crosstalk reason if you're going to jump in anytime you want. coming up on our t.v. the civilian death toll in gaza rises another un school was shelled by israeli defense forces during this conflict more on the violence gripping gaza and the humanitarian crisis it's causing just ahead. and the e.u. has joined the u.s. and have launched a new round of harsher sanctions against russia over the crisis in ukraine and new measures take aim at large swathes of the russian economy but will they work. and three d. printing food or firearms of so two thousand and thirteen the u.s. military now wants to use this technology to print warheads right on the battlefield more on that coming up.

it's wednesday july thirtieth five pm in washington d.c. i'm manila chan your watching r.t. america the death toll continues to climb in gaza as schools marketplaces and hospitals are attacked by israeli defense force missiles just this morning at least nineteen palestinians were confirmed dead after a shelling at a un run school the death toll between both sides is nearing thirteen hundred but take a look at this chart of those victims more than one thousand two hundred of them were palestinians largely civilians children included while only fifty six israelis have been killed most of which were military only three of those were civilians. gaza just to put into perspective is only one hundred thirty nine square miles it's

about twenty six miles long and approximately thirteen miles wide not exactly a huge area of land to house nearly two million people that's about the size of las vegas with the population density of say boston or detroit artie's harry fear is on the ground in gaza with more after a heavy night of fighting in which at least one hundred twenty palestinians were killed the hostility is continue just in the last few hours we've seen this significant strike on this the united nations run school being used as a shelter by hundreds of families eyewitnesses say the least five israeli tank shells hit the complex different parts of the complex including classrooms belonging to normally school girls at least eight palestinian children were killed say eyewitnesses at least three women including at least one pregnant woman and also united nations security guards for this complex it's the second time in less than two weeks united nations run shelter has come under fire we've been catching

up with those most severely affected with during these ongoing cost. it's hard to fathom how such a devastation can occur in three weeks of fighting. thousands of homes damaged or destroyed tens of internally displaced. inside gaza's main hospital in its unit are a small fraction of the surviving injured. three years old. this israeli is demolished their house with this family so we deceived. his mother. with. this morning. this woman is a very severe condition. 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 but doctors nurses here look at the civilians who survived in heavily bombarded areas it's hard to imagine how the medical staff can cope with these truly horrendous cases human being if i see whole families the killed under the rubble of their house the house. these people and all the families killed. in one of the instances i have a child here he was all the time claimed he lost all his families he lost his father his mother his brother his grandfather and all the time he's crying he wants his mother so i closed the door of my office and i said crying those that survived this war. this is a cool and psychological scars you. know what is causing these

injuries it's not sometimes. having is very severe the magnitude of the destruction of the human beings those. people. on the ground it feels as if during this war is. stopping hamas is rockets one. of the top. guns. following this continue tragedy could the attack on the u.n. school and a fruit and vegetable market in gaza city finally be the tipping point mideast experts don't see this coming to an end anytime soon israel did declare a four hour ceasefire in some areas of the gaza strip citing humanitarian reasons but that ended wednesday with no extension israeli newspaper harris reported that

the state is considering submitting a resolution to the u.n. security council that would end the conflict similar to the one that ended the war in lebanon back in one thousand nine hundred six earlier i was joined by. a human rights attorney in gaza i first asked him what the living conditions were like there right now. it would mean given the reason you are in the human did you know and the human rights and joy of this law and discipline the extreme to do it. in a city which gives us here and why this in numerous israeli military escalation and you were. just speaking about the crisis it began as an assault a lot of. us are being damaged by israeli forces or there is.

