scenes of panic as young children and women are among forty three killed in israel's offensive against the palestinian territories. germany investigated the french ministry worker suspected of spying for the u.s. just days after another alleged double agent working for its suppose an ally was on our. civilians seek safety in eastern ukraine as government forces lay siege to the region's biggest cities using the blockade and deadly shot like.

then you're watching artsy international coming to you live from moscow where it's just turned seven pm a very warm welcome to you now we starts with israel's so-called minutes and operation in gaza that is causing panic among ordinary palestinians caught in the crossfire. look. at. what you just saw and what you're seeing behind me are the consequences of an operation that the palestinian president mahmoud abbas has called genocides at least eight children are among forty three civilians killed in the i.d.f. is ramping up its offensive with the use of warplanes and rockets against

residential areas artie's policy or has more from the israeli palestinian border 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 ogham 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 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 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 long range rockets bring a whole new dimension to the conflict meaning that it does not limit itself to only the south for now egypt is still playing a mediator people that spokesperson for the cairo government say that they are intensifying their efforts but at the moment it seems as if the cease fire is far from anyone's mind if anything the mood on the ground is that we're heading closer to a full out war. israel has repeatedly shown a willingness to respond quickly to any aggression but what does it achieve well. let's take a look because back in two thousand and six israel waged war on hezbollah in lebanon but far from being destroyed the group actually rose to power and its regular operations against hamas have led up to the militants forging the union with palestinian political party for top and the country's reputation has also been

heads and annual poll suggests israel is now one of the most unpopular countries in the world and that it's of opinion towards it as increase in year by year and even an israel there are many who do not support a military response we do believe that the only solution for the conflict in the middle east is a peace and everybody has to understand that you know mahatma gandhi once said that if human race adopts continuously the police your for it will fit in i for when i everybody in the end we become blind and civilians out of the conflict this is something that we in israel jews and arabs like together are going to demonstrate full bring the conflict to an end and only by a just peace and settlement. and there are in a senior columnist that israel's haaretz newspaper told r.t. there are still trances that the conflict could be resolved. yes there were police

including civilian but their numbers are limited. if you compare them to previous rounds of violence so there is the making of a renewed ceasefire israel says aims in this operation are very modest the means are modest two you do not see any ground maneuver at least yet you do not see any attack on the very heads of hamas the government or the movement so there is still enough leeway for negotiations for dialogue perhaps as you mentioned through egyptian mediation. all the latest developments figures and videos relates into israel's military operation in gaza are available on our website as part of the post live updates. german police are reportedly investigating a new case of espionage this time it involves the finance ministry employee who is suspected of spying for washington last week another german intelligence worker was

arrested in berlin and he turned out to be a double agent working for the u.s. but all of our has more. on wednesday morning the federal prosecutors raided the office and home of the defense ministry implore you lynn they were looking for any evidence that this employee had passed information on to the united states he's currently facing questioning from the this employees currently facing questioning from the attorney general we'll be waiting to find out if any more information comes out about this but what we do know is that the u.s. . was summoned to the foreign ministry here in berlin in relation to this ongoing investigation well it's just the the latest in a litany of spying scandal here in germany just last week we saw in the security services implore you the b. and b. being arrested and charged with having passed on documents to the n.s.a.

for cash now he's currently in prison awaiting trial for that it's understood in reports in the media here that the two on linked that the arrest last week isn't directly linked to what we've seen on wednesday but it's just another example of u.s. spying taking place here in germany. revelations of the u.s. spying on one of its closest allies are now a regular fixture in the german media washington consistently says sorry but as soon caught in exactly the same thing again well earlier i spoke to an im a short on the former m i five agent turned whistleblower and she told me the u.s. wants to bring back its spying dominance during the cold war era teams that on the one hand the usa wants all the allies to work with them on this global war on terror but on. it's where they can spy on other countries and their national sovereignty with impunity they can't have it both ways so take

a look at some figures you'll see that a recent poll actually showed that around half of the germans want to see their country become less dependent on the us do you think that this is all you learned through the spying claims i think this has been a huge spurt of this impetus these exposures are going to show that the germans need to push back as indeed has been reported today that they are going to start spying in a retaliatory fashion in order to at least ensure their own national sovereignty but it would be nice as well to see them really put in place laws and influence the european environment as well to protect all european citizens prissie over the internet over communications and i would hope that germany will see this continuing gross infringement of its national sovereignty as the spur to encourage their country and the rest of europe to move away and start using open source to protect our rights as citizens of the e.u. . a recent report based on the leaks of edward snowden claims the n.s.a.

