i. thank. god. that. iraq says terrorists have seized nuclear materials in the country and could use them to make weapons of mass destruction. that's. not good that. israel promises to ramp up its war against hamas rocket attacks kill more than seventy palestinians inside gaza harmful them women and children. german politicians i'll drage as a second government workers suspected of spying for the u.s. within a week this time it's a military mole. live

from moscow this is r.t. international welcome back to moscow and here with me to one would say terrorists in northern iraq have seized nuclear materials that could be smuggled out of the country and used to make weapons of mass destruction that's according to an official in iraq a letter to the u.n. obtained by reuters it comes as jihad bolstering their grip on territories in syria and iraq which they calling base let me state charges lindsey france has the latest . what we've learned is that in a letter to the united nations iraq announced insurgents have seized nuclear materials from miles away university according to iraq's u.n. ambassador mohammed al hakim at least forty kilograms of uranium compounds were stored in the university said the materials obtained can be used in manufacturing

weapons of mass destruction and warned they could easily be smuggled out of iraq a u.s. government official told reuters news agency the materials are not believed to be enriched uranium and therefore make it difficult to make into a weapon it's also been revealed that islamic state the militants the group formerly known as isis captured a facility on june eleventh about thirty five miles southwest of baghdad which was once operated by saddam hussein's regime and is believed to contain two thousand five hundred degraded rockets filled with potentially deadly sarin and mustard gas but u.s. officials have downplayed the risk claiming the materials are too old to be useful however given the instability within the country and its proximity to syria this is still a very huge worry as you can see the militants have made significant gains in greece and weeks of seizing and mills they've already paraded columns of tanks and even a ballistic missile the chemicals fly. in iraq that contained

a number of deadly agents including serry and cyanide and mustard gas and now the jihad is have nuclear materials which could be used to make a bomb but he was congressional advisor well and farrah's that says washington is downplaying the crisis it is a very serious development regardless of how you know what i was dismissed now of course in washington going to be a debate about is this really propaganda from the iraqi government or is this real no matter what this material has been taken by over any others you have a faction it's not just about the material it's about what can this organization you just know do. it is not necessarily nuclear material but they do bomb could be the outcome so i think that the next few days the united states government that both the senate and then in the congress are going to focus on this issue but at the same down they've been trying to downplay it because of the seriousness of it and they don't want to quit the political crisis before they make sure of what this

material is it was congressional antiterrorism adviser we need flowers there stay with our team for the latest on this developing story. israel's are vowing to intensify its shelling of gaza that's despite at least seventy palestinians being killed inside the enclave over the past two days israel claims it's targeting hamas but officials in the strip say many of the houses destroyed by israeli rocket fire done even belong to militants. the thing about. some of the work that you talk. as you never want to. say i want to look at me and that's a mental. was that. was. that was.

was i was. i was was. despite piper bloodshed israel is preparing for a ground offensive the country's government has already approved a possible mobilization of up to forty thousand troops meanwhile medics inside gaza say of all the casualties from bombardments so fast the billions including women and children israeli army says are some aid to rockets were fired by hamas on wednesday i just policia report from the israeli border with gaza. the israeli gaza border where the mood is extremely tense throughout the course of the day we've been hearing israeli warplanes dropping the deadly cargo on gaza which is just a short distance behind me this is actually the closest you can get to gaza from the israeli side and every so often you see these huge plumes of smoke that show

where these raids strikes have hit as is always the case it is civilians that are also being injured and killed in this israeli operation that is now in its second day at the same time here in southern israel the mood is also very very tense there has been the red alert which is essentially a siren warning people that the iron dome anti-missile defense system is being launched to intercept a rocket some gazan people have been ordered to stay inside bomb shelters in cities as far afield as. both to be slim and television even cities that are further one hundred forty kilometers from the border the iron dome has been activated to stop these long range missiles making the way there from the gaza border thousands of reservists have been called out as you drive these really roads you see israeli soldiers on some kind of movement so this certainly is something happening on the ground the latest word from the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is that

