we will not stop until it is done what is more precious music more movie. in my book that interview. more than eighty people including many children are confirmed dead as more targets to step up its are offensive and plans for a possible ground assault. saw this minutes and seize nuclear materials in the rock but the government pleading for international help to prevent the uranium compounds being used in terror attacks. and spy cases pile up in germany a second governments employee is investigated for allegedly snooping for the u.s. less than a week after a german agents was arrested cason secrets to the n.s.a. .

good afternoon from moscow you're watching artsy and her national with me marina call survivor very warm welcome. the number of people killed by israeli airstrikes on gaza is rising local health officials say more than eighty lives have been lost since the offensive launched on choose that a family of eight including children died in an overnight israel has vowed to step up its hacks until hamas stops firing rockets and so its territory. but i mean that guy at the moment though i got to tell you. coming from has never. passed the island and the government that came in from. that. was. it was.

problem. was. that it was. at least twenty civilians are among the dead reports said by the palestinian health ministry minutes or gets destroyed by israeli missiles have no obvious links to hamas but as for all accuse us or guys ation of using civilians as human shields israel's massing troops on the border and twenty thousand reservists have already been mobilized arcee spotlessly or as following the situation for us. the civilian death toll in gaza continues to climb in a pre-dawn strike on thursday h. members of one family were reportedly killed five of the children according to gaza

health officials hoffa casualties innocent women and children and many of the foods you know being. figures hundred and twenty homes have been destroyed as well as several government buildings now increasingly it does seem as if a ground offensive by the israeli defense forces is imminent here in this world we are hearing from the israeli prime minister denies it. has ordered an intensification of the assault in gaza israel's intelligence officer has also said and here i'm quoting that we have to take over gaza temporarily he suggested it could be a few weeks until the entire military infrastructure in gaza is destroyed i'm standing on the israel gaza border where the situation is extremely tense silence continued the sound here when south israel as well as in the central and sometimes even move in israel people have been ordered to remain in nearby bomb shelters now

at the same time there are more than fifty israelis who have been admitted to hospital many of them are suffering wounds that they sustained while running to those bomb shelters all are in a state of shock for most sirens the united nations security council is scheduled to hold any moves and see me showing late on tuesday you would see him as condemning the israeli airstrikes he's for restraint he has said that gaza is on a knife age and that the situation is spiraling out of control paula c.r.t. on the israel gaza border. and don't forget that for a minute by minute updates on the rise and tensions in the region you can always fall of hala slayer's twitter accounts. what we're seeing right now is the worst disclosure between hamas and israel since the war and the barber two thousand and twelve an activist part of france and he is from the movement for international solidarity he told us that he believes the

outlook and the situation as grim. it continues like this escalating i think we have to prepare for the worst it's just a continuation of the occupation of. tens of years on the grounds of the blockade of gaza still the checkpoints are still children get killed on arrest the regularly in the occupied territories but i think it's nothing new what a number of palestinians children in israeli prisons grew up to seven hundreds 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 it ghana the people in gaza and we have more stories ahead for you including a lumen blockade in eastern ukraine where reports from look on squids as one of the sea cities preparing for a siege as kiev sense to surround the remaining hobbs' of government resistance.

terrorists in northern iraq have seized nuclear substances in the city of mosul but da has called on the u.n. to help remove any threat that the hazardous material will be used at home or abroad artie's 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 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 and it lead to contain two thousand five hundred degraded rockets filled with potentially deadly sarin and mustard gas the u.s. officials downplayed the risk claiming the materials 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 those you mentioned there the militants have made significant gains in recent weeks season in style weapons arsenals they've already paraded columns of times and even the scud ballistic missile the chemical site they took in iraq inside the number of deadly agents including sarin cyanide gas congressional adviser 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 or by 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 a nuclear material but it dirty 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 they're going to try to downplay it because of the seriousness of it and they don't want to create a political crisis before they make sure of what this material is. our team has been putting together a timeline of events in iraq since the hardest began their advance a log on to our to dot com for all the latest updates. a german defense official has had his house searched our suspicions he is spying for they do us this is now the second espionage case linked so washington this week and this prompted outrage among politicians was that all about what they have been

saying to him and his finance minister said the stupidity of the alleged spying makes him want to cry as social democratic parts member called what's in us spies been exposed on the with basis of degrading spectacle and a member of the european parliament says germany is being treated as if it was america's of course and the me well this is certainly isn't the first and the same scandal berlin's been involved in actually if we take a look back at the previous ones and see here the full scale of the snooping first came to light last june the agency was sounds out access up to half a billion german data connections every single month and months later it was revealed that germany's intelligence corporates had with the n.s.a. using the agency's infamous x. keyscore software that. an international scandal erupted as it was revealed the cell phone of chancellor angela merkel had been tapped as well at the end of the year it became clear that the british intelligence agency was also eavesdropping on

german targets and in february this year it was reports that the n.s.a. has happened chancellor geraci phone calls and of on up to the two thousand and three u.s. led invasion of iraq well one american investigative journalist told r.t. the revelations even berlin embarrassed 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 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 that it states they want to have an integrated security infrastructure it's part of who they are it is part of food they've been since the end of world war two but this recent espionage scandal of america being spied on and of that you wrote 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 still doesn't trust world leaders when actually anger than insulted when the vast scale of the n.s.a. spying was revealed german chancellor angela merkel compared to life under the stasi french president francois log echoed her statement expressing deep disapproval and then brazil's president called the u.s. surveillance a breach of international law well the n.s.a. doesn't spy on only foreign citizens the latest batch of revelations from edward snowden claimed the agency has been targets of prominent muslim americans as well even though there is no evidence any of them are connected to terrorism are. for every action. 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 crop this is 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. included a 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 faisal gill 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 and 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 in my background that would lead them 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 intercept allegations entirely false insisting that no u.s. person can be the subject of surveillance based solely on first amendment activities and any allow. 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 moataz of 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 the defense for simply exercising their basic constitutional rights. are to me or. coming up on r t international mass strikes home or it's a paper broke the u.k. a million union workers join the large scale action in cities across the country insisting everyone is inside so so the decent way to forgot library actions to the un russe from the capital after the break so stay with us. from. the interview.

