the money is the root of all easy pickens money is the root of all crashes for once every dumb dollars but what fool is one to sell. i was detained by the military i was threatened with my life when i was deported from the country and banned for three years in a few minutes i'll be telling you the full story about my three days in detention in ukraine. british journalist contributor graham phillips describes his ordeal after being released from captivity by ukraine security service. fresh army shelling of the city of lugansk the hub of resistance kills 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 to over a thousand more bodies are pulled from the rubble going to meditate truce which is due to expire just one hour from now. this is r.t. live from moscow a very good evening for me kevin i mean if you just joined us it's eight pm here now first and tonight 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 us. he's been held in captivity by the security services for

three days the last word we had heard from him was a message saying all was fine graham is now in poland he told us why he was unable to get in touch. they were sending messages from my phone that message that you go r.t. saying all is 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 position that they were firing heavily from that was being fired on i was kept in a cell or was detained along with another journalist for dean who 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 are going to want to go to recount my e-mail account my you tube account which is obviously money in livelihood so many deleted two thousand videos from every single account i have facebook contact the time that ukrainian forces have had my computer it was held by the s.p. use well they've taken that they've stripped all the passwords basically been 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 and all i ever did there would 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 then i've been cyberattack 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. well our security ukraine security services say they removed from the country in the interests of national security and territorial integrity but here's what the kev authorities were saying at the time that he went missing as to his whereabouts they said they had no information you may recall who watching as a couple of days ago they're also adamant that the military doesn't detain reporters and that on the contrary it worked to create safe conditions for them is a spokesman from ukraine security service told us at the time. i know he's been to

you know hostage there's no information orders were both where there is a drone three hundred heard the ukrainian military don't journalists. as well as we've heard was being questioned graham says he was threatened here's what he says as part of his conversation with ukrainian security officers. so yes because our little. night into this new years if you wouldn't agree with what you wrote. you really don't know we'll do them with. your mom who has a million or more tickets because i thought the whole thing needed. to operate only you could put in the for you to be a new guy that you could get it. over he thing put me to do anything that would be what he. did. but i still believe why don't you read it. mr mean you. well it's become increasingly

dangerous for journalists to cover the events in eastern ukraine activists sounding the alarm of reporters being killed kidnapped and attacked there did according to a survey published by the international news safety institute ukraine is now the most dangerous country in the world for journalists to do their jobs seven media workers have been killed this year more than where else including iraq syria and pakistan let's discuss graham phillips to tension in the situation with the media in general in ukraine right now with investigative journalist dave lindorff let's get some people from him hi dave nice to see you today why do you think graham was targeted here as he was by the ukrainian side. well i think this is something that's happened in a lot of countries where you've got a war going on or civil war whatever the the. participants are loath to have independent journalists looking nosing around the battlefield and so what's happened in ukraine is is similar to what the u.s.

would do with independent journalists in iraq during the war you know it's worth remembering that me us we don't allow anymore since vietnam for journalists to arrange freely over a war zone they may have to be embedded with troops and therefore approved and censored or the air or at the mercy of whatever the government wants to do to them people get to get all the way they get sent out of the country they have their permits taken away to be there it's fairly common but i think what different about this ukraine one is the way he was actually held hostage and had his belongings rifled through and his electronic. sights damaged and so on and so i mean this is really. more what you know you see criminal thugs do going to government and it's of course they don't do anything like this as we had

the official line is that i was i was on shift a couple of days ago and efficient line was that they were protecting him and they certainly said they simply wrestled detained journalists they protect journalists kind of all protection isn't it yeah well that all governments lie i mean the again my own government has a b.n. since one thousand what seventy three i think thank you seventy five i guess it is on the cia using journalists but we know now from what's come out from the snowden tapes that they are actually using some journalists in. that's a threat to all of us because if some of them are actually working for the cia. all of us come under suspicion and when we're in countries where we may be subject to arrest so you know this is pretty standard fare for governments to lie about what they're doing and crane has simply been caught in this brazen lie that they don't

arrest journalists that they don't intimidate journalists and so on what about this what about this news that ukraine according to the international news safety institute is now the most difficult most dangerous place for journalists to work to do that every day job to report what they seeing that i guess you're not surprised by that would it come as a surprise to a lot of people around the world though. yeah because we get such bad reporting on what's going on there but the truth is as you as you said it seven journalists have been killed. and what we don't know i have done a piece on what happened in iraq and there were so many journalists killed in iraq many of them by u.s. forces that raised the issue of whether they were actually being targeted we know that you know for example that the the al jazeera office was targeted with a direct hit right during the beginning of the invasion of baghdad and we have the

