is a real returns to his sweeping blitz of gaza has a ceasefire plan falls flat and hamas rockets killed the first israeli since the conflict started. a day of mourning declared in moscow as emergency crews remove the twisted wreckage of three carriages that deal rails in the capital's metro system killing twenty two dozens remain in critical condition. brics nations lay down a challenge to the west by agreeing to a new global development bank and internet free of mass surveillance plus. british intelligence about to get legal backing to monitor private citizens as emergency law goes before the parliament whistleblower edward snowden saying it's a step too far.

to pm in moscow i'm good to have you with us our top story this hour hamas will pay the price for refusing to accept an egyptian brokered cease fire that's the message from israel as it resumes a heavy bombardment of gaza the palestinian death toll has now risen to two hundred five artie's paulus leader has more from tel aviv. the latest news at least two palestinians have been killed in a targeted assassination in southern gaza it comes as israeli defense forces drops leaflets wednesday morning on the north and east of the strip urging residents to leave their homes so it does seem as if some kind of a strikes are being planned their late twenty's day the first israeli victim was killed in mortar fire he was a volunteer delivering food to soldiers along the israel gaza border since that

truce was broken there have been some one hundred rockets fired at israel a quarter of which have been intercepted by the anti missile defense system the israeli foreign minister avigdor lieberman who is known for his hawkish views is now calling for the israeli army to quote him to go all the way now harry fear my colleague in gaza has been catching up with people there who are under israeli rocket fire. egypt's efforts to facilitate a cease fire barely got off the starting block israel formally accepted the proposal but hamas continued firing dozens of rockets saying that its terms were not met the islamic resistance movement says it never received any direct contact about a ceasefire and only so media reports the accuses egypt of sidelining it all the while in the middle of this truly asymmetric conflict between israel's advanced coordinated modern military and the palestinians disparate militant groups are the

civilians on the receiving end even those in gaza's hospitals five rockets targeted this hospital in north gaza the palestinians also have their own crude rockets which are not targeted and i find indiscriminately into israel not all but certainly most palestinians in gaza believe the hundreds of these crude rockets should be fired into israel in retaliation for israel's targeting of gaza although the desire for a sea. this fire is universal how people here want that achieved it's certainly not clear. how mother don't want now. this sort of. a moment all we ever the meal. we ever had the love of money how to have the love you don't you. never knew the live in the. midnight weather you actually am

a lot funnier. than eighteen year old sees things very differently a palestinian student from northern gaza his brother is a militant with hamas as armed wing. of their own mother was shot in. the hole for. using methods would probably be a serious concern for lawyers and for human rights workers they might consider too serious. for them to look for a university lecturer and father of eight has lived through four such israeli operations since two thousand and six he's torn over garza's rocket firings rocket it's only just a tool that the palestinian can react to what gets me. in killing and

suffering for everybody i really do care about my children about my family above the safety of my family so i don't like the rockets but sometimes the people obliged to do use what's available to them in order to. act in order to resist the occupation. but both sides in this escalation insist they're acting in self-defense and neither is known for wanting to be the first to back down no matter what the pressure at home or abroad carry fear. meanwhile people around the world have shown their disapproval of the israeli operation here the latest pictures from places as far afield as south america and europe pro palestinian demonstrations held almost daily there calling for an end to the offensive calling it a massacre and a war crime a full picture of events in cross talk today with peter lavelle that's coming up in the next hour. if you take

a look at the last sixty five years it's pretty clear that israel is intending to continue to bomb and destroy as much as possible in gaza i think it would have been aved to expect that the cease fire would it would if these talks would lead to anything since we have seen on one hand who works for the israelis or the americans and we have units and yet who really has no motivation no intention to stop terrorizing and stop this brutal violence against the the palestinians in gaza a. hundred billion dollar development bank board in israel the result of the brics summit underway the new financial institution plans to challenge the west economic monopoly to the benefit of the five emerging economies artie's paul scott has more from the summit. well russian president vladimir putin going to meet with the leaders of believe you a year ago i and venezuela for example amongst many others that these countries their populations equate to around four hundred million people if you combine that with the three billion people represented by the five brics countries then

