to picture old days. from roads to. drop to the. israeli troops attack rocket launch sites in garza sparking fears of a full blown ground invasion meanwhile mosques and houses a pond in the enclave the total number of palestinians killed climbing to at least one hundred fifty nine. relations between berlin and washington reach a new low which germany kicks out a top cia official in retaliation to the latest spy scandal let's. pull out. amid the nonstop air raids in east ukraine our teammates the families who've been devastated by the

violence. there it's good to have you company you with international. now israeli soldiers have entered garza's to take several missile launch sites ending in armed clashes with a mass there are now fears the move will spark a ground invasion into the enclave poorest reports 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 sense on the ground and from meet witnessing the

amassing 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 with this comes on the sixth day obvious way the airstrikes over gaza overnight and into the early hours of this morning they have been barrages of rockets being fired here at israel have also been rockets fired again from lebanon now the speculation is that it is unlikely that these rockets are being fired by hezbollah probably because hizbullah and i must say the time is 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 israel says its air raid aimed at rooting out how massing guards are but they also kill innocent people along the way the total number of

palestinians who died in the offensive has reached at least one hundred fifty nine a most of them are civilians these are pictures of some of the air raids on gas. and. israel launched the offensive on tuesday and his claim you'd only targets hamas militants meanwhile the united nations is calling for a cease fire saying that three courses of the casualties are actually civilians but israel is vowing to press on with its campaign until hamas stops its rocket attacks are a favorite port from gaza. on a visit to gaza's main hospital we met four year old shame mastery she was injured in her abdomen she became collateral damage in a drone strike but i had. to go went to visit her sister with her parents

but on the road they came under fire when she tried to avoid once she was hit by a second her mother and brother were killed she and her sister were left in a critical condition in the system. and the girl is still under good care no one knows if she's going to make it. doctors tell me they've been dealing with the biting shortage of medical supplies in gaza for the last three weeks as a result of the ongoing siege but even civilians that survive the violence suffer the mental effects of living in a war zone. lives in a neighborhood of shaikh road one that was targeted last night. sitting by the entrance when the first missile hit the second one soon followed on we carried the sleeping children out and run away the children began screaming through fear. it's been a traumatizing couple of days for the civilians of high newness in the south of the

gaza strip two during its operation israel says that it's going after hamas militants those ledges are hamas militants however it's willing to go as far as targeting their homes and in this case israel killed six children and two adults when it struck this family home the family didn't have time to heed the warning drone missile which arrived four minutes before the main strike. we were shocked when the missile hit my brother's house after we her house was hit by the house was a children's playground where most of the heat again israel has made clear that it's not interested in restraining its operation on gaza so long as hamas rocket fire continues it's a recipe for conflict and inevitable suffering for gaza's civilian population carry out some. well as you've been seeing the nineteen international pressure to end the

violence is having little impact on the ground in israel is having to deal with the attacks from gaza i was all caught up 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 southern israeli town of ashdod israel also father terry shells into lebanon on friday in retaliation for three rocket attacks from day one in all five israelis were wounded this week two of them seriously i.d.f. spokesperson peter and i 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 put us 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 some they had to stay in the safe room but that's an acceptable we're not willing to let this go and that's why the military has been charged 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 course we are keeping a close watch on all the latest developments coming out of garza and israel on air and also online at r.t. dot com we'll bring you the latest as we get it. another story we've been following this week relations between germany and america have suffered another blow germany kicked out the cia chief in berlin after officials are massed two alleged u.s. spies working for state security anger over the snooping is widespread the german interior minister for example dismissed the information obtained by the lead spies is laughable but said the political damage is serious a left party member expressed outrage to you 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 of a has the story now 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 contact at the us 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 that experience of a cheaper foreign intelligence services isn't something we're taking lightly but it took a whole string of and biasing snooping slip ups to get to the 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 spine deal bilin 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 and as many weeks and a lack of cooperation from the u.s. with the investigations looks like the final straw and it will be interesting to see what effect the expulsion of the cia official will have on an already strained

u.s. german relationship now that berlin has shown its willingness to act peter all of a r.t. germany. and it isn't the first time american intelligence has been course snooping on its ally because for some examples over here in june last year it was revealed half a billion germans a month were having their private messages monitored chancellor angela merkel fell victim to as you heard her phone was tapped and in february it was reported jarrett showed his phone calls were also snooped on in the run up to be u.s. led invasion of iraq one american investigative journalist told r.t. the latest revelations in leaving berlin embarrassed the german and american security systems so interwoven you can't even separate them they're 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 a wall bit of the same entity the german political leadership. wants to be involved with united states they want to have an integrated security infrastructure it's part of who they are it is part of who gave been since the end of world war two with this recent espionage scared of 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 with the united states still doesn't trust. still to come here are not so you missed expansion we tried the self-proclaimed islamic state spawning parts of syria and iraq is that you how to seize more weapons and attract fresh recruits also coming up president hasan is making new friends in south america we report on what came out of his maiden trip to argentina and where he's heading next we've got the story shortly.

