so picture. from a rose to. do with r t international school comes under army shelling in eastern ukraine is the tax resistance controlled city a day off drug tillery attacks from another region. multiple civilian casualties. russian citizens killed by shell fired from ukraine moscow warns of heavy consequences but denies attacking russian territory and in other news. the deadliest night of israeli bombings pushes the number of palestinian deaths to over one hundred sixty really commandoes briefly enter gaza to raid a militant rockets. and

a live news event these are live pictures from rio right now where the world cup final is kicking off as a speaker while russia prepares to host of course as well the next twenty eight team. first we had two ukraine there's been heavy artillery fire in residential areas in the southern outskirts of. tension escalate on the border to russia after a rocket launched from ukraine killing a russian citizen. reports. well we have to say that the situation here in the city of lugansk is very tense and a t's deteriorating dramatically meanwhile challis more choice and multiple rocket launcher known as grad or hail can teenagers in the outskirts of the city of

lugansk the raw many victims killed and injured mostly including civilians it's now listen to what eyewitnesses say. we're being shelled by mortar schools and sandwiched the cleaning lady was killed and a fourteen year old boy injured also he's in kindergarten 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 sons and together we can't leave people or if we creating their homes around here we spent actually several hours today at the ambulance station we saw people come in with gunshot wounds from absolutely different parts of the city mostly from residential areas the most difficult to hear today is that you cannot say for sure you cannot know exactly when and from which direction

a shell may lend in your house or on you and also we hear it about clashes happening along the ukrainian russian border we received information that several shells fired from the ukrainian territory lended in the russian border town a private house. heat i would say they were at least six shells and a man was killed and. woman was injured he had a big family and four children. is what you are close to them. so. much number one you can just. if you catch a plane in primo. key is already denied any responsibility for this attack while russia's reaction was very strong on russia's foreign ministry can dand violence and the spilling over

saying that if it happens again russia keeps its right to defend its citizens and its security and while ukrainian crisis is now as we can see spillover to neighboring russia people from ukraine. running they say a war zone and russia is among the stone ages where the where the way they go is you can see it's very close we are now in the city center and have been just just very near cross border instance to become increasingly frequent as well on saturday a vehicle carrying russian border guards came under fire originally from the ukrainian side that car was riddled with bullet holes that a man with a scope go on homs in that incident just a week earlier rockets into a russian border checkpoint near the scene of saturday's incident the crossing was packed with refugees trying to enter russia and escape the war zone.

which was. going to put on presidential debates with them obviously they were just . turning out you. don't you need more you. don't have a good movie coverdale your new school and you must move or you. elsewhere it's emerged this weekend that eighteen workers were killed in army shelling of two minor settlements on the outskirts of donetsk one of the strongholds of resistance the city's residential areas were also targeted that led to numerous deaths the exact number of deaths are still to be confirmed you're about to see next the latest pictures from donetsk indeed you may find some of what's coming up here upsetting these pictures are just two minutes drive from the city center residential buildings leveled there by airstrikes and an orphanage was

destroyed as well there are conflicting reports as to the number of civilians killed ranging from six to thirty thousands of families who decided to flee the mess because the army times its grip on the city with tel back stretching for several kilometers along local roads. the situation surrounding ukraine's we discussed during a meeting between president putin and chancellor merkel of brazil both leaders agreed that the crisis is deteriorating that work within the contact group needs to resume as soon as possible perhaps even via video conference they also called for immediate cease fire and for monitoring activity in ukraine to be restarted. you get a full picture of how the ukrainian crisis is unfolding with the latest images and minute by minute updates on our website r.t. dot com. head of the palestinian ministration has appealed to the united nations asking now

for international protection for the people of gaza more than fifty palestinians died from yet more israeli bombardment overnight nearly a week into the offensive the total number of dead has risen above one hundred sixty and more than half of them are civilians including dozens of children this is what was left after one of the deadliest israeli airstrikes which destroyed a home of a local police chief eighteen members of the same family died there the un security council's call for a ceasefire but israel said no international pressure will stop it from pursuing its offensive right now despite its claims its only in the militant targets more and more civilians are being caught up in the violence. could think of.