a big east of blood and water and this is actually a billion. who like milk and me personally i'm living in this interview get a city and we have neither a lot of no water and almost six days on the operating through a small. to go to that they go to. the number of and this is exceeded two hundred thousand people at the most it will stand by you and. us over to the ship that was over to the robot would the health and safety. and a lot of the major concern here that these children are so out of the city but the hope this morning and for decision is that the patient births one of the. one of the ship doors and in the north of the guests and that the ends of children being killed and injured literally and that there is no safe because mr right now from

that that bombing yes trade the bombing that we went gaza's only power plant as well can you tell us how the territory's nearly two million people are how are you guys accessing electricity right now. well actually as they told you like since five days we didn't have electricity actually. because people who have some money but it's just a few hours. variance or some small generators like me and this is this part of the this is a major. crisis that we. can imagine two thousand and ten another list and one of the on the school in which you have the signatures or did. they have electricity or who was someone who was coming to help the humanitarian efforts there is anybody coming to help the palestinians. was revealed as long as this

isn't a list elation. paying the price with. hundreds . of the hundreds of thousands were killed until this moment one thousand eight hundred there were killed by percent of them are civilians you know those are not these are not numbers. human beings like me and you and other people and you will be near us and you haven't. got a look in about the disasters you made that any crisis that this. patient forces. and we call upon all. organization is done by this to hold up it's just going to believe this and to so this problem the start of the bloodshed now these images that are being seen here in the u.s.

nearly thirteen hundred deaths along the gaza many many more injuries how are your hospitals coping over there how are they dealing with all the people the influx of people coming and. the problem may be the. source itself is measured the system working and this situation. they don't have electricity it's what they have to work it through. major like like some big in the nation. big generation. in giants. or so i'm a dick so on most people there were two. people or you know to get some people who were injured and this really at that so if you want to hear them because this is subject to serious in. serious danger and this is the thing about we actually have subpoena hidden because of.

subpoenas and because of so they. are over. this i think. it's hard to describe this situation. however i can. summarize it it's for the they. are there enough hospital beds to cover all the people that are coming in. no action and the. unfortunate. just to the biggest. in that dish and. they made the team from europe. they were prevented from coming together. and enabling people. that was human rights attorney out was there from gaza. the u.s. which provides huge amounts of money to israel for defense is under pressure to

help stop the rising death toll in gaza amir and a that pressed the state department today about the number of civilian casualties that are mounting. the fighting between israel and hamas is only ask elating in gaza with the death toll now hovering above twelve hundred people now just today there were two major disasters one of the un school and another at a busy city market killing at least thirty people and wounding over one hundred fifty more i attended a state department briefing earlier where i asked about that extraordinarily high death toll and whether it will compel the u.s. to take a tougher stance with israel take a listen israel has long said that it has the right to self-defense of course you've echoed that sentiment and it's they've said this right this conflict and even up until now we have twelve hundred people over two hundred people that have been killed thousands more that have been injured is there are going to be a point where you say you know this enormous amount of casualties is

not justified look a lot of what you just said is true and the first part start with the first part that israel does have a right to defend itself if you lived in a city where rockets were coming from terrorists repeatedly where you had to run to a bomb shelter repeatedly i think you probably feel pretty strongly that israel has a right to defend itself we've announced again this week additional funding for the iron dome system which does exactly this but we have said that in their efforts to fight this threat they do need to take additional steps to prevent civilian casualties we know it's a challenging operating environment we know it's very densely populated you know we throughout conflicts we've fought in our history have taken extraordinary steps in afghanistan in iraq to prevent civilian casualties and we've called on the israelis to do more when it comes to the u.n. facility being targeted the state department would not go firm that they believe israel is responsible they say that they are waiting for more facts to emerge in the aftermath of those incidents however of the israeli military offer to for our

humanitarian cease fire in specific areas of the gaza strip but hamas dismissed that partial temporary truths. as a media stunt saying it would not allow rescue workers time to retrieve casualties in combat zones that israel had excluded from that ceasefire here's what the state department had to say about that what we're focused on is an unconditional humanitarian ceasefire the last woman enough. to allow for serious negotiations to begin in cairo and for urgently needed humanitarian assistance to get in so obviously that's longer than four hours so we're working with the parties on what that might look like israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu was due to review progress on a ceasefire with his security cabinet today at the same time a palestinian delegation was expected in cairo for discussions it's unclear what will come out of this latest round of talks last week secretary of state john kerry failed to achieve

