there must be near certainty that no civilians will be killed were in. iraq says terrorists have seized nuclear materials in the country and could use them to make weapons of mass destruction. that's. not good. israel promises to ramp up its war against hamas says the rocket attacks killed wall than seventy palestinians inside gaza half of them women and children. degrading spectacle and deeply shocking german politicians are weighing in on the u.s. spying scandal comes after a second government official within a week is accused of working for washington this time it's a military mode. everyone

welcome to you if you're just joining us here on r.t. international you're with me to say to our top stories israel's of all winter intensify its shelling of gaza that's despite at least seventy five out palestinians being killed inside the enclave over the ponce today. the somebody that. some are doing got the job you took something from passing them along with their money you say i love when i look in government that's a mental. note that the judge was was. was. was. was.

back i was. down a big deal but but despite the bloodshed israel's leadership is mulling a ground offensive let's go straight to israel's border with gaza and our correspondent stan who joins us live paula the civilian deaths mountain aren't they . they certainly are the latest figures we have all that at least seventy five palestinians have been killed according to gaza medical sources half of the people who have been killed in israeli bombardments are women and children gaza officials also say that most of the homes that have been destroyed by the israeli aerial strikes do not belong to him as militants as indeed the israelis claim now this comes as israel prepares for possible ground offensive thousands of israeli reserve

troops have been called up from the israeli side we are hearing that eighty two rockets have been fired from gaza into israel over the past twenty four hours most of them were intercepted by the iron dome anti missile defense system others landed in open fields the israelis also say that they have destroyed and attacked moving five hundred her mass sites including sixty rocket launchers and homes belonging to her must find has. in a wall of the u.n. says the situation is on a knife edge urging both israel and hamas to show restraint at any signs this will happen from either side. well later today the united nations security council is scheduled to hold emergency talks but certainly here where i am i'm in the southern israeli town of ashkelon which is not far from the israel gaza border you do not get a sense that any kind of diplomatic move is on the way the mood is extremely tense

here in southern israel you constantly hear the red alert siren which gives people listening twenty seconds the same should be to get to a shelter or to some place of safety before a rocket strikes the panic is not only here in the south of israel it is also now in the center and even in the north that there have been long range missiles fired at israel which in as far as one hundred and forty kilometers into the country the shelters have been opened throughout israel when people particularly here have been ordered to remain near a shelter and if possible not even to leave their homes at the same time i do want to say that as we look across the border into gaza you can see israeli warplanes constantly dropping their deadly cargo they've also been dropping leaflets urging gaza residents to reveal the hiding places of her mass militants but certainly throughout the course of the day there isn't an hour that goes past when you do not hear loud explosions coming from across inside gaza. on the

border of israel and palestine bringing us the latest of that tension that's brewing in the area. and where they are told to activism are your friends and from the movement of international solidarity he believes israel is treating palestinians just like it always has but continues like this escalating i think we have to prepare for the worst it's just a continuation of the occupation and. friends of yours on the grounds of the blockade of gaza still the checkpoints are still so then you get killed on arrest the regularly in the occupied territories but i think it's nothing new what the numbers of palestinian children in israeli prisons grew up to seven hundreds 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 it can a people in gaza terrorists and know the rain in iraq have seized their nuclear materials

that could be smuggled out of the country and used to make weapons of mass destruction that's according to an official iraqi letter to the u.n. obtained by reuters it comes as jihadists are bolstering the grip on the territory in syria and iraq which they're calling the islamic state r.t. lizzie 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 moscow university according to iraq's u.n. ambassador mohammed. kim 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 offered by saddam hussein's regime and is believed to contain two thousand five hundred degraded rockets filled with potentially deadly sarin and mustard gas 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. mentioned the militants have made significant gains they in recent weeks as seizing anti also they've already paraded columns of tanks and even the scud ballistic missile chemical sites isis took in iraq contains a number of deadly agents including starin cyanide and mustard gas and now the jihad is a nuclear materials which could be used to make a bomb and it was congressional advise so why need that. washington is downplaying that. it is

a very serious development regardless of how you know weaponized this material could be 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 if this material has been taken. over any others you have a fashion it's not just about the material it's about what can this organization use this going. you have sworn it was not necessarily a nuclear material but they don't do bomb could be the outcome so i think that the next few days the united states government of both executive and the congress are going to focus on this issue but at the same man they're going to try to downplay it because of the seriousness of it and they don't want to quit it political crisis before they make sure of what this material is. it was going gresh no end to terrorism advisor will leave them now stay with archie for the latest on this developing story. villages u.s. spying scandal in germany has prompted outrage among politicians with

