so picture. the crusader america hits russian energy giant. over the civil war in ukraine but europe holds back if it wants to follow suit. 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. also. an israeli strike on a gaza beach skills for palestinian children as they played football a short humanitarian cease fire has now been agreed upon in the aftermath of the

tragedy. a very well welcome to you from the international news team. headlines live from moscow the united states has signed off on a new sanctions against russia its hard. but america's zeal is not being matched in europe which is going ahead with much softer measures. breaks down what the new sanctions amount to. 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 gas problem bank the financial

arm of gas prom the state controlled natural gas producer. another russian natural gas producer and near chicago on bunk which is russia's economic development bank meanwhile russian president said he regretted the integrity paths that the u.s. had chosen in relations with russia. as far as 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 in 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 technology is the u.s. companies sell european companies haven't sells 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 in russia and at the end of the day we see washington had to tame its enthusiasm about sanctions. now for russia these sanctions are potentially much more dangerous than previous measures now they directly target moscow's biggest source of revenue that of energy we asked various experts what the sanctions will achieve. blessed i've heard the u.s. russian trade change was minuscule and so you can't really hurt something that doesn't really exist what could happen is he could make relations between the u.s. 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 are american businesses 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 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. so why is the concern so high for western businesses will firstly because they have big money and russian firms consider gas problem buying which has branches all the way from hong kong to luxembourg u.s. investors have money in gazprom generating vast profit and the money belongs to pensioners savers and investment funds then there's also the oil giant which has partnerships and billions of dollars in deals with this western counterparts in

fact the taxes that exxon mobil and b.p. a paying are absolutely enormous if they stop paying less is bad news for government budgets in europe and america. now at the very root of the sanctions is the civil war in eastern ukraine later this hour an aussie international we need one refugee family that managed to get away with it tell us the old deal they had to suffer to get free of the war zone. and a technology downgrade for german politicians as the n.s.a. spy scandal forces the. to return to more basic forms of writing more on that in a bit later in the program. now though here on r.t. international for young palestinian boys playing football on a beach in gaza have been killed by israeli shells we must warn you that the upcoming pictures from the scene are disturbing now they died right before the eyes of international journalists many of whom are stationed in an area regarded as one

of the safest in gaza and israeli ship apparently fired on the beach where the children were playing some of the kids who were injured managed to reach shelter at a nearby hotel and the four boys who didn't make it to safety were all relatives. now these are grieving family members of the children the woman you just saw a moment ago the mother of one of the boys the funerals were held in gaza just several hours after they died both israel and hamas agreed to a humanitarian cease fire in response it 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 aid in a live now to hurry fear who's in gaza for us he met some of the family members of the victims good to see you good to see you this morning this is all devastated the family of course but it's also shocked the whole of guards there as well hasn't.

yes indeed this has really hit the the palestinian psyche here. ironic this comes before a cease fire given the fact that there was such calls for a reaction with violence towards israel off to the killing of these four palestinian children palestinians here very quick to use the word massacre to describe the killing of those four children nine ten years old from one family back in the north of the gaza strip so one of the palestinian children we understand died within moments at the scene in as you say one of the safest areas of gaza during the day gaza's marina with the it's beautiful beach line just in front of some of the most expensive hotels in gaza which are home at this kind of escalation time to dozens of international journalists the other three palestinians died on the way to hospital at the scene we're told so really horrific scenes

coming out from gaza city yesterday afternoon just before sunset in fact actually the hotel that i'm staying at was also directly caught up in the incident one of the children died literally just beneath the table i had my breakfast yesterday morning so really it's evening this story has even really hit and with the international journalists here it's really in quality to times really shook everyone here in gaza it's not why israel may have targeted this area during the day it is understood to be at night used by palestinian militants but not during the day well last night i caught up with the four families. you know bereaved by this incident they were of course somewhat destroyed by this. tragedy and that's what one of the fathers had to say.

