i'm. going to make. headlines antigovernment five crimi and government forces both say they control an airport in lugansk the city was shelled by kiev after its army wiped out residential buildings in nearby the nets. the russians to this in this killed by a shell fired from ukraine school warns of harsh consequences for the act would he have saved didn't fire russian territory. the conflict in gaza continues to escalate as the number of palestinians killed surpasses one hundred sixty people the un is calling for a ceasefire estimating about civilians make up almost eighty percent of the victims

. and also this hour germany are twenty four before world cup champions in brazil defeating argentina one nil in the final making them the first european country to secure the title in the americans. coming to you live from our new center here in moscow you're watching the weekly on our team international roundup of the top stories from the week that walls plus up to the minute developments as well i'm you know neil welcome we start this hour in eastern ukraine where government forces and government fighters have been bottling it and an airport in lugansk both sides claim they're in control of the facility now the fire in the distance is apparently burning

a run port on an earlier video this. to show up to government for fighters shooting at kiev's forces when they still had control of the building elsewhere a shell fired from ukraine fell inside russia killing one person or to his brief an auctioneer is in lugansk for. witness dramatic escalation of the situation here in the city of the guns going to tease continuing to deteriorate is now you can see shall in east continue and we hear that tikrit in troops now getting closer to the city center and to give and just confirm to us that there are ten to twenty kilometers from where we are now and this is where the major shelling is happening and we saw a number of new checkpoints today on the roads leading out the guns because looks like anti-government forces are now trying to fortify their positions we also heard about by on the highway connecting the guns and then yes two big cities here in eastern ukraine that the operation commanders in kiev named as. the targets on

sunday also for the first time so-called southern district of the gods came on to a very intense fire before the ukrainian army was all only approaching the city from the north. from under her well being shelled by mortar and your schools sandwiched the cleaning lady was killed and a fourteen year old boy injured the 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 sleep people if we continue their homes on sunday we also saw a very dangerous spillover of the ukrainian crisis to neighboring russia eyewitnesses say up to sixty miles from the ukrainian territorial lended the russian border town donetsk it has the name of the same name as the ukrainian city

and we know that. a private house was hate one man was killed and two more people injured killed the man was about forty seven years old he had a very big family and four children he's still to saw her father just minutes before he died when you believe the key. is to the name of the mission but you see this here burden of them is a deal it showed us what those who want to do you wish to do to you most about coach the english that used to put out the spit spit which is foreign ministry condemned the violence saying that if it continues they sway a russia keeps its rights to defend its people and it's a national security key of meanwhile denied all the responsibility for the attack raif nationality from the ganske in eastern ukraine there have been several other

incidents on the border recently on saturday the russian border guards were fired on from the ukrainian side of the dividing line their car was riddled with bullet holes but luckily no one was injured. this is the same area in the rushkoff region a week earlier rockets from ukraine hither russian border checkpoint there which is a major gate for refugees fleeing the wars. i. know you're referring to the crowd almost forgetting to put on presidential debates with them obviously never disclosed that nobody believed our guard internally or do you know you're you're really. going to have the little lady bugs that don't you think the more you think this one of them that i never thought was really coverdale you move on you must move or you. did. at least twelve mine

workers were also killed after shells fell on their selman near the nets residential areas in the city itself are also targeted and there are reports of casualties there while anti-government forces said thirty civilians died in nearby scene here which was shelled in similar fashion on sunday you may find the following video disturbing bodies in plain sight near done time to nantes can earth strikes have done serious damage to people's homes residents say the city's becoming a ghost town quickly with a major gesture on the road from so many people trying to leave at once. president putin and german chancellor angela merkel greenbank ukrainian crisis is getting worse they say a contact group consisting of russia ukraine the u.s. c n n t government fighters need to resume peace discussions put in a merkel also called for an immediate ceasefire in the return of international

monitors to eastern ukraine. here the military operation is targeting many different areas across eastern ukraine and dot com we're keeping track of what's happening across the region with the detail timeline of the conflict. the. moving on israel's military crackdown on hamas continues to escalate with a rising death toll it's his operation protective edge is aimed at militants but according to u.n. estimates almost eighty percent of the victims are civilians at least fifty palestinians were killed in these really bombardment on a saturday night bringing the total number of lives lost in the offensive to one hundred sixty caught in the violence people are fleeing their homes but not everyone has been able to escape the deadly attacks and this really are

a strike on the home of gals as police chief was left at least eighteen people dead and another forty five injured over five hundred seventy houses and eight mosques have been either damaged or destroyed since the offensive started meanwhile the i.d.f. fired artillery into lebanon after two rockets hit israel on earlier government troops also launched three missiles at syrian military targets responding to mortar fire from the country's thirty three. thanks. i think i.

