we're not going to we will. what is more proof. more. terrorists have seize nuclear materials in the country and could use them to make weapons of mass destruction. israel launches is that the souls on god's promise and the offensive air strikes have already killed more than seventy palestinians since tuesday half of them civilians. at the grating spectacle and deeply shocking german politicians weigh in on the u.s. spying scandal it comes after a second government official is accused of. a week this time at some of the ceremony.

washing artsy international come and see live from the russian capital words just turn two pm thank you very much for joining us now 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 over aki lights or to the same by reuters and it comes as jihad this a bolstering their grip on territories in syria and iraq which they're calling these states are seasons of 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 the university according to iraq's u.n. ambassador mohammed ali 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 thirty five miles southwest of baghdad which was once operated by saddam hussein's regime and it lead 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 as lindsey mentioned there the minutes inside made significant gains in recent weeks seizing entire arsenals that were already paraded columns of tanks need in the scud ballistic missile the chemical site they took in iraq

consigned the number of deadly agents including sarin cyanide and mustard gas and now the jihad this have nuclear materials which could be used to make a bomb but u.s. congressional advisor walid faras says washington is downplaying the crisis. 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 really been taken by isis over any others you have a fashion it's not just about the material it's about what can this organization use this material through or it is not necessarily nuclear material but it dirty bomb could be the outcome so i think that the next few days the united states government that both executive and in the congress are going to focus on this issue but at the same and they're going to try to downplay it because of the seriousness of it and they don't want to get political crisis before they make sure of what

this material is that was in this congressional and stares and advisor while it far as well do stay with i see where monitoring the situation closely and we'll bring you the very latest as it develops. israeli air strikes on gaza have killed a family of eight including five children early on thursday there were among some twenty people who died in the worst overnight air raid on gaza since the current offensive began meanwhile israel has vowed to intensify its shelling of the enclave . oh my god you talk. from them all and. when i look at government that comment. was that. was. that was.

the. was. that was. found over seventy five palestinians have been killed inside the strip in the past two days and they're only six hundred injured many houses destroyed by israeli rockets don't even belong to hamas militants that's one half of all the casualties have been civilians as well as leadership aspersion for a ground offensive with potential deployments of up to forty thousand troops the united nations as warning the situation is they actually close to a frank wanted war correspondent plus the reports. on the israeli gaza border where the mood is extremely tense throughout the course of the day we've been hearing is radie 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 at the same time here in southern israel that 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 people have been ordered to stay inside bomb shelters in cities as far afield as. and tel aviv and 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 their way there from the gaza border thousands of reservists have been called out as you drive these real 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 policy r.t. on the israel gaza border. and earlier with activist mary of france and from the movement for international solidarity and he told us that he believes israel is streets and 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 for tens of years on the grounds of the blockade of gaza still the checkpoints are still children get killed on arrested regularly in the occupied territories but i think it's nothing new what a number of palestinians show the israeli prisons go 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. the light says u.s. spy scandal in germany has prompted outrage among politicians with a certain government employee now suspected of working for the point ally now a member of the social democratic party said that it's a degrading spectacle to watch a u.s. spies been exposed on the weekly basis the defense minister stated that the case has shaken confidence in the united states and a german member of the european parliament called the end. deeply shocking which caused a deep loss of trust well this isn't the first time that american intelligence has been called snooping on a. look back at the scandals about we've seen and the last couple of years the full scale of the snooping came to light blasting the agency access up to half a billion german data connections every single month then a month later it was revealed that germany intelligence cooperated with the n.s.a. using the agency's infamous x.

keyscore software now in october and it's a national scandal erupted as it was revealed the cell phone of the german chancellor angela merkel had been tapped as well at the end of the year it becomes clear that the british intelligence agency was also eavesdropping on german targets that in february this year german media reports of the n.s.a. had tapped the then chancellor gerard those phone calls in the run up to the two thousand and three invasion of iraq the german and american security systems are so interwoven you can't even separate them they're basically the same infrastructure the same architecture and security so if germany was to say they don't want to it's very hard for them not to because there's so many institutions which are basically into the world and the same incident the german political leadership. wants to be involved united states they want to have an integrated security infrastructure it's part of who they are it is part of who they've been since the end of world war two

but this recent espionage scandal that. and of that she writes recent cases is embarrassing for the german political system because it shows that germany's been very loyal to the united states with the united states too doesn't trust. the n.s.a. doesn't spied only on foreign citizens the latest batch of edward snowden's revelations claim the agency has been targets in prominence muslim americans even though there is no evidence any of them are connected to terrorism or to reports 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 u.s. president barack obama demanding a full public accounting of these latest surveillance prop this is in question now according to the intercept the five american muslim citizens that had their e-mails

monitored by the n.s.a. and the f.b.i. included a records universe of our state of the american iranian council an attorney who represents clients in terrorism related cases the executive director of care of 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 apparently monitoring things still kill 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 a security. clearances so. i think the biggest reaction that i have is

i have no idea what i have done what's in my background that would lead to surveil 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. urgency 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 it also apparently shows that domestic spying abuses are targeting minorities and octopus for simply exercising their basic constitutional

rights were not r.t.d. new york. and we have lots more still on the way like the many faces of london. kids playing with kids black kids with black kids middle class on their own which can cross the road. and the report reveals the british capital is actually not the multiethnic melting pots that some make it out to be. many people in russia to believe that the reset was essentially never aimed at improving their relations it was rather that i may blame be a ground zero for bill a german foreign policy of the united states one year a poll in free the phrase of george h.w. bush in one thousand nine hundred two migrated during the course of the clinton administration the george w. bush administration and finally threw the obama administration into

a mishmash of ideas about expanding american idealistic intentions and expanding nato right up to russia's borders. interview. a clue.

