certain be no civilians will be killed or in. my book got to be. more than eighty people including many children are confirmed dead in gaza as this roll pummels more targets files to step up at sarah francis and plans for a possible ground assault. to harvest minutes and seize nuclear materials in the rock with the government pleading for international help to prevent the uranium compounds being used in terror attacks. and spy cases pile up interim of the second governments employee is investigated for allegedly snooping for the do what's less than a week after a german agent was arrested for passing secrets to the n.s.a. .

why would he twenty four hours a day this is artsy answer national of the program. 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 was launched on tuesday a family of faiths including children died in an over nights air raids israel has vowed to step up attacks on so hamas stops firing rockets and so its territory. but i've. got to tell you. i love when i'm in a government that came in. at

least twenty civilians are among the dead reported by the palestinian health ministry many targets destroyed by israeli missiles have no vs links to hamas but israel accuses the organization of using civilians as human shields israel's massing troops on the border and twenty thousand reservists have already been mobilized artie's paula slayer's following the situation. the civilian death toll in gaza continues to climb in the predawn strike on thursday eight members of one family were reportedly killed five of them children according to gaza health officials hof of the casualties are innocent women and children and many of the homes that are being destroyed by these radiate strikes have no connection whatsoever to hamas officials according to palestinian figures one hundred 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 israel we are hearing from the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu he 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 continually sound here when south israel as well as in the central and sometimes even move in israel people have been ordered to remain in or 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 an emergency meeting late on tuesday you can see general franks has condemned the israeli airstrikes he's for restraint he has said that gaza is on my face and that the situation is spiraling out of control paula c.r.t.c. on the israel gaza border. and for a minute by minute updates on the rising tensions in the region you can follow policy as twitter account which is constantly updated with pictures and even videos . also more on the rise in sanctions in gaza let's bring in paul murphy who's an activist and former arash m.e.p.a. for the socialist party thank you so much for for being with us now of course as role is supposed to know whether the gods of france of despite civilians being killed in these situations do you think casualties in terms of civilians are inevitable. i think there are inevitable when you haue of a murderous assault being pursued bloody israeli establishment you have a completely cynical use over the tragic death of the three israeli teenagers in

order to pursue a preexisting agenda which is an imperialist agenda which is about. undermining hamas and which points towards anyway and a new ground invasion so it's not a matter of the israeli establishment crying crocodile tears and saying oh well some civilian deaths are inevitable and they're certainly inevitable whenever you have open air prison complex gaza and then you subject this to hundreds of bombardments with the highest technological level weapons on a daily basis but at the same time israel is saying that hamas is using civilians as human shields how much of a responsibility do you think hamas has the organization for the deaths of these civilians. i think the responsibility for those killed by israeli weapons lies with the israeli government and it is inevitable that when you

have one point six one point seven million people crammed into a very small space when they're supposed to be pursuing that so-called to the digital targets that they're going to kill palestinian civilians but let's not pretend that that isn't the a more that that's just you know something extraneous the top and you've a policy here of collective punishment of the palestinian people and of the people of gaza in particular and that's a policy that's repeatedly been pursued by the israeli establishment and let's remember the invasions of two thousand and ninety invasions in two thousand and twelve let's remember the massive numbers of civilian deaths but let's also remember that the aims that are portrayed to these id ready population over security for the israeli population they weren't achieved by those wars and they're not going to be achieved now it's just a cynical use of it but the deaths of the israeli teenagers and as we're not least states and children were killed by israeli airstrikes this week alone considering the amount of civilian casualties do you think that this is getting enough

international attention. no absolutely not it's quite striking it's even worse than in previous occasions in the western media how this is being portrayed you have an approach of balance and equivalence or even in some cases like in the b.b.c. you have talk about israel retaliated against rockets coming from gaza the whole thing is entirely distorted sort of course distorted by the establishment in europe the likes of catherine ashton the likes of obama who insist you know justifying to the right of defense of the israeli establishment for the rock the aggressor here is very very clear and what we need in our land across europe right around the world is massive protests and to say that people are completely opposed to this is radio silence of i didn't solidarity with those you know significant palestinian protests happening in israel but also joint is ready jewish and palestinian

protests happening at the moment. paul murphy former irish i mean people the socialist party thank you very much for your thoughts. ok well more stories are ahead for you including a looming blockade in eastern ukraine were reports from will gonski one of the suv cities preparing for siege asking of sense troops to surround the remaining hobbs' of government resistance. so reversed and nor the never have seized nuclear substances in the city in the sort of dog house called on they go on to help remove and that's the hazardous material will be used at home or abroad france has the latest. what we've learned is that in a letter to the united nations iraq announced insurgents have seized nuclear materials from miles away university according to iraq's u.n. ambassador mohammed 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 of thirty five miles southwest of baghdad which was once operated by saddam hussein's regime and is believed to contain two thousand five hundred degraded rockets filled with potentially deadly sarin and mustard gas 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 militants have made significant gains in recent weeks season and weapons arsenals they've already paraded columns

