we will not stop until it is done what is more precious music more moving. the palestinian death toll pastas one hundred as israel strikes another heist in gaza on the fourth day of an offensive the prime minister has pledged to continue. to train officials confirm nineteen troops have been killed after coming under attack by government forces in the country's east and. local militia step up their five following their continued bombing of residential areas in defiant ukrainian cities. service our burn in and washington full auto of love germany expels the top u.s. intelligence official in the country furious over a month thing spy scandals involving the n.s.a.

. and welcome to r.t. international it's just gone eleven pm this friday night here in the russian capital i mean a welcome our top story the number of palestinians killed by israel's air and naval offensive in gaza is now one hundred three twenty two of the dead are children according to local health workers a mosque is also firing rockets but no deaths have been reported in israel these are the latest pictures from gaza. apparently a shallow exploded in a residential area where ma says of people were on the streets surlier on friday rescue workers were searching a collapsed building for survivors and it's really missing it nearby the house 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. a little over one hundred forty. israel has had over a thousand targets in gas it's also hard growing troops on standby for several days not honest journalist hari fear reports with a month thing civilian death toll locals in gaza are expecting the worst. over one hundred palestinians have been killed at least seventy four of them civilians say the palestinian ministry of health around seven hundred palestinians have been injured most of those off civilians we're told now israel says its military says it's been exacting strikes on gaza about one every four and a half minutes and so we've seen this vost amount of civilian casualties and on the israeli side still no israelis have been killed as

a result of this rocket fire from gaza and so long as israel's operation remains relatively costless in terms of israeli civilian life israel is likely to continue this operation israeli officials have said that there are hundreds of targets left that they wish to eliminate inside the gaza strip while other officials in israel have said that a ground real key patient for weeks is inevitable so palestinians here in gaza do fear the worst they do fear a real key patient which would inevitably increase the amount of casualties of the palestinians a feeling here. world leaders are urging an end to the violence in gaza save 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 says global pressure won't stop the operation and hamas continues to fire rockets on israel setting off bombs across the country

are polish clear is in tel aviv. but 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 off 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 economists with a high i would snooze 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 seeing this iran dorm system made it much easier for most of these railways as we can see that until now we have to touch wards there were no israeli casualties the former mayor of shiloh the israeli town say it 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 work aeration corp 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 singly come instead of the hamas the government of luxembourg i mean the people who lost any kind of logic or racial nearly thirty people are now reacting emotionally one can understand it but these kids norms influence the decision makers because

this is really the woo woo. right now when this. is taking place and the i.d.f. accuses hamas of using innocent people as human shields in gaza while critics say israel birds 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 unfold later this hour. 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 eight hundred nine war israel hasn't even gone away not enough is enough i'm going to come to you a little bit 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 that 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 ukraine where these pictures show what was left after shelling by anti-government forces in an area of strong resistance run 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 it is killed militia forces have false reportedly launched an attack in an area not far to the side. what. this video purportedly shows a bridge which was blown up by anti government forces who wanted to prevent the premium army advancing on their homes residential areas and rebel held a gnat's on lugansk injured more early overnight brief an auction they met some of

the victims of the government's so-called antiterrorist operation. and you day brings most to the city of the guns. this girl's mother has just been killed when a shell landed on her fourth floor balcony it was up to the daughter to tell her father. told 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 is going to succeed in it which again is of similar to bullshit because. the

cells are still. my son woke up with all the disability. they killed the world it isn't. well 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 in the water another stuck somewhere inside the metal part and drays still in shock and conned believe his wife survived the film i was 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 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 operate in the same day ukraine'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 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 osco first question. we have to continue the interview in the basement. 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 they're not allowed to show them or they believe that only terrorists are dying here i ask whether they tell kiev about the civilian casualties no one requested this information no one is interested in doing that i even have statistics on the ukrainian soldiers but they have their own numbers no one asks us about our statistics. and when they. know exactly how many men women and 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 early it was evacuated because his own clear and fire fighters remain on the scene. russia has put forward

a new plan for the international community to talk of the crisis in ukraine artie's marina portnoy has more on what's being proposed. russian ambassador to the un vitaly churkin outlined three key elements moscow wants included as the core foundation of any new crain related resolution he said 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 caves literate leadership insisting that you claim

president petro poroshenko is using his peace plan as a smokescreen to carry out a huge if military operation in the east of the country. cuba is a long time revolutionary leader fidel castro was paid a visit by vladimir putin on friday the russian president is beginning a tour of latin america amid the current cuban leader raul castro as well we'll be going live to vomit to find out more after a short break. i'm abby martin the stories we cover here we're not going to hear any right other big

