put sanctions on so people more and more people would say maybe i should use the u.s. dollar. israeli tanks opened fire on a un schooling garza where hundreds of civilians were sheltering from the daily air strikes it follows the destruction of the areas only power plant worsening the plight that palestinians face. the u.s. and e.u. look to pressure russia's financial and energy sectors in a fresh round of economic sanctions targeting some of the country's largest institutions. heavy artillery attacks target towns across eastern ukraine leaving scorched houses and residents dead while government forces claim they're ready for dialogue.

welcome good to have your company my name's neil harvey and you're watching r.t. international. just the last hour assured cease fire has been declared in the gaza strip it's expected to last for three hours more after least nineteen civilians including children were killed in israeli shelling of a un school hundreds have been taking refuge there in the hope of escaping the daily bombardment very theories in gaza as this report. 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 were 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 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 working close up in the fighting which is now of course beginning. to move now into its twenty day 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 well over a thousand killed inside gaza's main hospital in its burns unit are a small fraction of the surviving injured this girl three years old. this israeli is demolished the house of this family. so we do see of the girl her mother two brothers with severe burns. this morning this woman is in a very. conditionals she is she presented to us about five days ago with her son and her husband her son and husband 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 on the instances i have a child here he was all the time crime kids he lost all his families he lost his father his mother his brother his 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 that type of injuries we are having is very severe the magnitude of destruction of the of the human beings those ones are intended to kill a mass mass mass casualties of people the bodies and faces are very very badly on

the ground it feels as if during this war israel is fixed on stopping her master's rockets once and for all regardless of being incredible civilian toll. here r.t. gaza. the attack on the school comes after a severe bombardment of the gaza strip and so the only power station destroyed a misting international has already denounce the destruction of the plant calling it a collective punishment for palestinians to see shortages in already devastated region worsening the problems with the water supply and medical care uli novak a form is rarely air force officer believes that her country's tactics are hard to condone. i think. to make a phone call or send a message or drop a tiny bomb minutes before you. destroy a tire 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 to death is something immoral i don't think that even in times of war we can do whatever we want without boundaries 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 our government ministers in our government calls to raise gaza to flatten whole neighborhoods in gaza well this is sort of violence that have to have to be drawn down to the people so the sentiments this is are very harsh it's hard to make any criticism these days in israel but they do believe that this is our obligation as israelis who care about our future to make those statements and to speak out loud. in going operation in gaza has already seen more than twelve hundred people killed

with israel getting little support from across the world in protest of the violence chile and peru have recalled their ambassadors to israel following the example of brazil in ecuador in mexico meanwhile hundreds have taken to the streets to voice their anger over the israeli offensive people shouting slogans and carrying banners calling for televisa to end hostilities protests also took place in new york where several activists blocked a road next to the building hosting the israeli mission to the un police stepped in to break up the demonstration arresting twenty six people in the process. where we are right across the unfolding events in palestine if you want to know more just simply log on to our website that's r.t. dot com where you can find the latest pictures analysis and eyewitness reports or just a click away. next year says expanded its list of individual and economic sanctions against russia building on emotions we announced

two weeks ago the united states is imposing new sanctions and sectors of the russian economy. scuse me few technical problems there we'll get back to then the second washington is once again picked up some of russia's biggest financial pellets take for example as the country's second largest bank the group also operates in europe asia and africa one of its subsidiaries the bank of moscow is also on the list another major institution russia's agricultural bank which funds the farming sector has been hit as well all are barred from u.s. capital markets should they apply for medium or long term loans also on the list the united shipbuilding corp russia's largest holding in that field will be prevented from importing certain equipment and gun education reports now on what's behind the new measures. the previous round of 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. longer than ninety days 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 different perspective you know. there was a tremendous potential to make our friend of tremendous potential they withdraw their troops from eastern europe. the russians. were open to all kinds of interactive human being korean 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 so this accusation has been years in the making but u.s. officials to formally announce this accusation now 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. 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 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 to pay about fifty billion dollars in damages that lawsuit was ten years old now. and 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. the leaders of banks the us sanctions safe also agreed to impose their own measures on russia which could potentially hurt the country's financial and energy sectors from our correspondent peter all of whose got more e.u. 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 is it manuel 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 would be blocking russian access to 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 contract 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 to hear the full wording of the sanctions agreed on by all the e.u. heads of government and these are expected to come into effect on the first of all just will be reviewed after three months whereby they can be scrapped all continue depending on what european leaders decide. for more on this let's bring in stuart elliott who is the senior managing editor europe in africa or new street thanks for joining us for a long time it seemed like the e.u. wasn't really willing to get involved in this they weren't keen on imposing heavy sanctions against russia what would you think is change their minds. i think obviously the downing of the plane the civilian plane over ukraine has had a big influence on brussels decision to get more involved in this there are set of

sanctions against russia the most far reaching they've ever done it it's a historic moment in that respect i don't think they necessarily wanted to target as economy certainly not its energy sector which the first one they are. but i just felt that they had no choice the stronger it's ok some of russia's biggest state run companies are involved in from european in and u.s. financial markets but that actually mean for them. well i think in terms of the energy sector there's going to be much impact rosneft is one of the companies it's on the u.s. sanctions list and they are barred from from getting financing from american banks but they already have a lot of financing in place with china and some deals are done previously to get financing in the loan for oil system so in that respect they're not going to be affected the banks two won't necessarily be hurt by by the e.u.

