foreigners. in. the in the. israel steps up its offensive in gaza killing more than one hundred palestinians overnight while hunting for a soldier it claims was captured by hamas. the civilian death toll mounts as the ukrainian army tightens the noose around the self-proclaimed republics in the east of the country that's as a second r t affiliated journalist is deported from the country band. coming clean on harsh harsh interrogation tactics. that simple. we did some things that were contrary to our values. brock obama confesses ahead of a reported cia interrogation techniques as analysts anticipate more disturbing revelations.

which in our national life are moscow in memory of josh welcome to the program. some one hundred eighteen palestinians have been killed by israeli attacks since the collapse of a cease fire on friday that's as israeli defense forces push deeper into gaza in search of a soldier they claim was captured by hamas meanwhile in the west bank israeli soldiers fired smoke grenades at a protest rally killing two and injuring some so many others harry fear is in the west bank for r.t. given the very heavy toll felt by palestinian civilians in gaza hamas movements 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 palestinian. injured in various clashes with israeli forces

here in some of those clashes live fire was used to palace were killed by israeli life fire they were shot in the cheek and just yesterday on the scene medical sources also report that a palestinian ambulance was hit directly with israeli 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 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 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 palestinian civilians and

also severe tank shelling of southern areas of the gaza strip who 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 their operations to find this soldier meanwhile in the hamas military wing the ultrasound brigade to said that they believe that the israeli soldier has already being killed alongside the palestinian fighters that captured him after israel heavily shelled. 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. now the protected. offensive has become israel's

bloodiest operation in recent years with more than sixteen hundred palestinians killed as well as sixty six israelis killed by hamas rockets that number exceeds the casualties from the so called cast lead operation in two thousand and eight. the israeli offensive in gaza has resulted in a large scale protest around the world approached group projected for the territories national flag on the house of parliament in london and cold 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 i'll respond employee boyko was there for r.t. . was such a photo could crowd outside the israeli embassy and let me take a look behind me you can see different ethnicities and can see a great come out to support the palestinian cause a lot of child wanting fair free palestine and see israeli slogans being shouted

very you do see the proof augustinian community here but nothing also has a very big jewish population and there have been prone to a strategies take place in london as well at the beginning of the conflicts we had much more of it to base and there were a lot more pro israeli commentators willing to defend israelis israel stones however now that with the more kids we've seen come out from gaza with shelled children and say many civilian civilian casualties you get the sense that that debases somewhat died down and 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 their anger at the israeli operation and protesters wave palestinian flags and banners denouncing the civilian death. and

here are the pictures from lisbon where protesters marched through the city to the israeli embassy they were also demanding a man through the mill and the reaction that's been under way for almost four weeks now across the atlantic new york also became a scene. demonstrations against the ongoing bloodshed but on the other side of the street a counter protest equasym with activists supporting the israeli operation. and washington has pledged more than two hundred million dollars to bolster israel's iron dome defense system against rockets fired by hamas learn more about that and other updates at r.t. dot com. ukraine army is pressing on whether to advance on the capitals of two a self-proclaimed republics in the east of the country towns villages in other regions are the scenes of constant shelling and battles are just more even now has

the latest wellwood we can see in this new brain could definitely be described as a very dramatic state to school children in clashes they continued with the death toll including among civilian population also continuing to climb as residential areas alton gets called to the deadly crossfire when ukrainian army and to government forces fall it will see cheese and religious lugol's c.t.'s will just claim that at least five residents were killed in the last twenty four hours and receive images of a destroyed kinda gotten off to it was heated by a shell it is in the city center humanitarian situation the seat remains a very tense electricity there has been cutoff for several days already there are also problems with the running walter and the officials of the self-proclaimed republic of the gods warn that the could lead to a real humanitarian catastrophe and of course in this situation people continue to flee what they call the war zone read on next to the russian ukrainian border every day tens and sometimes even hundreds of people try to trolls and the cross in

itself very often becomes a very dangerous journey but you know you. do you feel usually. those who are pro moves you are going to be really going to be moved. you listen you person. the person would know you. here's one local mayor who was among those organizing the evacuation at the time of intense pain. the whole city is destroyed apartment buildings and private houses alike it's been going on for about eight days there was a pause in the shelling when the medics to take two buses full of refugees out of town then it stopped again transport fuel water we're trying to bring bread into town on the. situation on the ground remains dramatic and so you and fortunately the phrase no any indication that it's could become any better any time so. nine

rockets coming from ukraine have struck russian territory according to the border guard service no damage or injuries have been reported meanwhile medo confirms ukraine's army has been using short range ballistic missiles against anti-government forces that's according to reports by the german news channel which of our. earlier reports on c.n.n. which referred to sources in the paddock gone if however denies the claims charles shoebridge a former british army officer believes 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. being destroyed whole areas not down it's equivalent to a very large. ball when we look at the kind of problems that israel's 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 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 and american journalist for r.t. is roughly the u.n. agency has been forced to leave ukraine and she was detained while filming in the west of the country after her ukrainian colleagues tiptop security services. journalist with a camera you know just that was abruptly 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 they're my colleagues of history i have i wanted to give

them all the information they needed and you know when 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 some. 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 well this isn't the first instance of a journalist being kicked out of ukraine and there have been over a dozen cases where t.v. crews were barred from entering the country or sent away as soon as officials saw

their russian identification papers the latest case however is the first targeted on an american citizen last month british journalist graham phillips also working for r.t. was arrested and thrown out of ukraine reports. coming up later in the program as jihad is power in iraq in syria against ground they tie the school is a local media aiming to make the group look slick and more professional details are just out. also we report on how the residents of the earthquake prone remaining capital have to wait years for the governments to reinforce their houses. all over my language as well but i will only react to situations i have read the reports for some time like the pollution from a no i will leave them to the state department to comment on your latter part of the month to say to mr kerry

