your ex-girlfriend still pens tear jerking poetry. nora's. we post only what really matters out r.t. to your facebook news feed. one hundred palestinians dead in a four day offensive yet the israeli leader still ignores international calls and pledges to push on with the assault on gaza. ukrainian officials confirm nineteen troops have been killed after coming under attack by government forces in the country's east. the. local militia stepped off their fine following the continued bombing of residential areas in defiant ukrainian cities. also coming up this hour berlin and washington fall out of love as germany expelled the top u.s. intelligence official in the country furious over munting spy scandal to involving

the n.s.a. . from moscow to the world this is r t international with you run the clock i'm going to nail welcome our top story israel's naval offensive in gaza has killed one hundred palestinians twenty two of them children according to local health workers a mosque is also firing rockets but no deaths have been reported in israel these are pictures from the tunnel in gaza. i. rescue workers were searching a collapsed building for survivors when israeli missiles hit nearby the initial attack was a pre-dawn strike which killed five people the building belong to an islamic leader

and a seven year old girl was among that it. was. ok . but this is nothing. but israel has had over a thousand targets in gaza that's also had drawn troops on standby for several days now this journalist fear reports local health workers are under wheel pressure already. 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 has yet. to go went to visit her sister with her parents in the road they came on the 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 under good scare no

one knows if she's going to make it with a foot of. 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 to survive the violence suffer the mental effects of living in a war zone our bed lives in a neighborhood of shaikh redwine that was targeted last night. while we were sitting 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 that alleges are hamas militants however it's willing to go as far as targeting their 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. 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 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's civilian population cari fear gaza. world leaders are urging an end to the violence in gaza moscow's says' the spelling of civilian blood should be stopped as soon as possible there are similar calls from france with the french president calling for a deescalation and for civilians to be kept safe and president obama has offered to broker a cease fire but israel's prime minister sees global pressure won't stop the operation

and i must continues to fire rockets on israel setting off bombs across the country artie's paulus leader is in tel aviv for us. what we've witnessed is how mass rocket fire from gaza into israel continuing since tuesday when this operation began there have been some five hundred rockets now in one of the worst attacks a pickle station in the israeli city of ashdod was hit and one person in that incident was seriously injured and other three rockets were fired at israel at northern israel from lebanon so there are growing concerns that the violence could escalate and if we could ultimately be looking at some kind of full scale war at the same time israelis are becoming increasingly afraid you have sirens that are sounding throughout the day i can tell you that here in tel aviv when a siren goes people panic people rush from the cars people rush to bomb shelters or stay cases although often it's just a few seconds where nobody really knows what to do now with me i have gideon levy who is economist with the highlights newspaper gideon thank you for joining us how

are israelis feeling amid this is collating violence there is obviously a sense of fear but they're seeing this iran dome system made it much easier for most of these whaley's as we can see that until now we have to touch woods there were no israeli casualties the former mayor of shallow the israeli town sayed and i'm quoting the only way to win this war is to destroy the enemy without excessive regard for who's a soldier and for who's a civilian do many israelis feel the same way this is the most fear in the beginning of every military operation and it's becoming worse and worse from the aeration corporation because israel is becoming more and more militaristic and they should really stick another question to the dogs who want to smash the hamas will do sink will come instead of the hamas the government of luxembourg i mean the people who lost any kind of logic or racial nearly eighty people are now reacting

emotionally one can understand it but these kids norms influence the decision makers because this is really the will. right now when this emotional turmoil is. the i.d.f. accuses hamas of using innocent people as human shields in gaza while critics say israel bears responsibility for the killings the issue is the subject of today's edition of cross talk and here's a quick preview of the debates you can catch in full later here on r.t. this is when you hit one hundred flights. one innocent people are in harm's way unfortunately regretfully sometimes or hurt there and you're reading from the wrong script you're reading from the script from the two thousand eight hundred nine war israel hasn't even gone away. because it's enough are going to come to you in the house where those that's that's your that's the old 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 than if i tapped on your roof. now the following pictures show what was left after shelling by anti-government forces in an area of strong resistance around the eastern ukrainian city of lugansk officials have confirmed nineteen army troops were killed the country's president responded angrily by threatening to kill hundreds of militants for every soldier that's killed militia forces have reportedly launched an attack in an area not far to decide. what. this video supposedly shows a rage which has been blowing up by government forces who wanted to prevent the

