measures i don't see to your facebook news feed. after yet more shelling eastern ukraine two biggest cities are braced for a military blockade as the new president personally orders the siege is put in place. to look. at least thirteen palestinians are killed us israel launches a large scale offensive against it with reports that its troops are preparing for a draw and invasion. on france's finance minister say the global currency system needs to move away from the dollar after one of the country's biggest banks is hit by a nine billion dollar fine for not complying with sanctions put in place by washington .

from a new center here in moscow twenty four hours a day you're chinned into r.t. international i mean o'neill welcome our top story government artillery has had several apartment blocks in the eastern ukrainian city of lugansk at least one person was killed in the latest assault kiev us promised not to target residential areas but pictures from the scene suggest that promise has not been. you don't get the film school you didn't start that way that you wanted to do it because it was. a little bit. but it is. a little. bit. as well as being shall two major cities in the east are facing

a blockade ordered by president poroshenko in order to stop the movement of government forces now you can see what altered recently here self-defense fighters pulled back from this area into the city of the net way below it's a population of around one million people and over here is lugansk up to five hundred thousand people live there both cities have rebelled against the kiev re if an auctioneer has more from lookouts not. the operational leadership in kiev announced that the cities of the nets and lugansk will be besieged so does 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 here to rehear every day and many times a day we also know that multiple rocket launcher known as get out or pay was also used here both 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 why me and my cameraman although we are now in the city center we have to work in flak jackets on monday and shell landed just a few blocks away from where we are now getting a car and reportedly the driver died at the scene and today as 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 separatist it is clear that ordinary civilians become victims very often. sure. three move me. what are the what is the school truly of the noise will illuminate us who. should be well we 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 reef notion or from lugansk and we asked marcus papadopoulos editor of the politics first web magazine whether kiev has the capabilities to such a major city like the net. that all depends on where k f has the was also is 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 for tank shells frew airstrikes we're talking about civilians including women and children dying on a daily basis being 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 a malfunction of about so and that will be quite a battle so win the hearts and minds of the people they've been killing and injuring on a daily basis over the past three months some of the fiercest battles have been for control of various strategic points the following video was reportedly filmed at a contested border checkpoint. in. july but i see because i'm i see. if you see a v.c. . the two sides are fought over this checkpoint for more than

a month now and this is what it looked like after the battle you can clearly see the area is this dirty down according to a conversation heard on the video of the art lying areas heavy with snipers. you know what he's going to be using ukraine's i'm standing dead for russian gas now stands at more than five billion dollars the problem has become chronic after kiev again failed to pay last month's bill gazprom has switched ukraine to a pre-payment schedule saying it had no other choice europe relies on russia for a third of its gas on a significant part of the supplies flow through ukraine the e.u. doesn't want a repeat of two thousand and six and two thousand and nine when kiev was caught siphoning off gas resulting in a cold winter for some european countries. are going on now israel is reportedly readying for a ground invasion of gaza with the launch of a large scale offensive against the region at least thirteen palestinians have been

killed and more including children wounded in the attacks paula slee reports from the israeli palestinian border or nah. well forty thousand israeli reserve soldiers have been called out but this comes as the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu instructs the i.d.f. to prepare for a possible ground offensive into gaza now no confirmation as to if or when this will happen but certainly the need on the ground is that it could possibly happen in the coming few hours the only thing we've heard from natanya who is a warning to his soldiers to prepare for eight long operation drop the course of tuesday more than one hundred fifty rockets were fired from gaza into southern israel more than eighty palestinians have been injured a number of them have been killed in what israel says are targeted assassinations but as is always the case there are women and children and innocent people who get killed in these strikes i'm standing on the israel gaza border which as you can imagine is very tense behind me is gaza and almost every fifteen twenty minutes

there is a war plane dropping its deadly cargo there have also been israeli helicopters dropping leaflets urging residents of gaza to come forward and reveal the hiding places of militants firing these rockets not cairo is acting as a mediator but so far with very little success hamas is saying that it will not stop with its rocket barrages until israel stops with its is strikes and at this stage it seems highly unlikely that either is going to do that. israel's 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 two thousand and eight saw the deadliest offensive in gaza yet it was described as a massacre in the world and killed almost a thousand or resulted in

a humanitarian crisis pillar of the fence is one of the most recent operations which began with the killing of their must leader lead to numerous civilian deaths we've yet to see the death figures for this latest action but the number of those killed and wounded is already timing. from the ministry of information in gaza believes israel's actions are inhumane i purposely target children right now move to the children the innocence of places we had a medical. place city or holy family only of them were killed if three of them children this is a really. disgusting operation against a in gaza with no any sense of responsibility to words that even a humanitarian crisis and does also sing gaza strip and growing this and just right now we have a big as strike and until this moment second by second there is aggressions

