we're not going to quit we will not stop until it is done what is more precious music more moving. the headlines in r.t. international international israeli troops attack rocket launch sites in gaza sparking fears of a full blown ground invasion meanwhile mosques and houses are bombed in the enclave the total number of palestinians killed climbing to one hundred fifty seven. relations between berlin and washington reach a new low is germany kicks out a top cia official in retaliation to the latest spy scandal. also in the week's top stories ukraine's government forces lay siege to the resistance of the nets and the ganske our correspondent made some of those living with the constant shelling.

that are the latest developments and a look back at the last seven days you're watching the weekly here and r.t. international. israeli soldiers have entered garza's to take out several missile launch sites ending in clashes with hamas there and i fear is the move will spark a ground invasion into the enclave poor asli has the latest from tel aviv twenty soldiers briefly entered northern gaza the i.d.f. says that the purpose of the mission was to destroy rocket launching sites we understand that there was a brief exchange of fire during which four israeli soldiers were likely wounded but the army has since returned to his role of course the question being asked is whether or not this is a precursor for a ground offensive certainly the stance on the ground and for me witnessing the

massing of tanks and armored personnel vehicles and troops along the border it does seem as if a ground offensive could be imminent and certainly the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has indicated that this is an option that he is considering the word from the israeli army however is that they are ready for a ground offensive but that ultimately this is a political decision now all of this comes on the sixth day obvious really airstrikes over gaza overnight and into the early hours of this morning they have been barrages of rockets being fired here at israel they've also been rockets fired again from lebannon now the speculation is that it is unlikely that these rockets are being fired by hizbollah probably because hizbollah and i must say the ties off to him i supported the opposition fighters inside syria nonetheless there is growing concern that israel could ultimately be fighting battles on more than just one front. meanwhile the total number of palestinians killed in the offensive has

reached one hundred fifty seven and these are pictures of the latest air raids on garza. thank you. and yes i know what i'm about was. what a budget a ton of the. tell us about the devil will the music come up from what i did it was just all of this at the militant. israel launched the offensive on tuesday and is claiming that any targets hamas militants meanwhile the united nations is calling for a ceasefire saying that three quarters of the casualties are actually civilians but israel is vowing to press on with its campaign until hamas stops its rocket attacks

our favorite poll from gaza. 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 indicated that a ground invasion may be imminent is that unless we were attacked by f. sixteen jets to destroy her home but that's the whole neighborhood level when these release began demanding people move out of their seat and their children say so we left the area and then did up on the streets rockets continue to be fired vigorously from gaza 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. late thursday night a peculiar strike took place at garches marina a boat owned by the international freedom flotilla coalition was the sole target garza's arc was a humanitarian project designed to export goods from the besieged enclave to the outside world to boost the economy and act as a symbol of palestinian nonviolent resistance in the face of what they see as the israeli occupation 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 is gradually decreasing if the doctors aren't provided with medicine who simply tough 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 left exactly against gaza it feels very much like this is not the end of the latest israel gaza war. so mounting international pressure to end the violence is having little impact on the ground in israel is also having its share of attacks from gaza.

was. a mass is not backing down and is continuing to shell the israeli territory in one incident rocket fire from gaza struck a petrol station on friday in the sudden israeli town of israel also fired artillery shells into lebanon on friday in retaliation for three rocket attacks from there all in all five israelis were wounded this week two of them seriously i.d.f. spokesperson peter learn a says it needs to do all it can to protect its civilians . this is an unfortunate situation israel had no intention no wish to go and attack gaza but hamas leaders in this corner where you know all civilians are unable to move their children today. could not be allowed to go to kindergarten children could not go to summer camp they had to stay in the safe room that's an acceptable we're not willing to let this go and that's why the military has been challenged to

