next girlfriend still paints tear jerking poetry. norrish. we post only what really matters. to your facebook u. street. civilian life was tested to the limits of eastern ukraine as government forces lay siege to the regions the biggest cities a blockade punctuated by deadly shelling also. and this is gaza where young children are among those killed as israeli warplanes relentlessly bombed the area as part of an expanding offensive against palestinian territories. the fallout from the latest n.s.a. scandal which revealed a possible double agent spying for washington sees the german public demanding the country distances itself from what was supposed to be

a trusted ally. and washington or leaves a moscow in an information blackout the arrest of a russian citizen aboard which has already been dubbed kidnapping. it's midday here in moscow we welcome you start international you with me tom would say it's good to have you with us. people have been killed by shelling in the eastern ukrainian metropolis of lugansk locals say they were hit by ordinance fired by government forces. please don't look at those against the folks who didn't have stood up that way or that you want to talk with british who look. oh look at the ruling would be. doing the whole world to go.

oh the korean man military has been given orders to so wrong the two biggest cities in the east that will be done yet and lugansk now into government forces currently control both of these cities accent all their influence mugs right here on this map we have for you in dark orange. is in the guards for us and reports on how the city is taking to life under siege. if we don't leave hotel without bullet proof jackets both sides may be they will not talk residential areas but recent indifferent. shells land in the city center for guns. is the interest for life. so now already but citizens here have little protection against mortar rounds and those who didn't leak constant danger.

over the last three days the city is residential areas have been hate each time we civilian casualties. this is the scene of the most recent attack we saw at least two craters on the road there and there and as you can see this building was damaged well it used to be one of the city's banks and it could barely be a target of whoever is behind this attack so what is the reason bus station it's one look away from here but most importantly rees one of three major headquarters building says all of self-defense forces here in the guns and experts say that that tour was the target but it's not less than one kilometer away from where we. and now. as we're filming we hear about another shelling locals say it was in the recall that no one got hurt the book called. the hood the fire just going out to the balcony and then i heard glass breaking and i realized we are being attacked.

you were on the balcony and you survived oh my god i don't know what to do where to hide where they're going to fire from the next time we go to invite us to what used to be his home broken glass litter is the floor. or the windows and we go to these two room apartment have been shattered. i just got up and opened up the window and then it came this also happened on tuesday nine story apartment building on the outskirts of the city of the gods what was that mistake no one can say for sure both sides blame the other for the violence but whoever is responsible the violence is real and fear is spreading lugansk the second largest city in effect and ukraine eighty used to be home to more than four hundred thousand people these days you can see it looks like a ghost town it's not just shops banks and restaurants that have closed their doors

. post offices to have shocked so has the local police office a group of men gathers next to a bank in the center they are all workers lining to take out cash on payday they don't trust the banks not going to speak to journalists either. i think the people do not want to take their angry nervous it's understandable. as the song goes down a to refire intensifies. evening is the most difficult time of the day people those who didn't flee the city for fur enough to go outside to stay at home with their families friends would also better hurry out back to hotel to morrow will be new day a new fight. party is to ukraine. maria's constantly posting updates on what's happening in the guns on her twitter feed so free to follow her and as she

documents life under siege in ganske by home on the humanitarian aspect of this crisis we now have the opportunity to talk to the red cross spokesman for europe and central asia david pia market he joins us live you live in r.t. sir how would you describe the situation in eastern ukraine right now. in eastern europe there is of course needed regarding the wanted persons and that what their international committee of the red cross has deployed. and a system for malls are thirty hospitals in the regions of donetsk and lugansk to provide the basic necessary for their wounded in this region so would you say there's many people who actually need help right now are they in the east. no we are we are working. with local red cross in and in

lugansk to provide. as a necessary assistance and especially we are working closely. with the hospitals we have still working for being good another age of one selves and one did persons let me ask you this month so see you just have left eastern towns shells all the foremost selves up with no polloi and no water could do the same fate to be heading towards demi is and lugansk. yes you're right and because of this situation. another edge of five thousand people everywhere are displaced in cost nearly nine recently and that's why those words are international red cross i.c.r.c. and their local red cross are providing assistance to these displaced person most particularly to babies and children distributing some specific children food and