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welcome back you're watching r.t. international president barack obama has admitted the u.s. to torture people after the nine eleven attacks the confession follows a highly anticipated report on the cia's so cold expansive methods of interrogation are just vanished you can have the details. 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 walks

president obama speaking ahead of the public release of the record reminded that when he became president he signed an executive order to stop porter torture. do 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. now former f.b.i. agent coleen rowley things the upcoming 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 be heard 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. and our website the fat of the land a group of russian m.p.'s are warning people off jumping into on healthy food by

putting disturbing images on packages some alert of those on cigarette packs. also online how far would you go to get your hands on hard liquor well a doctor in the u.k. allegedly exchanged human body parts for a bottle of whiskey. and have fracking activist in denmark are preparing to block a drilling site paid by french and the giant atol for development those opposing the gas extraction technique are setting up a tent camp and plan to stay as long as necessary to stop the company all over as this report. 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 environmental pride on the ground groundwater because we have seen that lots of incidents in the supposedly 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 while on this map right here you can see some of the european countries that have banned the controversial gas drilling technique some u.k. citizens are trying to get their country on that list too well last week

a court in west sussex turned down and share company exploration bit and defragging activist nathan stride explained why he joined a campaign. the process of fracking where it went in the u.k. initially repaired one well frights in lancashire and it was a moratorium for it say months to stop any fracking and so far the research was carried out so the problem that we have raised from our experience even the very one else of water and they failed it's a one percent failure right very poor foreigner don't. make us. down well it seems to fall on deaf ears. and jenny jones from the green party in the u.k. says there are no economic reasons for fracking but she is 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 in any way a choice that 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 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 if you look at it from an economical point of view this is not good for britain well let's see why people are so afraid of fracking cheryl gas extraction of both thousands of liters of chemicals and some of which are said to cause cancer and in the course of drilling some inevitably and up in the soil contaminating the local water table and up to seventy percent of the chemicals pumped into the ground remain there potentially causing long term environmental damage and some vaporize with time releasing greenhouse gases and polluting the air. choose your language. make it without any financial center stay still for the six. days of

a sick child it's good to consider. the opinions that you think are great. choose the stories to. choose access to. as your heart as militants known as the slow makes date secure control of huge parts of syria and iraq they're also imposing tight media regulations on the occupied territories and reports from there now have to be reviewed by the group's so-called information office now this photo of an islamic state fire made the rounds online last monday's are already been dubbed their first hipster and the group is believed to have one of the most sophisticated social media strategies as a twitter account and regularly post videos online popularizing the movement administering of an expert on the middle east affairs believes the media has proved

to be an effective tool and 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 clearly tried to control the message they have used the various social media outlets to message across some of it use brutality in fact to send a message of those. control how effective they are. in terms of fighting and part of it they're also using it to recruit fighters by trying to explain and put to him the best image of what their ideological beliefs and to recruit followers. now some experts say islamic state is getting all the attributes of a real nation well it has its own legislation a strict brand of sharia law and its budget is an estimated two billion dollars

including cash stolen from iraq's central bank in the soul and generous donations from gulf sponsors and it even has natural resources at its disposal after seizing control of several vast oil fields in syria and iraq and like any state it has an army which is now more than seven thousand strong plus an ever expanding arsenal. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world and at least sixty eight people have been killed and dozens injured in a powerful explosion at a factory in the east of china the accident is being blamed on carelessness when handling flammable materials have detained the factories management industrial accidents happen quite often in china due to low safety standards a fire to pose these plants killed one hundred nineteen people last year. two american aid workers have been infected with a bowl of virus that's sweeping through west africa they are due to be evacuated to the u.s. for treatment the highly contagious virus has killed more than seven hundred twenty

people and over a thousand more have been infected one hundred million dollars campaign is planned to be launched by the world health organization as part of africa to curb the outbreak. severe the gas explosion at a power station in argentina central cordova province has left at least one person dad and seven others injured all the victims mostly with burns appeared to be motorists as a part of the facilities pipeline runs across a road the fire is now under control and electricity to the surrounding area has been restored. romania's capital booker asda said to be a one of the most earthquake prone spots in europe but if suffering tremors from time to time wasn't bad enough for residents the government seems in no rush to help them protect their homes as a group is going to now reports. it was 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 she fuses to move anywhere else that. this house is strong nothing happened 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 when earthquakes 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 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 despite 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. look arrest and after the break abby martin a weighs in on the israeli palestinian conflict and breaking the set. 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 other resort so if you throw a bunch of guns and ammo into the hands of people who have the career choices of

poppies or starvation yeah that someone might be willing to sell some bullets to get by also we shouldn't forget that every government on earth has people in it working for their old self interests or others interests it is totally naive to think that every person involved in the process of transferring weapons will be loyal to the afghan government which seems to have been put in place by a certain hyper power who remain nameless in short if you find this story shocking then you really need to get off the couch and see how the world really works but that's just my opinion. right on the scene. first street. and i think you're. on a reporter's. instagram. to

be in the. what's really good folks 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 fourteen 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 newest cease fire an israeli shelling in the southern gaza city of haifa killed over sixty two palestinians and injured another two hundred according to.