all discussion critical issues facing them are ready to join the movement then walk a little bit of. a russian citizen killed by a shell fired from ukraine moscow warns of heavy consequences though kiev it in the eyes attacking russian territory. in east ukraine eighteen people killed by army shelling which is hit in mining towns a day after artillery attacks on the region regional capitals suburbs calls multiple civilian casualties. at least a night of israeli bombings pushing the number of palestinian casualties to more than one hundred sixty while israeli commandos briefly entered gaza to raid a militant rocket site. and looking back at the week's news via by berlin germany expelling a top cia official after arresting two government employees for passing secrets to

u.s. intelligence. seven pm in moscow good to have you with us as we bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news tensions between kiev and moscow have risen after a rocket launch from ukraine killed a russian citizen the shell struck the yard of a private home in russia's rostov region or if a notional reports. on sunday we saw a very dangerous escalation of the crisis here in ukraine several shells fired from the ukrainian territory lended to in the russian border town then yes it has the same name as the ukrainian city has now become the major battleground of the log scale military operation here in eastern ukraine i would say that there were at least six shells they hate a private house killing one man earlier there were reports that four people were

injured but later it was down scaled the time began at around eight thirty in the morning they started shelling and destroyed his house my mother and sister were hurt and i when hospital you know that one man was around forty seven years old he had a very big family and four children have already denied any responsibility for this attack and he is russia's 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 their moves are going to be harsh and specific and while we see that ukrainian crisis is spilling over to russia here in ukraine the situation is getting more and more tense and ordinary civilians often those who pay the highest price. more familiar with the notion and you can head on to her twitter feed where she regularly post updates on ukraine progs.

the in the. cross border incidents increasingly frequent between. both countries on saturday a vehicle carrying russian border guards came under fire originating from the ukrainian side the power riddled with bullet holes but the men escaped unharmed just a week earlier rockets hit a russian border checkpoint near the scene of saturday's incident a crossing packed with refugees trying to enter russia to escape the fighting. the trunk was going to compromise this whole different thing and we came up with the folks that don't like you don't let me hold you. down you need w. i think a lot of that argument should be given to you to school and she was.

denying involvement in what moscow calls border provocations but international affairs analyst alexander mackerras thinks no one but the ukrainian army could have been behind. it would be inconceivable to me that the insurgents the resistance people in the dorm bass who are the only other people who could do this would actually attack russian territory i think that would be so reckless and irresponsible on their part that i can't imagine they would do if there is fighting going on on the ukrainian border the ukrainians have been trying to gain control of these border posts and i think some of their fighting is spilling over into russia but the point i would make it's virt of course on the second of july the ukraine committed itself to a cease fire an unconditional cease fire and agreed to it and russia in return agreed to allow monitors ukrainian monitors on its side of the border the problem

is the ukrainians have not taken up these office and have not carried out the ceasefire even though the germans and french and the ukrainians themselves appear to accept the russian office so that is why we have seen this escalation because they have to suit a military reconquest of the border areas rather than seek a diplomatic settlement. eighteen workers killed in a new wave of army shelling of two mining settlements on the outskirts of donetsk one of the strongholds of resistance the city's residential areas also apparently targeted leading to numerous deaths though the exact number has yet to be confirmed about you see the latest pictures from the city just a warning you may find them disturbing two minutes drive from that in the city center residential buildings almost leveled by airstrikes an orphanage was destroyed conflicting reports of the number of civilians killed ranging from six upwards of thirty thousands of families have decided to flee the city as the army tightens its grip and tell backs stretching for kilometers along the road.

into some of the week's other top stories overnight in gaza more than fifty palestinians died from more israeli bombardment nearly a week into the offensive in the number of dead has risen above one hundred sixty more than half of them civilians including dozens of children this is what was left after one of the deadliest evarist. the police chief and eighteen members of the same family dying their un security council has unanimously called for a ceasefire but israel said no international pressure will keep it from pursuing its offensive despite claims it's only aiming at militant targets more civilians are being caught up in the violence. and if you.

