your ex-girlfriend still pains tear jerking poetry. to your face but. 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. in retaliation for the latest spy scandal plus. as kiev says it is ready for a cease fire in ukraine's east our teammates and the families who have been

devastated by army air raids. and broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our thomas have you with us. now 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. undergoing.

israel says it hit more than one hundred targets in gaza on thursday many of the missiles have landed in residential areas causing panic had 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 mastery she was injured in her abdomen she became collateral damage in a drone strike when i had. to go went to visit her sister with her parents but on the road they came under missile fire when she told us who we'd won she was hit by a second letter but her mother and brother were killed she and her sister were left in a critical condition at this is to day and the girl is still under good care. no one knows if she's going to make it clear they thought i thought of the 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 second one soon followed we carried the sleeping children out and ran away the children began screaming. it's been a traumatizing couple of days for the civilians of high newness in the south of the gaza strip two 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 the home 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. have been so we

were shocked when a me so heated my brother's house. the house was 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 conflict and inevitable suffering for gaza's civilian population sorry fia gaza. meanwhile clashes have erupted between palestinians and israeli soldiers in the west bank city of bethlehem teenagers who had it been throwing rocks at the troops who then fired tear gas to disperse them israel's actions in gaza have forced to 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 i.d.f. spokesperson libby vice earlier told my colleague unit o'neill why they are pursuing the offensive. 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 since two thousand and eight over a thought and civilians were killed and 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 take 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 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 at the end of the day 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. it's fair to point out israel is also being attacked and not just from gaza rockets have been fired from lebanon which struck israel's northern border to cope a public bomb shelters have been set up homeless we are reports now one of. this is one of seventy underground shelters in tel aviv for the past few years cities around israel have been preparing shelters like this for precisely the situation they find themselves in today under rocket fire from gaza as you can see there are water battles to the left of me there are doctors rooms and toilets above ground is an additional two hundred and forty public shelters in the city now this is for people who are in cause or who are on the streets when the rockets start firing they wasn't all that was passed in israel twenty three years ago that says that all apartments must be built with one room that doubles up as a safe room but of course you have older buildings that do not have that now or if

this comes as the signs on the ground on that a ground offensive is imminent we are hearing reports that the israeli army has ordered gaza residents to evacuate the homes immediately if they live near the israel gaza border now this could just be a psychological tactic or it could be and find that war is imminent at the same time there is an act that has come out that helps people find the nearest bomb shelter to where they are so it seems as if the clock is ticking closer when this might just be needed to see your. television. but what about civilians in gaza is a real doing enough to protect them that's what peter lavelle and his guests are talking about in cross talk been shown throughout the day right here. but there is when you when you're not in fights. when innocent people are in harm's way unfortunately regretfully sometimes or hurt there and 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 go the way of actually going to not have this is never going to come to you live in the house where those that's that's your. script not 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 than if i tapped on your roof. to other news now relations between germany and the us have reached their lowest point since of 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 on masks to allege that u.s. spies working in the state security apparatus anger over the stooping is widespread the german interior minister stated 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 u.s. has taken a knock artie's peter all over reports from berlin on the escalating tensions. sent packing a with a flea in his ear and. i just want to say it if you see it was human common sense in my opinion spying on allies and friends is a waste of energy and germany has now told the cia contacted 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 of a cheaper foreign intelligence services isn't something we're taking likely but it took a whole string of an embarrassing snooping slip ups to get to the stage paint 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 bilin 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 and even then the next angle of 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 but spokesperson jen psaki refused to give any information when you say we have seen the gentleman reports over the media reports saying what would you mean by that are you denying the gentleman on the geisha is a boat that there was a spy operations 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 a specific comment on it given its purported at and so you see 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 finks the. official sends a dramatic signal to the us spelling to see the 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 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 by 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. russia's president vladimir putin called cyber spying against allies overt hypocrisy in his latest comments on the unveiling scandal he also said it is a direct violation of state sovereignty and an infringement of human rights and privacy that statement was made before putin set off on his longest ever trip this

time it to south america we look at where he's going and why later in the program. plus 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. well told you my language as well but i will only react to situations i have read the reports from. the no i will leave the state department comment on your reply to say. carry on the job. no. thank you. no more weasel words. when you need a direct question the prepared for a change when you when you should be ready for

a. freedom of speech means little doubt the freedom to crush. dramas that can be ignored to. stories others refuse to notice. faces changing the world right now. so picture of today's leaves. from around the globe. dropped. to fifty. and welcome back you're watching our chief international the ukraine is it ready for a cease fire that is the statement that 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 resistant hubs of it done yet scandal gone scavenged ordered more air raids more of a notion i met some of the victims of the military operation in guns. and you day brings most to the scene 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. this is what. you have told her. this young man was lucky he was through to the hospital with a gunshot wound and so unlikely to survive. can regain consciousness just minutes before we arrived this could have you succeeded to get what you don't miss it seems to bullshit you don't need.

