israeli airstrike on a gaza beach kills four palestinian children as they played football a short humanitarian ceasefire though for now has been agreed upon in the aftermath of the. crusader america slaps russian energy giants with another set of more painful sanctions but europe holds back uncertain if it wants to follow suit. and a lot of the burden warns washington that the penalties will backfire as he wraps up a tour of latin american countries with a pile of lucrative contracts in his pocket. all around.

a very good morning to you from all of us here international. headlines for this hour and for young palestinian boys playing football on a beach have been killed by israeli shells we also warn you that the upcoming pictures from the scene are disturbing they died right before the eyes of international journalists many of who are stationed in an area regarded as one of the safest in gaza and it's ready 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 for the four boys who didn't make it to safety all relatives.

grieving family members of the children a moment ago the woman you saw the mother of one of the boys the funerals were held in gaza just several hours after they died both israel and hamas have now agreed to a. ceasefire in response will come into effect at seven o'clock g.m.t. on thursday it'll last five hours giving the u.n. time to get aid into gaza. in gaza for us and he met some of the victims' family members. yes a afternoon for palestinian children were killed in what's meant to be one of the safest areas of gaza city this took place in broad daylight in the afternoon well i caught up last night with the four families affected these four families all from the extended back family we spoke to they were of course absolutely destroyed by the events it was a devastating exercise to speak to them they of course invoked the fact that these were innocent children simply playing on the beach but of course they were not

responsible for any belligerent activities we saw tens or even hundreds of family members congregated in sympathy and solidarity morning with the parents of the of the of the lost children and we caught up with is male. who of course exclaimed that this was an unjust act on the part of the israeli army again when i know when i told her you know what i did you. know what you know i know i want to jump out. the way you did that of the. head nor the margin. of the of the eye caught up also with the international journalists who directly witnessed the incident some of them actually tried to give first aid to the palestinian children who had been injured one of the injuries was in the boy's abdomen it's not clear why israel may have struck this target the international

journalists report but they were having bad lunch at the time many of them in these hotels overlooking the beach the marina on the mediterranean coastline they reported the sudden emergence of a light on the on the the on. rice and followed by shelling which targeted a small structure on gaza's marina this 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 shelling well i spoke last night with the manager of one of the hotels he was an eyewitness to this incident here. to see what happened. 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.

i hear that one of the. way through that was done. 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 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 and my colleague kevin now and he spoke to an israeli defense force spokes person to get his reaction on the incident he does say that the military would investigate but he insists that hamas is responsible for an escalation that threatens israel. i've seen some of the footage coming out of it indeed it does 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 did to get through this 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 hamas calm down to calm the situation deescalate the situation but unfortunately they chose a different path they chose this path of aggression. now that has been international outcry over the killing of civilians all across the americas in europe and beyond tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets to demand an end to the offensive every day

a new demonstration appears on the map in protest of israel's actions have been waving flags chanting slogans and holding up posters urging an end to the killings and most protests have been peaceful but some of those have resulted in clashes with police. united states has signed off on a new set of sanctions against russia its harshest yet but america's zeal is not being matched in europe which is going ahead with much softer measures artie's guy nature can now breaking down what the new sanctions ultimately add up 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 of state 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 to 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. is 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 gas problem in the last year paid one hundred thirty billion dollars in taxes as equal to a quarter of the government's budget we asked of various experts what these sanctions will 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 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 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 do western businesses care so much firstly because they have massive money in russian firms consider gas profits from buying for example that has branches all the way from a hong kong to luxembourg u.s. investors have big money in gas from generating big profit and money belongs to a pension of savers on investment funds then there's the oil john that rolls miffed

which has partnerships and billions of dollars and deals with his western counterparts in fact the taxes that exxon mobil and b.p. pay are absolutely enormous if they stop paying less that's bad news for government budgets in europe and america. the u.s. sanctions will hurt russia where there is reason for optimism after a brics summit wrapped up in brazil with a hefty pall of deals being signed is pulled scott. the brics nations really good to strengthen ties and cool 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 to 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 as well worth the same amount of money one hundred billion u.s. dollars is going to be seen as a long time 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. visit to the region also gave some other latin american nations the chance to sign some lucrative agreements with moscow russia will help cuba explore its offshore oil reserves but also both agreeing to work together on global information security and moscow's atomic energy corporation or satyam 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 increased significantly. now at the very root of all that the sanctions is the civil war in eastern ukraine

