coming up on our two a weekend humanitarian ceasefire ends and the holy holiday begins but today blood continues to spill in gaza an update on the conflict that seen the death be tween israel and gaza skyrocket just ahead. got enthusiastic ramble to get their finger trigger on the a k forty seven some of the u.s. sanctions on russia may cause a shortage of the high profile weapon more on that just ahead. and hundreds of thousands of guns paid for by the u.s. government for afghan afghanistan security forces have weapons already wound up in the wrong hands our tears covering the story later in today's show.

it's monday july twenty eighth at four pm here in washington d.c. and lindsey france you're watching or to america. palestinian and israeli casualties are rising as the gaza conflict reignites after a weekend low in the violence ten palestinians are reported dead after a missile hit a refugee park in gaza today hospital workers say nine of the victims were under the age of twelve gaza police claim is really missiles israeli military blames it failed rocket attack launched by hamas the palestinian death toll has now had more than one thousand according to the gaza health ministry most of those killed are civilians the israeli military reports that nine more of its soldiers were killed in separate attacks raising the israeli death toll now to above fifty over the weekend hamas had announced a halt to fighting ahead of celebrations to mark the end of ramadan the twenty four hour ceasefire extension failed to hold on sunday as both sides traded fire

fighting subsided during the day but explosions are now appearing across the gaza skyline argues harry 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 flossy has the infrequency he was actually assassinated 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 lahia 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 water. we we hear a sheltie and a scary in our in our quarters to evacuate our homes quickly my uncle he didn't evacuate don't because my his his wife gone out so we evacuated don't then and they've been coming and the airstrike will we hear a heavy how volk it's sixteen bomb 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 about

strong in that position wanting to gain concessions israel wants destroy hamas infrastructure the palestinians here. i'm asked once again concessions with respect to the siege of gaza the slicing continues on the civilian loss continues now with r.t. correspondent harry fear israel has now acknowledged it unintentionally bombarded the courtyard of a un school in gaza last week on sunday an israeli military spokesman released a short video he claimed showed that israeli troops did fire into the yard but it was empty at the time the video has not been independently very verified many weapons in israel's arsenal come from the us which is a major supplier artie's more important has more. 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 television 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 us has invested in warmest capital in building up israel's military might question ten has much less control that will influence over how tough it is using the american made missiles and guns it's hard to bring up or not r.t. me. a team of foreign police have had to abandon their efforts to reach the side of the malaysian plane crash in eastern ukraine they managed to reach the nearby town but ongoing fighting prevented them from getting any further according to a united nations report as of july twenty sixth the death toll stood had more than one thousand one hundred with more than three thousand four hundred wounded artist or man cos arrive is following the attempts of the group to reach the scene. international team of police force involved a straight in 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 gunfights despite the fact of the half agreed that they should be a ceasefire that was stopped short of reaching the side about twenty kilometers in that sound off scope where heavy fighting continues. and that gunfire is said very throughout the city as it people continue to from the area. now this is all despite the announcement by president bill to par schenkel off a no combat zone within forty kilometers off that area and out of town of shock tarski's only about fifteen to twenty kilometers away from that site so that was clearly violates it's a both sides are blaming each other for intense applying off the flights in the air 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 that was r t correspondent michael sorry the united states has released satellite

slides showing ground scarring from rocket a rocket launch site in russia in the direction of ukrainian military united across the border they were reportedly taken between last wednesday and saturday on sunday a telephone call between secretary of state john kerry and russian foreign minister sergey lavrov and with an understanding that despite disagreements fighting must be stopped artie's making lopez was at the state department today and asked about those images. another onslaught of accusations are coming out against russia this afternoon the u.s. state department is pointing to the release of a four page document with satellite images of eastern ukraine as evidence of moscow's tampering in the region these images reportedly show signatures of self-propelled artillery being fired over the russian border along with craters on the ukrainian side matching those for jack to really of that rocket fire the images are attributed to attribute it to u.s.

