israel steps up its offensive in gaza killing more than a hundred palestinians overnight while hunting for a soldier they say was captured by hamas. civilian death toll mounting as the ukrainian army tightens the noose around the self-proclaimed republics in the east of the country as a second r t affiliated journalist is deported from the country. coming clean. we tortured some folks. we did some things that were contrary to our values u.s. president barack obama confessing ahead of a report on cia interrogation techniques as analysts anticipate more disturbing revelations.

eight am in moscow thanks for joining us here on our international our top story this hour some one hundred forty palestinians have been killed by israeli attacks since the collapse of a cease fire friday as israeli defense forces push deeper into gaza in search of a soldier they say was captured by hamas meanwhile in the west bank israeli soldiers fired smoke grenades at a protest rally killing two and enduring some seventy others life now to harry fear joining us from the west bank so harry a peaceful rally to start how did things turn out early. well hamas had already called for a day of rage for yesterday friday to protest with solidarity and outrage at israel's operation on the gaza strip over the last few days hundreds of palestinians have been killed in gaza and of course yesterday itself the three day

supposed three day cease fire truce of limited scale broke down tragically south gaza came on the increased heavy fire i mean receive this report of an israeli soldier being captured so while this was going on. here over ninety palestinians were injured in various clashes across the west bank palestinian medical sources report life i was used in some of those clashes to palestinian youths who were killed one post. and another more north in the west bank one was nineteen year old day job the second was twenty two and. they were both killed according to palestinian medical sources in life incidents and just last night about ten minutes drive from here a palace an ambulance came and again life from israeli soldiers lightly and moderately injuring six palestinians. and harry we've had

a lot more going on in gaza as well fill us in on latest from there. well the three day u.n. u.s. sponsored ceasefire which had much significance to it given the context in gaza many people on the ground believe that this cease fire could hold we still within two hours of the cease fire coming into place directional fire the chronology of who shot who broke the cease fire is not clear but for sure that was more sound rocket fire from gaza and from the israeli position there are reports of sniper fire at palestinian civilians and also severe tank shelling of southern areas of the gaza strip as i say it's not clear who broke that cease fire first who within moments of those developments we saw this israeli soldier apparently kidnapped that's now said by the israeli military that this soldier a british possible hold a well was captured by palestinian fighters is now in the last while we've heard

from israeli sources that they're saying. that they're going to heavily. operations to find this soldier meanwhile in gaza the hamas military wing brigades to said that they believe that the israeli soldier has already being killed alongside the palestinian finds is that captured him off to israel heavily shelled . right harry here live for us in ramallah in the west bank thanks for that update . the protective edge offensive has become israel's bloodiest operation in recent years with more than fifteen hundred palestinians killed as well as sixty three israelis that number exceeds the casualties from the cast lead operation that was conducted in two thousand and eight if incivil in gaza has resulted in large scale protests around the world of pro palestinian groups projected their territories or national flag on the house of parliament in london called for the u.k. government to impose sanctions on israel crowds also gathered to protest the

killing of civilians in gaza outside israel's embassy in london our correspondent polly boyko has more. it was such a vocal crowd here outside the israeli embassy in london that if you take a look behind me you can see that i'm different ethnicities and can see a great amount to support the palestinian cause and that of china winning their free palestine and see israeli slogans being shouted very loud have you to see the proof of this to me and community here but nothing also has a very big jewish population and there have been pro-choice tragedies take place in london as well at the beginning of the from phoenix we had much more of it to base and there were a lot more pro israeli commentators willing to defend israelis and israel stones however now that with the more kids we've seen come out from gaza with shells children and so many civilian civilian casualties you get the sense that it's got to bases somewhat die down and perhaps people find it more difficult to support the

