after he had some more selling a string ukraine's two biggest cities are braced for military blockade as the new president personally orders a seat is put in place. at least twelve palestinians are killed as is or along the large scale offensive against gaza with reports that its troops are preparing for a ground invasion. and france's finance minister says the global currency system needs to move away from the dollar after one of the country's biggest banks is said by a nine billion dollars fine for not complying with sanctions put in place by washington .

you're watching artsy international live from moscow where it's just turned six pm thank you for joining us the government's artillery has hit several apartment blocks in the eastern ukrainian city of lugansk at least one person was killed in the latest assault kiev has promise not to target residential areas but pictures from the scene suggest that promise has not been kept. we don't look at the problem for you to hear. that you want to do it british. rule with be. as small as being shelled the two major cities in the east are facing

a blockade ordered by president poroshenko and that's in order to stop the movements of government forces with this map here you can see that self-defense fighters pull back from this area here so the city of donetsk has a population of around one million people over here in lugansk there over five hundred thousand people living here in both cities have rebelled against kiev. as a logan's cross with more the operational leadership in kiev announced that the cities of the nets and lugansk will be besieged so that the anti-government forces will be sealed inside without any chance to get any support from anywhere outside and all that with continuing attacks and of course fears a rise in right now that the consequences of this besieged could be more dramatic we hear to read here every day and many times a day we also know that multiple rocket launcher known as get out or pay was also used here sides claim that they are not targeting and they will not target the

residential areas but we have to tell that it happens and this is what i mean my cameraman although we are now in the city center we have to work in flak jackets on monday and shall landed just a few blocks away from where we are now heating a car and reportedly the driver died at the scene and today is a minibus also was hit in the city center and reportedly two people were killed as well while the army strategy is obviously to target those who they claim a terrorist and separatists it is clear that ordinary civilians become victims very often. sure. you keep. your bills troy of. reactors or the well you can say that the anti-government forces are now in high alert preparing for this besieged but local residents are also getting closer to

something that could be described already as panic this is the situation here on the ground right now and fears are that it could even deteriorate. from lugansk. we spoke to marcus papadopoulos is the editor so the politics for us magazine and we asked them what their care and actually take such a major city like that gets vattel depends on where care of has the resources to take on a city as a large as donetsk is and what we know is that they certainly have no moral compunction in killing hundreds of ukrainian civilians for mortars from tank shells frew asteroids we're talking about civilians including women and children dying on a daily basis been maimed on a daily basis but the ukrainians will keep on doing that because they are backed by the americans principally also the europeans but america is a superpower and they have backed by them and now they can claim they have

a legitimate president they can go for an all out victory in the east starting with donetsk but they've got to now face another battle and that will be quite a battle to win the hearts and minds of the people they've been killing and injuring on a daily basis well over the past three months some of the fiercest battles have been for control various strategic points and this video you're about to see was reports in the film has the border checkpoints. you. just because the months he. leave. the two sides have fought over this checkpoint for more than

a month now and this is what it looked like after the battle you can see the place is deserted and according to conversation heard on the video the outlying area is heavy with snipers. ukraine's outstanding debt for russian gas now stands at more than five billion dollars moscow says the problem has become chronic after kiev again failed to pay last month's bill gas problem has switched ukraine's or prepayment schedules said it had no other choice europe relies on russia for a third of its gas and a significant part of the supplies flow through ukraine now the e.u. doesn't want to repeat of two thousand and six thousand and nine when t.f. was called siphoning off gas resulting in a cold winter for some european countries. israel is reportedly ready in for a ground invasion of gaza strip with the launch of a large scale offensive against the region at least twelve palestinians have been

killed and more including children the. reports from the israeli palestinian border for us. well these many prime minister benjamin netanyahu has reportedly instructed the israeli defense forces to prepare for a possible ground offensive in gaza now we're hearing these reports as we hear that the israeli army also instructs a call up of several thousand more reservists and this is in addition to the one and a half thousand who have been called up since the early hours of this morning some twenty eight rockets have been fired at israel from gaza i'm standing on the israeli gaza border and as i was waiting to cross to you we could see israeli warplanes in the distance dropping bombs on gaza we're hearing from gaza hospitals that they're in a state of emergency that many people have been brought in with quite severe injuries particularly after one of those bombs fell on central gaza according to palestinian sources islamic jihad has now joined him us in firing rockets at israel

this indeed has all the makings of a long term military operation it certainly has been in the pipeline quite some time over the past few weeks there have been as many as three hundred rockets fired at israel and just last night eighteen projectiles were fired within the space of minutes we are also hearing from the palestinian president mahmoud abbas who has warned israel to call off the city a situation that is increasing dramatically by the minute. there are also operations in gaza have become regular since the i.d.f. pulled out of the territory in two thousand and five only a year after the troop withdrawal operation summer rains was launched after an israeli soldier was kidnapped by hamas the so-called militant action claimed the lives of more than one hundred civilians so thousand and eight saw the deadliest offensive in gaza yet it was described as a massacre in the arab world and killed almost a thousand and also results in the humanitarian crisis then pether of defense which