a second government employee now suspected of working for the prying ally i'm a member of the social democratic party said that it is a degrading spectacle to watch u.s. spies being exposed on a weekly basis and the defense minister stated that the case has shaken confidence in the united states the german member of the european parliament called the incident deeply shocking now this isn't the first time that american intelligence has been called snooping on allies let's take a look at the scandals the full scale of the snooping came to light last june the agency access up to half a billion german data connections every month a month later it was revealed a german intelligence cooperated with the n.s.a. using the agency's infamous x. keyscore software in october and international scandal erupted as it was revealed the cell phone of the german chancellor angela merkel had been tapped and of course

at the end of the year it becomes clear that the british intelligence agency was also east shopping on german targets in february this year german media reported the n.s.a. had tapped the then chancellor gerhard schroeder's of phone calls in the run up to the two thousand and three us led invasion of iraq other than publicist william and all believe that the u.s. 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 need a member all egyptians no matter what the pretty words are the effect of these scandals with the average german is to really weaken the affection for the united states that the majority of germans during the time of the air live in the fifty'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 that that special relationship with washington. the n.s.a. doesn't spying on only foreign citizens the latest batch of edward snowden's all revelations came the agency has been targeting prominent muslim americans even though there's no evidence any of them are connected to terrorism charges marina but marable's on their reaction to the surveillance in the wake of this latest government spying revelation the american civil liberties union has announced that a coalition of forty five civil and human rights organizations have written to us president barack obama demanding a full public accounting of these latest surveillance practices even question now affording to the intercept the five american muslim citizens that had their e-mails

monitored by the n.s.a. and the f.b.i. in food aid rutgers university professor who is also president of the american iranian council an attorney who represents clients in terrorism related cases the executive director of care the largest muslim civil rights organization in america the national chairman of the american muslim alliance which supports muslim political candidates and a long time republican party operative who formerly served as a lawyer for the department of homeland security none of the men have been charged with a crime in connection to the apparent monitoring of cecil hill one of the five americans targeted tells our team he has no idea what would lead the n.s.a. or f.b.i. to think that he's someone that they should be put under surveillance especially given his resume served in the united states navy worked in the bush administration at home curity security clearances so. i think the biggest reaction that i

have is i have no idea what i have done what in my background that would lead to civil or i mean i am a muslim and i did work in. the government that's about the only thing i could think of. i just can't think of anything else the u.s. office of the director of national intelligence and department of justice issued a joint statement calling the intercepts allegations entirely false insisting that no he was person can be the subject of surveillance based solely on first amendment activities and any electronic surveillance unless it's an emergency must be approved by the foreign intelligence surveillance court glenn greenwald who broke the story with fellow journalist mortaza hussein says this is one of the most important revelations to come from the snowden leaks because it puts a face to the n.s.a. surveillance overreach that also apparently shows that domestic spying abuses are targeting minorities and octopus for simply exercising their basic constitutional

rights. are to me or. on the way the many faces of london. want you to play with white kids black kids with black kids middle class on their own which can crush on the right when you report reveals the british capital is actually not the multiethnic melting pot that some make it out to be you will have that story right after this. the media leave those who leave the. mother she motioned to the play you call the there's a bill. for shoes that no one is there still with the guests that you deserve answers from. politics. to.

the stories we cover here not can here in iraq other big story the extra headlines there's a reason they don't want to. raise that we think. now let's break the set . it's a really nice tested to the limits in eastern ukraine is government feels its legacy to the region's biggest city which is behind this attack young children become the victim of israel's expanding and brutal offensive against palestinian territories being killed in the gaza strip german outrage it is how long it's been in authorities move in on yes or no but as a double agent. what are the media turns a blind eye to you see. here baghdad as more international news here on our team the eastern ukrainian city and ganske are being surrounded after president petro poroshenko approved a plan for

a military assault on the resistance hobbs' other cities have been strongholds of the government of movement in the east and the capitals of the self-proclaimed republics. pictures we've been getting from the region apparently show ukrainian war machines on route to the embattled cities both of them have been enduring overnight every most recent attacks have left up to three people dead they have very few national is there. today again we woke up from very loud sounds of tillery 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 as positions in the outskirts of the city with the country's military firing back it happens very often that shells land in quite unexpected places in the city center and many residents have already fled the city and people continue to leave people were terrified by

promises from key to surround the city of damascus and the guards and fears were rising that it could become useless beyond could have a tourist to the centers of the operation for months where clashes were very good. years and very deadly but the ganske is a very big city with a population of more than four hundred thousand people while don't yet because home to one million people concerns were rising the consequences of such strategy also will be bigger and. slovyansk lies in ruins that's the view of a team of international monitors who recently visited the city in the army had been besieging and pounding slovyansk was shells for months and while kids actions have been backed by the us questions are being increasingly asked in europe over the rising number of civilian casualties among those concerned as marie le pen the leader of france's national front party we don't know but two of the voters we are 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 when this is outrageous stories of children diplomacy can't put an end to this killing us the best way to stop this is to get all the scientists around to go shooting and russia's role conj be undermined here but treaty moscow with contempt since the beginning of the conflict has closed the door to a diplomatic solution. ever since february screw in kiev ukraine has been a firmly in the headlines over the conflicts in the field and on the battle over gas supplies but some in washington it's opened a whole new way to cash in on the changes and explains. 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 been learning 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 a. 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 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 for me 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. come. 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. well connected relatives. of very influential officials are already on board and it quite reminiscent of what

