politicians write the laws. just two. days. coming up on r t gas under siege a night of intense bombing from israel sans the death toll soaring plus the main power plant in gaza is taken out in the attack leaving many in the dark an update on the violence just ahead. and the area around the malaysian plane crash in ukraine is still not secure more fighting in the region is stopping international investigators from having full access to the crash site a report from ukraine coming up. and reigning in the end as say a new senate bill on capitol hill would curb the spy agency's collection of bulk phone internet data here in the u.s.

so does this bill go far enough to war on that later in the show. it's tuesday july twenty ninth five pm in washington d.c. i'm amir a david and you're watching r.t. america we begin with a developing story here in washington president obama announced a new round of economic sanctions today against russia over the ukrainian conflict i was joined earlier by our teasmade on lopez from the white house and i first asked her to break down this new plan for us. president obama spoke outside of the white house and said in no uncertain terms that he and the united states along with its european allies are going to be strengthening sanctions against russia they say that the sanctions that are already in place against russia u.s. sanctions that are already in place against russia are making a weak russian economy weaker and that they're hoping that this newest round of

sanctions will forced russia to actually cooperate and deescalating the conflict and let's hear from president obama himself in terms of these that these newest round of sanctions. today. and building on the measures we announced two weeks ago the united states is imposing new sanctions in key sectors of the russian economy energy arms and finance we're blocking the exports of specific goods and technologies to the russian energy sector we're expanding our sanctions to more russian banks and defense companies that were formally suspending credit that encourages exports to russia and financing for economic development projects in russia. now president obama in that same speech went on to say that he understands obviously that ukraine and russia have long lasting ties and that those times are going to continue economically business wise in the future he also went on to say that russia is quote isolating itself from the international community after

decades of genuine progress and not only pointed the finger at russia but specifically of president vladimir putin and do we know why the administration has chosen to do this now i mean what kind of message is president obama trying to send . the message obviously that the deescalation of this crisis needs to happen and soon now the reasoning and the timing that this kind of all came together has to do with those satellite images that were released on sunday from the state department those satellite as images that reportedly show russian rockets being fired over the border into ukraine at ukrainian military units that along with what the pentagon has been saying yesterday and has been saying today. which is that they believe that there is a massive build up along the russia ukraine border of troops and also that the flow of artillery and heavy weapons is still continuing to separatists in ukraine from russia itself so president obama president kerry are saying that the words that got a lot of your putin

a speaking are great but actions that need to take place now in order to deescalate the tensions that we are currently seeing between ukrainian separatists and the government all right r.t. magnum opus thanks for that update. earlier this afternoon the european union also decided to impose a fresh round of sanctions targeting russia's oil defense and tech industries peter oliver has more. governments have agreed on a new round of sanctions these will target shoots sectors of the russian economy we understand those sectors being things like the oil industry the defense industry financial sector as well as what's being called sensitive technologies as it stands at the moment though there's no exact wording on how these sanctions will be implemented what we do know is that it comes after the expansion of the individual sanctions list just last week you know these individual sanctions targeted private individuals as well as companies the difference between the two is that these new

sanctions will target sect is one of the russian economy to the sanctions will be reviewed in three months time so where is this does seem like the ratcheting up that sunshine's against russia the deal as it stands at the moment is a preliminary deal and we don't really know just yet what effect these sanctions will have on the russian economy and how they will be implemented i was r t correspondent peter oliver all right well russia has officially rejecting the photographic evidence presented by the u.s. allegedly showing russian artillery shelling ukrainian territory. has more on their response. some journalist received the satellite pictures which the u.s. presents as evidence of russian shelling into ukraine via e-mail but much of the world found out about it from the twitter account of the u.s. ambassador to ukraine one of the images according to u.s. officials shows russian self-propelled artillery in washer and the other part of

that same image u.s. intelligence determined shows craters inside ukraine indicating strikes from artillery the date on the picture is july twenty third these images have changed quite a few hands before they made their way into the embassadors tweets on all of these pictures you see the name of the company digital globe which is a commercial provider of satellite imagery and aerial photos the office of the director of national intelligence is said to have analyzed the pictures and written all these captions with their analysis and then they handed it to say department to be released twitter the spokesperson of the russian defense ministry had this to say such materials were posted on twitter coincidentally since it's impossible to establish their authenticity due to lack of exact reference to the location and the extremely low resolution. journalists now operate in an environment where both sides that is the u.s. and russia brushoff evidence put forward by the other u.s.

