battle lines are drawn is key as forces storm a strategic airport we report on the shell shocked civilians trapped by the government's easter an onslaught also. palestinian death toll spiking as the israeli prime minister about was to use any means possible to stop hamas from launching more missiles plus. hard pressed to justify mass surveillance the u.k. government tries to legalize it activists say it amounts to an unacceptable violation of basic privacy rights.

two pm in moscow good to have you with us here on r.t. international our top story this hour this is the skyline in lugansk in eastern ukraine film sunday night the area is on fire reportedly near an airport where the military and government forces have been engaged in a bitter fight this is video apparently filmed earlier in the day showing fighters who at the time controlled the airport shelling attacking government troops both sides currently came claim control over the strategic area. a massive military convoy is also reportedly approached lugansk including up to eighty tanks anti government forces have been filled maneuvering their own armor to meet the enemy and trapped in the middle of it all millions of civilians shelling air raids and fighting at devastating cities villages and towns in the east artie's marie if an ocean is in logan square she joined an ambulance crew for the day. they

actually don't need to turn on the sirens ambulances are almost the only cars on the empty roads of lugansk and drink some days have left a message and see workers easier than ever before. cameras now going to. our. private house for. sure here in. this case to get drugs through a narrow street we enter with looks like a densely populated area locals say at least six shells landed here just minutes ago but you look at the capitol hill look at the body of the movie going to doesn't like to look back on this time it seems no one was killed after that but everyone is telling their product that said goodbye it that's a quote yeah put a different look at what else it could be what that we're looking at that's an optimist look at. the globe if you look over his view just go oh boy just when

you look to us it wasn't with the cold who called you look at the logo of the do the people do it for we look at the way to the moon really the only true religion is the removal of the free because i'm sure the area of new people coming. out of its houses here. was not prepared and local told us they still could be unexploded mines here smoove course the new again is not so that you'll see. just the arsenal blue in the book i was also one of them that much of the bomb didn't call for more than what we thought was a new no power the us go through it was women able to show that it in some way children will look up what was in many of them the people doing. this i see them as you must also see the multitude of warehouses still burning now when men use. whether anybody still inside we find out that one man was taken by another

ambulance is a little bit of the telecom and it's all good music but these are the only the two of us and i will leave it to the was at an advanced regional hospital we find the man has suffered multiple burns and miss our rooms but doctors say he will leave the ambulance received another call this time no siring the doctors say it's because they could be targeted we are on our way to the area of fighting it took us less than seven minutes to arrive at the scene but it was still too late this young fighter died seconds after doctors arrived we rushed to the next address another shell another destroyed home we hear that a woman was killed here but before we learn any further detail the air raid siren

makes us run to a nearby basement most of them have been abandoned for years but recently people have reopened them this is where we hear what happened is infinitely more. whole oracle or one of them are caught on the slammer and while the conflict continues to rage scenes like these are becoming an every day reality. nation otieno r.t. in eastern ukraine. posting updates on the situation early god's got her twitter feed follow her she chronicles life under shelling and see. on sunday a russian man was killed by a shell fired from ukraine the lead in a small russian or a village killing a father of four year reportedly bled to death in front of his helpless family while two other women were seriously wounded his visibly distraught daughter described the scene.

should. he have. been used to do. this but. you have maintains it wasn't its forces that fired the shell the russia says such incidents could lead to irreversible consequences are also cited its obligation to defend its citizens from foreign threat. to some of the day's other top stories israel's operation against gaza has now claimed the lives of more than one hundred seventy palestinians with no fatalities so far reported on the israeli side as operation protective edge enters its seventh day people in gaza are fleeing in panic after warnings that more strikes are yet to come here is there for r.t. on the night after more than one hundred rockets were fired from gaza israel targeted a home belonging to the family the target was time. to direct

a general of gaza's police force who himself survived and remains in critical condition he was lucky to be among the forty two wounded and not the eighteen killed at gaza's main hospital was seventy year old name and one of the surviving injured. was said oh it has. russia lost three of her children in the targeting and. when did i know this is. so when did i know what. was. the strikes took place at eleven pm mohammed lives just over the road from the batch family. home in the us.

israel has used a policy of issuing warnings in some cases before making its targeting warnings either via s.m.s. via cools in some cases leaflets but often roofs knocking that is issuing warning drone strikes on the roof of the building before targeting it however in this case there was no warning of any kind and residents are adamant that israel must have known that over fifty people were in this area when it struck the way that was perpetrated it's a variation of basic principles of international international is very clear on this there should be principles to be preserved probability discrimination and humanity and nothing of these procedures have been respected by the israeli army i asked a government spokesperson whether the targeting was justified given that israel's

