israel steps up its gaza fences killing more than one hundred palestinians overnight while hunting for a soldier it says was captured by hamas the. civilian death toll mounting is the ukrainian army tightens the noose around the self-proclaimed republics in the east of the country as a second article you need a journalist was deported. coming clean. we tortured some friends. we did some things that were contrary to our values barack obama confessing the head of the cia report on interrogation techniques as analysts anticipate more revelation.

nine am in moscow good to have you with us our top story this hour some hundred forty palestinians have been killed by israeli attacks since the collapse of a cease fire friday israeli defense forces pushing deeper into gaza in search of a soldier they say was captured by hamas while in the west bank israeli soldiers fired smoker unaids at a protest rally killing two and entering some seventy others are a few reports from the west bank given the very heavy toll felt by palestinian civilians in gaza the hamas movement across the palestinian territories had called for a day of rage of protests here in the west bank over the period of yesterday across the west bank ninety palestinians were injured in various clashes with israeli forces here and some of those clashes live fire was used to palestinian youths were killed by israeli life fire that was shot in the chest and just yesterday evening

palestinian medical sources also report that a palestinian ambulance was hit directly with israeli life lightly and moderately injuring six civilians this is all in the context of around three thousand palestinians coming. demonstrate yesterday across the west bank in outrage at israel's ongoing operation in gaza three day un us sponsored cease fire which had much significance to it given the context in gaza many people on the ground believe that this ceasefire could hold we saw within two hours of the cease fire coming into place by directional fire the chronology of who shot who broke the ceasefire first is not clear but for sure there was mortar and 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 but within moments of those developments we saw this israeli soldier apparently kidnapped that's now said by the israeli military that this soldier was captured by palestinian fighters now

in the last while we've heard from israeli sources that they're saying. that they're going to heavily increase peroration to find this soldier meanwhile in the masses military wing the brigades to said that they believe that the israeli soldier has already being killed alongside the palestinian fighters that captured him after israel heavily shelled southern gaza now if the soldier is still alive or even if he's not alive it's almost certain that israel will escalate and expand its operations certainly in southern gaza in retaliation and in effect all of this alleged kidnapping and capture. protective edge offensive has become israel's bloodiest operation recently with more than fifteen hundred palestinians killed as well as sixty three israelis that number exceeds casualties from the cast lead operation in two thousand and eight the israeli offensive in gaza has resulted in large scale protests around the world pro palestinian groups projected the

territory's national flag on the house of parliament in london and called for the u.k. government to impose sanctions on israel crowds also gathered to protest the killing of civilians in gaza outside the israeli embassy in london that's where correspondent polish boy. was such a focal crowd outside ukrainian b.c. and learned if you take a look behind me you can see god different ethnicities and ten see a great come out to support the palestinian school is a lot of chinese willing fair free palestine and see israeli slogans being shouted very loud have you do you see the pre palestinian community here but nothing also has a very big jewish population and there have been crazy jewish rallies take place in london as well as at the beginning of the conflicts we had much more effective base and there were no move through israeli commentators willing to defend israelis and israel stones however now that with the move kids we've seen come out from gaza

with their shells children and say many civilian civilian casualties you get the sense that it's that debases somewhat tied 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 where several thousand miles away from where the violence is taking place elsewhere in europe people gathered in berlin to voice anger at the operation protesters waving palestinian flags and banners denouncing civilian deaths and also pictures from lisbon where protesters marched through the city to the israeli embassy are also demanding an end to military. action has been underway for almost four weeks now. across the atlantic washington also you're going to see more demonstrations against the bloodshed and on the other side of the street from them a counter protest taking place with activists so porting the israeli operation.

you want to know more about what's going on in gaza right now click on r.t. dot com our web team has got all the latest info pictures and eyewitness accounts. ukrainian army pressing ahead with his advance on the capitals of two self-proclaimed republics in the country's east towns and villages in the regions scenes of shelling and constant battles artie's marie if an ocean has the latest. well would we can see in this new brain could definitely be described as a very dramatic status quo challenge in clashes there continued with the death toll including among civilian population also continuing to climb as residential areas often get called to the deadly crossfire when ukrainian army and to government forces fired from cities and villages the gaza city itself has claimed that at least five residents were killed in the last twenty four hours and receive images of a destroyed kindergarten after it was heated by a shell it is in the city center humanitarian situation the sea treaty mains a very tense electricity there has been cut off for several days already there are

