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anywhere any time. they can be done looking for they come to terms nothing will make these things or. politicians. a new kind of power yet this technology sad is very tempting. whistleblower edward snowden asks russia for political asylum his lawyer says he expects and i'm so within the next twenty four hours. which has been a deadly attack on a busy marketplace in gaza during a short ceasefire leaves fifteen dead the ongoing destruction has led to some i.d.f. soldiers laying down their arms. tens of thousands flee the

fighting in eastern ukraine at least a third of them children and cities all over russia are prepared to take in refugees we listen to some of their stories. britain launches an inquiry into the death of former russian f.s.b. officer alexander litvinenko eight years after he was poisoned in london. welcome my name is bill harvey and you're watching r.t. international. we start with our breaking news former n.s.a. worker turned whistleblower edward snowden has asked for his asylum in russia to be extended let's get more now and we're joined live by our ts marina. a marina thanks for joining me what exactly is happening there with snowden's legal status. well up until now of course as we know he had some asylum which he got in august two

thousand and thirteen he got the one year and he could actually bring new that it expires today july the thirty first and up until now we heard from his lawyer not only to confirm that he would be extending that temporary asylum but today we heard something completely different from his lawyer and that was that his client would now be sick seeking political asylum which of course changes everything because this would make edward snowden stay here permanent and it would also get him rise than sperm and of course this doesn't happen very often in russia in fact over the last five years only fourteen people seek political asylum in the country but it's hardly surprising considering edward snowden statements recently to the guardian newspaper where he said he would feel more comfortable staying in russia because he feels that he would not get a fair trial back home and he would be unlawfully prosecuted he also in the same breath tonight or two for the russian government saying that if the american government had any evidence to support that it would be all over american media but

of course right now the focus is on this political asylum and whether or not he will get or will of course be following the latest developments for that and talking to lawyers about potential implications and what this means. sabrina culture will bring is the very latest thank you. we've been on at least fifteen palestinians including a journalist and two paramedics were killed when israeli strikes hit a busy marketplace in gaza the shopping area was busy because israel's four hour humanitarian ceasefire was supposed to be in force a warning you may find some of the following distress. i. i. was. i.

israel's four week bombardment has claimed more than thirteen hundred palestinian lives the majority civilians israeli as israel itself i should say has lost fifty eight people that includes fifty six i.d.f. soldiers with hamas violating cease fires by foreign rockets and using tunnels to infiltrate israeli land one time and also lost his life and here is a look at the scale of the devastation in gaza from another angle these before and after satellite images have been released by the united nations institute for training and research and they show the huge level of damage caused by israel's bombing israel us previously accuse the palestinians of staging an attack on a un school and refused to accept responsibility of the u.s. as condemned that attack on a un run school but washington state neglected to actually make any mention of

israel journalist at a state department briefing pushed for an answer over who is being held responsible for the attack. so that you can show him. who's 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 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 are her rockets inside does that justify the killing

of innocent civilians civilians who have seeking shelter obviously nothing justifies the killing of innocent civilians who can show. damaged or destroyed iraq is in a un facility we believe the un neutrality should be respected and recognised 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. the political analyst william dora says that the u.s. is calling for an end to hostilities at the very same time it despite choose war weapons 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 it has to do is stop spam sending weapons and stop sending money to paper but the pentagon announced that it was resupply israel with artillery shells to use against the people of the u.s. may sixteenth flown by u.s. trained pilots arraigning u.s.

made misfiled doubt on civilians who are trapped in a cage with nowhere to go and all the worries these platitudes about investigation and we want the violence to stop are meaningless meanwhile israel is calling up sixteen thousand additional reserve traits as its assault goes on but there are fifty one i.d.f. soldiers who are making a stand and refusing to take part in any more destruction artie's pulis lire tells that story. 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 it 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 left wing protesters were attacked by right wing extremists chanting death to arabs the liberal attack soon turned physically violent 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 divine man a former i.d.f. soldier in the 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 it took

me think about. when i decided that they want to be quiet any more about what happening over there after the dove 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 violence from saudi towards burstein we're talking about dozens of checkpoints in a very very small area only a few abra even after. carte against an institution at the heart of israeli society we have to remember that the soldiers that testify just examples of what any other soldiers doing not because the so injuries 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 cancer policy r.t. television. and discontent with israel's offensive in gaza has gone global here the

