a deadly attack on a busy marketplace and during a short cease fire kills fifteen and the ongoing destruction has now led to some i.d.f. soldiers. flee the fighting in eastern ukraine at least a third of them are children. taken the refugees international we hear this story. also launches an inquiry into the death of former russian f.s.b. . eight years after he was poisoned in london. and

a new report suggests edward snowden's revelations have led to believe. there was a time saying there's nothing left for him. other than persecution. welcome to today's program here on our international. headlines at least fifteen palestinians including a journalist and two paramedics were killed when israeli airstrikes hit a busy marketplace in gaza now the shopping area was very busy because israel's for humanitarian cease fire was supposed to have been in force a warning you may find some of the following pictures upset. i'm going to give you a little bit.

when it was. was. israel's four week bombardment has now claimed more than thirteen hundred palestinian lives the majority being civilians israel itself has lost fifty eight people including fifty six i.d.f. soldiers with hamas though continuing to violate cease fires by firing rockets and using tunnels to infiltrate israeli land also one time a national also lost his life. the u.s. has condemned wednesday's attack on a un run school in gaza which killed twenty people but washington statement neglected to actually make any mention whatsoever of israel and journalists at

a state department briefing pushed for an answer over who was being held responsible for the attack. so that you can show. who showing are we talking about well we understand the anger has put out a statement of views that we would underscore the importance of a full and prompt investigation to determine the facts or you are not ready to come and is real person for the showing of the school correct we haven't said that there needs to be a full investigation to see what happened here specifically are you asking the israelis to not make any un facilities a target because there are civilians that are seeking shelter there i'm not going to make a blanket statement at least what i'm going sometimes it's ok i'm not saying that i'm just not going to make a blanket statement about what our private conversations with the israelis look like even if there are rockets inside and i'm not saying they should be used against israel and i'm not saying that should they should be gotten rid of i mean they should but even if they're her rockets inside does that justify the killing of

innocent billions civilians who have seeking shelter or obviously nothing justifies the killing of innocent civilians who can show that he can shatter the damage for destroying rocket in a un facility we believe the u.n. here tragedy should be respected and recognized by everyone we understand it's complicated to understand. look there's a lot a lot of different pieces happening on the ground and quite frankly a lot of facts we don't know yet. we spoke to political analyst william doris who says the u.s. is calling for an end to hostilities but at the very same time it dispatches more weapons straight to israel. washington knows full well what's going on and washington is paying for it if the u.s. government wants to stop the killing in gaza all of her should do is start spent thirteen weapons and start spending money to pay for the pentagon announced that it was resupplying israel with artillery shells to use against the people who were u.s. made sixteen flown by u.s. trained pilots arraigning u.s.

made misfile doubt on civilians who are trapped in a cage with nowhere to go and all the worries where a huge about investigation and we want the violence to stop are meaningless and israel is right now calling up sixteen thousand additional reserve troops as it assault goes on but there are now fifty one i.d.f. soldiers who are actually making a stand and refusing to take part in any more destruction paula silly i went to hear their stories in the future i hope. i can aspire to be a reasonable palestinian and after israel no longer exist in yell rosenberg is one of a kind the thirty three year old israeli programmer cuts a solitary figure on the margins of israeli society formerly a soldier in israel's defense forces he now hits a campaign for those who want to resist the draft on political grounds but he knows

his views have made him an outcast. i'm not a true israeli unlike some israeli or i'm a bad israeli in the eyes of the regime. israel is not a place for dissenters a recent poll in israel found that nearly nine out of ten is rabies not only supported the army's operation in gaza but wanted extended those who criticize it on meet head on and called naive and traitors during a recent antiwar demonstration in the center of tel aviv's fifth when protesters were attacked by right wing extremists chanting death to arabs the bullet tatsu to mean physically fine and when protesters were beaten up on their way home but there remains a small vocal minority who are not afraid to speak out whatever the cost the government a former i.d.f. soldier in occupied territories is one of them but it's very hard to talk about it because. it's very very thorough. and that's why i think