also problems with the running walter and the officials of the self-proclaimed republic of lugansk warn that this could lead to a real humanitarian catastrophe and of course in this situation people continue to flee what they call the war zone where no next to the russian ukrainian border every day tens and sometimes even hundreds of people try to cross and across in itself very often becomes a very dangerous journey because you know you believe the you feel as you. do those who are pro moves to believe are the people who should move. who believe do this to you would you listen you person. the person who would rather than you could. here's one local mayor who was among those organizing the recreation at the time of the intensified taint. the whole city is 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 we managed to take two buses full of refugees out of town then it stopped again we've got no transport fuel water we're trying to bring bread into town on the. situation on the ground remains dramatic and so you try unfortunately to graze there any indication that it's could be. any better anytime soon. nato confirms ukraine's army has been using short range ballistic missiles against anti-government forces as according to a report by the german news channel deutsche of ela is echo's earlier reports on c.n.n. that referred to pentagon sources here though denies the claims charles sure bridger former british army officer thinks the use of such weapons constitutes a war crime it's more likely that if a launch 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 and delivered bomb when we look at the kind of problems that israel

has been delivering in gaza but using very pinpoint accuracy methods notwithstanding the high civilian casualty rate that we've seen in gaza and then apply that city's 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 that there is some degree of accuracy very easy to make a mistake in aiming at these devices if they used against areas that are predominantly civilian or even against civilian targets that would clearly constitute a war crime and american journalist for our. agency has been forced to leave ukraine she was detained while filming in the west of the country after her ukrainian colleagues tipped off security services. journalist with a camera you know just it was about twenty sticker on my tripod and straightaway said you know russia today first of all they questioned me themselves about seven of them i gave them all the details that could give them i gave them my press cards

i had nothing to hide and there my colleagues of the city 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 rio showed them a 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 at the protest. and they gave it back to me was blank. still to come in the program as you know hottest power in iraq and in syria great

gains ground retitle screws on local media aiming to make the group look at slick and more professional details still to come. last we report on how residents is either earthquake prone the romanian capital has a way years for the government to reinforce their houses. i'm happy martin the stories we cover here are not going on here in iraq thanks for the headlines a reason they don't want to do that are important to us that we don't think. now let's break the set. the u.s. military was built to square off against the soviet union. over western europe and when you take that conventional military and now try to return ask it as a counterinsurgency force it creates a lot of gaps and that's the kind of private sector stuff.

dramas that can't be ignored. stories others refused in those. places changing the world. to picture a day. from around the. globe to. twelve minutes past the hour now president barack obama has admitted the u.s. did torture people after the nine eleven attacks the confession coming ahead of a highly anticipated report on the cia's so-called expansive methods of interrogation artie's guy has the details the final the classified 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 that. shocking details about the cia's detention and rendition and interrogation 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. we 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 that the cia officers 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 colleen rowley things. tarnish the image of the u.s. government in the public's eyes. 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 and 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 well we'll be hurt because of best 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 the fad of the land a group of russian m.p.'s warning people off chopping into a healthy food by putting disturbing images on packages similar to those on the cigarette. and how far would you go to get your hands on some clues a doctor in the u.k. allegedly exchanging human body parts for a bottle of whisky. anti fracking activists in denmark writing to block a drilling the site picked by a french energy giant total for development those opposing the gas extraction method are setting up a tent camp plan to stay as long as necessary to stop the company they say peter all the reports 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 their operations 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 pact underground groundwater because we have seen that lots of incidents in the space the united states and 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 become to get the message to total that the people of denmark say no to fracking this map you can see the european countries that have banned the controversial gas drilling technique some u.k. citizens also trying to get their country on the list last week a chord in west sussex turned down a shell company exploration bid and he fracking activist nathan stright explain why he joined the campaign the process of fracking where it will be in the u.k. initially we found one will fronts in lancashire and it gets closer most or in frights in months to stop any fracking and so for the research was carried out so the problem that we heard me. from all experienced even though you want to answer one hundred percent finally right. on a bill. from a people. based on what seems to be. jenny jones from the u.k.

green party says there are no economic reasons for fracking. but here's how these fans 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 in any way second you know going to be good for ordinary people who will not see that gas prices come down actual we're not going to european pricing around full for the price of gas so gas prices will not go down and of course we've got the problems of all of the fracking process which can be extremely polluting if you look at it from an economical point of view this is no good for britain so if you look at why so many people say they're afraid of fracking shale gas extraction involves thousands of liters of chemicals some of which are said to cause cancer in the course of drilling some inevitably end up in the soil contaminating the local water table up to seventy percent of the chemicals pumped into the ground stay there potentially causing a long term environmental damage some vaporized by the time releasing greenhouse

gases and also polluting the air. jihadism militants known as the islamic state secure control of huge parts of syria and iraq they're also imposing tight media regulations on the occupied territories and you reports from there have now must be reviewed by the groups of so-called information office this photo of an examination of an islamic state a fighter looking somewhat shaggy and hipster ish sent shock waves across the online community last month the group believed to have been one of the most sophisticated or to have one of the most sophisticated social media strategies with a number of online videos popularizing the movement edmund ghareeb a middle east expert 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 the media to clearly try to control the message of use the various social media outlets to get the

