your ex-girlfriend still works in poetry. nor wrote. we post only what really matters. to your facebook. israel snubs international pressure vying to continue its airstrikes on gaza meanwhile the death toll surpasses one hundred twenty palestinians mostly civilians . 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 dog. and painted as a surprise extra stop on his top of latin america showing up in nicaragua that after a fruitful day of talks with the castro brothers in have and. it's

nice to have you company you're watching international. now israeli airstrikes are continuing over garza with more than one hundred twenty palestinians being killed there since tuesday most of them civilians and over twenty are children but israel's pressing on adding that no international pressure will force them to back down. i i. oh. god. you can see from those pictures israeli 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 israel attacked

a one thousand targets since day but is now using twice the force you're in a similar operation in twenty twelve with thirty thousand israeli troops are on standby with a possible ground invasion looming gaza bracing for the worst as journalist howie fair reports. israel continues to strike sites all over the gaza strip to exact over one thousands 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. well israel which is also being attacked from garza has so far of voided civilian deaths however eight people were wounded one of them seriously after a rocket hit the country's south on friday and his poor slayer reports people are learning to live with the daily attacks the situation here in israel is extremely tense barrages of rockets continue to be fired at the country from gaza there was one incident when a gas station in the city of ashdod was hit and one person has been seriously injured in fact that is the most serious incident so far ninety percent of the rockets that are coming from gaza are intercepted by the iron dome anti-missile defense system on friday night three missiles were intercepted over the skies of

tel aviv and i was at an open field when this happened and it's almost surreal people who rushed out of a cars and there's almost a few seconds before they can get to the ground or hide behind some kind of building many people just watching this interception in the sky and when it happened there was this huge applause that went up from people on the street where i was but certainly people are afraid what we're hearing from the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is that he will not back down and he will certainly not back down to international pressure he says and i'm quoting that the battle is progressing as planned so there is the sense on the ground that this could ultimately lead to a ground offensive as you well know thousands of reserve soldiers have been called up the head of the israeli army is also saying that gazans made a grave mistake by launching rockets at israel and that they will bring disaster upon themselves so certainly the rhetoric that's coming out at the moment does seem to suggest that this operation will continue and possibly continue for quite some time meanwhile the un's top human rights official is deeply worried over the rise

of civilian casualties in gaza especially children high commissioner ivan pillay is calling for an investigation into the israeli airstrikes adding that the attacks could violate international law environ as well from the human rights watch thinks 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 air strikes 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

a 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 where you can limp into more about israel's conflict with hamas on our web site at r.t. call. islamic 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 for oil from the facilities they captured in both countries some rival read of rebel groups and i fucking to feel that you had a schrank nevertheless the united states maintains it can still find a moderate opposition to. reports. more rebel groups there pledge

allegiance to the islamic state the extremist group now controls a vast part of iraq and syria and has announced a caliphate 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. 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. opposition against a battle hardened regime. with 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 has asked congress for half a billion dollars in eight 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 can change overnight we get into this conflict between who is a radical and who's a moderate and 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 these lawmakers state you can often hear the criticism that in its exists to remove assad washington may have overlooked the threat of this radical group in washington i'm going to check on our team. and middle east analysts for the spanish says there's no way for moderate syrian groups prevent them and free hardware from falling into the hands of the jihadists. the syrian rebels come in a wide variety of idiology and beliefs 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 that 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. u.n. security council should show more concern over the rising number of civilian casualties in ukraine statement from russia's envoy to the body. meanwhile the ukrainian army and anti-government forces in the self-proclaimed against republics have been locked in a violent tit for tat riff and is in the city of course ukrainian crisis continues to escalate death toll from all sides and anger also rising one friday ukrainian president but what i'm trying to say that every soldier's life the militants will pay with force and hundreds. that's off to the back on the army's

brigade near the russian border in which twenty three servicemen including border guards were killed and around one hundred others were injured and it is sad that multiple rocket launcher known as good 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 meant in terror of aeration later the 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 battleground to the surrender of 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. been 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 agree that casualties among the civilian population are 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 who are not directly involved in this conflict in ukraine a call in. or could happen any time soon. do you go online to find firsthand accounts and expert analysis in our in-depth coverage of the ongoing violence at our dot com still to come this hour we learned that the latest spy scandal in germany is affecting free trade talks between the u.s. and europe plus. the numbers and the dog is proving outside there is always someone watching. authorities in the spanish time turned to private eyes to help track down don't crews who don't clean up after that we've got

these stories plus more than a couple of. israeli air bombardments rained down on gaza killing civilians including children we hear from those right in the midst of the shelling is family relations between the u.s. and germany reach a new low over spying as berlijn kicks out a top cia official relationship as kiev says it's ready for a cease fire he meets the families devastated by. what other media turns a blind eye to get all nazi. with the economic down in the final. days. and the rest. will be every.

