this is gaza where young children are mourning those killed this israeli warplanes relentlessly bombed the area as part of an expanding offensive against palestinian territories. civilian life is tested to the limits in the eastern ukraine as government forces lay siege to the region's biggest cities a blockade punctuated by that shelling. and germany reports of leon masks a second and that's a double agent in the space of a week about some of the storm brewing over a new snowden leak proving the u.s. read the e-mails of five high profile american muslims.

welcome you're watching artsy international thanks for being with us now what you are seeing here is the consequences of the large scale israeli military operation some brutal pictures of eight children age from six to sixteen are among those who've been killed as the i.d.f. wraps up its offensive with warplanes and rockets bomb in a residential areas ortiz policy or joins us live now from tel aviv hi there paul on the death toll is spiraling want to we know so far. well certainly the death toll is spondee spiraling particularly among the civilian count we know that at least eight children between the ages of six and sixteen years old have. and have also been killed in the gaza strip now hospitals there are reporting that they have been pushed to emergency mode and that they struggling to cope with the number of

people that are being brought in i'm standing here in the southern israeli town of ashkelon a short time ago there were sirens sounding on the beach which is a short distance from where i'm standing and we can also constantly hear the loud explosions of air strikes on gaza which is just a short distance behind me the israelis insist that they are targeting the military infrastructure of him us but the problem is when you have innocent bystanders when you consider part of that infrastructure to be the homes of hamas leaders then it's inevitable that the number of people that are not involved in this conflict essentially civilians are going to be killed so it really does seem paula that the offensive as robin pinup. certainly the offensive at this stage seems to be heating up almost by the minute we're hearing from israel's defense minister that they plan to expand the operation and we're hearing from the amassed leadership that if indeed israel does not cease with its airstrikes it too will

expand the operation there is a particular concern amongst israelis where rockets now have reached as far as jerusalem and tel aviv these are long range rockets bring a whole new dimension to the conflict meaning that it does not limit itself to only the south of the country municipalities from all the country have ordered that public bomb shelters be opened so we've seen this happening in cities as far north as tel aviv and and possibly even in haifa egypt is still playing a maybe a tree role we are hearing from a spokesperson for the gyptian prime minister saying that they are intensifying efforts to try and reach a cease fire but certainly at this stage it seems as if the situation. a fall out. from any kind of ceasefire our correspondent paula slayer with the very latest from the israeli palestinian border thank you well earlier we spoke to the israeli defense forces spokes person and he says how moss is to blame for everything on the

ground and as far as simply protecting its land and its people this is an unfortunate situation israel had no intention no wish to go and attack gaza but. it is in the school where you know our civilians are unable to go children today. could not be allowed to go to kindergarten children could not go to say 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 charged to protect the state of israel hamas is responsible for most is accountable we are responsible for safeguarding the state of israel that is a mission and that is what we will do well it's true that every country has a duty to defend its population from all of the external threats especially of course if they're in danger but official figures show that over the past six years of military operations in gaza the number of israeli skill doesn't come anywhere near the number of palestinian deaths as you can see there or thereabouts one c.

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 in data points the total number of deaths of miners up more than one thousand since the turn of the millennium doctor offered to see for head of the international relations committee of the communist party of israel says it's not the security of israelis that force the country on the offensive. the israeli government is guilty and responsible for some war especially in the last few days and we must understand that the main reason for this is a dark place where this is a government music going to cynical run it has nothing to do with the security of israeli israeli civilians what's already there the legalities and the real incentive is a cynical. kind of the mystic issue in that by dr i mean some issues regarding the coalition the main theme that the mr netanyahu is eager to please

there is no the security of israeli civilians but the security of his own coalition and you can find all the latest developments figures and videos relating to israel's continued military operation in gaza on our websites. to more people have been killed by shelling in the eastern ukrainian city of lugansk locals say they were hit by ordinance fired by government forces please don't that's a good spot the front of all of it if you look at the way that you want to do it because it will. be close to the road. the ukrainian military has been given orders to surround the two biggest cities in the east stand to government forces currently control both now the extent of their