has been keeping an eye on five politically active muslim americans their surveillance took place even though there is zero evidence that any of them are connected to terrorism while our correspondent will be join the mission with all the latest details about that. in the meantime the n.s.a. has been spying on its own people on its friends and even on entire nations recording every phone call made in the bahamas and it's a later in the program we'll take you to this on the islands to find out what people and the government think about being watched by washington and what they plan to do about it. over to ukraine now where the president has visited sloviansk the scene of the fiercest fighting during crackdown on anti-government protesters and the east petro poroshenko praised the efforts to liberate the city while this is the result that you're seeing of those operations and efforts and international monitoring body says the military fired indiscriminately and locals believe only hide in the

basements as won't save their lives. but look at the carnage number lost for us from the most vocal of the photo shoot and we. threw it over to the. commission i did to buy you. a. very nice mutineers notion what to eat. the next stops for the ukrainian army are two of the largest cities in the eastern sky will guns both have suffered artillery attacks and now the president has personally ordered a blockade and the latest right on the gun scotland's two people were killed in apartment buildings ruined ref national as there. we don't leave the hotel without bulletproof jackets both sides may be they will not talk of presidential areas but we see something different. shells land in the city center the gun. is

dangerous a lot. so now already but citizens here have little protection against mortar rounds and those who didn't leak faced 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 a miracle that no one got hurt. by just going on 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 where they're going to fire from next time you

go to invite us to 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 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 bangs and restaurants that have closed their doors post offices to have shopped 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 take their angry nervous it's understandable. party it's in ukraine. maria is also constantly posting updates on what's happening and will ganske on her twitter feed so feel free to follow her now as she documents life on their sleeves. former italian foreign minister franco frattini believes it is a bad idea for kiev to move against the region's two biggest cities. it is never a good order where innocent civilians are taken on this siege it is never a good order where civilians spalls to become victims of violence unfortunately war civil war can never be the response always well people spalls to violence when people see when they are suffering as from the in the sun population day it

always leads to its coalition and negative and counterproductive impacts it is not the right solution foreign journalists have been visiting temporary refugee camps on the russian border put up to house the foul sense of ukrainians fleeing the conflict they put on bullet proof vests out of checkpoint which had come under attack from the ukrainian side just a couple of days ago the journalists then toward the camp where around four hundred refugees are currently sheltered in. a contract to build a section of the south stream pipeline which will run through siberia has been signed in belgrade the three billion dollars deal comes after tough negotiations were hindered by a bigger plane commission to put pressure on all the countries taking part even threatening them with sanctions the spike that's all agreements have now been

signed south stream offers european countries a more diverse source of russian energy supply and moscow says the construction as well timed given the crisis in ukraine this stay with us after a short break will cross live. in new york for more on the latest sore points and relations between berlin and washington. surveilling the whole world.

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back to r.t. international we'll go back now to the recent report which is based on the mix of edward snowden that claims the other side has been keeping an eye on five politically active muslim americans the surveillance took place even though there is zero evidence any of them are connected to terrorism correspondent joins me now with all the details hire them or not so was doing though about their surveillance of these men. well what we know is that the five american muslim men reportedly targeted by the national security agency weren't just politically active and innocent they are prominent citizens with no criminal record the five men targeted include an attorney who represents clients in terrorism related cases a professor at rutgers university a former professor at california state university the executive director of care which is the largest muslim civil rights organization in america and lastly

