israel snubs international pressure to continue its airstrikes on gaza meanwhile the death toll surpasses one hundred twenty palestinians mostly civilians. jadis militants in syria and iraq recruit a fresh army of volunteers is the self-proclaimed islamic state reportedly collects a million dollars a day from selling captured oil and let me tell you now it's a surprise extra stop on his tour of latin america showing up in the qur'an after a fruitful day of talks with the castro brothers in have and.

other welcome with r.t. international. now israeli airstrikes are continuing over gars a bit more than one hundred twenty palestinians being killed there since tuesday most of them civilians and over twenty children but israel is pressing on adding that no international pressure will force them to back down. i. wish your logo. was. as these dramatic pictures show it ready rockets are aimed at hamas militants but they also hit residential areas because there is just a tiny slice of land crammed with almost two million people israeli israel attacked

over a thousand targets since cheez day but is now using twice the force used during a similar operation in two thousand and twelve i would thirty thousand israeli troops are on standby with a possible ground invasion looming locals in garza bracing for the worst is generally how he fare reports. israel continues to strike sites all over the gaza strip exact over one thousand and since the operation began one of the sites that it struck was actually here and it was a family home that stood just behind me israel has been using this policy of targeting the homes of militants or those related to militants as part of its operation now there are of course is ready tanks stationed along the israel gaza border palestinians here fear that there is a chance of a ground invasion given the fact particularly that israeli figures israeli officials have said that they are preparing for a ground invasion that the operation will continue continue for days ahead and

there are hundreds of sites left to be targeted here in gaza but israel is not interested in stopping its operation until all rocket fire from gaza stops the situation here is very very grave indeed and palestinians do live in fear of an escalation and this operation continuing for days or even weeks ahead. meanwhile the un's top human rights official is deeply worried david the rises to the casualties in gaza especially children high commission and maybe pele is calling for an investigation into these ready asked strikes adding that the attacks could violate international rule bill van s weld from human rights watch things the attacks could amount to war crimes the civilian suffering is not getting enough attention it's not getting enough attention from the israeli forces who are conducting those airstrikes naval strikes tank shelling and other forms of attack under the laws of war which bind israel as they bind any military force you cannot

shoot first and ask questions later you have got to make sure that what you're shooting at is a legitimate target and if there's any doubt in your mind whether it might be civilian you have to hold fire and i'm very concerned that we are not seeing that we may be seeing the opposite we've seen virtually no accountability for a very well documented past cases of abuse of violations and even war crimes and without accountability and with impunity then abuses will obviously continue you you weaken your enemy by by attacking their fighters and their military objects you do nothing to weaken your enemy by attacking a civilian population who is not fighting you it does nothing for you it's a war crime. there's plenty more harm in the on israel's conflict with hamas at our web site called. state proclaimed by jihadists in parts of syria and iraq is expanding its influence and attracting more volunteers the extremists are reported by u.k. media to be raking in around a million dollars

a day by selling oil from the facilities they captured in both countries some rival rebel groups are now after all king to fill that you haue dish ranks nevertheless the united states maintains it can still find a moderate opposition to its gannets again reports more rebel groups their pledge allegiance to the islamic state the extremist group now controls a vast part of iraq and syria and has announced a talent fate one report says a thousand strong syrian rebel brigade arrived at the headquarters of the islamic state in a convoy of over a hundred vehicles including ten tanks ceased from syrian government forces for several years now u.s. officials have been trying to create this image of the syrian opposition is former teachers farmers and dentists fighting against bashar assad the speedy advance of the isis showed just how much more complicated the situation is the obama administration began to stumble when answering questions about the contradiction

between u.s. efforts in syria and now in iraq. oftentimes the challenge is if you have former farmers or teachers. or pharmacists. who now are taking up. position against a battle hardened regime. support from external actors that have what at stake how quickly can you get them trained washington is still determined to continue arming the syrian opposition the white house. asked congress for half a billion dollars in aid for the syrian opposition and you have many hawkish lawmakers here who want just that the white house says the forces there are now providing weapons to our moderate but what does moderate mean in that part of the world where everything came change overnight we get into this conflict between who