president vladimir putin has met with the ladies representing on behalf of the world's population on his latin america tour it all started the breathless two on friday with a visit to cuba he then of course went with an unannounced visit to nicaragua before stopping off in argentina and then finally in brazil brics summit in forty leza hosted by brazilian president dilma rousseff who you may remember was a victim of n.s.a. surveillance as revealed by edward snowden around twelve months ago now ever since then she's been championing for change to the internet on the way that it's governed in order to protect people's privacy well earlier i managed to ask a question i also what changes she would like to see on what changes we have seen in the last twelve months. we must guarantee privacy on the internet and make the weapon open and democratic and its foundation must be based

in the trailer and that's a true requisite for the internet to be in a crash every person and every government has the right to free and open internet. that doesn't believe that one country has the right to lead the way when it comes to internet governance and she feels that each country should have the right to its own governance to ensure privacy while we are stage of the brics summit hey enforcer lays out what exactly has been achieved when russia agreed to write off ninety percent of cuba's soviet era debts the remaining ten percent will be reinvested in joint infrastructure projects in the country there was also a symbolic meeting with formally to fit del castro in argentina the two countries signed a peaceful nuclear power deal that will see russia help in areas such as design construction operation and decommissioning of nuclear. powerplants in rio president putin attended the football world cup final and received responsibility for the next competition which will make his in russia in two thousand and eighteen one of the bric summit the nation signed off on a long awaited one hundred billion dollars development bank seen as

a rival to the i.m.f. world bank and global dominance of the u.s. dollar on top of numerous trade deals so it may have taken less than a week but president vladimir putin no doubt hoping that his whistle stop tour will cement russia latin america ties. asia times correspondent pepe ask a bar says the new brics financial institution will create sustainable development for its members what are we having now adays is the predominance of i call it casino capitalism in fact which is a speculative capitalism which you know hawks money a traverse in the world digital speeds and all this that this has nothing to do with productive investment and sustainable development what the brics are the brics are trying to steer the debate and in fact the conditions of rule olds and investment towards productive capitalism now that they have this mechanism of

a developing bank and that contingency reserve a mechanism the can how all their countries are part from themselves in terms of infrastructure projects and sustainable developments. three days after putin's visit to cuba the caribbean state has reportedly agreed to lease a military communication base to russia the story on r.t. dot com where you can find out why moscow left the base more than a decade ago. russian capital observing a day of mourning after the worst crash in the history of the moscow metro twenty two people killed more than one hundred forty taken to the hospital tuesday dozens of them remain in intensive care let's take a look at how the tragedy unfolded. a rush hour train traveling at seventy kilometers per hour slightly more than average and it was some two hundred meters away from its next stop when the emergency brakes suddenly activated the front carriages slammed into each other and smashed into the tunnel wall.

broken bones cuts and severe head wounds these are the main injuries medics at the scene had to treat passengers found themselves trapped under eighteen some eighty metres below the ground in the metros deepest section more than one thousand people were evacuated through the nearest stations volunteers carried the injured through the dark and muddy service title and they mean witness the tragedy and here's what he had to say then you can see if they knew i was thrown into the yeah there was blood on the floor heads some people had broken ribs. and the. people were hysterical we started to get hand. men eventually. constructing a power in no time they helped us to get. to metro employees have been detained and are being questioned in connection with the crash that according to some surveys

russians consider the underground to be one of the most dangerous modes of transportation there have been a few incidents on the moscow metro over the last few years let's take a look so in two thousand and five a power outage left more than fifty stations without electricity one of the hottest summer days last year a construction pile damaged a tunnel and shocked passengers in a passing train last summer nearly five thousand people were evacuated from a station near red square due to a fire and earlier this year the foundations from the construction site above broke through into the metro line you can see the large concrete blocks poking through there luckily nobody in that instance was injured we do have a late breaking update in this tragedy now the death toll has risen we understand to twenty three. well still to come here on r t international we have the latest on the crisis in eastern ukraine.