medicine to ms almost never able to pass a. military blockade within the two largest city that of lugansk and didn't. isn't that going to hurt more civilians if you blockade those two cities. when when you are working on the field the result local teams you do your best whatever the situation as you know the situation is voted time and what we try to do with the local as we do in russia we do the same in ukraine will preserve look at a red cross volunteers continuing whatever situation to provide the basic and necessary assistance for civilian populations speaking of civilian a lot of people are interested in the refugee situation in eastern ukraine to use you spoke about the displaced camps said the u.n. also quoted some to figures saying that there's a lot of people also escaping to russia trying to get away from the easy how do you

assess that situation. you're right regarding. russia we are working are closely as a result russian red cross notably stuff where you know america deployed to four major problems but those were and we are working on a very specific program restoring family links between people separated by this current situation people from ukraine you know. maybe you're in something of the world you can go to their local red cross brush and make a trysting request to be. you know restoring funny things said thank you very much david my kad red cross spokesman for europe and central asia speaking to us about the situation in eastern ukraine. at least eight young children among those killed in the large scale israeli military operation targeting

gaza the death toll is continuing to rise and now stands at about thirty civilians as israel ramps up its offensive with while planes and rockets bombing residential areas the i.d.f. still claims that it only targets hamas militants but the videos they keep emerging from the ground show a different picture artist policia reports. in the past twenty four hours a number of palestinians have been killed including civilians teenage boys were among those who were killed when the israelis targeted a house belonging to a hamas militant in harm yunus in the gaza strip in a separate incident as civilians were also killed when the israelis hit a car in which militants were traveling in signed according to the israelis they say that they have hit two hundred and seventy targets they said that this is essentially the military infrastructure of her mast and other militant groups in the gaza strip that it is hoping and aiming to destroy but of course as is always

the case it is civilians who are caught in the crossfire we have heard from how much that israel stop with this operation or else they are saying that they will expand their airstrikes now the israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu has responded by saying that israel will continue for as long as hamas continues to rain rockets down on southern israel and target israeli civilians what is particularly worrying for the israelis is that rockets have not been aimed at the cities of jerusalem and tel aviv and that is why there is the suspicion in israeli circles that these are rockets that have not been made by him us but which it has acquired from elsewhere and till now the iron dome anti-missile system has managed to successfully intercept rockets aimed for big cities other rockets have exploded in open fields now forty thousand israeli reserve troops have been called up the commander in chief of the israeli army has said that they will continue with their air strikes from both the sea and the sky over gaza to quote him to make hamas

sorry. earlier we spoke to the israeli defense forces spokesperson who says hamas is to blame for everything on the ground and israel is simply protecting its land and people. fortunate situation israel had no intention of no wish to go and attack gaza but hamas has in this corner. where you know all civilians are unable to move their children today. could not be allowed to go to kindergarten children couldn't go to some they had to stay in the safe room that's an acceptable we're not willing to let this go and that's one of the military's been charged to protect the state of israel hamas is responsible hamas is accountable we are responsible for safeguarding the state of israel that is the mission and that is what we will do of course is so jittery over every country to defend its land from external threats and casualties are inevitable in conflicts now idea figures show that over

the pos six years of military operations in gaza the number of palestinian civilian victims is about twenty five times higher than israeli ones and the most vulnerable are those also coming under fire according to local reports as many as eight children age from six to sixteen were killed in the first two days off the operation. i coming up but traveling into the left of the beast all special report takes a look at how the people of the bahamas are making us stand up for their right to privacy after revelations that the n.s.a. listens to all incoming and outgoing calls on the island so with us we'll be right back. revealing the whole world.

i'm abby martin the stories we cover here not only here in iraq and other big story it's true that while same time there's a reason they don't want to know how they aren't there i'm not crazy. now let's break the set.

