israel returns to a sweeping blitz of gaza as a cease fire plan falls flat and hamas rockets kill the first israeli since the conflict started. day of mourning declared in moscow as emergency crews remove the twisted wreckage of three carriages a direct hold in the capital's metro system killing twenty three people dozens remain in critical condition. brics nations lay down the gauntlet challenging the west by agreeing to a new global development bank an internet free of mass surveillance. british intelligence about to get legal backing to monitor private citizens as an emergency

law goes before parliament whistleblower edward snowden saying it's step through all. three pm in moscow good to have you with us r.t. international our top story this hour hamas will pay a steep price for refusing to accept an egyptian brokered cease fire that's the message from israel is a resume is heavy bombardment of gaza palestinian death toll has risen to two hundred five the u.n. reporting that about eighty schools and twenty three health care facilities have been damaged in the offensive are you fear reports for r t from gaza. 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 cease fire and only so media reports they 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 but palestinians also have the crude rockets which are not targeted on a five 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 cease fire is universal how people here want that achieved is certainly not clear .

how much they don't want now. let's settle. for a moment always ever the meal i thought we ever had the love of money hope to have all of you don't you hope you don't die early that you never knew the live in the. midnight weather you actually am a lot funnier. the. eighteen year old sees things very differently a palestinian student from northern gaza his brother is a militant with hamas as armed wing. of the. murder was not an authority. on the whole for. using methods would probably. some of. the c.d.'s for lawyers for human rights work. and they might listen to c.d.'s elations for them in the midst of a university lecturer and father of eight has lived through four such israeli

operations since two thousand and six he's torn over gaza's rocket firings it's only just. the. two rockets me. everybody really do care about my children about my family about the safety of my family so i don't like the rockets but sometimes the people of blog to do you was what's available to them in order to do. in order to resist the patient. 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. gaza these are some of the latest pictures released by hamas the red circles apparently showing the places where rockets have hit israeli targets.

the military didn't stop its attacks rejecting the truce that was proposed by egypt and later accepted by israel tensions grew higher when the mosque mosque rocket claimed the first or israeli fatality in more than a week of fighting. on tuesday israel's foreign minister known for his hawkish views called for the country to go all the way back when the offensive would only end when the i.d.f. gain full control of gaza adding that it's the only way of dealing with hamas and islamic jihad terror. meanwhile people around the world have shown disapproval of the israeli operation their latest pictures from places as far afield as south america and europe across the u.k. people took to the streets against b.b.c. coverage of the israeli military operation calling for fair reporting to be events and pro palestinian demonstrations are held almost daily they're calling for an end to the offensive calling it a massacre in a war crime. get

a different look at the events in gaza with cross talk and peter la bella coming your way in about thirty minutes here's a preview. 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 naive to expect that the cease fire would it would 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. one hundred billion dollars development bank has been born in brazil the result of the bric summit underway there the new financial institution pledging to challenge the west economic dominance to the benefit of the five emerging economies paul scott reports from the summit. well russian president vladimir putin going to meet with the leaders of believe either uruguay 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 i'm glad to meet putin has met with the ladies representing on behalf of the world's population on his latin america tour it all started the breathless to 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 brix summit in forty leza hosted by brazilian president dilma rousseff who you may remember was a victim of n.s.a. surveillance 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 asked her what changes she would like to see on what changes we have seen in the last twelve months. ago. 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 an immigrant ever burson 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 well we are a stage of the bricks summit in forty 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 it was also a symbolic meeting with formally to fit. 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 power. once in rio putin attended the football world cup final and received responsibility for the next competition he told me it is 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 they say on top of numerous trade deals. so it may have taken less than awake but president vladimir putin no doubt hoping that his whistle stop tour will cement russia latin america ties. asia times correspondent pepe escobar saying the new brics financial institution may create sustainable development for its members . what are we having nowadays is the predominance of i call it the casino capitalism in fact which is 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 vestment and sustainable development what the brics the brics are trying to steer the debate and in fact that could additions olds and

