crusader u.s. hits russia's energy giants with sanctions over the situation in ukraine for the e.u. a holds back uncertain if it wants to follow suit. and vladimir putin warns washington that the penalties will backfire as he wraps up a tour of latin america with a pile of lucrative contracts in his pocket and shakes from his brics partner also . israeli strike on a gaza beach kills four palestinian children as they played football a short humanitarian ceasefire has been agreed upon for the meantime in the

aftermath of the tragedy. good morning to you from all of us here at r.t. international. headlines for this hour the united states has signed off on a new sanctions package against russia its harsh just yet but america's zeal is not being matched in europe which is going ahead with much softer measures. breaking down what the new sanctions amount. the u.s. is targeting a number of russian banks as well as energy and defense companies that targeted companies will not be able to borrow money from u.s. banks for a period longer than ninety days meaning that they will still be able to receive short term loans but will find it harder to finance medium and long term activity

the list includes a state owned oil company and largest oil producer gazprom bank the financial arm of gas prom the state controlled natural gas producer of arctic another russian natural gas producer and near shake on non-bank which is russia's economic development bank meanwhile russian president said he regretted the integrity of state paths that the u.s. had tros and in relations with russia. as far sanctions are concerned they usually have a boomerang effect like i've said before and they will eventually lead russian u.s. relations to a dead end damaging them severely i'm also positive that these measures harm america's long term strategic interests and the interests of its people. president obama said the u.s. has tailored the sanctions in a way so as not to hurt u.s. companies washington wanted tougher sanctions it wanted to target entire sections of the russian economy but without europe going along such sanctions would put u.s. companies that

a disadvantage because many of the services and acknowledges that u.s. companies sell european companies haven't selve and europe shows that it's not prepared to cut its multibillion dollar partnership and trade with russia so in the last few weeks you had u.s. businesses calling on the obama administration to consider their potential losses inversion and at the end of the day we see washington had to tame its enthusiasm about sanctions. so why do american businesses ultimately care so much firstly because they have big money in russian firms consider for example gas problem bank which has branches all the way from hong kong to luxembourg u.s. investors have money in gas from generating vast profit money belongs to pensioners savers and investment funds off the gas from buying those then there's oil giant all sniffed which has partnerships and billions of dollars and deals with this western counterparts in fact the taxes that exxon mobil and b.p. pay are enormous so imagine the impact on america or britain if those companies

started paying less here in our international we've asked our various experts of what these sanctions will ultimately achieve. blast i've heard the u.s. russian trace change was minuscule and so you can't really hurt something that doesn't really exist what could happen is he could dissensions could make relations between the us and the e.u. worse in the sense that the european economy is going to be impacted by any sort of push from the u.s. to antagonize russia the cruel irony of sanctions is that they don't hurt the u.s. government at all the u.s. government just prints money as it needs it what they do hurt our american business those who seek to do business with russia who seek to do business in ukraine it hurts you american private citizens it doesn't hurt the american government at all the same shouldn't show the weakness of the u.s. political position because you don't see any of the u.s. allies in europe following along certainly we've seen the reports out of germany

where there is a major struggle between the political establishment and the business establishment which sees nothing but destruction of the german economy if they were to follow washington sprat. at the root of all of the sanctions is the civil war in eastern ukraine later this hour your analogy international we need one refugee family the way they tell us the ordeal they have to suffer to get free of the war zone. also a technology downgrade for german politicians as the n.s.a. spy scandal forces them to return to more basic forms of writing more of that later in the program here on the internet. but for now four young palestinian boys playing football on a beach in gaza have been killed by israeli shells we should warn you that the upcoming pictures from the scenes are disturbing but they died right in front of international journalists many of whom are stationed in an area regarded as one of

the safest in gaza and it's ready ship fired on the beach where the children were playing some other kids who were injured managed to reach shelter at a nearby hotel the four boys who didn't make it to safety were all relatives. now these are grieving family members of the children the women used a moment ago is the mother of one of the boys funerals for the children were held in gaza just several hours after they died both israel and hamas agreed to a humanitarian cease fire in response that will come into effect at seven o'clock g.m.t. on thursday and last for five hours giving the u.n. time to get the aid into gaza harry reports for us. the incident took place basically in front of dozens of international jon there about two or three hotels basically in i shot all of the killing of peaceful palestinian children gaza's marina area an area which is meant to be basically the safest area for civilians in