latest pictures from germany where hundreds took to the streets of berlin angry with the continuing attacks on palestinian civilians and they were waving flags holding banners and chanting slogans condemning the operation protective edge and earlier i discussed with my colleague i have a coffee just how widespread the anger is. i think it's fair to say that social media is changing the way narrative around gaza is playing out and the case of farah baker a sixteen year old girl from gaza is certainly a good case in point she's a native of gaza her father is a neurosurgeon in the one of the hospitals there and she began live tweeting from her house pictures vines of an israeli bombardment flares in the sky rockets in the sky this minute now her tweets were basically picked up by media over the weekend and her following absolutely ask the extraordinary wait i understand it has been all plain sailing in short but

a successful twitter career her twitter life was temporarily suspended over the last twenty four hours by the massive power outages that we're seeing in gaza the i.d.f. blew up gaza's only power generator but the power outage doesn't necessarily mean that gazans aren't getting their story out neal if we took 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 in. 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 guys 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 and i think it's why people find it so interesting there's no one a political involvement in this as 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. on our website you can find live updates photographs videos and all the very latest from the israeli guard at the combat zone including how a spokesman for the united nations relief and works agency was so overwhelmed that he burst into tears during a t.v. interview about an attack on a u.n. run school for a palestinian refugee. next three civilians including a fifteen year old have been killed in the eastern ukrainian city of lugansk and seven more have been wounded that's all in just the last day according to the city council artillery and airstrikes have been pounding the city infrastructure has been severely damaged the most of the city remains without water or electricity food supplies of also been cut off and locals fear their cupboards will soon be. and in the neighboring don't yet screeching to children summer camp has been shelled thankfully it was empty at the time within days it's planned to be account

for refugees from elsewhere across the region. with a civilian death count or well above a thousand throngs of locals are fleeing the fighting in eastern ukraine at least a third of the refugees are children international monitors that have witnessed the evacuation say it's far from safe even for cars that are clearly marked. we did notice a lot of civilians we noticed for example in their cars and. they were rushing d. their children to come to the windows to get their children their cars so there's definitely a sense of. the the explosions we heard when we decided to drive out or. not these are my culture of met some of those who've crossed over to russia and hoping to get a fresh start away from the violence. yes the kiya was twelve years old when the

second world war began and the grandmother remembers that time that italy but you probably never imagined that seventy three years later she would once again be hiding from airstrikes in her own backyard that would be 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 this scam has 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 here rumors. you spoke i couldn't sleep during my first night here before i left i said good bye it's my sister reggae for the paperwork says 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 doesn't use the money when nana for something like face could happen i was getting

a panch and i was still working now lost my job my house and my pension but at least that third of the refugees are children and russian humanitarian authorities tried to provide what they can to make their it's 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 back and 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 for the last straw was constant shelling and gunfire that forced the practically live in basements or bomb shelters for others the size of friends and relatives killed by multiple rocket strikes. calls for a russian ukrainian border. russian aviation experts have arrived in kiev they plan to meet up with foreign colleagues and join the investigation into the malaysian

plane crash in eastern ukraine other international experts still haven't reached the crash site they say no one ordered them to turn back but they decided not to travel to the area because of the ongoing military operation nearby. that it was issued. as it was or was it was very early on it was a decision it was a cute as it was it was. sufficient for us that was these soldiers that. for the mainstream us media the ukrainian crisis is a pretty clear picture in their eyes all the complexities involved boil down to one person namely the russian president as you can report and the apparent obsession vladimir putin. president obama said he does not believe this growing tension with russia could be

the beginning of a new cold war no. no it's not called world one could only wish thought the same or at least those who are making covers of magazines because some of them hark back to 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 is working or off on 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 later to the united states speaking to me three adjectives you'd use to describe a lot of your proof. i'm not

a poet but. i think. dishonest afraid comes to mind because we've had all these lies. but i think it's a reckless to makes one wonder if they really want to solve a problem. well the media focus on the russian president has bled into the social networks let's take a look at how. it's now a twitter trend it's used to comment on almost anything can quit smoking blame something weird in the neighborhood like craters appearing out of nowhere putin did it your country hasn't had rain for a while of course whose fault is it it's putin so you get the idea the bottom line as defined by one of the tweets if you are in trouble just blame putin do stay with us for two more news on the way we're going to take a very short break. this is the media leave us so we leave the media. the same motions to cure. all your

party physical. issues that no one is asking with to get that you deserve answers from. politics. if you drive people away from the dollar many people now what must be sitting is 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.