hamas will pay we are hearing from the hamas leadership that unless israel stops with its operation it will continue with its bombardment of rockets. r.t. on the israel gaza border. and we earlier talked to activists mario france and from the movement for international solidarity and he believes israel is treating palestinians just like it always has it continues like this escalating i think we have to prepare for the worst it's just a continuation of the occupation that's there for tens of years on the grounds of the blockade of gaza still the checkpoints are still the children get killed in arrested early in the occupied territories but i think it's nothing new or numbers of palestinian children in israeli prisons grew up to seven hundred. for every. child killed there are fifty palestinian children killed this girl feels no pressure to change what they are doing now and so they try to hit as hard as. the

people in gaza. on the way of the not so many faces of london a new report reveals the british capital is actually not be multi ethnic melting pot that some may like to be. also later in the program defending a human rights activists in a saudi arabian called war no food for one local lawyer and now he's a fellow do you spell the full force of saudi prosecution himself and will spend the next fifteen years behind bars. alleges u.s. spy scandal in germany has prompted outrage among politicians with a second government employees now suspected of working for the prying ally told us from the social democratic party said that it is a degrading specter spectacle to. a weekly basis now defense minister of wonder layan stated that the case has shaken confidence in the united states and

germany m.e.p. philip called the incident deeply shocking a second look back at the scandals around of the n.s.a.'s spying in germany and now the full scale of the snooping came to light last june the agency assessed access to up to half a billion german data connections every month a month later it was a reveal that germany intelligence cooperated with the n.s.a. using the agency's infamous x. keyscore software in a turnover and international scandal erupted as it was revealed the cell phone of the german chancellor angela merkel had been tapped and at the end of that year it becomes clear that the british intelligence agency was also at least dropping on a german target as nine february this year german media reported the n.s.a. had tapped the then chancellor phone calls in of the run of the two thousand and three us led invasion of iraq author of and published as william and

hall believes the us isn't going to stop spying on its allies any time soon. obama administration is clearly hypocritical it has no intention obviously of. downscaling any of its espionage activities on european union politicians on some of nato member stations no matter what the pretty words are the effect of these scandals where the average german is to really weaken the affection for the united states that the majority of germans during the time of the nearly it isn't in the sixty's and so forth so that has pretty much been spent now the n.s.a. snowden affair. did a lot of damage but now these new scout bills are. making it a major major question for any government to try to defend at all costs the special relationship with washington. a recent report based on the leaks of edward snowden

claims the n.s.a. has been keeping an eye on five a politically active wants americans surveillance to replace even though there is no evidence any of them are connected to terrorism of course want to know more in a partner has long. a recent report based on the leaks of edward snowden claims the national security agency has been keeping an eye on five politically active muslim americans according to the intercept and investigative news outlet the government surveillance took place even though there was zero evidence that any of the prominent men 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 their 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 we spoke to. a u.s. a little office attorney and also why he thinks he was targeted by u.s. spy agencies. it's not my religious belief just being

a muslim i think whether you're a secular muslim practicing muslim like myself or not practicing muslim i think the fact that you're a muslim and you've been it's of government power i work for a member of congress and for me to then be targeted there's really no other explanation it's very troubling it's like a peeping tom you know it's hard cross to cross down the hall or across the road from my house i mean it's violates your privacy the people you e-mail the people who e-mail you your family and there's a lot of things in an e-mail that can be taken out of context. these are in ukrainian cities of. being surrounded after president petro poroshenko approved a plan for a military assault on the resistance helps other cities have been strongholds of the anti government movement in the east and the capitals are the self-proclaimed republics these are the pictures we've been getting from the region apparently showing ukrainian war machines on route to the embattled cities both of them have

been enduring overnight air raids the most recent attacks have left up to three people did the roof an arsenal is there and she joins us live now marie what's the situation in the region like this morning. well a lovely sunny day here in lugansk as you can see but today again we walk up from very loud sounds of a taylor we are in the city center and the shelling was so close that we were able to hear the launch of the shells and we were also hearing how they were lending the anti government forces continue to shell the ukrainian army is positions in the outskirts of the city with the country's military firing back so. obviously the two warring sides are talking to each other but we can say that it happens very often that shells land in quite unexpected places in the city center

