i was detained by the military i was threatened with my life and i was deported from the country for three years in a few minutes i'll be telling you the full story about my three days in detention in the. british journalist and also you contribute said graham phillips recalls his ordeal after being released from captivity by ukraine's security. while fresh shelling in the city of lugansk. killed at least nineteen civilians as a residential area comes under heavy fire plus. human rights watch urges kiev to stop using unguided rockets in east ukraine which have already claimed numerous innocent lives saying this could amount to war crimes

and. the number of palestinians killed in gaza reportedly climbs over one thousand as more bodies are pulled from the rubble during a humanitarian troops which expires in just two hours. you're watching r t international coming to you live from moscow where it's now seven pm here in the russian capital it's good to have you with us. british journalist graham phillips has been deported from ukraine and banned from entering the country for three years on the grounds that he's been working for r.t. he's been held in captivity by the security services for three days the last word we had from him was

a message saying all was fine graham is now in poland he told us why he was unable to get in contact. they were sending messages from my phone that message that you go r.t. saying all these fine i didn't i didn't send that message they were going through my messages asking me about every single message who sent this to you who is this person how do you know this person was put in a room next to an artillery positions they were firing heavily from that was being fired on i was kept in a cellar was detained along with another journalist the deal he was beaten in front of me i saw soldiers you know kick him in the face and then a soldier said if you can confirm my details and he couldn't guarantee that i was going to live i was blindfolded kept in a cell without water or toilet facilities and then we were separated i was interrogated i was interrogated all day i was called a terrorist i was told i had a russian passport i was a russian spy they were telling me all day that i had entered ukraine through ukraine and entered it through russia it's all completely completely falls through

accusing me of working for terrorists all of these accusations and interrogations and then they took my computer they took my things and i've just go are just recently been released and i was on the train to warsaw coming from the polish border and i just recently discovered that the now all of my accounts have been hacked i want you to recount my e-mail account by you tube account which is obviously money in livelihood someone's deleted two thousand videos from back to every single account i have facebook contact the time that ukrainian forces have had my computer it was held by the s.b.u. as well they've taken out they've stripped all the passwords basically being cyber attacks and i'm just fighting now to try and get my life back i mean being kicked out of the country of ukraine my car was taken by the ukrainian military my money was taken my bullet proof vest i've been deported from a country i own a flat in told i'm an enemy of the state when all i ever did there was report the news which report the truth and i've been told i've been obviously banned from for

three years kicked out of the border and there have been cyber attack so basically you know my entire life has been has been taken apart i mean thankfully i'm alive and as you can see how effective your i but i'm a little shell shocked by the whole experience i'm just trying to kind of get my bearings and get things back together after what was an ordeal. for ukraine's security services say they remove graham phillips from the country in the interests of national security and territorial integrity but here's what the kiev or thora teams were saying at the time that graham went missing as his whereabouts they say they had no information they were also adamant that the military does not detain reporters and that on the contrary it works to create safe conditions for them here's what a spokesman from ukraine security services said at the time. i know he's been taken hostage there is no information on those were boats or whether there is a bounty on his heard the ukrainian military don't apprehend journalists. well as

we've heard whilst being questioned graham says he was threatened is what he says is part of his conversation with the ukrainian security officer serious cazalet a plan designed. into this new all yours if you would intervene with what you will carry me really don't you think we'll. bring you. a little more to the right but the one thing you did you really. only. good for you to believe breivik you seem to think. that everything he put me to. eating me would be what he. did. but i still believe he was in the region that little most immediately. and it's becoming increasingly dangerous for journalists to cover events in eastern ukraine activists are sounding the alarm over reporters being killed kidnapped and attacked that according to

a survey published by the international news safety institute ukraine is now the most dangerous country in the world for journalists seventy media workers have been killed there this year that's more than anywhere else on the planet including iraq syria and pakistan as to why british reporter graham phillips might have been targeted in particular we spoke to a legal expert alexander mccord us. first unquestionably he was working for r.t.e. and eighty's or a russian television station secondly that he was broadcasting in english and so was attracting an english speaking audience and so did finally say so because mr phillips is a very good journalist and was broadcasting things that the ukrainian authorities don't want the world to see and he was doing that as i said in english and that was obviously unacceptable to them so presumably they will be treating other journalists who work for other russian television stations or news media

organizations in the same way i find it actually very worrying. well dutch police and investigators have arrived in eastern ukraine to examine the site of the crash of the malaysia airlines plane that came down last week killing all two hundred ninety eight people on board well they haven't reached the scene of the tragedy yet and these are pictures from the netherlands the bodies of the victims have been arriving back in the country from where the ill fated flight departed the flight recorders a colony being examined by experts in the u.k. and the dutch safety board which is leading the international investigation expects to release its initial findings by the end of next week and the u.s. accuse local militia of shooting down the plane i mean these were armed by russia moscow denies any involvement to demands explanations from ukraine after releasing radar data that suggests a fighter jet was in the vicinity of flight m.h. seventeen at the time of the crash. or the first family of one of the victims of

