a pleasure to have you with us here on t.v. today i'm roll receivership. israel snubs international pressure and continues to bomb garza meanwhile the death toll surpasses one hundred twenty palestinians mostly civilians. how does 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 that even if he did as a surprise extra stop on his tour of latin america showing up in nicaragua that after a fruitful day of talks with the castro brothers in have and. i

welcome you watching r.t. international. now on saturday morning israeli airstrikes hit a mosque in garza saying it was used to store weapons for hamas in other attacks nine people have been killed including two disabled women more than one hundred twenty palestinians have been killed since tuesday most of them civilians including nearly two dozen children. oh say. all all all found israel says no international pressure will force them to back down but while warring with hamas they've also hit residential areas if you can see here keep in mind the garza is

a tiny slice of land crammed with a almost two million people size israel is now using twice the force it used during a similar operation in twenty twelve. thirty thousand israeli troops are on standby with a possible ground invasion looming like was in gaza bracing for the worst as journalist harry faith reports. several days into the latest escalation between israel and hamas and the situation in gaza has not eased. his relative hears to be preparing for more hard hitting campaigns to rein in how mass rocket fire along the israel gaza borders thousands were ordered to evacuate a warring indicator that a ground invasion may be imminent is that unless we were attacked by f. sixteen jets or destroyed or. the whole neighborhood when these really began demanding people move out of their sea and their children say so we left the area

and then did up on the streets rockets continue to be fired vigorously from gaza with desperate militant groups working together to strike israel which has itself mobilized twenty thousand troops in preparedness for an escalation israel struck over one thousand targets many of which homes friday morning the air force targeted a building belonging to a family in shaikh redwine locals are adamant that it was just a residential building they also billion there are no weapons. nothing is. hidden within this building as you can see i don't know why the family managed to evacuate before the main missile struck no one was injured but they didn't have time to take their belongings before the house was destroyed not all of the strikes are on militants and buildings though late thursday night a peculiar strike took place at gaza's marina

a boat owned by the international freedom flotilla coalition was the sole target gaza's arc was a humanitarian project designed to export goods from the besieged enclave to the outs. to boost the economy and act as a symbol of palestinian nonviolent resistance in the face of what they see as the israeli occupation as you can see this shit isn't going to be sailing anytime soon it was struck i would say last night by the israeli air force may be to win a. political party this is individually. outside the distance talking. about double palestinian activists say israel struck the boat to ruin their work but it's unclear if militants were at the marina that night in what's normally a relatively safe area of gaza. more than eight hundred gazans have been injured

and the health care system is struggling to keep up with. the medics to treat the injured that is gradually increasing before the doctors are provided with medicine it will soon be tougher to provide such services with border crossings closed in an intensifying block and the israeli escalation in gaza. as this war goes on it's the palestinian civilian population that is paying the greatest price the bodies continue to arrive at gaza's hospitals israel says it's got hundreds of strikes after exactly it feels very much like this is not the end of the latest israel gaza war. israel which is also being attacked from gaza has voided civilian deaths eight people were wounded one of them seriously after a rocket hit the country south on friday and his poor slave of course the people there are also 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 television i was at an open field when this happened and it's almost surreal people who rushed out of a cars and it'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 deep worried over the rise of civilian casualties in gaza especially children commission that navi pillay is calling for an investigation into the israeli airstrikes adding these attacks could violate international rule s. well from human rights watch thinks the attacks could be even a mind 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're 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 if 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. and there is plenty more on israel's conflict at our website you can read about that at r.t. dot com. 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 from the facilities they captured in both countries some rival rebel groups and flocking to fill that you how this ranks nevertheless the united states maintains it can still find a moderate opposition to this. 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 one hundred vehicles including tank tanks ceased from syrian government forces for several years now u.s. officials have been trying to create this image of the syrian opposition as former teachers farmers and dentists fighting against bashar assad the speedy advance of the isis shows 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. with support from external actors that have was 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. when they try to describe it in light of the onslaught of the islamic state you can often hear the criticism that indeed this is this to remove. washington may have overlooked the threat of this radical group in washington i'm going to check on. well middle east analyst phyllis bennis says there is 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 believe 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. the u.n. security council should show more concern over the rising number of civilian casualties in east ukraine that is the statement from russia's envoy to the body fatalities meanwhile the ukrainian army and anti-government forces in the self-proclaimed and yet in the ganske republics have been locked in

a violent tit for tat refinish in the city of against forres ukrainian crisis continues to escalate pleas death toll from all sides and anger also rising one friday ukrainian president but i think it's sad that every soldier's life the militants will pay we always spend hundreds of their road. that's off to tack 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 and it is sad that multiple rocket launchers known as god or hey 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 end 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 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. into it well of course these reports are sometimes conflicting and it is not clear exactly how many men women and children died in months all of the large scale mutual gratian 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 so is who are not directly involved in this conflict in a calling for could happen any time soon. thanks being with our teacher they will have more news.

