baze headlines in around the week's top stories israel vows its military operation against hamas will continue no matter how much time or force it takes this is entire districts are leveled in gaza protests ignite worldwide over the weeks long operation. resistance centers in east ukraine besieged by troops the u.n. says the number of civilians killed in the crackdown has passed eleven hundred. european business as a brace for a multi-billion a euro trade cuts over the latest sanctions imposed on russia by the u.s. and e.u. governments.

bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news eleven am in moscow the israeli army started it redeploying along its border with gaza signaling it might be scaling back operations still there were air attacks early sunday that reportedly killed seventeen palestinians israel still refusing to negotiate a fresh cease fire with hamas around one hundred fifty palestinians killed by israeli airstrikes and artillery fire since friday's failed truce the operation protective edge the deadliest israeli offensive in years more than seven hundred palestinians and sixty six israelis so far killed in the conflict that's hundreds more than were killed in the so-called caste lead operation in two thousand and eight. i was. right.

that was. right around the world was does not. alter the course of the. wednesday a school in gaza run by the united nations was torn apart by shelling leaving twenty dead hundreds of refugees sheltering there at the time the un says it had repeatedly inform the i.d.f. about them being their journalists either u.s. state department briefing a push for answers over who was responsible for the attack you say that you. are showing. who shelling are we talking about well we understand that iran has put out a statement on its views that we would underscore the importance of a full and prompt investigation to determine the facts so you are not ready to condemn israel per se for the shelling of the school correct we haven't said that there needs to be a full investigation to see what happened here but specifically are you asking the israelis to not make any u.n. facilities a target because there are civilians that are seeking shelter there i'm not going

to make a blanket statement at least what i'm going sometimes it's ok i'm not saying that i'm just not going to make a blanket statement about what our private conversations with the israelis look like even if there are rockets inside and i'm not saying they should be used against israel and i'm not saying that should they should be gotten rid of i mean they should but ok even if there are rockets inside does that justify the killing of innocent billions civilians who is seeking shelter where obviously nothing justifies the killing of innocent civilians have second shot seeking shot at the damaged or destroyed rocket in a u.n. facility we believe the u.n. neutrality should be respected and recognized by everyone we understand it's complicated to understand. look there's a lot a lot of different pieces happening on the ground and quite frankly a lot of facts we don't know yet. if you're reporting for a team in gaza spoke with palestinian medics working around the clock to help the wounded. it's hard to fathom how such a vast devastation can occur in three weeks of fighting. thousands of homes damaged

or destroyed tens of thousands internally displaced and well over a thousand killed inside gaza's main hospital in its burns unit are a small fraction of the surviving injured this girl three years old. this raid is demolished the house of this family. so we deceive the girl her mother two brothers would see rebels this morning this woman is a very severe condition she is she presented to us about five days ago with her son and her husband her son and husband died with severe burns and she's still surviving with a very critical condition the doctors and nurses here look as stunned as the civilians who've survived in heavily bombarded areas it's hard to imagine how the

medical staff can cope with these truly horrendous cases human being if i see whole families the killed under the rubble of their house the house. when these people and all the families killed. in one of the instances i have a child here he was all the time claimed all his families he lost his father his mother his brother is a grandfather and all the time he's crying he wants his mother so i closed the door of my office and i sat crying those that survived this war will have to back the physical and psychological scars for years to come. ask her what degree is causing these injuries it's not entirely clear. it's very. destruction of. those. people.

badly on the ground it feels as if during this war israel is fixed on stopping her masses rockets once and for regardless of the incredible severe toll. escalating conflict in gaza has compelled some to turn their backs on the fighting more than fifty israeli soldiers have refused to serve in the nation's reserve forces saying their military is playing a key role in or oppressing palestinians and that they're supporting all those who are resisting being called up. there's certainly been a narrowing of the space for political expression in israel in the past several years and during the course of this operation over six hundred protesters against the operation against the war have been arrested and are still under arrest for trumped up charges. the police brings up against you one day they want to suppress