woke strikes air strikes sorry and talking to the people and you act and it places without even big noise saying the places of the people living. our correspondent paul this leader will continue to bring you the latest details from the israeli palestinian port or you can also follow her updates on twitter. front as finance minister house call for rebalancing of world currencies you want to move away from the dominance of the u.s. dollar offer america force the b.n.p. part of us bank it's been nine billion dollars fine for not abiding by various u.s. imposed sanctions on french economist sapir agrees washington set a dangerous precedent with its actions. actually is a problem is not the amount of money is there the french bank is to be the us

government what is actually a streak is a possibility for us nonresident for people as a year into the united states to use the us dollar is a problem is risk is a stretch to be fine all too common in. the us. then everybody would be at risk if it used the us dollar for any transactions or world. size offers financial institutions little protection from the u.s. commerce bank second largest in germany is also facing possible fines for allegedly ignoring sanctions put in place by washington the very minimum penalty would be five hundred million dollars america's dominance of global markets is underwritten by the dollar being the most traded currency but countries around the world are making steps to move away from the greenback now the euro zone for example has its

own powerful tool the euro of course which is shared by more than three hundred million people last year they used signed a massive currency swap agreement with china allowing the dollar to be excluded from future deals and then on monday brics countries said it would form a bank with up to a million one hundred billion dollars excuse me and reserves to compete with the i.m.f. robert oulds chair of the bruges group think tank believes changes well there are a foot. there's a lot of concern about the common sort of major global common state emerging economies pretty much on happy with american film a nation of setting the price of goods such as oil in dollars the community relations of the common say is of course one concern that they have but the united states does defend the dollar with of course its full military force and that's been seen on

a number of occasions with countries that have been arguing that they should move away from using the thing to found themselves subject to the united states sanctions and of course even in some cases military force in recent history america has a trade deficit and if it wasn't for the demand that all this created for its position as being the global reserve come and say america would sink economically. america snatches a russian citizen in the multis on suspicion of sucking condemned it as a de facto kidnapping we look at the latest sore point in relations between russia and america a little later plus. two british man admit to helping terrorists in war torn syria as to how to promote extremism in the u.k. calling to turn britain into a war zone coming up in a few moments time. my

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two british men who went to syria to fight alongside the hottest have pleaded guilty to planning terrorist attacks both were arrested on a london airport by the kuntar terrorist unit playboy her tell us more and she joins me live now polly good to have you with us why did the men leave their homes to go to war in syria that. well mohammad ahmed and use of spent eight months in syria last year another two twenty two year olds are both british citizens they come from. they learnt about the conflict in syria seemingly became radicalized online and ended up contacting islamic extremists in order to join

a terrorist group that was fighting to topple the government of bashar al assad in syria they. one of them told the family members that he was traveling to turkey with his university but they became suspicious ended up telling the police and the police then arrested them upon their return to britain in january of this year and they've now admitted to preparing to carry away they've now admitted to preparing to carry out acts of terrorism you know the incredible just tell us has there been any similar cases to this one. well just two days ago british muslim who claims to be fighting for isis in syria to wage holy war in the u.k. abu in as these tweeted the downing street would be a base for muslims and the trafalgar square is where public executions would take

place but the problem of online radical radicalization is. one of it's an increasing problem for police here in the u.k. who say that they're taking down huge amounts of materials online from the internet that could influence young british muslims and really radicalized they say that there is something in the region of five hundred british citizens that have travelled out to syria and to iraq and of course the overriding concern for the anti terror anti terror police here is that these radicalized young men and women could return to britain and commit acts of violence here. live from london we appreciate your input thank you. now here's a look at what we have online for you right now if fracking send shock waves across parts of the u.s. by the early scientists find proof that she is responsible for hundreds of

earthquakes in the state of oklahoma and it's getting worse as you can find died on r.t.e. dot com also their. crime control to. google smartphones with three d. vision on centuries could soon be able to control robots on the international space station all the details as always just a click away. the u.s. has arrested a russian citizen in the mole to use on suspicion of cyber fraud hacking and theft of personal information it's a move to provoke fury in moscow's foreign ministry especially as he's the son of a politician. can can bring us more economy thanks for joining us what is happening just give us the details all of this story. well the u.s. secret service has captured a russian citizen in the mall deaves and shipped him to a u.s.

base in guam where he was formally arrested at a muscle is no if he's charged with hacking into retail computer systems and installing malicious software to steal credit card numbers if convicted the russian could face up to thirty years in prison on bank fraud charges and additional jail time for the other charges now the usa department did not elaborate on the circumstances of his decision arrest neither have u.s. officials notified russian authorities about the grounds on which this individual was snatched in the maldives and sent to the guam so promptly overnight literally moscow qualify citizen detention as kidnapping so his father who all happens to be a russian state duma deputy a lawmaker thinks it might be a scheme to trade his son for another then edward snowden well his family also says that it is no it doesn't have a lawyer for the moment moscow also criticizes the government of the mall the so for letting the u.s.