gaza during the day that's why the judge in this base that those held hotels the incident here was shocking even for the international journalists i just spoke. several a few moments ago they were literally having lunch at the time of the incident they report seeing a flare of light on the horizon presumably an israeli warship and then within moments this naval shell hit some kind of structure by garza's marina within twenty or thirteen weeks it was or where he was least four palestinian children were playing on the beach in front of as i say all of these hotels we understand at least one died within minutes at the scene and three others that confirmed killed died basically on the way to hospital or out of hospital this comes in the context of the moment israel having agreed to a cease fire suggested by the united nations simply a very simple ceasefire for the delivery of humanitarian aid to gaza going back to

the instance of the children it's a very shocking incident and it's very day. we can say the psyche of palestinian society here i spoke to an eyewitness who is based at one of those hotels just overlooking gaza in the arena here. to see what happened there. and they come to us they was running you know skaven from. one of them was all of them was. injured then i called the ambulance to pick up them because that. was very bad so when i hear that one of them they are on their way but that was because i witnessed one of the funerals of these children i have not seen in all of my years here in gaza such an enraged and large palestinian funeral parade. now my colleague kevin owen spoke to

an israeli defense force spokes person to get his reaction on the beach incident he says that the military will investigate but he insists hamas is responsible for an escalation that threatens israel. i've seen some of the footage coming out of it indeed those look tragic and we will have to look into the circumstances of what it was i don't have any answers at the moment you all are hitting these people you may not have nothing against them but it's such a densely populated area there must be a better way to do this you've been fighting with hamas for such a long time now hamas hasn't changed what it's doing you haven't changed what you're doing is wrong to the eye and the other way other than the carnage to get through this you know the i.d.f. is devoted and we are charged with defending the state of israel and in the reality of a huge bombardment where over a thousand four hundred rockets have been launched at the state of israel it's a reality nobody would agree to and nobody would commit and that is we are the responsible force to try and defend and stop that from happening the government and indeed ordered us to stop yesterday to let the months calm down calm the situation

deescalate the situation but unfortunately they chose a different path they chose this path of aggression and there has been an international outcry over the killing of civilians all across the americas in europe and beyond people have taken to the streets to demand an end to the offensive and every day a new demonstration appears on the map most are peaceful but some have ended up with clashes with the police. here and ask international we've got plenty more waiting for you on our website r.t. dot com including how dangerous emissions from japan's stricken fukushima plant well they are still spreading nearby rice paddies have been contaminated during the operation to remove radioactive material from the nuclear stations broken reactors also online for you right now. again to another dimension or perhaps a u.f.o. landing point speculation runs wild after a mysterious giant black hole in the ground is discovered in siberia more details

on russia's x. file online. by ten minutes past the hour moscow time thanks for joining us. hefty pile of deals wrapped up in the sixth summit of top developing countries that of the brics the most significant significant was the establishment of a new global bank set up to rival the i.m.f. and world bank the founder members have provided one hundred billion dollars in funding and some other latin american nations use of lot of mayor putin's visit to the region as a chance to make some lucrative agreements with russia in fact russia will help cuba explore its off shore oil reserves with both also agreeing to work together on global information security moscow's atomic energy corporation corporation is likely to bolster its presence in argentina all as part of a nuclear cooperation deal and russia's trade and security ties with our fellow brics member brazil should also now increase increase significantly there was

a time for more than just business at the summit as artie's call scott had a chance to find out six days four countries and numerous photo opportunities hussein's tour of latin america considered a success. everyone knows that russia has always stood side by side with india during the toughest moments and without demanding anything in return. russia has taken on the baton to host the two thousand and eighteen football world cup and this serves as another piece of evidence of russia's increased overall power and place these in the world just please let me propose a toast to the friendship between our nations and peoples to the health of madame president and everyone present what it was all business and hard work was done to me to have a leader raul castro and a symbolic face to face with his brother fidel known for his long tenure in power