plane army advancing on their homes residential areas in rebel held the next town lugansk enjoyed more air raids overnight ria financially i met some of the victims of the government's so-called terrorist operation. and you day brings most 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. before her. this young man was lucky he was brought to the hospital with a gunshot wound and thought unlikely to survive him regained consciousness just minutes before we arrived he was kind of luciferian if you wanted in this it seemed

to poach a ticket in the. distance which will. most likely look up for the other disability. to tell you what it isn't. or now we out of the hospital we 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 research and so did a lot of his just moved with his family from the suburbs of la guns into the city itself to escape fighting between n.t. 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 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 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 any turn to figures we meet with the health minister of the self-proclaimed people's independent republic of the guns. that the aircraft siren starts before we even ask our first question. we have to continue the interview in the basement. perhaps an iranian yet i

can't give any definite numbers concerning civilian casualties because many people died while we couldn't get to them so i don't have the statistics of ukrainian media doesn't say anything about those casualties and so much so they're not allowed to show that or they believe that only terrorists are dying here i ask whether they tell about the civilian casualties. no one requested this information or no one is interested in hearing us that i even have statistics on the korean soldiers but they have their own numbers so you know no one asks odds about ours that is sticks. and when they. know exactly how many men and women to join have been killed the civilian toll is high and it's likely to rise. in eastern ukraine. a blast has ripped through a major supermarket in the ukrainian city of donetsk at least one person has been injured and taken to hospital in the area it was evacuated because it is unclear

and firefighters remain on the scene. russia has put forward a new plan for the international community to talk of the crisis in ukraine let's get the details from our t's marina portnoy who joins us live marina what is being proposed. well russian ambassador to the un vitaly churkin outlined three key elements moscow wants included as the core foundation of any future ukraine related resolution he said that the security council should express deep concern about the increasing number of casualties among the civilian population that it should also voice an imperative demand to the parties of the ukrainian conflict to seize violence immediately and the fifteen member body should also call on the oas to facilitate the settlement of the conflict by means of that special monitoring mission now initially moscow was planning to submit its own draft

resolution on ukraine to the security council but that plan has been scrapped for now while addressing the media friday afternoon ambassador churkin also condemned the actions of kenya's liberal leadership insisting that you claim president petro poroshenko is using his peace plan as a smokescreen to carry out a punitive military operation in the east of the country. green important life new york thank you for the update more news after a short break including germany's anger over the latest spy scandal involving america's national security agency stay with our international.

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to welcome back to the program relations between berlin and washington have been dealt a blow after the top cia officer in germany was ordered of the country the strong reaction came after two high ranking german officials were in moscow as alleged u.s. spies over the snooping is widespread the german interior ministry minister dismissed the information obtained by the alleged spies as laughable but said the political damage is serious a left the party member expressed outrage saying there is no longer blind trust in the u.s. the justice minister has demanded u.s. spying in germany be stopped once and for all peter all over it can bring us right up to date from berlin. sent packing and 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 . to cheap 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 the 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 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 it 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. and publicly at least washington has so far kept quiet about the diplomatic row state department spokesperson jen psaki avoided giving any comment when asked directly about it when you sure you have seen the german report of the media reports the what would you mean by that are you deny the german alleviations about that there was this going on. all i meant by it was that we've seen the