a long time republican party operative who actually held a top six secret security clearance and served in the department of homeland security during the bush administration now according to the intercept in an investigative outlet the n.s.a. and the f.b.i. covertly monitored the e-mails of all the men under secretive procedures that are used to target terrorists and foreign spies journalist glenn greenwald who broke the story says that he believes this is one of the most important revelations to come from edward snowden's leaks because it puts a face on the n.s.a.'s surveillance overreach and illustrates that domestic spying abuses usually target minorities and marginalizes groups and dissidents the n.s.a. told the intercept that the surveillance was not based solely on speech however additional explanation or justification for the targeting of these five american citizens based on their job or political activity was not provided by the u.s.

government. was of course when the marina portnoy reported to us live from new york thank you very much or just foreign minister has called the capture of a russian citizen and the mold a kidnapping amongst them is known for russian m.p. son was grabbed by u.s. agents on suspicion of stealing credit card information artie's gun that she has his story. romance it is no ifs family vacation in the moldy 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. 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 crime. you know how 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 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. i would say that also is client. a russian pilot was captured in liberia and sent to the u.s. 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 then 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 a clearly being violated from us in these north was shipped 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 what rights among students know full half while he's there in washington i'm going to check on our team. russia has successfully launched its first environmentally friendly space rockets the under all space booster the first of its kind to be fully designed in russia since the collapse of the soviet union was launched from the place it's called drome it can carry up to fifty tons of cargo into lower third brit's all while running on known toxic fuel the first attempt to launch was cancelled late last month just minutes before takeoff and that was the to

a problem with the rockets control system. it was a result that will go down in the world cup history competition home sale on the receiving end of a seven one thrashing by germany leaving the local fire absolutely devastated a number even balance of their frustration in the streets with scattered incidents of brawling the damage to property and clashes with police fans threw stones and debris and police responded with phantom charges and address however on the lights are side there was a whole host of internet comedians the chance to demonstrate their wits. they actually came up with friends begged germany to stop taken the ball and of course the ports team members it was most iconic sideshow was shown to head in hands a well known drink seemed like the only beverage of the occasion after germany's

emphatic win and finally the true meaning of the world cup logo seems to have been this side for it but it's perhaps better than anything the short video describes what happened the best. well that's it for me for now my colleague given on the all will be taken over next hour in the meantime as promised nimrod kaymer and his documentary about n.s.a. spying in the bahamas stay with us. like i always wonder will the n.s.a. listening to my conversations. he's a place where i know for sure that they do. places called the bahamas i went to not so pick up the city to be mistaken. i mean the fact that sixty minutes japanese even a government. should know for sure. and she's just.

learned here is a misnomer that. the minister for financial services seems comfortable about the whole idea of well mr finance i mean nothing to do with you so we dismiss its economic surveillance as like the piping in the phone. you're paying for bailing the whole world. and you just told 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 phone and i'm going to say yeah i'm. 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 that this covert. n.s.a. surveillance office about it like that the fallen minister is about to give a speech in parliament saying that he got some reassurances from 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 ever made. gathering but when it comes down to the. breaking of 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 bayman people from a time then we are in a position to make a determination should be. giving people 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 ok to play callers who protest fullfil say from a. deputy prime minister davis he said we give our consent you know but that is not the same thing you don't know the question that we have is like willful blindness frees up the possibility of a reason which is one of the many reasons why we're we're demonstrating today if you knew 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 you are going to stop in effect just literally. dismiss is suing the u.s. government my right to privacy have been violated i don't know an awful lot of me i new york i didn't know you know they were going there are members. of certain

responsibility had to go to go follow the progress i know this and have not put the . drop. on him a senator and is it ok do you think just to listen to people's phone calls as a whole in the bahamas or becomes about it ok to listen to people i don't know is that i go. ok this is this demonstration that we really want more information that you know the cabin of the bahamas can contain important information that should be shared with the citizens very long track. make sure. he pulls. a suitable seat country. people have it. we see it every day to see the commentary and to get coverage of their position.

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