know the. israeli missile strike in more than one thousand sites in gaza this week a mosque a home for people with disabilities and a beach cafe filled with football fans among the targets harry fear filed this report. on a visit to gaza's main hospital we met four year old shaman mastery she was injured in abdomen she became collateral damage in a drone strike that i have yet i learned had nothing. that about how william i don't have them but i want to. get a lot of my one son will howl at the madman that i'm a fan. fanless this had that then. well i've been going to tell them how did you get the hey hello is this here 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 siege but even civilians that survive the violence suffer the mental effects of living in a war zone our bed lives in a neighborhood of shaker the one that was targeted last night. was all. done as little as a. gun in london it's a few miles. it's been a traumatizing couple of days for the civilians of han eunice in the south of the gaza strip to during its operation israel says that it's going off to 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 subtle. a phenomenal. israel has made clear that it's not interested in restraining its operation on gaza so long as hamas rocket fire continues. azzi gaza. israeli commandos conducting a raid on a rocket launch site in gaza on sunday morning that triggered fears that a full scale ground invasion could be eminent the i.d.f. has been massing troops on the border for several days now our middle east correspondent paula smita has that side. twenty soldiers briefly into northern gaza the i.d.f. says that the purpose of the mission will. to destroy rocket launching sites we understand that there was a brief exchange of fire during which four israeli soldiers will 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 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. hamas vowing to avenge all attacks on gaza has been raining rockets down on israel no deaths have been reported yet in israel the worst hamas attack this week hitting a petrol station in the south of the country. oh wow r r r r r r r r r. the wrong man severely wounded in that attack in all five israelis have been injured by hamas rocket strikes this week siren sounding several times a day or across the country with people rushing into bomb shelters many rockets

though being intercepted by the anti missile iron dome system it's keeping casualties to a minimum or his you know i.d.f. spokeswoman whether she considers far more lethal israeli attacks on gaza or to be a measured response. this is not an operation in any capacity against the people of gaza this is an operation against some us 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 since two thousand and eight over thought and civilians were killed in gaza that's right 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 which include text messages to people in civilian areas phone calls to their homes and a day ago then why because i don't as 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 up the offensive so international colds are simply being ignored aren't they i and he 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. russian president on a tour of latin america his last stop the region's powerhouse brazil lattimer putin will be there for the brics summit and also stopping by the world cup final for the handover of the event to the twenty eight thousand host country russia but before football's finest from germany and argentina thrash it out in front of an audience

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once i'm job market and on this show we reveal the big picture of what's actually going on in the world we go beyond identifying the problem. rational debate in a real discussion critical issues facing you are you ready to join the movement then well there are. fifteen minutes past the hour now relations between germany and the us took a dive this week when berlin kicked out the cia station chief there is after to hire a. german officials were unmasked as alleged american spies sparking some angry words germany's interior minister dismissed the information obtained by the alleged spies as laughable but said the political damage is disproportionately serious a left party member was outraged saying there is no longer blind trust in the u.s.

and the justice minister demanding the u.s. spying in germany be halted entirely peter all reports. 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 experience or 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 i'm glad merkel 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 of

a r.t. germany. this isn't the first time u.s. intelligence has been caught spying on an ally last june it was revealed that half a billion private messages and calls sent or received by german citizens were monitored each month chancellor merkel fell victim when her phone was tapped in february it was reported that former chancellor gerhard schroeder's phone calls were snooped done in the run up to the u.s. led iraq invasion when american investigative journalist tells r.t. the latest revelations are leaving berlin embarrassed. the german and american security systems is 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 united states they want to have an integrated security infrastructure it's part of who they are it is part of who they've been since the end of world war two but this recent espionage scandal of medical 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 russian president vladimir putin has had a very packed schedule the last few days after chatting with the leader of cuba's revolution fidel castro making a surprise stop in nicaragua and signing several agreements with argentina russia's president has now arrived in brazil there's already been a meeting with the german chancellor merkel who has also come to see the football world cup later today paul scott is in rio de janeiro following the president's big trip well later on sunday russian president vladimir putin arrives in rio for the world cup final between argentina and he will see efficient responsibilities for the fee for world cup handed to russia from brazil of course russia is the host of the competition in two thousand and eighteen also president is going to be german chancellor angela merkel it's an opportunity for putin

a mochel to mingle world do we know about brazil about the current host nation brazil is a false nation and despite a huge amount of us in areas housing the majority of the population is still there up to seventy tribes living in the amazon rainforest and who had no contact with the outside world the country's president dilma rousseff who had no fun times by the n.s.a. once you create brazil's own internet a lot of american countries to protect themselves from n.s.a. surveillance the founder c.e.o. is the country's. capital you know rio de janeiro it's of just forty one comes to build i'm from above it looks like an airplane the most popular schools in brazil please of course football is like a religion hey but despite that later on sunday it could well be that all its rivals argentina he was celebrating its workings paul scott reporting for us from rio and with brazil about to hand over the world cup to russia our correspondent neil harvey is in cars and one of the eleven russian cities at the host matches of the twenty eight hundred twenty. just want to give you a feel for the place so quickly here

a few facts and figures first of all is the capital of the russian republic of tatarstan with a population of just over one point one million people that makes it russia's eight biggest city the kremlin now this is a world heritage site i did take a look around it earlier today and i was interested to find that there you have a church and a mosque situated practically side by side i think but it goes some way to. the reputation of sandwiches of being a place where muslims and christians co-exist very peacefully side by side a fact that probably not too many people know about the city is that in two thousand and nine the people of russia voted at the capital of the country because on is of course only one of russia's eleven host cities for the twenty eight world cup and i was lucky enough to take a visit to some of the other places involved let's have a look at how preparations they're going to end to eighteen feet five world cup later on down the money will be organize. back in two thousand and ten it was all

