we will not stop until it is done what is more precious music more moving. the palestinian death toll passes one hundred as israel strikes another horse in gaza on the fourth day of the offensive the prime minister has pledged to continue . ukrainian officials confirm nineteen troops have been killed after coming under attack by government forces in the country's east. local militias step up their fight following the continued bombing of residential areas in defiance ukrainian cities. and also this hour berlin and washington for a lot of love plus germany expels that the u.s. intelligence official in the country furious for months by scandals involving the

n.s.a. . or watching from in the world welcome to moscow and to r.t. international i'm you know neal welcome our top story the number of palestinians killed by israel's air a naval offensive on gaza is now one hundred three twenty two of the dead are children according to local health workers has also firing rockets but no deaths being reported in israel these are the latest pictures from gaza. currently a shell exploded in a residential area where masses of people were on the streets earlier on friday rescue workers were searching a collapsed building for survivors when israeli missiles hit a nearby the highest had been hit by a pre-dawn strike which killed five people it belonged to an islamic leader on

a seven year old girl was among the dead. was i thought it was. a little bit of the flu from. israel has hit over a thousand targets in gaza has also had grown troops on standby for several days now honest journalist harvey fear reports local health workers are under real 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 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 avoid one 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 the day today and the girl is still under good care no one knows if she's going to make it they thought i thought 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. sitting 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. 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 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 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's game that israel has made clear that it's not interested in restraining its operational so long as hamas rocket fire. continues it's a recipe for conflict and inevitable suffering for gaza's civilian population sorry thea gaza. world leaders are urging an end to the violence in gallas and moscow's ses 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 on for civilians to be kept safe and president obama has offered to

broker a cease fire but israel's prime minister sees global pressure will not stop the operation and i must continues to fire rockets at israel setting off bombs across the country artie's polis leader is in tel aviv. what we've witnessed is hamas 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 the 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 at all 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

a good young lady who is economists with a high i would say news paper thank you for joining us how are israelis feeling amid this is collating violence there is obviously a sense of fear but they're saying the siren dorm system made it much easier for most of these whaley's as we can see that until now we have two such worlds 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 with aeration corp because israel is becoming more and more militaristic and they should really stick another question to dos who want to smash the hamas will do singly come instead of the hamas the government of looks and build 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 know what's influence the decision makers because this is really the will. right now when this. is taking place. the i.d.f. accuses hamas of using innocent people as human shields in gaza well 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 debate you can catch in full later here on r.t. . if there is one when you hit one hundred five. 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 and eight to 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 square now you're using the human shield script israel has freely admitted its 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. going on to the situation in ukraine and these pictures show what was left after shelling by government forces in an area of strong resistance around the eastern ukrainian city of new council 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 the militia forces have also reportedly launched an attack in an area not far to the south. what.

this video supposedly shows a bridge which was blown up by anti government forces who wanted to prevent the ukrainian army advancing on their homes residential areas in rebel held a gnat's going to dance going toward more air raids overnight refinished they met some of the victims of the government's so-called terrorist operation. and you day brings most already 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. they were. going to 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 this could have to succeed and he wanted and he succeeded

to bullshit to getting. missiles to school. my son will come for all of this somebody. killed in the world it isn't. or now we out of the hospital we made him drink who just brought his wife here this is where she was sitting you can see one bullet here of not in the water another stuck somewhere inside the metal court and drays still in shock and can't believe his wife survived the whole miles in 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 to switch it so that 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. 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 equines 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 time to figures we meet with the health minister of the self-proclaimed people's independent republic of the guns. at the aircraft siren song before we even ask al first question. we

have to continue the interview in basement. perhaps an iranian man 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 but ukrainian media doesn't say anything about those casualties so they are 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 no one is interested in that i even have statistics on the ukrainian soldiers but they have their own numbers no one asks us about ours the districts. 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. refuel. in eastern ukraine a blast has ripped through

a major supermarket in the ukrainian city of donetsk at least one person was injured and subsequently hospitalized on the area it was evacuated the cause 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 ortiz marina has more on what's being proposed over russia 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 and 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 its 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 kiev's literate 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. more news coming up after a short break including germany's anger over the live as spying scandal involving america's national security agency to stay here on r t international. well know polder my language as well but i will only react to situations i have read the reports from. the pollution and no i will leave them to the state department to comment on your latter point of the month to save lives it is a k.l. a car is on the docket no god. no more weasel words

