the u.n. agency for palestinian refugees accuses israel of using disproportionate force in garter as the death toll there approaches fourteen hundred people. one of america's most wanted former n.s.a. contractor turned whistleblower edward snowden has asked to extend his asylum 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 attempt to flee to safety we listen to some of their stories.

welcome thanks for joining us this hour my name is the harvey you're watching r.t. international. the number of children who were killed in israel's bombing of gaza is reaching new highs the u.n. says that israel must distinguish where they're firing. all watched in horror this ration of children of civilians as they have come under attack. no safe place to go. under international humanitarian law or the government of israel the mass and other militant groups must distinguish between military objectives and civilian objects and between competence and civilian with they must also harming civilians or civilian objects and protect them in the face of military orange.

earlier the israeli prime minister said the operation to destroy hamas made tunnels under the border with gaza will continue with or without a cease fire and thus despite the soaring death toll among the civilian population caused by the extensive use of artillery fire and strikes has footage of one of israel's attacks on a busy garza market we saw fifteen people killed shells even hitting ambulance workers there i must warn you though it does contain some graphic images i was anxious. about here. was the was. was

was was well would tell of insisting on continuing hostilities. every day the number of palestinians killed most of them civilians has now topped thirteen hundred and that is moving ever closer to the tragic number of victims of the gaza war in two thousand and eight two thousand and nine israel itself has lost fifty eight people but two of them soldiers with a mouse violating ceasefires by firing rockets and using tunnels to infiltrate israeli territory. let's take a look at the scale of devastation in gaza from another angle these satellite images released by a u.n. affiliated organization they show the strip before and after the bombardment and as you can see whole districts were leveled to the ground. meanwhile another un school has reportedly come under israeli shelling leaving one

man dead and fifteen people injured and that is just the day after a strike on a different school but saw twenty people including children killed hundreds have been seeking refuge there hoping to escape the daily bombardment and that attack caused widespread outrage earlier i talked to the spokes person of the organization controlling the schools christopher gunas and he says that they warned israel numerous times that there were civilians in the buildings. that's been created analysis trajectory analysis we've examined the debris we've examined the damage and we were confident enough to make a strong public condemnation of the israeli army for having. talk 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 brigade in

the precise called knights 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 that this place was how is it possible this was still able to happen. well that's a very good question did 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't see the psychological scars are going to be far far deeper. with plans to continue its operation tell of eve has called up sixteen thousand additional reserve troops but not everybody wants to join the attack on gaza. or met with i.d.f. soldiers are fed up with the ambitions of the government and refusing to take part in any more destruction. in the future i hope. i can

aspire to be a reasonable palestinian after israel no longer exist. as 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 are made hit on and called naive and traitors during a recent antiwar demonstration in the center of tel aviv fifth when protesters were

attacked by right wing extremists chanting death to arabs. soon to mean physically fine and the 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 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. about two years after. then i decided ok i'm going to be quiet anymore about what is happening over there now 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 driving 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 are 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. television. we are closely following the ongoing event. in israel and gaza with our correspondent paula slayer in tell of if you can read the updates on her twitter feed where she says that hamas is continuing to fire rockets at israel causing heavy damage leaving one person injured in the city of the old. former cia specialist edward snowden has filed for an extension to his asylum in russia the whistleblower is hiding from us or florida keys after exposing about his global spying network has married

a culture of explains 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 origins accuse them of leaking secrets surveillance programs by the u.s. national security agency to the media and he's facing trial related to espionage at one point it was even treason and the charges there yea 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 we'll be bringing you all the latest. the n.s.a. whistleblower recently spoke to britain's guardian newspaper which frequently published his revelations snowden said he wasn't working with moscow in any way he added that if the u.s. could have found any link to the russian government then it would have been all over the media snowden also believes the u.s. won't be able to extend him a fair trial and even in exile he says he feels more comfortable and see where 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 and united states the structure of the legal system and the politics in the u.s. they involve a way in which the u.s. government is the judge with curie and the sentence or there is an enormous you're

in. the top of this whole 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 yet him back in the united states put him in solitary confinement prevent any meaningful contact with the news media or the pole and then put him away in prison and we have details just coming in of new sanctions against russia get all the details after this short break. so we leave the. bush and see. your party is it the. shoes that no one is there with to get that you deserve answers from.

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let's bring you that news just in the e.u. is impose new sanctions against russia's banks over the crisis in ukraine and russia's largest financial institution spared a bank is now officially on the list also that state run banks which finance the country's and energy and angry culture sectors of the companies will now be barred from medium and long term loans on the european markets. next a large city in the east of ukraine has been pounded with artillery around thirty residents have been killed in the past four days and the local infrastructure bandleader amidst and now the city's been left without power local authorities say it's on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe no food supplies have come in and what is left in storage in shops is quickly expiring as for g.'s and freezes don't work on top of that activists say that drinking water will run out in ten days times. and caught

in the middle of this conflict are thousands of civilians hiding in basements or sometimes even churches is the tough reality for these women and children tens of thousands of people have already fled but many more simply don't have the means to do so. we knew more simply stupid he is that it was who had a crush digging in. the egypt last couple of burma each duran's but. at least a third of the refugees the children international monitors that have witnessed the exodus say it's a far from safe even for cars that a clearly marked. notice that close ago is we noticed for example there were cars. that were in do their job or to go to the windows to get their children their cars so there's definitely a sense of it was. the explosions that we heard when

