the old saying i and the rest. will be if we. round fifteen people reportedly killed after israeli tanks opened fire on the united nations school in garza. washington in europe to launch another round of sanctions against russia or over the ukraine conflict targeting key players in the financial and energy sectors. of the civilian casualty count climbs as the ukrainian army intensifies its offensive in the east of the country moving closer to the russian border prasco is struggling to get children out of the combat zone.

and you're watching r.t. international. palestinian health officials say that a un school in northern gaza has been attacked by israeli tanks fear who's in gaza now brings us the latest. well this incident follows another heavy night of bombardment in gaza this incident of the united nations school being used as a shelter hit by israeli tank shells or understand more than one shell hit the 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 un school in less than a week last. united nations school in the north of the state 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 stuck in course up in the fighting which is now of course beginning. to move now and it's trying to day well yesterday we saw another significant incident which was the targeting of the fuel tanks belonging to gaza sole power station gaza 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 al-sharif 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 internally displaced and well over a thousand killed inside gaza's main hospital in its burns unit are a small fraction of the surviving in. this girl three years old. this raid is demolished the house of this family. so we deceived the girl her mother two brothers with severe bells 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 and husband died with severe burns and she is 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 families 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 could see lost 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 off the top 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. as we are having is very severe the magnitude of destruction of the of the human beings those ones are intended to kill mass mass casualties of people bodies and faces are bearing very

badly on the ground it feels as if during this war israel is fixed on stopping her master's rockets once and for the darkness of the incredible service that all. the . guards. and her fear went to the un school that was attacked and spoke to witnesses there you can read his comments and updates online on his twitter feed. the television channel has broadcast a video showing hamas fighters infiltrating israeli territory to attack a guard post five israeli soldiers and one who asked militant died in the shooting israeli troops responded by destroying the tunnel meanwhile the i.d.f. says its defense system intercepted to harass rockets over television really nowak a former israeli air force officer believes that country's tactics are hard to condone. 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 is enough to sentence five or ten or twenty five people there is something the more. i don't think that even times of war we can do whatever you want with the reaction as you probably know and here. are not very gentle but i'm not sure it's only the public we see when our officials in the government needs to. hold. a. lot and all need because. this is sort of why we. have to. you have to be drawn down to the people in the center.

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 speak out loud. in new york demonstrators blocked a road in anger at israel's attacks against garza the protest was next to the building which hosts these reilley mission to the un around one hundred people gathered to chant for an end to the violence twenty six protesters were arrested after they refused to leave and i who are israeli offensive also took hundreds to the streets of mexico's capital people shouting slogans and carrying banners in support of palestinians there. the u.s. the e.u. have targeted russia's economy with a new set of sanctions washington accuses moscow of being reluctant to help and violence in ukraine parties going at each account as the details. the previous

round of u.s. sanctions targeted certain russian banks more were added to that list their punishment is that they will not be able to borrow from the u.s. for 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 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 sort you 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 becoming part of the world community and a horrible 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 aunt's 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. but the united states agreed upon and therefore we have

a christian u.s. president why is he blaming it on 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 yukos 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 u.s. sanctions. russia's financial but it's the country's second largest bank it also operates in the asia and africa its subsidiary the bank of moscow was also included in washington's penalties another target is russia's agricultural bank which is completely government owned all these financial institutions will be cut off from seeking medium and long term loans from u.s. capital markets also affected is the united shipbuilding corporation that manufactures both military and civilian vessels exporting to twenty different countries but economist max fraud wall says the u.s. and firms may have trouble obeying the new penalties. it's a little bit hard to nail down exactly but 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 the really short timeframe here quickly be compliant

with what they think exactly this means as it becomes hopefully more clear in the days ahead. of this time the e.u. bank terp u.s. sanctions european leaders agreed to target several sectors of russia's economy including finance and energy artie's peter oliver has the details you 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 always in one world but also said that these sanctions were intended to send a strong warning to russia where it's 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 will be blocking russian access to e.u.

funds that are available and in defense a arms involved in 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 when states are here the full wording of the sanctions agreed on by all the e.u. heads of government and these sides are expected to come into effect on the first of august will be reviewed after three months whereby they can be scrapped all continue depending on what european leaders decide. well analysts predict the berlijn will lose 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 firms are doing business in russia right now that means hundreds of thousands of jobs are potentially dependent on economic ties between the nations.

we can get more on this now we'll speak to. economic news blog euro intelligence. thanks so much for joining us first of all the big quite a few predictions already i'm just interested to find out what do you think what's your prediction on how this will affect russia's economy. the linus' going quiet to go. just try once again for of going can you hear me ok let's see if we get this connection back. my apologies i was lost the connection revolved around if we can get it back we will indeed do our best to do so. next the b.p. oil company has issued a statement saying that so far sanctions of not impacted its business ties with moscow however the energy giant did express concern that that could change of further penalties may adversely hit its interests in russia well sanctions could impact on the west even further russia's

a lucrative market for advanced drilling technology from the e.u. and us which can no longer be sold under new regulations it means that russia will find it hard to develop the vast oil reserves in the arctic even global energy markets without access to this major resource companies like boeing will see their manufacturing costs skyrocket since they will be cut off from russia's titanium market which is a key supplier. and you can read more about previous rounds of european and american sanctions against russia it's all that on t.v. dot com we have assembled all the details and analysis for you they stay with us still to come this hour and on say a full charm offensive african leaders in washington but we look at the chinese elephant in the room which is driving president obama's attempts to win hearts minds and influence across. if you drive people away from the dollar many people now it must be sitting there

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. welcome back the ukrainian army is intensifying its offensive on two breakaway eastern regions has reportedly added short range ballistic missiles to its arsenal in the area and least eight civilian deaths have been reported overnight including five residents of an elderly care home i mean you got when you said leave. or you still got upset you go when you get there you can morning you knew you would see you cover the collusion. with you know what. the. world.

