with. civilian life to the limits in eastern ukraine as government forces lay siege to the region's biggest cities punctuated. also. and this is gaza where young children are among those killed as israeli warplanes relentlessly bomb the area as part of an expanding offensive against palestinian territories. and you know that reveals the u.s.

national security agency was reading the e-mails of high profile muslim americans despite no proof of their relation to terrorism. hello and welcome you're watching artsy ensor national it's good to have you with us now two more people have been killed by shelling and eastern ukraine in the city of lugansk locals say they were hit by ordinance fired by government forces. please don't look at those of us but the folks at school they didn't have stood up that way or that you wanted to do it because it was. like oh what the would be going to. do in the world and. the ukrainian military has been given orders to surround the two biggest cities in

the east and so government forces currently control both nabby extends all their influence as marked the year by a dark orange and maria for national forest and reports how the city is taken to live under siege. we don't leave hotel without bullet proof jackets both sides may be they will not talk presidential areas but he says i can different. shells land in the city center the gun. is the interest for life. so no ready but citizens here have little protection against mortar rounds and those who didn't leak place 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. as we're filming we hear about another shelling locals say it was in the recall that no one got hurt. could fire just going onto the balcony and then i heard glass breaking and i realized we are being attacked. i don't know what to do where to hide or 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 two room apartment have been shattered. i just got out and opened up the window and then it came on 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 is to ukraine it 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 shot 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 keen to speak to journalists either. they see the people do not want to talk they're angry nervous it's understandable rich national party is to ukraine. here says the military is currently relocating its forces to surround the two eastern ukraine in capitals or asked for where it could all needless discuss where the former italian foreign minister franco frattini that's there for three thank you very much for joining me now how do you view president poroshenko as all that are for east ukraine three biggest cities to be blockaded.

well i think it is never a good order where innocent civilians are taken on this siege it is never a good order where civilians are spalls to become victims of violence unfortunately war civil war can never be the response so what do you think this will mean for the public we are ready now there is a water shortage and then you know it's going to million people live there while always well people are disposed to violence when people are under siege when they are suffering from the in the sand population dead always leads to its coalition and negative and counterproductive impacts it is not the right solution the violence we've seen the government crack

that crackdown has literally put the region on its knees dozens were killed and of thousands hansa fleeing the area is literally on the brink of a humanitarian crisis so how do you justify it have kiev's actions been the thing well i think it in my opinion never a c.v. in war atmosphere can be justifiable very strongly hope it will be possible for the government of ukraine to order immediately cease fire as everybody would like to see in the ward in this time we've spoken about kiev's actions by washington as well refuses to admit that there is a mass exodus of refugees and has even publicly doubt of the u.n. figures why do you think it's downplaying the scale of the problem. frankly speaking i didn't know why but for me u.n.

figures are always more important than opium ians and dolls i think that u.n. figures are showing us it is a catastrophic situation of there but would you agree because the us says it insists kiev has a right to protect that slant with all means possible do you agree with that viewpoint. well as a set seaview war cannot be the response i strongly hope kiya will be sitting very soon together with the russian federation and europe to try to decide as soon as possible if aired the structure of ukraine in full respect all russian minorities you know may be that we have a need to really probably the best example in the war of course distance between

different it needs a linguistic group it is south to rule italy i think it can be source of some inspiration to create a federal ukraine but do you think we will end up seeing an agreement because as we know russia germany and france have been brokering a lasting cease fire but present partial refuses to extend one so can we expect truce in the forseeable future. apparently president pro russian girl said yesterday to detail and foreign minister that he would be ready to accept immediately a ceasefire i hope that this good intention will be translated into a presidential order to renew the permanent ceasefire in that region. frankfurt's and a former italian foreign minister thank you so much for your time now the ukrainian