at war with hamas and is known to target the police everybody knows that the police is a seven work and it's helping the people service for the people he wasn't hiding actually since this conflict began last tuesday the health ministry counts eleven such incidents when family homes have been targeted with inhabitants and signed. israel's november two thousand and twelve operation did not see an israeli ground invasion it ended after eight days with a cease fire but it did not fully eradicate the masses rocket capability now israel's says it is a must for israel to stop the rocket fire from gaza and that they don't know how long the campaign will continue given the daily loss felt by palestinian civilians here people fear how this conflict will evolve howry fear. egypt and jordan continue to send aid to gaza war opening their hospitals to those palestinians injured in the attacks we spoke with jaime our bosu is from the

islamic university of gaza who thinks that civilian fatalities could have been avoided if israel wanted. the images that we see on t.v. screens are prove that basically it is when it is targeting palestinian civilians and i cannot really understand how israel can justify that if the israelis wanted to hit him in a thousand of those who are responsible for the launching of rockets against is where you thousand villages they are able to basically do that without endangering palestinian civilians these cries must be investigated by the international community because they are not that is when i was going to thing international humanitarian law. at the same time israel claims that more than eight hundred rockets have been fired by hamas out them since the offensive began a week ago this video released by hamas military wing because some brigades shows domestically produced rockets being fired at the city of tel aviv israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu claims he will use any means necessary to stop them and

amid growing international calls for a cease fire the countries are wearing up its preparations for a possible ground invasion archy's policy here is in tel aviv to find out how israelis themselves knew the events. most israelis support the military strikes of the gaza seeing it as a legitimate response to defend the country's borders but at the same time people here are afraid the anti missile defense system into states around ninety percent of rockets it's that ten percent that remains that has seen some never misses who could accept to receive messages like this without doing the thing it's not possible i think very sad really very sad that i think that the israelis don't need this kind of lives and really care about the everything. and i just i don't know how to feel about israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has so he scored political points with this military offensive even the opposition

inside his unity government supports the military strikes although they are calling for a diplomatic solution there is of course a ready. voice inside his weighty societies he now wants to see all gazans killed they will be the ones at the forefront of calling for a ground offensive i hope so that now they're going to do the final defining step about entering gaza strip i thing they should do something really radical because they being the they giving them like too much time like they have the whole time to send more. but most israelis make the distinction between hamas that rules gaza and the ordinary civilians who live there is that i think there also needs to be an opening or some kind of hope for the palestinian residents when all of this is over because if at the end we're back to square one it means we didn't do much meanwhile israel's aerial strikes continue and people here live in fear of the next rocket fire policy on t.v.

television. you israel's offensive has caused public anger around the world with mass rallies held in the u.k. australia and france protests were peaceful for the most part though a pro policy demonstration in paris turned violent crowds attacked two synagogues trapping around a hundred worshippers inside the french prime minister condemned the attacks and called the protesters actions unacceptable. our web team following closely the israeli palestinian conflict r.t. dot com you can find all the latest pictures video and eye witness accounts. still to come in the program russian president vladimir putin picking up the world cup autonomy from brazil with the country hosting leaders of top developing states for the brits that story after a short break. history is never really dead as long as it's with us the start of the first world war one hundred years ago is a case in point in numerous ways the beginning in conclusion of that conflict

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quarter past the hour an hour u.k. court set to hear a claim by human rights activists that british intelligence is running an illegal mass surveillance program comes as britain's prime minister pledges an extra eight hundred million pounds for monitoring operations parliament also debating a new law that would enable security services to keep the personal data of internet and mobile users for up to a year probably boyko has more. the u.k. prime minister says britain me these emergency laws that force telecommunications companies to hold wreck or words of customers data because back in april the european court of justice scrapped an existing law that already forced companies to do just that on the grounds that it infringed human rights so the british government wants to rush through its own law david cameron says that telecoms firms are just weeks away from deleting customer information ministers say that would

have serious consequences for police and counter terror operations sometimes in the dangerous world in which we live we need our security services to listen to someone read the e-mails to identify and disrupt a terrorist plot as prime minister examples we're doing stopped a terrorist attack according to the law mobile phone providers will have to store data on who contacted who under way for twelve months so that means your messages websites you visited and even the places you've been to with their recorded on geo location apps like facebook well or we were taking only one has followed the snowden revelations even briefly we know that we already have huge parts of. the united kingdom and we have a program called mastering the internet and sake but in fact this is not protected

us people have still become rattled radicalized we know that these powers are disproportionate but it's about targeting turns all of us from citizens into suspects the law is being rushed through parliament and could be enforced before the week has out but perhaps one small consolation for its opponents the regulations will automatically expire in twenty sixteen which means politicians will have to re-examine the measures or. over again in two years' time. n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden also says he has deep reservations about the plans in an exclusive interview with a british newspaper snowden says the u.k. government is trying to convince people that mass surveillance is for their own good he also question the lack of public debate on the issue political commentator ted are all things london and washington are determined to continue surveilling citizens clearly what's going on both in the u.k. and in the u.s.

