ah. the death toll from the israeli operation in gaza surges over fourteen hundred as the israeli pm found to continue destroying hamas made tunnels under the border with or without a ceasefire. one of america's most wanted former cia specialist turned whistleblower edward snowden has asked to extend his asylum here in russia claiming he won't receive a fair trial in the u.s. . the regional capital of lugansk in eastern ukraine is on the brink of a humanitarian disaster after relentless bombing as women and children try to flee

to safety we listen to some of their stories. welcome my name is neil harvey and you're watching r.t. international. the israeli prime minister has said the operation to destroy hamas made tunnels under the border with gaza will continue with or without a cease fire and that's the spike the soaring death toll among the civilian population caused by the extensive use of artillery fire and air strikes has footage of one of israel's attacks on a busy garza market we saw fifteen people killed shells even hit ambulance workers there i must warn you it contains some graphic images. was

was. was. was . was on the television insists on continuing with us till it is the death toll is rising every day the number of palestinians killed a most of them have been civilians as now topped thirteen hundred that's moving ever closer to the tragic number of victims of the gaza war of two thousand and eight two thousand and nine israel itself has lost fifty eight people or but two of them soldiers with a mass of violating ceasefires by firing rockets and using tunnels to infiltrate israeli territory let's take a look at the scale of the devastation in gaza from another angle now these satellite images released by our un affiliated organization they show the street

before and after bombardments and as you can see whole districts have been leveled to the ground. meanwhile another un school has reportedly come under israeli shelling needing one man dead and fifteen people injured and it comes just a day after a strike on a different school which saw twenty people including children killed hundreds have been seeking refuge there hoping to escape the daily bombardments and that attack caused widespread outrage earlier i spoke to the spokesperson of the organization controlling the schools christopher goodness and he says that they warned israel numerous times that there were civilians in the buildings. there's been creation alice's trajectory analysis we've examined the day briefly we've examined the damage and we were confident enough to make a strong public condemnation of the israeli army for having. a

for for this serious violation of international law we were confident enough to make a public statement that it was indeed israeli artillery which struck the school and don't forget we made seventeen calls one seven calls to the israeli army we gave them the precise called nights of the school and we made it clear to them that there were three thousand three hundred people at the school so they knew very well where this place was how is it possible this is still able to happen. well that's a very good question deed and it's one you need to put to the israeli army we estimate that there are seventy five thousand children in gaza and i'm sure it's much higher of that that are deeply traumatized there are the scars you can see and the scars you can't see now we saw the wounds but i fear that the scars are that you can see the psychological scars are going to be far far deeper. if plans to continue its operation to live even called up sixteen thousand additional reserve

troops not everybody wants to join the attack on garza artie's paulus lear met with i.d.f. soldiers who were fed up with the ambitions of the government and they're refusing to take part in any more destruction in the future i hope. i can aspired to be a reasonable palestinian and after israel no longer exists. as one of a kind the thirty three year old it's really 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 i'm like 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 are made hit on and called naive and traitors during a recent antiwar demonstration in the center of tel aviv different protesters were attacked by right wing extremists chanting death to arabs verbal attacks soon 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 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 you know so because. it's very very thorough. and that's why it took me think about. when i decided ok i want to be quiet anymore about what is 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 violence from saudi towards boasting we're talking about dozens of checkpoints in a very very small area only a few 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 policy r.t. tell of of. we're closely following the ongoing. events in israel and gaza with our correspondent paula slip in television if you could read the updates on our twitter feeds where she says that hamas is continuing to fire rockets at israel causing heavy damage leaving one person injured in the city of stadol.

