an israeli strike. killed. children as they played football in the meantime a short humanitarian ceasefire has been agreed upon by both sides off to the. crusader america slaps russian energy giants with more painful set of sanctions. if it wants to follow suit. and 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.

headlines live from moscow international. news team welcome to the program for young palestinian boys playing football on a beach being killed by an israeli strike we must warn you the upcoming pictures from the scene disturbing they died right before the eyes of international journalists many of whom are in area regarded as one of the safe. and israeli ship apparently fired on the beach where the children were playing some other kids to manage to reach shelter at a nearby hotel with the four boys who didn't make it to safety they were all relatives. now these are grieving family members of the

children the woman a moment ago the mother of one of the boys the funerals were held in garza just several hours after they died both israel and hamas have now agreed to a humanitarian cease fire in response that is to come into effect this hour and last for five hours giving the u.n. time to get aid into gaza harry fear is there for us he met some of the victims of the family members. yesterday 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 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 who can live and i know will know how you know what i did you heard that the the what you know when i was just there was also one of the words that i did that of the live in the head nor the last. of the of the i course are also national 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 time. get the international john this reports that they were having bad lunch at

the time many of them in these hotels overlooking the beach marina and the mediterranean coastline they reported the sudden emergence of a light. 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 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 came to us they was running you know skaven from the bomb and 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 them. on their way but 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. initiative coming into 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. reporter harry fear now earlier we spoke to an israeli defense force spokes person insisted that israel does not purposely target civilians. no we do not shoot the targets in underwear any way or form or civilians we took it from us terrorists in the idea for peroration is ongoing in order to restore safety and security for the state of israel hamas decided to have an onslaught against against the state of israel and

indeed even when we held our stations yesterday for six hours they continued to bombard israel. indiscriminately and we were left basically with no alternative now there's been an international outcry over the killing of civilians 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 march in protest of israel's actions. in waiting flags chanting slogans and holding up posters urging an end to the killings most protests have been peaceful though some have been met with clashes with police. thanks for joining us here on r.t. international the u.s. has signed off on a new sanctions package against russia its harshest to date 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 alternately what the sanctions 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 the russian president said he regretted the integrity path 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 in technology is the u.s. companies sell european companies haven't selves 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 potentially much more dangerous than any of the previous measures for example two of the companies under sanctions gas problem and

of course and you have last year paid one hundred thirty billion dollars in taxes equal to about a third of the government's budget so ultimately any disturbance will disrupt moscow's bottom line and here at all the international we asked the various experts of what these sanctions could achieve. last i've heard of the us 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 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 us to antagonize russia the cruel irony of sanctions is that they don't hurt the u.s. government at all the us government just prints money as it needs it what they do hurt. do business with russia who seek to do business in ukraine it hurts your american private citizens it doesn't hurt the american government at all the same shouldn't show the weakness of the us political position because you don't see any

of us 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 money in russian firms consider gas from buying for example it has branches all the way from hong kong to luxembourg u.s. investors have big money in gas from generating big profit the money belongs to pensioners savers and investment funds and then there is the oil giant which has partnerships and billions of dollars in deals with its western counterparts the taxes that exxon mobil for example and b.p. the ones they pay are absolutely enormous and if they stop paying less it's bad news for government budgets in europe and american are quickly just to let you know regarding the sanctions we're now hearing from the russian foreign minister sergei

lavrov saying these sanctions by washington are ultimately vengeance out of the american capital while the u.s. sanctions will hurt russia but there is reason for optimism after a brick summit wrapped up in brazil with a hefty pall of deals being signed his postcard. the brics nations really look 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. reporting. a visit to the region also gave some other latin american nations the chance to sign some very lucrative agreements with moscow for example russia will now help cuba explore its offshore oil reserves with those also agreeing to work together on the global information security moscow's atomic energy corporation also atom 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 increase significantly now russia's efforts to make new friends and not an american thing spurred by a growing rift with the west over the civil war in eastern ukraine that the violence shows no sign of abating and later this hour here on our team international we meet one refugee family that managed to get away they tell us

about the ordeal they had to suffer to get free of the war zone. also to come for you on the program a technology downgrade for german politicians as the n.s.a. spy scandal forces them to return to more basic forms of writing. those details still to come in off the internet which. despite all the democracy slogans that read hard from the white house seem to believe that deep down they used administration as 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 the site for multiple competitions by great powers and empires no real ability to consolidate legitimate 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 successful democratic experiment. here in moscow thanks for joining us german politicians are going to we say old school to stop their american allies from spying on what they're up to sensitive documents can now be written on the humble type writer to keep them safe is peter