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you know well a lot so all of those are some of my just mostly options i don't believe he exists . but i will go to the white house out of. five artillery shells have reportedly exploded near a checkpoint on the russian ukrainian border setting on far afield on the russian side international monitors arrived from to next to the ukrainian combat zones and i have been urged by moscow to inspect the situation there on his or my culture visited a village near the border where people have been forced to run and hide from history lity 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 yacht i was born and raised here just like most of her neighbors she has relatives across the border in ukraine there are now coming to her side as refugees that's what civilization is still look at that a little of this little of the villages here are clues 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 and for of all days a nurse at a psychiatric hospital and says it's hard to comfort her patients while the area gets shelled by the mail which in boats have the patients are scared it's hard to explain it all to mentally ill people would tell them it's 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 all out of the year we went to the town to hide to escape from here there are huge borg attacks here much of this in a way but in a child the largest children very scared especially at night their window panes are shaking and i'm crying these youngsters seem to say 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 had been killed and several houses destroyed as these people are dragged into someone else's battle room on cost or of artsy russian ukrainian border. ok let's head back to the

subject of the latest u.s. and e.u. sanctions against russia believe we've managed to reconnect now evolved from economic news blog bureau intelligence and he joins us live on the line now good to see first off what's your prediction about these sanctions how do you think they will affect russia's economy. well russia's economy will be affected of course the immediate impact won't be very strong or it won't be it won't be devastating obviously certain elements certain people will be targeted and certain companies certain banks will will will feel the strain but the immediate impact on the russian economy i wouldn't think it's going to be crippling it will almost certainly cause a recession and definitely more more pessimistic then the or fishel official forecasters but. the sanctions themselves will work in the long run that's the real test the real effect for financial sanctions are quite potent but their impact it will staff russian companies russian banks from funding over the next two years

they have a lot of debts to roll over in the next in the next twelve months that's where the sanctions will deploy so it sounds like you think that they're going to have a considerable impact do you think they are the most effective way that could have been chosen in order to exert pressure on moscow. well you could always try all out sanctions but that would have been far too much it would have been it would have been a financial war and not clear at all that the west and the european union in particular would have had the stomach to go for that because it would have also. meant very significant economic damage to the e.u. as well so they chose the type of sanctions that cause the least damage to the e.u. and the most damage to the to russia and there is a new thinking in sanctions philosophy if you want to call it that both in the united states but also recently in the e.u. that financial sanctions are more potent than trade sanctions ok what do you think let's let's say that they they aren't effective in that scenario what would come

next. well i think the next would be to widen the financial sanctions i would not think we're going to have a gas import ban or oil import ban or anything like that i would assume that the next round of sanctions will i mean it will target more people obviously that's something they can always always step up. but what we see is you know sanctioning of russian banks in the euro in the e.u. to prevent them from extending credit to russian companies now that hasn't happened yet so we could we could really. credit flows to russia that would certainly be one of the next sanctions on the agenda and that would have a very serious impact indeed and i think everybody is watching with particular interest this time what europe was going to do the u.s. hasn't been shy of imposing sanctions europe has this kind of late been late to the party but they have finally come onboard why do you think that is. oh there was no doubt the malaysian ways of flight seventeen. tragedy that has

brought an enormous sense of solidarity to the two of you before then the story almost disappeared from the radar screens of many many your countries and there are different countries have different you know different relations with russia both italy and in some exposed germany to very much very close much closer to russia and to putin than for example several several of the central nice european countries members of the e.u. and the u.k. so you know they have been until the disaster they have been very cautious not blocking things but they have been more cautious on sanctions but after. seventeen you know the german position the german government changes position markel has realized that putin has not been telling the truth is making promises to her that he hasn't kept that certainly the way she sees it that she is there she feels that you know she cannot rely on what putin promises or says but that she that we know

that the e.u. now needs to act jointly or be completely discredited ok thanks so much for joining us it was worth the way we got the connection back from the economic news blog euro intelligence thanks so much. ukraine's authorities are ready for a ceasefire and dialogue with anti-government forces. is more appropriate to try to resolve the underlying issues that go shearing to able to continue with violence the message came from the u.s. state secretary john kerry after he met the ukrainian foreign minister geo political dry and so i think the careful use any pause in hostilities to try and make territorial gains. there's the question of strategic and tactical necessity for having such a ceasefire now we've seen countless times in the in recent weeks the military is tempted. retake territory now did it and since in the. light there are

held or in other ways unsuccessful he just made a tactical decision along with its features in washington that it cannot retake territory militarily and they will use diplomatic and political cover in order to achieve that goal this is the means of allowing military one bike to assert itself through the back door of diplomacy through the back door of a cease fire. less than a week in historic u.s. africa summit in washington will focus on strengthening america's toys with africa but many believe the real reason for the events to target china is abba growing economic influence that. from the pan-african believes that china is well ahead in the battle for hearts and minds. many african opinion makers and analysts have said that the relationship between china and africa as opposed to 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 of exploitation of relations between the united states and other western european countries obviously the african continent i believe that the obama administration is late taking this initiative but i think it's very important for him to somehow enhanced the image of the united states on the after concert. album out with the latest news headlines of the top of the hour they stay with us i'm up next here on our take it's crosstalk we pay to live out and join. iran like syria has been george very harshly under the constant. isn't it justified the aim is not pursued and in. raising the spectrum of

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