so picture this day. from a rose to the. cease fire between hamas and israel coming into force brokered by the un in the us due to last for three days while the conflict has claimed more than four hundred lives. the latest e.u. sanctions on russia target banks oil and defense coming into full force with the country's biggest bank also blacklisted by the blog. lawlessness and mayhem c.e.u. governments in the us evacuate citizens from libya as the radicals declare an islamic emirate in the country. u.s. considers the law or its largest ever shipment of hellfire missiles to the iraqi government that has lost control of economic lee crucial lands.

in moscow good to have you with us our top story a three day ceasefire confirmed both by israel and hamas has begun the pause was announced in a joint statement by the u.n. and the u.s. state department who negotiated the truce middle east correspondent paula sleeper reports. what we have heard from the united nations and the united states and unconditional seventy two hour cease fire that goes into effect on friday morning now israel says it will end here to this temporary truce but at the same time it will continue to locate and destroy what it calls terror tunnels inside gaza islamic jihad and a massive also said that they will adhere to the streets but as long as israel keeps its fair share of the bargain the temporary pause in fighting a certainly not the first we've witnessed in the past week but it is an opportunity

for much needed urgent humanitarian relief to be brought into gaza it is a chance for residents there to stockpile on food for them to bury their dead for them to take care of the injured and at the same time for repairs to take place on the infrastructure of water and energy this comes to a resumption of talks that is slated to take place later on friday in cairo the united states and egypt will be mediating these talks between israel and hamas the latest information we have is that the talks will be in direct no word as of yet when they likely to start now all of this comes as violence between the two sides continued right up until the last moment we are hearing from palestinian sources that fourteen members of one family with killed in an israeli strike a match has announced friday a day of rage and israeli police are on high alert in the palestinian territories and also in jerusalem but certainly this temporary truce is urgent we have heard

from the united nations that one child is dying every hour in gaza that a quarter of gazans are displaced and have sought shelter in united nations schools and hospitals and other such places so the concern on the ground is that both sides do it here to the seventy two hour cease fire to give residents of gaza an opportunity just to try. i and paid themselves full as possible continuation of hostilities operation protective edge in its fourth week and the number of palestinians killed has surpassed fourteen hundred that already exceeds the last major israeli operation cast lead almost six years ago israel has lost fifty six soldiers three civilians including in israel including a tire national were also killed by hamas rockets the conflict has left a few untouched but it's the civilian deaths that have shocked the world the most sixteen year old farah baker an average palestinian teenager has already gone

through three offensives she chose twitter to share the nightmares that have become a daily reality for her posting her personal photos videos and comments on everything she and her family experience there girl sincerity has brought her thousands of followers her twitter feed went viral and was picked up by the global media we spoke with her father a local surgeon of the gaza hospital. when you call it water it must occur because the water is. cold tipped over. between two equal almost equal forces it is no equality people come with severe injuries with demolished bodies. torn apart due to thirty billion people would come. with a destructive budget and would smash it because of. limbs because of homes for one day we saw many many cases to be situated.

but. for the most. what's most makes you sad very sad. is that the children that is. when you see a child who has lost his mother has a brother as well as a brother. but is is this disabled he can live but will live with this the whole ticket will with him israel says it's trying to limit civilian casualties but had hamas is making this impossible my colleague in ariel spoke with paul horse and for me israeli foreign ministry. 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 missiles

it's attacked by your country international journalists covering the conflict have said they've never seen so many children's deaths so many that 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 to say that it's anything anywhere approaching what goes on in libya and syria of course you and i both know it is simply silly we 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 armed terrorists but that leaves too many civilians who have been killed we know of tens and tens and thousands 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 fall on the on israel's side and this is precisely the reason why we didn't want to be in this conflict. the actions of israel in gaza have been supported at a rally in paris near the israeli embassy at the same time hundreds also took the streets of the friends the streets of the french capital to denounce the israeli offensive paris has been the scene of numerous pro israeli and pro palestinian rallies since the conflict started. palestinians and also secured some more radical support isis militants announcing that it's only a matter of time before they join the battle against israel that is still to come. but first parts of eastern ukraine face a humanitarian crisis due to fighting between the army and anti government forces lugansk has been left without power and water for days and is running out of food

doesn't the civilians killed in the last few days. we start you. see we never have even we do not talk to you would be. and i want to hear such should we. i. not you know there's a huge there's an irony you need to look what they did well he wasn't. bomber should. it be how do you actually say you know. this. you know what you should probably not this is the latest round of e.u. sanctions against russia over the ukraine crisis has come into force russia's biggest bank among the institutions hit by the new regulations along with finance energy and defense sectors also targeted by the new restrictions peter all over

reports. the full details have now 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 imports and exports of arms into russia however that isn't retroactive nor of 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 that's basically the brass tacks of what of what these latest sanctions until you expert rob are all

things of european economic interest are clashing with the blocs political agenda the european union's economy is very fragile at the moment and significant countries within the e.u. notably germany ground of sixty billion pound euros worth of annual trade with russia. they do not want to have doubts. they are some sanctions that are being in place but of course there may not be stringent enough yet to to make sure that russia fully complies with all the european union but of course there's the greater geopolitical issue whether indeed russia should be doing what the united states and the european union say should be doing. some troubled european economies people don't want to bear austerity policies greek social workers choose to fight we hear from activists who came to protest after having lost their jobs plus. u.s.