israeli side say certainly a lot of polarized opinions tensions raised very high despite the fact that when several thousand miles away from where the violence is taking place. elsewhere in europe people gathered in berlin to voice their anger at the israeli operation protesters waving palestinian flags and banners denouncing civilian deaths and there are also pictures from lisbon war people marched near the israeli embassy to know. want to know more about what's going on in gaza right now click on our t. dot com our web team has all the latest info pictures video what i witnessed accounts. turned into some of the day's other top stories the ukrainian army pressing ahead with an advance on the capitals of two self-proclaimed republics in the east of the country towns and villages in the regions are the scenes of constant shelling and battles artie's marie of an ocean joining us live with the latest from there so what's the situation in east ukraine maria. well good we can

see these. new grain could definitely be described as a very dramatic status or challenge in clashes there continued with the death toll including him and civilian population also continuing to climb as residential areas often get called to the deadly crossfire when ukrainian army and to government forces find twelve cities and villages lugansk c.t.'s so it is claimed that at least five residents were killed in the last twenty four hours including one child and we receive images of a destroyed kindergarten after it was he says by a shell it is in the center and we hear that gas facilities were damaged to. there and humanitarian situation the citrine mains a very tan's electricity there has been cutoff for several days already there are also problems with the running water and so the officials of the self-proclaimed republic all of the guns can warn that could lead to a real humanitarian catastrophe and of course in this situation people continue to

flee what they call the war zone right now next to the russian ukrainian border every day tens and sometimes even hundreds of people try to cross and the cross in itself very often becomes a very dangerous journey let's not listen to old people or say. you know you have the you do you fish. poor prefer to move a few of the illegal who should move to move you believe do this do you do you listen to the person. the person who was a new group of. people are leaving your train or running from violence which shall in clashes continue and it is not an easy task to do. the whole cities destroyed apartment buildings and private houses along like it's been going on for

about eight days there was a pause in the shelling when minutes to take two buses full for future. he's out of town then it starts again we've got no transport fuel we're trying to bring bread into town under fire. because you can see the situation on the ground remains dramatic and so you probably. know any indication that it's could become any better any time soon back to you. live for us in southern russia thanks for that update. nato confirms ukraine has been using short range ballistic missiles against anti government forces according to a report by german news channel deutsche of ela this echoes earlier reports on c.n.n. that referred to pentagon sources however it denies the claims charles schumer former british army officer thinks the use of such weapons constitutes a war crime it's more likely that if a large device such as this exploded that you would get very substantial damage.

streets being destroyed whole areas not down it's equivalent to a very large as you did with bomb when we look at the kind of problems that israel's been delivered in gaza but using very pinpoint accuracy methods notwithstanding the high civilian casualty rate that we've seen in gaza and then apply that to these weapons with a lesser degree of accuracy you look at the kind of chaos the kind of devastation and carnage that would occur in a built up residential area if they used against targets placed at misawa such large warheads with them or that there is some degree of accuracy very easy to make a mistake in yemen if these devices if they used against areas that are predominant civilian or even against civilian targets that would clearly constitute a war crime. an american journalist for artie's roughly video agency has been told to leave ukraine security services detained her while filming in the west of the country or ukraine colleagues called authorities when they realized that she worked for r t a journalist was held for several hours before being led to go inside her

video had been deleted journalist with a camera you know just it was abruptly sticker on my tripod and straightaway said you know russia today first of all they question me themselves about seven of them and i gave them all the details that could give them i gave them my press cards i had nothing to hide and they're my colleagues side of history i have i wanted to give them all the information they needed and you know fifteen minutes later three policemen came and three officials came from national security service in ukraine and they were asking me so many questions taking all my details and then when they didn't they didn't believe that my american passport was free oh i shouldn't picture of it so they followed me to the hotel until they could see the actual passport they asked me that i absolutely had to give my footage away and they had to raise it. first of all they put it on their computers so someone out of the

