for the people. that. come out of that interview. breaking the u.n. say eighty eight people are now confirmed to have died in gaza israel pummels more targets from the air and values to step up the offensive. early in expels a top cia spy working in germany after two government employees are accused of passing secrets to the u.s. . also coming up this hour how this militant sees it nuclear materials in iraq with the government pleading for international help prevent the really income pines being used in terror attacks.

live from our new center here in moscow twenty four hours a day you're tuned into r t international i mean i know neal we start breaking news the u.n. say eighty eight people have been killed by israeli strikes on gaza since an offensive was launched on tuesday at least eighteen among the dead are children according to local health officials israel has vowed to step up attacks until hamas stops firing rockets onto its territory. the thing about him at. that moment though i got to tell you that coming from has never lost one i am a lucky fellow and i mean i couldn't have meant that comment about the outfit. i would not. have.

known good looking at least twenty civilians are among the dead reported by the palestinian health ministry many targets destroyed by a stray missiles have no obvious links to hamas but israel accuses the organization of using civilians as human shields israel is massing troops on the border and twenty eight thousand reservists have already been mobilized for more on the story let's go live to journalist harvey fear who is in for our t.v. harvey the number of palestinians killed by a stray or strikes is climbing tell us what is happening there now are. all the sons just setting now on this the latest operational in gaza as you just mentioned the u.n. now reports that eighty eight palestinians have been killed since the operation began local palestinian human rights groups say twenty children have been killed and ten women it's very distinctive in the palestinian situation he reports all of

such great civilian casualties including those of children. now among the civilian population at large hundreds of palestinian homes being destroyed down from the north to the south of the gaza strip that has been aerial naval bombardment since the operation began of significance in the last two days last night israel tops of assassinated. a drive a media press vehicle just hundreds amuses away from where i am speaking. to you right now this was an assassination which was successful this gentleman was killed additionally of significance israel basically attacked a cafe along the beach in the gaza strip and the local media here reports that this was specifically affecting a group of civilians watching the fee for a wild college football and chips and seven deaths reported in this incident as

well this of course is in stark contrast the image here to tell of an israel at large at the moment is no israelis have been reported killed as a result of these hundreds of palestinian rockets being fired from this coastal on clay. thus the two israelis have been injured but these extraordinary numbers in comparison to those on the palestinian side where we've seen hundreds of palestinians engine just two israelis just isn't large down to the excess of israel's iron dome missile interception system which is walking a very successfully and strategically inside israel now people in gaza fearful of an escalation not as a set the sun setting here right now and as natural during these operations the attacks on gaza the targeting is on gaza will increase now the sun has set it will be most hot just after midnight tonight one and two i suspect to see. several several times take place in

a coordinated fashion calling across the strip to create the key question is whether or not that's likely to be a ground escalation of israeli military officials have alluded to the possibility of this whether or not this is just a preparedness or actual strategy in the coming days is yet to be seen but certainly in this palestinian gaza. palestinians remember the two thousand and two thousand and nine operation which saw a ground invasion would it. be fear within me to stop it. israeli defense force spokesperson.

this is not an operation in any capacity against the people of gaza this is an operation against hamas against an organization that purposely and specifically uses the civilian population of gaza as human shields the point is is that you're defending your people but thankfully no israelis have been killed by hamas rockets in the last number of days but let's just get some more figures because in gaza at least eighteen children died according to local health officials also since two thousand and eight over thought and civilians were killed in gaza that's right twenty times more than the israeli civilian death toll is israel's reaction to rockets fired by hamas measured unjustified there are four with five million men women and children living in shelters that is something with which we cannot continue and which no other country would accept we make unbounded efforts to protect the civilian population in the gaza strip before any attack is taken

against hamas to take measures that no other military or no other country takes in the world which include text messages to people in civilian areas phone calls to their homes to do this because if the end of the day then why because i don't as you say yes margaret but why then is the un security general urging israel to show restraint but prime minister netanyahu is vowing to step off the offensive so international calls are simply being ignored aren't they. again i and he calls about international claims really should be directed towards the prime minister at . breaking news this hour the top cia officer in germany has been ordered art of the country berlin has responded angrily after two german officials in a week were allegedly revealed to be american spies let's get more from our correspondent peter all over in berlin this is as a direct result of two recent spy scandals it came after an emergency session of the pall of entry committee for control of intelligence and well they said it was