m.h. seventeen has arrived at the crash site the australian couple came in to pay tribute to their twenty five year old daughter who was among the passengers on the doomed flight updates from the area as well as the crash investigation you can always head to our website dot com. at least fifteen civilians were killed and up to sixty injured when the ukrainian army shelled one of the hubs of resistance please be warned that some of the videos that we're about to show you a quite graphic mortar shells landed in residential areas of the city of lugansk several civilians at this bus stop were among the victims blocks of flats a kindergarten on a school day used as a shelter also hit in the attack is how one eyewitness describes the killing of the . problem with it all. unfold but you know you just heard an awful. look like you would read forever. if you don't perform for you the story you see on

the over. the floor you'll see. the way you live the other level if you can hear the words you would get what you wish to look at as those cute girls. or human rights watch says the ukrainian army may have committed a war crime when it killed sixteen civilians with an unguided grad rockets in the don't yet region. the group says the grad system is just too inaccurate to be used on populated areas human rights watch is calling on both sides of the conflict to stop using this kind of weapon if they want to avoid civilian casualties one of the authors of the report says the ukrainian military should be called to account for killing civilians. neither side really seems to take enough precautions to make sure that civilians are not killed or. when he says.

it's a nice to see. you. and so on in the pitofsky district that civilians were being killed by these kinds of rockets we were able to by looking at the creators looking at the direction from where the rockets were coming from looking at the. walls that were hit by these rockets so if it's if the rocket hits the western wall of the building it's coming from the west by doing that we were being it we were able to establish where the attacks were coming from in for attacks they were coming from areas under the control of the ukrainian army so in four of these attacks in the nets which killed sixteen civilians we believe that the ukrainian army was responsible for those attacks we are calling human rights which is calling on both the ukrainian government and on separatist forces to immediately stop using grad rockets these kinds of indiscriminate weapons in

populated areas and the ukrainian government should also investigate these cases where there are where there is reason to believe that ukrainian government forces were responsible for for the killing of civilians and both sides are denying the use of granite weapons or the use of these militants in. the audience its fight to get a and in the ukraine government should investigate intervene and stop the use of these weapons in populated areas and almost four months since the start of the military operation in ukraine morale in the army appears to be waning soldiers wounded on the front line so the commanders a neglecting them or mancow so every ports dozens of wounded military were able to get out from uncertain. by and forces the soldiers claim that high ranking officers read it comes to the front line and if they do they tried to leave as soon as possible preferably before dark you know they're in the. soup of.

the with. the with the. shut the fuck would you put the. millions of dollars have already been spent by kiev on its punitive action against those they call terrorists now while the countries and leadership they had ordered yes and another mobilization a round of its citizens into active armed forces the money stream to finance all that still seems to be dry announced he won't have the money to pay for military operation after all because of the force of the army needs around seven hundred seventy five million dollars with just a week left before the first of august ski of a scrambling for support all that said punitive action in the east of the country but morale of the soldiers on the grounds and the collapsing parliament could become a barrier for their peroration star get him on cos or have artsy done s.q.

crane. ahead the u.s. comes up with fresh accusations against russia of involvement in ukraine but still fails to present any evidence. i can underline the information to help lead to that effect meant to the break we report on the mounting pressure on washington to back up its allegations with facts. choose your language. clearly we can without any financial center stay still for the next six weeks later the choice of a successor to choose the consensus of. choose you have to use that invigorating to . choose the stories that impact your life choose the access to. government

system just to help poor people poor women but to change their life and nobody's trying to make money out of them those who want to make money out of them by. the time the whole thing into law is shot i can do that shit and get all four still. i'm abby martin the stories we cover here are not going to hear any right other big story the extra headlines and talk there's a reason they don't want to. raise that. now let's break the set. russia's foreign ministry has released some harshly worded comments on the ukrainian crisis it slams washington claiming it bears partial responsibility for the conflict and its grave consequences moscow also accuses the obama

administration of relying on lies to implement its foreign policy meanwhile tens of thousands of people have been fleeing eastern ukraine amid the raging violence according to the united nations the number of refugees has doubled since june there's going to as you can reports the u.s. simply don't believe those figures. the u.n. says two hundred fifty thousand ukrainians have left their homes in eastern ukraine since the fighting began the say department had doubted the sources of the un's previous reports on ukrainian refugees and many russians from ukraine have family in russia some may be staying with them but neither ukrainian border guards or nor international organizations operating in the area have or boarded any large outflows of refugees to russia but now we do colleges possibly for the first time that there is a humanitarian crisis inside ukraine i can't confirm those numbers i quite frankly haven't seen that from a u.n. report so i'm happy to fact check that for you and see if we can confirm what we think the numbers are we know there is