come back now britain opens an inquiry today into the death of former russian intelligence officer alexander litvinenko that comes eight years after he was poisoned in the u.k. by radioactive polonium and he's pretty boy the reports from outside the royal courts of justice. up until last year it had been conducted in secret and was eventually drop to protect the national security interests of both britain and russia but just over a week ago something changed britain's home secretary and mounts that a public inquiry into the death of former russian f.s.b. agent alexander litvinenko is to start in london from now until the end of twenty fifteen one senior judge over in this court will be trying to get to the bottom of

the mystery in this story examining whether the russian government was involved in mr litvinenko his two thousand and six murder the former f.s.b. man's family say they believe he was working for m i six when he died but the judge will be looking at whether the british secret service should have done more to protect alexander litvinenko from anyone who wanted to kill him so it's got all the hallmarks of a political spy thriller a radioactive murder on the streets of london and allegations of government involvement perhaps this time this huge on it will finally be solved and as the sessions will be mostly public we can expect plenty of secrets to be made public along the way reporting from london i'm poly boy. spoke exclusively to alexander brother and he thinks the toy being of the start of the british inquiry is very

suspicious. before. 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 mh seventeen crash crimea the war in ukraine sanctions against moscow and now this inquiry i'm not buying that this is a coincidence of. global british bank gauges pc's closing the accounts of several muslim organizations it offered no specific excuse saying only that the decision is not so based on racial or religious prejudice let's talk to the c.e.o. of the pro pieces logic think tank the cordoba foundation this is mr anas altikriti thank you so much for joining us i mean nobody likes having a bank account closed i can imagine what reason we're given. none precisely none we first got letters to my family addressed in my name my wife's and my two sons aged sixteen and twelve this was on tuesday of last week the twenty second informing us

that the council closed and that according to the terms and conditions that bank is under no obligation to the to afford any kind of internet information or explanation two days later the cordova foundation again h.s.b.c. account saying the same and then two days later on saturday a small p.r. company that my wife runs also received the same letter so it was clearly targeted it was clearly deliberate and i you know i am left to speculate on what the reasons are for this i'm utterly bewildered and so is everyone else who hears about this about why my twelve year old for instance had his account closed so it's all reeks of extremely unsavory reasons and and context that this comes from i mean what do you think is behind it they're not giving an explanation all you can do is guess well i mean if i look at the the wider picture where other muslim organizations charities particularly have also had the same treatment it

really stinks of islamophobia discrimination against their muslim organizations i personally have been quite vocal against. against the israeli aggression on gaza maybe that's it but then i've been so for all my life and i've been banking with h.s.b.c. over thirty years so why now it can be if i just had to say as i understand that in the past with some organizations the official reason given has been that clients no longer fall into risk appetites but i'm just wondering how your teenage son could possibly have anything to do with the risk exactly as his pocket money isn't that substantial believe you me no it's it's all extremely unpleasant it's all extremely unsavory are i am. driven and by the way i've all always said that i have no evidence to anything that i'm cleaning and therefore i'm inviting h.s.b.c. to come out and publicly either deny or confirm what i'm saying and what i'm saying

is first of all this is a targeted campaign against areas and sectors of the muslim community in britain which are politically active politically against the israeli aggression in palestine and i'm also saying that. essentially but this is you know not a commercial decision based on the best interest of any just species but rather a political one and if that is the case then we are in very very murky waters and only got time for a quick yes or no answer will you have a chance to challenge this decision oh yes absolutely ok will bust the look without thanks so much that i started creating the c.e.o. of the cordoba foundation thanks for joining us thank you. ok we're going to take a quick break up next that's breaking the set i'll be back at the top of the hour with the latest news hopes.

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