i. think. this is r.t. this morning school shelled in east ukraine as the army attacks a city under the control of the resistance it follows artillery attacks on the regional hub which left volta people civilian casualties. a russian citizen is killed by a shell fired from ukraine moscow warns of heavy consequences put kiev denies attacking russian territory in other news. the deadliest nights of israeli bombings pushes the number of palestinian deaths now to over one hundred sixty while israeli commandos briefly entered gaza to raid a militant rocket site. argentina and germany haven't been

able to capitalize on the chances of regulation time in the fee for world cup finals so it's scoreless at the moment we're now into extra time in real these are the latest live pictures of the fans walking about. when i am here in moscow my name is kevin i would very good to have your company first again this morning with news from ukraine there's been heavy artillery fire to tell you about in residential areas in the southern outskirts of lugansk earlier to tension escalated on the border with russia after a rocket launched from ukraine that killed a russian citizen were hoping to cross live to our correspondent with the national shortly she's in but back to those cross border instance the becoming increasingly

frequent on saturday a vehicle carrying russian border guards came under. fire originating from the ukrainian side the car was riddled with bullet holes but the men inside escaped unharmed there is just a week earlier a week after rather rockets hit a russian border checkpoint near the sea the saturday's incident the crossing was packed with refugees then trying to enter russia and escape the also. i. was going to put on one of those sort of thing when we come at the end of. the night. you would you. know you don't you need more than. that i know that what do you ever tell you i mean does that mean you. elsewhere it's emerged this weekend that eighteen workers were killed to an 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 so the exact number still to be confirmed and what you're about to see meg still the latest pictures from the nets he might find i'm upset if. this is the seeing just two minutes drive from the city center residential buildings were almost leveled by airstrikes an orphanage was destroyed there are conflicting reports as to the number of civilians killed there could range from six to over thirty they think thousands of families of decided now to flee donetsk as the army tightens its grip on the city the tel back stretching for several kilometers along local roads. situation surrounding ukraine has been discussed to jury a meeting between president putin and chancellor merkel in brazil both leaders agree that the crisis is deteriorating and that the work within the contact group needs to resume as soon as possible perhaps even as a video conference they also called for an immediate cease fire and for monitoring

activity in ukraine to be restarted as they hope across to the area for national some point in the next half hour you get a full picture of how the ukrainian crisis is unfolding the latest images a minute by minute updates by logging to r.t. dot com. the head of the palestinian ministration has appealed now to the u.n. asking for international protection for the people in gaza more than fifty palestinians died from yet more israeli bombardment saturday night nearly a week into the offensive the total number of dead risen above one hundred sixty more than half of them civilians including dozens of children to this is what was left after one of the deadliest israeli airstrikes which destroyed the home of a local police chief in fact 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 meanwhile mortar fire from syria struck near i.d.f. position in the central golan heights there are no reports of damage but israel responded by firing three missiles at syrian military targets. the fix was. no way. israeli missiles have struck over a thousand sites in gaza this week a mosque a home for people with disabilities even a big cafe filled with football fans were among those hit perrie fierce sense this

report from. for. 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 whatever has yet i lay i left thang. well that about how well the middle had about one third of the body and none of that a lot of i would settle hell at the bed and that a bad thing. then as this had that then. well i wasn't going to tell them how to deal. hello is this how that the view 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 redwine that was targeted last night. on the

album. 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 are alleges the 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 from that of. only jordan the phenomena of. the mr 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 conducted a raid on a rocket launching site in gaza or on sunday morning that triggered fears of a full scale ground invasion is imminent the idea of has been massing troops on the border for several days now here's our middle east correspondent paula slip 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 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. a massive all the attacks on gaza has been running more rockets on israel no deaths we have been reported in israel worst a mass attack this week at a petrol station in the south of the country. wow r r r r r r r r m. a r one was severely injured in that attack all in all five israelis have been wounded by hamas strikes this week sirens sounded several times a day across israel with people rushing to bomb shelters many rockets are being intercepted by the anti missile system that's keeping casualties to a minimum you know the last of the a spokeswoman whether she considers the israel's family's 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 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 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 accept 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 anyway yes margaret but why then is the un

security general urging israel to show restraint but prime minister netanyahu is vying to step off 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 very a very. a heavy price to pay to committing acts of terror while that mission has caused public outrage across the globe have been mass rallies held in the u.k. australia and norway as take a look at some of the pictures those protests were peaceful for the most part but a pro palestine demonstration the french capital is no violence stone throwing riot is surrounded a synagogue in paris as we're seeing here it's believed up to one hundred jews are trapped inside there are no reports of any injuries so far but police have been deployed to the scene we'll keep you posted on that throughout the night. so

they'll say keep posted on a more pleasant note shaken back in on the world cup final there are just about at the stage of extra time no one can tell you that it's been the champion between argentina and germany was a game remaining deadlocked still mill mill still nail biting will be about more news after the break and we'll continue to keep you up to the minute to on the world cup so. this is what we do we kill people and break things. we can see something is simple as people playing soccer here you can see individual players and you can see the ball. you can almost see is facial expression you can see is a mouth open and 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. let's go back now to one of our top stories the on going big problems in east ukraine where the outskirts of legality particularly in east ukraine has been hit with more artillery fire and a russian citizen to has been killed by

a rocket launch from the ukrainian border we can i bring him in his latest report. 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 i witnesses say. we're being shelled by mortars or schools have been damaged 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 everywhere. people say the bathroom is the safest place to hide her husband and sons and together we can sleep people or if it 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 only you and also we hear it about clashes happening along the ukrainian russian border we receive information that several shells fired from the ukrainian territory lended in the russian border town a private house was hit by witnesses say they were at least six shells and a man was killed and. woman was injured he had a big family and four children. that's what you are close to them.

