only on the r.-g. dot com. headlines scenes of panic and say with young children and women among forty three killed in israel's offensive against the palestinian territories. germany investigated defense ministry workers suspected of spying for the u.s. just days after another alleged double agent working for its supposed ally was discovered in berlin. and civilian seek safety in eastern ukraine as government forces lay siege to the region's biggest cities using a blockade on deadly shelling.

live from the new center here in moscow twenty four hours a day you're very welcome to our to international i mean and our top story we start with israel so named militant operation in gaza which is causing panic among ordinary palestinians caught in the crossfire just to warn you there are some images coming up you may find distressing. the pictures you are witnessing behind me now are the consequences of an operation

that the palestinian president mahmoud abbas has called genocide at least eight children are among the forty three civilians killed on the i.d.f. is ramping up its offensive with the use of warplanes on rockets against residential areas or reports 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 now the explosions of air strikes on gaza which is just a short distance behind me these ways 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 well expand the operation there is a particular concern amongst his rabies 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 of the now egypt is still playing a mediator people less spokesperson for the time of government saying 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 those are the achieve back in two thousand and six israel waged war on hezbollah in lebanon but far from

being destroyed the group actually rose to power its regular operations against hamas of actually led to the militants forging a union with the palestinian politics party fatah on the country's reputation has been hit an annual polls suggest israel is now one of the most unpopular countries in the world a negative opinion towards it is increasing year on year and even in 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 you know mahatma gandhi once said that if human race adopts continuously. and i for and i everybody in the end we become blind to it and civilians out of the conflict this is something that we hear in israel jews and arabs they like to get it i'm going to demonstrate for bringing the conflict to an end and only by a just peace and settlement here are in

a senior columnist israel's haaretz newspaper told r.t. there's still a chance the conflict could lose old saying yes there were police communications including civilian but their numbers are limited. if you compare them to previous rounds of violence so dear is the making of a renewed ceasefire israel aims to induce operation a very modest demeans our modest two you do not see any ground maneuver at least yet you do not see any attack on the very heads of hamas government all demoed meant so dear is still enough leeway for negotiations for dialogue perhaps as you mentioned through egyptian mediation. you can find all the latest developments figures on videos relating to israel's military operation in chaos on our website r.t. dot com. german police are reportedly

investigating a new case of espionage involving a defense ministry employee suspected of spying for washington last week another german intelligence worker was arrested in berlin he turned out to be a double agent working for the us peter all of us been following this story. on wednesday morning the federal prosecutors raided the office told him of a defense ministry employee 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 will be waiting to find out if any more information comes out about this but what we do know is that the u.s. ambassador john the anniston was summoned to the foreign ministry here in berlin in relation to this ongoing investigation well it's just the the latest in

a listen the of spying scandal here in germany just last week we saw in the security services employee of 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 say sorry but. this same thing again earlier marina koester ever spoke to i mean mush on former m i five agent turned whistleblower she says the u.s. wants to bring back its spying dominance during the cold war era. it seems that on the one hand the usa wants all the allies to work with them on this global war on

terror but on the other hand they still want the old days where they can spy on other countries and their national sovereignty with impunity they can have it both ways we're going to 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 u.s. do you think that this is all you learn to the spine claims i think this has been a huge spur to 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. 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 about the n.s.a. 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 or correspond. as more for us a recent report based on the leaks of edward snowden claims the national security agency has been keeping an eye on five. muslim americans according to the intercept and investigative news outlet the government surveillance took place even though there was zero. minutemen were connected to terrorism now 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 secret security clearance and served in the department of homeland security during the bush administration now according to the intercept the n.s.a. and f.b.i. covertly monitor the e-mails of all the men under a secret under secretive procedures used to target terrorists and foreign spies journalist glenn greenwald who broke this story says this is one of the most important revelations to come from snowden's leaks because it actually puts a face on the n.s.a. surveillance overreach and illustrates that domestic spying abuses usually target minorities marginalizes groups and dissidents now the n.s.a. told the intercept that the surveillance was not based solely on speech however additional explanation or justification for targeting american citizens based on their job or political activity well that was not provided by the u.s. government. a little later in the program we'll take you on

a trip to the bahamas to find out just how annoyed people are about the n.s.a. has recorded every single phone call made on the island stuff and more coming up after a short break. revealing the whole world. i marinate in the financial moral. act you see these developments cannot stop because the family takes no demand for credit not going to get any economic benefit in life. and they're. being interviewed.

welcome back to the program iraq's ambassador to the u.n. is warning that armed militants from the group calling itself the islamic state are now in control of

a chemical site near baghdad the still as he holds around twenty five hundred rockets filled with a deadly sarin gas charles shu bridge a former counterterrorism intelligence officer in the u.k. fears the international community underestimates the potential threat. it now appears to be the case that if not chemical weapons then certainly some of the ingredients necessary to produce these weapons have now indeed falling into the hands of what used to be called isis a most extreme form or terrorist group one might say that on the other on one hand whereas it's of sick attention embarrassing to united states and indeed the u.k. because after all these countries went to war invaded iraq purportedly to prevent chemical weapons and other w m d from falling into the hands of would be terrorists out on the surface is what seems to have happened here but on the other hand the u.s. has a say says that these are chemical. militarily used would be dangerous to the terrorists in these very number last with this kind of hazardous material one might

think that there would be could be some potential danger some potential use for these chemicals in the future after all if that wasn't the case why were they being guarded in the first place now ukraine's president has visited slobby and the scene of the fiercest fighting during kiev's crackdown an anti government protesters in the east petro poroshenko praised efforts to liberate the city but the scenes where the result of those efforts and international monitoring body says the military fired indiscriminately on locals believe only hiding in basements save their lives . will not block and the carnage numbers must put on the most vocal of the photo shoot only get them off this bus follow through it over to and i'm. going to buy you know from somebody out there because of what she looked when she left my nightly mutely and there's no shame up to you to see. michael a bus or