we're going to but i don't know how you know what i did yet to be that the where did the what do you know how do i jump the gun how also victim of the law this lady did that of that if. they had no in the past just that. was even though. i caught up also with the international john who directly witnessed the incident. stayed to the palestinian children who had been injured one of we were injuries was in we always abdomen as i said it's not clear why israel may have struck this target the international journalists reports that they were having bad lunch at the time many of them in these hotels overlooking the beach the marina on the mediterranean coastline i reported the sudden emergence of a light on the on the on the horizon followed by a shelling which targeted a small structure on gaza's marine base was then followed by another shelling tens

of meters away absolutely close the video proves that to where the palestinian boys were running away from the site of the first shelling while i spoke last night with the manager of one of the hotels he was an eyewitness to this incident. to see what happened there nice so with your version and they come to us they was running you know skaven from the bomb and then one of them was all of them was. injured then i called the ambulance to pick up them because that anyways was very bad so when down but on scame i hear that one of them they'd on their way but that was put down. well this incident unfortunately is of course not the only case of palestinian children being caught

up in this ongoing violence here in this recent bout of violence between israel and hamas now over two hundred twenty palestinians have being killed almost eight eighty percent of those civilians and some official figures say that around half of those palestinian children this comes obviously in the context today all of this u.s. initiative coming in into effect to allow humanitarian aid to enter the gaza strip and that is being welcomed here by palestinians on the ground we will keep you updated all right harry. thanks for that. now my colleague kevin owen he spoke to an israeli defense force spokes person to get his reaction on the beach incident he says 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 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 right no i 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 oh the government and indeed ordered us to stop yesterday to let hamas calm down to calm the situation deescalate the situation but unfortunately they chose a different path they chose this path of aggression in the meantime there's been an international outcry over the killing of civilians across the americas and europe and beyond people have taken to the streets to demand an end to the offensive every

day a new demonstration appears on the map most are peaceful but some have seen clashes with police. and a plenty more stories waiting for you right now online on our website r.t. dot com including that of the removal of radioactive elements from japan's stricken fukushima plant now proving even more hazardous than expected nearby rice to be seriously contaminated the owners are still moving radioactive material from the nuclear stations broken reactors also at r.t. dot com for you this hour. perhaps a gate to another dimension or i don't know what a u.f.o. landing spot speculations running wild after this mysterious giant black hole in the ground is discovered in siberia more details on russia's x. file online. when i went on to international a hefty pile of deals wrapped up the sixth summit of top developing countries that

of the brics and the most significant was to stop a moment of a new global bank set up to rival the i.m.f. and world bank a lot of importance visit to the region also gave some other latin american nations the chance to sign some very lucrative agreements with that of moscow in fact russia will now help cuba explore its offshore oil reserves with both also agreeing to work together on global information security and moscow's atomic energy corporation is likely to bolster its presence in argentina as part of a nuclear cooperation deal and russia's trade and security ties with fellow brics member brazil should also now increases significantly on these pull scott how small the brics nations really go to strengthen ties in court countries across the continent here in latin america as they look to develop and build what's being described as this new multi-polar world in an attempt to try and wrestle influence global influence away from washington on his tour over the last six days putin has

visited cuba nicaragua argentina and then finally here in brazil for the two thousand and fourteen brics summit the highlights of which was the announcement of the new one hundred billion dollar development bank and also the sustainability fund is well worth the same amount of money one hundred billion u.s. dollars is going to be seen as a long term rival to the international monetary fund and the world bank as i say is the brics nations look to try and wrestle some of the global influence away from washington. and i russia's president vladimir putin had more to say on the prospects for the brics nations as well as many other topics you can watch us q. and a session about dot com and more news coming your way after a very short break. i'm abby martin the stories we cover here you're not going to hear any right other big

story the. same time there's a reason they don't want you to. point. out now let's break the set. of holy week with zero if you're going to. choose the consensus. choose to get to. choose the stories that impact your life choose the access to. gaza faces a sweeping blitz of protests against the israeli offensive take code from israel is a resume is heavy bombardment of gaza the challenge to western financial dominance brics nations is going there will be global but while that deal has now beacons for . the victims of the west metro train. crash in the history of the moscow metric

of the media turns a blind eye it's gets. joining us here in our to international world update time soon but for now a judgment politicians are getting robbed old school to stop their american allies from spying on what they're up to a sensitive documents could now be written on the humble type writer to keep them safe is peter out of. the ultra modern buildings of the german parliament could be set to echo with a sound from a very different era if the man in charge of the parliamentary inquiry into n.s.a. spying here in germany gets his way. it is said that if politicians want to avoid digital snooping then the only choice for them is. then the laptops and go back to the typewriter and the fundamental machine enough to thank statens computers

tacitly however doesn't need a little machine. and 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 democrat 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've said that well their politicians just haven't been doing enough we have seen this start to

change the following two 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 all of our reporting in the meantime a former m i five an intelligence officer and he mash on you things that protecting privacy is a tough time ask even for the most influential people in the world. 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 deeply and seriously about how to protect the privacy of their communications

particularly when their investigation 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 now 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 rules 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 or twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow are still to come what are the international just how big are the pay packets for chief executives in the u.k. for the lucky ones are earning one hundred and eight times more than the average

person the story behind this financial canyon just. for now there are now more than twenty thousand ukrainian of refugees living in tent towns in russia the numbers are expected to grow in hours more seek safety from the fighting in their homeland and the shelling of their towns and villages r.t. is a really good visit one such come in russia's rastafarian. instruction of the duty. me square and remind you which useful social finance or 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. was. to the nearest me a hill in the middle of the course much of the. evening. a lot of the. traditional us softball was.

