god. it's. not like. breaking news on r.t. international russia's foreign ministry vows a strong reaction after a shell fired from ukraine kills a russian citizen in the rostov region near the border with ukraine ukraine denies any responsibility for the attack. hello there the latest developments and a look back at the last seven days you were watching the weekly here on r.t. and we start with breaking news a russian citizen has been killed when a shell fired from ukraine struck the yards of private houses in russia's rostov

region let's cross live now it's riff and he's in eastern ukraine for a brit what more can you tell us about this. well indeed on sunday we saw a dramatic and dangerous escalation of the conflict here in ukraine several shells fired from the ukrainian territory lended in the russian border town of netscape has the same name as the ukrainian city that has now become a major battleground of a large scale mid to upper ation here in the country i would missis say that they were at least six shells they hate a private house killing one man and injuring four others we know that they smashed was around forty seven years old and he had a very big family and four children he have already denied any responsibility for they said tag and here is russia's official reaction. these facts are evidence of a dangerous escalation on russia's border with ukraine that creates

a higher level of danger to russian citizens therefore our moves are going to be harsh and specific. and while we see that ukrainian conflict is now spilling over to russia refugees from these countries are fleeing to russia thinking that could be a safer place for them to stay i has my report about this. they have packed only the basics mostly warm clothes to keep the children norm but they were forced to leave their home town of kemah told in and. wheeling children and entire families it wasn't an easy decision. about. when you post this video because the words if you don't use a football game or disapprove it's stupid to believe that they do just that it

would. involve both fifty fifty but this is this is so if you were it's hard to say how many people have fled kramatorsk the city that's been the target of kiev's miniature gratian for months even when the army raised the ukrainian flag over the town the refugees kept coming is. that. this is really the fog of war you. good thing you don't think. but it. was a. local that is why do. you want to come back to.

the club many of those who have fled were forced to leave their relatives behind. lisa's husband is still in climatologist with us so what got us all. the time was russia is the closest save haven for many ukrainian refugees the u.n. says a hundred thousand have crossed the border into russia to figure the country's federal migration says could be full times higher costs in the border could be dangerous fighting for numerous checkpoints as fears and there are reports of civilians being cool to in the crossfire or even targeted themselves here a car drives up to a border post that is forced to turn around on a heavy fire. the family we spoke to had to change their plans after seeing just how hard it was even to get close to the checkpoint they

decided to try their luck at another crossing but asked us not to join them worried with attract unnecessary attention. would continue the journey alone it used to be recruit and checkpoint but as you can see now it's abandoned there is absolutely nobody here because crawls freely as you can see the ukrainian border guards left the russian side of the checkpoint seventy or northern part of the ukrainian russian border people here crossed day and night as you can see there many of them running from. violence in their motherland this is one of the few places along the east front year where there are no clashes but people are jittery fighting could break out here is well at any moment but within the bubble much of it but. the minute you are. the most abortion. the border and the safety beyond it is now just steps away but just one or even if these people will be able to go home

it's far from clear brief notion r.t. in eastern ukraine while incidents along the border and even on russian territory are occurring at an alarming rate earlier this weekend a vehicle with russian border guards came under ukrainian fire the car was riddled with bullet holes but the men managed to escape unharmed. it was out of the blue the people ran out unexpectedly and opened fire on our patrol car or. judging by the damage to the car firearms were used and it's obvious they were used on purpose . just a week earlier shells reached the russian border checkpoint near the scene of sunday's incident the crossing was full of refugees trying to enter russia and escape the war zone they had to be moved to safety along with the personnel.

