what's inside the. law. the u.n. agency for palestinian refugees accuse israel of using disproportionate force in gaza and the death toll there approaches fourteen hundred people. one of america's most wanted persons former n.s.a. contractor turned whistleblower edward snowden has to extend his asylum in russia claiming he will receive a fair trial in the u.s. . the recent couple of new counts can 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.

we're watching from in the world welcome to moscow and to our to international my name's o'neill our top story in gas almost five hundred thousand civilians have become refugees hospitals have been destroyed food is running low on there's no electricity it's taking the situation in the region to the brink of a complete humanitarian catastrophe that is according to valerie amos the u.n. bodies under secretary general who said israel must make clear where its firing. we have all watched in horror the desperation of children of civilians as they have come under attack. with no safe place to go. under international humanitarian law the government of israel for mass and other militant groups must distinguish between military objectives and civilian objects and between competence

and civilian with they must also avoid harming civilians or civilian objects and protect them from the effects of military operations. now the un senior human rights official claim that israel and hamas should be held accountable for possible war crimes she said tel aviv is breaking international law and doing this deliberately by targeting civilian structures and it's ongoing operation coming up is footage of one of israel's attacks on a busy gaza market which saw fifteen people killed shells even hit on balance workers there it does contain profit images was .

was with tell of even sis thing and continuing its hostilities the death toll rises every day the number of palestinians killed most of them civilians has topped thirteen hundred people that's moving ever closer to the tragic number of victims of the gal's war in two thousand and eight two thousand and nine israel itself has lost fifty eight people all but two of them soldiers with a mosque violating ceasefires by firing rockets and using tunnels to first treat is really tertiary. let's take a look at the scale of devastation in gaza from another angle the south live images released by a u.n. affiliated organization should the strip before and after the bombardments as you can see on screen whole districts were leveled to the ground. in while another u.n. school has reportedly come under is really shelling leaving one man dead fifteen

injured comes just a day after a strike on a different school so twenty people including children killed hundreds had been seeking refuge there hoping to escape the dealing bombardments the attack cause widespread i krege we talked to the spokes person of the organization controlling the schools christopher ayres he says the war in israel numerous times that there were civilians in the buildings there's been creation alice's trajectory analysis we've examined the day bri we've examined the damage and we were confident enough to make a strong public condemnation of the israeli army for having. for 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 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 that this place was 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. r.t. also spoke with the israeli side to give their explanation to what's going on. we are doing everything we possibly can to try to limit and to. restrict the civilian casualties in very difficult circumstances we've accepted and implemented in abided by five i think it is ceasefire proposals all of which we were rejected and and violated by hamas and they have abused the palestinian but it's an obvious. it is really that misfiled it's a tux by your country international journalists covering the conflict have said

they've never seen so many children's deaths so many is their words neither back in the previous were even in libya or syria or how do you react to that well first of all i will say to you that i think that the trade in blood the numbers is a little bit distasteful especially since nobody has the numbers i you know i again it's a cold and horrible reality but to say that it's anything anywhere approaching what goes on in libya and syria of course you and i both know is is simply silly we two are talking two hundred thousand people who've been put in syria and. today it's a one and a half thousand here in tragic circumstances about forty percent of whom are all terrorists but that leaves too many civilians who have been killed we know of tains and tens and tens of booby trapped houses by come us waiting for our soldiers which have caused incredible damage inside gaza but i agree with you

a lot of the damage is also being caused by a fall on the on israel's side and this is precisely the reason why we didn't want to be in this conflict with plans to continue its operation television has called up sixteen thousand additional reserve troops but not everyone wants to join the attack on gaza parties paula slee are met with i.d.f. soldiers 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 and after israel no longer exists. 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 head 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 verbal attacks soon to mean 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 occupied territories is one of them i think is very hard to talk about because. it's very very thorough. and that's why i think

about. when i decided that i want to be quiet anymore about what is 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 drones from saudi towards boasting we're talking about dozens of checkpoints in a very very small area only a few abra even after speed. caught 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 on defending the country's bloody war in gaza you see on t.v. television. we're closely following the ongoing events in israel and gaza

with the correspondent you've just been hearing from paula in tel aviv you can read the updates on her twitter feed where she says hamas is continuing to fire rockets at israel causing heavy damage on leaving one person injured in the city of cigarettes. former cia specialist edward snowden has filed for an extension to his asylum stay in russia they whistleblower is hiding from u.s. authorities after exposing america's global spying network and whispering the cost of explains returning home is not 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 u.s.