so. small that a tradition in the small town. they follow in the footsteps of you give me a sister who fled to russia just several weeks earlier. going. to go still going there if you don't. have it in the midst of. the individual is what mr bush is remembered like thousands of other refugees alexander and you've stayed at home in the gangs going to war just to close to their doorstep like many others they want to keep their last name unknown to protect the rest of the family left behind. which.

had already telling. him. that 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 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. afghanistan now to open up the world where clashes between militants and the army have broken out near kabul airport rockets reportedly fired and troops are attempting to surround it to walk you through buildings still under construction the local media reporting suggesting now the taliban has admitted it's responsible for the. time in afghanistan as

a recount is underway from the second round of a presidential election. to libya now another port hit by fighting this time in tripoli at least twenty airplanes have been destroyed it's led to traffic controllers going on strike and grounding many flights in the process clashes between radical groups seeking control have been common since two thousand and eleven when more. now in the u.k. food buying being used by hard up families more than ever and real wages are falling fast for the average worker but disappearing into the financial distances one group of employees who are raking in more millions than ever. reports on the great british salary. money how a jet set lifestyle the perks of being

a chief executive they take more risks and have more responsibility so perhaps they deserve a bit more pay than the average worker but how about one hundred eighty times their salary yep while the average worker toils to earn just over twenty six thousand pounds a year the footsie one hundred boardroom big wigs a raking in four point seven million says if exist on a different planet and we're saying this gap is bad for companies and it's also bad for society we have people working on very low wages you have to go to food banks to feed their families i think we should be ashamed of that sort of thing in this country the high pay center found that more than three quarters of the public would support capping the salary of the companies highest earning employee in relation to the lowest paid companies fired back that they need to supersize their executive salaries in order to keep them from being poached by cash waving competitors last

week british fashion giant burberry had its dirty linen in public off to more than half of the shareholders at its annual meeting voted against the chief executives pay package which is worth up to twenty seven million pounds it may have been arrested and against such high salaries but the vote was non-binding which means that burberry boss christopher bailey still got to his gargantuan paycheck anyway probably boyko artsy london thanks joining us here in our international to be marking breaking the set that's coming up next should be focusing on gaza britain's intelligence services and giant monsanto which of course gets to write its own laws on capitol hill this is the international.

two u.s. agents who are working deep inside the german government have been caught which has heightened tensions between the two countries even more the german reaction to this was to expel the cia chief in berlin from his post this is the kind of story that makes people who hate u.s. foreign policy to share button on facebook and get all excited it makes me feel that merkel or at least some elements of the german government are actually fighting against foreign meddling but i would say that you should take this story with a huge grain of salt yeah they just had one cia asset out of the country and this could be a sign of change but there are still twenty plus u.s. military bases currently operating in germany and in fact the bomb holder base is one of the largest ones outside of america territory with thirteen thousand troops permanently stationed there so basically if merkel really wants to reduce foreign meddling in germany she is going to have to somehow get

a massive foreign military presence out of a country and since has been there for almost seventy years already i don't think that they're just going to pack up and leave on their own one day but that's just my opinion. despite all the democracy slogans that we heard from the white house and you seem to believe that deep down the u.s. administration has a sort of cultural bias towards a believing that arabs or your rock is on simply not capable of democracy in the middle east is that it's been a site for multiple competitions by great powers and empires no real ability to consolidate digits of a nation states except under military dictatorships i think if these parts of the world were left alone a little bit more by the rest of us it's possible that we might see more so. sessile democratic experiment.

welcome to breaking in the set i'm abby martin so a couple months ago i noticed that a wikipedia page someone made for me got taken down all the my pages put up later after statement i made became viral the ordeal caused me to realize that the editing process for the online encyclopedia is very selective see an elite group of super admins ruled the narrative by majority consensus or mob opinions are accepted as fact clearly this poses a big problem by shutting down the freedom of information.