the protest to make a phone call or send a message or drop a tiny bomb minutes before you destroy an entire house and to think that the fact that you know five or ten minutes before is enough. five or ten or twenty five there is something in the world. i don't think even more we can do with every whatever we want without boundaries conflicts in gaza as alleged demonstrations in support of both sides in europe demonstrations mainly against the israeli operation protesters in berlin way palestinians flags and banners denouncing this italian debt hundreds of protesters also gathered at the israeli embassy in portugal's capital lisbon marched across london voicing anger at israeli strikes in france more than ten thousand people marched through paris in support of the policy for the country has seen weeks of protests since the start of the

conflict with some demonstrations ending in clashes meanwhile across the atlantic in new york. two rallies happened at the same time on the same street one of them pro israel the other one. israel's prime minister about going to push on with about operation again in gaza against hamas no matter how much time or force it takes an expert on arab israeli relations james petras tells artie's kevin owen that little he thinks is being done to end the bloodshed. they destroyed all the working facilities electricity water supply sewage systems they're making it unlivable because the ultimate goal is exclusively jewish israelis stay they want to drive the entire palestinian people out of inhabitable region of the world our political opinion is shark but there's no one that's raising a hand to tell the israelis you will pay

a price for this but netanyahu is also called for the international community to stand by israel before i come back to you but that let's take a listen to that quick clip of a call responsible to the north who lose these and people who. stood with israel. were those rumors of the false hamas. who is who is the those who it was or was the little it his group of us understood james will they stand with israel. the question is who will stand with israel great majority of people in the world of our own. country in the world i would say the majority. want israel continues to work because it feels it. is the united states government continues to supply and provide diplomatic protection from

the genocide that is taking place in the european union wrings it stands and continues to engage in business as usual with israel we also spoke with a lot of stying from the israel's four from israel's foreign ministry who told us that palestinians have made the wrong choice in backing hamas we even have a running joke saying do they understand the word cease fire or maybe it was lost in translation cease fire means cease fire and they kept firing rockets so we are going to cease fire the un said it should be done with the call ration of egypt we are very open to that so we don't have an argument with the international community the people in gaza could have had amazing freedom we counted the number of cash that was put into the territory knows it's one point twenty five billion dollars with that amount of money they could have had a hospital they could have had three malls they could have had twenty schools they could have had so much economy going on but they decided to put it into tunnels

where it's are supposed to bring terrorists into israel they are doing it using these children this human shields we abort missions when we know there are children around we truly do everything possible not to harm that but when they actually physically use him as a human shield. that's what happens unfortunately. still to come modern day slavery for the world's most watched sporting event migrant workers and potter host of the twenty second football world cup reportedly stranded without pay working in inhumane conditions. fish farms waters do you have a problem a because. i saw it spread all over norway is the most toxic food you have in the whole world profit drowns out in the tissue inquiry furthermore restriction.

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eastern ukraine red marks on this map put together by ukrainian media led to show areas are still controlled by the opposition they are shrinking on a daily basis areas under heavy siege include the eastern regions largest cities die now it's going to gaza with local authorities saying the situation is on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe of all the disturbing images coming from the region these are some of the most striking people in wheelchairs who died in broad daylight after a care home for the elderly was apparently pounded by shells most sides blame each other for the killings pictures in contrast with the words of ukraine's president who had promised that civilians would not suffer in the conflict ukrainian military forces the national guard and other units would never allow themselves to do harm to civilians ukrainian soldiers will risk their own lives but won't threaten women children and elderly men this is the eternal chivalrous nature of the ukrainian army be it at home school or church the list of buildings that have been under

artillery fire in east ukraine has been growing this week locals are asking why they have to live through the horrors of the crackdown and you've got what you said . or you still got the government. you gave it to you. this is a. phrase you know i don't want i want you to go. girl you're going to go to war well. knows that i will go up. this is the. reason. for. this is to put it in the reach of the city. therefore.

