ukraine's minute server takes more cities in the east clearing the way with heavy artillery attacks and shelling on presidential areas. became i'm a big meal. for. the point i want to encounter on an art scene it's a palestinian scene who was beaten by police as a protest against alleged abuse of power by israel's pride. and revelations that a double agents in berlin was handing sensitive dates all to the n.s.a. posed just the latest serious talent to relations between germany and the united states.

you're watching artsy answer national with me marina cos roth thank you so much for joining us now army tanks have flooded into east ukraine after unser government forces were driven out of several cities. sipc is firing on commodore school which is now false have emptied of self defense fighters video taken from inside another tank shell soldiers laughing and cheering . now here's how the battle lines have changed in recent days the army has really taken more cities push an answer go. so the regional capitals but the brunt of the

offensive has fallen on civilians and infrastructure as you're about to see these are the remains of a truck to store during an air raid on kramatorsk the city has been under siege and targeted by shelling last month thousands have fled just as they have from all their cities and villages and making some of which have been reduced to rubble. you know going to you know one of the other was you know if you want you can be for been going to what if you don't even have a new wife. which have nothing. to do with what you do what about them i mean. the u.s. might not be. retaken cities the military is arrests and local police officers and all men aged between twenty five and thirty five that's according to local authorities a video emerged showing a ukrainian deputy question the man with a plastic bag on his head. an elderly man with jail for his alleged

government protesters who he calls secretary. so you're going to look at the. yes i think. it was. all over clearly so i think you want god to deflect. moscow has long pushed for a lasting cease fire in ukraine and so foreign minister sergei lavrov again stressed the importance of stopping the fighting. in our common interest to stop the bloodshed there can be no more excuses to delay an immediate cease fire as more and more people suffer in a forced to flee stream we concerned with the growing number of civilian casualties and damage infrastructure cities villages roads children's homes schools

everything's been destroyed it reminds me of the belgrade bombings in one thousand nine hundred nine but what's happening today in ukraine is far more serious i think it's time to put all ambitions aside and start thinking about saving lives. sons of thousands of running from the horrors of war records and taps now stretch along the border with russia ready to take in global day and nights were often often a follows one family's journey to safety they have packed only the basics mostly warm clothes to keep the children on that they were forced to leave their hometown of claim i told him that i wish we lived children and entire families it wasn't an easy decision. and you. don't know if you know just

a football game or your sibling. it's the big to get you just what it would. involve both of you this because it is so if you would it's hard to say how many people have fled climate towards 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 coming to me is. that. this is your father or are you. but i thought there's good thing you don't think. but it. was a. local and i don't know why do. you want to come back.

many of those who have fled were forced to leave their relatives behind. lisa's husband is still an climatologist so what got us all. the time was russia is the closest save haven for many ukrainian refugees the un says a hundred thousand have crossed the border into russia this figure the country's federal migration says could be full times higher but crossing the border could be dangerous fighting for numerous checkpoints as fears and there are reports of civilians being caught in the crossfire or even targeted themselves here a car drives up to a border post that is forced to turn around the 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 but asked us not to join them worried it will attract unnecessary attention. would continue the journey alone it used to be recruit 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 to consider many of them running from. bolland see their motherland this is one of the few places along this front here where there are no clashes but people are jittery . could break out here is while at any moment the couple likely but. you would. come out of the bush and. the border and the safety beyond is now

just steps away with just one or even if these people will be able to go home from clean. reef an ocean r.t. in eastern ukraine. is also active on her twitter account which is publishing pictures and reports of what she is encountering while in the eastern ukraine city for example follow her there as well. right see. her street. and i think you're. on the record with. a fresh round of israeli airstrikes on gaza has left nine promising then soldiers

dead the strikes also cause injuries to civilians in gaza with women and children among those being treated in a local hospital as for all claims that was targets and terrorist sites that suicides have been exchanging fire for at least the week now the palestinian population is continuing support tasks against what they see as the on the warrants of the use of force against civilians in gaza and human rights activists say israeli police systematically ignores and violates the rights of minors in palestine and the recent incidents a fifteen year old palestinian boy was severely beaten by israeli officers is a cousin of a local teen abducted and burnt alive last week in jerusalem policy or met the young victim. tariq of the deal was the last to see his cousin muhammad a naive i said before he died ten minutes before he died and he was like you're all right i was driving by i told him and i said i had to go and he didn't answer

