so picture. from roads to. the to. 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 shelling. relations between the u.s. and germany reach a new low as berlin kicks out a top cia official in retaliation to the latest spy scandal plus. as says it's ready for a cease fire in ukraine's east our teammates the families who have been devastated by army air raids.

and broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is thomas glad to have you with us medics in gaza say four more people have been killed in pre-dawn attacks by israel international calls are mounting for restraint and a stop to the shelling 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. when.

israel says it hit more than a 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 those caught up in the violence as they brace themselves for yet more air raids. on a visit to gaza's main hospital we met four year old shame mass for she was injured in her abdomen she became collateral damage in a drone strike whatever has yet. to go went to visit her sister with her parents in the road they came under missile fire when she tried to avoid one she was hit by a second 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 under 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 road one that was targeted last night. by the entrance when the first missile hit the house of the second one soon followed and we carried the sleeping children out and run away the children began screaming through fear. 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 and. ledges 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 a 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 again 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 carry fear gaza. meanwhile 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 in the most seriously wounded at a local hospital for its part israel has vowed to step up attacks on gaza until hamas stops firing into its territory israel has already mobilized twenty thousand

troops for a possible ground invasion into gaza i.d.f. spokesperson libya vice earlier told my colleague unit o'neill why they are pursuing the gaza fence if. 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 we 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 and 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 direct. as a military big been given a very clear mission that mission is to restore quiet to the people that are living in israel and to teach hamas that there is a very very heavy price to pay to committing acts of terror and questions that were guarding these civilian casualties in the gaza strip i believe should also be directed towards the leadership within gaza that actively and purposefully puts its

own civilians in in danger. so is israel really doing its utmost to protect the 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. if there is one when you when you're looking for. one innocent people are in harm's way unfortunately regretfully sometimes or heard you're reading from the wrong script you're leaning from the script from the two thousand and eight ten knowing war israel hasn't even gone away. because it's never going to do what it was for those 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. relations between germany and the us 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 to allege the u.s. spies working in the state security apparatus anger over the snooping is widespread the german interior minister stated that the information obtained by the spies was laughable but the political damage is already disproportionate and is serious and a left party member shared is outrage saying the blind trust in the u.s. has taken a knock artie's peter all of our reports 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 with 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 you know experience 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 as 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 germany's anger the issue was raised at a state department briefing by a spokesperson jen psaki refused to give any information. when you see the end of the june report of the media report see what you mean by that or do you deny even

german alleviations a boat that there was a spy going on oh i'm 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 it until you see those reports are true i'm not going to have anything more to add on that front a 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 think 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 a matter of days that's the plan for president putin who is starting one of his longest two trips ever this time to south america we look at where he is expected and why after a short break watching or to international. plus of the jihadist offensive in syria and iraq attracts fresh recruits from western countries as the self-proclaimed islamic state calls on all muslims to join the fight there. told you my language as well but i will only react to situations i have read the

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welcome back this is our t. international now ukraine is ready for a cease fire that's the statement of the country's president expressed in a phone call with the german chancellor but despite reassurances kiev is not targeting civilians residential areas in the resistance hubs have done yet scandal guns have enjoyed more air raids if notion of met some of the victims of the military operation in the guards. and he day brings. to the city of the guns. this goes mother has just been killed when a shell landed on her fourth floor balcony it was up to the daughter to tell her father. that for.

her. this young man was lucky he was brought to the hospital with a gunshot wound and thought unlikely to survive can regain consciousness just minutes before we arrived he could do succeed in it which again is a simple bullshitting. in the sense that it's all. a son of a fertility somebody. who killed forty children. or no way out of the hospital they made him drain who just brought his wife here this is where she was sitting you can see one bullet here not in the water another stuck somewhere inside the metal cords 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 a car so i looked out of the window saw that she was sitting there and heard her knocking on the shop door but not many another speech and so do 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 frost and go slow i don't know what to say why are they doing this to our civilians. we asked the operation commanders in kiev who are trying to achieve their work out of the main goal now is to act carefully so civilians won't get hurt 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 he cranes 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 any turn to figures we meet with the health minister of the self-proclaimed people's independent republic of the guns. at the aircraft siren starts before we even ask our first question. we have to continue the interview in the basement. perhaps a hearing and then yeah i can't give any definite numbers concern it's really a casual it was a cover up 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 of casualties but if they're not allowed to show them they believe or only terrorists are dying here. i ask whether they tell about the civilian casualties. no one is requested this is a mission no one is interested in you even have a grain of soldiers but they have their own of those for you no one asks us what all of our statistics. and when night in the gun skokie of know exactly how many

men and women and two german have been killed the civilian toll is high and it's likely to rise. in eastern ukraine. so imagine yourself in a brightly lit room where you can only see a couple of the dim light bulbs that's how astronomers are describing our universe after it was revealed around eighty percent of light in space is simply missing and you can head to our to dot com to find out how that's even possible. also a mexican mayor marries a princess to be bring wealth and prosperity to his town but get this his plan wouldn't sound so bad if it wasn't for the fact that her majesty is actually a crocodile that's a bit unusual. right to see. her street. and i would think that you're.