say. alarmed by the mounting death toll the u.n. has called for a cease fire however the conflict shows no sign of winding down with israel's prime minister vowing to continue the operation against hamas binyamin netanyahu has accused fighters of using gaza residents as human shields adding new group full responsibility for the civilian deaths hardy fear reports for r.t. from the bottle. 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 but i have. a lot of that about how well the model had done but i want to. know how one side will howl at the bad and let a bad thing. furnace that's had that. well i wasn't going to tell them how did

you. help it there is this head 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 in the fall and i was a little on the album. that is all it is a. gun in london it is 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 but still so subtle. and i'm one of. them said that israel has made clear that it's not interested in restraining its operation on gaza so long as hamas rocket fire continues. gaza. four israeli soldiers were wounded on saturday night during a brief raid against the rocket launching site in northern gaza it was the first time i.d.f. troops are known to have entered gaza for an offensive and this are reports the incident triggered fears of a full scale ground invasion. 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 from me witnessing the massing of tanks and on the 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. israeli missile struck over a thousand sites in gas of this week and hamas is vowing to avenge those attacks the militant group has launched over five hundred rockets since monday. oh wow r r r r r r r r m. a r us so if israeli strike caused an explosion at

a petrol station even one person seriously injured a muscle to fired multiple rockets a television true islam but no casualties have been reported israel's system iron dome interest at the many of the missiles keeping damage to a minimum earlier i asked an i.d.f. spokesperson whether she considers israel's far more lethal attacks on gaza to be proportional to the. 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 the end of the day 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 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. there is a very very heavy price to pay to committing acts of terror and israel's offensive has caused public outrage across the globe with rallies held in the u.k.

australia and norway their protests were peaceful for the movie or. demonstration the french powerful turned violent roaming crowds attacked two synagogues in the us protesters sieged one of the buildings propping around the one on the jews inside riot police then disperse the rally and everyone was able to exit the building the french prime minister condemned the attacks and called the protesters actions on acceptable. germany have won the twenty fourteen iffy for world cup the feeling argentina one nil in extra time earlier r.t. correspondent paul scott spoke to us from rio de janeiro. well germany all the football world champions in securing the title like become the first european nation to win the fee for world cup on south american soil it was a close edgy affair against argentina and extra time was needed to separate the two sides but in the end

a cool composed finish for mario was enough to win it for germany now inside the famous american our stadium behind me there were eighty thousand spectators including german chancellor angela merkel and although the argentina supporters far outnumbered the german counterparts it's those fans who have made the journey from europe who were celebrating on the streets of rio this evening also inside the stadium was russian president vladimir putin with the responsibility for the fee for world cup now being transferred to russia who of course host the tournament in four years' time but as a result is given as the highest standard of preparation for the world cause i assure you we'll do everything we can to organize and hold the event at the highest possible level and with the constant coming down on brazil twenty four saying attention is turning to russia twenty eight my colleague neil harvey is in one of the future host cities. twenty eight hundred feet from both ladies and gentlemen to be organized. back in two thousand and ten it was all smiles

as russia defied the. the national weather service in mount holly new jersey has issued a severe thunderstorm warning for delaware county and southeast pennsylvania newcastle county in northern delaware cecil county and northeast maryland kent county in northeast maryland southern chester county and southeast pennsylvania until eleven pm at ten ten pm national weather service doppler radar indicated a line of severe thunderstorms the severe storms extended from around kind o. and go down to even that was moving northeast at forty miles per hour these storms are capable of producing damaging winds in excess of sixty miles per hour severe thunderstorms will be near sign a new town around ten twenty b.n.

