for. instance. israel steps up its gaza offensive killing more than one hundred palestinians overnight while hunting for a soldier it says was captured by hamas. civilian death toll mounts as the ukrainian army tell you is the noose around the self-proclaimed republics in the east of the country as a second r t affiliated journalist is deported plus coming clean. we tortured. we did some things that were contrary to our values president barack obama confesses ahead of a report on cia interrogation techniques as analysts anticipate more revelations.

ten 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 push deeper into gaza in search of a soldier they say was captured by hamas meanwhile in the west bank israeli soldiers fired smoker unaids at a protest rally killing two and enduring about seventy others harry fear reports from the west bank. given the very heavy toll felt by palestinian civilians in gaza 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 in some of those clashes live fire was used to palestinian youths were killed by israeli life fire they were shot to the chest and just yesterday evening palestinian medical sources also report that

a palestinian ambulance was hit directly with israeli live fire lightly and moderately injuring six civilians this is all in the context of around three thousand palestinians coming to demonstrate yesterday across the west bank in outrage at israel's ongoing operation in gaza three day un u.s. 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 cease fire 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 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. to find this soldier meanwhile in the masses military wing 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 south and 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 of this alleged kidnapping and capture. protective edge offensive has become israel's bloodiest operation recently with more than six hundred palestinians killed as well as sixty six israelis killed by hamas rockets that number exceeds the casualties from the cast lead operation in two thousand and eight the israeli offensive in gaza has led to large scale protests around the

world a propane group rejected the territories national flag on the houses of parliament in london calling 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 our correspondent polly boyko has more. it was such a vocal crowd here outside the israeli embassy and learned that if you take a look behind me you can see that i have different ethnicities and can see a great amount to support the palestinian full of china willing fair free palestine and see israeli slogans being shouted very loud here you do see the proof augustinian community here but nothing also has a very big jewish population and there have been procedure and strategies take place in london as well as at the beginning of the from phoenix we had much more of it to base and they were not moving through israeli commentators willing to defend israelis and israel stone however now that with the moving kids we've seen come out

from gaza with 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 when several thousand miles away from where the violence is taking place elsewhere in europe people gathered in berlin to voice anger at the israeli operation protesters waving palestinian flags and banners denouncing the civilian deaths it's also pictures from lisbon where protesters marched from the city to the israeli embassy also demanding an end to military action that's been underway for almost a month across the atlantic washington a scene of demonstrations against the ongoing bloodshed. there just on the other side of the street the counter protesters place with activists supporting israel operation. washington pledged more than two hundred million dollars to boaster

israel's iron dome defense system against hamas rockets are more about that and other updates on our website r.t. 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 scenes of shelling and 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 or challenge in clashes there continuing 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 ninety government forces fired from cities and villages the gaza city itself has claimed that at least five residents were killed in the last. deep images of a destroyed kinda gotten off to it was hit by a shell it is in the city center humanitarian situation the seat remains

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 attended probably all of the god's will and that this could lead to a real humanitarian catastrophe and of course in this situation people continue to flee what they call the bedouin next to the russian ukrainian border that's every day tens and sometimes even hundreds of people try to cross and to cross it itself very often becomes a very dangerous journey but you know you. feel you should. do school work you really are the boogie woogie you believe you you you listen you person. the person who doesn't you could. here's one local mayor who was among those organizing the evacuation at the time of the intensified tain. the whole city was 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 and fortunately the phrase no any indication that it's could become any better any time soon. nato confirms ukraine's army has been using short range ballistic missiles against anti government forces and this according to a report by german news channel deutsche of ela is echo's earlier reports on c.n.n. that referred to pentagon sources here though it 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. delivered 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 college 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 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 an american journalist for our teams or roughly video agency forced to leave ukraine detained while filming in the west of the country after craney and colleagues tipped off security services. journalist with a camera you know just there was a rug please sticker on my tripod and straightaway said you 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 they're my colleagues 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 real 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 he has power in iraq and syria rises they tighten the screws on local media aiming to make their group of blood slick and more professional details just ahead. plus a look at how residents of the earthquake prone romanian capital have to wait years for the government to reinforce their house to stay with us for what and more. told me my language as well but i will only react to situations i have read the reports from. the pollution and no i will leave them to the state department to comment on your minor player of the month lease a little secure a car is on the docket no. thank you no more weasel words. when you need to direct question the prepared for a change when you have to. be ready for

a. freedom of speech. down the freedom to cost. dramas the chance to be ignored. stories others to a few posts in the. faces changing the world. to picture posters days. from around the globe. thirteen minutes past the hour now president barack obama has admitted the us did torture people after the nine eleven attacks the confession follows a highly anticipated report on the cia's so-called expansive methods of

interrogation artie's guy needs to takes 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 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 record 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 thinks the upcoming report could tarnish the image of the u.s. government 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 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 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 website the thought of the land a group of russian and he's warning people shopping into and help people by putting disturbing images on some of those on a silver cigarette. also online how far would you go to get your hands on some hard liquor dr in the u.k. allegedly exchanging human body parts for a bottle of whiskey. and i fracking activists in denmark writing to block