officials has it right now they have all the footage that it took of myself being questioned and also the protests. and they gave it back to me was blank. still to come in the program as jihad is power in iraq and syria gains ground they tighten screws on local media i mean to make a group look slick and more professional details still ahead on that process report on how residents of the earthquake wrote a romanian capital have to wait years for the government to reinforce their hold. but first president barack obama has admitted the u.s. did torture people after the nine eleven attacks the confession came ahead of a highly anticipated report on the cia's so-called expansive methods of interrogation or he's going to take a look. the final declassified version of the senate intelligence committee's report on the cia's torture practices has been handed back to congress intelligence committee chairwoman dianne feinstein said the report shows abuse that is chilling

and far more systematic and widespread than we thought she said the six hundred page document is said to reveal new and shocking details about the cia's detention and rendition and care program in the years following the nine eleven attacks those who reviewed it say it shows that the use of the techniques was not effective in collecting unique intelligence or thwarting plots president obama speaking ahead of the public release of the report reminded that when he became president he signed an executive order to stop porcher torture. we did some things that were contrary to our values. although it was not his administration that was responsible for the program the cia under john brennan did their best to preserve secrecy around the deeds of the previous administration the cia even tempered with the investigation this thursday the cia inspector general concluded that the agency personnel hacked into senate investigators computers and removed documents from their system back in

march john brennan vigorously denied that the agency had done that this week he was forced to admit. did hack into investigators computers have too many lies and scandals the report is finally being declassified however it stops short of using the word torture to describe the practices lawmakers say it's because such an accusation could have political diplomatic legal and even criminal implications. former f.b.i. agent coleen rowley things coming report could tarnish the image of the u.s. government in the eyes of the public for starters the cia was afraid of this report they didn't want the american public to know what they had done in terms of the black sites in the authorizing waterboarding etc that's obvious because they destroyed the tapes from before i mean there's been all kinds of cover ups on this unfortunately it's going to be kind of a tolerance of the executive branch lying to congress and all of our democratic

system will will be hurt because of this if congress cannot oversee this well we were looking at a really different form of government than what we call ourselves a democracy on our web site radical and a group of russian m.p.'s are warning people chomping into unhealthy food by putting disturbing images on packages similar to those on cigarette packs. also online how far would you go to get your hands on hard liquor a doctor in the u.k. allegedly experienced aging human body parts or a bottle of whiskey. in

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i. cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want. nineteen minutes past the hour now anti fracking activists in denmark writing to block a drilling site picked by french energy giant total for development those opposing gas extraction techniques are setting up a tent camp and plan to stay as long as necessary they say to stop the company

peter oliver has more when friends bombed the exploration for shale gas through fracking in twenty eleven it meant that french company total had to search for new locations in order to base they'll peroration they set up in the u.s. the u.k. poland algeria and at the sites in northern jutland in denmark this particular site could be up and running by the end of this year or early twenty fifteen now fracking involves the pumping of high pressured water into the ground to create tiny cracks in the rock which allows access to the shale gas however what we have seen though is a group of activists in this area who are raising concerns over the project they say they fear could cause damage to the environment and the health. we are very concerned about the environmental impact on the ground groundwater because we have seen that lots of incidents in the especially united states and they also in poland and in argentina so why not here this protest camp near to the fracking site is

just getting set up right now but eventually organizers hope as many as six hundred people will be camped out here to get the message to total that the people of denmark say no to fracking on this map you can see the european countries that have banned the controversial gas technique some u.k. citizens trying to get their country on the list last week a court in west sussex turned out a shell company exploration bid anti fracking activist nathan stride explained why he joined the campaign the process of fracking we're in the u.k. initially we found one well frights in lancashire and it fits because a most sort of fright seen months to stop any fracking and so further research was carried out so the problem that we have. from all experience even though you want to answer one hundred percent finally right. on i don't know how many people will be scared and what seems to be is.