is a radical and who's a moderate and who we're going to arm and then people change sides look what happened in iraq in recent years and it gets so confusing that even the experts don't understand it and get all tongue tied when they try to describe it in light of the onslaught of the islamic state you can often hear the criticism that indeed exists to remove. washington may have overlooked the threat of this radical group in washington i'm going to check on our team but middle east analyst for the spend he says there's no way for moderate syrian groups to prevent their military hardware from falling into the hands of the jihadists. the syrian rebels come in a wide variety of idiology and believeth and organizations but they're all working quite closely together so this notion that there is a an expansion of isis for instance is certainly not a surprise i think many people have been worried that if the u.s.

provides weapons to what they consider the so-called moderate opposition that there will be no way that those quote moderates can protect those weapons from falling into the hands of jihadi forces like isis and others it won't be because they want to turn it over to them necessarily although it might also but simply because they don't have the military capacity that some of these other organizations these islamist organizations do have so it's going to be further militarization more people will be killed it's not going to help the syrian people and particularly syrian civilians it's going to make it worse for them but while the u.n. security council should show more concern over the rising number of civilian casualties in east ukraine from russia's envoy to the body fatality meanwhile the ukrainian army forces in the self-proclaimed and yet second against republics have been locked in a violent tit for tat. is in the city of. ukrainian crisis continues

to escalate pleas death toll from all sides and anger also rising one friday ukrainian president but i think that every soldier's life the militants will pay we've always been under it's. that's off to the attack on the army's brigade near the russian border in which twenty three servicemen including the border guards were killed and around one hundred others were injured it is. known as good odds or hay was used in this attack that is considered to be so far the deadliest attack on the army's position since the beginning of what it calls its banks in terror of aeration. operation commanders in kiev reported that at least seventy five anti government forces were killed in the clashes around the city of donetsk the biggest in the eastern ukraine with a population of one million people that became the key battle ground to surrender over the towns of slovyansk and mentors but this information was not confirmed by

the anti government forces themselves they said that they lost a dozen of their fighters and they have. painted well of course these reports are sometimes conflicting and it is not clear exactly how many men women and children died in months of the large scale here in eastern ukraine but both sides agreed that casualties amongst the didn't population very high and it is continuing to rise and of course in this situation we can say that hopes are fading away but a dog that many selfies who are not directly involved in this conflict in ukraine calling for could happen any time soon. and you can go online at r.t. dot com to find firsthand accounts and expert analysis in our in-depth coverage still to come this hour. we look at how the latest spy scandal in germany is affecting free trade talks between the u.s. and europe plus. if your dog is pooping outside

there was always someone watching. authorities in a spanish time to into private eyes to help track down and go to see during cleanup after that we've got these stories in a few minutes. the interview.

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a backpack that. moment so it's it's almost like there's a bee the blue and then you just feel the big sound it's like a bass. that i knew with a knife lied to me and peyton is heading for his maiden visit to argentina it will be the president's third stop on his weeklong tour of latin america he's already been to nicaragua and cuba where there was plenty to discuss with have on his current leader raul castro and also his older brother fidel well the details now from our correspondent actually our ships but important concluded to his first stop on the latin american tour to speaking at a press conference he confirmed that many major important deals. have been signed particularly allowing the russian companies are to be actually have to drill oil in

all shore platforms in cuba potentially those oil fields have up to twenty billion barrels of oil many other deals as well but the biggest news of the day and this is the talk of the town now is that most school officially confirmed it is writing off ninety percent of cubans debts to the soviet union which amounts to thirty two billion u.s. dollars an astronomical sum of money for this country the remaining ten percent will be reinvested into the cuban economy the trick of course is now what come on a will all fall and offer in return the speculation is rife that the military base the writer base on cuba the soviet base load of this which was shot down in the late one thousand nine hundred may be relaunched but that is of course a speculation it was not confirmed by and neither are or. one of the highlights of this visit here was. to talk with fidel castro who has been spending the best part of the last decade in a hospital being seriously ill he would have said they talked about international