protect the state of israel hamas is responsible hamas is accountable we are responsible for safeguarding the state of israel that is our mission and that is what we will do of course we are keeping a close eye on all the latest developments coming out of gaza and israel and also online at r.t. dot com we'll bring you the latest as we get it. another story we're following this week relations between germany and america have suffered another blow germany kicked at the cia chief in berlin after officials i'm asked to alleged u.s. spies working for state security anger over the snooping is widespread the german interior minister dismissed the information obtained by the ledge spies is laughable but said the political damage is serious and a left party member expressed outrage saying there is no longer blind trust in the u.s. and the justice minister has demanded u.s. spying in germany be stopped once and for all artes peter all over as this report

from 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 contacted 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 you know experience or foreign intervention services isn't something we're taking lightly but it took a whole string of and biasing snooping slip ups to get to this stage that paints a picture of an abusive relationship in june of last year it emerged that the u.s. had spied on its european allies prompting this response from the chancellor spying on friends is not acceptable then it was revealed that mrs merkel's private cell

phone was bugged by the n.s.a. washington promised not to do it again but refused to sign a no spy deal but still wanted to talk trade and rebuilding of trust between the transatlantic partners flash forward to april of this year when germany's request to see the chancellor's n.s.a. file was turned down even then and was content to stand side by side with the u.s. president as he again spoke of their close friendship but the discovery of two potential double agents in germany in 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 over r.t. germany and this isn't the first time american intelligence has been caught sleeping

on its ally we've got some examples over hafey the full scale of the sloopy first came to light in june last year the agency was shown to have accessed up to half a billion gym and data connections every month a month later it was revealed that german intelligence cooperated with the n.s.a. using the agency's internet monitoring software in october an international scandal or a. it is it was revealed the cell phone of chancellor angela merkel had been tapped and at the end of the year it became clear that the british intelligence agency was also we dropping on german targets and in february this year it was reported the n.s.a. had tapped the then chancellor gerhard schroeder's phone calls in the run up to the two thousand and three us led invasion of iraq well one american investigative journalist told r.t. the latest revelations are leaving burley in embarrassed. the german american security systems was so interwoven you can't even separate from the basically the

same infrastructure the same architecture of security so if germany was to say they don't want to it's very hard for them not to because there's so many institutions which are basically into the whole bit with the same institute the german political leadership. wants to be involved with the united states they want to have an even greater security it's a structure it's part of who they are it is part of who gave been since the end of world war two but this recent espionage scandal the america being spied on and of the two ropes recent cases is embarrassing for the german political system because it shows that germany has been very loyal to the united states but the united states still doesn't trust them. still to come here are not international extremist expansion we track the self-proclaimed islamic state spanning parts of syria and iraq is the jihadi sees more weapons and attract fresh recruits plus president putin is making new friends in south america we report on what came out of his maiden trip to argentina and why he's heading that shortly here and not.

this is what we do kill people and break things. we can see something as simple as people playing soccer you can see individual players and you can see the ball. you can almost see is facial expression you can see is a mouth open and crying out. maybe cursed us or maybe he asked. for forgiveness for. there must be near certainty that no civilians will be killed or injured.

it's like you don't want the bullets to start because it's like duck duck duck that's a back back back back up moment so it's it's almost like there's a big blue and then you see the big sound it's like of days. welcome back matt despite we need assurances from kiev that it's ready for a ceasefire with the self-proclaimed republics of the nets in the ganske there's been little relief for the people in ukraine's east according to anti-government forces more than thirty five people have been killed in shelling in the last twenty four hours plumes of smoke over the skyline in the city of lugansk and as this enjoyed another round of deadly government people have been fleeing the outskirts of another resistance how the nets which has been shelled since friday adding to

the tens of thousands of those who have already run from the horrors of war refund are now reports from the games. we don't leave the hotel without bullet proof jackets both sides need they will not talk of presidential areas but he says that can different. shells land in the city center the ground. is dangerous for life the third now already but citizens here have little protection against mortar rounds and those who didn't leak case constant danger. over the last three days the city's residential areas have been hate each time we see civilian casualties. this is the scene of the mayster recent attack we saw at least. craters on the road there and there and as you can see this building was damaged well if used to be one of the city's banks and it could barely