i. thank you. thanks for being with us journalist to glenn greenwald to publish and was snowed in the revelations has produced a new i open the report proving the u.s. has been monitoring e-mails on five prominent and politically active muslim americans there was no evidence they were in any way connected to terrorists now the individuals appear on and this a spreadsheet called a foreign intelligence surveillance act containing names of those the agency told were connected to al qaeda muscle hizbollah this comes hot on the heels of yet another civilian scandal which could see the decades long policy of birdland and not spying on washington kambal german politicians including the interior minister have called for the rule to be scrapped after the country arrested a suspected double agent working for america. german media has been beside

itself with anger about repeated revelations of u.s. surveillance on its european allies a barrage of washington's sorries may have followed each scandal but every following show in america failing to deliver on its promises and the consequences of a such an approach is already being felt among the german public was. according to a recent survey by dispy a girl magazine the ball has sold out more than half of the country citizen and now want to see greater distance and less dependence on washington which of course is supposed to be a close ally german journalist robert stein believes america has turned his country into a puppet if you see the latest events concerning for example mr edward snowden the. crisis let's say in the german politics when mr snowden came up with all these ideas and with all these facts you press presented that basically the whole german government was taped or was supervised or

so what was the effect or secretary of the interior thomas the ms year wanted to go to america to make some clear statements that it is not possible what happened he came back with the impression that there's a criminal so what would be think about that. the u.s. a secret service has refused to name legal grounds for something most calling a defect an abduction russian citizen. say although was a grab by american agents in the maldives on accusations of steven personal information and hacking. scandal of course. monsoon is no ifs family vacation in the came to an abrupt end when the u.s. secret service captured him before whisking him off toy u.s. base in guam the u.s. government charged the russian citizen with hacking into retail computer systems and installing malicious software to steal credit card numbers the u.s.

however had little to say about the circumstances of his arrest there were accusations made at the department of justice case certainly there was no kidnapping involved i'm not sure maybe kidnapping is a bit too strong but if someone is in. the capital trying to get on a flight to russia and somehow they're spirited away and they end up in. charge of the. you know. abduction. i'm just not going to have more in this case the aftermath moscow says city's newest attention is a kidnapping and criticizes the maldives government for letting the u.s. secret service take him so there's no father who is a russia state duma deputy believes it could be a scheme to trade his son for it would snow that but lawyers are doubtful mr snowden has been granted asylum status in russia i don't know. that the

u.s. would engage nor do i not believe really that russia would engage in any sort of an exchange with those two particular individuals there's no extradition treaty between russia and the u.s. moscow says the u.s. should at least have told russian authorities on what grounds their citizen was captured in a third country i would say that ourselves client. pilot was captured in liberia and sent to the us where he was convicted of drug trafficking thailand allowed the u.s. to take hold of victor boot the russian arms dealer. proxy of seizing russian citizens abroad in third countries and bringing them into the jurisdiction of the united states has become quite common. by american agents the u.s. has captured citizens of many countries with this kind of snap extradition extraordinary renditions have been common practice since nine eleven and detainees

rights appropriately being violated almost sydney's north was shipped to guam and although the island is in possession of the united states the us constitution does not fully apply there which raises more questions as to what rights solution off will have while he's there in washington i'm going to check on our team. is a chinese a playboy a multimillionaire rescue volunteer and on top of that a global philanthropist meet chen. with the. and he certainly knows his worth according to china's a business card he's china's word to most charismatic philanthropist and the country's most beloved role model that's amongst many many other things. coughed up thirty thousand dollars to a charity that said it was affiliated with the you when and promised to give him

another title imagine his surprise when he found out his certificate was from the united nation not the united nations chad had been duped fortunately he found little sympathy for the plight given his own history of altruism as marina bought my experience. philanthropist chand long biao was reportedly scammed into making a thirty thousand dollars donation to a new york based foundation that awarded him a fake prestigious title and bogus united nations certificate during his charity tour in the u.s. last month chen was allegedly mean to global peace and goodwill ambassador and the world's most prominent palantir pressed the man to stowing the title claim to be the chairman of the china foundation for mobile partnership an organization at the u.n. reportedly says it has nothing to do it now chen who has built his fortune on recycling

