that. cut. out of the. israeli air bombardments of gaza have now led to the deaths of more than ninety palestinians among them many children we hear from those who were right in the midst of the shelf. tensions between the u.s. and to germany reach a new low as berlin kicks out a top cia official in retaliation to the latest spy scandal. plus the jihadist offensive in syria and iraq attracts fresh recruits from western countries as the self-proclaimed islamic state calls an all on all muslims to join the fight they're .

broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is shawn thomas glad to have you with us. international calls are mounting on israel to show restraint and stop shelling civilians in gaza but the country apparently isn't ready for peace just yet saying there's more to come in operation protective edge more than ninety palestinians mostly civilians have been killed and hundreds injured in the offensive so far at least twenty of those who lost their lives are children.

israel says it hit more than one hundred targets in gaza on thursday many of the missiles have landed in residential areas causing panic to ripple through the population journalist harry fear met those caught up in the violence as they brace themselves for yet more. on a visit to gaza's main hospital we met four year old shame mastery she was injured in her abdomen she became collateral damage in a drone strike but i have yet. to go went to visit her sister with her parents but on the road they came under missile fire when she tried to wade once she was hit by a second letter but her mother and brother were killed she and her sister were left in a critical condition this is to die today and the girl is still in the good care no one knows if she's going to make it. doctors tell me they've been dealing with the biting shortage of medical supplies in gaza for the last three weeks as

a result of the ongoing siege but even civilians that survive the violence suffer the mental effects of living in a war zone our bed lives in a neighborhood of shaikh red one that was targeted last night. by the entrance when the. first missile hit the house and the second one soon followed and we carried the sleeping children out and run away the children began screaming through fear. in gaza dozens of palestinians have been killed in israel no one has been killed as in recent years this has mass israel war is far from symmetrical in terms of casualties and civilian loss it's been a traumatizing couple of days for the civilians of high newness in the south of the gaza strip to during its operation israel says that it's going after hamas militants those that alleges are hamas militants however it's willing to go as far as targeting their homes and in this case israel killed six children and two adults

when it struck this family home the family didn't have time to heed the warning drone missile which arrived four minutes before the main strike. we were shocked when the missile hit my brother's house after we hurried out our house was hit by the house was a children's playground where most of the heat's game that israel has made clear that it's not interested in restraining its operation on gaza so long as hamas rocket fire continues it's a recipe for further conflict and inevitable suffering for gaza civilian population a population already so beleaguered now lives in fear of even more violence in the coming days. see gaza. clashes have erupted between palestinians and israeli soldiers in the west bank city of bethlehem teenagers had been throwing rocks at the troops who fired tear

gas to disperse them israel's actions in gaza have forced egypt to open its border with palestine and take the most seriously wounded and a local hospital for its part israel has vowed to step up attacks on gaza until hamas stops firing into its territory i.d.f. spokesperson libby vice earlier told my colleague unit o'neill why they are pursuing the gaza offensive in the face of mounting civilian deaths. 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 a sausan 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 was it i don't as you say yes margaret but why then is the u.n. 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 so is israel really doing its utmost to protect

civilians in gaza that's what peter lavelle and his guests are talking about in cross talk being shown throughout the day right here on r.t. . but there is when you hit when you're not in fights. one innocent people are in harm's way unfortunately regretfully sometimes or heard then you're reading from the wrong script you're leading from the script from the two thousand and eight ten knowing war israel hasn't even the way of actually i did not have this is never going to come to you in the house where those that's that's your. script now you're using the human shield script israel has freely admitted it's targeting the homes of hamas militants civilian homes that's not legal under international law even if you give a warning even if you tap on the roof how would you like it there and if i tapped on your roof one either takes a clear position on. the protection for civilian noncombatants in conflict

or one does it and if one doesn't i think should have the decency to admit that he values different human life differently according to this political preferences. on other news now relations between germany and the u.s. have reached their lowest point since the run up to the american invasion of iraq in two thousand and three germany has kicked out of the cia chief in berlin after officials unmasked two alleged u.s. spies working in the state security apparatus anger over the snooping is why did spread the german interior minister stated that the information obtained by the spies was laughable but the political damage is already disproportionate and serious and a left party member shared his outrage saying the blind trust in the united states has taken a knock artie's peter all over reports now from berlin on the escalating tensions.

sent packing a with a flea in his ear. i just want to say that if you see it was human common sense in my opinion spying on allies and friends is a waste of energy. germany has now told the cia contact at the us embassy in berlin to get his things and leave. for the first time after a series of spy scandals this is a strong message from the germans that they've had enough of washington's behavior . or foreign intelligence services isn't something we're taking lightly but it took a whole string of and biasing snooping slip ups to get to this stage that paints a picture of an abusive relationship in june of last year it emerged that the u.s. had spied on its european allies prompting this response from the chancellor spying on friends is not acceptable then it was revealed that mrs merkel's private cell phone was bugged by the n.s.a.