be a target of whoever is behind this attack. as we're filming we hear about another shelling locals say it was a miracle that no one got hurt the book called the book fire just going out to the balcony and then i heard glass breaking and i realized we are being attacked and then know what to do where to hide where they are going to fire from next time we go to invite us to ortiz to be his home broken glass litter is the floor. or the windows and we go to these two room apartment have been shattered. i just got up and opened up the window and then it came both sides blame the other for the violence but whoever is responsible the violence is real and fear is spreading lugansk the second largest city in is to ukraine it used to be home to more than four hundred thousand people these days you can see it looks like

a ghost town it's not just shops banks and restaurants that have closed their doors post offices to have shot so has the local police office a group of men gathers next to a bank in the center they are all workers lining to take out cash on payday they don't trust the banks not keen to speak to journalists either. they see the people do not want to talk they're angry nervous it's understandable original party is to ukraine. while a team of international monitors who recently visited the city of slavyansk say the city lies in ruins it had been besieged compound shells for months the observers say they were shocked by what they saw. the there was quite a bit of devastation there obviously we were the first international body to get into the city there is very no electricity no water. supplies

a.t.m. machines were working basically a ghost town right now more than half the population has a lot of people according to our monitors people there are very kind of alone and almost abandoned. in other news isis jihadists made significant gains this week to expand the so-called islamic state in parts of syria and iraq they received a fresh batch of recruits and captured several facilities that gave them access to powerful new weapons the militants previously paraded columns of tanks and what appeared to be a scud ballistic missile they've taken control of a chemical site in iraq seizing some twenty five hundred rockets designed to carry poisonous gas baghdad also says the jihad is still nuclear research material which could be used to make a weapon intelligence. group says sainz notorious legacy is now in the

hands of terrorists. it now appears to be the case that if not chemical weapons then certainly some of the ingredients necessary to produce these weapons have now indeed falling into the hands of what used to be called isis the most extreme form of terrorist group one might say that on the other on one hand whereas it's of super tension embarrassing to united states and indeed the u.k. because after all these countries went to war invaded iraq purportedly to prevent chemical weapons and other w m d from falling into the hands of would be terrorists up on the surface is what seems to have happened here but on the other hand the u.s. has a say says that these are chemical. coffee militarily used would be dangerous to the terrorists in the very but nonetheless it's with this kind of hazardous material one might think that there would be or could be some potential danger some potential use for these chemicals in the future after all if that wasn't the case why without being guarded in the first place. jadis earlier seized key oil

facilities in syria and iraq and then i'm breaking in around a million dollars a day by selling the fuel abroad according to reports in the british media memoir and entice syrian rebel brigade complete with a thousand fighters equipment vehicles including tanks is reportedly crossed over to join the ranks of the self-proclaimed islamic state it is the largest defection from another rebel factions safe. now for one weekend this summer speed limits outside the kremlin in moscow mean nothing. at the head of russia's first formula one grand prix in sochi fans in the heart of the capital and get their rush of racing excitement we've got more images for you at r.t. dot com also there an investigation sheds light on a deadly plane crash in the congo four years ago it turns out it was all the blame of

a runaway crocodile which apparently survived the crash we've got the story speak at r.t. talk a. lot about putin set off on a grand tour of latin america this week while and when his aires his latest stop off he continued to cement future ties with his arjan tying counterpart a nuclear cooperation agreement has ensured moscow's foothold in argentina's energy sector but the joint work goes far beyond just energy is poor scott explained. well on route to the world cup final hay in rio the russian president vladimir putin has made argentina where he had a meeting with the country's president cristina fernandez to there was an agreement that will soon stop broadcasting on argentinian t.v. in spanish. when we. see the agreement will expand the cooperation between russian and argentinian t.v. channels we're grateful for the opportunity for russia's r.t. spanish channel to broadcast in argentina everybody here will be able to freely