is one of the most recent operations and began with the killing of the hamas leader and allowed to numerous civilian deaths will be out to see the death of years for this latest action but a number of those killed and wounded is already climbing. well as the scotts this was a dollar for the ministry of information in gaza thank you very much for joining us how much damage has already been done. actually we have since yesterday. and. this. question it started with. with some pacificus. places for the resistant and hamas movement members but right now it's move to the children people in a sense of places we had a medical. units of place city or whole family only of them were

killed if three of them children this is a real. disgusting operation against humanity in gaza with no any sense of responsibility to word that even a humanitarian crisis and disasters in gaza strip to have and you are not of which we really aren't ready for people here do you want a pressure to the international community from all of the wood governments to stop this aggression this is illegal and immoral behavior from israeli underspin civility and i'll put a ration against those people so if ground troops were to answer gaza what do you think the consequences of that would be then well actually it's a big breaking for the reconciliation and damaging in gaza strip yes the resistance

might be ready to face that is really of ration peroration zing gaza by rocket spots i'm telling that to a handmade. this big effects is on the underground. to stop this aggression against guns a number system movement cold food ending this elections and i strike against gaza and in doing the siege on gaza they cannot even understand how can it in your home . and approaching this and just right now we having a hide a big strike and until this moment is second by second there is aggressions woke strikes right sorry and talking to the people i knew way and it places without even a very good noise saying the places of the people living in the same time that is not legality not where you're about where you're about to say in terms of the

situation sorry to interrupt there are we are limited were with time we saw your points on that but on on they say sometimes the situation will get worse before it gets better i think i know what you're about to say but do you think we might see the situation calmed down before it gets worse i didn't hear you for seated in a situation if you can tell us the piece today absolutely if you can summarize briefly do you think the situation will calm down before it gets worse will we see any easing well no signatures full this actually right now nobody are calling for him even to from egyptian side for a take even took in the crowd government deny this escalation to gaza and i think that would be worsened in this if nobody is just and is really must end it and even if break the siege on gaza and be responsible and all of her ration against

those innocent people it might be worse in the next and future coming that we don't know actually where it. is from a dollar from the minister of information in gaza thank you very much. france's finance minister has called for a rebalancing of world currencies he wants a move away from the dominance of the u.s. dollar after america forced the b.m.p. part of a bank to pay and nine billion dollars fine for not abiding by various u.s. imposed sanctions and french economists shaq's appear agrees that washington set a dangerous precedent with its had. actually is a problem is not the amount of money is that the french bank is to put to the u.s. government what is actually a streak use the possibility for us nonresident for people in to the united states to use the u.s. dollar the problem is risk the straight to be fine all too common in.

the u.s. to wriggle asian then everybody will be a true risk if it uses the u.s. dollar for any transaction to world now size offers financial institutions little safety against u.s. authorities germany's second largest bank commerzbank is now facing america's wrath for involvement in deals with countries on washington sanctions list potential penalties for the banks start up five hundred million dollars well america's dominance of global markets is underwritten by the dollar been the most traded currency but countries around the world are making steps to move away from the greenback the euro zone for example it has its own powerful tool the euro which is shared by more than three hundred million people last year the e.u. signed a massive currency swap agreement with china allowing the dollar to be completely

excluded from then on monday brics countries said they would form a bank with up to one hundred billion dollars in reserve and that would compete with the i.m.f. robert oulds chair of the brokers group things hank believes changes are foot. there's a lot of concern about the common sort of major global reserve come and say well emerging economies pretty much on happy with american domination of setting the price of goods such as oil in dollars so america many relation over the common say is of course one concern that they have but the united states really does defend the dollar with of course its full military force that's been seen on a number of occasions with countries that have been arguing that they should move away from using the dollar then found themselves subject to united states sanctions and of course even in some cases military force in recent history america has a massive trade deficit and if it wasn't for the demand that all is created for its

position as being the global reserve comment see america would sink economically. still on the way america snatches a russian citizen in them all the special moscow condemn that as if in fact the kidnapping will look at the latest sore points in relations between russia and america a little bit later. also will be reporting on the astonishingly rapid martin seven islamist militants on occupy the rocky and syrian lands as well as how jihad tests are using p.r. and whistleblowers to secure their vines. this is what we do we kill people and break things. we can see something as simple as people playing soccer games you can see individual players and you can see that.

you can almost see especially expressions to see here is. maybe cursed. or maybe he. for forgiveness. for a house. there must be near certainty that no civilians will be killed or injured.