and regional politics and it was a rather short conversation which is typical for the legendary cuban leader he has been a good talker his longest speech in one thousand eight hundred six and how on the last it for as many as seven hours custom may no longer be controlling everything in his country but still he is pretty much the cuban leader he has been here for forty nine years politically outliving ten american presidents he has been claiming that he survived as many as six hundred thirty four attempts on his life most of them as he says were masterminded by the cia and some of those have been creative to say the least including poison peels a toxic cigar exploding even a special chemically created powder to get rid of his beard to undermine his popularity. well putin's to will culminate in brazil where he will take part in the sixth annual bric summit political analyst adrian cell bucci believes all sat

american countries should be seeking closer cooperation with the greek. although it's always shown as an economic agreement is has sort of joy geopolitical agreement in the world is the only way. to church and all of what. should or and all about multipolar world where we can of course do you dealing with the western nations about that issue but we should look further afield especially china to russia to india to even africa which is very much ignored in this part of the world and less to europe and america which has brought so many problems so much hardship and so much poverty throughout all of what. we've still got plenty for you on our website as well right there at the moment how we missed out inspire a quantum leap in military research and development to u.s. tech firm claims it's a step away from producing stealth guided bullets that will allow snipers to shoot

the wrong way and still hit their target also they're. a team of russian archaeologists hit the jackpot when days of careful digging revealed this they had nothing else to say but they had found the romeo and juliet of the bronze age. now discontent is spreading in europe over what could be the largest free trade agreement ever struck the deal between the us and the e.u. no news the transatlantic trade and investment partnership has race strong criticism for environmentalist to economists and the latest spy scandals in germany

are adding to the popularity of the trade talks either artie's peter oliver explains. the relationship between germany and the united states is somewhat strained at the moment against the backdrop of spy scandal after spy scandal the unprecedented action taken of expelling a cia operative from the u.s. embassy here in berlin and a recent poll suggesting that almost seventy percent of germans have lost trust recently in the united states while all of this comes against the backdrop of the negotiations of a potentially multi billion dollar trade deal between europe and the united states the transatlantic investment partnership well this could potentially be huge for the industry but it does have its critics not to talk a bit more about this and about the negotiations they're going to be going on on t tip i'm joined by professor michael from democratic thank you very much for

talking to me what are the major concerns for germans about the tea tape negotiations. in germany there are a lot of citizens who are worrying that european standards will sink we're talking about consumer protection and environmental protection those standards are lower in the u.s. they're also worries that international investors and corporations will receive special legal treatment that will lead to the abolition of some environmental and social protection laws. in the last two weeks we have seen the relationship be somewhat strained with regards to spying but do you think that would have any kind of impact on the negotiations for the trade deal or is this pretty much already a done deal germany are set to sign their part of it is going to cause i don't believe it will have a significant factor on talks it's going to take until the end of two thousand and fifteen when negotiations should be completed this current affair will be forgotten quickly and i think negotiations will continue as if it didn't happen. thank you

very much it does seem that despite germany taking the unprecedented action of expelling that cia operative and seemingly standing up to the united states when it comes to trade they are going to sign this deal despite the concerns of some of the citizens here in germany while supporters of the transatlantic free trade agreement claim it will deliver jobs and produce growth but not everyone believes that in france for example one hundred of the country's luminaries have launched a campaign against the deal writers performance before most politicians are afraid the secretive negotiations will lead to a lowering of economic standards and an influx of genetically modified products from the u.s. a petition has already gained a thousand signatures let's have a look at some international news in brief now police in peru have captured three suspected rebels wanted for more than twenty years the three men to be charged with the involvement in murders robberies and extortion are believed to be part of the

