eastern ukraine c biggest cities are braced for a military blockade sea to prove personally by the country's new president also. in ukraine film a military assault against them one of a series of similar strikes for control of a critical border point. israel for its rockets and mortars are the country's defense forces launch a large scale offensive against hamas for all territories. and brian seeks to strip the us dollar of its privileged status of a dominant currency lobs following in the footsteps of those who have already

shifted away from america's financial supremacy. good afternoon is just going to pm here in moscow you're watching artsy international thank you for joining us. now on top of being bombed and shelled ukraine's metropolises in the east are now facing a siege now if you look at donetsk which is right here it is populated actually by one million people and then for move over to talk about five hundred thousand now both of them have rebel against here the country's president approved the plan to surround the cities and maria. for us hi maria so what can you tell us about the situation there right now. well indeed the operation. leadership in kiev announced that the cities of the nats

can the guns will soon be besieged so that the anti government forces will be sued inside without any chance to get any support from anywhere outside and all that with continued attacks and many fear already that that could become new slovyansk and climate tourist two major targets of ukrainian army for months but the next can be guns as you just said are going really big cities and yes this is a city with a population of one million while the ganske used to be home to more than four hundred thousand people and of course fears are rising that the consequences of this besieged could be most dramatically here to rehear every day many times a day we also know that today multiple a record low entry known as get out or hail was also used and i hope you can see these pictures now it was caught on video both sides claim that they are not targets and they will not target residential areas which unfortunately we have to confirm that it happens sometimes this is why even now while we are in the city

center mean the cameramen we have to work in flight jackets just on monday a shell landed a few blocks away from where we are now hitting a car and reportedly the driver and someone who was just passing by died recalled to be at the sea and we leadership also claim that heavy a two re and i v a shin will not be used in big cities but we hear again almost every day airplanes fly in this region and eyewitnesses say that they are responsible for last week attacks on two tiny villages outside with guns going at least seven and according to different reports twelve civilians were killed including five year old boy whose funerals we attended on friday well well well the army strategy is all very sleepy to targets those who they claim are terrorists and separatists who can see that ordinary civilians often become victims as well.

sure. we move. to what is. should be. divorced from fear is for low life and many other dangerous that this could pose a local residents those who didn't flee the city are worried about humanitarian issues such as water and electricity supplies access to food medicine drinking water it's not yet clear how different is that you shouldn't follow hospitals clinics care homes will be functioning in such a big city during the siege and we know that slowdowns can come across have been suffering a lot from these problems. at the time when they were the center of course

it's antiterrorist ration and while and to government forces are on high alert fortifying. checkpoints preparing for this procedure and we also hear that several bridges around the city were damaged which could be their attempt to stop the ukrainian troops local residents are also getting to something that could be described as panic back to you our correspondent maria from last night with the very latest from logan's thank you for that. well these images of destruction and some friends are shaken washington the state department has again voiced its total backing for t.f. days after a deadly part reports of the accidental bombing of a village and. a correspondent on the ground was the latest state department briefing. you know we see all these horrible shots from villages towns that were shelled by the ukrainian air force and you hear the state department defend the strike saying all those killings are the russian separatists fault basically the shots that we saw from the village of congressional call last week could leave one

speechless twelve civilians were killed including a five year old this however did not generate any strong feelings at the u.s. state department these are just that's the reason why are these pictures these are shots of civilians blown to pieces in their homes in their backyards in the village in eastern ukraine last week well what does the u.s. do to stop you from doing it and they're going to make sure to be in to be clear on the ground the reports that we've seen and the vast majority of people who are reporting from the ground report that the russian backed separatists are the ones who are not only in gauged in in violence and efforts to take over buildings and attack people and innocent civilians they have no place doing that in a country that's a sovereign country like ukraine the ukrainian security service itself says the shelling of congress could have been a pilot's mistake but the u.s.