crisis and the impact it's had on relations between the east and the west is the theme of today's cross talk and you can watch it later this hour here on r.t. . now what you're seeing here and you're about to see is the brutal consequences of the large scale israeli military operation targeting gaza eight children age from six to sixteen are among those who've been killed as the i.d.f. continues to ramp up its offensive with warplanes and rockets bombing residential areas are seize policy told us about the raids. 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 harvey yunus in the gaza strip in a separate incident civilians were also killed when the israelis hit a car in which militants were traveling inside and 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 masts 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 him us that israel stop with this operation or else they are saying that they will expand their airstrikes now the israeli prime minister benjamin 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 these rabies 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 until 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 says the blame where everything on the ground that israel is simply protecting its land and people. fortunate situation israel had no intention no wish to go and attack gaza but hamas put us in the school. where you know i was civilians are unable to go children today. could not be allowed to go to kindergarten children could not go to summer camp they had to stay in the safe room it's an accepted we're not willing to let this go and that's why the military has been challenged to protect the state of israel hamas is responsible for most is accountable we are responsible for

safeguarding the state of israel that is the mission and that is what we will do well it's true that every country has a jew to the fattest population from all the external threats especially when they are in danger now butts off actual figures show that over the past six years of military operations in gaza the number of israelis killed doesn't come anywhere near the number of palestinian deaths which are about twenty five times higher and the most vulnerable are also comment on the fire according to local reports as many as eight children were killed in the first two days of the operation the alarm and data from the institute for middle east understanding put the total number of deaths of miners are more than one thousand since the turn of the millennium wolf more inside let's cross live to dr offit to see if head of the international relations committee of the communist party of israel thank you very much for joining us now are all the innocent deaths really worth the military effort or

could it have been resolved peacefully in some other way. look i just want to begin first if i made it to convey in the name of the communist party of his and. a grief in our condolences to the families and to the palestinian people as they are all given the death toll that israel is a sponsible for in the last couple of days so i would like very much so to convey our condolences to the palestinian people and especially to the families and of course this is part of our policy in our ideas in the in that we want everybody to know that the israeli government is guilty and responsible for some war especially in the last few days and everybody has to know that not all these ways jews and arabs alike support the sport you see in this. government so this is one thing i would like to say to begin with and in about what you asked we do believe that the

only solution for the conflict in the middle east is a peaceful one and everybody has to understand that you know mahatma gandhi once said that if they human race adopts continuously a policy of it will fail and i for an i everybody in the end we become blind so this is something we should bear in mind everybody palestinians and israelis alike should understand that there is only one solution for they say conflict for the israeli palestinian conflict in particular and what sadness of her getting back into it is you know to a sham lucky cues to be a recently but to a serious negotiations between the palestinians. the only solution is elimination both only million asian over the occupation of the palestinians there was always that israel could buy in the night the sixty seven will this is the first and foremost thing that they the first thing and the most important thing the truth a cool day because the occupation eased the main reason for these to tell you

a sure but the final day here escalated it is not just not having a government in independence. it parliament of the palestinians if i may interrupt the violence escalated after that that's. really what he majors the violence escalated after that that's not a reason that israeli teenagers do you think that was used as a pretext for an offensive do you think it was created on purpose. first of all i would i would i would like to be very very clear we are the communist party and cardassian is will oppose any any damage and any attack on civilians so in dutch since we totally totally reject the. bombings and the missiles shooting that they are now days do we say it is something that should

be very clear we are not people we are against any attack on civilians a now to your question we now know in there actually we know that for a few good days that those free israeli young stairs were. viciously by by queen those but secondly they are very much in for new aware in relative very first day of the kidnap of those free victims the israeli government and you that thank you thank you very much i'll unfortunately the man just in his dissent is a very cool thing so i do it good morning gratefully not greatly matter is absolute is very literacy. so we cannot give you unfortunately we're but we're pressed for time ok i'm psychological say the only way the government knew it on the first day of the after the free of victims were good enough that they were dates. ok and then just use it as an excuse so that's

what they wanted to say thank you thank you very much fortunately we have a delay in timing thank you very much for your thoughts that was all i could see for the head of the communist party of israel ball we'll have more news coming your way after a very short break. we're bringing the whole world. this is what we do we kill people and break things. we can see something if simple as people playing soccer games you can see individual players in their community if . i can only see his facial expression you can see is

a mouth open in crying out. maybe he cursed us or maybe he asked. for forgiveness for. there must be near certainty that no civilians will be killed or injured. welcome back to r.t. international journalist glenn greenwald who published edward snowden's revelations

has produced a new eye opening report proving the u.s. has been monitoring the e-mails on five continents and politically active muslim americans there was no evidence they were in any way connected to terrorists however artie's put all of our has the details on this blows and activists are gathering here in berlin for a conference and they're going to have well plenty to talk about the latest revelations that have come out were published by glenn greenwald and which it's emerged that a series of muslim americans were having their e-mails monitored by the f.b.i. and the n.s.a. now among them five high profile muslim americans have been named these include people like feisal gill who was a political candidate and also held a a high ranking security clearance position in the homeland security department also the head of the largest muslim civil liberties organization in in the united states as well as other lawyers that it's defended terror suspects.