was there was a good number of those who ordered them absolutely were destroyed. no no no no no no no you know your view was really. don't you think the more you. put on your. review. and you stay with r.t. on air and online for all the latest news from ukraine. israeli soldiers have entered garza to take out several missile launch sites ending in armed clashes with there are now fears the move will spark a ground invasion into the enclave porous lay has got more 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 israel 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 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 meanwhile israel says its air raids are rooting out how massing garza but they also kill innocent people along the. the total number of palestinians who have died in fence of his reached almost has reached at least one hundred fifty nine most of them are civilians. and yet i know what i mean about oh. lesser a little subtle for the budget of the turn of the sea for. israel launched the

offensive on tuesday and is claiming it only targets hamas militants meanwhile the united nations is calling for a ceasefire saying that most of the casualties are civilians but israel is vowing to press on with its campaign until hamas stops its rocket attacks fear now reports from gaza. on a visit to garza's main hospital we met four year old shame. she was injured in her abdomen she became collateral damage in a drone strike that i have. read about how well the limit on how the little for thirty m. of several how well at the bed and that of a. then as this had that. well i've been going to tell tell her she'll. hello is this her that they knew where they thought i thought of the 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 see that even civilians that survive the violence suffer the mental effects of living in the also our bed lives in a neighborhood of shaikh road one that was targeted last night. and there's an article that is not a. gun in london it's a few miles. so. it's been a traumatizing couple of days for the civilians of high newness in the south of the gaza strip to 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. almost. so sort of. the mr israel has made clear that it's not interested in restraining its operation in gaza so long as hamas rocket fire continues. azzi gaza. what israel is also facing its share of attacks it retaliated with artillery fire twice this week after being hit by rockets from lebanon there's also been a barrage from gaza the night oh wow. i bought a rocket fired from gaza struck a petrol station in the southern israeli town of ashdod all in all five israelis were wounded this week two of them seriously the i.d.f. spokeswoman nabi vice told r.t. why they are pursuing the offensive. this is not an operation in any capacity

against the people of gaza this is an operation against hamas against an organization that purposely and specifically uses the civilian population of gaza as human shields the point is is that you're defending your people but thankfully no israelis have been killed by hamas rockets in the last number of days but let's just get some more figures because in gaza since two thousand and eight over a sausan civilians were killed and thrown twenty times more than the israeli civilian death toll is israel's reaction to rockets fired by hamas measured unjustified there are four with five million men women and children living in shelters that is something with which we cannot continue and which no other country would except we make unbounded efforts to protect the civilian population in the gaza strip before any attack is taken against hamas we take measures that no other military or no other country takes in the world which include text messages to

people in civilian areas phone calls to their homes to do this because if the end of the day then why because i don't and you say yes margaret but why then is the u.n. security general urging israel to show restraint but prime minister netanyahu is vowing to step off the offensive so international calls are simply being ignored or think. again i only calls about international claims really should be directed towards the prime minister at the end of the day as a military big been given a very clear mission that mission is to restore quiet to the people that are living in israel and to teach hamas that there is a very very heavy price to pay to committing acts of terror and questions that were guarding these civilian casualties in the gaza strip i believe should also be directed towards the leadership within gaza that actively and purposefully puts its own civilians in in danger. but a woman and a three year old girl were killed in israeli airstrikes on gaza on sunday morning reports say some thirty children have been killed there since choose. day from two

thousand to twenty thirteen the alarming data puts the total number of deaths of mine is that more than one thousand dr office see from the communist party of israel says it's not the security of israelis of israel that force the country on the offensive the israeli government is guilty and responsible for some war especially in the last few days and we must understand that the main reason for the same. place where the forces government is going to cynical about it has nothing to do with the security of israelis already so what's the real reason the real incentive is the same color in. kind of domestic issues in that they mean some issues regarding the coalition the main thing that the mr netanyahu is eager to please is not the security of israeli civilians but the security always on coalition of course we are keeping

a close watch on all the latest that is coming out of gaza and israel on the air and online for you with r.t. dot com we're bring you the latest as we get it. still to come extremists 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 where he's heading next we've got the stories coming up shortly. the stories we cover here not going here in iraq other big story abstract headlines there's a reason they don't want to. point. out now let's break the set .