street is never really dead as long as it's the start of the first world war one hundred years ago here's a case in point in numerous ways the beginning in conclusion of that conflict shapes our world today. welcome back man flatmate pigs and he's heading to his maiden visit to argentina and 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 is plenty to discuss with have on his current leader raul castro and also his older brother fidel all the details now from our correspondent there. 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 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 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 willful and offer in return the speculation is rife that the military base the writer base on cuba the soviet base will 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 have on the last that for as many as seven hours from a 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 him rid of his beard to undermine his popularity. well putin's total culminate in brazil where he will take

part in the sixth annual brics summit political analyst adrian selby she believes all south american countries should be seeking closer cooperation with the group. bricks although it's always shown as an economic agreement is as sort of the joint geopolitical agreement well oh the world is the only way we're sort feature and definitely all of latin america or at least should or i'm all about multipolar world where we can of course you're dealing with the western nations know about that it's a historical 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 to europe britain and america which have brought so many problems so much hardship and so much poverty throughout all of life. on our website right now hoping this hours inspire a quantum leap in military research and development to us take the claims it's

a step away from producing self guided bullets that will allow snipers to shoot the wrong way and still hit their target also there a team of russian archaeologists hit the jackpot when days of careful digging revealed this day had nothing else to say other than they had found the romeo and juliet of the bronze and. i think i. know one spy scandal after another has batted relations between america and germany and after two alleged us agents were exposed by german intelligence berlin kicked out the cia's top official from the country but let's hear what germany's foreign

minister had to say on the issue the purpose of me didn't work in my opinion there's no we'll turn it over to our partnership with the united states despite the events of the last weeks which were disturbing and la tour decision we want our partnership our friendship revived on honest terms. i was a to spy scandals in germany are also taking their toll on trade talks between the u.s. and the e.u. the deal known as the transatlantic trade and investment partnership has raised strong criticism from environmentalists to economists 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 deal well this could potentially be huge for industry but it does have its critics now 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 t.t. ip 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. 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 effect 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 well supporters of the transatlantic free trade agreement claim it will deliver jobs and produce growth but as you heard they're not everyone believes that in france for example one hundred of the countries luminaries have launched a campaign against the deal writers performers and politicians are afraid the

secretive negotiations will lead to a lowering of economic standards and an influx of genetically modified products from the us a petition has already gained thousands of signatures. it's national news in brief now police in peru have captured three suspects that is wanted for more than twenty years the three men to be charged with involvement in murders robberies and extortion they're believed to be part of the communist rebel group known as shining path some russians of which also operate as a cocaine smuggling operation brazil is on high alert of the head of the football world cup for an ali 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 clash will be between germany and argentina and will round off the month long competition. now the tidy lawns of

one particular spanish town may look like the perfect place to walk your dog but just make sure you pick up whatever your beloved pet decides to leave behind because local authorities have declared war on lazy dog owners is traitorous. 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 the town launched phase two. be careful because we've got all right. says the director of iris a madrid based detective agency he asked us to disguise his voice after the warning period to towns now working with iris to track keys thoughtless offenders. it's

a team there's a man and boy a woman only someone different always at different times. they record people and 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 a hundred fifty year old do it again that could be up to three thousand zero 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 absolute it's not to raise money we did it to keep the town clean and we worry about dog filth where children play it's a worry locals share it get it get

a laughing take it all kind of people should always clean up after the 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. you're watching us international coming up next to abby martin speculates on why the cash donations for us but it's from campaigns could be related to just.

what people talk about human rights violations you should involve some pro western protesters getting beaten up and the response from mainstream media is usually to bomb somebody somewhere so good thing they haven't picked up a story from detroit that the un is calling a human rights violation residents of the motor city or well sadly the former motor city who are hundred fifty dollars or more behind on their water bills are getting their water shut off completely the detroit water and sewage department is five billion dollars in debt and that is a justification to crack down on deadbeats on the surface the seems like an open and shut case of course everyone has the right to water especially detroit which is near a huge bodies of fresh water that other cities could only dream of but on the other hand if the poor don't pay for water then us taxpayers will be paying for it for them and that's not fair i think this is not so much a case of a right to water but a right to decent employment and a corruption free city government back when people detroit had good salaries and a government that wasn't flagrantly corrupt they would have any problems paying for

their water bills but that's just my opinion. this is what we do we kill people and break things. we can see something as simple as people playing soccer you can see individual players and if you see the ball. you can only see his facial expression you can see he is now full of crying. maybe he cursed us or maybe he asked. for forgiveness for. there must be near certainty that no civilians will be killed or in.

the. south and folks i'm having martin and this is breaking the set so between speaker of the house john boehner so you know obama over obamacare and the design of herion on the i.r.s. scandal to say that congress is getting nothing done would be a severe understatement but yesterday the senate actually managed to take a big step forward on one of the most important reasons why our current representative system is so toxic and corrupt campaign finance seen a ten to eight vote the senate judiciary committee voted to approve a constitutional amendment that would overturn the notorious two thousand and ten supreme court's citizens united decision of course this rolling solidify the notion of corporate personhood and equated money with free speech by allowing companies to give unlimited amounts of cash to political action committees or super pacs which then lobby on behalf of individual candidates now realistically this move is purely

symbolic considering that a constitutional amendment requires a two thirds majority vote in both the house and the senate but the fact that ten of the most powerful members of the senate willing to vote against their own interests for once as encouraging show. chairman of the senate judiciary committee patrick leahy even went as far as saying quote i've always believe that amending our constitution must be subject to the highest measure of scrutiny and is something that should only be done as a last resort when the voices of hardworking americans continue to be drowned out by the money and few more serious action must be taken and i'm hardly suggesting that we should rely on the very people who benefit from this pay to play system to change it instead we should be looking at grassroots movements from outside the beltway movements like made a pac a super pac started by harvard professor lawrence lessig that ironically is raising money to elect candidates promising to repeal citizens united and other measures but of institutionalized money in politics less said came on the show a couple months.