influence is actually marked here in dark orange and our correspondent maria is actually in the grounds which is right here for us in trip or so on how the city is taken to life under siege. we don't leave hotel without bulletproof jackets both sides may be they will not talk of presidential areas but he says something different. shells land in the city center for guns. because the interest for life. so now ready but citizens here have little protection against mortar rounds and those who didn't leak case constant danger. over the last three days the city's 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 the book called. fire just going out to 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. you go to invite us to your tea used to be his home broken glass litter is the floor. or the windows and two room apartment have been shattered and i just got up and opened up the window and it could be 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 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 shot so has the local police office a group of men gathers next to a bank in the center they're all workers lining to take out cash on payday they don't trust the banks not seeking to speak to journalists either. basically the people do not want to talk they're angry nervous it's understandable. party it's a new crane. care says the military is currently of relocating its forces throughout a siege to the two eastern capitals but it's a plan that the former italian foreign minister franco frattini believes as a bad idea. it is never a good order where innocent civilians are taken on this siege it is never a good order where civilians is s'posed to become victims of

violence unfortunately war civil war can never be the response always well when people. violence when people see when they are sufferings from day in the sun population day it always leads to scully and negative and counterproductive impacts it is not the right solution the right cross spokesman for europe and central asia david pierre mark today told us his organization has the ploy to fully to help the wounded and the refugees in eastern europe the reason of course is needed to regarding the wanted to be of sons and that's what the international committee of the red cross. in

a system for more than thirty hospitals in the regions of donetsk and lugansk to provide the basic guns are necessary for one selves and one did to be assume we are working or closely as a result russian red cross. you know stuff where you know in a ploy before a major comes from a korean. maybe you are in something. they crimean crisis and the impact it's had on relations between the east and the west is a theme of today's cross talk and you can watch it next hour here on r.t. . the terminal forty's are reportedly searching homes and offices in berlin looking for yet another and the site appalachians it comes just a week since a similar scandal rocked the country let's get of the details from marty's peter all of our who's in the german capital for us so we had some more revelations peter what do we know about this new alleged spy. well every time i speak to you it's

sounding more and more like the plot of a spy novel what we do know is that early this morning early on wednesday morning people from the offices from the federal prosecutors office raided the office and homes of a employee of the german defense ministry they were looking for any evidence that could link him to potential spying for the united states now this has resulted in a reaction here we're hearing that the. american ambassador john b. emerson has been summoned to the the foreign ministry here in berlin to discuss this further. what happened is the just in a in the area around berlin this is where these raids took place it's understood that the person who the property belong to is currently being. is currently answering questions of the by the attorney general that's pretty much all of the

information that's come out so far but the newspaper sort of deutsche as i was reporting that apparently the incident with this. investigation isn't linked directly to what we saw last week with chairman saw a member of the german security services the b n d being arrested and charged with espionage charges of operating as a double agent who is believed to have been offered twenty five thousand euro in order for handing over documents two hundred plus documents to the n.s.a. so this isn't going away we have seen it a phone call it tuesday night between the heads of this of the cia and the. chancery state secretary here in berlin it's not understood whether that phone call led to this this rate this morning but we'll be looking to see just what happens next in this ongoing spying saga here in berlin but peter this is not where it ends

actually because earlier today we also saw journalism glenn greenwald published yet another of snowden's leaks what did that reveal. well what we've seen come out from from glenn greenwald is that well that the n.s.a. and the f.b.i. were snooping into the e-mails of muslim american citizens you know it's believed around two hundred plus but among them were five very prominent american muslims that have been named including like the likes of. of a senior of the director general that beg pardon of but the major muslim civil rights organization in the united states also a form of political candidates activists lawyers who represented terror suspects all of these people who had no link to any kind of terrorism charges and in fact

under their first amendment rights they they shouldn't have been targeted at all by this program so in the united states we're seeing more and more snooping on their own citizens and it comes out here in germany well on the covering and the covering double agents and spies within the german government and security services are tease out peter all over the very latest on the scandal surrounding the new leaks thank you very much all these stay with us we'll have more news coming your way after a short break. available . place.

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welcome back to artsy international we'll continue now with the u.s. secret service which has refused to name me grounds for something moscow is calling a de facto abduction russian citizen or monsoon is now off was grabbed by american agents in the mall deeds on accusations of stealing personal information and hacking artie's going to town has his story. family vacation in the multi 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 trying to get on a flight to get to russia and somehow they're spirited away and they end up in. charge with. you know. abduction. i'm just not going to have more in this case the aftermath moscow says the tension 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 woodward's know that but lawyers are doubtful that's mr snowden has been free to decide 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 short of an exchange with two particular individuals there's no extradition treaty between russia and the us i would say that our 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 the book 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 approvingly. violated. was stripped 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 among students know full half while he's there in washington i'm going to check on. ok let's take a look at what's available for you on our website customers have been lining up outside stores savoring the moments as washington has become the second state in