officials attack media that they're to even question the information that they put forward so r t came under yet another attack this time on twitter here's the u.s. embassy in washington responding to our news tweets about the satellite images it says considering who pays artists bills it's not surprising that are to questions validity of u.s. satellite evidence and then there's another tweet saying given some of the experts shown on our teats very hard to believe anything they say one has to wonder if the underlying implication is that everybody absolutely must believe everything the us government says and presents this evidence well there's not much questioning in the us mainstream media c.n.n. has learned u.s. intelligence satellites and radars have monitored repeated or chiller refire from the russian side of the border for the last several days in washington i'm going to check on our. dutch prime minister mark rue de has called ukrainian president petro poroshenko to ask government forces to stop fighting in the vicinity of the

malaysia airlines crash site this comes after aviation investigators said they were meeting obstacles in getting access to the scene for the very latest on the conflict let's go to our tease ronco zurab who's on the ground in eastern ukraine. fighting has certainly intensified in and around the city of donetsk in eastern ukraine now that city of gori of go was one of the heaviest hits and according to local authorities at least thirty one people had died as a result over tillery fire including eight children now people continue to flee that sound of to and one of the buses it's a reach the town of shots are square it was shelled once again and another child had been killed and twelve people were injured now that particular area is very close to the site itself the crash of flight m.h. seventeen it's on the ballot fifteen to seventeen kilometers away and the heavy

shelling continues there as well and kiev and government forces continue to blame each other for disobedience and said meanwhile the holy see the mission as well as the international police force including such as trillian nationals cannot get to the sites of m h seven seen for the third day in a row now all this is happening despite the announcement of a forty kilometer no call bad zone by president bush and called all this that is being violated said numerous times that as the international observing mission and the police force cannot get to the sites of the crash. i was r.t. correspond roman kosar have now in light of the recent downing of the malaysian airliner top officials from four international organizations men today in montreal to discuss risks to civilian aviation and conflict zones the meeting brought together representatives of the international civil aviation organization and

riyadh are groups that represent the world air carriers airports and air navigation service providers earlier artie's lindsay france joined us from our newsroom take a look. well when malaysia airlines flight seventeen went down on july seventeenth one of the first things people asked aside from how it fell out of the sky was why it was flying through that part of the sky to begin with after all eastern ukraine is a well known hot spot with rebels having bragged about surface to air missile capability just days earlier they had also reportedly taken down two ukrainian military aircraft in the region and the moments after news hit of flight seventeen crashing civil aviation regulators rerouted flights over that entire corridor today at a special high level meeting of the international civil aviation organization airline groups addressed safety and security problems for civil aircraft operating in airspace affected by conflict as international air transport association

director general and c.e.o. tony tyler stated overwhelmingly the system has historically worked but in his view the mh seventeen tragedy has highlighted two gaps that must be felt and once the cleaner accurate information on which to base operational decisions on where and when it is safe to fly. in the case remains certain ones we're told that flights are both thirty two thousand feet which of those ukraine would not be in homes where we now know how wrong. it's essential to receive clear guidance regarding threats to their passengers crew and aircraft this is useful to believe that states can be the excuses. you can sensitive information can be sanitized in a way that ensures airlines can essentially an actionable information without compromising methods. tyler insists that while governments are responsible for passing along information to the airlines the industry is ready to assist in every

way possible it's a major priority that can be addressed in the short term the second gap though may take longer to fill but it's just as important. there is no region national goal or convention this poses on states the duty to manage the design and manufacture of a deployed over anti aircraft weapons we have conventions to address chemical nuclear biological weapons prosecute explosives and who work in this trade generate . the certainty this demonstrated that postal sophisticated you don't hear a cough which really is in the hands of normal stated to today's. cruise leadership i'm confident that we can find ways within the united nations system to meet the international law framework to ensure that states fully understand and discharge their responsibilities i k.-o. is immediately establishing a senior level taskforce to address civil aviation and national security issues

which will investigate how best to collect and disseminate information pertinent to civil aircraft safety it will then can mean a meeting in two thousand and fifteen to review long term procedures and set them in motion and with hot spots in iraq syria libya and gaza heating up passengers the world over need new confidence that they're safe when they step onto that aircraft in the news or lindsey france or to. the u.s. has concluded that russia is violating a landmark arms control treaty by testing a prohibited ground launch cruise missile it's a finding that was conveyed in a letter from president obama to president putin late yesterday the issue stems from one thousand nine hundred eighty seven treaty that bans american and russian ground launch ballistic or cruise missiles capable of flying anywhere from three hundred to thirty four hundred miles that agreement was signed by former president ronald reagan and mikael gorbachev the soviet leader and at that time helped fuel the end of the cold war but the u.s.