a humanitarian crisis here in the city for whom believes ukrainian military posts came under fire from the russian territory the spokesperson did not go into detail of where such information comes from you are and that artillery from russian territory is hitting the military is going to even out your immediate military outpost but you are convinced we have seen no indication she no indication that the opposite is true that koreans are some encouraging while the u.s. state department says no indication that the russian territory comes on the fire from ukraine witnesses who live near the border inside russia offer a different perspective. because of lashon. yes you know not just that you. know nothing you don't know when you seem to be in uganda with them but that will stop or you know you can't disregard all of the idea which was a bit are you with us would be a sense of so that i would visit so much with that with the with what of what it's on the true but the most part the with them which is. the u.s.

is now saying that russia prepares to send powerful missile launchers into ukraine but again does not specify what evidence such allegation is based on i can underline the information that had led to that assessment and we don't have specifics about what those. assistance might look like the outline when pressed on how officials can put out such allegations without backing them up with substantial evidence here's what she said it's not that i don't. know much. it's not a question. it's a question of whether you can you know we've put out a plain isn't when you put out information and we will continue to do so and it's difficult and we're happy to put out as much as we can all that appears for the state department it's not so much about evidence but about trust but the fact of the matter is many journalists here do take the official word for it and the media is generally slanted against russia. the government forces are claiming that kiev

used white phosphorous bombs during its latest shelling of done yet such bombs are banned under international law moscow meanwhile says it has proof that kiev has used the controversial weapon on at least six different occasions russia's defense ministry claims there were a number of indicators which are characteristic of phosphorous bombs such as the temperature they burn at the speed with which they fell let's now bring in former british army officer charles shoebridge joins us live now here on r.t. international thank you very much for your time thank you very much for joining us let's take a look at the latest videos we can see the i believe i think you've also seen them now they can't be verified but the fighters say that it shows ukrainian army shelling with phosphorus bombs what is your take on the videos having seen them yourself. i can't see the video obviously that you're showing at the moment i'm looking straight into the camera but i've seen a video earlier and although it's shot at some considerable distance away it's has

to be said that it shows many of the characteristics one would associate with white phosphorus use in particular it looks like it's an air device that's to say it's been delivered by mortars or artillery or props and aircraft it covers quite some substantial areas you can see by the time it reaches the ground and also you've got this very characteristic. features of breaking into very small very bright burning particles which as indeed military specs people elsewhere have commented upon in their right to to say that it falls very quickly to the ground and now white phosphorus can be used as an illuminant as indeed can many other substances but usually these will fall to the ground much more slowly usually assisted by some sort of power so of course that the light compared for much longer and assist troops on the ground that doesn't seem to be the case here also white phosphorus can be used and usually is used for producing smoke to cover the movement of troops and so on but here of course it's night and although you can't see smoke on this

video that might well be because it's night of course and smoke would be normally characteristic of white phosphorous so why are lists why are these type of bombs why these type of weapons why they banned under international law. where the look of them in the use of white phosphorus is actually quite complex you're right to say they're banned in some circumstances and no circumstances are particular where they're being used in areas first of all of course they're banned subset as weapons to be used against civilian targets that's clear secondly in some circumstances they are banned when they're used against military targets in civilian areas as i say the laws governing this particular device are complicated for example it's also said that a device that is used mainly for producing smoke or for signaling. how does incendiary effect isn't classed as an incentive or weapon but the fact is that whatever technicalities of the law state really the situation is that this is

a fair. device white phosphorus will burn it intense heat will burn right through to the bury it can't be put out by using water and if civilians are so much sense of course widespread damage as well as fear and of course very serious injuries and no matter what people say that it's used as signaling smoke or as an illuminant that the fact is the army is around the world and last time we saw israel and gaza for example using white phosphorous an incendiary weapon it is a very effective weapon for years. which thank you very much for your time in joining us here in our teens national charles should bridge former u.k. me off so. well israel says it's ready to prolong a twelve hour cease fire after foreign ministers from the u.s. europe and the middle east called for its extension in paris hostilities were suspended to allow aid supplies in and to recover the dead and wounded all previous

truces in gaza were broken. and. the number of deaths caused by israel's onslaught on gaza has reached a milestone and there are now more than one thousand victims the figure is the bodies began being recovered from the rubble israel continued to gaza until the very last moments before hostilities were halted on saturday morning medics a tank fire killed nineteen members of a palestinian family just minutes before the tree started. where there are now fears that hostilities will break out in the west bank which has been relatively calm in recent years in bethlehem palestinians to start engine fire bombs at israeli police early on saturday the clashes left at least nine people dead a reports. in the moments immediately following the start of this truce hundreds of gazans poured into the streets they have been lining up in front of shops and banks and a.t.m.'s withdrawing cash and stock piling on food and other emergency supplies