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welcome back to artsy answer national will concern you now with the u.k. where nearly a million public sector workers have walked off the job forcing schools and offices it's a close in a so-called poverty paid strike c. ters and firefighters and the care workers as well as librarians and other civil servants are picket lines across the country supports cost against austerity and government cuts well let's find out more from paul the boy who joins us live from london the were all the action is happening politics about the mood on the streets right now. well marine of the rather rowdy crowd that's gathered behind me is made up of public sector workers like teaches firefighters health care workers and transport workers and you can see quite a number of them have have gathered in central london despite the typically british

summer weather that we're being graced with today and of course the overarching theme here and the issue is better working conditions and the top issue that is about pay now british public sector workers have experienced pay freezes over the past several years and twinned with the ever increasing cost of living well they say that it's just not a living wage that they're getting at the moment the money terribly much worse off than they were several years ago and they can get by on the money that they're being paid at the moment now a lot of the media focus about today's strike was also on teaches that of the books out today now the heads. de union has said that more and more teachers it leaving the profession because of government policies now just before we came on air i managed to talk to some of the protesters here and i think which take a listen to what they said to me. all right just about to retire michael sr

are involved in order to keep. him out of work for speeches it's just i'm sorry i did not work actually but if you shoot the children. see change addition to the road you. talk about it also eternal being use that it's time to do something about it but should be enough is enough instruction says cut service from doing fine old it was like saying someone is limited to two lungs and alone we've got walkouts and protests taking place across the entire countries in towns cities and places as remote as the aisle of light now of course the government has said that they're not happy about it they've said that it's completely pointless and extremely destructive i'm worried for the prime minister david cameron has recently pledged to bring in strict new rules that would cause strikes to essential services like this one right to education and transport

from taking place that would make it harder for this to happen in the future which of course having spoken to the protesters that have gathered here today they say that that makes them even more angry remark or spawn and pauline boycott with of our latest on the strike in london and across the u.k. thank you very much. over russia in the street cars have exactly being the good advert for public transport in recent years as you can see here but now one of the country's top time trust has what you didn't check out the brand new back tram you can cycle full tour inside and out on artsy dot com. also there is a sexism by the white house figures show president obama has persisted only paid his male administration staff way more than their female colleagues since being elected and see a thousand and nine the details are on our websites. your

friend post a photo from a vacation you can't afford college you differently. the boss repeats the same old joke of course you like. your ex-girlfriend still pins tear jerking poetry keep. ignoring it. we post only what really matters at r.t. to your facebook news feed. so ukraine now where the main hobbs' advance a government resistance in the east in the cities of the new low ganske are preparing for a siege ukrainian forces are surrounding the capitals of the self-proclaimed republics that's after president poroshenko approved a plan for a military assault on both now these are the pictures you're about to see from the small town of severe. that has more to be suffered air strikes local militia have been left saying they don't want the child to the siege life here forces this video

purportedly shows ukrainian military vehicles heading to the embattled cities and locals are living in fear as artist maria for national who's there. today again we woke up from very loud sounds of tillery we are in the city center and. 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 were terrified by promises from key to surround the city of donetsk and lugansk and fears were rising that it could become used. to be centers of the operation for

months where clashes were very fierce and very deadly but ganske 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 deadly. ever since february screw in kiev the future of ukraine's gas supplies has been uncertain and the instability has opened the door for some new members at ukraine's biggest gas company some with suspiciously close links to washington as you can now 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 in bonn learned his presidential campaign these people are no strangers to each other divonne archer and joe biden 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 policy 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 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. some cronies 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. and in just a couple of minutes on a boy got us here with the latest edition of worlds apart and will be back in about half an hour from now with all the latest updates. on. we never saw that coming. we had no idea our children were gay. i would actually just at night 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 a ridicule i don't think it stopped still to this day. well alabama and 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 that's what 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 in. simple as people playing a soccer game you can see individual players and you can see the ball. i can almost see his facial expression you can see his 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. and. this is about making the business survive. corporations don't love corporations told kate corporations have no feeling. corporations don't care about you or me corporations only care about profit. people come to untouched forests and leave massively for the sake of bombs.

we're not going to quit we will not stop until it is done what is more precious music more moon. hello and welcome to worlds apart president obama began his first term in office with promises of resetting restarting and rebalancing u.s. relations with the rest of the world but five years on most of those policy

initiatives have been really gated to better times if not to the dustbin of history what's behind these three first sell off american foreign policy while to discuss that i'm now joined by douglas pollack vice president of for studies at the carnegie endowment for international peace mr paul it's an honor to have you on the show so the honor to be. your one of the united states top experts on asia and this is primarily what i would like to discuss but before we go there it seems that the obama administration has these things for the reap profits in his first term it was all about resetting rebalancing nowadays primarily the talk is about retaliation and redeployment isn't that striking how hopeful he began and how gloomy he sounds now well that's one of the problems with the campaign there in two thousand it was all about hope and trust and it was all turning to dust by two thousand and twelve and they're all of a.