hundreds of attempts on his life and for being a big talker. but he's home. you know you can look at what we have. all through unexpected visit to nicaragua excuse argentina but surely salaries a number of deals were signed this was no doubt music to both need is a is but it didn't all go totally to plan. but despite cooperation on many fronts a few things were left up in the air. and from argentina it was on to brazil and rio for the world cup final not only did putin get to see germany beat argentina one nail in extra time he also saw hosting responsibility given to russia ahead of twenty eight however that's something the fate of president sepp blatter needed to be reminded of is a good size from brazil. russia.

both cup potential then the show piece of a brics twenty forty a real display of unity from the five emerging economies there were cases lots of cases well south african president jacob zuma was so pleased to see his russian counterpart he appeared to temporarily lose himself he was on display everywhere you go to events that he muses that i mean if you know i want to say that i like going to china particularly with such results if you don't mind i would like to come again and event and russia's president vladimir putin had a much more to say on the prospects for the brics nations as well as a lot of other topics you can watch as a q. and a session at r.t. dot com and i'm back with more news after the break in just a sec. this

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i marinate joining me. for impartial and financial reporting commentary contribute and much much. only on bombast and. joining us here on r.t. international law re sushi in moscow german politicians are going old school to stop their american allies from spying on what they're up to sensitive documents could now be written on the humble type writer to try and keep them safe is part of . the ultra modern buildings of the german parliament could be set to echo with a sound from a very different era that's if the man in charge of the parliamentary inquiry into n.s.a. spying here in germany gets his way. said that if politicians want to avoid digital

snooping then the only choice for them is to ditch the smartphones in the laptops and go back to the typewriter and the fundamental machine enough to thank statens computers tacitly however doesn't china machine. that's the suggestions that were made on a breakfast t.v. show here in germany haven't gone down well with some of the other committee members one member from the left party said that well before she would go to a typewriter she thinks that they should get rid of the secret services entirely another member from the social democrats say that comments like this would just plain silly and made the whole inquiry look rather stupid suggesting that it was not the right answer to go back to a nineteenth or twentieth century technology in the modern age but what it does show though is that politicians here in germany are starting to appear desperate to try and show that they are doing something about spying scandals that have rocked the country recently and have drawn outrage among german people who have said that

well their politicians just haven't been doing enough we have seen this start to change the following to spy scandals involving one member of the security service and one member of the for the. defense ministry that may have been spying for the united states we saw the chief of the cia here in berlin being told that he should get out of the country that still hasn't happened as of yet but it was a strong comment that was made so the politicians here trying to show that they are doing something about the ongoing in escalating spy scandal is that we've seen come out following the leaks of edward snowden has put on the right there now former m i five intelligence officer and a mash on a few things that protecting privacy is a tough task even for the most influential people in the. however lightheartedly the german politician mentions using typewriters he's probably when it comes to proper security issues within government he's probably absolutely right we have

a situation where even our democratically elected representatives have to think it's deeply and seriously about how to protect the privacy of their communications particularly when they're investigating the very subject of the invasion of the privacy of their systems which is what the target at the moment doing in germany trying to hold hearings to work out exactly what the n.s.a. has been doing which might be contravening the constitution of germany we have this . situation where everything can conceivably be hoovered up by the n.s.a. and it's facile states in the in europe everything can conceivably be stored forever and used against citizens in the future if the laws change and everything can conceivably be no amongst the private deliberations for parliaments not democratically elected representatives so it's. it's worse than orwellian i think is the best way of putting it and america's surveillance program goes beyond just watching the pentagon now admitted that millions are being spent to examine how to

manipulate users of social media and closer look at the methods coming up in just a few moments here on r.t. and tonight. for the meantime on the program though there are now more than twenty thousand ukrainian refugees living in tent towns in russia that number is expected to grow as more see any kind of safety they can find are to use are going to be visited one such camp in russia as region. instruction is a duty to me square and remind you which useful social and i thought i needed it took them five days to get from the ganske to this refugee camp in the russian side of the border a distance normally covered in a car in several hours. i was. sure the new york in the middle of war and that should cause much of that even. a lot of the.