about. when i decided ok i want to be quiet anymore about what happening over the doves now works for breaking the silence and israeli human rights organization which collects testimonies from former soldiers and tells these stories to the world to talk about settlers violence we're talking about drones from saudi towards boasting we're talking about dozens of checkpoints in a very very small area only a few abra even asked to speak out against an institution that beats at the heart of israeli society we have to remember that the soldiers that testify just examples of what any other soldiers are doing not because the soldiers are bad people it just shows the israeli public the reality of what is going on there but most of the israeli public of reluctant to hear a different point of view and are defending the country's bloody war in gaza forty c. r r t tell of

a discontent with israel's offensive in gaza that has gone. global here are the latest pictures from germany where hundreds took to the streets are angry with the continuing attacks on palestinian civilians they were waving flags holding banners and chanting slogans condemning the operation called the protective edge my colleagues neil harvey and i have a cross earlier discuss just how widespread the young girls. i think it's fair to say that social media is changing the way narrative around gaza is playing out and the case of farrah baker a sixteen year old girl from gaza is certainly a good case in point she's a native of gaza her father's a neurosurgeon in the in one of the hospitals there and she began live tweeting from her house pictures and vines of an israeli bombardment flares in the sky rockets in the sky this kind of thing now her tweets were basically picked up by media over the weekend and her following absolutely ask a really really extraordinary way she had about three to four hundred followers

then suddenly she went to eighty thousand followers creases in it so i mean the future looks bright obviously that they think this is a legitimate source of funding i was really happening in the conflict from a young girl's got no reason to make any of this up and inside story so is it almost that upwards from here that i think probably she's going to find that her numbers will plateau but frankly i don't think she really cares i think she's more interested in the realities of everyday life that are around her right now she's tweeting about the absolutely horrendous realities that people are experiencing in gaza the sister of our youngest and blogger is based in london running day treats as well will she she does tweet in fact what she's also a blogger on the electronic intifada website which is not necessarily something i think that the other media might have been happy to tell the rest of the world about but she has conducted a marvelous interview with her own father that was published about three weeks ago and it is well worth a read it describes the ins and outs and the intricacies of the kind of work that he's going through to try and save lives and he and his colleagues in the in the gaza hospital but i think the major point here in the most interesting point is

that social media is certainly. changing the way the gaza narrative is operating it's certainly changing the way people are starting to perceive the conflict in the middle east if we take a quick look at the israel under fire for example which was issued by the i.d.f. when they began their operation into gaza you can just get an idea of how intensely that's being tweeted now let's have a look at gaza under attack and let's see the global impact that this is having. as you can see the gods are under attack. is certainly operating at a much much more intense of a much stronger level than the i.d.f. would like to admit it's all part of the social media war that's been conducted around the gaza lines very interesting story and it just comes from the ground is nothing that's why people find it so interesting there's not even a political involvement in a sense it's the people really in the heart of the matter is i like to think of it that maybe social media is changing the game somewhat. and on our website you can find our live updates photos videos all the very latest from the israeli gaza combat zone including see how

a spokesman for the united nations relief and works agency is so overwhelmed that he burst into tears during a t.v. interview about an attack on a u.n. run school of palestinian refugees. are now in r.t. international three civilians including a fifteen year old have been killed in the eastern ukrainian city of lugansk and seven more have been wounded and that's all in just the last day according to the city council artillery and air strikes have been pounding the city infrastructure has been severely damaged and most of the city remains without water or electricity food supplies to the city would have been cut off as well and locals fear their cupboards will soon be empty. and in the neighboring dawn yet screech in a children's summer camp has been shelled thankfully it was empty at the time but within days it's planned to be a camp for refugees from elsewhere across the region. and with the civilian death

count well over a thousand throngs of locals are fleeing the fighting in eastern ukraine at least a third of the refugees are children and international monitors that are monitors that have witnessed the evacuation they say it's far from safe even for the cars that are clearly marked. we did notice the flawless abilities we noticed for example always in their cars and they had their words in russian do their job or to come to their windows to look at their children their cars so there's definitely a sense of the city that was kind of the the explosions that we heard when we decided to turn were very. and are things that were mankato ref met some of those who have managed to cross over into russia clearly hoping to get a fresh start away from the violence. you have the key i was twelve years old when the second world war began and the grandmother remembers that sign that italy but you probably never imagined that seventy three years later she would once again be