operatives accuse them of leaking secrets surveillance programs by the u.s. national security agency to the media and he's facing charges that aren't related to espionage at one point it was even treason and the charges there he 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 if he gets it another extension and will be bringing all the latest the n.s.a. whistleblower recently spoke to britain's guardian newspaper which frequently published his revelations student 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 a would have been all over the media still no also believes the u.s. won't give him a fair trial and even in exile he ses he feels more comfortable being

who has revealed the full details of the sanctions against russian banks coming about over the crisis in ukraine some of russia's largest financial institutions which bankroll energy and i grew cultural sectors are on the list peter all over explains. the full details of no come out about what the latest round of sanctions entailed what we're looking at is its targets three main sectors of the russian economy now in terms of the banking sector we've seen sanctions slapped on five of russia's biggest banks including the biggest spur bank which will stop them from being able to sell bonds to european investors with regards to the energy sector what we're going to see is anybody who wants to provide equipment technology towards russia they're going to have to get approval we're looking at things here like the continued exploration for oil in the arctic that could be affected by this

and when it comes to defense well there is a ban on import and export of arms into russia however that isn't retroactive knowledge these are any deals that have gone on in the past any deals that have been agreed they'll all be fine and be allowed to progress but they that's basically the brass tacks of water of what these latest sanctions and tail for more on the issue let's bring in political analyst rodney shakespeare mr shakespeare thanks indeed for joining us the banks are seeing this sanctions won't affect the way they do business but there will be hurting from this one thing. know for a start they're not reactive secondly this is a huge opportunity for countries around the world including russia to realize that you should never borrow or take investment from abroad you have to repay it interest in somebody else's currency you should use your own national banks this is in fact an opportunity for countries to break away from controlled by zionism and

the west it's significant that even in these sanctions the european subsidiaries of the russian banks are not being targeted because the fact of the matter is is that the americans who are behind this and the europeans dead take on the russia economically face to face russia holds the gas card and it could easily nationalize the assets of b.p. and shell so look at this as a positive opportunity and although with the investment that can be technologically information associated with it do what he return has done to look at the thing as an opportunity to validate your own technology but don't play the game of borrowing money in any way from abroad and don't be frightened by this call their bluff carry on becoming dependent and one last thing the excuse for all this is russia's alleged downing of m.h. seventy in the plane where the evidence is showing from the bullets into the

cockpit that that plane was brought down by a ukrainian su twenty five in other words it was senator john mccain and his crane cronies who are behind this and already in washington they're saying oh they think they're made have been a mistake yes then well let me just call it the sanctions for a moment because they do come with certain provisions for example allowing european technologies to be exported here to russia which if they aren't i suppose could affect certain all exports bach to europe that could be an issue do you think it's a safety measure by the e.u. they're for. they're not prepared not prepared they cannot actually bites because in the long term russia holds the cards you play this sort of game of attacking somebody with somebody else who actually holds cost particularly germany which relies on its machine exports europe is going to be hit i mean they're not

canceling those two aircraft carriers the u.k. hasn't cancelled any of its two hundred fifty one arms contracts with russia they're not prepared to strike because russia can strike back just as effectively so the situation is really it's bluff and bark because the americans want it and behind this the americans shop were complicit in the shooting down of the plane the whole thing is going to break in russia's advantage over time particularly if russia sees this as an opportunity to develop with the bric countries develop their own banking systems and their own cooperation away from the west because the west will always try to control you and to bully you and particularly in the case of russia they're going to try and smash it apart just briefly by sanctions or for a three month period only that is the small print on the sanctions what will happen afterwards well their bluff will it being cold or the whole thing will of actually

