that for a politician writing the laws and regulations to tax bankers. there is just too much rat is a society. that. coming up on r t breaking news more fighting tonight across gaza an update on the conflict that seen the death between israel and gaza skyrocket i had. begun enthusiastic travel to get there trigger finger on the a k forty seven some of the u.s. sanctions on russia may cause a shortage of the high profile weapons more on that just ahead. and hundreds of thousands of guns paid for by the u.s. government went to afghanistan security forces but have the weapons already wound up in the wrong hands or he's on the story later on today show.

evening it's monday july twenty eighth eight pm here in washington d.c. i'm lindsey france you're watching our team america. we begin with breaking news another night of intense fighting between israel and gaza all evening the sky over gaza has been lighting up with rockets and the sounds of explosions earlier today israel's prime minister urged residents in the gaza strip to evacuate saying the israeli military warns gaza militants that the worst is yet to come we've got pictures here from earlier showing actually this is live video we've got right here you can see the sky is lighting up with these rockets and some of the iron dome mechanisms going off over israel you can see the haze in the sky again this has been going on for a couple of hours now the latest violence comes as a palestinian and israeli casualties continue to rise ten palestinians were reported dead earlier today after a missile hit a refugee park in gaza hospital worker saying none of the victims were under the

age of twelve gaza police blame israeli missiles the israeli military blames a failed rocket attack launched by hamas the palestinian death toll has now hit more than one thousand according to the gaza health ministry most of those killed. for civilians the israeli military reports and 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 the celebrations to mark the end of ramadan the twenty four hour ceasefire extension failed to hold on sunday as both sides traded fire archies harry fear reports from gaza. one believed drone strike targeted one this did compensated by the missile also severely injured one other man as well children were killed in this strong strike this is largely understood to be a highly simply civilian residential area there is no talk of any militancy in this area eyewitnesses crew from the children or simply playing in the streets like it was a hole like this and putting it on the way scaped from my house i think it will close

the building but really soon one of those three chucked it but if we wait ten to twelve the choice of the three told minutes. is in the streets she didn't tell him. it's just from the side a lot was some of the testimony from the eyewitnesses to all three hundred routes to eye from this area where we believe a drone missile struck and killed these children so it's highly unlikely that someone could be a night of calm even though today was relatively calm especially given the context of it being the first day of the holiday for palestinian muslims. that was 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 that he has not been independently verified many weapons in israel's arsenal come from the united states which is a major supplier artie's marina has more. while u.s. president barack obama has joined the global force 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 according 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 miss capital in building up israel's military might she intended as much less control little influence over how tough it was using the american made missiles and guns it's hard for her in a fortnight of r.t. me. the united states suspended diplomatic activities at its embassy in libya over the weekend as fighting intensified between by the militias the two thousand and

twelve attack on the u.s. mission in the eastern city of benghazi is still fresh in many people's minds as the administration moved u.s. diplomats to neighboring tunisia under u.s. military escort the department of state has also warned u.s. citizens against all travel to libya. and recommended u.s. citizens currently in libya to port depart immediately today a huge oil depot in the libyan capital tripoli caught fire on monday amid clashes between warring militias over control of tripoli's international airport and a statement posted online libya's interim government appealed for international help saying the fire could trigger trigger a humanitarian and environmental disaster in the city with its 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 beyond going fighting prevented them from getting any further according to a united nations report as of july twenty sixth the death toll stood and more than one thousand one hundred with more than three thousand four hundred wounded arches

were meant koester of is following the attempts of the group to reach the scene. international team of police force 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 for you to drop by gunfire it's despite the fact of you have agreed that they should be a cease fire that was stopped short of reaching the site about twenty kilometers in that sound off. where heavy fighting continues. and the gunfire is said very throughout the city as if people. in the area. now this is all despite the announcement by president buildup are schenkel off an old combat zone within forty kilometers off that area of the town of shock tarski's only about fifteen to twenty kilometers away from that site so that was clearly. a

both sides are blaming each other for intense supplying off the fighting near the crash sites of malaysia airlines flights and meanwhile the always see an international team of experts are still trying to get to the side of the tragedy. that was our correspondent. the united states has released satellite slides showing ground scarring from a russian rocket launch site in the direction of ukrainian military that is just across the border it reportedly was taken the images that is between last wednesday and saturday on sunday a phone call between secretary of state john kerry and russian foreign minister sergey lavrov and then with an understanding that despite disagreements fighting must be stopped parties making lopez was at the state department. another onslaught of accusations are coming out against russia this afternoon the us 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 this for jack to read of that rocket fire the images are attributed 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 unequivocal prove that russia is militarily involved in the region it's 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 ongoing 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 and fourth and 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 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 to travel over seven miles and this one shows the trajectory of another series of shelling which reportedly struck a local village 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 public. 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 this 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 well we wouldn't have put them out publicly if we didn't feel confident about the accuracy. classify 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 brought on implications for moscow the u.s. that 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 in front of the state department maggie lopez our take russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov has weighed in with his thoughts on what western countries should be pushing for in

this situation archies marina closer it was listening to the media briefing. the foreign minister brought up the peace plan in ukraine saying the reason why it failed is because the ukrainian government rejected dialogue with the opposition and resorting instead to military force he also went on to brush off allegations that russia is sending weapons to government why there's across the border highlighting russia's invitation to international monitors to go to those type points in question where this is allegedly happening to see for themselves but she . wouldn't invited european observers to russia in order to check points with ukraine to observe the situation there well it's been two weeks since died in the taishan 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 one international experts do finally get there they will see for themselves that there is no arms transportation and they will clear all the baby back to safety so they know when it