a breakthrough and this latest explosion of violence is only further dashing international hopes of garnering a long term ceasefire reporting in washington the mirror david r.t. . frustration is growing as violence in eastern ukraine deterred international investigators from inspecting the malaysian airlines crash site for the fourth day fighting between ukrainian forces and anti-government separatists has intensified now with the military claiming separatists are laying landmines to prevent the site from being properly investigated a claim that cannot be independently confirmed meanwhile the ukrainian military is in van saying in the region c.n.n. is reporting that the ukrainian government may be using its most deadly weapons yet in the conflict c.n.n. says u.s. officials tell them military forces fired several short range ballistic missiles into the eastern ukraine region in the past few days each said to be carrying

warheads of up to about a thousand pounds potentially further adding to the mounting civilian death toll this week the u.n. released their estimated number of casualties from the month long conflict the u.n. says at least eleven hundred civilians have been killed and nearly four thousand injured and that death toll just keeps growing just today the town. in eastern ukraine saw more shelling after thirty one civilians have died there and just the last two days that's according to local authorities here's what residents have to say about the violence in their own words. the price. going up what are you. going. if you. go to.

if there's a but if you really need to do. this be near a meeting is it with a movie. that he wants literally i just thought. those were some locals responding to the violence in the town of orlova in eastern ukraine. do you us and you are expanding sanctions against russia it's too early though to tell how this new round of sanctions will affect the russian economy what they have affected without question is the relationship between the us the e.u. and russia in fact us congressman dana rohrabacher believes the potential for good relations between moscow and d.c. at the end of the cold war has been lost you know after the soviet union fell it was a tremendous potential to making russia our friend 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 horrible a tremendous opportunity i should say was squandered with a closer look at how the e.u. sanctions may affect the russian economy here's artie's peter oliver. b.-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 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 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 august will be reviewed after three months whereby they can be scrapped all continue depending on what european leaders decide. and there was our tease peter oliver. anti nuclear weapon activists are tied up in arms over the ten year extension of the mutual defense agreement between the us and the united kingdom the mostly classified agreement was formed back in one nine hundred fifty eight and has been renewed regularly ever since most recently in two thousand and

four the obama administration issued a one page message to congress on july twenty fourth stating that he signed off on the renewal that will quote permit the transfer between the united states and the united kingdom of classified information concerning atomic weapons nuclear technology and controlled nuclear information the agreement also includes the training of personnel evaluation of potential enemy capability development of delivery systems and the research and development and design of military reactors nuclear information service a u.k. based watchdog group issued a report before the current renewal that raised strong concerns that the agreement may not be compatible with the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons treaty in which both countries are signatories article six of the nonproliferation treaty does state that signatories should pursue nuclear disarmament the letter to congress

states that amendments have been added regarding nuclear threat reduction but those changes are not very clear and full details are of the deal are classified by both the u.s. and the united kingdom so that leaves many guessing if the extent of the nuclear reduction is comparable to the amount of nuclear support the agreement does detail . and the iraqi government is struggling to stave off insurgents that have launched a powerful push to win over parts of the country but in this effort human rights out. bigots are accusing the iraqi government of indiscriminately bombing a number of areas near fallujah meanwhile the u.s. government is planning on a very big defense deal the pentagon is considering sending the biggest shipment of hellfire missiles to the region ever artie's on a stasia charkha has more on the story. a record sized shipment of hellfire

missiles to the iraqi government from the us is in the works the u.s. state department is reported to have approved and the pentagon is in the process of preparing to send over five thousand a.g.m. one fourteen type and our missiles and related parts to iraq the cost of this deal is estimated at a whopping seven hundred million dollars american aerospace giant lockheed martin is the prime contractor for the production and supply of these hellfire missiles this comes as the iraqi government continues the fight against isis the islamic militants al qaeda affiliated groups who have been raging in the west and north of the country the iraq military is reported to have used up about three hundred to help fire missiles this june and a previous delivery of an additional eight hundred missiles had already been approved to be sent over by the end of this month so this latest large planned shipment is in addition to the missiles that had already been sent over by the u.s. according to a pentagon press release on this issue the missile directly supports the government