a kid was with the o.s.c. special monitoring mission in ukraine honeys just returned from slovyansk and i'm glad to see he joins us live michael tell us what you saw in sloviansk. yes hello it's actually our team that went to slovyansk yesterday and we were going to send their team again today. there was quite a bit of devastation there obviously we were the first international body to get into this city there is very no electricity no water lack of food supplies a.t.m. machines weren't working and it's basically a ghost town right now more than half the population has a lot of people according to our monitors people there felt very kind of alone and almost abandoned but having said that you know there is some already cleanup and recovery efforts going on what brought the team the u.s. the team to the conclusion that the military did fire indiscriminately well we

never saw the military fired indiscriminately let's be clear on that what we did say in our spot report which did go to all of the fifty seven participating states of the oh i see is that there was a lot of damage to civilian infrastructure our monitors did observe some heavy firing at buildings it's unclear where the damage came from but where were they let's be clear where they were to establish the facts and to report on they've been reporting exactly what we see on the ground zero absolutely just on the point that russia germany and france the they have been trying to broker this a lasting cease fire but president. seems to be refusing to go along with those countries and can we expect a truce in the forseeable future then. well we obviously operate at the very operational level on the ground we have teams of monitors that go around and report

so we wouldn't want to be put in a position of commenting on politics happening at the stratospheric level however having said that we in order to perform our work we do obviously need peace on the ground we do need to do these daily patrols so we can report facts on the ground and for that to happen we need you know safety and security i have said before that specially in hans gets a very patchwork complex situation where for example you have a very many small armed groups that don't necessarily report to anyone else who are connected with a larger group so a peace agreement told no it's very much desired will probably take a lot of work on the ground to to make a factor michael buster kit from the special monitoring in ukraine we thank you for your time today. around forty refugees have occupied germans tallest structure berlin's t.v. tower the asylum seekers who came from different parts of germany staged

a sit in inside the cafe on the observation deck they are protesting against their potential deportation and claim the authorities have neglected them for years denying the right to educate and work police have surrounded the tower are not letting anyone and you're looking at the latest pictures from roughly video agency . now to some other international news in brief starting with afghanistan where eleven insurgents stage a brazen attack on the governor's find here in the southern city of kandahar where civilian bystanders were killed after one militant blew up his car in front of the gate two police officers were then shot dead as attackers tried to get into the compound security forces repelled the assault killing all of the insurgents. severe thunderstorms have rolled through central new york state officials have confirmed the deaths of four people in the community of smithfield which as being the worst affected the storm destroyed several homes ripping one from its

foundations and tossing it onto another house. the russian's foreign minister house call the capture of a russian citizen in the mall deaves a kidnapping of the most emotional this is a clear case of the kidnapping of a russian citizen in a third country the united states should warn us of any suspicions they have about russian citizens but that hasn't happened. off a russian m.p. son was grabbed by u.s. agents on suspicion of stealing credit card information artie's gynae church account takes us through the events. monsoon family vacation in the scheme 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 it is a capital. 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 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 snow that but lawyers are doubtful mr snowden has been granted asylum status in russia i don't know. that the u.s. would even 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. pilot was captured in liberia and

sent to the you was where he was convicted of drug trafficking thailand allowed the u.s. to take hold of the boat 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. extradition extraordinary renditions have been common practice since nine eleven and detainees rights have approved they being violated. will strip to guam and the island possession of the. he states the u.s. constitution does not fully apply there which raises more questions as to why it's among students no full half while he's there in washington i'm going to check on our. more news at the top of the next hour but in the meantime as promised nimrod came around this documentary about n.s.a.

spying in the bahamas take a look. i always wonder with all the n.s.a. listening to my conversations. he's a place well i know for sure that they do. they support the bahamas i went to not so pick up the city just to get it. i mean the fact that sixty nine it's just going to be like i'm pretty. sure. and she says that i learned here for years and there's no i don't know. the minister for financial services seems comfortable about the whole idea of well mr finance i mean it's nothing to do with you so we say it's economic surveillance as well like the popping into phones. do you think we're failing the whole world you.

know 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 up all right you know. but you. know i'm not i'm not you know billionaire is part of what i'm going to say you know i get through. this. 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 the think about or i would say that this go over. the n.s.a. surveillance focus about it like that the foreign minister is about to give a speech in parliament saying that he got some reassurances on 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 ever made. 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 not much should look at what's going on and they ought to tell the boehm people from a time then we are in a position to make a determination that should be you know 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 okupe like parliament square protests will see the scene from a. deputy prime minister going to a business that we give our consent you know but that is not the same thing you don't know yeah so the question we have is like willful blindness exactly the possibility of a reason which is one of the many reasons why we're we're demonstrating it 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 you are going to have an effect just going to. dismiss is suing the u.s. government and my right to privacy have been violated i've been awful on me i knew your i didn't know you know they were going there are members or there are certain responsibility i don't you know go follow the contrary i know this and have not put a. drop. on him a certain i did ok but if you just listen to people's phone close 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 with real hard information that you know the cabin of the bahamas can contain important information that should be shared

with the citizens very long back. well. it makes. it suitable to see the country. receive every day c o two taking their products but there's. many people in russia to believe that the reset was essentially never aimed at the improving their relations it was rather that enabling be aggressive villager and foreign policy of the united states while you were upholding free of the fruits 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 a mishmash of ideas about expanding american idealistic intentions of expanding

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