traditional us softball. league. so it was more to the tradition in the small to one region and similar war. with some of the. time for children. they follow in the footsteps of you give me a sister who fled to russia just several weeks earlier. than mr zuroff the curator . still. have been amazed at. the end of rid of the mists. is remembered like thousands of other refugees alexander and you've stayed at home in the gangs going to war just too close to their doorstep like many others they want to keep their last name unknown to

protect the rest of the family feel left behind. that i detail and. they already have a plan to get to another town where alexander can find a job to provide for his family but the same can't be said about many others in this tent city this family's story is just one of the estimated thirty or so thousand of refugees living in the rostov on. region at the moment just days ago these people couldn't have imagined not having a house or a country to call their own right now they're living in tents and have no idea what the future will bring in southern russia. away clashes between militants on the army have broken out near the airport reportedly fired troops attempting to surround it tried to golding still under construction and the local media now reporting. the taliban has admitted that it is

responsible for the clash comes during a tense time in afghanistan as a recount is underway from the second round of a presidential election. to libya and another airport hit by fighting this time in tripoli at least twenty airplanes have been destroyed it has led to air traffic controllers going on strike grounding many flights in the process and clashes between radical groups seeking control have been common since twenty eleven when moammar gadhafi was. the philippines leaving at least thirty eight people dead many others are still missing more than three hundred seventy thousand people have been evacuated to temporary shelters and police say they arrested two men who were actually holding ten children and three women hostage in one village.

now on the program the myth of online privacy was shattered by recent revelations from edward snowden showing that british intelligence has methods of controlling the b entire internet colleagues across the atlantic are spending millions on something similar that of using ordinary users of social media as nothing but getting. his marine important. when the world's largest social media platform betrays its users there's going to be outrage the study to see whether facebook could influence the emotional state of its users on that news feed and allowed researchers to manipulate almost seven hundred thousand users newsfeeds some saw more positive news about their friends others saw a more negative bomb not surprised i mean we're all kind of lab rats in the big facebook experiment but it wasn't only facebook's experiment turns out the psychological study was connected to the u.s. government's research on social unrest this is really kind of creepy here and it gets worse what you may not know is that the u.s. department of defense has reportedly spent roughly twenty million dollars

conducting studies aimed at learning how to manipulate online behavior in order to influence opinion the initiative was launched in two thousand and eleven by the pentagon's defense advanced research projects agency otherwise known as darpa the program is best described as the u.s. media's effort to become better at the top think and conducting propaganda campaigns vs social media translation when anti-government messages gain ground virally washington wants to find a way to spread counter opinion you would expect higher levels of good behavior and stronger and certain standards within the government but the one of the problems with the way in which this competition is developing is that. there is this entire new battleground out there and they have to take advantage or they are

that it is a you know an amazing pressure on governments and the u.s. should be doing this a little a little better i would prefer to force it they not do it at all according to the guardian some of the d.o.d. funded research monitored and analyzed the twitter feeds of occupy activists and reportedly went. so far as to message unwitting social media users in order to track and study how they responded and instead of finding its own message the u.s. seems keen on investing in ways to manipulate all the messages it doesn't like marina port ny r.t. new york we spoke to political activist our david swanson he says it's a day very difficult for social media companies to be held to account why well because they have very powerful protection. there is the image of militarization of our government and a militarization of our society that makes us think that it's ok for the military

to be engaged in something just because it might be ok for somebody to be engaged in it we now we see corporations that have partnered with the government on spying and manipulating us online going on with their own programs and doing it on their own facebook being a prime example having learned of course that there's no chance the federal government is going to punish them for it since it itself is engaged in that behavior for nearly half past eight in the morning here in the russian capital it's all to international with me rover sushi next box is back because a report just a second. gaza faces a sweeping blitz of protests against the israeli offensive take hold what message from israel is a resume is heavy bombardment of gaza the challenge to western financial dominance

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