measures the bigger factor for russia in this is long term i think in the oil sector they're being bombed an hour from receiving technology from e.u. companies and countries and down the line further down the line that could definitely have an impact on russia's ability to maintain its energy sector to maintain its oil and gas production at current levels but in the short term i don't think there's going to be necessarily any impact on russia and its trading with. from this this set of measures. ok another interesting element to this i think that the new measures they've got an expiry date i mean you'd almost feels like ok we want to hurt russia but not to the extent that we hurt ourselves or did you think that europe's actually trying to safeguard its own economy. absolutely i don't think they would make any and he did not know about either i think when they were considering sanctions they've said quite openly that they wouldn't want to in

impose any measures on moscow that would have a detrimental effect on the only economy this is not the first time they've done this and by the way when the e.u. introduced sanctions on iran few years ago they banned the import of iranian crude into the e.u. and at the time they said look we're going to have a look at this in six months to just check that we're not ruining our own economy or at least damaging our own economy by doing so they did that and they realize that things were ok so it's not that exceptional that has given itself this kind of get out clause of three months but i doubt very much that there will be any impact on your economy from these rather limited measures i would say at this stage even though they are they are quite important and interesting so scheme of things i should say he was also restricted moscow's access to funds from its development bank what about this do you think this is something that will actually hurt russia . i doubt it i mean you have to look at russia as a superpower in

a lot of ways they have access to a great deal of funding they have investments from all over the world they have major companies investing in russia you have deals with huge oil traders like the told your people in russia financed in some way so i don't think that russia is going to be. hit as badly is as perhaps the e.u. the u.s. would like i feel this is more of a kind of. show of strength if you like from brussels and washington just to say to vladimir putin we're not happy with what's going on we need you to to recognize that we're taking this seriously and what we've done so far perhaps won't hurt moscow that badly they're prepared to to go a little bit further down the line you know really interesting to talk to you interesting to hear it put into context for us thanks so much stuart elliott senior managing editor at europe in africa or news. stay with us here on out international

plenty more to come this hour a full charm offensive african leaders in washington will be looking at the chinese elephant in the room which is driving president obama's attempts to win hearts minds and influence across. iran like syria has been george very harshly and it leads on to the constant. isn't it justified the in if not pursuing the weapon down you know raising the spectrum of pursuit of the irrelevant government leader one you know who same time as he was developing nuclear weapons. recently did they want to see. something being removed before may inform the story we would be stupid not to take you.

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conclusion. that this is a different you know. we're going to. praise structural you know i leave that up what i want you go when you expose a new thought. grow you're going or you don't desert thought. you know i didn't know that i was such thought. this is. really. going. to support it you really have to do. it for the future. meeting as it were some of. the truth was. i just thought of. the heaviest strength fell in the city of goal of qur'an

witnessed a twenty four hour long the tank several apartment blocks a school in a kindergarten were destroyed on monday seventeen people were killed there including three children in neighboring lugansk artillery hit a retirement home killing five people have been trying to hide or flee from the fighting on a daily basis and this video of a wounded girl addressing president poroshenko has gone viral. people but so is those for what you read you should see it live yes what are some of the divine midwife who knows me. well enough i need to wonder why you to this you know. you know well why are. so all of those are some of my just mostly options it was done little he did john but i don't know ok but i thought it was. five artillery shells fired from ukraine of reportedly exploded next to a russian checkpoint on the border russian territory has repeatedly come under fire

and now a group of international observers as arrived at the border to inspect the situation in their own culture of visited a village that lies just across the river from ukraine and he asked locals what it's like to live next to a combat zone 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 deputy that's jaan i was born and raised here just like most of her neighbors she has relatives across the border in ukraine they are now coming to her side as refugees that's what civilization is still look at

that a little difficult 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 we 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 gays and nurses at a psychiatric hospital and says it's hard to comfort her patients while the area gets shelled by the mail which in. 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 bomb attacks here much of this in a way but each of the larger still 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 room on calls for of artsy russian ukrainian border. ukrainian m.p. has turned vigilante on local authorities in east intimidating them and accusing them of links to separatists or the glasgow ambushed a mare of a small town in the lugansk region he was on holiday with his wife.

who said you want to look now and you will then you should learn the more you easier to change your story. that. the man was accused of neglecting his duty while on holiday he tried to protest but was ignored people gathered around as the mayor's wife predicted someone to help her husband but no one came to his rescue ukrainian media say the man was later taken away questioning. the police more stories online for you such as putting the gloss on the horrors in iraq romack extremists release a promotional video showing the mass executions that they have carried out in the area they've declared a caliphate. a top dog in sierra leone's only specialist in the viruses for the victim to a rapidly spreading outbreak of the incurable killer find out more.

in less than a week forty seven african heads of state will depart for washington d.c. for the first ever continent wide u.s. african leaders summit but many believe the story is designed not just to strengthen ties but also to counter china's growing economic influence in the region. from the pan africa news wire thinks that china is already well ahead in the battle for hearts and minds on the continent. 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 will be 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 continent. around us and other news now from around the world the main special forces base in the libyan city of benghazi has been seized by militias after days of heavy fighting and that's after a battle involving rockets and warplanes killed at least thirty people also in libya italy has offered to put out a blaze raging in the biggest oil depot in the capital tripoli he started touring battles for control of the international airport that had become far but vented firefighters from tackling. the china now where heavy freight tallaght is have been reported in a pre-planned knife attack in a predominantly muslim province

a large banks that would have police building several government offices armed with knives and axes police for back shooting dead dozens of militants and arresting more than sixty thirteen officers as well as several members of the public were killed in the attack. i'll be back with more news see plenty more to enjoy at the top of the hour stay with us that after the break every day takes a look at allington a struggling economy. cross-talk

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