washington promised not to do it again but refused to sign a no spy deal but still wanted to talk trade and rebuilding of trust between the transatlantic partners flash forward to april of this year when germany's request to see the chancellor's n.s.a. file was turned down even then i'm glad merkel was content to stand side by side with the u.s. president as he again spoke of their close friendship but the discovery of two potential double agents in germany and his many weeks and a lack of cooperation from the u.s. with the investigations looks like the final straw and it will be interesting to see what effect the expulsion of the cia official will have on an already strained u.s. german relationship now that berlin has shown its willingness to act peter all of a r.t. germany. washington has yet to comment on it germany's anger the issue was raised at a state department briefing but the spokesperson jen psaki refused to give any information

. when you say you have seen the judgment of the media reports seeing what you mean by that or do you deny even judgment on the. boat that there was a spy ration going on all the time all i meant by it was that we've seen the reports we've read the reports i'm not going to say i don't have any specific comment on it given its purported those reports are true i'm not going to have anything more to add on that front if former cia officer who worked in germany thinks the expulsion of the top intelligence official sends a dramatic signal to the us spelling the cia chief of station is unprecedented i don't know of a single example of any nato country expelling the cia chief of station and so this is quite a significant move by the germans they're saying no more of this there's no question about it i think this one is different because i think it is it is maybe one or two

too far it basically is the germans are saying that we have a high tolerance for the united states acting independently in our country but recruiting our government officials and turning them into spies is a step that we can't condone so that's i think it's a serious discussion going on but i as i said before i think the united states and germany have so much in common politically and every other way that eventually will blow over. thirty five thousand kilometers of air travel in just a matter of days that's the plan for president putin who's starting one of his longest trips ever this time to south america we look at where he's expected and why.

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react to situations i haven't read the reports. for instance you know i will leave them to the state department to comment on your point of the muslims say against islam or carry out a car is on the job. well done. no more weasel words when you have a direct question the fully prepared for a change when you throw a punch be ready for a. pretty tough speech moved a little further down the freedoms are crossed. and welcome back this is our team international now isis which now calls itself the islamic state is making a fresh military push to seize more territory into syria and iraq the jihadist

ranks are being bolstered by thousands of volunteers and many are coming from europe a pair of british teenage twin sisters have just left their home to join the militants then another muslim brit now fighting in syria has actually threatened to take over london and hold public executions there some volunteers are returning to the u.k. from the war zone and police recently arrested a pair of young men on terrorism charges one former student from scotland has also appeared in an isis recruitment video saying that joining the ji hottest was the happiest moment of his life now across in the us a woman was arrested while trying to board a plane to syria police say that she was plotting terror attacks there while over in france authorities claim to have caught an al qaeda recruit who wanted it to bomb nuclear power plants and the eiffel tower. kosova has more from paris.

as the french government continues to support the syrian opposition many at home fear the replications of their countries meddling in foreign affairs coming back to bite them. we are paying the price for american politicians who wanted to break the soviet empire and used extremists to do say we used to be afraid of the afghans now it is syrian jihadists we're afraid of. the french public in recent years first there was the case of self-proclaimed this mohamed merah accused of killing seven people in solution in two thousand and twelve then this may it's one thousand nine year old trench native was arrested for killing four people outside the jewish museum in belgium met in the movie left france for syria in two thousand and twelve after allegedly being radicalized behind bars there are dozens of men like. we've never faced a challenge on this scale the challenge is to prevent french citizens from being

a radical eyes that home and to keep a closer eye on those who go to fight abroad according to the government here around seven hundred citizens how falso are fighting in syria and it's a situation they are calling a ticking time bomb the radicalization process tends to take place in prisons like this one or online and once they're ready for battle it's really hard to track these people down that's why the government is now focusing on increased surveillance and prison reform. even though the government is introducing as such of measures to combat the radicalization of citizens some remain unconvinced saying the country's security forces are doing a bad job. the french government supported the rebel groups in syria the same groups themselves sometimes with the hardest groups so there are suspicions the french government is letting its citizens go to syria. let me call police. the fight against jihad is in this holy war in syria and this terrorism are not

credible we don't have any resources now it is almost too late if you want my opinion i think the best solution is to have a change of heart meaning that till our government supports the syrian coalition the door will be open to jihadists. the french government has flatly rejected accusations it could have done more to prevent recent attacks by its citizens and claim intelligence services are doing their job perfectly but with hundreds of europeans find someone foreign soil the questions right now are what ideology will they bring back home and move a beat down fighting marine a costume of reporting from paris for arts heat. so imagine yourself in a brightly lit room where you can only see a couple of dim light bulbs that's how astronomers are describing our universe after it was revealed eighty percent of light in space is simply missing you can head to our to dot com to find out how that's even possible. also