on our reporter's twitter. instagram. would be in the. destination southwest vladimir putin is embarking on his longest foreign tour since settling back into the kremlin in two thousand and twelve before heading to south america the president stressed that dialogue is crucial in today's globalized world where no state or group of countries can tackle international problems by themselves our correspondent alexy oshinsky is in the city where putin is expected to land first the sun faded buildings have come on a may make a good source picture but they're a 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 part. 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. and i would because that will rubber stamp an unprecedented agreement was writing off ninety percent of cuba's debts to the u.s.s.r. that's thirty two billion dollars astronomical money for a country like cuba the remaining ten percent will be reinvested in the social infrastructure projects on the street is what have on the offer in return speculation takes in everything from major oil deals he will 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 we trade with russia has not been better the two leaders will aim to increase the annual one point eight billion dollars over 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 and will also meet a dozen latin american presidents in hopes of striking new partnerships 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 attempt by developing economies to become less dependent on the u.s. dollar. are reporting from havana. now in other news making headlines around the world our 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. danny alongside the

current leader ahmed karzai and key u.n. figures the official results of the vote are yet to be released but an independent election watchdog announced a ghani top the final poll it prompted claims of a cool from his rival. it 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 wrong protesters threw objects at police who fired back with tear gas and rubber bullets one hundred demonstrators and about forty officers were injured in the clashes. isis which is now calls itself the islamic state is making a fresh military push to seize more territory in syria and iraq the jihadist ranks are being bolstered by thousands of volunteers with many coming from europe and he's more in a course over reports now from paris on how the conflict in the middle east has fueled violence in france. as the french government continues to support the syrian

opposition many at home fear the repercussions of their country's meddling in foreign affairs coming back to bite them. we are paying the price for american politicians who want 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 are afraid of. the french public in recent years first there was the case of self-proclaimed just hard this mohamed merah accused of killing seven people in salutes in two thousand and twelve then this may it's wednesday nine year old french native was arrested for killing four people outside the jewish museum in belgium nineteen the move left france for syria and c. thousand and twelve after allegedly being radicalized behind bars. there are dozens of men like mirage and moose we've never faced a challenge on this scale the challenge is to prevent french citizens from be in

vatican 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 said if. the french government supported the rebel groups in syria the same groups and why themselves sometimes with the hardest groups so there are suspicions the french government is letting its citizens go to syria. 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 to 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 who they be down fighting greenock all survive reports in from paris for its heat. well up next in his a famous style larry king a girl's another newsmaker in the latest edition of politicking stay with us this is art international.

from time to time i get emotional e-mails and 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 five percent of the country's gas pipelines and storage facilities to european and american companies that's also not forget that joe biden son was put on the board of ukraine's largest gas producer we should also remember all the way back to the first days of the coup against you know covert what did the nationalists do first sign up big time for loans wow putting your country into massive debt with foreign entities now that's a nationalistic and would you think ukrainian nationalist would put ukrainians into power all over the regions of ukraine well think again because money sure trumps ethnicity what it comes to the two thousand and fourteen governor's line 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 cotton and so my dear detractors who write me letters just what sort of nationalists revolution are you so proud of. i'm sorry but i'm not seeing your triumph but that's just my opinion. he's ten united outspoken and ready to take a stand on the day's red hot issues he's my good friend bill maher get ready there's he's joining me for this edition of politicking.

politicking on larry king joining me one of my favorite people who's never afraid to say what he once the host of real time with bill maher on h.b.o. the one and only maher himself and let's get right into current issues none more current than was the sterling now i've heard you have attacked the fact that he was taped. yeah that's yeah but i know dns them justify the means but this is absurd well you know it's be good if we could keep two thoughts and i had the same time you know no one forgives the racism it's nice we've reached a place in america where that's not even debatable nobody stands up for the racism but you know the fourth amendment is and bean bag now i get it that he's in a kind of a quads i public situation there with the team it's not its own not public but it's the other owners can kick him out but when i was saying

a lot of people interesting i almost never get cute does from both left and right both left and right like that i said you know what if you can't do your own girlfriend in your living room without losing your property then what is before the amendment because the fourth amendment is the one that says we should be secure in our homes secure in our property secure in our persons and. you know racism is bad and so is losing the fourth amendment so what do you do when it bounces but once is out the owners have no way to go i mean they can say well yeah we shouldn't take them but what do we do right now i don't know what would they would they would i mean i had kareem abdul-jabbar in the week before and i said you know everyone's saying how brave commissioners solver was well he wasn't exactly brave i'm not saying he did the wrong thing but it's not brave when you do something that.