because you can. if you catch a puppy in your primo. in kiev 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 spirited over to neighboring russia people from ukraine. iran and they see a war zone and russia is amend this to nation where the where the way they go is you can see it's very close we are now in the city center in heaven just just very near roof an arsenal against the. relations between germany and the u.s. took another blow this last week when burley kicked out

a cia chief assigned their itself to two high ranking german officials were on masters of legibly american spies sparking some angry words the german interior minister dismissed the information obtained by the alleged spies as laughable but went on to say the political damage is disproportionately serious a left party member was outraged saying there's no longer blind trust in the united states comment too from the german justice minister demanding that u.s. spying in germany be stopped once and for all well here's our europe correspondent peter all of. sent packing a with a flea in his ear and. 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 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 and 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. reporting on a lot of. crush mystery could finally been sold after forty years could it make thing to a walk on the loose in the cabin which they think the cause is dead the question congress want to wait up more of a fortune in storage and. also that. the sun shone down because they rolled around getting a feel for formula one with the ground preach such a fast approaching this was a seat in moscow getting a taste of what's to come. and right now in rio germany and

argentina remain tight i can tell you nil nil in the second half of extra time in the battle for the twenty fourteen fee for world cup title live pictures from brazil. and in fact we'll show you them both one side is. think yes that's from rio i think fans watching i'm certain the other side. german fans are holding their breath hoping that their team could grab a late goal to crown the world champions and a lot of important people in the crowd there watching president putin's plays in rio as well to watch the final and also to see the button for hosting the event passed on to russia for twenty eight c. a course full school sport. well it's been a carnival atmosphere in and around rio over the last forty eight i was also around eighty thousand spectators are inside the merican all stadium is germany taking on argentina also in attendance is the german chancellor angela merkel she'll be

hoping the whole nation can now stop the likes of messi inquiry from claiming that the world cup title after victories in nine hundred seventy eight thousand nine hundred eighty six the closing ceremony performances from the likes of she came likely if she on unsound time and also 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 forty never fully took off it didn't fully go to play 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 weekend 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 week as the clock ticks down on the twenty four comes to when it comes to an end. to russia twenty eight. i was poor

i would brazil of course having over the world cup to russia correspondents are going to have already. one of the eleven russian cities which will host matches in the twenty eight hundred to one. 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 buildup 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's sports minister apart from the pristine world cup brings the heritage of mother new material but also fumin cultural but it directs investment into everything transparently there are volunteers the inspiration the unification of the country i'm sure russian was. very welcoming nation let me just

help you get acquainted a bit with my first time here and 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 tatarstan 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 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 this 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 hotspot for sport always something going on here it is of course only one as you said russia's eleven host cities i was able to 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 fifty five both are laid down the money will 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 along as he sank 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 played for years on how exactly is not planned looking of the twelve stadiums to be used for under construction there in killeen the drought. nizhny novgorod he said mara the move 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 such a 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 say for 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 to lay down first as they spot tanks stadium a high tech high cost ground that in order to protect its pitch from the harsh russian winter is he's using the very latest technologies and they include football's equivalent of the giant head drawing. board what's your profile

of joy with all the soil here. and the softness keeping the temperature as it should be. so you would want to have main lodge lights and legs that will pop up half the pitch which will be in lights all 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 togethers 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 about how seventy a 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 her big occasion the ground old lady of russian football is having to undergo a monumental make over. what i really mean is it's been completely gutted which is a bit now some found in the spiel of the truth of losing the stadium that's filled with so many memories just like the 1980's in michigan that they're there to to the on that the moscow olympics. the sun shouldn't be too sound because while the inside smite be mute 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. . well that's so look forward to some to look forward to right now is the big game

still continuing now by saying another update from the world cup final and re-using so if we show the germany just schooled on a goal by mario a good say another just five minutes away than from winning the twenty four team title unless the other side comes forward coming up on up the international has to take a bit of the excitement away if you are not going to stay there for the last few minutes i can tell you if it was best for tells us what it's really like to be a drone operator programs coming up shortly for the u.k. we're going to be on the i'm seeing see here on c in the late sedation of news to you as well good luck to whichever team wins in the football will know in a minute or two or suppose from a good night. if there's anything we're afraid of in the modern western world is al qaeda or aids or something like that it's words just words especially on the internet morning radio

shock jock the cumia from the opie and anthony show has been fired for a massive twitter rant that he made against a woman who believe that the radio host was taking mocking photographs of her and got aggressive with them who may claim to just be taking pictures of time square now normally what you do outside of work shouldn't matter but with public personalities i can see how people want them to have good behavior all the time but the problem is that guys like him are put on the airwaves to have bad behavior what does the sirius x.m. company expect from people they put on air to be wild and raunchy this is typical corporate boardroom mentality well we want morning gigi's to be really crazy and shocking but not too crazy and sure hey i don't have a horse in this race i actually think the opie and anthony show is pretty dismal but when i see someone getting fired for wacky shock jock stuff that is in a way kind of part of his job well it just seems very hypocritical to me but that's just my opinion.