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welcome back to the program now relations between burley and washington are being dealt a blow after the top cia officer in germany was ordered out of the country the strong reaction came after two high ranking german officials were on moscow as alleged u.s. spies over the snooping is widespread the german interior minister dismissed the information obtained by the alleged quote 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. and the justice minister has demanded u.s. spying in germany be stopped once and for all artes peter over reports 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 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 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 even then and 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 strained indeed and publicly at least washington has so far kept quiet about the diplomatic row state department spokesperson jen psaki avoiding giving any comment when asked about it directly. when you show you. the german report of the media report see what you would you mean by that are you deny either german alleviations a boat that there was

a ration 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 its 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 activist. expelling the top intelligence official is a drastic step that 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 at least there is ramifications i mean. maybe the t i p 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 all seeing spying on allies was overheard hypocrisy he also said it's a direct violation of state sovereignty and infringement of human rights. spoke about the spy scandal before setting off on his longest both in time and distance foreign trip we look at where he is and why later in the program. our online team is working twenty four seven to provide you with the best stories and the best pictures at r.t. dot com let's take a quick look at what's proving popular on the surely enjoyed say. towards homosexuality come change so can't abuse about incest and pedophilia read more about how those comments have gone done on. plus cash for data internet companies could profit from the new u.k.

emergency legislation which increases online surveillance powers find out how on r.t.e. dot com. right from the street. first street view and i think you're. on our reporter's twitter. and instagram. today in the. on. that's crack on with some news from around the globe now in the u.s. on t. immigration protests are continuing 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 seen many unaccompanied children head to america from countries like iran

juris el salvador and guatemala as a result around fifty two thousand miners have been detained in the past year alone attempting to sneak across the border. six people have been killed and twenty five are missing after heavy trencher rains triggered months slides inside the. china houses roads were flooded traffic was disrupted and the water supply cut off authorities have evacuated residents and rescue teams continue to search for missing people this is the second month slide 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 pool he'll talk to candidates abdullah abdullah and downey who both claim victory in tunisia on off the final official vote results but not be denounced as yet but the independent election watchdog said galli topped the final poll his opponent called the claims of victory

a coup leader mir putin is in cuba scalpels starting a week long tour of latin america his longest foreign tour since returning to the kremlin in two thousand and twelve ahead 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 shift key is following the president to see what america and russia have to offer each other . 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 i would because that will rubberstamp 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 dollar 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 the tool culminate with a brick summit where the final brakes 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. ok up next sophie shevardnadze talks to russia's foreign ministry special representative on human rights. we never saw that coming. we had no idea our children were gay. i

would actually just at night pray to god you know me normal. they said you're a homo you're a homo and from that day in first grade i swear my life changed forever i became like the ridicule i don't get stopped still to this day. well alabama and texas instructs school teachers to tell pupils young people that homosexuality is not an acceptable lifestyle and also instructs them to say that homosexual sex in private is a crime in those states if the church was going to fire me that's what they had to do but i was going to do this way. this is what we do we kill people and break things. we can see something is simple as people playing soccer games you can see individual players and you can even see

the ball. you can only see is facial expression you can see is now open and crying out. maybe cursed us or maybe he asked. for forgiveness for. there must be near certainty that no civilians will be killed or injured. this is about making the business survive. the. corporations the load the parishioners don't hate corporations have no feeling. corporations don't care about you or me corporations will occur

well for me. people come to untouched fortunes and leave massively in the sea come on. we're not going to quit we will not stop until it is done what is more precious music more moving. one of them to safety and co i'm sophie shevardnadze is out says she a crane great bag cast civilians are struggling to find safety protect innocent people to ring the spotlights to the lives of their ordinary people precious

foreign ministry haskell pyle to report and human rights violations in ukraine since the start of the armed conflict the man behind his work the mistress commissioner for human rights. was my guest today. and. those who suffer most from war of those who take least parts of it with the ukrainian army on the offensive will the civilian plight in eastern ukraine get worse. who can stop it. and who should be held accountable. for russian foreign ministry commissioner for human rights is great to have you on our show today now we're going to start from the latest news the killing so the russian journalists it's a horrible tragedy obviously. but there's a full fledged war going on in ukraine is it really possible to find who's to blame and who's responsible for the killings.