former cia specialist edward snowden has filed for an extension to his asylum in russia whistleblower is hiding from the u.s. or so it is after exposing america's global spying that work. explains now returning home isn't an option edward snowden's a lawyer not only his client is waiting to hear whether his asylum is renewed for another year he applied for temporary asylum back in august two thousand and thirteen and he was granted that for a year and he had the option to extend it for another twelve months needless to say edward snowden doesn't wish to return to the united states because he is a wanted man there that's after years of hours he's accused them of leaking secrets surveillance programs by the u.s. national security agency to the media and he's facing charges that related to espionage at one point it was even treason and the charges there year if he does go

back to the united states he faces up to ten years on the charge and of course as we know it's not only one charge or two that he has so he faces a substantial time behind bars and also here right now in the country he's been here a year and reportedly has found a job of related to website maintenance and of course we'll find out what happens and if he gets it another extension and will be bringing all the latest. well the n.s.a. whistleblower recently spoken to put in the guardian newspaper which frequently published his revelations snowden said that he wasn't working with moscow anyway so added that if the u.s. could have found any link to the russian government well this would have been all over the media snowden went on to say that he believes the u.s. won't be able to give him a fair trial and even in exile he says he feels more comfortable until war activist and journalist norman sullivan feels that washington is out for retaliation for

what it believes was a betrayal it's really not possible for edward snowden to get a fair trial in the united states the structure of the vehicle system and the politics in the usa involved the way in which the u.s. government is the judge the jury and the sentence or there is enormous you are in it. the top official the so-called intelligence community of the united states to silence the voice of edward snowden they would like to do to snowden what they did to chelsea manning get him back in the united states put him in solitary confinement prevent any meaningful contact with the news media or the public and then put him away in prison ok latest updates from ukraine a plenty more news on the way for you see you after this short break.

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welcome back a launch city in the east of ukraine has been pounded with artillery around thirty residents have been killed in just the past four days and local infrastructure has been found to be damaged. and now the city's been left even without power local authorities say it's on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe no food supplies of come in and what's left in storage in shops is quickly expiring as fridges and freezers don't work on top of that activists drinking water will run out in ten days time. caught in the middle of the conflict are thousands of civilians hiding in basements or sometimes even churches

is the tough reality for these women and children tens of thousands have already fled but many more simply don't have the means to do so. when you more simply stupid he got there because the order crashed digging. the egypt last bomb my egypt they keep duran's but at least a third of the refugees are children international monitors that have witnessed the exodus say it's far from safe even for cars that are clearly marked. we did notice that what's ago is we noticed for example there were cars. that were. going to the windows that are over there so there's definitely. the explosion. where we started. out.

of met some of those who crossed over into russia these people who were hoping for a fresh start away from the violence. yep the kiya was twelve years old when the second world war began and the grandmother remembers that time vividly but you probably never imagined that seventy three years later she would once again be hiding from airstrikes in her own backyard 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 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 here rumors. you spoke i couldn't sleep during my first night here before i left i said good bye it's my sister ok 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 this could happen i was getting the passion and was still working and now lost my job my house and my pension. at least a third of the refugees are 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 take 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 of course they are practically live in basements or bomb shelters for others the size of friends

and relatives killed by multiple rocket strikes. calls for a large russia ukraine and border. for the mainstream media across the atlantic the ukrainian crisis in all its complexity boils down to just one person auntie's going to church account takes a look at what seems to be an obsession with the russian president. 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's 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 your proof. 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 or if they're good with the current state of affairs the media focus on the russian president has had its effect on twitter where users came up with a hash tag putin and now many use it to comment on pretty much anything it didn't rain in my country today i blame poison for it or

a mosquito just bit me blame putin and then to the report that former georgian president saakashvili doesn't want to go back to his country to stand trial and says he blames putin this use of goes if you are in trouble just playing. it washington i'm going to show. don't forget our web site for the very latest on the stories that you've seen us covering and plenty more besides including co-develop become the plague of the twenty first century a hospital has agreed to accept infected patients leaving germany's neighbors to worry about the incurable virus spreading across europe. and one hundred twenty three million dollars that's the compensation a texas woman wants from facebook discover online just what she says the social network has done. right.