says he has been cheated and is taking action to get his money back from the foundation for the hundreds of homeless who feel cheated by chan well they may be thinking what goes around comes around. archie new york. but i'll be back in the about a half an hour's time but in the mean time we have the islands of the how most the bahamas which is a country of course associated with a deal like beaches and romantic holiday so why bad has the n.s.a. chosen to keep tabs on the phones of those people's country. came a investigates station. like always wonder will be in the say listening to my conversations. these are place where they know for sure that they do that they support the bahamas they went to moscow to cover the same thing just to. i mean the fact that

sixty two japanese incident our government. have shared. and she said. she doesn't learn this is a misnomer to those of. the minister for financial services seems comfortable about the whole idea of. risk the fine and some of the things you do it is just silly. it's as though like the popping into phones. you were beaming the whole world you. know and you just told me to see the phone company to stop it would be easy yeah i meant to send a letter signed up to write you know. i'm not. on what i'm going to say. i do. basically so you're going to give

a speech about the whole government surveillance thing. would you say like the us told you it's all good and there's nothing cool about or i would say. this go over it in a series of minutes focus about it like when the foreign minister is about to give a speech in parliament saying that he got some reassurances from the u.s. or something like that there are certain issues because of national security that we may not know. there may be certain instances. that that may be warrant some type of information gathering but when it comes down to the. breaking the privacy rules not individual individuals or innocent individuals that's a whole different story yeah so we need to look at that we need to consider that we need more information from our government that much should know what's going on and

they ought to tell the beaming people from a time when we are in a position to make a determination that should be. like i'm giving you the n.s.a. stickers all right give you some just to put on your phone so you know we'll get. the people of the bahamas okupe like parliament square to protest fulfill say from a. deputy prime minister philip davis he said we give our consent you know but that is. the same thing as i don't know and so the question we have is a quick pull biden a series of the possibility of a reason why it's been one of the many reasons why we're we're demonstrating that it is in the us put them in a go go order all of them and perhaps i don't think it could be anything it could be that they just turned a blind eye without being without being so often in small countries like this you think well you know if united states wants to do it and we're not going to get in trouble we are going to start in effect a split on the fate of the smith is suing the us government and my right to privacy have been violated i've been awful all the way new york i did know you know they

work and there are members of a lot of second responsibility had that ordeal no real follow different thank you on the i don't understand but not for the day our age dropped by on a reception is it ok if we just to listen to people's phone calls as a whole in the bahamas or becomes about us the us it's ok to listen to people like you also i just don't ok this is just demonstrations with reward information you know the cabin of the bahamas can contain important information that should be shared with the citizens very long back from. the make sure you keep close. to see your own country. have a. p.c. in every t.v. see oh commentary and take a picture out of the section. your

friend post a photo from a vacation you can't afford college you different. the boss

repeats the same old joke of course you like. your ex-girlfriend still tends to rejection poetry keep john norris. we post only what really matters. to your facebook you st. oh. look. what's happening guys i'm abby martin and this is breaking the set so it's pretty clear at this point the age of privacy has gone the way of the dodo bird but at least there's one area where people still feel secure with their

doctors when i can kiss that notion goodbye as well so a new report from bloomberg business week outlines a questionable new practice being employed by carolina's health care system a health care provider that operates over nine hundred medical centers across north and south carolina turns out the hospital chain is actually mine mean a credit card information of two million patients in order to predict one that will get sick and get this the providers even using patient purchase information to have doctor. preemptively intervene in their lives now carolina's health care is defending the practice by saying this type of data collection allows doctors to get a fuller picture of their patients there by decree seen readmittance rates but conspicuously the company won't disclose the provider of the data now thankfully the affordable care act outlaws the use of personal data to lower or raise insurance rates but that isn't stopping other health care providers from using big data to bolster their bottom lines take the university of pitts.