vast meant towards productive capitalism now that they have this mechanism of a developing bank and then reserve a mechanism became how all their countries up are from themselves in terms of infrastructure projects and sustainable developments. three days after prudent visit to cuba the caribbean state has reportedly agreed to lease a military communication base to russia more on the story in 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 three people killed more than one hundred forty hospitalized tuesday dozens of then remaining in intensive care let's take a look at how the tragedy unfolded. rush hour train traveling at seventy kilometers seventy kilometers per hour slightly higher than average it was some two hundred

meters away from its next stop when the emergency brakes activated front carriages slamming into each other and smashing into a tunnel wall broken bones cuts severe head wounds these are the main injuries medics at the scene treated passengers found themselves trapped some eighty meters below the ground in the metro's deepest section more than a. pardon me more than a thousand people evacuated to the nearest station as volunteers carrying the injured through a dark and muddy service tunnel andre's anyone witnessed the tragedy told us what he saw. john you can see if they knew i was thrown into the if there was blood on the floor and. some people had broken ribs and. people were hysterical we started to get a hand we saw during the tunnel will men eventually broke the door. constructing a paranoid time they helped us to get out. to metro employees have been detained and are being questioned in connection with the crash according to some surveys

russians consider the underground to be one of the most dangerous modes of transportation there have been a few accidents also over the years let's take a look at some of them now in two thousand and five a power outage left more than fifty stations without power or service on one of the hottest days of the summer our year later 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 because of a fire and earlier this year the foundations of a construction site on the ground above broke through down into the metro tunnel you can see the large concrete blocks poking through there luckily nobody in that instance was injured. we have the latest on the crisis in eastern ukraine. areas in the region are reeling from a deadly artillery attack by keo forces all fueling refugee exodus plus.

always room for a little sarcasm even in a high level diplomacy the russian and u.s. ambassadors to the u.n. showing that recently we look at those who have the last word in their latest spat . with economic ups and downs in the final months. and the rest. will be every week. we speak your language will not be in. the news programs and documentaries in spanish what matters to you. a little tune to angles keep these stories.

here. in the spanish. visit. fifteen minutes past the hour now this is the aftermath of an airstrike in the town of snow in eastern ukraine one of the bombs fell on a block of flats causing its partial collapse locals join with rescuers to help those trapped under the rubble take a look. it's. easy to do what you don't.

know what those you are going to be but you know you really are people who look much. like. boys now in the hospital with seven others but almost a dozen civilians have been confirmed killed the government is denying responsibility saying it was the work of an identified jet but seems like there's are repeated daily across the east fueling a refugee exodus arena bellew show is on russia's rostov region that borders ukraine is one of the places where a lot of these refugees are now finding some solace tell us what's the latest there . well indeed eighteen military attaches from different countries have descended into the refugee camps just at the beginning of the week to see what exactly is happening with the refugees and good to see that indeed they

are still coming through the border from eastern ukraine into the rostov on don region in fact words humanitarian catastrophe have already been sounded by the governor of the region who said that at one point so far according to these estimates at least two hundred thousand people have tricked bill trickled in from southeast of ukraine into the region with some twenty thousand remaining still here and of course russia cannot deny them at least temporarily a few refuge and of course a lot of people are still in immense shock they're incredibly emotional and we have taken a walk down. through the refugee camps yesterday and have spoken to some of them and to hear the report that we have done afterwards. uprooted driven out desperate these people have been flooding into the gross to be joined by to us. 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. you know the children may appear to be immune to the horrors happening in their homeland playing and carrying on as usual but once prodded they show deep emotional scars. just like buffalo. but. many who left their loved ones behind haven't heard from them for several

days. 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 census fighting. r.t. . green has been tweeting about her static have over a few documents and. across the border in ukraine's capital kiev hundreds of soldiers mothers and wives are protesting demanding the government let their sons go home many troops in the east . already completed their tour of duty but aren't being allowed to return because of the lack of fresh recruits. going to some of the day's other top stories british

intelligence has 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 network accounts no longer private agents can access data and disable web pages that they find suspicious they can even tap into skype and calls and the use of private e-mail to send letters how much you spend on e bay or what online polls you participated in those are also visible to the agents and you can even it manipulate the results of the voting power of her spoke with campaigners to see such practice who see such practice as deeply illegal. there's more than one hundred projects in the listing joint threat research intelligence group they've all got quite eccentric names and we pirates a tool that will permanently disable a target's account on their competing now in a statement to. say that they are not full well despite.