a drilling site picked by french energy giant totalis for development those opposing the gas extraction techniques setting up a tent camp plan to stay as long as necessary they say to stop the company argues peter all over boards. when france 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 their health we very concerned about the environment on the ground groundwater because we have seen that

lots of incidents in the space of 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 be camped out here to get the message to total that the people of denmark say no to fracking on the 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 anti drilling list as well last week a court in west sussex turned down a shell company exploration bid and he fracking activist nathan stride explain why he joined the campaign. the process of fracking we're going to be initially repaired one well for us in lancaster and it was a moratorium frights in months to stop any fracking and so for the research was carried out so the problem that we have. from our experience even the very one else

are they failed it's one hundred percent right. on i don't. know many people. around the world seems to. jenny jones from the u.k. green party thinks there are no economic reasons for fracking obvious 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 their gas prices come down actual we're not going to european pricing round fall 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 not good for britain let's take a look at why so many people say they're afraid of fracking shell gas extraction

involves thousands of liters of chemicals some of which are said to cause cancer during the course of drilling some inevitably end up in the soil contaminating local water supplies up to seventy percent of chemicals pumped into the ground or stay there potentially causing long term environmental damage some of vaporized with time releasing greenhouse gases and even polluting the air. do we speak your language or not at the end. when you use programs and documentaries in spanish what matters to you. use a little tentative angle story. here. and try spanish find out more visit. as jihad as militants known as the islamic states occur a secure control of huge parts of syria and iraq are also imposing tight media restrictions on the occupied territories and the reports from there now have to be

reviewed by the group's so-called information office this photo of an islamic state fighter made the rounds online last month the group believed to be in want to have 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 the media to clearly try to control the message their views the various social media outlets to get their message across some of it to use brutality in fact to send a message of those took tried to show how effective they are. in terms of fighting and part of it 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.

some experts say islamic state is gaining all the attributes of an actual country it has its own legislation through a strict brand of shari'a law its budget an estimated two billion dollars most of the money coming from gulf sponsors even has natural resources at its disposal after seizing control of vast oil fields in syria and iraq and it also has an army of more than seven thousand plus an ever expanding arsenal let's take a look at some other stories now making global headlines at least sixty five people killed dozens wounded in a powerful explosion in a factory in the east of china the accident blamed on carelessness when handling flammable materials industrial accidents happen often in china due to low safety standards for example a fire at a poultry plant killed one hundred nineteen people last year. two american aid workers have been infected with the deadly ebola virus sweeping across west africa are due to be evacuated to the u.s.

for treatment the highly contagious virus has killed more than seven hundred twenty people more than a thousand have been infected one hundred million dollar campaign is planned to be launched by the world health organization as part of efforts to curb the outbreak. i das explosion at a power station in argentina is central cordoba province has left at least one dead and seven wounded all the victims of mostly with burns appeared to be motorists as part of the facilities pipeline runs me a road fire is now under control and power to the surrounding area has been restored. romania's capital bucharest said to be one of the most earthquake prone spots in europe but is suffering from tremors from time to time wasn't bad enough for the residents there the government seems a little hari to protect them or their homes or he is going off reports. illumine piano has 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 and even though it's officially been

determined that it may collapse true fuses to move anywhere else 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 booker us 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 once have been 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 his since one nine hundred seventy seven built in the 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 despite the obvious. that if a major earthquake strikes it will go down up leave me. experts say a major tremor shakes bucharest every thirty to forty years which means the next

one me not be too far off you go it's going off r.t. look arrest after the break abby martin ways and i mean israeli palestinian conflict and breaking the say. you know where you. play there.

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that. really knows what's inside the feeling of fish. what's really good folks i know rob lowe filling in for abby martin and this is breaking the set so yesterday we reported on this show that hamas and israel had reached a seventy two hour cease fire agreement three weeks after the start of israel's operation protective edge against the gaza strip and the campaign has now resulted in the deaths of over four thousand five hundred palestinians including three hundred children according to gaza health ministry well israel has lost three civilians and over sixty soldiers according to the i.d.f.

well sadly less than two hours into the new a cease fire and israeli shelling in the southern gaza city of haifa killed over sixty two palestinians and injured another two hundred according to international middle east media center however the i.d.f. claims that hamas broke the cease fire first by using the under underground tunnel system to kill at least two i.d.f. soldiers and capture another so far hamas has denied that has that has taken the soldier and questions the timeline of the events these newest allegations are deeply disturbing because the capture of an israeli soldier most likely puts an end to even the slimmest hope that a lasting cease fire can be established and greatly increases the chances that israel will intensify its brutal campaign against the gazan people of course the rhetoric coming from some fringe elements of the israeli media couldn't be doing more to inflame tensions consider that today the times of israel published this op ed entitled when jennifer when genocide is permissible and which the actual genocide of gazans is explored as the only way to bring israel peace now the

article was pulled down but not before archived versions of merge across the internet so for now we can only hope that calmer heads will prevail and that diplomacy will prevent the further slaughter of innocent civilians now let's break the cycle. that the the subject was terrible to say the i'm very hard to make out early get a little long here there's a plug in that has sex with others make their lives let's call it was. just some. lists .