other big story lines and tom there's a reason they don't want you to know that. now let's break the set. an unconditional ceasefire between hamas and israel comes into effect brokered by the un and the us it's due to last for three days while the conflict has claimed more than fourteen hundred lives. latest ease sanctions against russia target banks oil and defense come into full force but the country's biggest bank also blacklisted by the. lawlessness and mayhem c.e.u. governments in the us evacuate citizens from libya's radicals declare an islamic emirate in the country. the u.s. considers its largest ever shipment of hellfire missiles to the iraqi government that has lost control of vast oil fields it's.

eleven am in moscow thank you for joining us on r.t. international our top story a three day ceasefire confirmed both by israel and hamas has begun the pause announced in a joint statement by the u.n. and the u.s. state department negotiated the truce middle east correspondent paula sleeper has the latest from tel aviv. 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 water said that they will add here to the streets but as long as israel keeps its fair share of the bargain the temporary pause in fighting a certain 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 are 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 were 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. such places so the concern on the ground is that both sides do it here to seventy two hours ceasefire to give raise it insofar as an opportunity just to try and prepare themselves for a possible continuation of hostilities operation protective age into its fourth week and the number of palestinians dead has past fourteen hundred that already exceeds the last major israeli operation cast lead almost six years ago israel has lost fifty six soldiers three civilians in israel including a tidy national also killed by hamas rockets the conflict has left a few untouched in the civilian deaths so have shocked the world the most sixteen year old farah baker an average palestinian teenager who's already gone through

three offensives she chose twitter to share the nightmares that have become a daily reality posting her personal photos videos and live commentary of what she and her family experience her sincerity has brought her thousands of followers her twitter feed went viral and was picked up by the media we managed to speak with her father a gaza surgeon. this is not a war this is a must not a war is something that is the perfect between two equal almost equal forces that civilians the children the women that are injured that there would be demolished bodies this is something horrible i don't know i don't imagine how good amidst this thing to continue people come with severe injuries with diminished bodies torn apart or been totally burned but these people would come with smashed. limbs because of homes that for on them we saw in many many cases with the with the severe injuries but what's most makes you say very sad when you see

a child who's lost his mother as a brother as a brother is his body is disabled he can live but will live with this the whole ticket will with him we have. to leave this is one case she's lying still. in the department she lost a number of family and she's got allies i have a friend over the last three three. has. been totally of his fun time and he just went through. in the most and he came back and i don't swear to diminish his house totally israel says it's trying to limit civilian casualties but hamas is making that impossible my colleague you know neal spoke with paul person from the israeli foreign ministry. we are doing everything we possibly can 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 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 we're even in libya or syria or iran 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 and 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 is is simply silly we two are talking two hundred thousand people who've been put in syria and. to let's

say one in a hundred 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 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. actions of israel in gaza have been supported at a rally in paris near the israeli embassy at the same time hundreds of people also took to the streets of the french capital to denounce the offensive paris has been the scene of numerous pro israel and pro palestine rallies since the conflict started palestinians also secured some more radical support isis militants announcing that it's only a matter of time before their of their fighters join in the fight against israel that still to come. but first parts of eastern

ukraine face a humanitarian crisis due to fighting between the army and anti-government forces lygon has been left without power and water for days and is running out of food dozens of civilians have been killed in the last few days. the. latest round of e.u. sanctions on russia over the crisis in ukraine 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 new restrictions peter all reports. 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 to old 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 they that's basically the brass tacks of what of what these latest sanctions and tell you expert robber also syrup in economic interests are clashing with the blocs of political goals. the european union's economy is very fragile at the moment and significant countries within the e.u. know to be germany around sixty billion pound euros worth of annual trade with russia. they do not want to have that so. they also some sanctions are being in place thought of course there may not be stringent enough yet to to make sure that fully complies with the european union but of course there is the political issue whether it be russia should be doing what the united states and the in union site should be doing. some trouble 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. the u.s. and national security agency standing for data protection specifically the financial data of its former chief leading to suspicions he could be turning a profit and the agency's trove of state secrets.

rostock rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want. some thirteen thousand filipinos being evacuated from libya after one of them was beheaded there are several you states including france have also pulled their nationals out of the country the u.s.