hiding from airstrikes in her own backyard camp and being they have been bombing us and they are still doing it now the jets fly very low you can hear them firing in the morning and in the evening the scams been operating since mid june displaced people find shelter here for a few days and then move on to places more suitable for longer term living the latest arrivals came from the shell shocked town of slogans. you spoke i couldn't sleep during my first night here before i left i said goodbye to my sister and pay for the paperwork so that she could have my flat. yelena says she's lost everything is the result of kiev's military action her only hope for a fresh start now is in the siberian city of novosibirsk where she has relatives living you would never have thought something like this could happen i was getting the pension and was still working now i've lost my job my house and my pension. at

least a third of the richie geezer children and russian humanitarian authorities try to provide what they can to make their its i'm here as comfortable as possible but no matter the effort such conditions are certainly not normal for these youngsters this trip you can hold up to five hundred people is just a kilometer away from the border which frequently comes on their artillery fire from ukraine the people i've talked to here are now one nothing to do with their former country. the last straw was constant shelling and gunfire that forced them to practically live in basements or bomb shelters for others the sights of friends and relatives killed by multiple rocket strikes. russian ukrainian border. international experts say they still haven't reached the malaysian airline a crash site in eastern ukraine they say no one told them to turn back but they decided not to travel because of the ongoing military operation nearby is it going

to highlight the decision today to leave base as it was or was the decision. to buy any. it was a decision say it was the cure disease with. the sufficient enough force to proceed and it was overall decision. and an interesting development all this story a group of former u.s. intelligence officials saying washington has failed to back up its allegations against russia over the malaysian tragedy and they went as far as to write an open letter to president obama insisting the secretary of state's claims about the plane crash seem premature and an attempt to quote poison the jury will hear an ati international we heard from x. cia and state department employee larry johnson he was among those who signed this letter. our point is very simple if there's actual evidence marshal it show what if it's indisputable but as we've seen repeatedly from the u.s.

intelligence community where there was in the lies used to justify the invasion of iraq in two thousand and three up through the information that was leaked last year with respect to syria more often than not there are lies being produced that have a bigger intention to mislead the american public to justify actions against russia that we do not believe are justified. the e.u. has officially published a list of sanctions it's imposing on russia for its alleged role in the ukraine conflict of the new measures target several economic sectors three companies made on the list including a russian low cost airline a producer of defense systems and a private bank the country's energy sector will have restricted access to advanced technology including methods to drill for oil and in defense there will be no more weapons sold by e.u. members to russia the existing contracts will not be. well for the

mainstream media in the us the ukrainian crisis is a pretty clear picture in their eyes all the complexities involved to boil down to one person the russian president guy in a chicken now reporting on the apparent obsession with vladimir putin. president obama said he does not believe this growing tension with russia could be the beginning of the new cold war no. no it's not a new cold war one could only wish turn this thought the same or at least those who are making covers of magazines because some of them hark back to the cold war as if they were made back in the day no matter how complicated an issue you can be almost certain that the media are going to boil it down to personalities well with ukraine it's one personality the russian president what does he do when he isn't working or often an outdoor adventure and why don't we see him smiling very much he's not

really driven by by women or by we're distracted by alcohol he's very tough he's a very arrogant. person to deal with. and what kind of diplomacy can you expect moving forward when diplomats use this kind of language this is the you came back to the united states speaking give me three adjectives you'd use to describe a lot of my. i'm not a poet but. i think. dishonest trade comes to mind because we've had all these lies. but i think that's a reckless to makes one wonder if they really want to solve the problem well the media focus on the russian president has bled into social networks hash tag blame putin is now a twitter trend and used to comment on almost anything calling quit smoking. some weird creatives appear out of nowhere in siberia who can get no rain in your country it's putin's fault when you get the idea bottom line as defined by one of

the tweets if you're in trouble just blame putin all right we are back in just a moment more headlines on r.t. international. this is the media leave us so we leave the. oceans. is an. issue is that no one is there with the guests that deserve answers from. if you drive people away from the dollar many people now it must be sitting there saying gosh if we have u.s. dollars and the u.s. decides they don't like us they're going to put sanctions on us so people more and more people would say maybe i should use the u.s. dollar.