secret service smuggle people out of their country like that while the maldives is not the only place where the u.s. was allowed to do that thailand as we remember allowed the u.s. to take hold of big to boot the russian arms dealer in the capital of liberia u.s. forces arrested two russian pilot. as we remember to charge him with drug trafficking so this is this is a recurring complaint from moscow about russian citizens being captured in different countries without notifying russian officials artie's going to church can reporting from washington d.c. thank you for the. ok moving on to more international news right now a taliban suicide attack in eastern afghanistan has killed four nato soldiers nearby erbe base ten civilians on two policemen are also among the casualties the assault came soon after the independent election committee announced ashraf ghani had won a presidential runoff his rival branded the result i cood against people insisting

the process was. a powerful thai food can now island chain causing waves and the rain up to five hundred thousand people have been told to seek shelter and at least one person has been killed the storm caused massive power outages forcing schools to close and triggering flight cancellations warnings of potential flooding and heavy downpours have also been issued for japan's western mainland. and a british chief executive of a fifo partner company has been detained by brazilian police as part of an investigation into illegal ticket sales last week more than ten other people were detained and accused of belonging to an international gang which resells world cup tickets police say the gang could have operated up to four tournaments making almost one hundred million dollars in the process. the n.s.a. has been spying on its own friends its people and even an entire nations recording

every phone call made in the bahamas. we're. going to do with you so we. are building the whole world. and the pentateuch nimrod came or went to find out what people in the government think about being watched by washington and what they plan to do about it watch the first part of his journey to the sunny islands of the bahamas tomorrow here on r.t. international. an entire italian alpine village is being sold on e bay it's located in a northern region near a national park and fourteen lofts with scenic views it's in need of a little renovation but the asking price for the entire village is a bargain basement two hundred forty five euro although political analysts. believe this is just another sign of economic decay this is not the first case you need to

. 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. doesn't mean that it's easy economics for that. seem in the situations where the number of for sale is incredibly high relatively cheap has been subsidized but finally. this is not allowing these people to really make their living out of it so. in the budget so this is reflected in the. infrastructures. and in perspective for these people the only thing to do is to sell and run away. empty churches in britain are putting their faith in a whole new savior immigrants are the only thing keeping many places of worship

from becoming obsolete. the scot free. if young british people are in church these days well it could be because they live in one attendance actual anglican services has long been in decline religious leaders looking to come up with any number of simple meal plans to get worship is in but there is one small crumb of comfort for them and the latest figure is thanks to changing 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 type of 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 kids are an important way to people to keep in touch with their own communities and worship in that any language i celebrate every sunday to. a special for polish citizens spark of course in the. coming call sold to citizens understand. slovak people sometimes ukraine from different countries speaks. from east languages and. it's the number of. still growing. while the british may be leading. religion as some might

say economist of the country actually playing the lead in line just to bounce. see the posing for. us the news this hour but up next here in our to international moxon the stacy look out the latest financial world stumbles. told him a language of war but i will only react to situations i have read the reports so i'm not pushing the know i will leave them to the state department to comment on your latter point among to say to secure a car is on the docket notes on. radio no more weasel words

when you made a direct question be prepared for a change when you run should be ready for a battle freedom of speech and little down the freedom to question. welcome to the kaiser report i'm max kaiser my friends there are no friends so said coco chanel jim as well been speaking of global wants are fiscal and economic policy these days a collapsing empire with america is teaching everyone how to lose friends and not

influence people. max the europeans are saying enough is enough and the first headline is from france france's neuer says b.m.p. may prompt shift away from dollar so this is the bank of france governor christian noir and he said that the u.s. investigation into b m p perry by which they might find the ten billion dollars may encourage companies to stop using dollars in international transactions he said quote we can say that companies would have maximum interest to do the most possible transactions in other currencies neuer who is also a member of the european central bank's governing council said yesterday on b.f.m. television trade between china and europe do it in euro's do it in remember stop doing it in dollars this is an affair that will leave marks get out that's right the countries around the world are getting out of the u.s. dollar and we're saying we're more well the petro ruble is here you know you got the big russia and china gas deal which is going to be done in something other than

dollars now that's my understanding and you have an offramp saying that french companies like big totality big energy companies they don't need to trade in dollars do deals in dollars people won out of the dollars of the extraordinary privilege or the extraordinary program privilege that charles de gaulle mentioned exorbitant for you know the exorbitant price privilege that charles de gaulle mentioned that the u.s. gets to write checks with their mouth that their bank account never has to cash the rest of world is saying we don't want this extraordinary extra bit. robbery privilege well actually this is an interesting time to look back to because that was in one thousand sixty nine that tells the girls our finance minister said that and right then is the first time the most recent time that the us went bankrupt remember they went off the gold standard because they couldn't meet their obligations overseas well the brits took it they just accepted that bankruptcy and then no notion that america would never give them back their gold that the fray.