and jenny jones from the green party in the u.k. says there are a few economic reasons for fracking. obvious how these firms are benefiting because they're going to make huge profits out of the gas but in fact it's not going to benefit the economy anywhere choy it's certainly not going to be good for ordinary people who will not see their gas prices come down at all we're locked into a european pricing round four for the price of gas so our gas prices will not go down and of course we've got the problems of of the fracking process which can be extremely polluting it can we're hearing from other countries like australia and america that there are there's a lot of pollution it completely water supplies and it can pollute farmland so i would say if you look at it from an economical point of view this is not good for britain. as jihad as militants know as the islamic state assertion their control in

the seas parts of syria and iraq they are imposing tight media regulations on occupied territories videos and reports and now due to be reviewed by the group's so-called information office before being presented to the public is a photo of an islamic state fighter looking very much the hipster sending shock waves across the community last month a group believed to have been one of the most sophisticated social media strategies with a number of online videos popularizing the movement edmund ghareeb an expert on middle east affairs thinks the media has proved to be an effective tool in promoting the group's beliefs if we take a look at some of the things that they have done and said in terms of the media they have shown some sophistication in dealing with with the media the views the. video. clearly try to control the message of use the various social media outlets to get their message across some of it used brutality in fact to send

a message of those. to show how effective. in terms of fighting and part of it they're also using it to recruit fighters by trying to explain and putting the best image of what they are ideological beliefs into to recruit followers. taking a look now at some other stories making global headlines at least sixty five killed dozens wounded after a powerful blast at a metal production factory strike the east of china medics say the death toll may rise rescue operations are under way officials are investigating what might have caused the accident. two american aid workers have been reportedly infected by the a bowl of virus sweeping through west africa u.s. authorities say the evacuation of their staff or me infected territories is currently under way the highly contagious virus has killed more than seven hundred twenty people and more than one thousand have been infected a costly hundred million dollar campaign is planned planned to be launched by the world health organization as part of their efforts to help curb the outbreak. in

libya jet fighters loyal to a rogue general have struck an islamic militia position in the country's largest city benghazi several explosions have been heard and plumes of smoke rising above the city militants have seized several army bases over the past week. finally in the bulletin romania's capital bucharest said to be one of the more of the most earthquake prone spots in the world but of suffering tremors from time to time wasn't bad enough for the residents the government seems in no rush to help them protect their homes and structures are going off reports. lilian when tiana has been living in this building most of her life first working as a manager and later getting a flat of her own on one of the top floors and even though it's officially been determined that it may collapse true fuses to move anywhere else that that. this house a strong nothing happened before and can withstand an earthquake it was designed by

a famous well architect. out of all the e.u. capitals book arista has the highest risk of an earthquake small tremors occur every year but in the twentieth century there were two major quakes as well the one in one nine hundred seventy seven left more than fifteen hundred people dead and injured up to eleven thousand but all of this is often even ordered by the residents. the government is ready to give loans to owners to reinforce their buildings but they refuse is because the people who agreed and moved out were promised that it wouldn't be for long and then in some cases it took up to ten years most people simply do not trust the government now throughout the years only twenty six houses have been reinforced using this program. well around four thousand buildings in bucharest are believed to be in danger in the case of a strong earthquake they're marked with special warning signs but even if they weren't often you don't have to be an expert to figure out their hazard it's not

only about the risk to those living inside these buildings many especially the taller ones have been falling apart even without any major earthquakes and often pieces of plaster fall down right on the heads of the pedestrians yes those children this is been here since one nine hundred seventy seven built in a nine hundred twenty s. this building is also in danger of collapsing previous earthquakes left scars all over the structure would due to the low rent this also doesn't scare off neither its tenants or the owners at least by the obvious. if a major earthquake strikes it will go down up believe me. experts say a major tremor shakes bucharest every thirty to forty years which means the next one may not be too far off you go to school not r.t. look rest up next the latest hustle and bustle from the world of finance in boom bust or if you're watching us from the u.k. or going underground.

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