think. our headlines this hour an international police team is forced to turn back on their way to the malaysian plane crash site in eastern ukraine as heavy combat derails their fresh attempt to reach the scene. the number of civilians killed in army shelling grows with an entire family including a small child among the latest to fall victim to the bombs which are targeting residential areas in the city of. russian's foreign ministers say a small school is not going to impose a tit for tat measures in response to the ever growing clutch of sanctions from the west. and also this hour medics in gaza say seven children were killed in an

earlier raid on a refugee camp while in israel four soldiers died in mortar fire as the standoff with hamas escalates. it's just gone eight pm this monday evening here in moscow you're watching r t international my name's union o'neill welcome our top story a team of foreign police have had to abandon their efforts to reach the side of the malaysian plane crash in eastern ukraine now the managed to reach the nearby time but the going fighting prevented them from getting any further the army's waging an offensive on local militia there the spike declaring a forty kilometer no combat zone around the. cost service following the attempts of the group to reach the scene. international team all police force involving in australia and the netherlands nationals are unable to reach the crash

site still flight m h seventeen for they second day in a row would be are sick and tired of being interrupted by gunfire it's despite the fact of you have agreed that there should be a ceasefire but were stopped short of reaching the site about twenty kilometers in that sound. where heavy fighting continues tillery and that gunfire is heard throughout the city as that people continue to flee the area. now this is all despite the announcement by president build up our schenkel combat zone within forty kilometers all of that area another town of shock because only about fifteen to twenty kilometers away from that site so that was clearly violated both sides are blaming each other for intensifying off the fighting near the crash sites of malaysia airlines flights and meanwhile the always see and the international team of experts are still trying to get to the side of the tragedy.

and we're getting reports that five civilians have been killed in the eastern ukrainian city of lugansk one of the hubs of kiev resistance and the main target of the ukrainian military ivy's are the pictures we're getting from the city via ponty show a large residential building being hit by a shell local officials are claiming many other voices were damaged as well in its most recent report the u.n. is raising the alarm over the growing number of civilians killed in the region by artillery fire which has been hitting residential areas. earlier human rights watch confirmed the use of on guided ground rockets and eastern ukraine condemning its use in populated areas the body urged both sides to stop using the weapon if they're serious about limiting harm to civilians while the ukrainian president claims about a month ago that kiev forces will never allow themselves to use force against the civilian population and that's actually

a quote that's been brought up by russian's foreign minister lavrov when he recalled petro poroshenko saying the threatening women and children is against the night's nature of the ukrainian army well unfortunately it appears more and more civilians are being caught up in the violence here is how the front line in eastern ukraine currently looks like kiev forces are closing in on the cities controlled by local militia and we're getting reports of residential areas coming under fire in those government strongholds almost every day now the talk of a lot of surrounded by kiev troops the scene some of the worst spikes of violence recently we're about to show you what happened there after it came under heavy fire on sunday and we have to warn you the images are extremely graphic screw. loose women. who are. still.

used to would you do. now as you've just seen the young couple on their child were killed there and they were among the thirteen civilians who died on sunday ukrainian forces say they're planning further attacks on the militia controlling the city later today there's a local residents a kind of the previous deadly strike which hit residential areas who was. 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 onto 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. human rights activists

are calling on both sides in the ongoing conflict in ukraine for restraint to put an end to civilians being caught up in the fighting wherever it's appearing difficult to get that message across in the ukrainian media isha recent interview of a senior researcher from human rights watch by one local t.v. channel q one that eyes which really should not say which is real sort of secretly and surely. not when the. device will be wired to work it would be. similar to an assault on the illegally needs another that is not said it is not the presentation of us. on the news the not. going to sort of want to put it in the current regime because you get out the coconuts and you wake up studio people want to hear lucky up. from a lot of food curators to put a little sugar in the biggest about the what you and then push the premium to give them a hook to keep us to shit still even though he was leaving out of it when you know

it was the out of the world. russia's foreign minister says western countries should be pushing for an immediate unconditional cease fire in ukraine really cost rebels listening to serve briefing to the media take a listen the foreign minister brought up the peace plan in ukraine saying there isn't a why it failed this because the ukrainian government rejected dialogue with the opposition of resorting and that simulates very force he also went on to brush off allegations that russia is sending weapons to government why there is across the border a highlight saying russia's invitation to international monitors to go to those points of question where this is allegedly happening to see for themselves. salute . your opinion observers to russian border checkpoints with ukraine to observe the situation there well it's been two weeks since that invitation and u.s. british and ukrainian diplomats have taken efforts to convince them. not to accept

