army and self-defense activists fight for strategic points in east ukraine a report on the shell shocked civilians trapped by the government onslaught. in gaza scenes of destruction in terrified palestinians after a week of bombing but israel's prime minister with public backing vows only to step up the offensive. britain be where your internet surfing and chatting about to be stored for up to a year is the government to rush through a resurrected snooping chart of.

six pm in moscow good to have you with us our top story this hour ukraine's army and anti-government forces locked in fierce battles to control the city of lugansk in the east the main fighting happening near the airport is apparently shows in kiev activists shelling government troops earlier both sides currently claim control over the strategic area you while a massive military convoy has also reportedly approached the lugansk region. including up to eighty tanks and government forces can be seen the new bring their own hardware to respond president poroshenko has ordered a change of tactics in what he calls an anti terror operation across east to secure the country's borders and protect civilians. trapped in the middle of it all more than a million. braids and fighting laying waste to cities and towns in the east murray

if an ocean is in lou dobbs course he spent a day with an ambulance crew. they actually don't need to turn on the siren ambulances are almost the only cars and the empty rows of lugansk and recent days have left emergency workers be easier than ever before. daniel is now going to send our. private house up for the residential areas. eat fish to get the 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 that you look at the capital yeah we're never going to look at the color of the moon is going to doesn't let you walk on this time it seems no one was killed after that but everyone has to work on their part of said goodbye to that's a quote. we're down to look at but also the good clothes he would move his view to

just go oh what just when you look towards the bottom with the school you go if you look at the logo of the national do the people who was there with the well to do you need you really the only true religion is the removal of free because you can control the area with new people coming in and. crowded house is still a. little weaker and local told us they still could be unexploded mines here smokeless the new again is not so that you'll see. just the arsenal blue note book only shells of one album but much of the bomb didn't call for more than what we thought was a man up are they are spoken with muslim a nobody should be living somewhere children will look up what was in many of them would people be doing. this i see them as you must also see the multitude of well

houses to burn and no one knows whether anybody steer inside we find out that one man was take. and buy another ambulance. if you look at the telecom and. the good news that i decided to leave that to the city of leeds that it. was at an advanced regional hospital we find the man has suffered multiple burns and miss our lungs but doctors say he was in the the ambulance received another call this time no siring the doctors say it's because they could be targeted we're 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 pollution where we were right our whole oracular want to come out. on the sand and while the conflict continues to rage scenes like these are becoming an every day reality nation otieno r.t. in eastern ukraine. maria posting updates on the situation in regards to our twitter feed follow her as she chronicles life under shelling in the sea. on sunday a russian man was killed by a shell fired from ukrainian territory that landed in a small russian village on the border killing the father of four he reportedly bled to death in front of his family while two other women were seriously injured his visibly distraught daughter described what she saw.

should. have. been used to do you. spit. vince's is not to blame but rather self defense fighters who fired the shell there have been reports that russia might answer with targeted strikes that as the shelling continues but the kremlin has dismissed those as untrue r.t. dot com has the full details. turn to some of the day's other news there is no respite for the people of gaza in israel's now weeklong anti terror operation thousands have fled with a number of palestinians killed reaching one hundred seventy two most of them civilians and u.n. says thirty two of them are children and calls the situation in the region devastating and unpredictable harry fear reports from gaza for r.t. on the night after more than one hundred rockets were fired from gaza israel was

targeted a home belonging to the albats family the target was tice. the director 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 of one of the surviving injured that. was said oh it has. russia lost three of her children in the targeting and. even then and this is. what. the strikes took place at eleven pm mohammed lives just over the road from the batch family. was saying evening prayers at the mosque while they were crying they realized that the area was

becoming more dangerous and left to continue their present home so when they got home the bombing started and israel has used a policy of issuing warnings in some cases before making its targeting warnings either via s.m.s. fire calls in some cases leaflets but often roof 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 law a traditional is very clear on this there should be principles to be preserved professional a-t. discrimination and humanity and nothing of these prisoners 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 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 see here how this conflict will evolve how. joined live now by. fear is a surgeon at