director of intelligence though they have not been independently confirmed or veracity state department officials say that the heavy shelling occurred between july twentieth and july twenty third after the downing of malaysian airlines flight seventeen and that these images unequivocally prove that russia is militarily involved in the region clear that russia has a significant influence over the separatists and could if it so desired get them to cease and desist so in that sense there is a clear and i'm going culpability by russia for events in eastern ukraine for failure to deescalate the situation and indeed for the context in which all of this happened including the shoot down of the airliner so let's take a look at some of these images now this one is from july twenty third in the report of the shows a variety of munitions being fired in the direction of the ukrainian military is a unit stationed in that region the document says that this type of artillery is only in the possession of one military in the region and that is moscow's this

image shows the before and after satellite images of an area that is riddled with craters in eastern ukraine from rockets with the ability that to travel over seven miles and this one shows the trajectory of another series of shellings which reportedly struck a local village now secretary kerry along with russian foreign minister sergey lavrov had a phone conversation over the weekend about. the ongoing and russians in ukraine during that conversation secretary kerry quote first told foreign minister allowed rauf to stop the flow of heavy weapons and rocket our telerate from firing over russia to train and to contribute to the deescalation of this conflict say at the state department spokeswoman jen psaki said this about these satellite images and we felt it was important to put this information out publicly it shows. by the separatists and with support from with russian artillery in this effort

as you know we've been concerned about that engagement and that escalation and this provides further example of that part of the timing of those documents released comes into question all along us where the images originally came from here's what spokesman seche had to say about those questions we wouldn't have put them out publicly if we didn't feel confident about the accuracy. we declassify information as we can to make it available to all of you and to the american public in the international community and that was the case here now these most recent revelations could have drawn implications for moscow the u.s. might be able to use this evidence as leverage to convince members of the european union to broaden their own sanctions or to add new sanctions against russia a notion that is looking more likely by the day reporting front of the state department maggie lopez. russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov has weighed in on

his thoughts on what western countries should be pushing for in this situation. i was listening to the media briefing. the foreign minister brought up the peace plan in ukraine saying there isn't why it failed this because the ukrainian government rejected dialogue would be a position of resorting and that simulates very force he also went on to brush off allegations that russia is sending weapons to government fighters across the border or highlighting russia's invitation to international monitors to go to those checkpoints and question where this is allegedly happening to see for themselves. invited european observers to russian border checkpoints with ukraine to observe the situation there been two weeks since died in the tension and u.s. or 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 transport and there will be all these accusations to know when it comes to the mh seven to the plane crash that it. calls for a full thorough and objective investigation reminding everyone that russia has presented its data regarding this tragedy and its expecting at so western counterparts partners to do the same and show their evidence as well now the foreign minister said it's still unclear exactly what to do and what it expects from it now as we know of course or more a sanction slapped on russia at this point when it comes to the economic repercussions although the sanctions. russia is confident that it will be able to overcome any hardships and in fact this could actually make russia become more moment independent and also stressed that russia will not be engaged in that.

i 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 hysteria we have dignity and we proceed from that the so-called enforce were also brought up and set a gale over all of us said that was certain the media are actually refusing to consider russia's of 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 all 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 is happening in ukraine and that the only thing that russia wants to achieve there is peace and the only way that this can be achieved accordance is that a deal of all of is through an all inclusive dialogue that was our chief correspondent in across the river the gun industry is already feeling the pinch after the u.s. pulled the trigger on sanctions against russia's eight russian firearms firms that

its gun shop owners are experiencing a run on their inventory of kalashnikovs or a k forty seven s stock threatens to dwindle arches manila manila chan reports. freezing our russian businesses with new sanctions are now making the kalashnikov concerns eight hundred forty seven the hottest gun in the market the obama administration imposed sanctions on many russian owned companies just over a week ago over claims that russia is backing and arming the separatists in eastern ukraine something that russia denies now one of those firearms targeted is the famed manufacturer kalashnikov concerned that produces arguably the world's most popular firearm forty seven i talked to nearly a dozen gun shop owners within the tristate area who normally sell the russian a k forty seven and their response was unanimous that when the news broke they sold out within days and one shop owner said that he sold out the same day now many of those