that this same logic that the united states pursued in afghanistan army relatively unknown the graphs if they were to saw was good enough for the united states and look what happened a couple of years down the law again the problem with american policy is a lack of staying power after the soviet union left afghanistan the united states essentially forgot about afghanistan that the pakistanis moved in to fill the void with to talk. to the growth of all with all the subsequent consequences this was the critique of pulling out of iraq as well.

welcome back now despite her new disappearances from kiev that is ready for a cease fire there's been little relief for the people in ukraine's defined eastern regions according to anti-government forces more than thirty five people have been killed in shelling in the last twenty four hours claims of smoke over the skyline in the city of brigands as it enjoyed another round of deadly government air raids people have been fleeing the outskirts too of another resistance the nets which has been shelled since friday and they ceased i live in fear that their families could be hit in the nonstop attacks. met some of them. and you day brings to the city of the guns.

this goes mother has just been killed when a shell landed on her fourth floor balcony it was up to the daughter to tell her father. that. this young man was lucky he was brought to the hospital with a gunshot wound and thought unlikely to survive can regain consciousness just minutes before we arrived. this could have to succeed and if you're going to end this of cynical bullshit to get a new. business going to school. my son will come for the lower to somebody. they still don't want it to. or no way out of the hospital and i made him drain who just dropped his wife

here. this is where she was sitting you can see one bullet here of nothing no more than another stuck somewhere inside the metal court and drays still in shock and can't believe his wife survived a little margin i was in the shop and i heard someone scream lay down on the ground but i yelled that my wife was in the car so i looked out of the window and saw that she wasn't there and heard her knocking on the shop door. but also i don't overstretch it so did a lot of his just moved with his family from the suburbs of la guns into the city itself to skate fighting between n.t. government forces and the ukrainian army first think it go slow i don't know what to say but why are they doing this to us civilians we asked the operation commanders in kiev who are trying to achieve that they were going to the main goal now is to act carefully so civilians won't get hurt well that we don't have any definite numbers of civilian casualties there we only have the numbers of dead and

injured fighters of the anti terror operation. the same day he crane's deputy health minister reported four hundred seventy eight civilians have died since the beginning of the operation in one pro including seven children but just hours later the ministry denied his statistics without giving a turn to figures we meet with the health minister of the self-proclaimed people's independent republic of the guns. that the aircraft siren starts before we even ask our first question. we have to continue the interview in the basement. perhaps an iranian yet i can't give any definite numbers concerning civilian cattle or was it because many people died when we couldn't get to them so i don't have the statistics of ukrainian media doesn't say anything about those casualties and so much so they're not allowed to show this or they believe that only terrorists are

dying here i ask whether they tell kiev about the civilian casualties. no one requested this information when no one is interested in us but now even house it is takes on the korean soldiers but they have their own no one asks ours about ours that is sticks and while neither lugansk oaky of know exactly how many men women and children have been killed the civilian toll is high and it's likely to rise. in eastern ukraine. a team of international monitors who recently visited serve yanks say the city lies in ruins it has been besieged compounded with shells for months if the 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 this city there is very no electricity no water. lack of food supplies

a.t.m. machines were working and did basically a ghost town right now more than half the population has a lot of people according to our monitors people there felt very kind of alone and almost abandoned it. in other news isis jihadists made significant gains this week to expand their so-called islamic state in parts of syria and iraq they received fresh recruits and access to some powerful new weapons the militants previously paraded columns of tanks in what appeared to be a scud ballistic missile now taking control of a chemical site in iraq season 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 expert charles shoot says saddam hussein's new tori's 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 and before going into the hands of what used to be called our system most extreme form or terrorist group one might say that on the other on one hand whereas it's of sick attention embarrassing to the rights of 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 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 chemicals that. militarily used would be dangerous to the terrorists in these very number last with this kind of hazardous material one might think that there would be 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 well jihadists earlier seized caoilte facilities in syria and iraq and now raking in around a million dollars

