breaking news today. killing some fifteen people that's according to health officials. another round of sanctions against russia over the ukraine conflict. players for the. energy sector. the civilian casualty count of the ukrainian. offensive in the east of the country moving closer to the russian border . children.

international thank you for joining us today palestinian health officials say a un school in northern gaza has been attacked by israeli. he's got the latest. well this incident follows another heavy night of bombardment in gaza we understand over one hundred twenty palestinians were killed last night just in the last couple of hours we've had this incident of the united nations school being used as a shelter hit by israeli tank shells we understand more than one shell hit first the courtyard and also secondly part of the school which is primarily used by the female to go pupils we understand that civilians were of course sheltering in these

areas this shelling of united nations school constitutes the second act of violence against a u.n. school in less than a week last thursday united nations school in the north of the strip in beit hanoun was struck in similar circumstances of course. under contention with regard to israel and hamas both obviously giving different explanations for the violence but certainly on the ground we're seeing again continued hostilities of course and this is another significant incident now over five united nations schools are being caught up in the fighting which is now of course beginning. to move now and it's twenty day well yesterday we saw another significant incident which was the targeting of the fuel tanks belonging to gaza sole power station garzon has been suffering from fuel and electricity crises on and off for several years since the israeli and egyptian imposed siege began this now is obviously only going to worsen

the electricity crisis for civilians here in the strip well we've been catching up with some of those hit most horrendously with awful injuries in gaza's main hospital the hospital. it's hard to fathom how such a vast devastation can occur in three weeks of fighting. thousands of homes damaged or destroyed tens of thousands in tourney displaced and well over a thousand killed inside. oz's main hospital in its burns unit are a small fraction of the surviving injured this girl three years old. this raid is demolished the house of this family. so we deceived her mother two brothers with severe burns this morning this woman is a very severe condition she is presented to us about five days ago with her son and

her husband her son has been died with severe burns and she's still surviving with a very critical condition the doctors and nurses here look as stunned as the civilians who've survived in heavily bombarded areas it's hard to imagine how the medical staff can cope with these truly horrendous cases a human being if i see whole family is the killed under the rubble of their house the house. and these people and all the families killed. in one of the instances i had a child here he was all the time claim all his families he lost his father his mother his brother is a grandfather and all the time he's crying he wants it's further his mother so i closed the door of my office and i sat crying those that survived this war will have to bear the physical and psychological scars for years to come. as for what

weaponry is causing these injuries it's not entirely clear. it's very severe the magnitude of destruction of the of the human beings those ones are intended to kill. people the bodies and faces very early on the ground it feels as if during this war israel is fixed on stopping harasses rockets once and for all regardless of the incredible civilian toll. to. gaza. and the television channel has now broadcast a video showing how mass fighters in full trading israeli territory to attack a guard post five israeli soldiers and one house militant died in the shooting is ready troops responded by destroying the tunnel meanwhile the i.d.f. says its iron dome defense system intercepted two hamas rockets over. and uli

a former israeli air force officer she believes her country's tactics are very hard to conduct. i think that. to make a phone call or send a message or drop a tiny bomb minutes before you. destroy an entire house and to think that the fact that we noticed them five or ten minutes before you now sentence five or ten or twenty five people there is something. i don't think that even in times of war we can do whatever we want without boundaries when somebody speaks out against the actions of their government like you have there always be some people who consider you in some way to be betraying your native country what is the public reaction to what you've had to say and do you worry about any of the repercussions the reaction as you probably know in here. are not very gentle

but i'm not sure it's only the public we see when our officials in our government ministers government calls to raise. latin whole neighborhoods in gaza. well this is sort of violence that. have to you know to be drawn down to the people so the sentiment these days are very hard it's hard to make any criticism these days in the israel but they do believe that this is our obligation as the israelis who care about our future to make those statements and to speak out loud. and in new york demonstrators blocked a road in anger in israel's attacks against gaza a protest was next to the building which hosts the israeli mission to the un around one hundred people gathered to chant for an end to the violence twenty six of them were arrested after they refused to leave and anger over the years really offensive

also took hundreds to the streets in mexico's capital people shouting slogans and carrying banners in support of the palestinians there as well. thanks for joining us r.t. international the u.s. and e.u. have targeted russia's economy with a new set of sanctions washington accuses moscow of being reluctant to help end the violence in ukraine the details now with r.t.s. guy nature to. the previous round of u.s. sanctions targeting certain russian banks more were added to that list their punishment is that they will not be able to borrow from the way of school longer than ninety days 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 were 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. and because we're closely coordinating our actions with europe the sanctions we're now seeing today will have an even bigger bite president obama was asked if this threat shooting up of tension could effectively mean the beginning of a new cold war he disagreed he said he does not see another cold war coming but that's not the way many people see it there was a hearing in the u.s. congress several hours before the president's announcement or you could hear the usual voices calling for increasing tensions and pressure on russia and then there was this one congressman the chairman of the house foreign affairs committee who offered a different perspective you know after the soviet union fell there was a tremendous potential to making russia our friend have tremendous potential they withdraw their troops from eastern europe. the russians. were open to all kinds