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quarter past the hour now some thirteen thousand filipinos being evacuated from libya after one of the citizens was beheaded there several states including france have also pulled their nationals out of the country the u.s. evacuated its embassy staff recommending that all other americans leave as well many experts say the security chaos in libya shows it's turning into a failed state thursday radical militants declared islamic emirate in the city of benghazi this followed two days of fighting with that ended with extremists overrunning a special forces base the capital tripoli weeks of fighting between rival gangs have seen one hundred dead and four hundred wounded seven western states have already shut their embassies in the country and analyst and activists you can chant

in tells us why he thinks libya has descended into lawlessness. ground was laid for the situation by nato and its allied forces on the ground throughout twenty twenty eleven and former leader of libya moammar gadhafi made it very clear during the twenty eleven that if you want to turn libya into a country with lawlessness and no no central governance like somalia off going to stand it cetera the nato and its allies are doing the right thing since october twenty levin when the foreman john maria there is no national government there is no national army or national police force it's plain for all to see that the nato project failed but that's to assume that nato attended to bring any type of stability to libya they have been made to put you in this mess i'm going to remain putting you in this mess and such is the lawlessness in libya that libyan oil production is not even a third of what it was in the foreseeable future it looks highly unlikely they'll be any stability let alone democracy in libya. meanwhile the u.s.

says it's planning its largest ever shipment of hellfire missiles to iraq radicals their control economically vital oil sites and have declared an islamic caliphate on the lands they control in the northwest of the country are he's at his dicey churkin it takes a look. a record sized shipment of hellfire missiles to the iraqi government from the us is in the works the u.s. state department is reported to have approved and the pentagon is in the process of preparing to send over five thousand a.g.m. one fourteen type and our missiles and related parts to iraq the cost of this deal is estimated at a whopping seven hundred million dollars american aerospace giant lockheed martin is the prime contractor for the production and supply of these hellfire missiles this comes as the iraqi government continues the fight against isis the islamist militants al qaeda affiliated group who have been reaching in the west and north of the country the world military is reported to have used up about three hundred hellfire missiles this june and

a previous delivery of an additional eight hundred missiles had already been approved to be sent over by the end of this month so this latest large planned shipment is in addition to the missiles that had already been sent over by the u.s. according to a pentagon press release on this issue the missile directly supports the government of iraq and serves the interests of the people of iraq and the united states it also says that iraq will use the hellfire missile to help improve iraq's security forces capability to support current ongoing ground operations we now know human rights groups have been critical of the use of missiles since they have reportedly been fired at residential neighborhoods and cities where isis has been present specifically human rights watch has called on the u.s. to not send weapons to iraq until baghdad acts in accordance with international law and our team. and your activist brian becker thinks are arms dealers are the ones who benefit most from the shipment. it's five thousand missiles these are important unishe and they could be have

a devastating impact on the battlefield it's good for us arms manufacturers and puts the us back in a position of perhaps a strategic significance in competition with iran with the central government in iraq will it change the equation on the battlefield we don't know that if we step back and look at what's really happened since two thousand and three the united states because of its military intervention in iraq fractured the country and fractured it along ethno sectarian lines of finance shiite militias that financed sunni militias that financed the kurds the us as a matter of policy for three years has funneled arms and weapons to arm the same so-called islamic extremists in syria and have now fractured syria's the us is trying to get back into iraq to have a decisive impact but it's a divide and rule in strategy that we've see it unfold in both syria and in iraq the militant group formally known as isis that declared a caliphate in the northwest of the country says it's only a matter of time before they reach palestine to fight quote the barbaric jews

a group notorious for its atrocities in iraq and syria have captured key sunni cities and force more than a million iraqis to flee and right a former u.s. army colonel says the islamic state involvement will help the palestinians. gaza is pretty well surrounded on you know on all sides so that isis fighters themselves would be getting in there i'm not particularly i don't i don't know that that would happen however the pressure that can be put from other areas onto israel their support in lebanon. support in the other parts of syria to open up and another front on israel that is where i think the israelis would be very concerned about they do have the capability of moving military material and people they are quickly i would hope there would be louder voices and other elements of our world society that can drown out what isis is saying we all ought to be outraged about what israel is doing isis is one of them up but they certainly