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set. get knocked out of me and he's heading pays maiden visit to argentina at the moment and it will be the president's third stop on his week long tour of latin america he's already been to nicaragua and cuba where there was plenty to discuss with van is currently to raul castro and his older brother fidel. still you just had a lengthy meeting with comrade for dell. yes it was an excellent and very interesting conversation we discussed international affairs economic matters the markets as well as more specific issues like a good culture. if you didn't still talk a lot of. us who talks and listens a look he's an experienced politician. and several important deals have been signed

during that visit including one in a russian company to drill for oil off the cuban and he reports on the other highlights of the visit 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 debt 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 will often 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 neither i 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. 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 nine hundred six and have on the last that for as many as seven hours 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 long. i most of them as he says were masterminded by the cia and some of those have been creative to say the least including poison pills a toxic cigar exploding mosques and even a special chemically created powder to getting rid of his beard to undermine his popularity on cuba now we've got plenty of stories on our website for you too including how we miss out inspire a quantum leap in military research and development to u.s.

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 bursts a team of russian archaeologists hit the jackpot and days of careful digging revealed this they had nothing else to say other than they had found the romeo and juliet of the bronze age. one spy scandal after another has batted relations between america and germany and after two alleged u.s. agents were exposed by german intelligence burl in the cia's top official from the country gets germany seems set to maintain his friendship with its powerful ally. we didn't know in my opinion there is no alternative to our partnership with the united states despite the events of the last weeks which were disturbing and lead toward decision we want our partnership our friendship revived on us lovell's when

it comes to cooperation the biggest upcoming deal involving the two countries is the transatlantic trade and investment partnership would see the creation of a single market for the and america peter all of us takes a look at how the latest spy scandals are affecting what could be the largest free trade agreement ever struck. 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 the 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 tea tape negotiations. in germany there are a lot of citizens. 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 b. 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 this spike 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. and it's not just in germany discontent with the pact is also strong in neighboring france where one hundred of the country's luminaries have launched a campaign against the deal a petition already gained thousands of signatures so let's wrap up the main concerns well firstly critics are worried that the negotiations have been held behind closed doors there are also fears the treaty will open the floodgates to genetically modified food from the u.s. and undermine environmental protection laws and there is the issue of big

corporations being above the law and they were to see governments for lost profits now if trade regulations are relaxed free in the u.s. and europe many in britain fear the one cherished national health service will fall victim to market forces even though the top negotiator promised to safeguard the health care system concern remains the agreement will lead to the full privatisation of the n.h.s. artie's party boyko as well. anyone living in the u.k. can walk through the doors of a hospital and receive state medical care without paying a penny it's the world's largest publicly funded health service but as part of the coalition governments say part of universal health care a growing number of n.h.s. services open contracted out to five that's profit making companies up until now the biggest had been awarded to richard branson's virgin care which

got five hundred million pounds for providing health services in sorry but that figure could soon be dwarfed by the biggest private outsourcing deal in n.h.s. history opponents say the move sets a dangerous precedent that could pave the way for a greater carve up of britain's national health service for health care or thirty's and stafford share a tendering a contract worth one point two billion pounds whoever gets it will have to coordinate cancer care for patients to out the county for. diagnosis to treatment and end of life care there is a real. lack of comfort about seeing private companies participate not just in the provision of cap but in decision making about what has provided and to whom the problem is that this contract is completely untested it's a new method of contract saying it's with the talk of service that's provided to very vulnerable people at

a time in their life when they when they desperately rely on it for a hugely long period of time for ten years we would say that that's just a very dangerous gamble no decision has yet been made on who will receive the contract and there are both public trusts and private companies bidding and health bosses in staffordshire say that the quality of treatment won't be affected regardless of the outcome a spokesperson for the department of health told r.t. the key thing is the patients get the best possible care free at the point of use no matter who provides it but within an adequate cas candles already marring parts of the n.h.s. such a large potentially commercial contract has hit a raw nerve with those who worry that letting and profit driven companies could not grieve eight britain's beleaguered health system rather than cure it polly boyko r t london because reporters coming up next here on r.t. international and if you're in the u.k.

returns in going under. from time to time i get emotional emails 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 the 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.m.f. 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 governors lined up and most importantly of all how can nationalists want to join the e.u. which is lefty liberal paradise where patriotic movements are the black sheep of the continent so my dear detractors who write me letters just what sort of nationalist revolution are you so proud of i'm sorry but i'm not seeing your triumph but that's just my opinion. we never saw that coming. we had no idea. i would actually just and i 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

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