that offer the foreign minister said that he hopes that when international experts do finally get there they will see for themselves that there is no arms transportation and they will clear russia all of these accusations going on when it comes to the mh seventeen a plane crash that a lot of reiterated russia's calls for a full thorough and objective investigation reminding everyone that russia has presented its data regarding this tragedy and its expecting at western counterparts partners to do the same and show their evidence as well now the foreign minister said it's still unclear exactly what the west wants to do or what it expects from it now as we know of course they're more a sanction slapped on russia at this point when it comes to the economic repercussions all of these sanctions. said that russia is confident that i will be able to overcome any cannot make a hardships and in fact this could actually make russia become more economically independent and also he stressed that russia will not be engaged and for tap

matters. tant want to treat the situation with a clear our president has already said we cannot ignore this but getting hysterical and responding with the backlash is beneath a large country and we do not want any his styria we have dignity and will proceed from that the so-called enforce were also brought up and set a gala for all of us said that western media are actually of a few cents to consider russia's a version of events and what's troubling him the most that the minutes is the fact that regulators in the u.k. are trying to climb down on artsy is that coverage of the ukrainian crisis and he wrapped up the conference by saying by saying it's really important right now to show the full picture of what has happened in ukraine and that the only thing that russia wants to achieve there is spins and the only way that this can be achieved according to set a goal of all is through an all inclusive dialogue russia's defense ministry says

that soft light images released by washington as evidence that russia has been firing across the border into ukraine are fake according to the u.s. the images show blocks marks on the russian side an impact craters on the ukrainian side moscow says there are no precise coordinations on the pictures and they cannot be authenticated plus inspectors from various countries including the u.s. have been on the ground but find no evidence of russia violating ukraine's border while former white house official paul craig roberts dutch the credibility of washington's latest allegations someone needs to air state did they use your information. by email early on a sunday morning this is a completely dead time in news now many american cities aren't even up yet so i insist go los angeles seattle it's still early hours in the morning so. if this was released by the state which i doubt it's so unprofessional i was

a assistant sector the united states treasury i was added to the wall street journal this is not the way important news is released ever moscow maintains its forces are not firing into ukraine while on the country there's been sporadic shelling of russia's rust off region which lies along the border a russian civilian was killed and several others wounded during one such attack on july thirteenth the military says at least nine such strikes have taken place and moscow believes the attacks are deliberate on as the mind of an explanation from kiev which denies any involvement. and i do say with r.t. for the latest updates on ukraine you can also get more news on analysis on our web site r.t.e. dot com meanwhile still to come in the program this hour. libby hague orders russia to pay more than fifty billion dollars to shareholders of. oil heavyweight you

calls to bring you more expert opinion on the controversies all of the ruling very shortly. play. little. league. play a little play a. little. cross talk rules and if it doesn't you can jump in anytime you want.

play. cut cut. cut . back to the program now at least seven children have been killed after more rockets were showered on a ghastly refugee camp by israel not according to palestinian medics reports say the main palestinian hospital was also hit although israel has denied responsibility meanwhile four israeli soldiers were killed in fresh mortar shelling the u.n. security general reiterated his appeal for a cease fire calling on both sides of the conflict to renew

a humanitarian truce the masada earlier and a halt to fighting ahead of celebrations to mark the end of ramadan but as before both sides fail to observe the truce hearty fear reports from gaza. this is meant to be a day of celebration giving the islamic context of a holy holiday about really on the ground palestinians are extremely fatigued by this conflict which has caused incredible civilian loss almost everyone you speak to quite literally knows a relative or has themselves directly been caught up in the operation which is lost of course over twenty days and killed hundreds of women and children we've seen hospitals hit directly or indirectly and of course hundreds of homes just a few days ago a taxi driver that the crew here in gaza forty has been frequenting he was actually assassinated says by a drone missile