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between germany and america have suffered another blow germany kicked out the cia chief in berlin after officials are massed to allege u.s. spies working for state security anger over the snooping is widespread the german interior minister dismissed the information obtained by the alleged 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 rule. has this report not from birth it. sent packing a with a flea in his ear. i just want to say that if you see it was 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 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 . by 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 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 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 his 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 but it's not the first time american intelligence has been a core spying on its ally we have seen examples appear in july last year well for a fee with a half a billion germans are month were having their private messages monitored chancellor angela merkel as we heard there fell victim to her phone was tapped and in february it was reported got a chodas phone calls were snooped on in the run up to the u.s. led invasion of iraq well a former cia. he worked in germany thinks the expulsion of the top intelligence

official sends a dramatic signal expelling the cia chief of station is unprecedented i don't know of a single example of any nato country expelling the cia chief of station and so this is quite a significant move by the germans they're saying no more of this there's no question about it i think this one is different because i think it is it is maybe one or two too far it basically is the germans are saying that we have a high tolerance for the united states acting independently in our country but recruiting our government officials and turning them into spies is a step that we can't condone so that's i think it's a serious discussion going on but i as i said before i think the united states and germany have so much in common politically in every other way that eventually will blow over. and i'm glad to be petty and set off on a grand total of latin america this week while and when is aries his latest stop

off the russian president cemented ficci ties with his arch in time county. they've agreed most guy would expand its foothold in argentina is an easy sell to. over twenty percent of argentina's hydro electric power is produced by russian equipment we really hope to take an active part in the modernization program and the construction of new power plants one of our companies is planning to take a role in a hydro power station project worth two billion dollars. before argentine mr putin was in have an eye to meet cuba's current leader raul castro and his legendary brother fidel the russian president confirmed moscow's decision to write off ninety percent of the country's debt to moscow that in return secured rights for a russian company to drill for oil off the cuban coast while speaking to raul castro putin noted fidel's unwavering political energy. you just had

a lengthy meeting with comrade for dil. yes it was an excellent and very interesting conversation we discussed international affairs economic matters the markets as well as more specific issues like agriculture so does feudal still talk a lot. yes he talks and listens a look he's an experienced politician. peyton's next stop is brazil where he's expected to show up at tonight's football world cup final and then stay for the annual break summit the leaders are expected to discuss the formation of a new development bank to potentially rival western financial heavyweights will discuss the latest developments with political analyst william doris 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 has been controlled by a handful of wall street banks either directly or indirectly for regency like the

international monetary fund and world bank and they have used their power their power to force privatization shut down of industry. as a progressive. programs on countries around the world and to be a wonderful thing of the very good thing for humanity if the brics countries whatever their differences are among them are able to create some kind of alternative but they're also talking to about maybe creating a new internet to help data fed to keep data safe from foreign prying eyes or the 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 anything that could weaken the monarch 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 all over the world in the united states as well. my sister

had is made significant gains this week to expand their so-called islamic state in parts of syria and iraq they captured all fields and several sites with chemical and nuclear materials that could potentially be used to make weapons they've also received fresh recruits from a rival rebel faction but the united states which is helping the so-called moderate syrian opposition maintains it will not end up aiding the enemy damage again as more. 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 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 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 won that state 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 aid for the syrian opposition and you have many hawkish lawmakers here who want just that the white house says the forces there are now providing

weapons to our moderate but what does moderate mean in that part of the world where everything can change overnight we get into this conflict between who is a radical and who's a moderate and who we're going to arm and then people change sides look what happened in iraq in recent years and it gets so confusing that even the experts don't understand it and get all tongue tied when they try to describe it in light of the onslaught. if these law makes state you can often hear the criticism that exists to remove. washington may have overlooked the threat of this radical group in washington i'm going to check on our team. thanks for being with us today after the break we look at the fight for gay rights in the u.s. and for our u.k. view it's a young u.s. force veteran gives a firsthand report on his experiences as a drone operator. from

time to time i get emotional e-mails and 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 that'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 am loans wow putting your country into massive debt with foreign entities now that's nationalistic and would you think ukrainian nationalists would put ukrainians into power all over the regions of ukraine well think again because money sure trumps ethnicity what it comes to the two thousand and fourteen 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. this family logic that the united states pursued in africa.

this was. my favorite. point. but anyway.