hello again britain opens an inquiry today into the death of former russian intelligence officer. it comes eight years after he was poisoned in the u.k. by radioactive polonium picking up the story to use marina called. sick and lying on his deathbed this is how the world got to know alexander litvinenko a former f.s.b.

officer who fled russia and made london his new home it was his accusations against the russian government which propelled his not serai stories of senior officials in moscow supposedly ordering assassinations and carrying out terror attacks and the world ate it up because when younker was presented as a famous this of and somebody who was upsetting the kremlin who was revealing some sort of secrets that were upsetting president putin himself this was not the case at all it's been nearly eighty years since alexander litvinenko death yet his family are nowhere near the truth and very pleased to receive this decision in the public inquiry and i know it's in there as a long time to wait and it's not as it months is and maybe a year but finally it will receive this but why has it been such a long road to this truth let's take a look at what's been achieved so far british prosecutors accuse newton encodes

former colleagues of murder and him durance he both deny and involvements russia refuses to extradite any of its own citizens because the constitution doesn't allow it's the british inquest is delayed as the coroner of the sides of public inquiry will be better ministers rule out that option the high court supports the idea of an inquiry so a public inquiry is announced the main twist to this case came after revelations litvinenko was allegedly working for m i six as well us with a spanish security services and this is precisely the kind of data which will now be scrutinized as a public inquiry das allow secret sensitive government material to be examined i do this not. look. at this for just if i do this for two years i would like to show people you are able to get justice in any difficult to creation. a truth which could turn out to be uncomfortable to swallow

for some marina cossar via artsy. and we had a chance to speak to alexander litvinenko his brother who thinks the timing of the start of the british inquiry is very suspicious but. this case became a big p.r. campaign against the russian government and the country's president in particular the west is pressuring russia very hard now the m a seventeen crash crimea the war in ukraine sanctions against moscow and now this inquiry i'm not buying that this is a coincidence i will bring you all the very latest updates on the inquiry for you on air of course online as well where many other stories are standing by if you are right now and. look out could become the plague of the twenty first century a hospital in hamburg has agreed to accept infected patients leaving germany's neighbors to worry about the incurable virus spreading across europe. one hundred

twenty three million dollars that's the conversation a texas woman wants from facebook discover online just why she says the social network is down to. a new report suggests that edward snowden's revelations could have cost us tech giants like amazon or dropbox tens of billions of dollars of the company's have seen their sales plunge after every significant disclosure other whistleblower just recently gave an interview to britain's guardian newspaper snowden denied that he was now working for the russian government he said if the u.s. government had any evidence to prove it it would have been splashed all over the american media snowden was also pessimistic about the prospects of ever receiving a fair trial he said he would rather stay in russia than return home and face unlawful prosecution an antiwar activist and journalist norman solomon also believes the u.s. government wants only to throw snowden behind bars for

a very very long time. it's really not possible for edward snowden to get a fair trial in united states the structure of the vehicle system and the politics in the usa involved whole way in which the u.s. government is the judge the jury and the sentence or there is enormous eagerness of the top official the so-called intelligence community of the united states to silence the voice of edward snowden you know they would like to do to snowden what they did to chelsea manning. yes him back in the united states. then solitary. then any meaningful contact with the news media or the call and then put him away in prison. is the world up that we go starting with argentina where hundreds of taking to the streets of what i saw as to the president christie

you know. it's all just you know deals with the economic problems the country's failed to reach an agreement with the international creditors on its debt which was due to be paid by the end of july economists say the country is facing a technical default but the government is refusing to publicly admit. bowl weapon used water cannons to stop fighting between supporters of two presidential candidates both of whom were rivals of the current prime minister the one activist for a kurdish counterfeit were attacked by a supporting the former head of the organization of islamic cooperation stones were thrown at a standard arrested by the codes that leaflets were set on fire a presidential elections will be held in turkey in august. our time for a little bit about t.v. magic here let's take you behind the cameras on r.t. international a new episode of news team documentary series coming your way next. if

you drive people away from the dollar many people now it must be sitting there saying gosh if we have u.s. dollars and the u.s. decides they don't like us they're going to put sanctions on us so people more and more people would say maybe i should use the u.s. dollar. and. clean more zero casualties war this is the great fantasy of war mongering politicians. capturing people is this what do you do if they're innocent killing them easy we were served the right to kill any person

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