state department is staunchly defending king of no matter what mistakes the government if ukraine is defending the country if ukraine and i think they have every right to do that as does the international community and these people have the right to live the well i think the people of ukraine have the right to live in peace and security without russian back separatists attacking their homes and going into buildings and i think that's where the root cause of this is and we shouldn't we shouldn't forget that fact last week another state department spokesperson doubted the sources of a u.n. report that talks about a sharp increase in the number of people fleeing ukraine into russia a spokesperson suggested maybe they're going to russia to visit their grandmothers even though there are so many reports of. the horrors that people made sense about why they really flee from eastern ukraine i asked about this today jen psaki tried it more cautiously on this than her colleague last week but the general impression is that the u.s.

department it is trying to downplay the humanitarian crisis in the east of ukraine . over the elven in science class between ukraine's national guard and answer government fighters has been posted on the internet reports of live filmed at a contrasted border tac points. because the money she. did not do not new. but soon saw its now falls over this checkpoint for more than a long while so it's no surprise that this is what it looked like after the battle and you can see the place is desertion and also bought into the conversation heard

in the video agree outlying area is heavy with snipers. if you were a kid has an entire defense in the school feeding its army the rebels it seems are making do with relics from the past now this post soviet decades as part of an outdoor museum exhibit but it seems someone just couldn't bear a walk the way it stands being told away for repair work to see it returned to active duty even if every answer service it still won't be over. now in this old exhibit called the world war two t. thirty four was hard wired to write on the pedestal last month it's even been seen whizzing about. a website design and

a live update section on you claim with all the latest as it comes then there's also plenty more there for you including a look at who is to blame for the crisis in the east and why. israel has launched a large scale offensive against the hamas controlled gaza strip as part of a new operation protective edge it's already targeted at least fifty sites in gaza and injured seventeen people are it seems policy or isn't sullivan with all the latest. well israel has launched what could be a long term offensive against hamas in gaza in the early hours of this morning fifty sites were hit by the israeli air force firing from both the sky and the sea at the same time there has been a call up in a mobilization of the israeli army for a possible ground offensive we are hearing from the israeli army spokesperson who says that the israelis will continue to escalate the strikes over gaza there has

also been hundreds of reservists who have been called up the operation is being dubbed operation protective edge its goal is to stop the rocket fire from gaza and also strike at him us in recent weeks there have been some three hundred rockets and mortars that have been fired from gaza into southern israel last night in the space of just a few minutes some eighteen projectiles were fired the situation has been escalated ever since the killing of three jewish israeli teenagers and the murder in what is expected or understood to be a revenge attack of an arab teenager now the israeli say that they are targeting specifically the rocket launching pads they are targeting the military infrastructure and the homes of militants in the gaza strip but the gaza health ministry has said that many people who are being brought into hospital are civilians who are suffering from i the shop or like to two serious shrapnel wounds the whole south of israel is in a state of shock shut down there are sirens that are constantly being sounded and

at the same time residents have been ordered to remain inside their homes so the situation is escalating by the minute. israel's bombardments are not exactly on usual in palestine i don't see thousand and four around seventy civilians were killed in operation given the poet's acclaim days of penitents which was triggered by the deaths of two israeli children from a militant rocket now in two thousand and six some of rains that led to the death of more than one hundred innocent palestinians who fell victim to the so-called militants operation and years later blood flowed in operation cast lead also known as the gaza war and that some more than nine hundred civilians dead pillar of the fence which is where you can see here was one of the most recent operations that israel started after it killed the local chief of hamas the outcome was more than one hundred palestinians that in this year's action hasn't seen any official victims so far but the number of wounded is climbing at an alarming pace.

new details in the blame game over who carried out a chemical assault in syria and soon lights after the u.n. confirms that the sarin gas was inside to some of those reports and we found in rebel held areas in syria. also coming up removeable reports on how the terrorists use a whole arsenal of strategic tools from p.r. to whistle blowing on the government's part of the bridge to meet this law michaela for success. they go as high as the rest of the russian citizen outside its territory on suspicion of digital fraud and the theft of course no information but it's a move out to provoke the fury of the russian foreign ministry let's get more now from our teams and i do know what the law who joins me by my dinner so won't call such a reaction well russia's foreign ministries outraged after a russian citizen was arrested out shine. and the ministry is calling this.