of interacting and being coming part of the world community and a. tremendous opportunity i should say was squandered in the last few weeks we've seen. one after another not even related to the crisis in ukraine the u.s. has just announced its conclusion that russia violated an arms control treaty from nine hundred eighty seven american officials say russia tested cruise missiles as early as two thousand and eight there was a test filing off. but the united states agreed upon exists and therefore we have to waste a christian u.s. president why is he blaming the washington always sees things so this accusation. it's been years in the making but u.s. officials chose to formally announce this accusation now when the tension between moscow and washington is already high on the other side of the atlantic the u.k. government announced an inquiry into the death of alexander litvinenko that he was poisoned in two thousand and six in london whether or not that case will ever be

close to russia will be the headlines for weeks to come related to a murder case then in the netherlands the international arbitration court has ruled in favor of the shareholders of the defunct oil company and ordered russia to pay about fifty billion dollars in damages that lawsuit was ten years old now officials in all these countries say that decisions had nothing to do with the current tense political environment but the events did raise a lot of questions about timing let's have a look at the companies hit by the latest round of the u.s. sanctions v.t. b. is russia's financial behemoth it's the country's second largest bank also operating in the e.u. africa and asia its subsidiary that bank of moscow also included in washington's penalty is another target russia's agricultural bank which is completely government owned and these financial institutions won't be able to bank with americans at all also affected as the united. makes military and civilian vessels exporting to

twenty countries but economist max wolfie says u.s. may actually have a tough time trying to obey the new penalties it's a little bit hard to nail down exactly what there will be serious potential public relations as well as regulatory fallout so i do think you're going to see folks make a good faith effort to first understand what exactly this means and then to very quickly especially given again they're really short time frame here quickly be compliant with what they think exactly this means as it becomes hopefully more clear. and of this time the e.u. backed up america's sanctions european leaders agreed to target several sectors of russian economy including the finance and the energy sectors. are now joining me live with details here on r.t. international peter good morning to you what exactly have the e.u. leaders so far agreed upon well a year leaders have put forward sweeping sanctions against russia in

a joint statement the president of the european council home and van rompuy the head of the european commission or as in manuel but also said that these sanctions were intended to send a strong warning to russia where is previously sanctions imposed by the e.u. it targeted individuals or one particular company these are targeting huge sectors of the russian economy so what they are looking at is energy where russia will have restricted access to technologies in the financial sector would be blocking russian access to e.u. funds that are available and in defense a arms embargo banning both the import and export of weapons into or out of russia however any previously existing contracts won't be affected by that now the united kingdom has announced that it wants to push ahead with even further stronger sanctions against russia what we are expecting is later on wednesday to hear the full wording of the sanctions agreed on by all the e.u.

heads of government and the sides are expected to come into effect on the first of august will be reviewed after three months whereby they can be scrapped or continue depending on what european leaders decide how to correspond to peter oliver thank you now adul. blues' up to six billion euros worth of exports to russia trade between the two countries reached seventy six billion euros last year and around six thousand german for doing business in russia right now that are ultimately means that hundreds of thousands of jobs are potentially dependent on economic ties between the nations economist michael ross he told us that many in germany aware of the damage sanctions will call when you talk to the people on the street when you talk to people who have a run a business or executives in a big company there are not for this for this sentence i can tell is to you because

sanctions never a one way street and you have always a reaction to ascension and when it comes to this imposed sanctions or the sanctions it will be imposed on russia then of course the germans are the ones who are suffering was this easy for united states to shop for thing but the ones who are suffering are the germans or those countries who are close through russia because they naturally have the biggest business implications. you can read more about the previous rounds over european and american sanctions against russia. we've assembled all the details and analysis for you as well still to come here on the program it's also international a full charm offensive for african leaders in washington however we look at the elephant in the room which is driving obama's attempts to win the hearts and minds and influence across africa.