. zero up is also being targeted in gaza by the israelis so you know this is dangerous business in a lot of places but i think in the rain because of the active we're here it's become good place most recently where the most number of journalists are being killed thanks for your time investigative journalist dave lindorff home alon there from the states appreciate it ok thank you. dutch police investigators have arrived in eastern ukraine to examine the sites of the crash of the malaysia airlines plane that came down last week killing all two hundred ninety eight people on board will they reach the scene of the tragedy yet and these how the late speeches from the netherlands more planes carrying the bodies of the victims recovered from the scene of the tragedy of arrived at a local airport the flight recorders are currently being examined by experts in the u.k. of course and the dutch safety board which is leading the international investigation expects to release its initial findings by the end of the week kevin the u.s.

accuses local militia of shooting down the plane claiming these were armed by russia moscow denies any involvement 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. called. the time the first family of one of the victims of m.h. seventeen's rive to the crash site this training couple who came to. a tribute to their twenty five year old daughter who was among the passengers on that doomed flight on our website r t dot com as a timeline of events surrounding the crash plus the latest on the ongoing crash investigation. 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 video coming up we're about to show you now it's quite graphic here mortar shells landed

in residential areas in the city of look at several civilians at this bus stop were among the victims blocks of flats a kindergarten and a school being used as a shelter were also hit in the attack here's how one eyewitness described the carnage. for all the. ball very of getting a third of all you. look like that would you favor. would you talk more or you could probably do is there ever. was probably just before your ready for the other where you live the other level and you can hear that what you want to get where you are it was a little bit of those. human rights watch says the ukrainian army may have committed a war crime when it killed sixteen civilians with long guarded and guided rather grad rockets in the donetsk region the group says the grad system is just too an accurate 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 while the authors of the report says the 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 and when. these populated areas it's it really is proceeding it is for the injured and killed and that's why we saw in the pitofsky district that civilians were being killed by these kinds of rockets and you 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

donetsk which killed sixteen civilians we believe that the ukrainian army was responsible for those attacks we are calling a human rights watch 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 pattinson in populated areas. but that our evidence is quite clear and the ukrainian government should investigate and should be mean and stop the use of these weapons in populated areas. and you can move forces to use banned white phosphorous bombs during its latest shelling of donetsk they posted this video of the alleged attack online which can't be

independently verified must point out meantime says that it has proof that kiev has used the controversial weapon at least six different occasions russia's defense ministry claims that a number of indicators which occurred to receive phosphorus bombs we got the thoughts of british army officers bridge 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 perhaps an 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 spokespeople elsewhere have commented upon in their right to do say that it falls very quickly to the ground this is a fear some device white phosphorus will burn it intense heat will burn right through to the bone it's it can't be put out by using water and if civilians are in the air it's on my sense of course widespread damage as well as fear and of course

very serious injuries if it can be proved that white phosphorus has been used against either civilian targets or in an area where it's very likely civilians will be harmed there could well be repercussions in terms of crimes actions for example ukraine is indeed a signatory to the convention the u.n. convention which governs the use of in sentry weapons. was 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 say their commanders in the glinting them as roman concert reports. dozens of wounded minutes or you were able to get out from encircled ones by and forces the soldiers claim that high ranking officers read accounts the front line and if they do they tried to leave as soon as possible preferably before dark so i didn't hear the. swoop of.

the as. you know the if. i 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 poor he won't have the money to pay for a military operation after all because of the first duty of the army needs around seven hundred seventy five million dollars here with just a week left before the first of august ski of the 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. coming up the u.s. comes up with fresh accusations against russia of involvement in ukraine but still fails to prevent present any evidence. i can underline of the information that had led to that assessment after the break the report on mounting pressure on washington to back up its allegations with facts. do you have a plan to me because. you have a new. drama in the fischel inquiry furthermore restriction.