story extra headlines same time there's a reason they don't want to do now. now let's break the set. choose your language. according make it without any federal subsidies still some. choose to use the consensus to. choose to get to use that to great to. choose the stories that impact your. choose the access to your. approaching fifteen minutes into the hour welcome back a lot of your putin is in the cuban capital at the beginning of a week long tour of latin america will be his longest foreign trip since returning

to the kremlin in two thousand and twelve our correspondent election is in have on and on we can speak to him live alexy has it been a productive day for the two countries so far than. well indeed the word is coming from the revolution palace at the moment that signing of the document the procedure has started this will include lots of different very important deals including oil deals which would allow russia. the research of the cuban offshore oil platforms and of potentially about twenty billion barrels of. oil in that area also military cooperation and many other things but of course the most impressive and the thing and that's the talk of the town right now is russia officially rubber stamping unprecedented move writing off ninety percent of cuba's debts to the u.s.s.r. that is thirty two billion u.s. dollars the rest the other ten percent remaining ten percent of the debt will be reinvested into cuban economy the question now of course is what have on the will

offer and now we also know that allows you to build and has held talks with i would guess that a current cuban leader and. asked him about his visit. to his legendary brother who has been in hospital for the best part of the last decade he asked him actually if it was still as talkative as usual what is he talking about here of course fidel castro has always been a very very. talker his longest speech in havana in one thousand eight hundred six last that for as many as seven hours he is definitely a legendary leader may be no longer in charge of the country as he used to be the still very influential on the country's politics he's been there at the helm of the country for forty nine he is politically out living ten american presidents himself claims that he has survived as many as six hundred thirty four attempts on his life mostly as he claims masterminded by the cia those two are quite creative to say the least though they included poison pills a toxic cigar exploding moralists and even

a special chemical powder to make his beard fall out and undermine his popularity in the country he survived that old level just said that they talked about international politics and regional politics and this is a very important told according to putting himself he will be then going to be for another part of international a very important talks in the region with the argentinean president after which will be to. going to brazil for the bric summit we are following every step of the way which is what is definitely the longest and one of the most important business the latin america in the recent times and i think we cannot busy to as well alexi our chef ski from havana thank you for the update. relations between berlin and washington have been dealt a blow after the top cia officer in germany was ordered all out of the country the strong reaction came after two high ranking german officials were in moscow and

alleged u.s. spies over the snooping is widespread the german interior minister dismissed the information obtained by the alleged spies as laughable but said the political damage is serious a left party member expressed outrage saying there is no longer blind trust in the u.s. on the justice minister has demanded u.s. spying in germany be stopped once and for all artes peter all of our house more form berlin. 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 u.s. 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 . experience or foreign intelligence services isn't something we're taking lightly

but it took a whole string of in bars things 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. 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 publicly at least washington has so far kept quiet about the diplomatic rug state department spokesperson jen psaki avoiding giving any comment when asked about it directly. when you show you. the german reporter the media reports saying what would you mean by that or you deny you the german allegations about that there was a ration going on all the time all i meant by it was that we've seen the reports we've read the reports i'm not going to say i don't have any specific comment on it given 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 act of. 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 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. well as always our online team is working twenty four seven to provide you with the best stories and pictures out r.t. dot com let's take

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immigration protests are continuing in southern california then the streets since i've been ongoing for alongside the us mexico border with activists attempting to prevent the arrival of three buses full of illegal immigrants combination of poverty violence and ignorance about u.s. policy has seen many unaccompanied children head to america from countries like un juris el salvador and guatemala as a result some fifty two thousand miners have been detained in the past year attempting to sneak across the border. six people have been killed and twenty five are missing after heavy trenching rains triggered mudslides inside the west china pass' an roads were flooded traffic was disrupted on the water supply cut off authorities have evacuated residents and rescue teams continue to search for missing people this is the second mudslide instant 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 he'll talk to candidates. gammy who both claimed victory in june runoff the final official vote results have not been announced yet but the independent election watchdog said galli top the final poll his opponent called the claims of victory a coup. ok after the break here in our to international peter lavelle guess the scots the rising gals the death toll of the israeli offensive continues to stay with us. 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

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below and welcome the cross-talk where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle in the crosshairs as israel appears to be preparing for still another assault on the gaza strip on this edition of crosstalk we asked how it got to this point and what israel hopes to achieve. to cross-talk the assault on gaza i'm joined by my guest dan r.l. in washington he's a scholar in residence at the center for israel studies at the american university in new york we have norman finkelstein he's a political analyst and author and in amsterdam we crossed him we rub on me he is a senior fellow at the institute for palestine studies are gentlemen cross-talk rules in fact that means you can jump in anytime you want my very much encouraged norman if i can go to you first here how did we get to this point israel says it began when hamas kidnap.