shop owners told me that they now have wait lists going for the remaining shipments coming in from distributors local gun distributors have made public statements on their web sites like this one from atlantic firearms stating quote notice to our customers please note due to the recent import ban on russian based a.k. firearms we are experiencing heavy order volumes please expect it to take approximately forty seven business days for any order to ship out to california orders may be slightly longer we're working hard to ship orders out as quickly as possible thank you now this of course is also dry. on these rifles that typically retail for just over seven hundred dollars private sellers and authorized dealers are now asking for north of a thousand dollars and they say it won't stop there some speculators estimate prices could even double as the rule of supply and demand goes supplies run short demand goes up now it should be noted that the russian version of these guns make

up only a fraction of a case sales in the united states on average importing approximately a quarter million units of these guys per year according to the bureau of alcohol tobacco and firearms other a k forty seven style weapons like the ones from china and germany will still be available as usual however customers for the russian rifle have expressed anger and frustration due to obvious price increases and the availability for now tensions between the u.s. and russia continue to grow and gun enthusiasts across the states will likely have to buy their kalashnikovs from the secondary market from washington manila chan r.t. . fast food giant mcdonald's has found itself on the battlefield with russian officials once again the federal consumer protection agency has lashed out at the fast food chain for what it calls sanitary violations found during checks are cheaper if an

ocean investigates the battle of the golden arches. precious consumer rights watch took is definitely not club in it and they stricker a drink is just one prolific in the firing line in may regional grandchildren also but i'm not sold watch the ones to check on one of the boss food chains outfits in nizhny novgorod not far from mosco and declared the caesar sandwiches wrap sandwiches and vegetable salad were contaminated with e. coli bacteria it also complained that to make those is deceiving people about the energy and traditional value of its cheeseburgers milkshakes and ice cream although the food giants denied everything officials are going to call it a new way to raised the possibility of further inspect a ship is included here in moscow and other russian regions and we can expect that some items could soon be taken off the menu russian officials though stress that they're not planning any kind of ban of the brand itself here in the country spain twenty five years since windows first came to russia it 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 insult in mass and just on them accusing mcgillis of posen in the russian people but others expressed their concerns about any possible ban complaining that they would be nice their favorite burgers they called will hold a preliminary hearing in august but the key here in. but well let's see. that was our chief correspondent marina crossrail. that was maria for notion of sorry about that still ahead here on our t.v. u.s. says it's leaving afghanistan by the end of the year i think leaving behind thousands of weapons that may have fallen into the hands of the wrong people at stories up next. on american in the financial world.

to series to goldman it's coming out starring citibank's only taken to its roots. but its new life there are there are. i'm happy martin the stories we cover here you're not going to hear any right other big story but have your that while there is a reason they don't want to do now that you never know what they're trying to raise that you don't think we. know let's break the set as the united states attempts to wind down its presence in afghanistan by the end of the year a newly released report from the special inspector general for afghanistan reconstruction has caused some to worry it finds that the defense department has not accurately tracked almost three quarters of a million weapons it purchased for the afghan national security forces or cheese and associates are going to joins us now from new york with more information but just how bad is the lack of oversight when it comes to keeping track of the weapons sent to afghanistan and what are some of the dangers here. well lindsay this u.s.

government office really released this report this monday that highlights really a staggering disorganization and a mess really when it comes to the way that weapons that are being shipped to of ghana stan are tracked and monitored this special investor special inspector general for afghanistan reconstruction are basically saying that the guns many of the guns that have been shipped to afghanistan seem to be really poorly tracked some of the numbers that they cite are that since two thousand and four the united states has shipped about seven hundred forty seven thousand weapons and other equipment to afghanistan at of an estimated price of about six hundred fifty six million dollars and this includes four hundred sixty four sixty five thousand small arms and the fear is that tens of thousands if not more of these arms the way they have been moved and shipped and where they are now is basically in