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temperature as it should be and also we were going to have named large lights and legs that will cover half the pitch of the pitch 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 all 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 stadiums far tack on the brink of becoming the new kid on moscow's footballing block but if you're one of those founds who prefers you'll stadium to be a little bit bigger and the habs have a little bit more history and there really is only one place to go. and that steer 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 grand old lady of russian football is having to undergo

quite a monumental make over. what i really mean is it's been completely gutted which is a bit how some fans must feel at the thought of losing a stadium that's filled with so many memories just like the nineteen eighty one mission to the bear to the tear to the eye at the moscow olympics. the fans shouldn't be too sound because while the insides might be new the facade of the luzhniki sent to remain which means that it's not really goodbye but more a case of c.d.c. . says neil harvey reporting for r.t. . we've got plenty more stories for you online including a superman. lighting up the sky satellite appearing much bigger and brighter than usual in the night sky lighting an intriguing millions of people across the globe

expect at least the first of three such moons expected this summer authority dot com for the full story. also while you're there a chilean poets ghost takes a walk along the streets of santiago why to mark the anniversary of a nobel prize winner by devoted leaders uncover the night scene on the. relations between germany and the u.s. took another blow this week when burling kicked out a cia chief assigned there is after two high ranking german officials were in moscow alleged american spies sparking some words the german interior minister this missed the information obtained by the alleged buys is laughable but said the political damage is disproportionately serious a left party member was i prayed saying there is no longer blind trust in the united states while the justice minister is the us spying in germany be stopped

once for all his her europe correspondent peter all over. 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 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 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. as peter mentioned this isn't the first time that u.s.

intelligence has been caught spying on its ally last june it was revealed half a billion private messages on call the center received by german citizens were monitored every month chancellor merkel fell victim to her phone was tapped on a february it was reported that former chancellor gerhard schroeder's phone calls were snooped on in the run up to the u.s. led invasion of iraq one american investigative journalist told r.t. the latest revelations are leaving berlin embarrassed the german and american security systems was 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 incident the german political leadership. wants to be involved 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've been since the end of world war two but this recent espionage scandal of medical being spied on and of the two rows 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. for news from around the globe plenty of least eight people have been killed and twenty five others injured in an attack in egypt according to reports militants fired rockets on a military i post in the sinai peninsula killing one soldier as well as seven civilians including a child no one admitted to carrying out the attack but rebel groups frequently operate in the area. seven people have been killed and dozens injured in clashes between rival militias in libya heavy fighting broke out for control of the country's main grimaces between right is the mist groups have been on the rise

since the beginning of the ards bringing in twenty of them. in the u.s. a commercial space station shipment carrying supplies signed samples and equipment for astronauts as launch from the wallops flight facility in virginia the on man capsule took off after a series of the lazing conditions of limited visibility due to try and whether the spacecraft is due to arrive at the international space station on the whitney today stage performance. and also one person has died and eighteen others injured after a bus collided with a car in the us state of indiana authorities have temporarily closed the lanes of the highway close to the city of richmond with the incident occurred an ambulance and police cars are up the scene the cause of the crash is not yet known. that's the news for an op ed coming up after the break it's worlds apart with no stops on the border here on twenty four seven forty international.

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rejection poetry keep jobs nora's. we post only what really matters at r.t. to your facebook news feed. hello and welcome to worlds apart the rising anti-americanism in russia and the increasing risk to fall being the united states may come across as two sides of the same coin but are they both rooted in reality and how does one tell apart constructive criticism from geopolitical malignancy well to discuss that i'm now i'm joined by robert freedman visiting professor of political science at johns hopkins university dr friedman thank you very much for being here it's my pleasure now you are one of those people called criminologists you studied the soviet union

later russia for several decades and i'm sure you would agree with me that. there has always been a considerable level of mistrust between in our two nations but i wonder if the rhetoric used by both sides has ever been asked colorful and asked passive aggressive as it is nowadays well i think we're almost back to the worst of the cold war underbridge now and the early reagan days in the early one nine hundred eighty s. after the soviet invasion of afghanistan that's when relations really hit their bottom we're not there yet but if we continue in this direction will be there well i just used this warthe passive aggressive and i think you know both sides seem to believe that they're defending their national interest or that national values and see the other side as an aggressor but it seems to me that this aggression is a very different caliber because the united states has the whole list of countries that is essentially rule in three and.