of iraq and serves the interests of the people of iraq and the united states it also says that iraq will use the hellfire missiles to help improve iraq's security forces keep ability to support current ongoing ground operations we now human rights groups have been critical of the use of missiles since they have reportedly been fired at residential neighborhoods and cities where isis has been present specifically human rights watch has called on the u.s. to not send weapons to iraq until baghdad acts in accordance with international law and says if you're going to r.t. or. three d. printing as revolutionize the world once just a concept like the holodeck from star trek you can pretty much three d. print anything you wish these days maybe even a warhead artie's mega lopez explores this new army technology. we've heard of three d. printed guns or bubbleheads or pizza space x. founder ilan musk even proved to the world that you can see three d. printing a rocket engine but as is the case with most up and coming technology the military

has taken particularly interest in the concept the army is working on a way to three d. printing get this warheads the july issue of army technology magazine spoke at length about the u.s. army armament research development and engineering centers ventures into the realm of three d. printing now is three d. printing is a process of making something from stock materials such as metal or plastic powder by adding in material in a successive layers it's also known as additive manufacturing or a m. with an entire warhead being three d. printed designers can more closely control the design aspects down to how the warhead breaks apart during detonation engineer james told army magazine quote once you get into detonation physics you open up a whole new universe the real value you get is that you can get more safety lethality and operational capability from the same space the military would be able

to program a blast radius as well for each individual warhead given specific needs the current warhead creation methods were developed back during world war two or even before that and they have not varied dramatically each warhead consists of over one hundred complex parts which could be reduced to just a few if that warhead is in fact printed now the goal of the project is to save money and to give the military the capability to access weaponry without waiting for a depot to ship the materials out if you are a soldier in a f.o.b. or forward operational base in afghanistan everything is different it's not as easy as running down to the home depot and picking up a screwdriver and when it comes to money those costs add up when you add all the transportation costs. fuel security is then might be cheaper to print one and that's not to mention the safety aspects since american troops frequently face threats while transporting equipment between bases the army is also researching

ways to three d. print food for troops in the field and even skin for soldiers who have been injured and are in need of skin grafts currently in one of these manufacturing processes are up to military standards and are not ready to be put into use but with more research and more development the future is closer than ever reporting in washington meghan lopez r.t. and that's as it for now for more on the stories we just covered go to youtube dot com forward slash r t america and check out our website. for its last usa you can also follow me on twitter at manila chan. on marriage in the financial world. having once started see dance only take your. life there.

we're becoming more and more indentured in our corporate servitude every day we depend on corporations to take care of us in every regard as long as we continue to work for their bottom line no matter the cost to the environment our communities our families our own self-worth corporations are now in control of our health care our legislators our old age for crying out loud and now they're trying to control our happiness to more and more corporations across the u.s. are creating a position known as the chief happiness officer or c h o it started in silicon alley as tech companies with job play google's jolly good fellow

a real title given to a real grown ass man that post c.e.o. released a book called the liver in happiness which spawned a consulting firm of the same name who has their own c h o and now more and more companies across the country are adding chief happiness officers to their management teams these c h o's are responsible for the personal contentment of employees and the way they diagnose the emotional wellbeing of their workers is through some really creepy measures that involve what else surveillance the new york times recently published an article on how new forms of surveillance are popping up in the workplace which are designed to increase employee happiness the article describes a digital big brother who watches over workers and motions through gadgets like id badges that monitor communications between workers the tone of voice they use their . posture their body language they monitor all of this to gauge worker happiness c

h o's distribute surveys hold workshops adopt cultural policy maintain happiness in that he says lots of things they do things like mandate workers take fifteen minute coffee breaks the mind of their workers the motions in a wide variety of ways that invade their employee's privacy this is all creepy enough but were kids really crazy is when you start to think about the fact that these chief happiness officers aren't tests with making employees happy for their own emotional health they're tasked with making employees happy because then they'll be more productive for the corporation they want employees to be happy only for their physical bottom line how does it is bad we aren't even free to be depressed anymore because it might not match the mys corporate profit potential it's a page rate out of nine hundred eighty four it reeks of orwell's minutes.