reeling from deadly artillery attacks by keo forces all fueling a refugee exodus in the east plus. always room for a little sarcasm you've been in the highest reaches of diplomacy russia and u.s. ambassadors to the u.n. have showed us that recently take a look at who had the last word in their latest spy. put all the bankers into the circular firing squad put all the bankers to jamie diamond to lloyd blankfein to bob diamond put them into a circular firing squad and give them all the ball once and let's get rid of all the laws we've got it turns the system of this cancer of the marriott dregs of the world.

economic down in the final months. and the rest. will be if we me. the stories we cover here we're not going to hear any right other big story that hamstrung headlines as a reason they don't want to. leave now let's break the set. what we're seeing here is the aftermath of an airstrike on the town of snow in eastern ukraine one of the bombs fell in a block of flats causing its partial collapse locals joined together with the rescuers to help those trapped under the rubble.

and he's going to do it if you don't think it is a matter. of others he will go to you for your particular problem we're going to ignore. you. thank you. thank you thank you thanks. boy's now in the hospital along with seven others but almost a dozen civilians have been confirmed dead the government denying responsibility saying this was the work of an unidentified jet those scenes like this are repeated daily across the east fueling a refugee exodus. uprooted driven out desperation these people have been flooding into the region by. weeks trying to escape the bloody war that has engulfed the southeast of ukraine this refugee camp is

literally just several meters away from the ukrainian border people staying here war is still very much a part of daily routine they say recently the artillery fire at night has gotten closer and the memories of the bombardment back at home do not grow any less. but those that. did. you know the children may appear to be. happening in their homeland plain and carrying on as usual but once prodded they show deep emotional scars she just can't pull. off. the. many who

left their loved ones behind haven't heard from them for several days. to. fill time for you. scott. says refugee camps are simply temporary ports for these people who have to find new jobs new houses new ways to live not because they didn't like the lives they had but because they were denied those by since this fight. if you go on don't stand on the beach in arenas been tweeting about her stay at the camp follow her she documents the struggle of those forced from their homes. british intelligence services have a wide diversity of tools for cyber spying and data manipulation that's what's been revealed in a document recently leaked by whistleblower edward snowden social networking counts no longer private agents can access data and disable websites they find suspicious they can even tap into skype calls and use private e-mail to send spoof letters how

much you spend on e-bay or what online polls you participated in all of this also visible to agents they can even manipulate the results of voting are spoke with campaigners that see such practices as illegal. let's move the hundred projects in the listing joint threat research intelligence group a vocal quite eccentric names. pirates a tool that will permanently disable a target's accounts on their competing now in a statement to. say that they are not full well despite his campaign is a saying that if true the allegations are extremely serious if this is true even have proven to be true is a huge do there's a good news to see if you want to be being involved in propaganda and trying to manipulate debates not smoke them but for them to protect those they're for national security not to read on one poll either way the latest late can certainly

reignited the cause of further oversight. activities it's an argument that we've heard many times before and it's not one that's looking likely to quieten down any time soon so. the reporting from london meanwhile the british government is far from asking intelligence community members to limit their powers a new security law has already been approved by the house of commons to further expand monitoring capability it will make mobile companies keep consumers private data for up to twelve months tony gosling investigative journalist says the government is interested in watching everyone. well it's certainly not going to protect citizens what what how on earth can you protect british citizens by eroding our civil liberties and we just had an announcement this week from david cameron the spend one billion pounds on violence so wrong to the running back he said norma's industry which is out of control he's actually want to spend more money on surveillance i've been doing this in concert with the n.s.a. for so many years now that companies like google twitter microsoft facebook are