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really knows what's inside the feeling of fish. good morning from moscow totty international the ukrainian army is intensifying its offensive on two breakaway eastern regions it's reportedly added short range ballistic missiles to its arsenal in the area at least eight civilian deaths have been reported overnight including five residents of an elderly cat. i mean it was when you said leave. or you still got to go when you get there you can morning you . knew you would see you go through the conclusion. this is a different you know. we're going to. be

praised you know i found out what i want you didn't know when you exploded thought . to live a year ago you know you don't believe is that goal or what you are you know is that i will go up. this is. the. this is a part of you really for me to be. there for. me to me as it was the movie you know the truth was. i just felt and i don't have to rejoin nine children reportedly severely wounded when a mortar shell they found exploded an interior ministry official blamed anti government forces on the incident highlights the ongoing struggle to get children

out of the combat zones and we spoke to the russian commissioner for human rights who said obstacles are being put up to stop them getting to safety. we have made requests to the ukrainian authorities and always see representatives who are present there and to the red cross we ask all warring parties to grant us a humanitarian corridor to rescue children severe illnesses it's proving very difficult to negotiate this with the ukrainian authorities. and ukrainian conflict is now very close to the russian border a number of times shells have crossed the frontier already resulting in at least one death and international monitors have now arrived in the region next to the combat zones to observe the border crossings flooded with refugees and r.t. as a reminder course of rough now reporting from a russian village of forced to run and hide from the hostilities these people aren't at war with anyone and yet it's their homes that are being shelled. the

residents of this russian village say artillery and gunfire usually start when it gets dark forcing them to flee their homes for safety the ongoing conflict in nearby ukraine has now moved into their own backyard the residents here are able to see the fighters of the national guard without any special equipment this particular house is located right on the russia ukraine border right beyond that river. local deputies that's yana was born and raised here just like most of her neighbors she has relatives across the border in ukraine they're now coming to her side as refugees. civilization is still look at that a little bit of all the villages here are close to each other and some of them on here korean territory who have relatives there and when the bull dishes separated us would come true see them and they can see us as. locals have a chance to find shelter elsewhere in the region far from the area of combat but not everyone can just up and leave all gazing nurse at a psychiatric hospital and says it's hard to comfort her patients while the area

gets shelled by leo which in boats have the patients are scared it's hard to explain it all to mentally ill people would tell them its founder we hide under blankets and dive under the beds. it's hard for children as well to understand why their homes are being targeted but they already know what to do when hearing the sound of a rocket or gunfire one of the we went to the town to hide to escape from here there are huge barb attacks here. but each out the largest and very scared especially at night their window panes are shaking and i'm crying these youngsters seem to take the threat of shelling quite bravely but that's not the case in all the families on the other person. my daughter is so scared she doesn't even leave the house she cries and i even don't know how to help her russian border crossings with ukraine in nearby villages have been shelled numerous times over the last

month one civilian have been killed and several houses destroyed as these people are dragged into someone else's battle remonde costs are of artsy russian ukrainian border and ukraine's offered his are ready for a ceasefire and dialogue with anti-government forces. we say that it is more appropriate to try to resolve the underlying issues of the negotiating table than to continue a tit for tat violence or the message coming from the american state secretary john kerry offer he met with the ukrainian foreign minister a geo political analyst eric draitser thinks that kiev will use any poor as an all standard seeds to make territorial gains were not true there is the question of strategic and tactical necessity for having such a ceasefire now we've seen countless times the little bit in recent weeks that the iranian military is attempted to retake territory that they have mounted and since

in that they intend there are repelled or in other ways unsuccessful he'll just made a tactical decision along with its features in washington that if they cannot retake territory militarily then they will use diplomatic and political cover in order to achieve that goal this is a means of allowing terry run by to assert itself through the back door well misstate through the back door of a ceasefire. are just a few clicks of for us online and. horror in iraq the bombing could stream and release a video showing the mass executions they carried out in the area they declared as their own. and a top ebola and sierra leone's only specialist in the virus has died in a rough at least spreading outbreak of disease those details also at odds and done . in less than a week and historic u.s.

africa summit in washington will focus on strengthening america's ties with africa and many believe the real reason for the event is to target china's growing economic influence that iommi as a kiwi from the pan african newswire he believes china is well ahead in the battle for the hearts and minds. many african opinion makers and analysts have said that the relationship between china and africa and the poles the relationship between africa and the united states has many advantages for the african people the chinese interventions have resulted in infrastructural developments whereas there is a extensive history. explicated relations between the united states and other western european countries obviously the ascii characters i believe that the obama administration is late taking this initiative but i think it's very important for

him to be somehow in the hands the image of the united states on the after continent. ok to libya to open up the ati world update of the main special forces day in the city of benghazi has been seized by the militias after days of heavy fighting and after a battle involving rockets and warplanes killed at least thirty people also in libya italy has offered to help put out a blaze raging in the biggest oil depot in the capital tripoli huge fire started during the control of the international airport and heavy gunfire prevented firefighters from battling being fun. to china where heavy fatalities are being reported in a pre-planned knife attack in a predominantly muslim province a large gang filmed a police building and several government offices with knives and axes the police fought back shooting dead dozens of militants and a resting over sixty thirteen officers as well as several members of the public

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