directly back to minutes later and then he got kidnapped and tonics trauma did not in the. moments funeral he was arrested and brutally 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 say was out of me. and my number two or three soldiers so there was a friends in front of me and i tried to jump their friends but after all my face and the soldiers the make a mite mind me picking me up and after a moment more than one point in the face and one conjures all you know we're going to monitor his mother says the soldiers intention was clear if you want to take somebody you have to beat them up like this. everyone they pick maybe 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 the army it's rare for these attacks to be filmed but it's not rare for them to happen this cinema has on its books hundreds of cases of the security forces using violence against palestinians but most were closed without any measures being taken against the soldiers or police involved in 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 fear it's only a matter of time before an already tense region will be pushed over the edge policy r t jerusalem. and coming up shortly catastrophe of voided two passenger planes almost collide at barcelona airport as air traffic control accidentally puts them on a collision course. and how tough is it to survive the mean streets of moscow

stay with us for a look at how russian authorities are stepping in to get road rage on the control. germany is again having to deal with revelations up the u.s. has been spying on it a german intelligence agent was allegedly sending hundreds of top secret documents straight see washington artie's peter all over joins me now with more details father peter so it seems like we've been here before doesn't it. well it was all smiles and handshakes at the g. seven last month but flash forward to it to today well there's another spying scandal involving the u.s. operations here in germany this time well it involves a german security service employee who's been arrested and is accused of being a double agent and have being supplying documents to to the united states

now the reaction that we've seen from the german side has been well they've said they're furious we've heard from angela merkel saying that she's surprised and stunned by. the the claims in the arrest of this security service employee the president of germany mr said that and nothing is enough that if this turns out to be true well it has to be the end but we've we've seen this before we've heard these type of words before and we haven't seen anything really done about it. this isn't as a isn't the first time that. america has been accused or seemingly caught red handed spying on what is one of its closest allies all of what's come out following edward snowden's revelations is showing that not only is germany one of the most spied on nations by the n.s.a. also that chancellor angela merkel's private cell phone had been hacked by u.s.

security services and now it seems that they had a double agent within the german security services itself what we've seen though from campaigners is they say they want a real reaction from the german leaders. what i can only tell is on social media reaction people are absolutely i mean they already have like a lost face faith in their government and their elected officials it should be a strong reaction on the other hand i mean this is politics and i mean like naive scuse me is that this is a surprise that the u.s. agents are active saw it no it's not a surprise well if the old it's come out it's about the size and scope of. operations here in germany the german people just want a real reaction from their leaders. peter all of our bringing us all the lights is the tells about the new scandal brewing in germany thank you very much now i know

we have more stories coming your way after a short break they stay with us if you can. america's military might and its foreign policy exist separately from one another the u.s. is a formidable military power but sadly its weak foreign policy was that is why i'm not inclined to suspect the obama administration is pursuing some secret plan directed against iraq. choose your language. clearly we can without any federal subsidies still come up. with the consensus. choose the opinions that you think. choose the stories that if you. choose. to.

i'm abby martin the stories we cover here. right barbara starr at the. same time there's a reason they don't want you know you never want to raise that. now let's break the set. welcome if you just joined us this is artsy international the former georgian president i want to show now to house passed away aged eighty six aside from being george's leader on so the rose revolution in two thousand and three he was also the last foreign minister of the u.s.s.r. in that position he actively worked to bring down the berlin wall and put an end to the cold war this is what he wants said about those events. i'm proud goes along

with another. life to stop the cold and bring peace to do. and you can find more on the line friend political legacy of adults a lot of odds on our websites are. also there on the edge of a nuclear disaster again the cooling system of japan's crippled fukushima nuclear plant is switched off after nearly is discovered find out about the dangers of poses online. also draw is the real transformers the british the french company reveals plans to make drones that can fix themselves and so on the mission . will release video shows the moment two passenger planes almost collide the ads barcelona airports one was crossing the runway on the ground as the elder taman someone the boeing from russian airline you tear pulled off at the very last minute of the argentinian air boss spanish flight controllers insist the three

would not have collided but aviation expert chris yates told us ground control was to blame. well ground control can quite clearly be at fault because both of these had appliance around traffic control instruction at the time so the jets landing would have been listening to the. traffic controller giving him instruction and the argentinean jets would probably have been listening to ground control giving him instructions on what to do and quite frankly the. crowd on the ground the argentinian jet should have been given instruction to hold short of the runway the two pilots in the jets not noticed the argentinian jets crossing the room why it might have been that the utah jazz had come down straightened towards. that argentinean jet.