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may make a good tourist picture but they're all part of a sad reality time seems to be standing still here fifty years of sanctions against cuba is having a huge toll on the country's economy cubans want to move forward but in order to do that they need a strong partner and moscow has made no secret it is willing to become one that's why the first stop. longest ever foreign trip to latin american countries starts here. that will rubber stamp an unprecedented agreement moscow is writing off ninety percent of cuba's debts to the u.s.s.r. that's thirty two billion dollars astronomical money for a poor country like cuba the remaining ten percent will be reinvested in the social infrastructure projects on the intrigue is what have on the offer in return speculation takes in everything from major oil deals potentially has a lot of it but has no money to extract to rebuilding soviet military bases on the island and that's less than one hundred miles from the coast of the united states the next stop is where the scientists president putin has been very supportive of moscow in its standoff with the west and regrets that trade with russia has not been better the two leaders will aim to increase the annual one point eight billion

dollar turnover but its energy deals were both hope to gain a lot of power is provided using russian technology and the new nuclear power plant which will be built by russia a multibillion deal will certainly increase that last but certainly not least is brazil not only will be lucky enough to witness the world cup final from the stands and go through a symbolic handover from brazil to russia he has a lot to discuss with brazil is russia's key trading partner latin america and the two leaders share a common view on u.s. wiretapping scandals president rousseff was one of the world leaders whose phone was hacked by the n.s.a. so a joint information security project will be on the agenda here putin will also meet a dozen latin american presidents in the hope of striking new partnerships in the tool culminate with a brick summit where the final bricks of a joint bank will be late the new financial body will have one hundred billion dollar budget and could represent a solid a ten by developing economies to become less dependent on the u.s. dollar. r.t. reporting from havana cuba. now take

a swing around the globe to look at some other news making headlines this hour u.s. secretary of state john kerry has arrived in afghanistan in a bid to resolve tensions over the country's disputed presidential election kerry is set to hold talks with both candidates for the top job. alongside the current leader. and u.n. figures the official results of the vote are yet to be released but an independent election watchdog announced ghani topped the final poll it prompted claims of a coup from his rival. the child has been badly injured in a violent clash between police and protesters in mexico during a protest over changes to how the registry of births and deaths is run protesters threw objects at police who fired back with tear gas and rubber bullets a hundred demonstrators and about forty officers were injured in the clashes. ukraine is ready for a ceasefire with the anti-government fighters in the east that's the statement the

country's president expressed in a phone call with the german chancellor merkel meanwhile despite reassurances that kiev is not targeting civilians residential areas in the rez resistance hobbs' of scandal guns have endured another night of army air raids riff notion i met some of the victims of the military operation in. and you day brings most. of the guns. this goes mother has just been killed when a shell landed on her fourth floor balcony it was up to the do to tell her father. this young man was lucky he was cruel to the hospital with a gunshot wound and unlikely to survive. can regain consciousness just minutes

before we arrived this could use a few here but it is a simple bullshit getting. a sense that it's all. a son of a fertility somebody. to tell the world it isn't. or no way out of the hospital we made him dre who just brought his wife here this is where she was sitting you can see one bullet here in the water another stuck somewhere inside the metal court and drays still in shock and can't believe his wife survived the whole mizen i was in the shop and heard someone scream lay down on the ground but i yelled no my wife was in the car so i looked out of the window saw that she was sitting there and heard her knocking on the shop door but as many

another species of you know it has just moved with his family from the suburbs of lugansk into the city itself to skate fighting between anti government forces and the ukrainian army post and get the slow i don't know what to say why are they doing this to our civilians we asked the operation commanders in kiev what they're trying to achieve the main goal now is to act carefully so civilians won't get hurt well we don't have any definite numbers of civilian casualties we only have the numbers of dead and injured fighters of the anti terror operation. the same day crain's deputy health minister reported four hundred seventy eight civilians have died since the beginning of the operation in one pro including seven children but just hours later the ministry denied his statistics without giving a turn to figures we meet with the health minister of the self-proclaimed people's independent republic of the guns. of the aircraft siren starts before we even ask

our first question we have to continue the interview in a basement. hearing and yet i can't give any definite numbers concerning thriller casualties because many people died where we couldn't get to them so i don't have the statistics ukrainian media doesn't say anything about those casualties they're not allowed to show them they believe there were only terrorists but dying here i ask whether they tell about the civilian casualties. no one requested there's a mission no one is interested and i even have statistics only craney of soldiers but they have their own numbers for you no one asks us well all of our statistics and while neither lugansk know exactly how many men and women and children have been killed the civilian toll is high and it's likely to rise.

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