of tanks and even a scud ballistic missile the chemical site they took in the rock and say the number of agents including sarin cyanide and mustard gas and now they possess nuclear materials so let's discuss this with michael maloof who spent thirty years working for the u.s. department of defense he joins us live there thank you so much for being with us know what do you think that the jihad this will do with the nuclear material they've seized. well depending upon his composition it's possible that the material could be used for making a dirty bomb at best it cannot be made into a nuclear weapon it's not that. it's been determined that it's not a. grade for a nuclear weapon but it certainly can be used to make a dirty bomb and it's and it's been known for for years that you can take. radio radio radioactive material and put it into

a conventional weapon such as artillery shells and fired off and actually radiate an area and it's been my experience in working with border guards at the news because in years past that. even radioactive scrap metal can be ground up in use then and on one occasion i recall that drivers who drove the material through the checkpoints actually later died of radiation poisoning so the fact that they have a regulator is substance. and given the fact that these that the islamic state has some very pleased that they could probably put it to some use if not a psychological threat to to people if it's used in warfare or as a terrorist weapon all their experts say agree with the points of view that there are you writing in is an enriched enough to make a nuclear bomb but this dirty bomb as you've described it it can still be gains for

terrorist attacks right. oh absolutely and i think that this is this is the reason why the iraqi authorities inform the united nations and. it was meant to be for university use but but again if it's put into the wrong hands for the wrong purposes it can become a it can be used as a weapon and and as i said we've seen this we've seen this over and over again and other occasions where such such materials can be used for illicit purposes and it's something to be very very concerned about and the fact to that al baghdadi comes from. what was a protege of. kawi who was with the. group they had experience working with nuclear materials in years past and i think that al qaida has people who know nuclear materials and i i it doesn't it would not

surprise me that they could put this to some use even though other experts might disagree that he could even be used as a dirty bomb the fact that it's regulated the fact that it's out there i think is reason to be concerned about it and it can be used by they can be used by these people in in places in very. highly populated areas and and of course that will just radiate an area and it could cause an area there not to be able to be used for years as a as a constant. the sum of that time thank you very much for the insight that was former u.s. defense department more now our website has been putting together a timeline of the events in iraq since this began to advance so you can log on to our to dot com for all the way to stop thanks. right to see. first reading. and i think that you're.

on a record player. and. then . not. over to the u.k. now where nearly a million public sector workers have walked off the job forcing schools and offices to close in the so-called poverty strike teachers and firefighters have joined care workers librarians and other civil servants at picket lines across the country and they're protesting against austerity and government cuts will probably boycott reports from the capital. the rather rowdy crowd that's gathered behind me is made up of public sector workers despite the typically british summer weather that we're being graced with today and of course the overarching theme hand the issue is back

to working conditions and the tough issues there 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 a lot of the media focus about today's strike was also on the teaches that of what's out today now the head of their union has said that more and more teachers it leaving the profession because of government policy or are just about to retire michael sr are involved in order to choose which amount of work or speeches is just are the starting of both i mean it's not work actually it's beneficial to the children engines in terms of addition to being a roadie so somebody over the last ten or fifteen use that is trying to do

something about it by simply say an office and all that was right in saying isn't what isn't limited to chew lungs and alone we've got walk out some protests taking place across the entire countries in towns cities and places as remote as the aisle of the white 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 a move over the prime minister david cameron has recently pledged to bring in strict new rules that would cover strikes to essential services like this one which of course having spoken to the protesters that have gathered here today they say that that makes them even more angry. so stay with us for the latest on the spying scandal surrounding america and europe. so short break here on arts. there's a medium leave us so we leave the baby. by the seat cushions secure the play your

party there's a good. shoes that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from. politicking. mark t. . i'm abby martin the stories we cover here we're not going to hear any right other big story the patron at like same time there's a reason they don't want internet on nothing that are important in general phrase that we should be completely out now let's break the set. choose your language. call it make it with zero in federal court today still to come up. with ready to choose the consensus to. choose the opinions that degrade to. choose the stories that imply to. choose the accent to.

