so picture. for us to. israel returns to its sweeping blitz on gaza after a ceasefire plan falls flat with palestinian deaths quickly surging beyond two hundred. protests against the israeli offensive take hold worldwide in london anger at the b.b.c. that campaigners say isn't giving a full picture of the conflict we'll hear from one of the protestors. brics nations lay grounded even the world's financial influences as some of the most populous countries sign on to a multi-billion dollar cooperation deal. from hijacking your email accounts to manipulating online polls of british intelligence expose for a dubious range of spying tricks that are being branded as outright illegal.

seven pm in moscow good to have you with us here on our to international our top story this hour israel has stepped up its anti terror operation in gaza following a failed ceasefire agreement proposed by egypt both sides still claim their missile volley is solely in self-defense afresh a series of strikes targeted senior hamas leaders but it's civilian death tolls that have been the most noticeably climbing two hundred five palestinians now killed the majority militants israel sustained its for a spade tallaght just several hours after accepting the egyptian truce a volunteer helping the i.d.f. was killed these latest pictures released by hamas red circles allegedly showing where there are rockets struck israeli targets.

thank you. their group didn't stop its terror attacks on tuesday conducting some fifty launches despite israel initially agreeing to the ceasefire and hoping there were some six hours both sides claim their military actions are aimed solely at protecting their citizens. while as we have said to both sides claiming their military actions protecting their citizens civilian deaths in gaza they'll remain an unavoidable risk because of its tightly packed population this compares to some of the world's most crowded cities or almost half the population are under children under fourteen years old ilana stein from israel's foreign ministry told me that the country's military takes this into account when deciding on its actions there have been many military operations that we decided not to go through because we saw that we might harm children so this is something that concerns our military leaders every day every second they look at every scenario and they try to do the

utmost to keep the citizen safe so in a way we have the israeli government trying to keep both citizens see it on both sides they're trying to protect our children by sending them to shelters and by having iron dome and they're trying to save people in gaza and their children by warning them beforehand so that they might leave their houses and not be endangered the fact that hamas doesn't have these morals it's well there are terror going ization they don't care about morality they only care about the destruction of israel. meanwhile people around the world have shown their disapproval of the violence pro palestinian rallies held as far afield as south africa and india in london activists protested against the b.b.c.'s coverage of the israeli military operation outside the broadcast officers we spoke with ameena saleem who took part in the demonstration and says the b.b.c. failed to provide a balanced background to the conflict. between monitoring the b.b.c. news coverage of what's been happening in gaza and in all of the coverage so far

the way it's been reported has been a case of it's not finding itself against rockets which are you know keeping fight into israel i don't what hasn't been mentioned once is that it's our homes under occupation and it holds gaza under siege and that the palestinians in gaza are mostly refugee population they have no army air force or navy would wish defend themselves against israel and israel is a fool it's not just managed power in the world so all of that background is missing or that context is missing and by leaving out by admitting those final facts b.b.c. is able to ski its entire coverage and present it as being under threat from the palestinians. get some more perspectives on the events in gaza in today's cross talk with peter lavelle here's a prefer. to 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 naved to expect the cease fire 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 dollar development bank established by the world's top five emerging economies the deal signed at the brics summit in brazil where leaders agreed to align their efforts to move away from the west financial dominance paul scott is at the gathering for us and for. thank you very much for joining us paul so it's been a very productive summit all around for the brics countries give us the latest. he has been and it's been a productive tool as well for our russian president vladimir putin it all concludes later on wednesday with the ending of the brics summit here in brazil but putin is also meeting with the leaders of the south american community of nations this is their equivalent of the european union it represents twelve countries with

a population of around four hundred million people and if you combine that with the three billion population represented by the five brics nations then putin has met with world leaders representing around half of the globe's population on this whistle stop tour of latin america it all started in cuba last friday before an unannounced stop off in nicaragua then on to argentina and finally in brazil but what has been achieved during this breathless whistle stop tour when russia has agreed to write off ninety percent of cuba's soviet era debt the other ten percent will be reinvested in joint infrastructure projects there was also a symbolic meeting with former leader fidel castro in argentina the two countries signed a peaceful nuclear power a deal that will see russia help in areas such as design construction operation and decommissioning of power plants in rio putin attended the world cup final and received responsibility for the next competition the next tournament is in russia in two thousand and eighteen while the bric summit here in force allays of the

nation signed off on the long awaited one hundred billion dollars development bank which is being seen as a rival to the international monetary fund the world bank on the dominance of the global dominance of the us dollar this is on top of the other numerous trade deals so the whole toll may have taken less than awake the president putin no doubt hoping other the whistle stop tour of latin america has helped cement russian latin american ties right artie's paul scott life for us and for delays in brazil thanks very much for that update asia times correspondent pepe escobar says the new brics financial institution may help the group build muscle. what are we having now adays is the predominance of i call it casino capitalism in fact which is speculative capitalism which you know hawks money a traverse in the world digital speeds in all this that this has nothing to do with productive investment and sustainable development what the brics the brics are