evacuated its embassy staff are epic recommending that all other americans leave as well many experts say the security crisis in libya is showing that the country is turning to a failed state thursday radical militants declared an islamic emirate in benghazi this followed two days of fighting that ended with extremists overrunning a special forces base in the capital tripoli weeks of fighting between rival gangs so one hundred dead and four hundred wounded seven western states have already shuttered their embassies in the country a political analyst and activist so you can chandan tells us why he thinks the country's decided into chaos. ground was laid for this 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 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 levon 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 haven't nato put you in this mess i'm going to remain putting you in this mess up such as 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. the u.s. says it's considering its largest ever shipment of hellfire missiles to iraq radicals their control economically vital oil sites and have declared an islamic caliphate on a vast lands they control in the northwest the country are he's on his dicey churkin it takes a look. a record size 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 and this comes as the iraqi government continues the fight against isis the islamist militants al qaeda affiliated group who have been raging in the west and north of the country we were up 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 the iraq 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 r.t. . so you go closer look at what's being sent to iraq the hellfire missile can be fired from the air or a land primarily used against armored ground targets it's a guided system so its road of the easy to use missile covers four hundred fifty meters per second and this comes up the price a single unit costing more than one hundred thousand dollars but there is a potential downside to the iraqi army having such a powerful tool at its disposal the group is known the group it's fighting formerly known as isis has declared it is. lot of caliphate on the territories that controls their sweeping advance their jihad is are taking advantage of the weaponry left behind by they were treating government forces and it's fear that these hellfire missiles could end up in the has the extremists as well and he were active as brian becker things that arms dealers are the ones who benefit most from the ship it's

five thousand missiles these are important unishe and they could be have a devastating impact on the battlefield it's good for u.s. 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 playing in sunni militias that financed the kurds the u.s. 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 serious the u.s. 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. formerly known as isis that declared

a caliphate the northwest of iraq says it's only a matter of time before they reach palestine to fight quote the barbaric jews a group notorious known for atrocities in iraq and syria isis has captured key sunni cities and forced more than a million iraqis to flee and right a former u.s. army colonel says these lawmakers states' 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 and the other parts of syria to open up and another front on israel that is where i think israel would would be very concerned about 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 aimed to shed light on the death of former russian intelligence officer as online for plus. twitter reporting on how you can governor a quest for user personal data with the u.s. topping the list read more on our t.v. dot com. the u.s. national security agency has another lawsuit on its hands this one over a fusil to disclose the former directors financial data secrecy had led to suspicions that he could be selling state secrets or he's a marine a port i reports from new york. 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 general owes anders supposedly huge profits. just think if 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 now in his defense and i'm being sarcastic here i generals like him for story 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. take a look at some other global headlines this hour in taiwan at least twenty four killed and two hundred seventy one injured in a series of explosions and start to be caused by underground gas leaks in the sewage system i witness a dense fog formed over the streets early friday morning before erupting into multiple blasts tearing up roads flipping over cars firefighters searching for residents who might be trapped under the rubble. are seen as president kirchner denies that her country is facing a financial default she stressed there are still opportunities for dialogue with national international debt holders argentina is a debt due to be paid if you end of july the country already made a payment on one of its bonds but a u.s. judge ruling on the case block of the deposit. of these nineteen people 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 because of powerful waves and currents one thousand bodies recovered from two separate beaches so far many remain missing. victims of austerity in greece aren't going quietly many state sector employees most of them women decided to fight for the jobs they lost even if it means facing down the police or in a closer. spoke with some of the austerity activists. they've been called a symbol of resistance. not. so who are they they are ordinary women mostly aged between forty five and sixty who claim the tax offices the ministry of finance and customs service up until september last year when the ministerial decree so hundreds of them suspended and later fired. by many who went bad with the job and work without suddenly our lives were destroyed we had two options to cry over decisions that were made

for us or 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 and then 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 run with the shields 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 violating human rights but little has been done to bring those responsible to justice. 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 seemed to agree with them at one point ordering the finance minister to rehire them only to have that one. and overturned but it's not over yet as these women are prepared to go back to court this 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 call survive reports in from athens forty. stay with us on our to international cross talk coming your way.

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 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 at 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 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. says the media leave us so we leave the media. motions so to the. party visit the. places that no one is asking with the guests they deserve answers from it's all politics only our team.

hello and welcome to crossfire all things considered i'm peter lavelle the idea of russia in russia is long obsessed western minds and politics and that obsession has to date been remarkably dark even menacing is this because the west projects its own negative self on to others. to cross our perceptions of russian russians i'm joined by my guest neil clark in london he is a journalist broadcaster and specialist in eastern european affairs in berlin we have nicholai petro he is a professor of political science at the university of rhode island and in moscow we crossed of lot of goldstein he is an associate professor of slavic studies at brown university right gentlemen cross-talk rules in fact that means you can jump in anytime i want and i very much encourage it to go i if i go to you first in berlin you spent some time in ukraine on a fulbright i understand where it is russian were attitudes about russia come

from in the west because obviously you don't you can just open up a newspaper or magazine go to a website or a television in the west and well russia has to say the very least a bad name. one can hardly answer that question without first turning to your professor former professor martin believe is a most book about russian western perceptions of russia that's really the first place to start i think the lay press professor did an outstanding job in explaining the cultural context the only thing and historical context the essential point is i take it from his book being that whenever russia is strong attitudes against it are especially strong as well in europe the only time russia is viewed favorably in the west is.