we started to work or it was. lottie's remain cautious met some of those who've crossed over into russia and 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 there 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 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 living you would never have thought something like this could happen i was gettin a passionate and was still working now lost my job my house and my pension. at least a third of the rich few g.'s our 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. 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. called for a russian ukrainian border. for the mainstream media across the atlantic the ukrainian crisis in all its complexity both down to just one person auntie's gun each account looks so well 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 a 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 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 all for an outdoor adventure and why don't we see him smiling very much he's not really driven 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 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 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. 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 sports in this use it goes if you are in trouble just playing. it washington i'm going to show our team. the. there's always plenty more stories that we're covering for you online including have you ever wanted to just plug a u.s.b. drive into your brain and not worry about having to actually remember anything well scientists from the university of michigan are close to making that a reality but their method involves water find out all about it on our website dot com. and one hundred twenty three million dollars that is the compensation that a texas woman wants from facebook discover online just what she says the social

network has done. right. first for you and i think that your. reporters. on. and 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 pose 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 anas altikriti from the islamic think tank the cordoba foundation is among those whose accounts are 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 how does it count clothes so it all reeks of of extremely unsavory reasons and and context that this comes from this is a targeted campaign against areas and sectors of the muslim community britain which are politically 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 interests 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 when he was poisoned by radioactive polonium eight years ago in london his family believes that at the time litvinenko was working for and my six as well as the spanish security

services the 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 live in and has a brother and he has his own theory about what happened. when the reading on the wall so far we haven't seen one official piece of evidence that will 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 going back so i suppose the western security service. meanwhile russian 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 you know 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 revealed because that presumably is from intelligence sources and they may have to reveal their intelligence sources which could in fact be very very very embarrassing. some more global headlines for you now starting 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 candidate were attacked by a mob supporting the former head of the organization of islamic cooperation stones were thrown at a stand erected by the kurds and their campaign materials set on fire as it entered

elections will be held in in august. elsewhere a militant group claims to have taken control of libya's second largest city where they've declared an islamic emirate but pro-government forces have dismissed the information declaration comes a day after militants captured an army base in bone garci killing dozens in the process meanwhile in tripoli spain followed the example of other western governments and evacuated it staff libya is be mired in chaos since the ousting of former leader moammar gadhafi back in two thousand and eleven. the deadliest outbreak of the ebola virus in west africa has claimed the lives of more than seven hundred people in sierra leone a public health emergency has been declared a neighboring liberia has closed schools in an effort to stop it spreading death have already been registered in three african capitals with international airports

sparking fears it could move rapidly around the world. and hundreds of people have taken to the streets of went to support president cristina kids there as argentina deals with huge economic difficulties countries failed to reach an agreement with international creditors on its debt which was 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. rights activists in bahrain are calling for the authorities to stop. targeting journalists over the coverage of protests and far reaching violations in the gulf nation so far six photographers have been arrested opposition leader not build a job who spent two years in jail so that the repression is only getting worse as the international community chooses to ignore the clampdown. in the ground more appreciated more people in detention thousands of people behind bars thousands of

people have read their country thousands of people are hitting a lot of people thought people were killed hundreds of people were wounded. i'm going to thousands of houses being raided and a yearly basis is a lot of houses being robbed by the security personnel so the petition is there was according to human right. guy vision including the united nation but you don't want nobody want to speak about it because nobody want to i'm going to bring government because i'm getting behind government in the black and getting saudi government and it would be news though even from those three from those countries everybody needs to. read these are saved for those government. thinks he can but also for me for today i do stay with us though in r.t. after the break abby martin looks into the costs of implicitly trusting any justice systems coming up in breaking the side.

sometimes i am baffled by the closed little world that a lot of people in the mainstream media must live in they seem shocked and appalled at the fact that around forty percent of the weapons supplied to afghanistan have gone missing let's ignore the fact that while americans are going broke the u.s. must rebuild the afghan military and think for just a second what would happen if you set a lot of weapons into a country in dire economic suffering i'm sure you've heard reports that say that afghan farmers can only make a living off of poppy crops because they just have no the resort so if you throw a bunch of guns and ammo into the hands of people who have the career choices of poppies or starvation yeah that someone might be willing to sell some bullets. good bye also we shouldn't forget that every government our earth has people in it

working for their old self interests or others interests it is totally naive to think that every person involved in the process of transferring weapons will be loyal to the afghan government which seems to have been put in place by a certain hyper power who remain nameless in short if you find this story shocking then you really need to get off the couch and see how the world really works but that's just my opinion. of. what's going on folks i'm adding martin and this is breaking the set so yeah the us is among the top countries in the world in terms of

state executions at least we can rest assured knowing that these people deserved to die or not see back in two thousand and twelve the f.b.i. open an investigation into thousands of convictions including forty five death row cases this after the washington post reported that flawed forensic evidence might have been responsible for hundreds of wrongful convictions well it turns out that the results of the investigation are far worse than even the washington post originally reported and in fact nearly every case reviewed by the f.b.i. include the log forensic testimony why won't because agents positively identify defendants using a hair samples something that the bureau specifically prohibits because of its unreliability the findings were so worrisome the f.b.i. halted entire investigation last year and the d.o.j. ordered it to reopen the probe just a side note to the f.b.i. .