down to the. you refuse all of us intelligence services to work with their german counterparts off the back of these two investigations that we've see now this is clearly designed to represent a strong statement to washington not something that there has been accusations here in germany that the german government haven't being doing that they haven't been doing enough there to show strength in the face of spy scandals that have really been and lurching almost solidly since the first leaks from edward snowden over a year ago but in a statement a government spokesman said that the german government would continue to work with its partners but the continued working relationship relied a lot on trust and that there had been trust lost here. i just want to see that if you look at it using common sense in my opinion spying on allies and friends is a waste of energy. this of course follows these two scandals that we've seen what

involving a an officer of the federal intelligence service remains in custody awaiting trial who was arrested last week and just this week we saw the searching of a the office of an employee of the defense ministry there's no arrest be made but that inquiry continues so that's the decision that's being made by the germans they've told the representative of the u.s. security services just a pocket and leave the country. the latest revelations have prompted rage among politicians germany's finance minister said the stupidity of the alleged spying mix him want to cry a social democratic party member called watching us spies being exposed on a weekly basis i do greeting a spectacle and a member of the european parliament say germany is being treated as if it was america's worst enemy and this certainly isn't the first n.s.a. scandal burnings been involved in that's take a look back at some of the previous ones the full scale of the snooping first came

to light in june last year the agency was shown to have access to half a billion german data connections every single month a month later it was revealed that german intelligence cooperated with the n.s.a. using the agency's internet monitoring software then in october an international scandal erupted as it was revealed the cell phone of chancellor angela merkel had been top of 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 reported the n.s.a. had top then chancellor gerhard schroeder's phone calls in the run up to two thousand and three u.s. led invasion of iraq let's now get more on this from former e.u. parliament member glenn ford so germany has finally reacted is this latest scandal so different from the previous ones. well i think the issues you put it give the americans what we would hope the spy allegations at the moment is the. committee of

inquiry looking at the previous spying by the n.s.a. . capable of learning. very useful information. begs the question why they're doing it but of course previous cia director james woolsey. if you want security in. the world. actually affecting relationships between. washington. well i have to say in the european parliament discussions it's going to be. trade investment and trade partnership it now appears to. be toxic in. any way. that the.

free trade agreement between the european union and the united states. the u.s. is going to respond. i don't know i. would. that would take. some kind of agreement. on lest we forget of course germany is. why is it being spied on therefore. it appears. maybe they should. play. protection but similar. they want to. protect our

communications in a way that would make it very difficult for the american so we either need to have our own secure communications or some agreement with the americans to cease and desist from a doing at the moment we've been getting a lot of reaction on this the experts here in r t tell us that american intelligence agencies are basically. there for is it actually possible to break free of washington's influence there speer. in the immediate future probably don't but certainly. if you want to european security space. create communications. with the americans from continuing. former member of the european.

yes thank you very much former member of the european parliament. your take on the situation. for stories ahead few including a looming blockade in eastern ukraine we report from one of the two cities. in the remaining hub of the government. is the media leave us so we leave that maybe. by the scene. no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from. politics. i'm abby martin write the stories we cover here not in here and he writes that our big story the facts are that while some time there's a reason they don't want international airport there are no rules that we don't

think. now let's break the set. choose your language. for the sake of it oh and for the mentally ill send us a still some. tunes that the consents to. choose to give to us that you think. choose the stories that impact your. choose the access to. quarter of an hour into the program welcome back terrorists in northern iraq have seized nuclear substances in the city of mosul by dot us called on the u.n. to help remove any threat the hazardous material will be used at home or abroad r t

twenty france has more for us. 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 cam 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 and 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 now as lindsey mentioned the militants made significant gains in recent weeks seizing entire weapons arsenals they've already paraded columns of tanks and even a good ballistic missile the chemical they took in iraq contained a number of deadly agents including certain cyanide and mustard gas another that possess nuclear materials we asked michael maloof who spent thirty years working for the u.s. department of defense what they're likely to do with the. 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 up that. grade for a nuclear weapon but it's been known for years that if you can. radioactive material and put it into

a conventional weapon such as artillery shells the fact that it's unregulated the fact that it's 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 places in very. highly populated areas and and of course that there will just radiate in the area and it could cause an area there not to be able to be used for years as a as a conscious. or a web team has been putting together a timeline of events in iraq since jihadist began there at fonts log on to our t. dot com for all the latest. time for some more news from around the world now at least two people have been killed this typhoon hit the southern japanese island of khushi heavy rain battered suburban areas causing widespread flooding the storm also ripped trees from the roots left houses buried under mud and caused many more than half

a million people have been evacuated from their homes due to the severe weather conditions. in germany forty refugees occupying. t.v. tower have been forcefully affected by police the asylum seekers who are demanding a better place in german society and work at a recognition of their protests were held by side the building in solidarity with the refugees. father shot dead for all this children. two other adults in a suspected domestic dispute in houston texas his fifteen year old daughter who was all too shot is alive but in a critical condition despite a head wound she managed to identify her father to police which led to his arrest officials said the gunman on his wife were estranged and she was arts of the state at the time. now in the u.k.