communist rebel group known as shining path some fractions of which still operate as a cocaine and smuggling operation brazil is on high alert ahead of the football world cup final on sunday authorities say more than twenty thousand security personnel will be deployed in the country's second largest city rio de janeiro the home team crashing out in the semifinals the final will see germany take on argentina and we round off the month long competition. the title winds of one particular spanish town may look like the perfect place to walk your dog but just make sure you're going to pick up whatever your beloved pet decides to leave behind because local authorities have declared war on lazy dog owners as much fraser reports. if you walk your dog in the quaint spanish town of coleman r.v.o. beware the town's mayor warns they'll watch it step out of line and they'll be hot on your tail. when of resentment if your dog is

pooping outside there is always someone watching at first they had volunteers give written warnings to people who didn't clean their dog's mess then that town launched phase two. be careful because we've got our eye on it. says the director of iris madrid based detective agency he asked us to discuss his voice after the warning period the town is now working with iris to track these thoughtless offenders. it's a team there's a man a boy a woman only someone different always at different times. the record people who walk away without cleaning up after their dogs then turn the footage over to police. and they're determined to keep their city from going to the dogs don't pick up after your pet that could be one hundred fifty euro five do it

again that could be up to three thousand euro either way it buys a lot of puppy chow they didn't need to raise new money for the project the town's public relations budget paid for the private eyes after the first month in action there novoa says they take it it nearly twenty people and i salute they're all going to it's not to raise money we did it to keep the town clean we worry about dog filth where children play it's a worry locals share it is get a laugh and they get equal kind of people should always clean up after their dogs not just in the street but parks too because children could fall on the grass and in the poop they agree obnoxious pet owners should get their just deserves you know the eagle when i see. someone who doesn't clean up i want to take the poop and rub it on their faces. so give a thought if you're walking man's best friend in this town or it could land you in the doghouse. matt trezise artie coleman our vehicle speed.

keeping more and more news in half an hour's time out next time we take a look at what it's like to be gay in a match. from time to time i get emotional e-mails in 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 you know 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 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 two thousand and fourteen governor's line up and most importantly of all how can nationalists want to join the e.u. which is lefty liberal paradise where patriotic movements are the black sheep of the continent so my dear detractors who write me letters just what sort of national's revolution are you so proud of i'm sorry but i'm not seeing your triumph but that's just my opinion. yes i said except the people of the boylan is the one two punch to level the banks or their compass heading way what currency to. put puts the people have spoken they're sick of the elite from its own skin and their rigged and toxic games

crypto bully. that is the one to clinch before you start. playing forty one so it's been like thirty six years since i've been in school here was. thirty years what's so weird is that i remember the lunchroom is right down there my favorite day it was like in the fall when you would have tomatoes to complain about or sandwiches because you would walk in there everybody would have their tomato soup already on the tables and i member i sat down and we had like the homogenous to melt and the boys that day pointed to the homogenized milk and they said. and i didn't even understand what they're talking about. i don't know that i still do actually. but anyway 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 you know the school and i don't think it really ever stopped until i graduated i don't think it stopped still to this day i was in a gas station the other day and i asked somebody i mean i'm forty one years old and i asked the gas station guy for something a pack of cigarettes or i don't even now and in the sky behind me started laughing at me and said under his breath so strange. people know your reality more than you do. you never saw that coming. we had no idea.

you know i personally went through a struggle with us. i went through all the typical questions that are being asked the parents ask themselves you know did i do something wrong to cause this i was worried about my son i was thinking about grandchildren. well part of the problem for my son tim being gay was that he's actually a very traditional guy the faith was always very important to him even from when he was little when i was studying for the ministry i remember he would set up the little animals you know as as though they were in church and he preached to them. and i was hearing a lot of messages from the church in particular that homosexuality was you know not compatible with what the bible taught.