don't help the cause of the palestinians because of what isis has done in syria and in iraq investigating an eight year old cold case the u.k. launching a probe to shed light on the death of a former russian intelligence officer bad online for you right now and twitter. reporting on how you can governor of west for use or personal data with the u.s. topping the list more on that on our web site r t v dot com. u.s. national security agency has a lawsuit on its hands this one over its refusal to disclose the former directors financial data so secrecy has led to suspicions you could be selling off secrets artie's marine important reports. the agency that eroded the meaning of privacy and indiscriminately peered into the lives of millions of citizens around the world is suddenly subscribing to protecting personal information but only if that person

happens to be the former director of the national security agency keith alexander the n.s.a. work uses to release the financial disclosures of the four star general who according to reports is currently raking in some one million dollars a month for his cyber security consulting services this has raised ethical questions and concerns that the former spy chief may be selling high level security secrets and classified information for a lucrative paycheck misusing classified information for profit is a federal felony critics say the only thing alexander has to offer potential clients is the state secrets he knows investigative journalist jason leopold is now suing the spy agency for the release of alexander's documents arguing they're being withheld unlawfully experts say alexander's financial disclosures can only be suppressed by the u.s. president this is just the latest in a string of lawsuits filed against the n.s.a. since former contractor edward snowden revealed the agency's global surveillance

programs and while washington is still struggling to regain trust with americans and allies around the world the man who spearheaded the indiscriminate spy programs remains protected and profitable. r.t. new york former cia officer ray mcgovern thinks that selling classified data is the only possible explanation of the general alexander's supposedly huge profits. just think that general alexander would have anything in the way is innovative techniques or would he work in their lead what would he we come up with new ways to do their job you know he would show his previous experience including classified information so that he can route enrich himself for years now in his defense and i'm being sarcastic here i generals like him four star generals only

make two hundred and twenty thousand dollars in retirement so clearly he needs to supplement his income put in million dollars a month sounds a little excessive. for them to some other stories making headlines in taiwan at least twenty four people killed two hundred seventy one injured in a series of explosions that i thought to be caused by underground gas leaks in the sewage system i witnesses say dense fog formed over the streets early friday morning before erupting into multiple blasts that tore up arose in flipped over parked cars firefighters are searching for residents who might be buried under the rubble. else. argentina's president cristina kirchner denies that her country's facing a financial default she stressed there are still opportunities for dialogue with international debt holders argentina's debt was due to be paid at the end of july the country already made a payment on one of its bonds by the u.s. judge that's ruling on the case of a bloc to deposit. at least one thousand people have

drowned off the southern coast of pakistan after gathering for a beach celebration to mark the end of ramadan authorities say victims ignored warnings to stay out of the water due to powerful waves and current one thousand bodies recovered from two separate beaches so far some people remain missing. victims of austerity in greece aren't going quietly many state sector employees most of them women have decided to fight for the. jobs are lost even if it means facing down the police were in a closer ever spoke with some of the austerity activists. they've been called a symbol of resistance. you might. say so who are they they are ordinary women mostly aged between forty five and sixty who claim the tax office is the ministry of finance and customs service up until september last year when the ministerial decree saw hundreds of them

suspended and later fired. by many who went ahead with the job and work out that suddenly our lives were destroyed we had two options to cry over decisions that were made for us all stand up and fight these women staged protests and occasionally block the entrance of the finance ministry demanding the government stop ruining the lives that were there austerity measures recently these demonstrations turned violent with some of them ended up in the hospital accusing riot police of beating them up. in the cinema said by the police didn't want us there and they started pushing us of ron with a shield the twisted my arm and they took my friend and shot and the police car even amnesty international accused local cops of abusing their powers and violates in human rights but little has been done to bring those responsible to justice he this policy is part of the austerity measures agreed upon with our lenders our country can house six hundred seventy thousand public servants this will help our

private sector which has been battered so many businesses have shut down and over one million private sector workers were made redundant sooner or later hundreds of thousands will have to depart from the public sector but that will create work for private business. this is where the cleaners are camped out every single day reminding the government that they're not going anywhere and informing the public of what they see as a great injustice the greek supreme court seem to. with about one point ordering the finance ministry to rehire them only to have that will in turn but it's not over yet as these women are prepared to go back to court the september. some experts claim that even if these women manage to get their jobs back they will never enjoy the same salaries or benefits as they did before but at this point the only thing these women care about is reclaiming their rights even if that means spending more months protesting merino cost of our reports in from athens forty. so

if you go coming up next stay with us at our g. internet. 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 sent a lot of weapons into a country in dire economic suffering i'm sure you've heard reports that say that afghan farmers could only make a living off of poppy crops because they just have no other 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 to

get by also we shouldn't forget that every government on 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. and.

hello and welcome just sophie and co i'm sophie shevardnadze jody williams embarked on a crusade against landmines in the early ninety's with few people behind her within several eraser motorist n.-g.'s who had grown into a cloak spanning network landmines where we're international a band and she was awarded a nobel peace prize now she's on a different mission.