join me. for india and finance for kerry interview and much much. only on from past and. russia's foreign ministries released some harshly worded comments on the ukrainian crisis it slams washington claiming it bears partial responsibility for the conflict and its grave consequences most goal so accuses the obama administration

of law. going on law used to implement its foreign policy meantime 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 was going to come reports the u.s. doesn't believe the numbers. the u.n. says two hundred fifty thousand ukrainians have left their homes in eastern ukraine since the fighting began to say to parchman had doubted the sources of the un's previous reports on ukrainian refugees and many russians from ukraine have family in russia and 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 but i can't confirm those numbers and quite frankly haven't seen that from u.n. reports 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 at the state department 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 russian territory is hitting the military is going in yet even at your immediate military outpost but you are convinced you see no indication she's no indication that the opposite is true that ukrainians are something occurred 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 cherry blossoms. yes you know not just that you . know not saying you don't go when you seem to be in uganda with them but that will stop or you know you can't have our what the idea which was a good are you with us would be a sense of so that i visit. with that with that with what i want to get them the truth of the most part there with them which is. the u.s.

is now saying that russia prepares to send power for 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 systems might look like to 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 deny it. it's not a question. it's a question of whether you can you know we've put it out plainly tell you to put out information that we will continue to do so 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 the media is generally slanted against russia.

israel's leaning towards extending a twelve hour ceasefire with hamas in gaza after foreign ministers from the u.s. to europe in the middle east called for this. or similar to use was suspended to allow aid supplies in and to recover the dead and wounded all previous truce is broken. oh the number of deaths caused by israel's onslaught on gaza is no reach to her we milestone there now more than a thousand victims that figure has begun and being recovered from the rubble israel continued to batter gaza or 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 truce started. and there now fears of hostilities could break out of the west which has been relatively calm in recent years in bethlehem palestinians from stones and fire borders really police early saturday the clashes left at least knowing people dead closely 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 in the banks and a.t.m.'s withdrawing cash and stock piling on food and other emergency supplies are 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 within an italian ceasefire there is a seven day truth that is in the pipeline this is something that has been posed by the u.s. secretary of state john kerry he was in talks in cairo on friday that israel has rejected the 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. a meeting in paris attended the foreign ministers of qatar and turkey to support a mass as well as high level delegations from pushing and funds and that meeting is being brokered by the u.s. secretary of state john kerry spoke to palestinian politicians activist. drill should be held responsible for supporting the peace efforts. the first people who are asked for the cease fire with the palestinians and we asked the united nations security council to issue a cease fire. resolution it was israel the block the united states and the united nations security council twice then israel wanted to impose its own conditions by

ending the by having a cease fire while keeping the procedural while keeping the troops inside while demanding that palestinians have mobilized to desist the patient 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 from military occupation that has become the longest in modern history from a system will fall apart and discrimination and segregation that is much worse one what than what prevented south africa. just got an update for you that comes through the israeli cabinet and israeli cabinet minister now has confirmed the troops will be extended for another four hours it was due to end in about how often i was time but now it looks like will be another four hours grace but keep you posted ahead max is takes a look at whether the world is on the brink of another financial crisis because reports after the break.

in florida the debate over whether illegal immigrants should be able to get driver's licenses is heating up one group called the living with angels says that they should be allowed behind the wheel to support this view they use a classic argument that comes up a lot the media they see that not a lot of people for it are legal so if you're not legal you can't ever driver's license what's with that this is like a peep. say well we should legalize drugs because people use them anyway or we should legalize prostitution because people will do it anyway so such i think they mean that it's everyone comes here illegally anyways we may as well let them drive so if enough people do something we currently consider illegal does that make it ok maybe sometimes but in the case of illegal immigration rolling out the red carpet

for people to come to a nation illegally just empowers more people to come and it certainly spits in the face of locals and legal immigrants who do obey the rules and bureaucracy so here i would say no to driver's licenses for illegals in florida yeah there might be millions of them in the usa but that doesn't justify society bending over to make their lives comfortable if you want to drive in america be born american or become one the legal way but that's just my opinion. we profit very large very attractive and now very globally recognized source of oil for the world into the world's cheapest and best petroleum deposits have been going down we have to use more energy to get this energy industries grow like a cancer each of these squares it's ten kilometers where. and this whole

area is slated for the way that's her drinking water that's our wildlife service for fisheries. this is the end game when it takes two tons of sand to make one barrel of oil you know here in the box and that's where. we kill ourselves. dramas that can be ignored. stories others to refuse to notice. faces. changing the world. old picture of today's news is. on to and from around the globe. up to. the.