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 their ideological beliefs into to recruit followers some experts think the islamic state is gaining all the attributes of an actual nation with its own legislation a new a strict brand of sharia law its budget is an estimated two billion dollars most of it coming from gulf sponsors and even as natural resources at its disposal after seizing control of several oil fields in syria and iraq and like any state it has an army which is now more than seven thousand strong and expanding arsenal it's take a look at some other global headlines this hour at least sixty five killed dozens wounded in a powerful explosion at a factory in the east of china accident being blamed on carelessness when handling

flammable materials industrial accidents happen quite often in china due to low safety centers a fire at a poultry plant for example killed one hundred nineteen people last year. two american aid workers have been infected with the deadly ebola virus sweeping through west africa they are due to be evacuated to the u.s. for treatment a highly contagious virus has killed more than seven hundred twenty people and more than a thousand have been infected on hundred million dollar campaign planned to be launched by the world health organization as part of efforts to curb the outbreak. last a power station argentina has left at least one dead and severely injured seven more of the accident happening when a pipeline exploded near a road catching a motorist in a ball of flame emergency services that brought the fire under control and electricity to the surrounding area has now been restored. a court in the georgian capital tbilisi has ordered former president mikhail saakashvili held in

custody for two months about a rules on charges against him accused of abuse of power as president by cracking down on a protest in two thousand and seven and launching illegal raids on a t.v. station and unlawfully seizing a businessman's property really is currently in the us and supported by the government and supported the anti-government demonstration in kiev last december he rejects the accusations against him. are manias capital bucharest is said to be one of the most earthquake prone spots in europe but if suffering from tremors from time to time wasn't bad enough for the residents the government seems in no hurry to help them protect their homes are here weapons going off or it's. been living in this building most of her life first working as a manager and leader getting a flat of her own on one of the top floors even though it's officially been determined that it may collapse she chooses to move anywhere else that. this house is strong nothing happened to it before and it can withstand an

earthquake it was designed by a famous well architect. out of all the e.u. capitals bucharest 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 nine hundred seventy seven left more than fifteen hundred people dead and injured up to eleven thousand but all of this is often ignored by the residents. the government's 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 while around four thousand buildings in bucharest are believed to be in danger in the case of a strong earthquake there marked with special warning signs but even if they

weren't often you don't have to be an expert to figure out there are a hazard it's not only about the risk to those living inside these buildings many especially the taller while someone falling apart even without any major earthquakes and often pieces of plaster fall down right on the heads of the pedestrians yes that was the this is been here since one nine hundred seventy seven built in the one 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 nor the owners despite the obvious. that if a major earthquake strikes it will go down and believe me. experts see a major tremor shakes every thirty to forty years which means the next one me not be too far off you go to school. after the break travel back in time to learn about the so-called attack of the dead man one of the first world wars and

what he is battles or here watching us in the u.k. but not in the 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 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 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.

nine hundred fifteen. this is simon's needs to frustrate is more terrifying than i could have imagined. weeks travelling i finally made it to the eastern front where pitched battles seem an almost daily occurrence for months now the russian army has been pushed back by the german and austrian garion forces but they make them work for every inch the fine is fierce the noise deafening and the bravery of the soldiers difficult to have a stage. that's for myself i'm already taking pictures i never thought possible. i just need to make sure i don't run out of slides and that i keep my head down. pat.

on a hot summer's day and. it's time to bring the past to life. to commemorate the scent of the beginning of one huge battle re-enactment is about to take place. hundreds of people from all over europe have come to recreate some of the most memorable engagements of the russian army. and all they need is a place to stay and a place to fight. for your. faith in yourself. it's. will be no luxury for those taking part but this tent camp will at least give them a roof over their heads.

plus it's just good when you don't feel. guilty if this place must be school if it still feels like someone being exploited that you know what. else was what you'll. be. so pissed with show her six. year olds like it used to it's a true is the. one you like to see here it's those did you do it was it. hard did you do boys will. take you home yet.