no way. israeli missiles a strike over a frozen sides in gaza this week a mosque for people with disabilities even a beach café filled the football fans all among those hit very fierce and this report from gaza for r.t. . on a visit to gaza's main hospital we met four year old shame on master she was injured in her abdomen she became collateral damage in a drone strike but i have yet. not about how well the limit on how they're but. how we let them read and write about them. furnace that's had that. well i've been going to tell tell her she'll. hello

is this heather that you 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 shaikh road one that was targeted last night. in the lobby. that is all. done 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 two 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. that israel has made clear that it's not interested in restraining its operation on gaza so long as hamas rocket fire continues carry fear azzi gaza. meanwhile israeli commandos conducted a raid on a rocket launching site in gaza on sunday morning that triggered fears that a full scale ground invasion could be imminent the audio expert massing troops on the border for several days now is a middle east correspondent paula. 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 for me 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. is going to avenge all the attacks on gaza or has been running more rockets into israel meantime no deaths have been reported as yet in israel the worst hamas attack this week at a petrol station in the south of the country. wow r r r r r r r r. but one man was severely injured in that attack all in all five israelis have been wounded by hamas strikes this week siren sound of several times

a day across israel with people rushing to bomb shelters many rockets are being intercepted by the anti missile dome system that's keeping casualties there to a minimum you know may last the i.d.f. spokesman whether she considers israel's far more lethal israeli attacks on gaza to be proportionate to the threat. 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 find fully 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 a thousand 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 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 up the offensive so international calls 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. this is the way place while it's international money war the world's top news stories of the last seven days coming up shortly what's happening right now it's thirteen minutes into the

world cup final and school is the continued milk milk of me these are live pictures from rio and let's flip to berlin this is the scene in berlin the german fans hoping for another big victory required at the moment we report from brazil after the break though a look ahead to the thomas next stop which is of course russia twenty three. it's like you know when the bullets to stop. because it's like duck duck duck that's a back back back back up. so it's it's almost like there's a bee the bill and then you just see the big sound it's like a base. this

is what we do we kill people and break things. we can see something as simple as people playing soccer games you can see individual players and you can even see the ball. you can almost see is facial expression you can see is now full open in 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. again relations for to. germany the us took another blow this last week when burling kicked out the cia chief assigned there to two high ranking german officials run masters alleged american spies sparking some angry words let's take

a look the german interior minister in the week dismissed the information obtained by the alleged bias as laughable but went on to say more seriously the political damage is disproportionately serious comment too from a left party member who was outraged saying there's no longer blind trust in the united states and germany's justice minister as well demanding that the u.s. spying in germany be stopped once and for all talking of which is our europe correspondent peter all over in germany. 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 . 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. 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 it 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 yes people say we have a real role because this isn't the first time a sound far from it. last june it was revealed that half a billion private messages and calls sent by all received by a german citizens were monitored every month and of course chancellor merkel fell victim herself her phone was tapped out in february it was reported the former chancellor gerhard schroeder's phone calls were snooping on in the run up to the u.s. led war in iraq the invasion of iraq one american investigative journalist told us r.t. the latest revelations are leaving berlin in paris now the german and american security systems are 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 that made the same incident the german political leadership. wants to be involved with the united states they want to have an integrated security it's a structure it's part of who they are it is part of who they been since the end of world war two but this recent espionage scandal of america being spied on and of the two ross 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. an aircraft mystery may have finally been solved after four years we got the storyline could it be done to a wait for it crocodile on the loose in the cabin which caused the deadly crash in the congo we'll tell you more about what they think happened there are. also two

online. feel for formula one with a grand prix such of course fast approaching from syria moscow have been getting a taste of what's to come to sun shone back. right now in rio football's finest from germany in argentina thrashing out in front of a big audience going there was some cocoa by the beach just now i'm sure we will bring in those pictures going to me bring to a climax brazil's twenty fourteen world cup into the twenty third pushing twenty fourth but it now is a live pictures from brazil and this is her lead let's switch to bear where german fans are holding their breath hoping that their team can recreate the magic we saw them wipe out brazil from the tournament so president putin is also in rio de janeiro to watch the final and to see the button for hosting the event passed on to russia for twenty eight team the closing ceremonies already happened a big part of the way our correspondent paul scott's got. well it's been

