a pleasure to have you with us here today i'm sure. our headlines an entire family has been killed in the eastern ukrainian city of. they were among civilians lost in heavy army shelling some graphic images have emerged from the city partly showing residential areas coming under fire. in the in the region forces international teams. to travel to the malaysian plane crash site as the ukrainian army launches an offensive on the nearby. ministry revealed on radar data suggesting there was a second plane in the malaysian airliner possibly a military fighter while the u.s. is being pressured to present its own evidence that the accusations against. there

are a you tube video or something that you can only does to washington montagne russia is aiding the local militia in eastern ukraine and was involved in the crush refuses to specify the source of the information. on the humanitarian true struggles to hold an. israeli forces fail to reach a cease fire deal with israel following more naval and ground attacks in retaliation to rocket fire. you're very welcome to the weekly here in r.t. international wrap up of the top stories from the past seven days plus right up to the moment developments us well i'm you know neal our top story an entire family has been killed after being caught in deadly fire kiev's army launched

a crackdown on anti-government forces in the eastern city of the following pictures contain images. glue similar to the pope who was part of your. football opposed field. used to do duty is not. just reviewing the. running. at least thirteen people including two children were killed in court and the latest part of kiev so-called antiterrorist operation some media suggest the death toll may be even higher medical teams are said to be working to their limits to the continuous shelling which is left burned bodies scattered all across the city center on several buildings in ruins here is what one local resident told us. it was a strike on the city most likely from grad rocket systems there is

a very popular supermarket in the city center when the shell fell into it there were a lot of customers them another fell in a residential yard in another near the city's maternity home causing all the windows to blow out explosions could be heard all through the day starting from four in the morning they simply raising us to the ground. and in lugansk the latest from barb and house reportedly claimed at least six lives not south to yesterday's shelling killed nineteen most of the two dozen damaged buildings where residential school and kindergarten were also hit this is the aftermath of one of the bloodiest scenes where a bus stop full of people came under fire on this is how one of the witnesses described what they saw and. although. you just heard it off the whole. it looks like it would be the fighter. what you don't perform are you going to do this or the other. ones probably destroy your body or move to the other while you

and the other people are going to hell don't you want to get what you heard was a little bit of those do over there. this week human rights watch started out the ukrainian army for launching on god they grabbed rockets into populated areas and the rest of east the group says the opposition controlled city of donetsk came under such missile attacks four times in mid july alone the group warns the rod rocket systems cannot cardioid precise attacks on their use in residential areas and we classified as a war crime human rights watch as appeal to both sides of the conflict to stop using this kind of weaponry as more lives are at risk one of the authors of the report says the ukrainian military should not get away with killing innocent people neither side really seems to take enough precautions to make sure that civilians are not killed or injured and when you use these kinds of weapons in populated areas it's

a really high risk for syrians to be injured and killed and that's what we saw in the pitofsky district that civilians were being killed by these kinds of rockets we were able to buy in 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 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 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 you create in going. forces were responsible for for the killing of civilians and both sides are denying the use of granite weapons or with the use of at least the use of private weapons in populated areas. that aren't it's quite clear and the ukrainian government should investigate and should be stopped the use of these weapons in part of needed areas also this week more than forty ukrainian troops abandon their positions and cross the border into russia some of them have reportedly asked for russian citizenship the soldiers say they are fed up with waging war against their own people while those with injuries are now being treated in russian hospitals. the u.s. has released images it's a bot claims the russian military has been firing rockets at ukrainian territory at these pictures courtesy of the state department claim to show the impact of

multiple rocket launchers fired over the border from russia and aimed at ukrainian military units the images being picked up by many social and major media outlets however no u.s. official has commented on the issue so far on the exact source of the data is also not clear. ukrainian military has launched attacks on local militia near the malaysian plane crash site the fighting is preventing international teams from reaching the scene the army is believed to be storming the ton of tory's as you can see right next to this side of the valleys the spikes ukrainian president petro poroshenko ordering a no combat zone forty kilometers around the area earlier this week now a team of a stream dutch police and experts as well as european security monitors are staying in the regional capital to nantes going to able to reach the side of the crush earlier local militia agreed for an international police presence off the scene but

so far teams have yet to abandon their plans for the escalating violence in the area european security monitors reported the situation on the ground appeared on safe are hoping to get to the crash site on monday journalist punter one caster managed to visit the scene a little earlier. we had left the inmates there and crashed right. there while we were very very jet flying around overhead or we could hear explosions in the dirt and there's we went forward to the space or are you carrying in military tanks going down the road and now we're very close to secularists and torres and i can see you. know her very serious there's heavy gunfire and explosions. from where the ill fated and reach seventeen flight departed was hit the hardest by the tragedy the planes carrying the bodies recovered from the