a day by selling the fuel abroad according to reports in the british media meanwhile an entire syrian rebel brigade complete with a thousand fighters equipped with vehicles including tanks has reportedly crossed over to join the ranks of the self-proclaimed islamic state is the largest defection from another rebel faction safe. now for one weekend this summer speed limits outside the kremlin in moscow nothing. ahead of russia's first formula one grand prix in sochi fans in the heart of the capital can 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 stories for you at r.t. dot com. now that to me putin set off on

a grand tour of latin america this week and it began in havana where the russian president officially confirmed moscow's decision to write off ninety percent of cuba's debt to the soviet union and return securing rights for russian companies to drill for oil off the cuban coast he then made a surprise visit to nicaragua before heading on to argentina and there he cemented future ties with these arjan time counterparts signing off a key nuclear energy agreement but the joint work goes far beyond just energy is paul scott explain. well on route to the world cup final hey in rio the russian president vladimir putin has stopped off in argentina where he had a meeting with the country's president cristina fernandez to catch no there was an agreement that will soon stop broadcasting on argentinian t.v. in spanish. but with no us. 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 really 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're 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 de kirchner 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 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 height 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 mixed across people and so i arrive in rio within the next twenty four hours or so ahead of the world cup finalists for this trip across latin america is going to be dominated by gangs sporting ones and political ones and tonight's. culmination of. please then to take part in the annual breaks five nations summit that will take place also in brazil we discussed how the world's developing nations can help the global economy with political analyst william doris the so many order reason economic life in the world since the end of world war two and especially since the end of the cold war have been controlled by a handful of wall street banks either directly or indirectly through regencies like

the international monetary fund and world bank and they have used their power their power to force privatization shut down of industry all kinds of progressive. programs on countries around the world and it'll be a wonderful thing of the view a very good thing for humanity if the brics countries whatever their differences are among them are able to create some kind of alternative william they're also talking to about maybe creating a new internet to help data theft to keep data safe from foreign prying eyes with us tell us about these countries desire to go it alone in more and more areas where i think that what the united states is doing as far as spying on its own so-called allies in germany. shows very much the need for this i think that would also be a very welcome alternative anything that can can weaken the. monopoly

power exercised by u.s. corporations in the u.s. military industrial complex in the world i think is a good thing for people. thanks for being with us today up next stocks on the boy he discusses u.s. russia relations in well it's about. when people talk about human rights violations you should involve some pro western protesters getting beaten up and response with mainstream media is usually to bomb somebody somewhere so good thing they haven't picked up a story from detroit that the u.n. 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 it 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 in 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 pain. with the economic ups and downs in the final months they would learn to deal sang i and the rest of life it's a neat take it will be a great leap. hello

and welcome to worlds apart the rising anti-americanism in russia and the increasing with the fall being the united states may come across as two sides of the same coin but are they both rooted in reality and how does one tell apart constructive criticism from geopolitical malignancy well to discuss that i'm now i'm joined by robert freedman visiting professor of political science at johns hopkins university dr friedman thank you very much for being here it's my pleasure now you know one of those people called criminologists you studied the soviet union later russia for several decades and i'm sure you would agree with me that. there has always been

a considerable level of mistrust between in our two nations but i wonder if the rhetoric used by both sides has ever been asked colorful and asked passive aggressive as it is nowadays well i think we're almost back to the worst of the cold war underbridge now and the early reagan days in the early one nine hundred eighty s. after the soviet invasion of afghanistan that's when relations really hit their bottom we're not there yet but if we continue in this direction will be there well i just used this word passive aggressive and i think you know both sides seem to believe that they're defending their national interest or their national values and see the other side as an aggressor but it seems to me that this aggression is a very different caliber because the united states has the whole list of countries that is essentially ruined through intervention whereas russia is charged with one count of quote unquote with bloodless an exception is that really fear to compare the two well you know we haven't seen the end of ukraine yet but if you go back

into history you know russia and then soviet intervention in. afghanistan. and in hungary and even it is germany in one nine hundred fifty three not exactly very pleasant the us intervention was in afghanistan in two thousand and one and that was after nine eleven and the jury's still out on what's going to happen there the big american mistake of course was in iraq but dr friedman i think you were replying to my question is very telling here because most examples of the quote unquote soviet aggression in fact he was an example that he just mentioned the invasion of afghanistan it dates back to the soviet times where is all the examples that russia can cite it's exam vantage of american aggression a very very recent isn't that actually. an instance of how americans really view russia through the.