meet in the streets there with some of. the truth was literally just. despite the lies being claimed in the crackdown every day the offensive is finding further support in the west washington now playing to train and equip pro-government militia while the e.u. is quietly lifting a ban on supplying ukraine with weapons foreign affairs analysts search a trick of it says it's an example of double standards especially when moscow was accused of supplying self-defense fighters with arms it is blatant hypocrisy not totally as the russian foreign ministry said because they wanted to ban such supplies to have a coach but are now giving this one out but because the actually the fuse to treat this as a conflict in the first place it's simply a rebellion and dilute so-called legitimate ukrainian most thought it is already involved in the security operation to stablish law and told it if they raise

more weapons coming the ukrainian government's way more training more where it looks pretty green for the self-defense forces this will only embolden it to go all the way using indiscriminate violence in resolving the issue in the east itself the way. russian oil giant lukoil this week decided to sell all its petrol stations in ukraine after some of them were blocked by members of the extremist right sector group radicals previously demanded fuel be handed over to the army for the ongoing assault on the country's east u.k. journalist neil clark who's been closely following the situation in the country so he was using the far right group to do dirty work. i could see clearly the right sixty things craning government to be seen in themselves such as stations and so i think it's kind of good cop bad cop already really even though you can cite the

credo for which is a good question anyway however they need the right sect it's doing things like it's the countries running short of. supplies and they all it's beautiful ukrainian authorities if the right sector is taking this kind of activity is taking to stations rather than the cells because the government doesn't want to control these people he says that he needs the right sector came to power with the right sector and he still needs them today. meanwhile an american journalist working for artie's roughly agency in western ukraine has been told to leave the country she was detained in question for several hours by security services after trying to film a protest locals were trying to voice their discontent over the ongoing mobilization we're keeping across all of dates coming out of ukraine around the clock on air and online and. this week washington and european allies unleashed their toughest sanctions yet against russia over the crisis in ukraine the latest in american measures of borrowed some of our financial pillars from dealing with the u.s.

one of them the country's second largest bank which also operates in europe asia and africa subsidiary the bank of moscow also on the sanctions list russian agricultural bank which funds the farming sector has been targeted also on the list is the united ship building corporation or russia's largest holding in that sector one u.s. lawmaker voiced were gretz over the political fallout. you know after the film there was a tremendous potential to make sure our friend tremendous potential they withdrew their troops from eastern europe. the russians. were open to all kinds of interactive human being could be part of the world community and a horrible tremendous opportunity i should say was squandered the e.u. also was barred some of russia's key financial institutions from raising capital in europe it's take a look at how the latest e.u. sanctions are targeting the russian economy in the finance sector the country's biggest and oldest bank in the firing line the energy sector targeted to russia's

now banned from importing advanced western technology and equipment for extracting fossil fuels also the russian defense sector being restricted to arms sales accounting for more than fifteen billion dollars in two thousand and thirteen but sanctions work both ways some of russia's top european trading partners are bracing for cuts as well german experts say the country could lose six billion euros in exports to russia this year alone is moscow's number one trading partner berlin stands to lose and he will turn over between the two countries comes to about seventy six billion euros six thousand german companies do business with a russia hundreds of thousands of jobs are at stake e.u. citizens may now be forced to pay the political price for the price for political ambitions according to economists michelmore us. when you talk to the people on the street when you talk to people who have a run of business. executives in a big company. full of this all this sentence i can tell is to you because

sanctions never a one way street and there's always action to ascension and when it comes to this imposed sanctions old essential to be imposed on russia then of course the germans the ones who will suffer the most it's easy for united states to. full sanctions but the ones who are suffering the germans all those countries who are close to russia because they naturally have the biggest business implications overall european officials estimate that russia in the e.u. could lose more than one hundred billion euros each over the next two years because of the latest sanctions some european firms already counting their losses sports company adidas shares tumbling a record fifteen per cent on thursday after the firm said it wouldn't achieve targets in the country europe's largest automaker volkswagen reports an eight percent decline in russia sales for the first half of the year compared to last year european sanctions valid for a year but could be reviewed after three months and a list of the e.u. will try to minimize the impact of the sanctions on its economy. sanctions are