a very messy situation what they're saying is that the danger really is that considering the enormous amounts of money that is spent obviously u.s. taxpayer money on these weapons the fear is that they could end up in the wrong hands of course as you mentioned as the united states pulling out of afghanistan and plans to really have everything pulled out by the year twenty sixteen specifically they've discovered that just between two thousand and eleven and twenty thirteen over one hundred twelve thousand small arms were sent to afghanistan more than necessary and the fear is that while the number of personnel continues to recede the number of these unnecessary arms on the ground will grow. so why is there so much disorganization with something so important like this going on who's responsible for the day to day monitoring of these weapons when see that's really the most important question that seems to come to mind in this story and we have the d.o.d. saying that once the. weapons are out of their hands and in afghanistan it's up to

the afghan forces to monitor that but in fact according to the n.b.a. of twenty ten it is the responsibility of the department of defense to keep track and monitor what happens to the weapons that they're shipping overseas and what specifically the reason this mess is ongoing right now is because the department of defense in the u.s. uses these two systems one of the tracking shipping and the other tracking they're receiving weapons on the ground and it turns out that these two systems are not even linked together these two databases are not linked to each other and require me manual use and putting in information for every single weapon and the result is that this report has discovered is that information often does not match there is duplicated information and that really the database is incomplete and just to give you some more numbers that this report this review has discovered is that around four hundred seventy thousand serial numbers recorded in just one of these systems over forty percent of the information is missing or is duplicated so you can

imagine i mean obviously these are serious serious numbers and that they're basically saying that tens of thousands of serial numbers have no shipping and receiving dates so it's a mess and in afghanistan we also have a situation where this report has discovered that often the case is that the weapons and their whereabouts are basically tracked in a handwritten form or in excel sheets so obviously there's no you know unified system and that's what's been creating this this most sound sense to me i mean if this is all true it sounds to me like someone needs to take some. lessons the teacher said and i think this is cost one hundred one now this is not the first time poor accounting for weapons afghanistan has become a concern is there any evidence that maybe these weapons have already found their way into the hands of the wrong people there's certainly been quite a few reports throughout the last two years i mean this winter alone we heard from a nonprofit journalist group that said that they have evidence that corrupt police forces in afghanistan were. supplying taliban with some of these weapons we heard

in two thousand and nine from the general accounting office that serial numbers of forty six thousand weapons had basically not been written down at all and making officials in the us completely lose track of these numbers and this particular special inspector general for of get us down reconstruction they have previously conducted investigations into a food storage unit worth three million dollars that was never built a plan to plant soybeans that weren't even needed in afghanistan as the ended up saying worth thirty four million dollars so certainly lots of questions about the way this money is being spent and has been spent and certainly in the way the tracking of the spending has been conducted all right our to correspondent and associates in new york thank you very much. federal judge in washington d.c. is overturn the city's ban on carrying firearms in public judge frederick school in junior wrote in his ruling in palmer versus district of columbia that the right to

bear arms extends outside the home there for gun control laws in the nation's capital are quote unconstitutional this comes as a victory for pro-gun activist alan gura was the lead attorney in the case representing the second amendment foundation lawyers for the city are expected to appeal the decision the defendants in the case are d.c. city governments and police chief cathy lanier george lyon is a d.c. resident and registered gun owner who was one of the plaintiffs in the case on the heels of the really he says he feels gratified in vindicated that he now has the ability to protect himself and his family if need be d.c. police chief cathy lanier issued an order to police that residents are permitted to carry pistols if they are registered meanwhile d.c. mayor and other local leaders have both expressed their concerns to appeal the ruling and keep d.c. safe. but the bus is coming up next year r t aaron eight joins us now for a quick preview what you got for us hi lindsay thank you now coming up on boom bust dr yanis varoufakis is on the program today now he sat down with me earlier this

afternoon to discuss the latest happenings in and around the euro zone and david beckworth is weighing in on james a pedicure because his complaint about american conservatives obsession with inflation and their argument that it's under reported by the government it's all coming up sensitive all right thanks a lot thanks it does appear now folks from one of the stories we covered go to youtube dot com forward slash our team america check out our website arche dot com forward slash usa can also follow me on twitter at and t. friends say tune boom bust is coming up next. are you like me i want your comedy news listen to what your comedy used to be a bare breasted no holds barred fight to the dead. looking through the vampire lighting into the next of the corporate elite billionaire freaks while they're going. well that's what you get with my new show projected

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