a hospital in gaza thank you for joining us here on r.t. international so how are the hospitals coping right now how is your hospital coping yeah it seems like. you know lots of lots of people. every two or three yards we have lots of. victims from those attacks from from the air forces. the. homes and. buildings you know. not just one one man or woman. two days ago but family. a team team people from this from one family was killed and more of them for the. injured. this is a moment this them. at the same time they're just bombed everywhere they bombed.

every every every home every. yes we understand the scale of what's going on there are you getting help from other countries any foreign help for what's going on at your hospital your facility. you know this is. just the government of the ministry of health and they talked about. equipment. from a lot of them. and yet a country. and. united arab emirates and. from the palestinian i thought at the this is the it's another. step from a lot of people from the west bank from this and lots of. helping get

a ministry of health it's the second test of. the palestinian. land the palestinian committed did it did it the u.s. has nearly a third of the civilian casualties have been children have you seen children being treated have yourself treated children at your hospital yes yes yes and more than fifty percent of the. victims are from the. from children and woman you know the family it's not from the. men. they have womans and the children and all of them. killed. these attacks and. even saw that all the demands of the all of them civilians they

out of them not to met that they didn't they didn't that. they didn't that that the people. why do you think there are so many children is this in and out of the existence. why do you think there are so many children who have been caught in the crossfire. as you know. the homes as i mentioned before the. homes and buildings we have a big family lives here and gaza the looks of the same house and looks of a family out of living in the same house and because of that when they didn't say anything they just bombed the buildings. of these moments to be killed and injured to. tell didn't look so.

of woman's. hospital. talking about the injuries what we didn't talk about this because of a lot of. they couldn't sleep at night they are afraid from from bomb being the out of just one. like yesterday. she said. we're out of bed. she says she was she was very afraid and lots of them they just bombed the houses they need out of their house and. having they have nothing to do with. that of fathers over there not part of the fortunately have nothing to do to the children all right i appreciate your commentary thank you for your time. surgeon and hospital for talking with us. israel says nearly a thousand rockets have been fired at them by hamas since the offensive started

a week ago this video showing palestinian made rockets being fired out of the city of tel aviv israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu saying he's ready to use all means necessary to stop the militants the country stepping up preparations for a possible ground invasion. of the streets of told you to find out what people think about me because. most israelis support the military strikes of a gaza seeing it as a legitimate response to defend the country's borders but at the same time people here are afraid the iron dome anti-missile defense system around ninety percent of rockets it's that ten percent that remains that has seen some never misses who could accept to receive myside just 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 cared about they would thing. i

just i don't know how to feel about it 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 radical voice inside israeli society who 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 fire them behind instead about entering gaza strip i being that they should do something really radical because they being the they giving them like too much time like they have the old time to send more. but most israelis make the distinction between hamas that rules gaza and the ordinary civilians who live there. 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 it. at the end we're back to square one it means we didn't do much

meanwhile israel's able strikes continue and people here live in fear of the next rocket fire police say on t.v. tel aviv israel's offensive has caused anger across the globe with mass rallies held in the u.k. australia and france protests were peaceful for the most part but a pro palestinian demonstration in paris turned violent crowds attacked two synagogues trapping about one hundred worshippers inside as the conflict. between israel and palestine keep on top of all the details of our team dot com for developments that remember follow our reporter harry fear on twitter. stay with us after this short break.