activists and academics system which was used to monitor these e-mails as only designed for terrorist suspects and to try and weasel out. of foreign spies now there's no evidence that any of these people have been involved in those activities and in fact under their first amendment rights. living in the united states that it shouldn't have been allowed whatsoever no this was a leak that came from the documents that edward snowden provided it's being published by glenn greenwald he did tease us in may of this year that we could see some kind of new revelations coming out he had cleared the cleared with these five that he could use their names before you before you publish them but it does. just seem like one thing after another we're now over a good although since the first leaks of edward snowden we're just seeing more and more just last week the latest thing from here in germany was this perhaps it was

a double agent being operated by the united states working within the german security services so it is relentless the amount of information coming out. the u.s. secret service has refused to name legal grounds for something moscow is calling a de facto abduction russian citizen that monsoon is now off was grabbed by american agents in the mall diem's on accusations of stealing personal information and hacking artie's going to secure and has a story. about monsoon is no family vacation in the came to an abrupt end when the u.s. secret service captured him before whisking him off to a u.s. base in guam the u.s. government charged the russian citizen with 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 of the morgue trying to get on a flight to back to russia and somehow they're spirited away and they end up in. charge with a crime. you know where i was. abduction. i'm just not going to have more in this case the aftermath moscow says city's newest attention is a kidnapping so there's no father who is a russian state duma deputy believes it could be a scheme to trade his son for edward snowden 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. no extradition treaty between russia and the us i would say that also is client. a russian pilot was captured in liberia and sent to the us where he was convicted of drug trafficking

in thailand allowed the u.s. to take hold of victor boot the russian arms the proxy of seizing russian citizens abroad in third countries and bringing them into the jurisdiction of the united states has become quite common 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 of truly being violated. were stripped to guam and although the island is in possession of the united states the u.s. constitution does not fully apply there which raises more questions as to why it's my son is no full half while he's there in washington i'm going to check on our. more news on the way in about half an hour from now coming up next on our team international it's nimrod kaymer and his documentary about the n.s.a. spying in the bahamas stay with us. if you.

like always wonder will be n.s.a. listening to my conversations. is a place where they know for sure that they do. they support the bahamas they want to know so pick up the same thing just to get. i'm writing the sixty thousand japanese government. should. really. learn here is a misnomer that their. financial services seem comfortable about the whole idea of. we're still fine and i mean there's nothing to do with the service of the states economic surveillance is. like the popping the phone. you're looking for being the whole world you. know you just told me to see the phone company to stop it would be easy but yeah i meant to send

a letter signed up to write you know. like you did. not find. the nobility on what i'm going to say. i did. was. 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 enough it will be about or i would say. this. n.s.a. surveillance of us about it like when the foreign minister is about to give a speech in parliament saying that he got some reassurance of the us 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. phrasing it's the privacy rules not individual individuals or innocent individuals that's a whole different story 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 that they ought to tell the game and people from a time then we are in a position to make a determination as to people. 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 protest fulfill say from a. deputy prime minister philip davis he said we didn't give our consent but that is not the same thing as. yeah so the question we have is like with full brightness results there's a possibility of a reason which is one of the many reasons why we're we're demonstrating that it is in the us put them in

a godor one of them perhaps 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 jared you are going to have an effect the split. the smith is suing the us government and my right to privacy have been violated i don't know the nostromo me i knew your i did know you have a work and there are members of their lives like the responsibility on the door you know to follow the contrary i know this and have not put a. drop. on here in the senate since i did ok but if you just listen to people's phone calls as a whole in the bahamas all becomes about the us it's ok to listen to people like you also i just hope that this is this demonstration with real hard information that you know the cabin of the bahamas can contain. be shared with the citizen for

a long time. make sure you keep close. to see you country. people have it. we see it every day these. commentaries to get. their position. her. home. her. her. her.

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