we're not going to we will know. what is more precious. more moving. iraq says terrorists have seized nuclear materials in the country and could use them to make weapons of mass destruction. is for all launches its deadliest assault on gaza promising to ramp up the offensive airstrikes have already killed eighty palestinians since tuesday half of them civilians. at the grating spectacle and deeply shocking german politicians weigh in on the u.s. spy scandal as a comes after a second government official is accused of. within a week this time it's a military mall. good

afternoon i'm hearing a call server and you're watching artsy and her national a very warm welcome to you. 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 iraqi lots or two they do one by avoiders it comes as jihad this are bolstering their grip on territories in syria and iraq which they're calling these states are seasons of friends 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 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 offered by saddam hussein 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. as lindsey mentioned the militants have made significant gains in recent weeks seize in that entire arsenals they've already paraded columns of times and even a scud ballistic missile the chemical site they took in iraq can say 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 the u.s. congress tional advisor wasn't far as a says washington is downplaying the crisis 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 or by any others you have a fashion it's not just about the material it's about what can this organization you just know do you go through or it is not necessarily nuclear material but if you bomb could be the outcome so i think that the next few days the united states government that both the executive and the congress are going to focus on this issue but at the same and then trying to downplay it because of the seriousness of it and they don't want to put

a big crisis before they make sure of what this material is that was in this congressional answer terrorism advisor walid flores there will do say what i had seen for the very latest on this developing story. israeli air strikes on gaza have killed the family of eight including five children early on thursday there were among some twenty people who died in the worst overnight a raid on gaza since the current offensive began elsewhere as were jobless militants were also killed in the car they were travelling in israel is violence intensify its shelling of the enclave. the mad dog got me to talk. from. the island i mean that man that came in from. god that. was. was.

was was. back. was. you know big it's a palestinian suffering field inside the strip in the past two days and nearly six hundred injured many houses destroyed by israeli rockets none of them belong to hamas militants that's why half of all the casualties have been civilians as well as leadership is pushing for a ground offensive now with potential deployments of up to forty thousand troops the united nations is warning that the situation is dangerously close to a full blown war our correspondent plus the reports. i'm 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 a deadly cargo in 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 a says radio 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 gaza people have been ordered to stay inside bomb shelters in cities as far afield as. has 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 their 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 policy r.t. on the israel gaza border. earlier we talked to activists mariya franson he's from the movement for international solidarity and they told us that he believes israel is streets and palestinians just like it always has it continues like this escalating i think. 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 and the rest regularly in the occupied territories but i think it's nothing new what the numbers of palestinians show the israeli prisons grew up to seven hundred. for every. child killed there were fifty palestinian children killed israel feels no pressure

to change what they are doing now and so they try to hit as hard as. the people in gaza. the latest u.s. spy scandal in germany has prompted outrage among politicians with a second government employee now suspected of working for the prime ally a member of the social democratic party said that it is degrading spectacle to watch u.s. spies being exposed on a weekly basis than the defense minister stated that the case has taken confidence in the united states the german member of the european paul. called the incident deeply shocking which of course caused a loss of trust now this isn't the first time that american intelligence has been called snooping on its ally let's take a look back at the scandals that we've witnessed so far the full scale of the snooping came to light last june the agency accessed up to half a billion german data connections every single month a month later it was revealed by germans intelligence cooperated with the n.s.a.

using the agency's infamous x. keyscore software then in october and international scandal erupted as it was revealed the cell phone all the german chancellor angela merkel had also been tapped and at the end of the year it becomes clear that the british intelligence agency was also eavesdropping on german targets then this february this year in fact the germany germans media reports of the n.s.a. has happened then chancellor gerhard schroeder's phone calls and the run up to the two thousand and three u.s. led invasion of iraq well artsy talked an american investigative journalist who helped break stories around the cia's rendition programs which also concerned german citizens and he told us about the relationship between america and germany when it comes to surveillance. 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 same incident the german political leadership. wants to be involved in the 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 of america being spied on and of recent cases is embarrassing for the german political system because it shows that germany's been very loyal to the united states but the united states still doesn't trust. wasn't just germany angered by the vast scale of the n.s.a.'s activities although chancellor merkel reportedly went on little further than most comparing the whole ordeal to life under this french president francois long echoed her statements expressing deep disapproval and brazil's president called the u.s. surveillance a breach off and her national law the n.s.a.

doesn't spy on only foreign citizens the latest batch of edward snowden's revelations claim the agency has been targeting prominent muslim americans as well even though there's no evidence any of them are connected to terrorism and artie's marina point i reports on the 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 practices even 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. including records university professor who's 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 apparently monitoring the still kill one of the five americans targeted tells our team he has no idea what would leave the n.s.a. or f.b.i. to think that he's someone that they should put under surveillance especially given his resume served in the united states navy worked in the bush administration of homa security 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 them to surveil or i mean i am a muslim and i did work in. addition of those 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. tronic 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 it also apparently shows that domestic spying abuses are targeting minorities and on defense for simply exercising their basic constitutional rights were not r.t.d. new york. so it's a calling the many faces off along the. white kids are playing with white kids

black kids with black kids middle class on their own which you cross on the right and you report reveals the brits are scapa so it's actually not be multi-ethnic melting pots that some make it out so people reports the invites later in the hour . there's a media legal show we leave that maybe. others she pushes she sure the play you call the there's a bill. for shoes that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from. politics. to. the stories we cover here not can here in iraq other big story of the extra headlines and talk there's a reason they don't want and do not. want to raise that we should be completely free now let's break the set.