a lot of us our daughter international we made one refugee family that got away it tell us the ordeal they had to suffer just to get free of the war zone. also to come a technology downgrade for german politicians as the n.s.a. spy scandal forces them to return to more basic forms of writing and out a bit more later in the program when r.t. international. player. said try to. keep pulling out of. your life or if you're reading every minute. let me know la oh well. my old life but.

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well it. was. a pleasure to have you with us here on our team today. gaza faces a sweeping blitz of protests against the israeli offensive take coat from israel is a resume is heavy bombardment of gaza and a challenge to western financial dominance brics nations is gone there will be global black. cars now beacons for. the victims of the metro train. crash in the history of the mosque and that try the media turns a blind eye to get out see. we speak your language

another day in. the music programs and documentaries in spanish matters to you breaking news a little turn to angles keep these stories. for you here. in the spanish to find out more visit i too. good to have you with us here at r.t. international today a german politicians are going rather old school to stop their american allies from spying on what they're up to sensitive documents could now be written on the humble typewriter to keep them safe as peter all of a. the ultra modern buildings of the german parliament could be said 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. 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 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 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. now former m i five intelligence officer sean she thinks that protecting privacy is a tough task 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 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 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 still to come here on r.t. international just how big are the pay packets for chief executives in the united were the lucky ones owning about a hundred and eighty times more than the average price story behind the financial canyon just ahead for. thirty minutes past the hour here in the russian capital there are now more than twenty thousand ukrainian refugees now living in tent towns in russia the number expected to grow as more seek safety from the fighting in their homeland and the shelling of their towns and villages are these are really visited one such come in russia. instruction of the duty. leave me square and remind you which useful social can have them when 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. to the nearest hill in the

middle of the. evening. a lot of the. traditional us softball was. so. small that a tradition in the smothering. and we're. going off the. kind of her children. they follow in the footsteps of you give me a sister who fled to russia just several weeks earlier. you know mr. i'm still going there if you don't. bring a message to. the end of rid of a loser mr de. vere she is remembered like thousands of other refugees alexander

and you've stayed at home and the guns come through more just too close to their doorstep like many others they want to keep their last name unknown to protect the rest of the family left behind them with. their idol 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 story is just one of the estimated thirty or so thousand of refugees living and their. 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. are some of the global headlines in brief for afghanistan we go where the army says it has killed all the taliban fighters

who attacked the main airport in kabul overnight militants occupied a building still under construction and fired rockets at the airport all civil flights were canceled as a result of the clash came during a tense time in iran as a recount is underway for the second round of the presidential election. in libya now another airport hit by fighting this time in tripoli at least twenty airplanes destroyed and traffic control is going on strike grounding many flights in the process of clashes between radical groups seeking control have been common since two thousand and eleven of course that was when moammar gadhafi. has battered the philippines leaving at least thirty eight dead and many others remain missing latest numbers saying more than three hundred and seventy thousand people have been evacuated to temporary shelters police say they arrested two men

who were actually holding more than ten children and three women hostage in one of the village. all right to the u.k. now before we get to boom bust where food banks are being used by hard up families more than ever and real wages are falling fast for the average worker but disappearing into the financial distance is one group of employers who are raking in more millions than. reports on the great british salary cap. money power 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 who 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 company's highest earning employee in relation to the lowest paid company's fireback 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 often more than half of the shareholders that it 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 god can't chew and paycheck anyway boyko artsy london. our about with more of the world's top headlines for you in half an hour's time next though ever an aid boom bust. two u.s. agents who are working deep inside the german government have been caught which is 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 the 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 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's going to have to somehow get a massive foreign military presence out of a country and since this 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.

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