trying to steer the debate and in fact the conditions of the olds and investment towards productive capitalism now that the have this mechanism of developing banks and contingency reserve a mechanism became how all their countries up part from themselves in terms of infrastructure projects and sustainable developments. to the bridge powerhouses been given multibillion dollar when after the world trade organization ruled against the us will tell you what it is at r t dot com. is the aftermath of an airstrike on the town of eastern ukraine one of the bombs falling on a block of flats causing its partial collapse locals join with rescuers to help those trapped under the rubble. but if

you don't know. about those you go to you when you. were looking at. that point now in the hospital with seven others but almost a dozen civilians confirmed killed the government denies responsibility saying it's the work of an unidentified jet but scenes like this repeated daily across the east fueling a refugee exodus artie's arena gluco has me. this refugee camp where i'm standing right now just twelve hours ago was about twenty kilometers closer to the ukrainian border however. because it was not safe to be that close to the ukrainian border where the attacks where this stray or intentional shelling from. fire coming in

from ukrainian side actually has been increasing in recent days and for people who are staying in these refugee camps that's just another addition to list of tragedies that have happened to them. uprooted and driven out these people have been flooding into the region by. trying to escape the bloody war that has engulfed . 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. did. you know the children may

appear to be the worst happening in their homeland plane carrying on as usual but once crowded deep emotional scars. just like protocol. but. many who love their loved ones behind haven't heard from them for several days. so it's 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 fighting in a ghost go. most of them don't reach in and.

across the border in the west ukrainian city of tearing up all mothers and wives the reservists are protesting their loved ones being caught up in called up to fight in these similar protests happening here where soldiers mothers called on the government to let their sons return home many troops in the east have already completed tours of duty but aren't being allowed to return because of a lack of fresh recruits. back more after a short break with more stories including a little high level diplomatic sarcasm look at the latest spat between a russian and u.s. ambassador to the u.n. and who had the last word this time. but. i didn't know that 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 albus. well. in

fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of our government and across several we've been a hydrogen right hand full of transnational corporations that will profit by destroying what our founding fathers once told us i'm job market and on this show we reveal the big picture of what's actually going on in the world we go beyond identifying the problem trucks rational debate and real discussion critical issues facing us. ready to join the movement then welcome to the big picture.

fourteen minutes past the hour moscow marking a day of mourning after the worst disaster in the cities metro system twenty three people dead after a train derailed at high speed around one hundred forty remain in the hospital dozens in intensive care here's how the tragedy unfolded. the train traveling along one of the lines west of the capital had reached almost top speed suddenly emergency brakes activated the first three carriages piled up on one another blocking the tunnel that happened two hundred meters away from the next stop medics rushed to the scene broken bones severe head wounds greeted them first emergency services set to work pulling out those trapped eighty meters below the ground in mangled carriages helped carry the injured out helicopters and dozens of ambulances took people to the hospital for several hours nonstop andries they need to witness the tragedy. john you can see it when you i was thrown into the yeah there was

blood on the floor heads some people had broken ribs in one place and the. people were hysterical we started to get hands we saw during the tunnel will men eventually broke. because constructing a paramount home they helped us to get out through metro employees detained in connection with the crash investigators suspect their negligence may have led to the accident as we've been reporting it's the worst tragedy underground in moscow metro's eighty year history two thousand and five more than fifty stations were left without electricity in a sweltering hot day a year later a construction pile damaged a tunnel and shocked passengers in a passing train last summer nearly five thousand people were evacuated from one of the busiest transit points because of a fire at a station near red square and earlier this year the foundations of a construction site above penetrated to the underground tunnel nobody there luckily was injured more details pictures i witness accounts on the moscow metro to relevant at r.t.

dot com also online for. a nurse defying orders in guantanamo prison refusing to force feed detainees is reportedly the first case of medical staff protesting the method which human rights groups called torture and inhumane. reckless road rage in moscow take a look at the story of this heartless driver who ran down an elderly man but only stopped check the damage to his own car. right see. first strike. and i think that your. orders. can still. be in the. the u.s. could be lining up unilateral sanctions against russia washington thought to be

considering the move because of europe's hesitation in backing the restrictions on is live for us in washington with the latest guyon how likely is it that the u.s. could go it alone with these new round of sanctions. well matt we first of all we don't know exactly what you know lateral sanctions the u.s. is considering but the obama administration very much wanted to europe to go along saying that sanctions would not have that big of an impact if imposed unilaterally last week the senate foreign relations committee it was questioning top u.s. officials precisely on the matter of europe and its reluctance to shoot from the hip something that to u.s. officials are not reluctant to do one senator said europe doesn't seem to doesn't seem to see what an existential threat russia represents to them the thing is u.s. officials spend several months trying to convince europe of just that but europe's

ties with russia are much stronger than the u.s. is and europe has been doing business with russia for years of course and one source said nine european countries are now ready to block. the sector sanctions against russia including germany six thousand german companies do business with russia including france which sells in twenty two billion dollars worth of goods to russia including a warship. france is apparently not ready to cancel. a deal on a helicopter carrier also those nine countries including australia bulgaria. and also italy for whom russia is a third is the third largest trade partner all of them do not see enough grounds for sector sanctions against russia but even with a little business relatively speaking of course that is being done between the u.s. and russia the business community here including the u.s.