for centuries british workers have been at the coal face of the consuls economic success but these days everyone from the lords popstars to celebrity chefs say their continent have grown lazy so how fair is that claim listen polly boy that's a fine that. the great british work force one that gave birth to an industrial revolution helped build an empire and brought 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 the former conservative deputy prime minister lord has all time says he knows why but the veteran heavyweights brits don't 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 issues . on choice but scruffy that's what we want we have a lot of people climbing in the fish a lot people that want to go work you know which is a friction economy overseas allowing us to bring in a lot of forwardness and employ i mean actual fight you know i mean i want to be part about ten percent of charlie's two hundred staff and now foreign and that figure is likely to grow because he says they simply pulled their weight but try telling that to london's office workers who are quite frankly insulted but actually so you don't think brits are lazy absolutely nor are not the working for example they work too many hours maybe compared to the coaches we have more the work life balance by don't think that's necessarily

a bad thing. but no i wouldn't say we're lazy but i think 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 and they are to me you know i think we were a lot of them may be in the office right now where. it's lunchtime. and yet british workers produce about a fifth less for every hour worked than any of the leading g seven nation even celebrity employers like madonna accuse the brits 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 at school level you know we need to go into schools and questions or work of fiction fortunately you know. the consequence according to the international monetary fund this month is that

slack staff 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 some more international news in brief for you now we start releasing kuwait tear gas to disperse hundreds of protesters who are demanding the release of a former opposition 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 the rallies over traditional corrupt who have continued for several days now. and over to mexico where deadly stampede at a concert involving thousands of people calls the wall to collapse three have been confirmed dead and over a dozen were entered officials say people rushed forward after shots were heard in

the midst of the crowd. a military helicopter has crashed near vietnam's capital one noid killing sixteen people five others survived the accidents and the 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 eastern syria jarvis have managed to take over large parts of syrian and iraq its territory and installed an islamist caliphate on the occupied lands there are reports radicals are demolishing shrines in northern iraq that they see as anti islamic the rise of extremist movements in the middle east is the subject of today's edition of crosstalk and you can watch the full show later today but here's a little preview. the idea that somehow what is resulted in the regime is either by design or by desire on the part of the worse i think it's

actually a bit of a stretch don't tell me that this is not a western calculate move there is tons of equipment going into this and it's not coming from russia it's not coming from china and it's coming from what united states does not have interests in the. me and the great excess. if it. does not intervene well while the experts argue over western influence in the conflict the leader of the jihad this has demonstrated that at the very least he has a taste for luxury western goods now during the his speech at the declaration of a caliphate he was sporting a very expensive watch worth thousands of dollars and it looked like a rolex that prompted ridicule across social media users have mocked his love of luxury western brands while he publicly denounces western culture.

on moscow's traffic jam thai ways and byways road rage can strike at any time in fact the roads are becoming so aggressive the authorities are stepping in as paul scott now reports. unfortunately they sort of seeing is all too common in russia so common in fact will make his have recently and for the first time introduced an aggressive driving belt and 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 because legislation is gradually getting tougher in russia but it forced me to just isn't in place was to have a long way to go before we learned to implement laws how do you control its enforcement how do you make sure it won't be 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 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 and 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 but i guess it's inevitable on the road it doesn't go as far as to killing somebody but fights do take place i was a witness to one and sure men do it especially often can you recall something particularly unpleasant given the middle finger. how do you respond i do the

same. so why do people become so aggressive behind the wheel limos and 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 us. safer place to be the decision to post the aggressive driving bills raise your thirty's all keen to be seen to be addressing the issue but with a maximum fine of five thousand roubles around one hundred fifty dollars there's a concern the deterrent isn't strong enough being seen but this could be seen for some time to come. moscato. said i had an artsy ensor national itself we call it the scott saying iraq. and the face of jihad those things stay with us.

when people talk about human rights violations you should involve some pro western protestors getting beaten up and the response with 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 detroit 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 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 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. bryce of the islamic state or isis in the middle east is said to reorder political realities in the region the west. we'll colonial agenda for the arab world is coming to an end it would seem the arab spring has been replaced with the. welcome to go on sophie shevardnadze general najib. served his nation whose whole adult life first in the military under saddam hussein and then as the mayor of the town of tal afar after the u.s. invasion.