almost a million public sector workers have walked off the job forcing schools and offices to close in a so-called poverty pay strike union leaders to name the auction may be the biggest in a century although the authorities say the turnout has been overestimated teachers and firefighters have joined care workers librarians and other civil servants and picket lines across the country to protest against austerity and government cuts reports from the capital. the rather rowdy crowd that's gathered behind me is made up of the public sector was 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 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

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 the a union has said that more and more teachers it leaving the profession because of government policy or are just about to retire and michael sr are involved in order to teach. amount of work or teaches is just are very difficult i mean you know work actually it's beneficial to the children pensions it all turns in addition to being a roadie. somebody over the lawsuits and everything is that it's trying to do something about it by simply saying enough is enough was the right thing isn't really a month is it too long to know now we've got walkouts and protests taking place across the entire countries in towns cities and places as remote as the pile of white now of course the government has said that they're not happy about it leaves

. said that it's going to be pointless and extremely destructive i'm more afraid that the prime minister david cameron has recently pledged to bring in strict new rules that would have 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. now we're getting reports of renewed violence in eastern ukraine where the main hubs of government resistance the city of donetsk and lugansk are preparing for a siege and these are pictures from the region where a local mine this come under fire local militia are also stepping up attacks on an earth port in the next region which is controlled by ukrainian forces these are pictures from the small time of year the net has reportedly suffered first strikes local militia have left saying they did not want the time to be deceived by forces this video purportedly shows ukrainian military vehicles headed to the embattled

cities and locals are living in fear as artie's maria phenomena reports today again we woke up from very loud songs. we are in the city center and the shelling was so coy said 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 is to surround the cities over the net. and fears were rising that it could become. a tourist to do percentages 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 denounce his home to

one million people and concerns were rising the consequences of such strategy also will be bigger and. the city of slovyansk the former stronghold of anti-government forces has seen some of the worst attacks laying in ruins on suffering a severe humanitarian crisis it's been turned into a ghost town and that's the assessment of european monitors. there was quite a bit of devastation there obviously we were the first international body to get into this city there is very no electricity no water lack of food supplies a.t.m. machines were working and did 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. coming up after the break is u.s. foreign policy doing more harm thank you notes on

a book or discusses that next in worlds apart to stay with us. from time to time i get emotional emails in broken english from quote nationalists of various sort who support the current government in kiev and it makes me wonder if young people today even know what the word nationalist means for example just last week a bill was passed in ukraine that will open up forty nine percent of the country's gas pipelines and storage facilities to european and american companies let's also not forget the joe biden son was put on the board of ukraine's largest gas producer we should also remember all the way back to the first days of the coup against you know covert what did the nationalists do first sign up big time for i am loans wow

putting your country into massive debt with foreign entities now that's nationalistic and would you think ukrainian nationalists would put ukrainians into power all over the regions of ukraine well think again because money sure trumps ethnicity what it comes to the two thousand and fourteen 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 nationalist revolution are you so proud of i'm sorry but i'm not seeing your triumph but that's just my opinion.

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 well so long to be here thank you you're 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 that was all turning to dust by two thousand and twelve and they're all of those who share the disappointment in the promise of the obama government coming up so short. now speaking about. this policies of resetting with russia or rebalancing with china. i think president obama did try on a number of occasions to breathe a new light in those policy initiatives but unfortunately it hasn't been very successful i wonder if the if the problem is with the policies perhaps the runs realistic from the get go or is the problem with the obama administration and the way they went about executing those policies well i put the categories

a little differently i think there are some ideas that were good and some ideas that were not so good all the good ideas were in asia the not so good ideas rule in europe and in policy toward east europe and russia and we've had better execution in the first term and not so good execution of policy in the second term now it declined to the point when the idea of reset has essentially been buried already now i wonder if the. idea of rebalancing with china is still alive because president obama made no mention of it in his latest foreign policy speech at west point and since we have had the middle east implode once again with the ices advance i wonder if the pivot to asia or to china will have to wait once again well the rebalance or mistakenly sometimes called the pivot is still.