happened after iraq when there were all kinds of conferences on 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 check on. where the street cars are mostly like a visa still roving the russian streets of the country isn't quite the champion of modern public transport well have a look at what happens when one of russia's top tanker manufacturers weighs in check out what its brainchild the so-called bad tram looks like from both inside and out on a cheese website. also online a prominent canadian that ecologist who once decided to drop out of greenpeace has had another change of heart he says global warming is just a fantasy and warns of a global cooling. right to see.

her story. and i think the true. on our reporters were very. elsewhere around the world 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 minute and fly in a suburban house and then attempted to flee the scene but it was intercepted and kannan by the police five people died on the spot while one child was taken to hospital however doctors were unable to save him the sole survivor of the deadly domestic dispute has identified the shooter. greece has been hit by

a twenty four hour strike as public sector workers protesting against us gerrity measures including a forty percent reduction to salaries and pensions many of the country's facilities have been disrupted and several parts of the country are facing tower cuts the government has asked the high court to rule the strike illegal and abusive. london's massive population may be diverse but the multicultural melting pot is now working that's according to a new report which points to barriers between the city's ethnic communities are just barely worth reports. politicians celebrated sociologists note it in london as 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

a spoken on the streets of the city and if you tried we could probably track down representatives of every race religion culture and nation 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 of 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 part 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 working class on the run i think is a gut reaction that that most of us would say that that is a bad thing that we want some kind of mixing better 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 an

element here in london where people living busy lives commuting long distances so their free time in london is probably less than is elsewhere in the country and then where they're choosing to spend that free time is with people who look to a greater or lesser extent like them this isn't about saying hello to people on the boards this is about a little bit further having a conversation on the books so it's a step further from diversity in toleration into something a little bit deeper and that's where we see those divides coming a little bit clearer and those dividing lines could lead to greater fragmentation right. then integration. at the mountain is next with breaking the set.

from time to time i get emotional emails in broken english from quote nationalists of various sort who support the current government in kiev and it makes me wonder if young people today even know what the word nationalist means for example just last week a bill was passed in ukraine that will open up forty nine percent of the country's gas pipelines and storage facilities to european and american companies let's also not forget the joe biden son was put on the board of ukraine's largest gas producer we should also remember all the way back to the first days of the coup against you know a covert what did the nationalists do first sign up big time for loans wow putting your country into massive debt with foreign entities now that's a nationalistic and would you think ukrainian nationalist would put ukrainians into power all over the regions of ukraine well think again because money sure trumps ethnicity what it comes to the two thousand and fourteen governor's line up and

most importantly of all how can nationalists want to join the e.u. which is lefty liberal paradise where patriotic movements are the black sheep of the continent so my dear detractors who write me letters just what sort of nationalist revolution are you so proud of i'm sorry but i'm not seeing your triumph but that's just my opinion. welcome to breaking this i'm out in martin so two days ago israel launched a bombing campaign dubbed operation protective edge against gaza that's still

ongoing but despite the horrors on the ground the mainstream media seems to only be telling one side of the story take a look at this from the wall street journal israeli air defense intercepts more rockets as fighting continues and the l.a. times goes on have a claire that palestinian rockets reach farther into israel and lastly the new york times makes it seem like there's an equal playing field by stating israel and hamas simply exchange fire oh i guess i really can expect more from the media apparatus that essentially works as a first for the us government let's take a listen to what the issue is being framed by the white house. we strongly condemn the continuing rocket fire into israel in the deliberate targeting of civilians by terrorist organizations in gaza no country can accept rocket fire aimed at civilians and we support israel's right to defend itself against these vicious attacks. at the at the same toy we appreciate the call that prime minister

netanyahu himself has made publicly to act responsibly what acting responsibility i must be in the twilight zone because to me the collective punishment of an entire population is the opposite of responsible so what's the reality on the ground just in the last twenty four hours israeli forces have conducted air strikes that have struck one hundred sixty sites in gaza according to the i.d.f. in total five hundred fifty sites have been bombed and considering the fact that gaza is one of the most densely populated places on earth with over a million habitants and the aerial strike conducted in the region almost certainly means civilian deaths in fact at the time of this broadcast the strikes have killed at least fifty three palestinians including eight children and an eighty year old woman according to palestinian minister of public works and housing at least fifty homes have been destroyed so far and seventeen.