chamber of congress say the sanctions against russia would put u.s. businesses at a disadvantage. especially if those are unilateral sanctions because you see many of the services and technologies that u.s. companies and european companies happen and sell and there is no appetite in the business community here either except maybe maybe the energy sector because the us energy giants want to do business in europe russia is a huge competition and they would only be glad to get an advantage here. for us in washington thanks for the. spying a devious business but also a code of honor existed or so we thought british intelligence revealed to have a range of tricks and tools i would make even james bond james bond q blash all of them aimed at cyber snooping for example when it comes to social networking they can look at your home your private photos if they don't like what they see they can

disable your facebook account chatting with friends and relatives do you see h.q. agents can listen in on conversations and read your messages and cruise your contact list they might also hijack your email address and use it to send messages themselves they can also see how much you spent on e.-bay online and what polls you participated in that's also visible variations and they can manipulate the results of the voting even our reports. emplacing page he counts speaking email addresses and manipulating online polls these are just some of the tools and tactics it's been alleged that he they using google quite eccentric code names angry pirates a tool that will permanently disable a target's account on their computer now there's more than one hundred projects in the listing joint threat research intelligence now in a statement to out see if he say that they are not let's take

a look at what they said all of g c h q was work is carried out in accordance with the strict legal and policy framework which ensures that always so authorized necessary and proportionate despite what his state campaign is saying that if the allegations are extremely serious to huge do because again these g.c.'s chiranjeevi being involved in propaganda and trying to manipulate debates announcement the best for them to protect their financial security not to read on one poll either way the latest late can certainly reignited the calls the oversight. activity 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 and if that weren't enough the british government wants to enhance its surveillance abilities further a new law already passed by the house of commons will require web companies to keep customers private data in case security services want to have

a look later on investigative journalist tony gosling worries the government trying to keep tabs on 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 reason to spend one billion pounds on surveillance so rather than reigning back this enormous industry which is out of control he's actually want to spend more money on surveillance 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 court in order to ask a judge if they want to put somebody under surveillance they just assume that everybody is under surveillance. food giant nestle accused of leaving california high and dry the company takes water from a nearby canyon to bottle and sell despite there being a drought households though being threatened with fines for wasting water dr peter

gleick a leading environmental researcher in the state says californians won't put up with it for long one of the problems with this bottling plant is that every bit of water that goes to the bottling plant is 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 gale the delivery of groundwater. or other uses in the local area of 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 to move 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. a us drone attack in pakistan's restive north waziristan thought to have killed up to fifteen people the strike to assist the pakistani army which is currently battling taliban militants in the area government troops launched a full scale ground operation in north waziristan in june after insurgents staged

a deadly attack on the country's largest air hub over four hundred taliban fighters and more than two dozen soldiers reported killed in just over a month. syria's president assad sworn in for a new seven year term after a landslide victory in which he secured almost ninety percent of the vote the election ballot went ahead despite the civil war tearing apart the country which has killed more than one hundred sixty thousand people radical islamists still control a large part of southwest syria. a powerful typhoon battered the philippines killing at least twelve in his place and hundreds of thousands the storm caused power outages tore off her shoes and toppled trees the strongest storm to hit the country this year some parts of the philippines still recovering from the devastating typhoon that struck in november and killed more than six thousand people. this is why the un's most powerful body can decide if they can decide the fates of countries around the world but sometimes

those inside the security council behave more like kids in a sandbox with feisty arguments even spilling outside the chamber as happened between russian and american envoys recently marine important has more on their public slanging match. 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 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 says while it did stoke his vanity to see himself referenced in the article he found powers 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. very important to our new york one can only hope crosstalk coming your way next stay with us as we talk about it as they talk about the unfolding crisis and civilian losses the latest in gaza israel escalation or if you're watching us from new k. get ready for the latest episode of the news team behind the scenes at our new. choose your language. killing spree killer though if you're going to send us a still so much. choose good music it can sense you can. choose to give to us the degree to. choose the stories that impact your life choose be access to your office or.

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a little unwelcome across all things considered on peter lobo 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. to cross not the situation in gaza i'm joined by my guest in jerusalem he is a writer activist and author of the book the general son journey of an israeli in palestine in tel aviv we have given levy he is a columnist and a member of the newspaper's editorial board and in new york we crossed afraid laysan he is a professor emeritus at ben gurion university as well as a visiting scholar at new york university and author of the book the struggle for soviet jewry in american politics right gentlemen cross-talk rules and a fact that means you can jump in anytime you want i very much encouraged me to go in jerusalem if i go to you first here all talks of a cease fire.