to tell. us a little bit of what all of this somebody. they killed the wanted different. or no way out of the hospital they made him drink who just dropped his wife here this is where she was sitting you can see one bullet here in the water another stuck somewhere inside the metal cart and drays still in shock and can't believe his wife survived the whole mizen i was in the shop and i heard someone scream lay down on the ground but i yelled that my wife was in the car so i looked out of the window and saw that she wasn't there and heard her knocking on the shop door. but that's not enough for stitches so did a lot of his just moved with his family from the suburbs of la guns into the city itself to skate fighting between anti government forces and the ukrainian army first and go slow i don't know what to say why are they doing this to us civilians

we asked the operation commanders in kiev what's they're trying to achieve that they were going to the main goal now is to act carefully so civilians won't get hurt well that we don't have any definite numbers of civilian casualties there we only have the numbers of dead and injured fighters of the anti terror operation. the same day he crane'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 all skull first question. we have to continue having to face. it perhaps a hearing in the yeah i can't give any definite numbers resorting civilian cattle

or horses because many people died while we couldn't get to them so i don't have the statistics craning media doesn't say anything about those casualties and so much so they're not allowed to show this or they believe that only terrorists are dying here i ask whether they tell kiev about the civilian casualties. no one requested this information when no one is interested in us but i even have statistics on the korean soldiers but they have their own numbers so you know one asks ours is about ours that is sticks. and. know exactly how many men and women and to join have been killed the civilian toll is high and it's likely to rise. in eastern ukraine. and there has been heavy shelling in a mining area of the lugansk region not far from the border with russia at least four people were killed after a bus transporting miners to work came under fire locals say a school and

a camera garden were also hit. now you can head online to find more firsthand accounts of the ongoing violence in east ukraine we've also got a full timeline of events there from the very beginning also at r.t. dot com imagine yourself in a brightly lit room but where you can only see a couple of dim light bulbs that's how astronomers are describing our universe after it was revealed all round only eighty percent of life in space is simply missing read that's even possible. also on a lighter kind of cute note of mexican mayor marries a princess to bring wealth and prosperity to his town and his plan wouldn't sound so bad if it wasn't for the fact that her majesty the princess is actually a crocodile a little bit strange for my blood. right to see. her

straight. and i would think that you're. on our reporters were very. instrumental. to be in the. destination southwest of 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 of the dialogue is crucial in today's a globalized world where no state or group of countries can tackle international problems by themselves our correspondent is in the city where putin will land first . the sun faded buildings have ana 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. because the 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 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 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 regrets that trade with russia has not been better the two leaders will aim to increase the annual one point eight billion dollars turnover but it's energy deals where 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 hopes of striking new partnerships in the tool called an eight 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. r.t. reporting from home on a. now take a swing around the globe to look at some other stories 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 abdullah abdullah and ghani alongside the current leader on the. u.n. figures the official results of the vote are yet to be released but an independent election watchdog announced a top to 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 has run protesters threw objects at police who fired back with tear gas rubber bullets one hundred demonstrators and about forty officers were injured in the clashes. isis which now calls itself the islamic state is making a fresh military push to seize more territory in syria and in iraq the jihadist ranks are being bolstered by thousands of volunteers with many coming from europe a pair of british teenage twin sisters have run away from their family home to join

their brother who is already with the militants another muslim brit now fighting in syria has threatened to take over london and hold public executions there and some volunteers who 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 appeared in an isis recruitment video saying it had joining the jihad ists was the happiest moment of his life across in the united states a woman was arrested while trying to board a plane to syria police say that she was plotting terror attacks while over in france authorities claiming to have caught in there were crude who wanted to bomb a nuclear power plants and of course the eiffel tower parties madina kosova as more from peppers. as the french government continues to support the syrian opposition and many at home fear the repercussions of their country's meddling in foreign affairs coming to bite them. on the all we are paying the price for american

politicians who want to break the soviet empire and used extremists to do so we used to be afraid of the afghans now it is syrian jihadists wilfried of. sudan suck the french public in recent years first there was the case of self-proclaimed this mohamed merah accused of killing seven people in salutes in two thousand and twelve then this may it's wednesday nine year old trench native was arrested for killing four people outside the jewish museum in belgium nineteen the moose 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 be in vatican eyes not home and to keep a close eye on those who go to fight abroad according to the government here around seven hundred citizens how falso are fights and in syria and that's

a situation they're 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 put. the fight against jihadism this holy war in syria and this terrorism i'm 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. 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 moving the down fighting green acosta reporting from paris sports. after the break computer labelling his guests to discuss the rising gaza death toll as the israeli offensive continues stay with us watching our two international. we never saw that coming. we had no idea or children were gay. i

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