is a move by the establishment referee which represents the community in trying to mitigate the damage from the leaks they want to continue business as usual they would like to continue to read our emails and listen to our phone calls and watch our videos and they would like to continue doing this as if edward snowden had never lived let's face it neither camera nor obama have expressed any real interest in changing the way that they're doing things they're sad that they got caught they wish that they didn't they have been now they're trying to soft pedal the what's going on in pretend to make some modest reforms through a little bit of window dressing and that's supposed to satisfy us. staying with surveillance the cia has its eyes on berlin a german newspaper revealing dozens of u.s. agents are still spying on the government in berlin all the details online plus. brighter than the sun people around the world a baskin the goal of

a giant moon astonishing photos lots more for you at r.t. dot com. and sun block or snow boots a freak hail storm pounding sunbathers in siberia find out more about the weird weather on our website. final the football world cup sparked mayhem in the argentinean capital these pictures from winners harry's film media agency ruptly shattered glass wrecked cars and wooden police that's how argentine fans reacted to their country's team losing to germany in the world cup final. some pictures of triumph in berlin could be confused with outrage no fireworks and did light up the sky as germany celebrated becoming world champions with more on the match that stirred the emotions archy's. well germany all the food full well the champions and 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 ideology to support as far outnumbered the german counterparts as those fans who have made the journey from europe who were celebrating on the streets of rio this evening also inside the stadium with russian president vladimir putin with the responsibility for the fee for now being transferred to russia who of course host the tournament in four days time but it's the resilience given is the highest standard of preparation for the world cause i assure you we'll do everything we can to organize it holds leave them to the highest possible level and with the cuts and come. down on brazil twenty fourteen attention is turning to russia twenty eighteen my colleague neil harvey is in one of the few just host cities twenty eight hundred feet for both our ladies and gentlemen we'll be organized i 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 countries you . but another big selling point was russia's ambitious plan to build several new stadia in which will cook games could be played so four years on how exactly is not planned looking well of the twelve stadiums to be used for and yet under construction there in kaliningrad for grout nizhny novgorod and some mara but the ball should be rolling soon enough with those projects the jewel to be underway by the end of this year and meanwhile the progress that some of the other venues has given russia real 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 or two slight alterations needed in order to turn it into a football stadium but they're only minor i think i can safely chalk 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 pheno world 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 there's the spot tax stadium a high tech high cost ground that in order to protect its pitch from the harsh russian winters is using the very latest technologies and they include football's equivalent of a giant hairdryer system dish blows up through the profile of the shore with on the shuttle heating. and bore hole to the surface keeping the champ richer

as it should be and also we were going to have main large later in the legs that will cover half the pitch of the pitch 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 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 block but if you're one of those founds who prefers your stadium to be a little bit bigger about haps have a little bit more history than 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 at the top of it and the big one the world cup final however in order to look the part for

the big occasion the ground old lady of russian football is having to undergo a monumental make over. and by 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 in one nine hundred eighty when mischka the bear the tear to the eye at the moscow olympics. the phones shouldn't be too sound because while the insides might be new the songs of the luzhniki sent to remain which means that it's not really goodbye more a case of c.e.c. . the reporting for. starting monday brazil is hosting our high profile event but this time of a non-sporting nature the bricks of it gathering together leaders of the world's top six developing countries russia hopes to boost its economic ties in the block

in particular brazil over here are the reasons why five point five billion dollars the amount of trade between the two countries last year there were already big economic partners but it could get bigger because brazil has the fifth largest poppy fifth biggest population the world and the fastest expanding domestic market while it's i.t. sector is the best in latin america and international asia's expert thinks the brics countries are seeking to reshuffle the global economic arena. braunches. bulls read you three news on the dinner in china india they are looking. at the kids didn't have the bar where's the bird was. to use this to relaunch this role of the us going to balance to if they wish to do what we do it's not in it against the whist it is the

additions but it's. the dynamics. of the games undelivered. to now with the institutions or is the dishes that would mean the. least eight people have been killed twenty five others wounded in an attack in egypt according to reports militants fired rockets on a military outpost in the sinai peninsula killing a soldier and seven civilians including a child know what admitted to carrying out the attack a rebel groups frequently operate in the area. but. activists are watching him on the federal energy commission protesting against shale gas extraction and also calling to stop the construction of the gas exports terminal on the us coast i want to promote renewable energy resources like wind and solar power . participants as you run nuclear talks in vienna say there are still differences

that they can't yet overcome major issues of lifting of trade sanctions on iran and guarantees of the country's nuclear program remains peaceful presented to them u.s. u.k. france china russia and germany still the week to reach an agreement with a delegation from tehran. a recovery team in italy is starting to refloat the coaster can cordie a cruise liner workers are filling huge air tanks at both sides of the ship then attempt to tow it out to the. of genoa more than four thousand passengers aboard the concordia when it sank thirty two died the ship's captain is on trial for manslaughter and abandoning the ship charges he denies. still to come on r.t. international cross talk with people about war if you're watching us from the u.k. a war torn childhood the focus of so.

if there's anything we're afraid of in the modern western world is an 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 him 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.