a fairly blunt instrument they tend to hurt both the people who are being sanctioned as well as the people who are leveling the sanctions they tend to reduce economic vitality and which is bad for everyone but they also have a pretty mediocre history of achieving the goals that are set out for them so that has agreed to certain amount of tension and reluctance to use sanctions particularly by europeans who have had a mixed experience of being pushed into sanctions by the u.s. government never seen sanctions implemented for ninety days only before so i think they're sending a message to the russians we really don't want to go through with this possibly because they think it may harm themselves so i think they're very much hoping that the situation will improve in the relationship and that they can disappear after ninety days you can stand top of the story on air and online always more analysis and opinion on our website r.t. dot com for the mainstream media across the atlantic the ukraine crisis in all its

complexity boils down to one person vladimir putin takes a look. president obama said he does not believe this growing tension with russia could be the beginning of a new cold war no. no it's not a new cold war one could only wish turn this thought the same or at least those who are making covers of magazines because some of them hark back to the cold war as if they were made back in the day no matter how complicated an issue you can be almost certain that the media are going to boil it down to personalities well with ukraine it's one personality the russian president what does he do when he's working or often an outdoor adventure and why don't we see him smiling very much he's not really driven by by women or by we're distracted by alcohol he's very tough he's a very arrogant. person to deal with. and what kind of

diplomacy can you expect moving forward when diplomats use this kind of language this is the you came back to the united states speaking to me three adjectives you'd use to describe a lot of your proof. i'm not a poet but. i think. dishonest afraid comes to mind because we've had all these lies. but i think it's a reckless to makes one wonder if they really want to solve a problem or if they're good with the current state of affairs the media focus on the russian president has had its effect on twitter where users came up with a hash tag putin and now many use it to comment on pretty much anything it didn't rain in my country today i blame poison for it or a mosquito just bit me blame putin and then to the report that former georgian president saakashvili doesn't want to go back to his country to stand trial and says he blames putin this use of goes if you are in trouble just playing. it

washington i'm going to show. on dot com right now many things can land you behind bars in north korea a u.s. tourist found himself in detention for leaving a bible in a nightclub bathroom together details on our website. also online they might look soft and small and plush but argentinean scientists say the ancestors of the penguins that we know today were once as tall as a basketball player. in qatar migrant workers who helped build luxury offices for the organizers of the two thousand and twenty two world cup haven't been paid for a year some of them are stranded in the gulf state without paperwork after their employer went bust britain's guardian newspaper conducted an investigation into how foreign workers find themselves enduring conditions described is inhumane in modern day slavery the newspaper discovered unsanitary conditions and power cuts up to ten men living in tiny rooms together while working six or even seven days a week for ten hours

a day in the scorching heat many have died of strokes and heart attacks investigation has discovered their paperwork is illegally taken from them and no medical care provided salaries paid only for the first few months and then the money stops chair and borrow from the international trade union confederation things other governments have chosen to turn a blind eye. tower is a slave state some more than days state you are our own by one person so your contract is signed before you leave your home country but when you get to get to the employer can often simply tear it up or not pay your wages or trade you in any oppressive way they like work as above desperate for work in poor countries so most of these migrants are from nepal india the philippines parts of africa and they don't understand because nobody tells them what they will face when they get

to get our it's not given enough attention by international governments companies governments they can still like to we don't want to work with you until you change the words until you are bullish the fall the system until you put in place fundamental like the right. still to come blood sweat and tears one of the key russian battles of world war one is brought to life. 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 at the resort so if you throw a bunch of guns and ammo into the hands of people who have the career choices of poppies or starvation yeah that someone might be willing to sell some bullets to get by also we shouldn't forget that every government on earth has people in it working for their old self interests or others interests it is totally naive to think that every person involved in the process of transferring weapons will be loyal to the afghan government which seems to have been put in place by a certain hyper power who remain nameless in short if you find this story shocking then you really need to get off the couch and see how the world really works but that's just my opinion.

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i. i. i. i. g nice and fifteen. this is simon's needs to crush is more terrifying than i could have imagined also weeks of travelling i finally made it to the eastern front where pitched battles seem an almost daily occurrence some months now the russian army has been pushed backwards by the german and austrian garion forces but they make them work for every inch the fundies fear is the noise deafening and the bravery of the soldiers difficult to have a state. that's for myself i've already taken pictures i never thought possible.