all of. still true 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 we spoke to former m i five intelligence

officer and he mash on she thinks that protecting privacy is a tough task even for the most powerful 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 and still to come here and argue international just how big are the pay packets for chief executives in the u.k. you may know what i know the lucky ones are owning a hundred and eighty times more than the average person story behind this financial chasm just ahead for you here on the program. meantime on our international there are now more than twenty thousand ukrainian refugees living in tent towns in russia the number of expected to rise as more seek safety from the fighting in their homeland and the shelling of their towns and villages is a ridiculous go visit or one such come in rushers. russian is a duty to leave me squarely many of which he should 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. to the new york in the middle of the. evening. a lot of the. traditional us softball. a tradition in the small to do and. we. need some. time for children. and. they follow in the footsteps of you give me a sister who fled to russia just several weeks earlier. than a minute ago still. have been in the midst of.

the individual is. remembered like thousands of other refugees alexander and you've stated home in the gone on to war was 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. me. 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 and there are also one. 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

this year will bring in southern russia. or the latest in afghanistan opening up the world update the army now saying it's killed all of the taliban fighters who attacked the main airport in kabul overnight militants occupied a building still under construction and fired rockets into the airport all civil flights were canceled as a result of the clash came during a tense time in afghanistan of course a recount is underway right now for the second round of the presidential election. and to libya another airport hit by lightning this time in tripoli at least twenty planes destroyed. traffic control is going on strike grounding many flights in the process clashes between radical groups seeking control of being common since two thousand and eleven of course that was the year when moammar gadhafi. and his back to the philippines leaving at least thirty eight people dead many others

still missing latest numbers suggesting three hundred seventy thousand people have been evacuated to temporary shelters police say they arrested two men who were actually holding more than ten women and three excuse me ten children i should say you know at least a pair of women being held hostage in one of the village storm shelters. will be joined. to the u.k. we go where food banks are being used by hard up families more than ever and real term wages of falling fast with the average worker disappearing into the financial distance is one group of employees who are raking in more millions than ever. reports on the great british salary cap. money how a jet set lifestyle the puck's 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 that

salary yep while the average worker toils to just over twenty six thousand pounds a year the footsie one hundred boardroom big wigs a raking in four point seven million this is if they 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 a company's 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 ad in public well for more than hoff 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 show and pay check and he way boyko artsy london or much more of the world's top headlines coming up in about a half an hour's time naldo oksana boyko in a world. 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 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 and in fact the power 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 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. people with autism. great contributions.

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hello and welcome to worlds apart this activity of borders has long been considered one of the pillars of global security which of late it's increasingly called into question are some borders less inviolable than others and how many times will the world's political maps have to be reprinted in the near future while to discuss that i'm now i'm joined by brandon o'leary professor of political science at the university of pennsylvania and dr levy thank you very much for being here thank you now if you're considered one of the world's top scholars down national and ethnic conflicts and it seems that your field of study is becoming increasingly more of an applied science given the proliferation of conflicts around the world fortunately i'm never short of business and national conflict is

a recurrent feature of world politics at the moment it's protect the heart parts of eastern europe and indeed in the middle east now as a form are awarded porter i can certainly relate to that sentiment and in my experience of reporting from various conflict zones i notice that there is almost a cultural bias when it comes to treating violence i mean violence and conflict in the europe are sometimes seen as more of a threat more shocking than let's say violence in the middle east it is as if people sort of came to expect that arabs or persians are more prone to killing each other than let's say europeans and i think the conflict in the ukraine or what was happening in the old and i learned a couple of decades ago shows that it is probably not the case. that every country is essentially prone to conflict if the conditions are right what are your thoughts on that i think you're absolutely right the idea that some peoples are more naturally barbaric than others is a complete after all in world war two more people were killed in europe than in any

other conflict in world history so europeans are just as capable of being barbarous towards one another other parts of the world what's fundamentally at stake in most conflicts whether or not people enjoy security under the existing state order whether they're treated with equality dignity and respect and whether the institutions allow for power sharing when there are significant and culturally distinct groups now i know that in your professional capacity you try to bring some of that to iraq and when you compare iraq to any other country people tend to cringe but i think you yourself thought a very interesting course comparing iraq to sit down so let's take that comparison a bit further to ukraine because it seems to me that you know a couple of years ago many western aspirants western political scientists were all in favor of federalism and as you know as a solution for iraq.