and i think. one of the u.k.'s leading banks h.s.b.c. has closed the accounts of a number of muslim groups in the country saying that they posed too much of a risk answering to the accusations of prejudice they insisted the decision wasn't based on the race or religion of the customers. security from the islamic think tank the cordoba foundation is among those whose accounts of being closed and he feels the decision is both politicized and insulting. 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 will reach of extreme lee unsavory reasons and and context that this comes from this is targeted campaign against areas of the sectors of the muslim community britain which are active particularly against the israeli aggression in palestine and i am also saying that. essentially but this is you know not a commercial decision based on the best interest of h.s.b.c. but rather a political want. britain has begun a public inquiry into one of the most mysterious deaths of the last decade the murder of the former russian security officer alexander litvinenko and he was poisoned by radioactive polonium eight years ago in london his family believes that at the time it was working for and i six as well as the spanish security services investigation will focus on only one aspect of the case whether the russian government had a hand in the former agent death we've spoken to litvinenko his brother and he has

his own theory about what happened as an indian when the reading on the wall so far we haven't seen one official piece of evidence that would prove the cause of alexander's death it's been eight years and all we've had at interviews and newspaper articles as far as i know alexander was trainee agents for amite six in that time he found out a lot about the life of russia dissidents in the u.k. he didn't know any english and after he lost his job he wanted to start a business in russia of course his previous employers didn't like the idea of him go we saw i suppose the western security services decided to get rid of him. meanwhile a russia expert at the university of london martin mccauley believes that the timing of the inquiry is far from co-incidence. it's another spoke in the wheel of bad russian relations so the government is putting pressure now to moscow

they're attacking from two sides one side is through eastern ukraine and the other through the literally in cold case you've been seeing to see when the case comes to trial how much of the evidence which previously was a guarded secret like should be removed because that is in lease from intelligence sources and they may have to reveal their intelligence sources which could in fact be very very very embarrassing. ok let's round up some of the global headlines for you now we'll start in istanbul where police used water cannons to stop fighting between supporters of two presidential candidates both rivals of the current prime minister activists for a kurdish count as it were attacked by a mob supporting the former head of the organization of islamic cooperation stones were thrown to the stand by the kurds and their campaign material was set on fire presidential elections will be held in august. and elsewhere

a militant group claims to have taken control of libya's second largest city where they've declared an islamic emirates pro-government forces have dismissed the information declaration comes a day after militants captured an army base in bengazi killing dozens in the process meanwhile in tripoli spain followed the example of other western governments and evacuated its embassy staff maybe it is been mired in chaos since the ousting of former leader moammar gadhafi back in two thousand and eleven. i didn't use hundreds of taking to the streets of gwen is there is to support president cristina character as argentina deals with huge economic difficulties because he has failed to reach an agreement with international creditors on its debt which is due to be paid by the end of july economists say that the nation's facing a technical default but the government is refusing to publicly admit it. rights activists in bahrain are calling for the authorities to stop targeting journalists

of the coverage of protests and far reaching violations in the gulf nation so far six photographers have been arrested opposition leader not be able rajavi spent two years in jail says the repression is only getting worse as the international community chooses to ignore the climbdown. in the ground more repression more people in detention thousands of people behind bars thousands of people have read the country thousands of people are hitting a lot of people tens of people were killed hundreds of people were wounded. hundreds of thousands of houses been raided in a yearly basis a lot of houses being robbed by the security personnel so the repression is the worst according to human rights. organization including the united nations but you don't want nobody want to speak about it because nobody want to anger one thing government because anger in bahrain government is like anger in saudi government

and everybody from those three from those countries everybody needs to make treaties arms sales all those government. latest news headlines in just over half an hour's time hope to see them but they stay with us at night max and stay safe in the cars or bored. after. you show no where you.

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here's an article republished in usa today is the fed fueling a giant stock market bubble and they invite you to take a look at the s. and p. chart from one thousand nine hundred six to present and you'll see the internet bubble and then the housing bubble and then today they have exclamation point question mark and say that you'd be excused for concluding that we're in the midst of the greatest stock market bubble of all time because the prices today on the s. and p. five hundred a thirty percent higher than either of those other two well as a student of bubbles going back some just recently learned that my mentor on wall street jeffrey j. winters has passed away. who was a great wall street broker of his day we would chat often of the history of bubbles at the new york stock exchange luncheon club we used to go.