in the last week there were a number of incidents like this and in many of them civilians were killed well lugansk is still a very dangerous place to stay in this is why many residents have already fled the city and people continue to leave people were terrified by promises from kiev to surround the city of donetsk and lugansk to make forces fighting against the government inside the cities to surrender and fears were rising that it could become useless beyond them a tourist into a percentage of the operation for months where clashes were very fierce and very deadly but lugansk is a very big city with a population of more than four hundred thousand people while dynastic is home to one million people and concerns were rising the consequences of such strategy also will be bigger and dad their hand this is why people started panicking but then there was another moment and now if you can see maybe you'll hear at the same time

laurie starts continuing to this city we hear of cars on the road and there are people on the streets and we asked people about that why is this happening at the time when it tees dangerous to be here and they told us that those who don't have. to ron those who stay here they say we have no choice we have to continue to be very we want to back to normal life and this is why and also we got used to shouting so what other choice we have. to american national in new guns play following developments in the tens of situation there. slovyansk allies in ruins that's the view of a team of international monitors who recently visited the city in the army had been seeding and poundings law school shots for months and while kids actions have been a badge by the us questions are being increasingly asked in europe over the rising number of civilian casualties among those concerned is marie miliband of the leader

of france's national front party. to be. closely watching the situation in ukraine because nobody talks about it the truth is that civilians are being massacred and this doesn't concern being here this is outrageous for some reason children into mr khan to put an end to this killing us the best way to stop this is to get all the signs around to go shooting and russia's role can't be undermined. but contempt since the beginning of the conflict has closed the door to a diplomatic solution. ever since for every school in kiev ukraine's been a firmly in the headlines over conflicts in the field and the battle over gas supplies but with some big wigs in washington it's opened a whole new way to cash in on the changes you can experience. for some top u.s. officials ukraine is not just about politics it's about business for family and

friends but one connection leads to another and the business is now finding its way into the u.s. congress a week after vice president joe biden's son joined the board of ukraine's largest gas producer a secretary of state john kerry's former senate chief of staff signed on to lobby congress on behalf of that same ukrainian energy company another gentleman from team kerry joined the von archer who was once john kerry's advisor and bungler in his presidential campaign these people are no strangers to each other divonne archer and joe biden's son worked as business partners with john kerry's son in law christopher heintz oh yes and buddhism of their new employer is controlled by new chips former ukrainian government minister all of these sons and friends of u.s. officials say they're on their own that they're disconnected from the decision makers in washington but of course nobody can stop them from benefiting from the policies adopted in the buildings around here members of congress are already

writing letters saskin to provide us funding for ukraine's domestic energy production here is one of the senators. i think if we are going to be helping them with new technologies and we should we should have a telescope time frame that we create for doubling of natural gas production inside of ukraine and we should set those goals set benchmarks and then let's meet them. and to help us make sense of this house of cards where one connection leads to another where it's all business and it's all personal here's craik. it's not just about lobbying for this one particular firm in ukraine right a u.s. state department spokesperson told congress this tuesday that ukraine's entire gas supply and production system is corrupt and needs fixing and the u.s. of course can help and one can only wonder what u.s. companies and what individuals would benefit from that fixing what do you think

well we don't have to wonder too long because what we've seen is a scandal were. relatives from the. very influential officials are already on board and it quite well i'm innocent of what happened after iraq when i mean there were all kinds of conferences how americans and american companies could make money out of the situation buying influence in washington is not called corruption in america it's called tapping into new opportunities in washington i'm going to. without. leaving like a new claim i still roving the russian streets a country isn't quite the champion of public transport come forward to well. have a look at what happens when one of russia's top tank manufacturers gets down to business its brainchild the so-called bad tram what looks like from inside and out on our. website. also online

a prominent canadian ecologist she once decided to drop out of greenpeace has had another change of heart he says global warming is just a fantasy. right from the sea. first rate. and i think the future. on our reporters with. instagram. on. london's a massive population may be diverse but the multicultural melting pot bay is no work aim that's according to a new report which points to barriers between the thirty's ethnic communities artists play boyko reports. politicians celebrated sociologist snort it