a carnival atmosphere in and around rio over the last forty eight i was eighty five thousand spectators are inside the american our stadium is germany taking on argentina also in attendance is the german chancellor angela merkel she'll be hosting the whole nation trying now stop the likes of you know messi and co from claiming that the world cup title after victories in nine hundred seventy eight and nine hundred eighty six the closing ceremony performances from the likes of she came off quite a few on unsound time but it also is sure official responsibility for the competition handed over to vladimir putin and russia of course russia hosting the tournament in two thousand and eighteen and over the protests that threaten to overshadow brazil twenty two. never fully took off it didn't fully go to plan for the host nation on the pitch they finished fourth losing the play playoff to the netherlands on saturday evening but despite that the atmosphere has been electric over the course of the week and around one hundred thousand fans have swarmed the

city on the copacabana beach area in particular has been a sea of blue and white over the course of the weekend as the clock ticks down twenty four comes to when it comes to an end the tension now turns to russia twenty eighteen. brazil been handing over the world cup to russia across from it neil harvey is next in one of the eleven russian cities which will host matches in the twenty eighteen tone a myth. so there we have it it's over to russia now to get itself ready for hosting the biggest competition in world football and i think it's going to be an extremely exciting four year period the build up to the twenty eight world cup because not only will it be a big event for football fans here in russia but staging in a competition of such magnitude also offers a whole host of other opportunities and we can hear about some of those from russia sports minister apart from the. world cup brings a heritage material but also human and cultural one is direct investment into

everything infrastructure transparently there are volunteers the inspiration the unification of spirit the country i'm sure russia will host the world cup to the highest standards and we are very welcoming nation let me just help you get acquainted a bit with because it's my first time here a thoroughly enjoyed it all when you get a feel for the place a few facts and figures for you first is the capital of the russian republic of part of town has a population of just over one point one million and that makes it rushes eight the biggest city that describe is a very tourist friendly location you find practically every sign here translated into english but it's better known for its beautiful architecture and prince multiculturalism and both of those you'll find perfectly embodied in the kremlin so there you go if you thought it was just moscow that has a kremlin you'd be wrong there's warning because and as well a fact though that not too many people know about the city that is that a few years ago the people of russia voted it the sport capital of the country to

a hot spot for sport always something going on here it is of course only warm as you said russia's eleven host cities i was able to pay a visit to some of the other locations so take a look now at how the preparations for twenty eighty already shaping up twenty eight hundred feet from both our ladies and gentlemen we'll be organized. back in two thousand and ten it was all smiles as russia defied. fields to be named host of the twenty eight world cup. victory came last the 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 keep games could be plate for years on how exactly is not planned looking of the twelve stadiums to be used for under construction there in killeen the drought grass nizhny novgorod he said mara the move should be rolling

soon enough with those projects to be underway by the end of the c.s. and meanwhile the progress that some of the other venues has given russia cause to celebrate. well 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 that will be one at a slight alterations needed in order to turn it into a football stadium but they're only minor can save this one up as a success for the host nation. this is 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

they spot tax day high tech high cost ground but in order to protect its pitch from the harsh russian winter is using the very latest technologies and they include football's equivalent of the giant head drawing. up to the profile of the joy with all the show hitting. and the softness keeping the championship as it should be. so you will have laying. eggs that will cover half the pitch which will be in lights all day every day so here is the spot act stadium 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 spot tack 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 of a house have a little bit more history and there really is only one place to go. and that's here to the luzhniki which in twenty eight team will host both the opening game of the tournament and the big one the world cup final however in order to look the part for the big occasion the grand old lady of russian football is having to undergo a monumental make over. vine make of what i really mean is it's been completely gutted which is a bit now some found in this field of the truth of losing the stadium that's filled with so many memories just like the 1980's and mischka that than the t a to the on at the moscow olympics. the fun shouldn't be too sound because while the inside smite be new the facade of the luzhniki is set to remain which means that it's not really good by more case the

c.d.c. . says neil harvey reporting for r.t. . i hope to see you soon again in about thirty three minutes time the next thing. 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 a nationalistic and would you think ukrainian nationalist 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 governor's line 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.