actually almost part of that surveillance system not interested anymore in going to the courts you know to ask a judge if they want to put somebody on the surveillance they just assume that everybody is under surveillance still to come on argue national a question of human rights or company profit california activist demanded big business is stop selling water from a drought region. but first if you want to hear some heated arguments then you could do worse than to listen in on a u.n. security council debate here we have russian envoy batali churkin and his u.s. counterpart samantha power laying into each other over the crimea he wants for example told her not to spit while talking when she held forth with an argument and later she said tolstoy and chekhov would be envious of chirk ins imagination artie's marina poor and i found out whose had the last word in their latest spat. the russian and american ambassadors to the united nations usually keep their

negotiations and debates within the chambers of the world body headquarters however a tit for tat between the two diplomats is currently playing out in the public domain bartok's by something written in the pages of a glossy magazine the august issue of vanity fair features an article on samantha power in which she strikes a bit of a verbal jabs against her russian counterpart here's the context the reporter says he reminded miss power that ambassador vitaly churkin jokingly asked her if she'd join the russian punk group pussy riot after she met with the two famous band members and bassett or power says she told mr churkin that their first concert stop on tour would be where russia holds its political prisoners though regrettably she can't sing the u.s. envoy claims she got the last word in that conversation saying it's what passes as a small victory oh if only the verbal jabs and snarky miss ended there it doesn't

in a statement posted on facebook ambassador churkin is that while it didn't stoke his vanity to see himself referenced in the article he had found hours pussy riot tore stop comment to be rather lame saying quote they never performed in guantanamo after all ouch a reference to america's biggest stain on international law and human rights violations ambassador churkin also sets the record straight saying quote i called samantha and explained to her that russia did not have any political prisoners she seemed to be amused and promised to get back to me on this she never did unquote ambassador churkin claims that miss power told him he got the upper hand in that exchange but he says he will claim it as a small victory hopefully when the two diplomats meet once again face to face at the u.n. there will be no hard feelings and the debates can go back to revolve around issues such as creating more peace and less calm. it's very important to our new york.

poise more if you click away on our t. dot com the first medic to protest against guantanamo force feeding read about the nurse that says prisoners have the right to hunger strike plus. they go look at this mechanical beast the robot owned by google it can carry up to one hundred eighty kilos and also run a more than thirty kilometers an hour it's being tested by the military in hawaii check it out at r.t. dot. campaigners accusing food giant nestle of making millions at the expense of ordinary people saying the company is taking water from a california canyon to bottle and sell meanwhile regulators have introduced hefty fines for households that waste water in the drought stricken region dr peter president of the pacific institute says a great debate is looming over the issue one of the problems with this appalling plant is that every bit of water that goes to the bottling plant has water that's taken away from this desert ecosystem there's also concern among some of the local

communities about the impacts on groundwater in the vale ability of groundwater. for other uses in the local area oh this water is bottled it's put on trucks it's shipped out of the community and it's one of it's not available to the local community so it's increasingly a source of tension and concern and in the area of water in the desert is very rare and this is an example where perhaps we should question the value of putting a bottled water plant in the desert. turning now to some other stories making international headlines syria's president bashar assad has been sworn in for a new seven year term after a landslide election victory these are the latest pictures of the event from damascus he managed to run his two rivals by gaining almost ninety percent of the vote the ballot went ahead despite the bloody civil war that's tearing the country apart radical islamists control a large part of syria's southwest and. three rockets have hit a clinic in the south in the south of the libyan capital tripoli at least five

people injured and the building was severely damaged the country's main airport also recently hit by multiple rockets when rival militias battled for control violence between paramilitary groups in libya has been rising since the fall of moammar gadhafi in two thousand and eleven. protesters in rio de janeiro burned the brazilian flag during a massive anti police demonstration their chief gripe is over fifteen people arrested during recent. during the crackdown police allegedly beat journalists and protesters. are full typhoon killed ten people in the philippines and forced the evacuation of more than three hundred seventy thousand it's the strongest storm to hit the country this year and has caused massive blackouts and businesses to close in the capital manila some areas of the philippines are still recovering from a typhoon in november that killed more than six thousand. up next news team in the secrets of the inner workings of r.t. international stay with us.

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