and londoners well they take it for granted the british capital is so multicultural it is the first city in the u.k. where white british people have become a minority over a third of london's residents were born outside of the u.k. and a third of foreigners over three hundred languages are spoken on the streets of the city and if you tried we could probably track down representatives of every race religion culture and they should but here's the thing according to a new report by the social integration commission think tank london may be diverse but people are sticking to their own kind the capital is the place in britain where ethnic communities mix the least we do think of london as being a melting pot we do think of it as being the most diverse parts of the country diversity does not automatically lead to integration when we look at a school playground and we see that white kids are playing with white kids black

kids with black kids middle class on their own which can cross on the road i think is a good reaction that most of us would say that that is a bad thing that we want some kind of mixing bettin that there's a growing trend for white britons to leave the capital for other areas prompting concerns the city could be sleepwalking into ghetto like segregation is probably irrelevant here in london where they've been living busy lives commuting long distances so they have free time. it's probably less than is elsewhere in the country and there where they're choosing to spend that for each of these with people who look to a greater or lesser extent. but she isn't saying hello to people on the boards this is about a little bit further having a conversation so it's a step further from diversity in toleration into something a little bit deeper a match where we see those detroit's commute. and those dividing lines could lead to greater fragmentation rather than integration.

boyko r t london. elsewhere around the world at this hour six people including four children have been killed and one more wounded in a shooting in houston texas according to local authorities a man opened fire in a suburban house and then attempted to flee the scene but was intercepted and cornered by the police five people died in this world while one child was taken to hospital however doctors when able to save him the sole survivor of the deadly domestic dispute has identified the shooter. has been hit by a twenty four hour strike as public sector workers protesting against austerity measures including a forty percent reduction to salaries and pensions many of the country's facilities have been disrupted and several of the country are facing the government has asked the high court to rule the strike illegal and abusive. a reel of family tragedy is unveiling in saudi arabia as the government tightens its grip on the

pro-democracy movement months after human rights activists right even by the thrown in jail for starting a liberal website a human rights lawyer who happens to be his brother in law has now been given a fifteen year prison sentence now while aid. was found guilty of undermining the regime and officials inciting public opinion and insulting the judiciary we spoke to a woman whose husband and brother are now facing lengthy terms behind bars she says there was nothing criminal about the activism. my husband has been sentenced with an attempt to undermine the political regime in saudi arabia as well as insulting its judicial system and the royal family he was accused of organizing a terror organization but he did not break the law he has been a human rights activists and two thousand and seven and his work is peaceful my husband called for an election of deputies and for a constitutional monarchy to be established and he's got

a lot of support he was sentenced by the court which was established on the basis of fendi terror law but my husband is a human rights activists and this court has no right to sentence him he considers the court in the just a minute and rejects this verdict he will never accept it human rights organizations have previously said that the court is an adjustment and it's important that they reject this verdict. max keiser next with his late says or worse he has taken the world up high flying financial scam. we never saw that coming. we had no idea our children were gay. i

would actually just at night pray to god you know make me normal. they said you're a homo you're a homo and from that day in first grade i swear my life changed forever i became like a way to cool down to get stopped still to this day. well a bad blood texas instructs school teachers to tell pupils young people that homosexuality is not an acceptable lifestyle and also instructs them to say that homosexual sex in private is a crime in those states if the church was going to fire me. what they had to do but i was going to do this way. this is what we do we kill people and break things. we can see something if simple as people playing soccer game you can see individual players and if you see the

ball. you can only see his facial expression you can see is a mouth open and 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 to the guys the report imax guys are fake it till you make it. the phrase a similar to aristotle's notion that acting virtuous will make one virtuous and according to wikipedia it is often recommended as a therapy technique for combating depression in this case the idea is to go through

the routines of life as if one were enjoying them despite the fact that initially it feels forced and continuing doing this until the happiness becomes real this is an example of a positive feedback loop now america is trying this as a policy technique to combat economic depression the only problem is that this economic depression is not a state of mind but a state of fact states max america's going to try to fake manufacturing until they never really quite make manufacturing the first headline let's just pretend we didn't offshore manufacturing so federal agencies grouped under the bland sounding economic classification policy committee e.c. p.c. are proposing to radically redefine u.s. manufacturing and trade statistics this is just a proposal and it's on their website you can go to they dot gov web.