i'm abby martin the stories we cover here you're not going to hear in iraq said our big story the extra headline same time there's a reason they don't want in denial about another important reason that we should be completely out now let's break the set. choose your language. for the sake of it oh and if you're going to kill some of. the consensus get to. choose the opinions that you figure a couple. chooses to stories get him to. choose access to. welcome back you're watching artsy international and we consider now with ukraine the eastern ukrainian cities of the new scandal ganske are brains around that after

president petro poroshenko approved a plan for a military assault on the resistance hubs the cities have been the strongholds of the answer government movements in the east and the capitals of the self-proclaimed republics. of the pictures we're getting from the region apparently shot and 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 dead guns various national is there for us. today again we woke up from very loud sounds all of a 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 government forces continue to shell the ukrainian army is 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 donetsk and lugansk and fears were rising that it could become useless beyond kilometers to the centers 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 deniece gets home to one million people and concerns were rising the consequences of such strategy also will be bigger and. well slovyansk lies in ruins and not the view of a team of and so national mall on its surface who recently visited the city the army had been besieged in and pounding shells for months with shells i should say and the observers say they were actually shocked by what they saw. there was quite a bit of devastation there obviously we were the first international body to get

into the city there is very no electricity no water. supplies a.t.m. machines were working and 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 ever since february in kiev ukraine has been firmly in the headlines over the conflicts in the field as well as the battle over gas supplies but for some in washington it's opened a whole new way to cash in on the changes and that she has more for some top u.s. officials ukraine is not just about politics it's about business 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 producing 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. former ukrainian government minister all 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 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 enter 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 here we're. well connected relatives cronies of. very influential officials are already on board and it quite reminiscent of what

happened after the rag when there were all kinds of conferences and all americans and american companies could make money out of this 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. with street cars mostly likely be still roving the russian streets the country doesn't quite the time of modern public transport have a look at what happens when one of russia's top time the new factors ways and you can check out wanted spring brainchild the so-called the back tramp looks like from inside and out on i tunes websites. also there are a prominent canadian ecologist who wants the side to drop out of greenpeace has another change of heart he says global warming is just a fantasy and warns of a global cooling instead.

write the same. first rate. and i think that you're. on our reporters there. in. the end. ok let's take a look at what's happening elsewhere around the world this hour six people including four children have been killed and one more wounded in the shooting and houston texas border into local authorities a man opened fire in the suburban house and then the times it's a flee the scene but was intercepted and cornered by the police five people died on the spots while one child was taken to the hospital however doctors were unable to say from the sole survivor of that the domestic disputes has identified the shooter . forest has been his quiet twenty four hour strike us public sector workers offer

toss them again so it's there it's a measures and those include a forty percent reduction to salaries and pensions many of the country's facilities are in the structure then several parts of the council are facing power cuts the government has asked the high court to rule the strike illegal and. london's a massive population may be diverse spot the multicultural melting pot there is not working this is according to a new report which points to barriers between the city and the communities are reports. politicians celebrated sociologists lord 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 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 the capital is the place in britain where they make communities makes 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 working class 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 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 that free time in the end it is probably less than is elsewhere in the country and then where the choosing to spend that free time is with people who look to a greater or lesser extent like them they say isn't about saying hello to people on the bullets this is about a little bit further having a conversation on the books so it's a step further the from diversity in toleration into something a little bit deeper and that's where we see those divides coming a little bit clearer and there is dividing lines could lead to greater fragmentation rather than integration. well that's it from us for this hour but i'll be martin's also keeping her finger on the pulse solve one of our top stories that's israel's ass strikes on gaza what are her american colleagues keeping up with then find out that.

we never saw that coming. we had no idea or children were gay. i would actually just. pray to god you know 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 the ridicule i don't think it stopped still to this day. well alabama and texas struck schoolteachers 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. they had to do what 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 a soccer game you can see individual players and we can even see the ball. i can almost see his facial expression you can see his mouth open and crying out. maybe cursed us or maybe he asked. for forgiveness for. there must be near certainty that no civilians will be killed or injured.

this is about making the business survive. corporations don't love corporations told kate corporations have no feelings. corporations don't care about you or me corporations quick or book profit. people come to untouched forests and leave massively for the sake come on. we're not going to quit we will not stop until it is done what is more precious music more moon. welcome to break in the set i met in martin. 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 been clear 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. 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.