scene have been arriving there. the first victim from disaster has been identified and that is. a team of two hundred forensic experts say it could take months for all the victims to be identified or to peter all of our reports from a country into. oh i don't. the public so. the people of iraq to pay tribute to a family is restored to his politics the very fabric because his family is so weird in the whole community wouldn't a whole city so everybody knows someone here has been coming you know for years so you're quite shocked restaurant owners before jenny know died in the crash along with ms lois mother and sweet for only this son kevin wasn't on the plane now he's left pick up the pieces you can imagine how big a loss he's lost his parents his grandmother. works in the restaurant also. hope

he can manage to. go on like you spend state outside the asian gorge restaurant floral tributes iowa those who knew the farmer that concerned more with making the dead rest than the national climate about investigating the tragedy the main thing is start with the bodies home return sorry goodbye to them on the proper way ultimately what memorial services like the one going on behind me show that even in its darkest hour the people of the netherlands are coming together to show that they stand as one peter all of a polity. on a stray and couple who lost their daughter in the mh seven being crushed become the first family to visit the site of the tragedy they insisted on going to the crossing the spied warnings of combat in the area their twenty five year old daughter fata was an aerospace engineering student and had hoped to become a pilot the first thing then be very hard to see he said how he should survive

his he said how do we survive sees it we promise al it we have promised our daughter we will come here but it actually as soon as possible does the time factor yeah he should have come here the minute it happened the next day. now the probe has yet to establish the cause of the disaster but it's widely thought the mh seventeen flight was shot down by a missile. defense ministry has presented its information on the crash publishing satellite images on radar tracking data from day let's take a look. that is detected another aircraft in the same at part of. malaysian plane on it was bearing that part of a ukrainian military jets however kiev claims all of its planes were on the ground at the time plus top flight images show ukrainian rocket launching system in the

area just days before the crash but on the same day as the tragedy it was a partly moved to an all known location russia's defense ministry is still waiting for comments on the information but it released we haven't received any from ukraine or from the trees to really come into our own poor simple course is for to do. with more still via clemence based on what from social media. by the usas the malaysian airliner was done by a surface to air missile launched from territory controlled by local militia and it's also blaming russia for aiding the kiev forces washington has yet to reveal the evidence it claims it has on its been coming under increasing pressure from some media over its munting accusations towards moscow i would like to know what you're basing this new evidence that the russians intend to send any heavier

equipment her based on some intelligence information i can't get into the sources and methods behind it but i was able to be able to tell you that is there a you tube video or something that you could point to that i mean you know and you can and i'm just wondering if you would what what it is i did that i wasn't going to give you the underline for story we did use like you had a little money whether it's not with us you're right i don't give you more information just say no i think the source don't actually ask you a question here i can't give you the source and that it would you prefer i not give you the information theory i think that it would be best for all concerned here in the other question you know when you make an allegation like that you're able to back it up with something more than just because i say so. his ations were picked up by many news outlets laying the blame for the crash directly off the russian president's door artie's guy in a church account has been monitoring the media storm. going to the media coverage in the west has been largely slanted against russia

public opinion of course response to that kind of coverage of accent i meant is that russia is probably involved and if involved they're probably going to cover it up that's where the public sentiment is and the c.n.n. poll the american people got it right in terms of who's to blame here folks fifty one percent said russians and directly involved but only the stakes are high whoever shoulders the blame for this atrocity is going to be the target of global anger and right now it looks like it's russia's fault because. it's russia's fault . it's quite clearly the latest twist in this propaganda war the russians through their ambassador here in kuala lumpur presenting their version of events to the malaysian media there are also been attempts to discredit russian sources of information c.n.n. put out a breakdown of what it called russia's propaganda the first item on the list is this it says the russian take passengers were already dead when put aboard the m h seven team but when you follow the link on this page it has an article in russian which reviews all the apparently quote unquote fake fur and conspiracy theories

that are out there that's what the article says specifically about the theory that the bodies were dead before the crash it says literally then there is information which is simply impossible to believe c.n.n. presents it and calls it the russian take it is not the russian take in the same breakdown right after this dead bodies theory c.n.n. puts russian defense officials showing evidence that ukraine had the capability to shoot down the plane moscow is now saying ukraine did it showing evidence that it had the capability to do it contrary to what he has now say that claim is brushed off as propaganda information is now politically charged on all airwaves it seems many journalists have already handed down their verdict in washington i'm going to check on our team. coming up here in r.t. international israel and hamas trade ceasefires a palestinian militant group say's it's ready for another day long humanitarian truce reports state it's still poised to use rockets restarted its bombardment

after the previous agreement was reached i'll be bringing you the full story after a very short break. as the media leave us so we leave that maybe. i will see motions for the. party visible. issues that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from . politic only of our. government system is to help poor people who are women but beginning to change their life and nobody's trying to make money out of them those who want to make money out of them and by. the time the whole thing into long shot can do that and we had all.