so certainly the the fear on the ground is that hostilities in this israeli ground operation will continue and continue for some time to come this is a u.n. brokered humanitarian truce the idea is to allow u.n. aid workers in and out of gaza they are bringing with them emergency supplies such as medicines for the hospitals that have practically run out it is also an opportunity to evacuate the injured and it's also a chance for people to believe they did well in addition to this twelve hour humanitarian ceasefire there is a seven day truce that is in the pipeline this is something that has been proposed by the u.s. secretary of state john kerry he was in talks in cairo on friday that israel has rejected a new version of this proposal as it currently stands what hamas is insisting on is that there was a total lifting of israel sees on the gaza strip but israel says if there is no way that it can agree to this and it also won't agree to any kind of preconditions

a must is also asking people who were recently arrested to be released there is a meeting in paris attended by the foreign ministers of qatar and turkey to support a mass as well as high level delegations from bush and farms and that meeting is being brokered by the u.s. secretary of state john kerry we spoke to palestinian politician activist most stuff about gucci who told us that israel should be held responsible for thwarting the peace efforts. the first people who are asked for the cease fire were the palestinians and we asked the united nations security council to issue a cease fire. resolution it was to block the united states and the united nations security council twice then israel wanted to impose its own conditions by being by having a cease fire while keeping the siege on gaza while keeping their troops inside while demanding that palestinians have no right to desist occupation this is

unacceptable to me and that should be a cease fire but also that should be a lifting of the sea so in reality what you see here is a struggle of people who are fighting for their freedom for the military occupation that has become the longest in modern history from a system of apartheid and discrimination. much worse one what done what prevailed in south africa where the israeli offensive on gaza gave even more resonance they could stay which was on friday and today used to show solidarity with the palestinian people and so hundreds of thousands of people worldwide called the bloodshed bomb is one way israel for the thousand deaths resulting from the offensive side in some cities angry mobs by the u.s. and israeli flags there were demonstrations in the united states not europe i mean it was going. around the world for some more headlines now in the united states has shut its embassy in libya's capital under vacuity starve to neighboring tunisia

it's because clashes between militias there the embassy have intensified the u.s. state department says all embassy operations are suspended until security improves and is warning americans not to travel to libya is the second time a little more than three years that the u.s. embassy has been closed. the un's chief investigator says islamic is staged militants and may be added to its real crimes list for their actions in syria the confidential list was revealed for the first time to the un security council and reported on friday islamic state insurgents have seized control of areas in both northern syria and iraq and are engaged in fierce fighting with syrian forces the jihadists have conducted public executions abductions and murder among many other atrocities are next in r.t. international abby martin on a lawsuit against the world's biggest banana company using it of funding colombian militias that's in breaking the set.

a friend of mine flew in from germany and he said that as he was leaving he looked in to do stand at the airport and on the front page of twelve german publications were basically titles like tunes missile destroyers airplane alluding to the crash malaysian airplane that fell into the combat zone in eastern ukraine this isn't just some fluke that my friend saw all these newspapers together the entire mainstream media has made the same bold speculations i think this is interesting for two reasons one the way that the mainstream press jumped onto the story with exactly the same headlines and exactly the same angles really makes me want to start believing in conspiracy theories especially when an investigation had been conducted yet there wasn't any formal evidence yet but from fox to c.n.n.

to medium sized german newspapers the speculation of who was at fault for the crash is identical and absolute and to the western media which feels justified to push for war with anyone who doesn't adopt western values have themselves completely forgotten just what those values are i thought in the glorious west everyone gets a fair trial with due process evidence and a conviction only after their guilt has been proven beyond a reasonable doubt but when enemies of washington need to be demonized i guess all those principles just fly right out the door but that's just my opinion. is the rid of all easy pickens and money is the root of all crashes for once every dumb dumb as but to what fool is one to sell.

what's happening everyone i'm having martin and this is breaking in a set so remember chiquita banana was funny in a right wing paramilitary death squad in colombia oh well even if you don't they were yes to the tune of one point seven million dollars see back in the ninety's the violence between the chiquita banana supported a you see that's left wing counterparts far resulted in the deaths of almost fifty thousand people mostly civilians and because of this the families of the thousands of colombians who were killed during the country's bloody civil war had sued the company trying to get accountability for their loved ones however just this week a federal appeals court threw out the case out of the justification that the lawsuit was out of the court's jurisdiction it was a big blow to the family it's considering how the banana giant had previously pled guilty excuse me to criminal charges regarding the funding of the paramilitary death force having to shell out twenty seven million dollars to the d.o.j. as a result.