kidnapping and yet another unfriendly gesture coming from washington now the ministry as that it is it is being kept in the information blackout and is demanding further details coming from its american counterparts now what we know so far is that it was in the maldives when he was detained by the u.s. special services he was later transferred to the island of guam and the pacific where the charges were read to him now this is not the first on the u.s. has arrested russian citizens in a foreign territory now a victim of buddha was a monk dam and two years ago he was son and twenty five years in prison for a. while and nother russian citizen a pilot. was sentenced to twenty years in prison back in twenty eleven for drug trafficking and since then there's been a number of reports of him being denied medical assistance to the prison facility

where he is being held at the moment. so such cases how to become a nother short point and be a russian american relations with this latest arrest is unlikely to improve the situation. or lead to the courts know all there with the very latest on the latest the scientists or us who are also such as and the us thank you very much and i will have more news coming your way after a very short break so do stay with us if you can. this is what we do we kill people and break things. we can see something is simple as people playing a soccer game you can see individual players and you can see the ball. you can almost see is facial expression you can see is mouth open crying out. maybe

cursed us or maybe he asked. for forgiveness for. there must be near certainty that no civilians will be killed or injured. welcome back you know what's an artsy ensor national now the friends of finance minister is aiming to break the dominance of the u.s. dollar after urging the use of

a variety of currencies for global payments this comes after america slapped a nine billion dollar flying on b.m.p. party bank for helping countries avoid sanctions investment broker and financial common satre shift says the u.s. currency is far from the perfect global currency of choice i think the united states is very dependent on the rest of the world it's just incumbent on the rest of the world to figure that out but the u.s. dollar is still functioning as a reserve currency and so the dollar is a part of a lot of transactions but there really is no reason for the dollar to be at the center of these transactions because the dollar shouldn't be the reserve currency of the united states doesn't share any of the characteristics that it had when the dollar became the reserve currency it's just a matter of time before it no longer functions as a reserve currency and i think the more we antagonize the rest of the world with the spying or with these huge fines on foreign banks the quicker that process is

going to be to unravel. the latest targets of the u.s. financial machine is germany's second largest bank cormorants bank america is accusing the institution of also violates in the sanction regime and it now faces a fine of at least five hundred million dollars or america's retaliatory measures like this for states to seek ways to break the dollar dominance it's no easy task it's all as the currency is used in some eighty five percent of global exchange deals bought some countries have found ways to shift away from the dollar and the biggest example of that is a big euro zone of course now eighteen countries some of which are among the world's economic powerhouses are making trick or sanctions with each other completely avoiding the dollar now last year china signed a massive currency swap agreements which with the in fact which allows the country to exclude the dollar from the equation when doing business with the block and then on monday the brics countries agree to form their own bankers counterweights to the

i.m.f. chair of the brogues a group think olds things the u.s. often resorts to force make others use the dollar. the united states really does defend the dollar with of course its military force now it's been seen on a number of occasions with countries that have been arguing that they should move away from using the law then found themselves subject to united states sanctions and of course even in some cases military force so really there is a great deal of concern about not just the why american bombs its economy its enormous deficit which is now reaches seventeen trillion dollars a day but of course the way that american foreign policy is very active around the world which some people do not want. and coming up for you later on artsy reform chalet as an offering you an entire alpine resorts and that's really is now up for sale and for very good points will tell you all the details later in the

program. they go on secretary general has confirmed that in syria two cylinders seized by government troops consigned sarin gas the country's regime has announced that it's a cold over that substance in rebel held areas not long after the deadly chemical assault. back then moscow said the lethal gas had been used by opposition forces in the attack which claimed hundreds of lives earlier with salt to theodore paul still from the massachusetts institute of technology who conducted the and independence research into the use of sarin near the masters and he said he believes the rebels were behind those times but could never have produced sarin without any inside help . well it is speculation but certainly. there have been reports here at the west. where. the hottest sooty jihadist elements had been given help from the turkish go.