access the network for the first time. the president also went on to say that russia hoping to build their own global positioning satellites and they are expecting argentinian and hoping for argentinian help on that project so let's give you a bit more information about counterparts and about argentina itself cristina fernandez the cut is the first elected female president in argentina the keyword there was elected because isabella martin has to put on was president for two years in the one nine hundred seventy s. on this latin american told about amir peretz and also stopped off in cuba that's where he had a symbolic meeting with former leader fidel castro an influential figure who helped castro to power shake of all rock born in argentina with relations between the usa and russia out there was since the end of the cold war it seems that the two nations i don't sing to a different tune at the moment argentina is the highlight of time go and argentina are of course in sunday's world cup final. against germany in the sport is

a religion for fans in latin america but argentina's national sport isn't football it's a sport known as part of a mix of cross people and so i arrive in rio within the next twenty four hours or so ahead of the world cup final is that his trip across latin america is going to be dominated by gangs sporting ones and political ones. and as president putin prepares to arrive in brazil how to attend the world cup final those who are already in rio we're in for a bit of a treat the city's christ the redeemer statue was lit up in the national colors of the team set to round off the tournament the iconic monument change from germany's black red and gold to argentina's light blue and white very spectacular meanwhile rio de janeiro itself is on high alert with more than twenty thousand security personnel deployed to the city tonight by. also making more headlines this hour the u.s. secretary of state has announced an audit of last month's disputed presidential

election in afghanistan john kerry arrived in kabul on friday he has held talks with the country's two top candidates got a little taller and after a gurney and outgoing leader hamid karzai an independent election watchdog announced garny top the final poll probably claims from his rival. financial experts are warning that britain's productivity has plunged to below that of the two thousand and eight credit crunch u.k. workers produce about a fifth less per hour than employees in other leading nations and some businesses some business leaders are now pointing the finger at a lazy unmotivated workforce for the shortcomings is. reports the great british work force one that gave birth to an industrial revolution helped build an empire full of world the railways the telephone the jet engine and the. insists they still work their fingers to the bone but that actually found to be

less productive than in countries like the us germany and even those old rivals france and former conservative deputy prime minister lord has all time says he knows why the veteran heavyweights great story get up early enough they aren't ambitious enough and they simply don't work hard enough tough as it was to steel myself from an afternoon down the pop i bucked myself up to ask the successful entrepreneur whether he agrees that brits are just lazy unfortunately you know we have situations where they come in for interviews they've got no issues as i'm sure enough on charm the scruffy that's what we want we have a lot of people climbing beneficial people that want to go work you know which is a friction economy overseas allowing us to bring in a lot of foreigners i'm employing actual fact you know i mean i want to be part about ten percent of charlie's two hundred staff and now foreign and that figure is

likely to grow because he says they simply pull their weight but try telling that to london's office workers who are quite frankly insulted but actually you don't think brits are lazy absolutely no more not the working for example i work too many hours maybe compared to the coaches we have more of a work life balance but don't think that's necessarily a bad thing. but no i wouldn't say when they see what we do work quite hard just because europeans i was here have already know how the summer holidays and they take time out also take time off in the office to me yeah it was a lot of them maybe in the office right now working so much more. and yet british workers produce about a fifth less for every hour worked than any of the leading g seven nation even celebrity employees like madonna. accuse the brits of indolence top chef jamie

oliver has said that his restaurants would close if there weren't any european immigrants to work in them charlie mullins the work ethic starts at school i believe if we can buy more trucks. we're going to get a lot more people a lot more in the workplace and we need to start you know we need to go into schools. fortunately you know. the consequence according to the international monetary fund this month is that slack staff pose a major risk to britain's future economic health but if that's not enough to get brits off the couch perhaps charlie's an example of just how far good old fashioned british hard graft can get you. london. coming up next here not international a special report on america's deadly train wars but if you're watching us in the u.k. we take you behind the scenes. in the states. 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 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 twenty 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 nationalists revolution are you so proud of i'm sorry but i'm not seeing your triumph but that's just my opinion. on merit in the financial world. developments i mean and stocks only take no demands. in life and there are an awful. they were presumably using this notion that any male of a certain age roughly between fourteen and sixty who is killed is automat.