a few hours after we were using him for filming a report for r.t. the place looks like an incredible war zone i'm joined now by siobhan he is a resident of beit lahiya in the north area of the gaza strip just a couple of days ago his home was demolished by israel can you tell us what happened. in the morning as we were taking the water so we we hear a shelter and a security in our in our quarters to evacuate our homes if weekly he either didn't evacuate don't because my his his wife or not so we evacuated don't then and they've been coming and strike home we hear our heavy how volk if sixteen bombs in our homes we found my cousin he's dead. and my my cousins some of my cousins were injured in this bomb we are not hamas and we are

not just by the senior both of the parties israel and hamas are both strong in that position wanting to gain concessions israel wants to store hamas infrastructure the palestinians here. mass want to gain concessions with respect to the siege of gaza the fighting continues on the civilian loss continues. and israel has now acknowledged it intentionally bombarded the courtyard of a un school in gaza last week but it denies it's responsible for at least fifteen deaths they're seeing the compound was empty at the time of the strike many weapons in israel's arsenal come from the us which is a major supplier to the i.d.f. marine airport i explained. while u.s. president barack obama has joined the global course of world leaders calling for an immediate cease fire in the middle east the un fortunate irony is that america has provided most of the weapons the israeli military is currently using to wage war on to gaza washington is the largest single supplier of military equipment to tell of

the as of two thousand and nine israel receives more than ninety five percent of its weapons from the united states that's according to britain's former foreign minister david miliband israel also remains the top recipient of u.s. international aid receiving three point one billion dollars in annual foreign military funding during the most recent budget year the us provided two hundred thirty five million dollars towards the production of israel's iron dome anti rocket system and nearly three hundred million dollars of additional u.s. funding towards other missile defense programs these figures are warning to u.s. congress's own think tanks since israel launched operation protective edge three weeks ago hundreds upon hundreds of palestinians have been killed and according to the u.n. one out of every three killed in gaza is a child an additional one hundred forty thousand civilians on the strip have been

displaced and while the u.s. has invested in her mr capital in building up israel's military might in ten has much less control little influence over how tough it is using the american made missiles and guns it's our. artsy. more stories on line few on our website including the u.k. will-i fracking and national parks and her sites but only in exceptional circumstances half of the is now open to shield gas drilling the spike growing public concerns over the environmental impact read more on our website. also with this mom is believed to be the first american to blow himself up in a suicide attack in syria wants the final footage from a lie before he carried out his deadly attack on our t.v. dot com. france the u.k.

germany and italy have urged their nationals to leave libya with the country currently being ripped apart in battles between rival militia it comes after a vehicle evacuating diplomatic items from the war torn country was ambushed and sprayed with gunfire more than one hundred fifty people have died during two weeks of clashes in the country the fiercest fighting was for control of tripoli or a port critics say the evacuation of foreign nationals could mean a loss of face especially for parlous in london which supported the overthrow of gadhafi on the implementation of democracy while the two do have reasons to be disappointed according to data released by defense on listen twenty eleven the estimated cost of intervention for the u.k. was three billion dollars while the french daily published a report saying france was due to receive a thirty five percent slice of the oil from rebels in exchange for its support of the revolution and for more all not i'm joined live by defense consulted maureen

thanks indeed for joining us now libya is witnessing one of the worst spikes of violence since colonel gadhafi regime was toppled with us you can french military support who's to blame for the current chaos. well the killer is obviously down to nato nato has. promised to freedom democracy and the only freedom that gotti is the one to kill each other this is all down to nato and all the member states obviously are banding shipper when the going gets rough. much of a blow is the current situation in libya for european countries in terms of oil supply in the fact that a democratic solution now really looks to have failed well this is not really a blog for nato member states because their ultimate intention is to split the country into two so they can control the oil rich east they really couldn't care

less about the western part of libya it doesn't have any oil refineries of any oil reserves in the western part of the country so this really works in the best interests of big petroleum splitting up the country and allowing for girls to rain so they can come in and save the day now u.n. report argues that the proliferation of weapons to and from libya is the main cause of instability in the country to agree with that sentiment. oh yeah completely because there's the whole region is now unstable then we know that the americans were planning for shipment of arms out of benghazi to syria so there's a lot of arms that are supplied by the u.k. france and the united states into libya and twenty eleven twenty twelve and a lot of those arms are found their way into syria. probably central african