is now alleging that russia conducted missile testing reaching the accord u.s. has expressed its concern in the past over possible violations but this is the first time that the administration has formally accuser. russia of violating the treaty though russia has long said the u.s. for their part has been pushing the lines with other deals they claimed were made during the end of the cold war just three years after this arms treaty russia claims the u.s. and its western partners said during negotiations that nato would not expand further to the east now this latest allegation comes as tensions high in between the two countries over an escalating conflict in eastern ukraine and the recently downed malaysian airliner. flares turned the sky over gaza city orange overnight in the heaviest bombardment from israel in the fighting so far today israeli defense forces struck symbols of hamas as control in gaza and fired tank shells that shut down the areas only power plant the fighting today claimed the lives of at least

one hundred palestinians bringing the death toll up to well over eleven hundred people in the last three weeks in that same period over fifty israelis mostly soldiers have been killed artie's harry fear is on the ground in gaza with more. we saw extraordinary scenes where the flares drops by the israeli military vos neighborhoods of smoke crossed the skyline an extraordinary number of flags it was an extraordinary scene it almost was not like the night anymore here we've seen significant strikes overnight people have called some of the instance massacres just north of here about two minutes drive from seoul the demolition of the home of the gaza try minister ismail haniya five minutes drive from here we saw attacks we believe after sixteen strikes on the top of the al sure route a media building on the top floor is hamas is t.v. station we also saw just

a few hours ago the targeting of basically gaza's main and only power station and this of course now is going to. plunge the electricity crisis of already very severe into a. downward trend we've been looking at the plight of those caught up injured and displaced as the hostilities continue it's meant to be a time of celebration the beginning of the islamic for the most of gaza's population its children are entirely deprived of stability and security for the. man has now power lies not even like a mother and two sisters killed it breaks. the seven year old when she died she woke up with new feeding. their kids they don't have any guns they don't have any they have lived in the dream i want to lay i want to go to. i

want to have a bit. there are children what these if. this is a country just along the corridor down the way it says his son undergoes surgery having lost a hand in the attacks his pregnant wife lost the baby. to top it off like hundreds of others they also lost their homes totally destroyed it strikes on the public neighborhood the palestinians are in a free way fatigued by this war it's bitterly felt during the supposed holy days now palestinians call this the marxists harry fear. still had here on our team trying to stop mass surveillance by the n.s.a. a new bill on capitol hill would stop the agency from collecting data of your phone calls and internet history more on this after the break. on marinating in the financial world. developments cannot stop is the only taken.

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live. all right now to the latest in the battle for n.s.a. reform senator patrick leahy introduced new legislation today that puts sweeping limits on u.s. surveillance through the usa freedom act here's leahy announcing the bill this morning this is a debate about americans' fundamental relationship with their government about whether our government you have the power to create massive databases of information about his citizens. or whether we are in control of our own government not the other way around the aggressive bill is seeking to address concerns that tech companies and civil liberties proponents have expressed about a previous house bill that passed back in may so what's in this new bill and can

realistically get passed before congress goes to recess in august i was going to earlier by r t producer tyrrell ventura to talk about just that and i first asked him what this new version entails. well senator leahy you know really went in and beefed up that initial bill he basically a bans bulk collection of data complete and it requires the government to kind of narrowly limit its scope into the you know into its of its collection and it makes clear the government cannot just kind of broadly collect all types of information relating to you know a specific service provider like an a.t.m. to your or horizon earth something like that and it can't do it for geographic region either so it can't just scoop up information the way it was from like a zip code or an area code or you know a city it has to very narrow it's perspective narrow its scope of all the searches what else is interesting is that both the original bill and lays bill that

basically says the n.s.a. would no longer systematically collect records of america's phone bills so that you know they instead stay with the phone companies rather than going to the government first you know so like the n.s.a. has to go to the phone company first it's the it's very all compassing bill and one of the really interesting parts about it too is that it's it puts on the fire as a core you know the very controversial secret to advise the court and it also puts in civil liberties advocates on that court now they can determine the outcome but at least they can make a case so every time the government brings a case to the pfizer court saying we need to collect data from this personally think that a more inclusive transparent disability can be there to say i could be stepping over something they can make an argument you are just going now as i understand it tech firms are much happier. a lot of qualms with the last one what assurances does this version provide them that the house version did not well it allows them to disclose to the public details of the requests they receive from the government

every time the government comes to them saying we need information from you regarding x. y. and z. you know they got a lot of heat from the american public saying you know why did you just hand this over to the government why are you just kind of a you know swinging wiser doorway wide open to them well now they can kind of say well we can share with you you know every time the government comes for to us we're going to court requests which is a very important thing for them very very well the trust issue. was referring to there. so are there any other additional protections that we have uncovered or you know i mean with the bill is it just kind of do we just received it today so people or you know kind of combing over it you know as much as they can and you know i think it's i think it's important just to know that like you know what is the first step you know this bill is a first it doesn't quite cover everything that we wanted but at least it's a glimpse of much media than the than the house bill that we've seen earlier and so far the main tension surrounding it as