smiles as russia defied the odds to be named host of the twenty eight world cup. victory came largely thanks to a slick promotional video which pledged to develop football among the country's youth. with another big selling point was russia's ambitious plan to build several new stadia which will cook games could be played for years on how exactly is not looking all of the twelve stadiums to be used for under construction there in killeen the ground for ground nizhny novgorod he said mara who should be rolling soon enough with those projects to be underway by the end of this year and meanwhile the progress that some of the other venues has given russia cause to celebrate. here in sochi there should be no problem whatsoever the fish stadium is. tried and tested during the olympics it proved itself to be

a great success there will be one or two slight alterations needed in order to turn it into a football stadium but there are only minor i think this one up as a success for the host nation. this is on the arena and boy is this a versatile stadium because last year they hosted the world student games that next year they'll put into swimming pools for the staging of the championships and after that it will be converted into a football stadium. in the russian capital there are two very different projects taking place with the new stadium going up just as an old one gets down first as the spawn tank stadium a high tech high cost ground that in order to protect its pitch from the harsh winter is the season the very latest technologies and they include food bills equivalent of the giant head drawing. the profile of the. west on the soil heating. of the surface keeping the temperature as it should

be. laying. off the pitch which will be all be. so here is the spark that stated in all its glory the playing surface is looking absolutely spectacular while the infrastructure is just days away now from completion it took four years of work and four hundred thirty million dollars of investment to get us to this point and it sees the stadium spartak on the brink of becoming the new kid on moscow's footballing blockbuster if you're one of those clowns who prefers you'll stadium to be a little bit bigger about how ups have a little bit more history and there really is only one place to go. and not fear to the luzhniki which in twenty eighteen will host both the opening game of the tournament and the big one the world cup final however in order to be. the part for the big occasion the ground old lady of russian football is having to undergo

a monumental make over. by bank of what i really mean is it's been completely gutted which is a bit now some fans from the spiel at the thought of losing a stadium that's filled with so many memories just like in one nine hundred ninety one mischka the back to the t a to the i that the moscow olympics. the end. to end the fans shouldn't be too sound because while the insides might be new the facade of the luzhniki is set to remain which means that it's not really goodbye more a case of c.d.c. . says neil harvey reporting for r.t. . next a look at behind the scenes at r.t. international with news team or if you're watching us from the u.k. u.s. drone combat described by a pilot stay with us. 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 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 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 nationalist revolution are you so proud of i'm sorry but i'm not seeing your triumph but that's just my opinion. this is about making the business survive. corporations don't love corporations cold hate corporations have no feeling. corporations don't care about you or me corporations or curb or offer. people come

to untouched for assistance and leave massively for the sake of mom. we're not going to quit we will not stop until it is done what is more precious music more moon. nice today and signs of more trade for a worse i see it pays to have. many many places to see as far as red square demonstrators are feaster against an arcade of saying what if sixty years you see the comparing himself. to stay at a space where. this. space.

it's one of. the fears of a third intifada because of the growing violence between israelis and pedophile statism palestinians how much is said to i would say the residents of the west bank . the situation is escalating and the same and i'm not only demonstrating that to playing stuff for sure no the situation is escalating and violent keeps going on both sides all the link is that the palestinians are not only carrying out demonstrations they also throwing stones and killing women and indeed if you want to do new content you can bring up the stats at that point also and then go to the guy the stories about whether or not this can be asked to identify a palestinian uprising between israelis and pakistan it's an interesting story because it's been in the news for quite a while with the amount of violence that we're seeing happening which at once at one stage is more isolated and in the last few weeks and months to come a comment whether or not that is a sign that's indicative that. a student or part of this coming to

a palestinian uprising a way to one not it's just school ready incidence of violence what if you have an immense we've got we've got we've got the protests on friday attendance of what the city what do you want to ask him if they go talk to a drug war and violence in the west bank me on the palestinian and again settlers by posting the subsidies there for to go instead to take to basically in the story have got into the closet that eventually we're going to have to this is the maximum based on ask rate of one of the visual style of sitting you know starting to it is ironic because we need to up that think we've also been conditioned piece of course the conflict if the cobblestone fantastic vision if it doesn't happen might stop probably still included in the story but it's not maybe anything is dramatic let's wait to see what if even if we had been started so you kind of study these stories hoping that it will be a little bit of violence but the conflict are you sure you're going to be ok timing because we get stuff so i think a lot of it makes me feel better how behind it ok.