thank you. because i don't think. this is international news coming through it's thought ukrainian troops to storming the city of lugansk already controlled by anti government forces the day after artillery attacks on another regional hub suburbs left multiple civilian casualties . a russian citizen is killed by a shell fired from ukraine moscow warns of heavy consequences but kiev denies attacking russian territory. in other news. the deadliest might be really bombings pushes the number of palestinian deaths now to over one hundred sixty one israeli commandos briefly enter gaza raided militant

rocket site. there are look at the week's news body by birth in germany expels a top cia official after arresting two government employees for passing secrets to u.s. intelligence. below this is the weekly around of the big stories of the last seven days and will make your headlines coming through it was right now in fact over the last hour reports coming through that the ukrainian army is moving in to the eastern hub of lugansk with large numbers of tanks apparently approaching that city anti-government fighters say schools already been damaged by a missile strike. is in the city trying to make sure the details coming through what would you know on the ground there then. well we have to say that the situation here in the city of lugansk is very tense and the t.'s

deteriorating dramatically unfortunately we indeed heard from the leaders of the network self-defense forces that the round seventy tanks entered the city today and indeed we can confirm that we saw tanks driving along the central street just the street that you can see behind me here in the city center they were in the tanks driving along the street but we cannot be for sure of whom these vehicles belong to meanwhile shelling including from tang small choice and multiple rocket launcher known as dried or hey you can teen years in the outskirts of the city of lugansk and today the fiercest clashes the fiercest of fire happened in the so-called southern district of lugansk we hear that a school there was hate and in general the residential area was targeted and the raw many victims killed and injured mostly including civilians because again that

was a residential area and we're also hearing that ukrainian tanks are getting closer and closer to these particular village and to the secure because this is now listen to what eyewitnesses say. troops who are come under her well being shelled by mortar and i see a lot of your schools are in sandwiched the cleaning lady was killed and a fourteen year old boy injured the also he's a kindergarten or the block of flats in the neighboring yards has been destroyed there are cranes is everywhere. people say the bathroom is the safest place to hide her husband and a since and together we can sleep people if we cannot in their homes around here right or wrong tree. but not only this place we hear a tillery shelling very heavy artillery shelling happening in absolutely different

parts of the city of the city of lugansk in the outskirts in the north in the south and we spent actually several hours today the ambulance station and then several more hours in the hospital we can say that we saw we saw people come in with gunshot wounds from absolutely different parts of the city mostly from residential areas and we visited two of these residential areas and absolutely different parts of the city again and resource several houses private houses damaged and there was a fire and fire brigades that were working at the scene so what what's the most difficulty here today is that you cannot say for sure you cannot know exactly when and from which direction the shell made lens in your house or only you and this is what people say yes' to the major concern because shalini happens the reason

feeling randomly and also we hear it about clashes happening along the ukrainian russian border and today we saw a very dangerous escalation of these clashes we receive information that several shells fired from the ukrainian territory lended in the russian border town donetsk it has the same name as the green in c.t. the major battleground of the large scale operation here in this part of the country today had a private house was hit i would say they were at least six shells and a man was killed and. woman was injured and this man who was around seventy around sorry forty seven years old had a big family and four children here already denied any responsibility for this attack. russia's reaction was very strong russia's foreign ministry can dand violence and spilling over saying that if it happens again

russia keeps its right to defend its citizens and its security let's now listen to what people i would notice of this attack say. the attack began at around eight thirty in the morning they started shelling and destroyed his house my mother and sister were hurt but they're now in hospital. and while ukrainian crisis is now as we can see spear over to neighboring russia people from the ukraine. i running they say a war zone and russia is amend this to nation where the where the way to go is you can see it's very close we are now in the city center and have been just just very near. this is where from where they launched the shell and apparently this is the sun and the northern direction saurian currently they were firing to the north where ukrainian troops are also station for full for several

days who was you can see the city is almost empty well the situation is really tense but it is deteriorating dramatically back to you ok maria from washington thank you very much the with the latest from the guns close i'm really saying across border instance of him becoming increasingly frequent on saturday over russian border guards came out of a rafah are originating from the ukrainian side the car was riddled with bullet holes the workers men when inside this cave gone home though they're just a week earlier rockets hit a russian border checkpoint near the scene of saturday's instant to a repeat of it the crossing of parts of that time with refugees trying to enter russian escape the walls of. the tunnel that was going to be put on prisoners in order to make them obviously

they were distraught that was blue dogs are learning would you. believe. that. when you did the more you. got on your double of the recovered to school and you must move or you. have denied any involvement in what moscow calls border provocations but international affairs analyst looks at them a chorus things. no but the ukrainian army could be behind them and here's why it would be inconceivable to me that the insurgents the resistance people in the dawn 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 of ukraine to be trying to control of these border posts and i think some of that fighting is spilling over into russia. 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 work 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 offices and have not carried out the cease fire even though the germans and french and the ukrainians themselves have here to accept the russian all of this so that is why we have seen this escalation because they have pursued a military reconquest of the border areas rather than seek a diplomatic settlement. eighteen workers were killed in fresh army shelling of two minus settlements on the outskirts of dinette square of the strongholds of resistance the city's residential areas were also targeted that led to numerous deaths though the exact number still to be confirmed now what's coming up next pictures from donetsk you may find them upsetting just two minutes drive from the

center of the city residential buildings most of leveled by the air strikes an orphanage there destroyed as well there are conflicting reports as to the number of civilians killed ranging from six to thirty thousands of families have decided to leave them it's now was the army tightens its grip on the city back stretch for kilometers along local road feel. the news but in the past hour the palestinian administration appealed to the un ask you for international protection for people in gaza more than fifty palestinians died from yet more israeli bombardment overnight now we can feed offensive the total number of beds risen above one hundred sixty more than half of them civilians and including dozens of children this is what was left after one of the deadliest israeli airstrikes which destroyed the home of a local police chief eighteen members of the same family died there he would security council's call for a ceasefire but israel said no international pressure will stop it from pursuing

its offensive despite its claims its only aiming at militant targets more and more civilians are being caught up in the violence will be fired for feel the effects. feel. although they will. that's right miss saws a struck over a thousand sites in gaza to dissuade a mosque home for people with disabilities and a beach county filled with football fans cold among those i fear sent this report from gaza for take. on

a visit to gaza's main hospital we met four year old shame mastery she was injured in a abdomen she became collateral damage in a drone strike whatever has yet i learned i left pain and have a lot of that about how well william i don't have them but i want to play them for thirty young men of that a lot of my one son will howl at the bed and that i'm a fan. furnace that's had that. well i've been going to tell it tell her. hello is this here that they knew where they thought i thought of 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 shaikh road one that was targeted last night.

that is all. done in. london it's a few miles. so. 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 after hamas militants those that alleges 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 hundred of. them said israel has made clear that it's not interested in restraining its operation of gaza so long as hamas rocket fire continues. azzi gaza.

israeli commandos conducted a raid on a rocket launching site in gaza on sunday morning triggering fears that a full scale ground invasion is imminent the i.d.f. has been massing troops on the border for several days now is our middle east correspondent for sleep. twenty soldiers briefly into northern gaza the i.d.f. says that the purpose of the mission. to destroy rocket launching sites we understand that there was a brief exchange of fire during which the soldiers wounded but the army has. of course the question being asked is whether or not this is a. ground offensive certainly 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. this is a political decision. with more of the week's. army. good enough for the united states. a lot of the problem with american policy. after this. that it's moved to fill the void. in concert.