornings coming our way in about half an hour from now but still ahead on our teams or national itself in iraq or in the face of this and if you're in your tiny benwick suppose the shady side of drawing the war over that's.

what people talk about human rights violations you should involve some pro western protestors getting beaten up and responsible mainstream media is usually to bomb somebody somewhere so good thing they haven't picked up a story from detroit that the un 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 five billion dollars in debt and that is a justification to crack down on deadbeats on the surface the seems like an open and shut case of course everyone has the right to water especially detroit which is near a huge bodies of fresh water that other cities could 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 disemployment 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 opinion.

look it was a problem very hard to take a look once again here a lot of that back with senator mccain knowing. the full. look. look look. look look. look.