the u.s. so allow adults to buy cannabis legally without even a doctor's the old all the details on artsy dot com. also their syrian jihad this stronger and spiration from one delivering a strong and see isis speech at pink hello kitty notebook it seems at least that is the case for this commander whose video went viral on the internet beacon check it out online. now he's a chinese playboy multimillionaire rescue volunteer and on top of a global fund meets. with. and he certainly knows his worth according to trans business card he's china's quote most charismatic philanthropist in the country's most beloved role model

among many many other things now in june he coughed up thirty thousand dollars to a charity that said it was affiliated with the you won and promised to give him another title imagine his surprise when he found out that his certificates was from the united nations not the united nations chen had been duped unfortunately he found little sympathy for his plight given his own history of altruism as marina portnoy explains. these centric chinese billionaire who conned hundreds of homeless new yorkers out of a promised pay day has found that his deeds have come back to bite him churn and initially garnered international fame in june after taking out a full page advertisement in the new york times promising one thousand homeless people free lunch at central park extravagant boathouse and three hundred dollars. the event that r.c. reported on turned into a media circus just huge backed up. with trends so the spotlight

becomes. the city. however only two hundred fifty homeless people were allowed in and only a few received their money the chinese billionaire shocked at the cash strapped crowd when he announced that instead of giving them money he would donate ninety thousand dollars to new york's hold this shelter. more. now chen who has built his fortune on recycling says he has been cheated and is taking option to get his money back from the foundation for the hundreds of homeless we feel cheated by chan well they may be thinking what goes around comes around for an up or die archie new york. and of course we have to talk about the shocking seven the one trashing of brazil by

germany in the world caught some of finals that has of course left farms all the whole simply devastated a number even vents of their frustration in the streets with scattered incidents of brawling property damage and clashes with police firms threw stones and debris involved police responded with battling charges and arrests. meanwhile there was a storm over another macon on the answer and that created by those sure enough there was of humor. let's in go of the hope of a brand new shiny trophy was clearly hard for some the brazilian scene which has always boasted a reputation as one of the world's best was quite literally this straw oid by germany in this game such a spectacular amount of action was recently seen over a decade ago back when super germany beat saudi arabia eight zero. ok that's it from this hour more news in about half an hour from that coming up

next though it's nimrod kaymer and his documentary about the n.s.a. spying and the bahamas. like always wonder with all the n.s.a. listening to my conversations. he's a place where i know for sure that they do. they support the bahamas i went to not so pick up the same time just to get. i mean the fact that i'm sixty nine it's just going to be a government. should not have a church. and she just doesn't learn here is a misdemeanor. the minister the full financial services seems comfortable about the whole idea well we're still fine and i mean there's nothing to do with it and he said with this it's economic surveillance as well like the popping into phones to you and me revealing the whole world. i'll just tell me to see the phone company

to stop it would be easy but yeah i meant to send a letter signed to rise you know. like you. know i'm not i'm not i'm going over the. phone and i'm going to say you know i do think. it's. 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 go look. in the face of it and focus about it like the polling 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. maybe warrant some type of information gathering but when it comes down to the. great things the privacy rules not individual individuals so 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 and they ought to tell the boehm people from it and then we are in a position to make a determination as to babyhood if you 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 fulfills information . deputy prime minister philip davis he said we give our consent but that is not the same thing as not knowing yeah so the question we have been like with full brightness exactly the possibility of

a review that one of the many reasons why we're we're demonstrating today even the us put them in a godor one of them perhaps i don't think it could be anything it could be that they just turned a blind eye without the well 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 you know if you are going to stop in effect just going to. dismiss is suing the u.s. government my right to privacy has been violated i don't know an awful lot of me on your i did native language and there are members there are certain responsibility had to do or you know go follow the progress i don't understand but have not put the age dropped. on him a certain age it appears that if you just listen to people's phone pose as a whole in the bahamas or becomes about it was it ok to listen to people i was like yeah. ok and this is this demonstration the for. remember the formation of. the cabin of the bahamas can contain important information that should be shared with

the citizens for very long time. makes. people. suitable to see in our country. people have it. we see it every day to see how commentaries can fix our position. many people in russia to believe that the reset was essentially never improving their relations it was rather. the neighboring be the gravity of the ledger and foreign policy of the united states one year a poll in free the phrase of george h.w. bush in one thousand nine hundred two migrated during the course of the clinton administration the george w. bush administration and finally through the obama administration into

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