sarah you. precursor chemicals. to mix the sara once you have the precursor chemicals. i would say it's easy but it's not completely out of the possibility that they could do that so they got help from somebody. perhaps the most likely source would be the turks radicals from a terror group formerly known as isis are in full throttle such not their islamic caliphate they founded the week ago on territories captured in iraq and syria and then all staggering thing here is the lightning speed of their progress then i'll have all of the accidents in a fully functional states including passports and all biased economy and even the banking sector are seasoned marina part i brings us more on this. in a very short amount of time the extremist group controlling parts of iraq and syria

has taken rapid steps to turn their self declared islamic caliphate into a bonafide state according to reports the militant group best known as isis is ready to begin issuing official passports to citizens in must school iraq's second largest city as well as making a broad religious call to arms isis is also allegedly for approving judges doctors engineers and those who have military and managerial skills the work force that isis is attempting to build will need to be paid of course not a huge problem for the sunni extremists who are virtually in control of iraq's largest oil refinery according to reports isis has already tried raising revenue through oil sales and lots of money's been spent on image building as well the militants have been releasing annual glossy assessment reports outlining statistics related to things like assassinations suicide missions bombings and geographic

expansion the organized p.r. move aims to lure more investors and fighters it's a level of organization unprecedented for islamist militants in the region and while isis already claims to have an army of more than fifteen thousand loyalists the hottest group is reportedly recruiting and kidnapping children as young as ten years old to fight for the islamic state in addition to educating employing recruiting policing and campaigning i says is also confronting the downfalls of governing a state dealing with your very own whistleblower according to vice news the extremist group has somebody working on the inside reportedly revealing classified information such as the identity of leaders and all of these factors combined paint a troubling picture of a threat hardly anyone anticipated. r.t.

new york. as we mentioned we're also online for you so let's take a look at what you can find there the first boston legal bitcoin trade is made in europe place in france have the. south of the country and hundreds. why are. also from earth. well equipped google smartphones with three d. version and. on the international space station all the details on this high tech story are available online. and inspire italian all pine village. that's located in the northern pm on region near national park and the boast fourteen aloft with. the prize a bargain despite the need for innovation the asking price for the entire hundred and forty five thousand euros though this might be a great amount for some political analysts paulo refine it believes such deals are

the result of the european economic crisis this is not the first case you need to be actually of villages which are being sold but this is the first that people leave in those houses and the decide to quit the place selling everything and try to change life evidently doesn't mean that the economic situation for that. from france is suffers of similar situations where the number of customers for sale is incredibly high relatively cheap agriculture has been subsidized but finally. is not allowing these people to really make their living out of it so the cutting in the in the budgets this is reflected in the less and less infrastructures. and in perspective for these people the only thing to do is to sell and run away.

and some more international news in brief for you a suicide attack in eastern afghanistan killed at least sixteen people including sensibility and it's not a ban has claimed responsibility for the blast which came a day after the independent election committee announced ashraf ghani had won the presidential runoff his rival has brand of the preliminary results a coup against the people saying that sets the country on a dangerous course off ethnic conflict of ganesan is already highly divided along tribal lines and it's feared any political. activist created the. exploration well and. began working at the science after postponing operation several times due to opposition from hundreds of residents as to say that romania could hold more than fifty trillion cubic feet gas which is enough to cover domestic demand for over a century faults critics insist the. use could harm the environment.

all right that's it from us for this hour up next the truth about america's drone wars on steroids and snow but us. when people talk about human rights violations is involve some pro western protesters getting beaten up in response with 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 or well sadly the former motor city who are hundred fifty dollars or more behind in their water bills are getting their water shut off completely the different 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 i would have the right to water especially detroit which is

near 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 pain. talking about language as well but i will only react to situations i have read the reports. like push the no i will leave them to the state department to comment on your latter point them to say to secure yes a car is on the docket no. thank you no more weasel. what you say and a direct question be prepared for a change when you are you should be ready for

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