comes to b.m.i. said into the plane crash that a gallon of various weights of russia's calls for a full fair and objective investigation reminded everyone that russia has presented its data regarding this tragedy and its expecting as 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 the west wants russia to do what it expects from it now as we know of course more sanctions slapped on russia at this point when it comes to the economic repercussions all the sanctions citadel of. russia is confident that it will be able to overcome any hardships and in fact move could actually make russia become more economically independent and also he stressed that russia will not be gazing and. will not act for tat will want to treat the situation with a clear head our president has already said we cannot ignore this but getting

hysterical and responding with a backlash is beneath a large country. we do not want any hysteria we have dignity and we proceeded from back to the so-called end for wars were also brought up and set a gale over all of us that was certain the media are actually refusing to consider russia's over and over 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 a conference by sayin 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 according to sort of deal overall is through an all inclusive dialogue. that was r.t. correspondent. we're following more breaking news now the already tense relations between moscow and washington seem to be growing according to the associated press president obama sent russian president vladimir putin a letter today accusing russia of violating the one nine hundred eighty seven regen

gorbachev missile treaty the white house and the kremlin are both not commenting at this time stay with r.t. for more on this breaking story throughout the night. meanwhile fast food giant mcdonald's has found itself on the battlefield with russian officials once again the federal consumer protection agency in russia has lashed out at the fast food giant for what it calls sanitary violations foundering checks our g.'s maria financial investigates the battle over the golden arches. russia's consumer rights watch dog is definitely not loving it and they cigarette drink is just one folder in the firing line in may regional broncho but also but they're not sort of watch the ones to check on one of the fast food chains outfits in nizhny novgorod not far from most current declared the caesar sandwiches wrap sandwiches and vegetable salads were contaminated with e. coli bacteria it also complained that to make the list is deceiving people about the energy and nutritional value of its cheeseburgers milkshakes and scream

although the food giants denied everything officials are going to call it a new way to raise the possibility of further news including here most wanted 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 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 quite insulting mohsen just on them accusing mcgillis all of posing 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. if that was our tism or if. the gun industry is already feeling the pinch after the us pulled the trigger on sanctions against eight russian arms firms gun shop owners are experiencing enron on their inventory of kalashnikovs or a k forty seven does they're known as stock threatened to dwindle artists know what 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 tri state 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 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 driving up the prices 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. . as 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 worry it finds that the defense department has not accurately tracked almost three quarters of a million weapons purchased for the afghan national security forces artie's i'm such a chicken i joined us earlier from new york i started by asking her just how bad this lack of oversight was. well lindsay a u.s. government office really released this report this monday that highlights really a staggering disorganization and 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 have get a stand out 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 there 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 well 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 twenty 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 deal that once the. 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 major 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 depleted 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 hand written form or in excel sheets so obviously there's no human 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 takes an excel spreadsheet lessons

they teach it 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've 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 afghanistan 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 are to correspondents and associates in new york thank you very much. a federal judge in washington d.c. is overturn the city's ban on carrying firearms and public 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 unconstitutional this comes as a huge victory for pro-gun activists lawyers for the city are expected to appeal the decision the defendant in the case d.c. city government and police chief cathy lanier 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 the desire to appeal that ruling that does it for now for more of the stories we covered go to youtube dot com slash our team america or check out our website our to dot com slash usa you can also follow me on twitter lindsay france for now have

a great night. dramas that can't be ignored. stories others the few still notes. this is changing the world right now the. old picture of the states needs long distance from around the globe in the broken duck to fifty.

despite clear public outrage the surveillance state keeps growing the n.s.a. has prism the police have cameras everywhere our tech companies watch every word we type we're being watched more than ever and now that terrible trend is starting to invade our most private of space through the bathroom there's been a rash of news stories lately about employers hiding cameras in bathrooms to spy on their employees a hidden camera was just found in a cleveland t.v. news station bathroom apparently someone had been vandalizing the men's room so someone at the station put a hidden camera there to find out who the culprit was the same things happened at

wal-mart at duane reasons so many employers have been caught putting cameras in bathrooms to watch their employees many states have laws explicitly prohibiting cameras in bathrooms or any areas where people have a reasonable expectation of privacy and that includes employees or customers but even without an explicit monitoring wall state tort laws can be invoked to protect privacy where it's reasonable to expect it but the expectation of privacy in the bathroom. seems to be clear leave dying out at least from a legal perspective as proof just look to a judge's ruling in virginia dennis smith the owner of calabash seafood restaurant and midway lounge installed a surveillance camera in his men's bathroom right above the stall as a way to catch pandal smith maintains the cameras weren't pointed right at the toilet or the urine oh so it wasn't an invasion of privacy however someone went

into changes clothes in the bathroom thinking it was a private area and the whole thing was filmed by the camera so smith was arrested for unlawful videotape but the judge in the case just ruled in favor of and then the judge actually agreed with smith's reasoning that since the person changing was not in a stall technically if the bathroom door swung open anyone could have seen him so most of the bathroom is as good as a public space so smith got off and the judge just sat and in a president last only allowing for cameras in bathroom so i was outraged as we might be the cameras are on us everywhere we go it's only getting worse the surveillance state continues to grow and it's throwing our privacy right into the toilet.