reports we've read the reports i'm not going to have any specific comment on it given it's purported to ensure you see those reports are true i'm not going to have anything more to add on that front freedom of information activists to say expelling the top intelligence official is a drastic step but sends a strong message. is kinds of measures are actually only done for a pariah states like north korea and so forth this is a political earthquake you could call it there's going to be serious ramifications i mean. maybe the. trade agreement might be at risk i think that the political climate here is at a very critical. point in time and people want solutions they want answers they want their elected officials. holding them to account and to protect their rights their constitutional rights and i would suggest that that that in the coming

months i think we're going to see more of this sentiment yes indeed. russia's president vladimir putin weighed in on the stand those saying spying on allies was overt hypocrisy he also said it's a direct violation of state sovereignty and infringement of human rights putin spoke about the spy scandal before setting off on his longest both in time and distance foreign trip we look at where he is on why and later in the program. our online team is working twenty four seven to provide you with the best stories on pictures that are t dot com let's take a look at what's proving popular there right. on a street in judge say's if the troops towards homosexuality can change so can't abuse of incest and pedophilia read more about how those comments have gone down on the. cash for data internet companies could profit from you u.k. emergency legislation which increases online surveillance powers find out how on

r.t.e. dot com. right from the scene. of the first strike. and i think that you're. on our reporters' twitter. and instagram. to be in the know. at some of the program along with more news from around the world in the u.s. immigration protests are continuing in southern california demonstrations have been ongoing for a week alongside the us mexico border with activists attempting to prevent the arrival of three buses full of illegal immigrants a combination of poverty violence and ignorance about u.s. policy as seen many unaccompanied children head to america from countries like hunter s. door and guatemala as

a result around fifty two thousand miners have been detained in the past year attempting to sneak across the board. six people have been killed and twenty five are missing after heavy trencher rains triggered mudslides inside the west china houses and roads were flooded traffic was disrupted on the water supply total origins of it the fact we had residents and rescue teams continue to search for missing people this is the second mudslide incident to hit the area in a month. u.s. secretary of state john kerry is in afghanistan to resolve tensions over the disputed presidential poll we'll talk the candidates abdullah abdullah and ashraf ghani who both claim victory in jewish runoff the final official results have not been announced yet but the independent election watchdog topped the final poll is opponent called the claims of victory a coup. lot of mir putin is in cuba's capital

starting a week long tour of latin america his longest foreign tourists and to returning to the kremlin in twenty twelve head of the journey he gave an interview in which he insisted that in today's globalized world no state or group of countries can tackle international problems by themselves or correspondent alexy or she is following the president to see what side america and russia have to offer one another. the sun faded buildings have on a may make a good source 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. and that i would because that will rubberstamp 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 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 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 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. r.t. reporting from havana cuba. that's your stories this news hour but coming up after a short break i'll be martin talks on the high prevalence of swan rates across the u.s. to stay with us. 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 nine percent of the country's gas pipelines and storage facilities to european and american companies let'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 the end of 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 a 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 twenty 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. what's up folks i'm out the martin and this is breaking the set so every once in a while the stories i cover on this show become even more personal than they already are earlier this week i talked about how swat teams raid one hundred forty six homes every day terrorizing families and neighborhoods across the u.s. court of the a.c.l.u.

sixty two percent of these raids are to find drugs which are mostly nonexistent consider now up to a whopping sixty five percent of the raids result in no contraband and lo and behold not even a day after i covered the story a producer of this show's house was violently raided along with her extended family amidst the ransacking of the houses officers dismantled almost everything including baby toys a stroller and even the toilet yes because of a guilt by association case of mistaken identity my producer along with her relatives have been traumatized now having to put the pieces of their lives and homes back together look i was already pissed off about this but once the police state messes with my friends it gets personal and let's break the set. the look the terror they are looking very hard to take the target the long. have you ever had sex with the

target they're looking to. believe. such. utter such. a little. little sleep. during the latest series on gaza western media coverage has been downright shameful that got a couple headlines from the sworn in three days into the israeli military offensive dubbed operation protective shield first fox news says gaza rockets aimed at israel what would you do with just fifteen seconds wow then the so-called liberal all news site fox to.