a reform have been within the different committees not necessarily. you know aligned along party lines that's not really a democrat versus republican issue so the question is where is the opposition really coming from to to a bill like that all the opposition comes from congressmen and women who are very much kind of a part of the surveillance industrial complex you know the very hawkish members who say no no no we need to protect us from the evil terrorists out there you know they're the ones who really push back against bills like there's some reforms like this and also you know there's a lot of members who you know they get their money from surveillance systems naturally lobbyists and actually they're going to push back against a bill like this and we haven't heard from senator dianne feinstein on it i don't i think i have your but i assume she went to a person their job. it was saxby chambliss actually charged leahy you know he was basically saying that he it's going to be difficult to pass the bill in the senate because he wants a full complete debate millicent always got like

a week to get this bill through right now and he says he just doesn't want to hear you know senator leahy's side of it so you're seeing the pushback already from various minister and you mention this let's talk about the timing because we're inching really close to the august recess that all congress members are going to be taking can this realistically get passed and what happens if it does then well they can if they if they kind of you know put themselves in the gear and do it if it becomes a priority i mean leahy chose to kind of step commuting the right to the floor with the bill. leave the way congress is gone about you know their activities in the last two years i would be very surprised if we can get this passed by the end of the week you know it might be more of kind of way just saying look i tried to get it done they wouldn't let me do it what can i do you write a kind of question as one when they come back they have just two months until the midterm elections and then of cause of course a whole host of issues that they have to address at that point so they can could just get kicked down the road it could it could but i think it's important for the american public to write their congressmen and women if they agree with this bill

and if they want to support this bill to say hey mccook this to the forefront do what you can that this voted on may be the only way or right. tyrrel been to our producer thanks so much. and before we go don't forget to tune in and nine pm for larry king now tonight's guest is model turned t.v. host chrissy teigen here's a snippet of what's to come. did you like model. no. just do it it's a good living but it's boring it is it's not boring to me at all it's just i definitely think some are better at it than others and some are so good i have so much respect for the girls that are really good but me i'm the first to say i'm not a great good model which is a good model do that you don't do i think modeling is a lot of a lot of acting and for me i for instance i will i will never go into doing i'm never going to be like

a natalie portman someone that can really like channel things and become another per cent of the model is acting yes when you're doing that photo and you're doing that like you're channeling something with your eyes and me you're going to get the same boat every time it's either i mean it's me laughing at myself or it's a pretty one note. so tonight nine pm tonight here on our team america does it for now see right back here at eight. b. martin the stories we cover here here in iraq. there's a reason they don't want to do. it. now let's break the set.

google the words burn pits and agent orange together you'll get a lot of results here's why those words together are gaining in such popularity first the agent orange part of the search in vietnam the u.s. sprayed agent orange everywhere and the result was millions of vietnamese being born with birth defects still to this day massive ecological ruin and almost forty thousand u.s. soldiers claiming horrific health impacts from exposure to the herbicide even with overwhelming evidence to the contrary the department of veteran affairs outright denied that agent orange caused those health problems and let our vets suffer with no recourse decades later as the government copped to the truth about aging or just toxicity and started slowly compensating exposed soldiers with many people it was

too little too late so now on to the burn pits part of the google search the u.s. has had tons of troops in afghanistan right while create tons of waste so the u.s. spent millions to build incinerators and issued an order that they must be used for ways disposal but reports out of the special inspector general for afghanistan reconstructions office show that u.s. troops used afghan burn pits instead of the in a center raters so all of that waste which includes plastics batteries tires aerosol cans timelines and talks of waste was just being burned in open pits with all of our soldiers just walking around. in handling all that toxic smoke and guess what thousands upon thousands of vets all claim they got very sick from that exposure now let's connect the dots of that google search the v.a.'s airborne hazards and open burn pit registry went online last month where vets can register

exposure to burn past in hopes of receiving disability payments or medical help even though the registry's only been up a few weeks already about ten thousand that haven't been able to register due to technicalities or system glitches but worse than that the v.a.'s website didn't naively that exposure to burn pits can cause long term health problems just like they denied agent orange caused health problems in other words the us government's refusal to care for veterans exposed to burn pits mirrors its refusal to care for veterans exposed to agent orange and that's why the google search burn pits and agent orange now return so many hits government officials that are in advocates and journalists all around the globe are all starting to see afghan burn pits being president obama's version.