speak your language. programs and documentaries in arabic it's when you hear. reporting from the world talk of the ip interview intriguing story or you. arabic to find out more visit arabic don't call. it's quarter past three here in the russian capital on your watch and artsy international thanks for being with us we consider you now with ukraine the eastern cities of the. around that after president petro poroshenko approved a plan for a military assault on the resistance hobbs' this is up in the strongholds of the answer government movements in the east and the top it's all those off the self-proclaimed republics now are the pictures you can get from the eastern

caribbean showing playing in the war machines and when the embattled cities both of them have been enduring overnights ever aids as well. this video was shot by one of the residents of will gone sky and you can hear shells exploding as they hit what appears to be residential buildings the most recent attacks have left up to three people that there has more. 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's 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 who are terrified by promises from key is to surround the city of donetsk and lugansk and fears were rising that it could become. a tourist to the center 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 don't yes it is home to one million people and concerns are rising the consequences of such strategy also will be bigger and deadly. sloviansk lies in ruins that's the view of a team of international monitors who recently visits at the city now the army had been besieged in and pound in slovyansk with cells for months now and the observers say they were shocked by what they saw the 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 like of supplies

a.t.m. machines were 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. now ever since that bird. cranes been firmly in the headlines over the conflicts in the field and of course the battle over gas supplies but for some in washington it's opened a whole new way to cash in on the changes. explains 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 producer 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 there are 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'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 much 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 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. relatives. of very influential officials are already on board and it's 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. well with street cars mostly like a visa still roving russian streets it's obvious the country isn't quite the champion of modern public transport's what have a look at what happens when one of russia's top time crying factors weighs in this is its brainchild the so-called black tram you can then take a look at what it looks like both inside and out on our website. also there a prominent canadian ecologist who wants 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 instead. write the. first. and i would think that you're.

on the record with. a kind of second look at what's happening elsewhere around the world this hour with stars in the u.s. six people including four children have been killed and one more wounded in the shooting and houston texas according to local authorities a man opened fire on the suburban house and then attempted to flee the scene but was later intercepted and cornered by the police five people died on the sports while one child was taken to the hospital however doctors were on the able to save him the sole survivor of the deadly the must of disputes has identified the shooter . greece has been hit by a twenty four hour strike us public sector workers are protesting against austerity

measures including a forty percent reduction to salaries and pensions many of the country's facilities of the several parts of the country are facing power cuts the government has asked the high points who are the strike legal and the peace of. london's massive population may be diverse but the multicultural melting pot there is not this is according to a new report which points to barriers between the city's ethnic communities are 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 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 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. i think is a gut 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 said great. there's probably an element here in london where people living busy lives commuting long distance they said that free time in the did 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 they say isn't about saying hello to people on the bus 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 there is dividing lines could lead to greater fragmentation rather than integration. ok a quick break next and then washington's monetary policy could trigger the next financial crisis you can find out and.

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 that 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 general coverture 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. of the twenty fourteen governors lined 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 national's revolution are you so proud of i'm sorry but i'm not seeing your triumph but that's just my opinion. over there i marinate it this is boom bust and these are some of the stories that we're tracking for you today. first up let's call it the everything bubble why because little bit o. me right now everything that is could the fed the wildly wildly accommodating

monetary policy trigger the next world financial crisis we look into coming right up then chris martin is on the show the brains behind pick prosperity dot com sat down with want to discuss his video the crash course which focuses on the very subject financial crisis and in today's big deal edward harris and i are discussing the latest company in some the world of decline it all starts this very moment. with. our lead story today the napster crisis and the central banks that are causing it. now does the federal reserve's wildly accommodative super low interest rates and bond buying program risk triggering the next world financial crisis the answer yes

likely yes so wednesday the federal reserve wiese released its latest minutes from the june seventeenth and eighteenth open market committee meeting and the minutes show that if the economy progresses as the f o m c expects that will the final reduction of asset purchases will occur following the f.o. emcees a tuber meeting the ultra easy monetary policy being employed by major central banks around the world has created the ultimate bubble and sovereign debt that's the big story that we're running with here now the new york times writes welcome to the everything boom and quite possibly the everything bubble around the world nearly every asset classes expensive by historical standards stocks and bonds emerging markets and advanced economies urban office towers and iowa farmland you name it and it is trading at prices that are high by historical standards relative to fundamentals so what's the inverse of all this relatively low.