welcome back this is artsy international we have breaking news now the top u.s. intelligence representative working in germany has been asked to leave the country it comes after two german officials in a week were revealed as american spies well let's get more from our correspondent peter all of our who's in berlin for us hi there peter so why has paul and asked him to leave. well what we've heard from clemens' biggest are so who's the head of the presidential a parliamentary committee for the control of intelligence also a member of the americans ruling party is well they've asked this of the u.s. secret service head because of continuing failures to live up to the standards required and for them refusing help over the recent spy scandals that we've seen

here in berlin now we have seen one member of the german secret service is currently in a prison cell awaiting further investigation after it emerged he seems to of provided the united states with documents in exchange for cash now we had heard on whedon's day that the united states still hadn't denied that they had been involved in that and it seems that what we saw on wednesday as well as a defense ministry employee having his premises searched on the suspicion that he was involved in giving information to the americans and still no response from from the washington side has prompted them to say well we simply don't trust you operating in our country and please would you leave so that's the situation we have at the moment the head of the u.s. secret service head of the cia. in berlin has been told to pack his bags to get out of germany all right our correspondent peter all of us all the latest on the spy

scandal there. we have all the latest revelations have prompted outrage among politicians as well germany's finance minister said the stupidity of the alleged spying makes him want to cry a social democratic party member called watching us spies being exposed on the weekly bases degrading spectacle and a member of the european parliament says germany is being treated as if it was america's worst enemy well this certainly isn't the first n.s.a. scandal berlin's been involved in let's take a look here at the previous wants of. now the full scale of the sleep in first came to light last june the agency was shown to have access up to half a billion german dates of connections every single month and months later it was revealed by germany's intelligence cooperated with the n.s.a. using the agency infamous x. keyscore software now in october an international scandal erupted as it was revealed the cell phone of even chancellor angela merkel had been tapped as well

and at the end of the year it became clear that the british intelligence agency was also eavesdropping on german targets and then in february this year it was reports that the n.s.a. had tapped the chancellor for olders phone calls and that was in the run up to the two thousand and three us led invasion of iraq well one american investigative journalist told r.t. the revelations are leaving 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 of 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 at the same institute 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 that

america being spied on and of the two rows 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. well as was said world leaders were angered and insulted when the vast scale of the n.s.a. spying was revealed you can see here what they've been saying chancellor angela merkel compare that to life under the stasi french president francois lot echoed her statement expressing deep disapproval and then we have brazil's president who called the u.s. surveillance a breach of international law. potion street cars haven't exactly been a good advert for public transports in recent years but now one of the country's top time climate factors has weighed in so check out the brand new back track and you can take a full tour inside and outside artsy dot com also there you'll find sexism at the white house figures show president obama has persistently paid his male

administration staff way more than their female colleagues that since being elected in two thousand and nine that all of the details online. the main hall observance of government resistance in eastern ukraine the cities of the nets are preparing for a siege ukrainian forces are surrounding the two capitals all of the self-proclaimed republics have to present approved a plan for a military assault on both now these are the pictures from the small town of c.v.s. near that yes it has reportedly suffered airstrikes local militia have left saying they don't want the towns to be deceived like here forces and this video purportedly shows ukrainian military vehicles heading to the embattled cities where locals are living in fear as artie's maria financial reports today again we woke up from very loud songs all 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 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 blend in quite unexpected places in the city center in many residents have already fled the city and people continue to leave people were terrified by promises from key is to surround the cities over the net. and here's where. it could become. could i'm a tourist 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 don't yes it is home to one million people and concerns were rising the consequences of such strategy also will be bigger and. ukraine search for energy security has

seen the country's biggest gas producer seeking funding from the u.s. congress and that means figures with close links to the likes of the u.s. secretary of state and the u.s. vice president taking up positions on the board no doubt in the hope that some family strings can be pulled back in washington guy that's account 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

divan 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 new chips former ukrainian government minister all of these sons and friends of u.s. officials say they're on their own that they're disconnected from the decision makers in washington but of course nobody can stop them from benefiting from the policies adopted in the buildings around here members of congress are already writing letters saskin to provide u.s. 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 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 make sense of this house of cards where one connection leads to another where it's

all business and it's all personal. it's not just about lobbying for this one particular for. a u.s. state department spokesperson told congress this tuesday that ukraine's entire gas supply and production system. needs fixing. help and one can only wonder what u.s. companies and 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. officials are already on board and. what happened after iraq 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. so stay with us we have lots more coming up in about

a half an hour from now find out all the late says the tallis on our breaking news story about a cia officer being expelled from berlin but in the meantime say it soon for the night's episode of the dr reality all about life behind the scenes here on i'd see ensor national. 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 instruct 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 as simple as people playing soccer games you can see individual players and you can see the ball. you can only see his facial expression you can see he is now threatening crying. maybe cursed us or maybe he asked. for forgiveness for. there must be near certainty that no civilians will be killed .