start dying down as regards sanctions as they find out that it was shot down the plane ok rodney shakespeare a political analyst thank you for your take on the situation this hour it's a pleasure ok more news after a short break here in r.t. international. i think that's the master plan is to tear remove public governorship or stock market participation from the unwashed masses who have the temerity to go out there and buy a share in some publicly listed company hoping that they too can emulate warren buffett all that's going to be wiped out by the koch brothers and the buffets of the world the private equity scam artists are going to take it all private and this is what these it's going to become be told when oligarchies hill america's

a clip talk oligarchies. dramas that can't be ignored to the. stories of the risk refused to notice. food since changing the world light snack. food picture of today's news. from our rooms too close. to him please don't. i. welcome back to the program a large city in the east of ukraine continues to be pondered with artillery around thirty residents of lugansk have been killed in the past four days with the local infrastructure badly damaged now the city's been left without power and local

authorities say it's on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe no food supplies have come in and what's left in storage and shops is put to the expiring as fridges and freezers don't work on top of that and activists say drinking water will run out in ten days. 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. we knew more simply the studio he visited with who would it cause digging digging oh my he can pull stuff. from of them at least a third of the refugees are children international monitors not witnessed the exist say it's far from safe even for cars that are clearly marked. we did notice

a lot of civilians we noticed for example always in their cars. that were their job or to go to the windows to do their job or their cars so there's definitely. the explosions that we heard when we decided to order. our teacher mine cost met with some of those who crossed over into russia hoping for a fresh start away from the violence. 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 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 here rumors. 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 now lost my job my house and my pension. at least a third of the refute geezer children and russian humanitarian authorities tried 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 that forced them to practically live in basements or bomb shelters for others the sights of friends and relatives killed by multiple rocket strikes. cost her of russia ukraine and water. now there's always plenty of stories for you online income. looting how do you ever just want to plug a u.s.b. drive into your brain and not have to worry about remembering anything or anything well scientists from the university of michigan are close to making not our reality apparently but their method involves water find out all about it and. also their discovery london is preparing to tackle controlled boozy brits in the future hence bracelets that deal

a lot so on our website. one of the u.k.'s leading banks has closed the accounts of a number of muslim groups in the country saying they pose too much of a risk to be accusations of prejudice the bank insisted the decision was not based on the race or religion of the customers. a trustee of finsbury park mosque and also a hitch s.b.c. client believes this is a clear campaign of islamophobia in the u k. if there would have given us a clear reason then we would be able to at least maybe to address the issue or to find out but what we believe in is actually this is a clear campaign. policy that instituted by him against the british muslims in u.k. individual as well as charities and who believe. should be held ashamed for their actions should really be clearly that we should be working to stop such because it

will have and it has a huge negative impact on the social cohesion britain. let's move to more global headlines now in istanbul police used water cannon to stop fighting between supporters of two presidential that 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 out a stand or wrecked it by the kurds and their campaign materials set on fire presidential elections will be held in turkey in august. the deadliest i brake of the bull live virus in west africa has claimed the lives of more than seven hundred people in sierra leone a public health emergency has been declared in neighboring liberia as little schools in an effort to stop it spreading deaths have already been registered in three african couples with international reports sparking fears it could move rapidly around the world. a coal fired power station in west

yorkshire in the u.k. is a blaze fifteen fire crews are trying to get the flames under control thick smoke can be seen coming from the site no injuries have been reported just far the power station that was on a summer shutdown and houghton been generating electricity at the time. 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 aleksandr litvinenko he was poisoned by radioactive polonium eight years ago in london his family believes that at the time lifting it was working for m i 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 agents that we've spoken to let me and his brother and he has his own theory about what occurred and. 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 our 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 russian 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 soon i suppose the western security services decided to get rid of him. russian expert at the university of london martin mccauley believes the timing of the inquiry is far from quits the dental is another spoke in the wheel of bad russian relations so the government is putting pressure no i don't know moscow. attacking from two sides one side is through eastern ukraine and the other through the little doing coke case we've been seeing to see when the case comes to trial how much of the evidence which previously was regarding

a secret like should be revealed because that is in loot from intelligence sources . they may have to reveal their intelligence sources which could in fact be very very very embarrassing. after a short break get a look behind the scenes at how news is made here on r.t. . and.

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