no it's not scenes or national if you just joined us thank you for being with us now the u.s. has arrested the russian citizen and the maldives on suspicion of cyber fraud hacking and after a personal information it's a move that provoked fury in moscow's foreign ministry as arts and in the courts explains russia's foreign ministry is outreached after a russian citizen was arrested outside his territory on a foreign land now the ministry is calling this me eight de facto kidnapping and yet another unfriendly gesture coming from washington the ministry as that is being kept in the information blackout and is demanding a more details from its american counterparts now what we know so far is that a month off was in the maldives when he was a detained by the u.s. special services and he was a leader transferred to the island to one in the pacific where the charges were read to him and this is a not the first time of the u.s. has a rush to its russian citizens in flooring territories and we interpret her victor

buddha was the among them in two years ago he was sentenced to twenty five years in prison for illegally treating armstrong while another russian citizen a pilot constantin get a shingle was sentenced to twenty years in prison back in two thousand and eleven for drug trafficking and since then i think there's been a number of reports of him being denied medical assistance at the prison facility where he is being held at the moment to such cases have become any other sure point in the russian american relations with this latest arrest is unlikely to improve the situation. and there's more on the story online including a discussion on whether arrests of russian citizens could be mere bargaining chips to get edward snowden handed over for trial and they want us also on our website cracking sound from waves across parts of the u.s. point from a truly sorry. find proof that shell drilling is responsible for hundreds of earthquakes in the state of oklahoma and it's only getting worse wind out on the.

ground control two google smartphones with three d. version and sensors could soon be able to control robots on the international space station. so the jihad is pfizer's from the so-called islamic state group has reportedly slowed after weeks of a lightning fast offensive through iraq fighting with the iraqi army is now concentrated around the city of to create just one hundred fifty kilometers from the capital however the islamic caliphate that the militants declared along the pipes heritage henri's is reportedly thriving forming into a fully functional state out of pace it already has passports the banking sector and profitable will field. reports. 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 most school iraq's second largest city as well as making our broad religious call to arms isis is also allegedly recruiting 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 isis 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 any. one anticipated. r.t.e. new york and some other international news now that's halliburton suicide attack in eastern afghanistan killed four nato soldiers nearby airbase sensibility and some

see policemen are also among the casualties the assaults came soon after the independent election committee and now gone the had won a prize that. his rival i planned the results of against the people insisted the process. a powerful typhoon bats are japan's all canal island chain calls and waves and. up to five hundred thousand people have been told to see shelter and at least one person has been killed the storm calls massive power outages for schools to close and triggered flight cancellations warnings of potential flooding and heavy downpours have also been issued for japan's west from mainland. and entire italian alpine village. it's located in the northern p.m.o. region they are a national park and it boasts fourteen along with. its in lead over little

renovation however the asking price for the entire village is a bargain by the c. one hundred forty five thousand euros although political analysts pall over phone believes this is just another sign of economic decay. this is not the first case in italy actually of villages which are being sold but this is the first time actually that people leave in those houses and they decide to quit the place selling everything and try to change life so evidently doesn't mean that it's an easy economic situation for them to see also suffer in france or suffers of similar situations where the number of castles for sale is incredibly high and they're relatively cheap agriculture has been subsidized but finally. i mean this is not allowing these people to really make their living out of it so the cutting in the in the budgets this is reflecting of less in less infrastructures.

and in perspective for these people the only thing to do is to sell and run away. over to the u.k. . and britain are putting their faith in a whole new savior immigrants are the only thing keeping many places of worship from become an obsolete. if young british people are in church these days well it could be because they live in one attendance of actual anglican services has long been in decline well it is leaders looking to come up with any number of simple more plans to get worshippers then but there is one small crumb of comfort for them and the latest figure is thanks to a change in demographics the fall in popularity is at the very least slowing because of the increase in the number of black were drawn to churches the increase in the rate of immigration and the increase in the number of new trying to

church called fresh expressions because of those increases the rate of decline of attendance and membership in the church as a whole has slowed down considerably going to grant it is now going down about it's not becoming a u. turn but it is simply not going to quite as fast as it was before. here in the heart of london this polish service packs in hundreds every sunday father adam says churches like his are an important way for people to keep in touch with their own communities and worship in a language i celebrate every sunday to. a special for polish citizens by of course in the. coming course older citizens under some polish language like slovak people sometimes ukraine sometimes

from different countries speaks live on equal promise languages and. it's the number of. still growing. so while the british may be losing their. elation as some might say economists to the country keeping the weight and i just about. see the closing from them today. and we'll have fresh updates for you in about a half an hour from now coming up telling our team for national report on america's on going wrong war as they would also. when 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 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 on 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 the 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 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.

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