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if you're watching us from the u.k. you better watch what you post on the internet as it's all about to go into the intelligence archives that's down to a new emergency law being pushed by the government to allow security agencies to store more user data for up to a year has the details. 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 to read the e-mails to identify and disrupt a terrorist plot as prime minister i knew of examples we're doing this to stop 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 message is websites you visited and even the places you've been to with their recorded on geo location apps like facebook well all be retained and anyone who's followed the snowden revelations even briefly we know that we already have huge parts of massive violence here in 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 radical radicalized we know that these powers are just . proportionate stunk to all of sit turns all of us from citizens into suspects

the law is being rushed through parliament and could be in full speed for the week is out but perhaps one small consolation for its opponents to regulation is will automatically expire in twenty sixteen which means politicians will have to re-examine the matches all over again in two years' time. and as a whistleblower edward snowden seriously doubts the need for such an emergency law an exclusive interview to be published in britain's guardian newspaper snowden says he's worried about the lack of public debate on the issue that will touch every citizen editor of politics dot co dot u.k. things leaders want to speed up the approval of the law to evade parliament you do of course want to be protected from terrorists and extremists at the same time you also need some protection from your own state from your own government and or third tarion governments which exist of course across the west as they do across asia and many other regions will tend to go to the absolute limits of their powers in

tracking their citizens and but what we've really seen from the last few years is that whatever nor you put down to monitor the amount that you are surveyed by your own government they will go up to the absolute minutes of what that nora downs so yes we need protection absolutely from terrorists and some aspects of this legislation would provide that but we also deserve some protection from our own governments and from their insatiable desire to snoop on our own private activities this suggestion that there's some enormous image and see that they're about to get cut off from all of this information that isn't terrorists will run free doesn't really stand up to scrutiny the understanding along and among a lot of campaigns is actually this is being forced through very quickly virus secret deal done behind closed doors between the three party leaders in order to just get it down get it on the statute book with a minimum of scrutiny and with a minimum of parliamentary debate. meanwhile britain's intelligence service has found itself in the dock accused of illegal eavesdropping activities. the full story on our website where you can also learn about tougher rules for u.k.

cops. officers being encouraged to snitch on each other if they break their new code read the do's and don'ts on line. and some walk or help block so freaky blast of winter weather leaving siberian sun raiders at a loss to check out the great video on our team dot com. brazil readying for the bricks summit gathering leaders of the top five developing nations russia among them as moscow and brasilia look to bolster economic ties or leaders are meeting a head of the summit this is live video of the bric summit doma resolve brazilian president standing there in the middle of live in europe to her right stock market analyst david kuo thinks the formation of a new bank developing. brazilian russian cooperation is expected to be strengthened during president putin's latin

america tool but white brazil such an important strategic ally for russia well brazil is a latin america's largest economy it's twice the size of second placed mexico trade between the two countries last year reached five and a half billion u.s. dollars and they all hoping that figure is soon doubled brazil also have similar. n.s.a. surveillance following edward snowden's revelations brazilian president dilma rousseff has proposed setting up a brazilian internet which will protect american countries from the u.s. new ping from hanoi president putin flies to force a laser in the north of the country for the brics summits of the bric summit of the five nations us brazil russia india china and south africa during the summit i know that round of talks is expected on the possible. a brics

a development bank worth one hundred billion u.s. dollars which is going to be seen as an alternative to the international monetary fund so it's clear that is plenty to discuss for the brazilian and russian the this one team's win is another's heart breaking for argentinian fans left to spotted by a defeat in the world cup final that meant trying to trash boy most areas here's how the argentine capital looked after the final whistle smashed windows right cars and dozens injured in mass arrests riot police deploying water cannons and tear gas to disperse angry crowds of upset. germans got fired up too but in a different way as you might expect here they are in berlin after what's been a mesmerizing night of football for them culminating in their team becoming world champions after that tight win over are. still to come on our two national battling to say we're the world's oldest rain forest from industrial development or if you're watching us for the u.k. get ready to go underground with i'm not sure.

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 and the cumia from the opie and anthony show has been fired for a massive twitter rant that he made against a woman who believed 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 but not too crazy. shocking 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 just seems very hypocritical to me but that's just my opinion.

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