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 because again it used to be being involved in propaganda and trying to manipulate to break down some of the best for them to protect us their financial security not to read online poll either way the latest certainly reignited the calls the 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. reporting from london meanwhile the british government is far from asking intelligence community to limit their powers a new security law that has already been approved by the house of commons will further expand monitoring capability and make mobile companies keep consumer private data for up to twelve months tony guzzling an investigative journalist worries the government is interested in watching everybody. 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 business 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 wish to spend more money on surveillance or they'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 it was 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 our national question of human rights or company profit a california activist man big business is stop selling water from a drug region. but first if you want to hear some heated arguments then you could do worse than listening in to the u.n. security council debates here we have a russian envoy vitaly churkin and any other corner u.s.

counterpart samantha power laying into each other over the issue of crimea he once told her not to spit while talking when she held forth with an argument later she said that tolstoy and checco would be envious of jerkins imagination on archie's artie's marina porton i found out who had the last word in their latest round. 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 sparked 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 a lot. but saying it's what passes as a small victory oh if only the verbal jabs and snarky ended there it doesn't in a statement posted on facebook ambassador churkin says while it did 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 mused 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 conflict. in new york more for you a click away r.t. dot com including the first medic to protest against guantanamo force feeding read about the nervous that the prisoners have the right to hunger strike also. check out this mechanical piece the robot owned by google and can carry up to one hundred eighty euros also running it more than thirty kilometers an hour it's been tested by the military you know why check it out at our. campaigners accusing food giant nestle of making millions at the expense of ordinary people they say the company is taking water from a canyon in california to bottle and sell you while regulators have introduced

hefty fines for households that waste water in the drought stricken region dr peter gleek president of the environmental group pacific institute says the great debate is looming over the issue. one of the problems with this bottling plant is that every bit of water that goes to the bottling plant is water if it'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 by this water is bottled it's put on trucks it's shipped out of the community and it's water that's not available for 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 oh perhaps we should question the value of putting a bottled water plant in the desert. turning now to some other stories making global headlines this hour syria's president bashar assad has been sworn in for a new seven year term after his latest landslide election victory is the latest

pictures from damascus he managed to outpace his two rivals by gaining almost ninety percent of the vote the ballot went ahead despite the bloody civil war tearing apart the country radical islamist control a large part of syria's southwest and what. three rockets have hit a clinic in the south of the libyan capital tripoli at least five people wounded in the building severely damaged the country's main airport recently hit by multiple rockets when rival militias battle for control violence between paramilitary units in libya has been rising since the fall of moammar gadhafi in two thousand and eleven. fro tourist areas in rio de janeiro have burned the brazilian flag during a massive anti police demonstration their chief gripe is over fifteen people arrested during a recent rally during that crackdown police allegedly beat journalists and protesters alike. powerful typhoon has killed ten people in the philippines and forced the evacuation of more than three hundred seventy thousand the strongest

storm to strike the country this year and led to mass blackouts and businesses closing in the capital manila some areas of the philippines still recovering from a typhoon in november killed more than six thousand people. cross talk coming your way next when people of oil and gas take a look at the escalating hostilities in the east of ukraine. will. technology innovation all the developments around russia. for the future covered. did you know the price is the only industry specifically mentioned in the constitution and. that's because

a free and open press is critical to our democracy. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of our government and across several we've been hijacked lying handful of transnational corporations that will profit by destroying what our founding fathers one school i'm tom hartman and on this show we reveal the big picture of what's actually going on in the world we go beyond identifying the problem truck rational debate and a real discussion critical issues facing america have done for job ready to join the movement then walk a bit take. your friend post a photo from a vacation you can't afford. the difference. the boss

repeats the same old joke of course you like. your ex-girlfriend still pens tear jerking poetry keep. ignore it. we post only what really matters out r.t. to your facebook news feed. the things you want. is a. little unwelcome across all things considered i'm peter lavelle surviving the onslaught israel's continued assault on gaza has brought about international outrage and condemnation what does israel hope to achieve and will gaza suffering ever and. to cross off the scituate.