republic need jenny jones another potential hot spot in the future algeria so yeah it's completely chaotic around the region and in the middle east at the moment now on thursday night we know that the prime minister abdullah al finney was refused permission to board his own plane and leave the city for the east so really who can handle this chaos if the current government is trying to flee itself well the government's not in control of the country anyway i mean every few months there's a new prime minister and this is obviously how it's worked in favor of nato again because their prime ministers people who are not known in the country at all so the kills is going to be under the control of the rebel movements in the country and particularly the libyan islamic fighting group. and other extremist

groups in benghazi. misrata and tripoli and tripoli is going to is falling already with the airport. that you report to the. defense consultant moin or if we appreciate your take this hour. america's spying agency has been increasingly sharing sensitive data with the saudi regime that's according to a top secret memorandum on feel recently by fugitive whistleblower edward snowden according to the document the cooperation is a two way street providing riyadh with on a little technical support in washington with information on iran's military and al-qaeda is movements and the arabian peninsula intelligence analysts glenmore trainee or harvey is not convinced the whole initiative is just the by boosting security the thing is that it has been a carer's information that has been given his the two but isis has been declared

a terrorist organization yet the saudis have been supporting them and one step removed the americans have so it is slightly bigger as to say that all the americans are doing is supporting terrorism we can see the lie that. time for more news from around the world now a wildfire in a california national park quadrupled in size overnight attacking two communities and forest an el portal the blaze has so far destroyed one home on the endangered areas have been evacuated two shelters have been set up for people forced from their homes this is the second wildfire in the area firefighters are battling flames in the north of the state which have already destroyed hundreds of homes. dozens of people have been trapped on two buses after heavy rain caused flash flooding in eastern china the floods cause more than ten vehicles and two buses

filled with civilians to be trapped on a low lying section of road firefighters took forty minutes to rescue the passengers. the arbitration court in the hague has ordered russia to pay more than fifty billion dollars to the former shareholders of the oil giant you cos the ruling marks a milestone in the more than a decade long legal process according to the ruling you cos owned by former tycoon mikhail khodorkovsky was in fact appropriated by the kremlin that contradicts moscow's claims that the business was split off in accordance with market regulations for ten days to appeal the court's decision one analyst told us the ruling is just another ball in the political games being played. it strikes me as a very political decision the west manages to create this illusion of play of rule of law of staring is in the judicial process and this is a joke mr holder cold ski and he is he's have been found guilty not only in russian

courts but is that guilty sentence for tax evasion and fraud was uphill by the european court of human rights it is outrageous that anyone should imagine that russia is going to pay sixty billion dollars to these criminals. fast food giant mcdonald's has found itself from the battlefield with russia's officials wants again the federal consumer protection agency has lost start up the chain of restaurants after numerous violations were found during checks for national investigates russia's consumer rights watch to its definitely not club in it and they cigarette drink is just one project in the firing line in may regional broncho for office but they're not sort of watch the ones to check on one of the fast food chains outfits they need no good not far from most current declared to the caesar sandwiches are up sandwiches and vegetable salads were contaminated with e.

coli bacteria and also complained that to make those is deceiving people about the energy and nutritional value of its cheeseburgers milkshakes and ice cream although the food giant denied everything officials are going to call it a new way to raised the possibility of further inspect a she is included here mosco and other russian regions and we can expect that some items could soon be taken off the menu russian officials though stressed that they're not planning any kind of ban of the brand a child here in the country spain twenty five years since may those first came to russia has opened more than four hundred restaurants all across the country and these latest developments have met a mixed public reaction in some russian cities people took to the streets calling on the authorities to shut down the chain restaurants they were carrying banners with white insulting masson just on them accusing dollars all for poisoning the russian people but others expressed their concerns about any possible ban

complaining that they would be nice their favorite burgers they quote will hold a preliminary hearing in august but the key hearing is likely to happen in september well let's see. coming up next peter lavelle and guess the scuffs what israel is to achieve with its assaults on the gaza strip bus and cross talks there with us. well. technology innovation all the least of elements from around russia we've. covered iran like syria has been george very harshly on the constant sad. isn't it justified the it's not pursuing the. you know raising the spectrum of person never going to leave you on the. same time as he was developing nuclear weapons and.

recently did they want to see. me before. we would be stupid not to take you to. please. follow and welcome the cross talk with all things considered i'm peter lavelle in the crosshairs as israel appears to be preparing for still another assault on the gaza strip on this edition of cross talk we asked how it got to this point and what israel hopes to achieve.