welcome back to the program truce efforts between hamas and israel seem to be falling apart with both sides unable to reach an agreement on continuing to trade accusations the previous un brokered humanitarian truce ended when a barrage of rockets were fired by hamas into israeli territory a mosque then said no humanitarian ceasefire would be violated without is really tonks withdrawing an ambulance is being able to freely move around in gaza but israel still insists it won't finish its operation on till it's demolish the

underground tunnel networks. as more from jerusalem. there were rockets fired from gaza at israel in the early hours of sunday morning several were intercepted over the same into the country and they have been sirens sounding both in the same to and in the south of israel there was also an israeli soldier that was killed by a mortar shell not far from the israel gaza border that the israeli military fatalities to some forty three now one of this follows a cease fire that was observed on saturday by both sides that ceasefire was a u.n. brokered humanitarian truce and it enabled aid workers to bring much needed emergency supplies into the gaza strip as you know hospitals there for example has practically run out of medicine it was also a chance for people inside gaza to return to their homes to try and salvage what little they could to bury the dead and also to recover bodies we haven't yet had

any official reaction from israel as to this latest cease fire put forward by have nots so we are waiting to hear what the israelis have to say but what they have said is that they believe that the number of rockets that hamas and islamic jihad have at their disposal has decreased dramatically because of this israeli operation and they also believe that the israelis will be forced to remain inside the gaza strip because they say militants in gaza will try to hold on to the remaining awesome though and extend the fighting in the gaza strip for quite some time so it certainly doesn't look as if the feeling on the ground is if we're going to see a cessation of hostilities anytime soon our correspondent center is a video taken from the heart of the worst hit areas in the strip it does contain some graphic images. of what we're doing now but also from we're going to move. your money. these pictures a corner and show them on among the ruins of destroyed residential buildings he's

thought to be the target of israeli government gunfire. used to be searching for cover when. it's him while he stretched out on the ground we talked to an eyewitness of the this is. with respect to the death all together there were full shots fired the first one missed him but the remainder three were aimed for him the second one was fatal. which caused him to fall down on the ground and the third one was i guess for them to make sure that they had got him basically he was as far as we are aware he was looking for his family he was frantic he was the guy he was leading the way he was on the floor and he knew the enemy have time to do you want to do is find. resulted in his death there was supposed to be a cease fire as well however as we said into the region there was bombing nearby there was shelling nearby and snipers shooting this. israel says incessant

rocket fire from gaza during the truce calls the to relaunch its offensive my colleague paul scott spoke to paul pearson spokes person of the israeli foreign ministry he explained why his country is not backing down. they say that all. these should be investigated and i agree and i'll tell you what we're going to discover we're going to discover that israel has taken unprecedented steps in a very difficult circumstance to minimize and to avoid civilian casualties and we're going to discover that this evil machine with a killer strategy has and is perpetrating war crime of the war crime of the war crime and that's what we're going to discover you say that israel is doing all it can to minimize civilian casualties are you doing enough or boys killed in a bitch we're hearing about civilians being killed every single day we said repetitively we said it also quietly through diplomatic channels quiet will be all said with quiet calm will be responded to with this message was rejected out of

hand been three cease fire proposals one by the egyptians one by the united nations one by the international committee for the red cross all three we accepted unconditionally we implemented them all three of which with the with the glib laws they couldn't care less attitude rejected and violated so i agree with you the this is a real tragedy the responsibility for which lies directly at the doorstep of hamas missing in action held at gunpoint and deported it all happened this week to u.k. journalist and r.t. contributor graham phillips he was detained in ukraine by security forces held in captivity for three days and then kicked out and barred from the country for three years he told us what else he had to go through during his detention. 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 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 and i was told that 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 false they were 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 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.p. use well they've taken out they've stripped all the passwords are now basically being tacked 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 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. at the time when phillips went missing ukraine's security forces said they had no information regarding his whereabouts they were also adamant that the military does not detain reporters and not on the country safe conditions for them here's what the spokesperson of ukraine security services to say. i know he's been taken hostage there's no information on as we're boats or whether there's a bounty on his head the ukrainian military don't prevent journalists. after the break views on booze find out how alcohol can be used as an instrument of social control and political manipulation that's an worlds apart but host oksana boy.

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a vacation you can't afford college different. your boss repeats the same old joke of course you like. your ex-girlfriend still tends to rejection poetry keep. norrish. we post only what really matters at r.t. to your facebook. hello and welcome to worlds apart alcohol one of the world's favorite vices is also a leading cause of death and though only should seek to control it can also be used as a means of money population well to discuss that i'm now joined by mark flow in trot and assistant professor of political science and author of the politics alcohol of

talk risky and the secret history of the russian state professor thank you very much for being here thanks for having me on the program now one of the main arguments in your latest book is that vodka has been used through all of russia's history as an instrument of social control reach is not really a controversial statement in and of itself because i think most governments concerned for their well being of their citizens have access. some sort of social control but what you seem to be arguing is quite the opposite that successive russian governments have intentionally encourage alcoholism as a way of filling state coffers am i reading you right yeah that's one element of this. the call revenues are essential part of russian state craft going back hundreds and hundreds of years well but i think if we go back a couple of a couple of hundred years let's say a nineteenth or even eighteenth century many states throughout the world used. to hold revenues to fill up their coffee.