thanks for staying with us half hour after the hour on half past the hour now kiev continuing to tighten the noose on anti-government resistance in eastern ukraine red marks on this map put together by ukrainian media live show areas still controlled by the opposition they are shrinking on a daily basis areas under heavy siege include the eastern regions largest cities donetsk and lugansk with local authorities saying the situation is on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe out 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 and the dance was apparently pounded by shelling both sides blame each other for the killings pictures and contracts with the words of ukraine's president who repeatedly promised us 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 were risking their own lives but won't threaten women children and elderly men this is the eternal chivalrous nature of the ukrainian army you know home school or church the list of buildings that have come under artillery fire in east ukraine grew this week and locals are asking why they have to live through the horrors of the crackdown. you said. and you do you would she took the conclusion.

that. she's praised structural sarkin while he does there are more however you did tell when you children who thought. the lady again only the readers us door. means you are you know that i will start school. this is. the. this is what it is really for the city. for. me to visit with some of. those who want. despite the lives claimed in chios crackdown daily the offensive is finding more support in the west washington planning to train and equip pro-government militia while the quietly lifting a ban on supplying ukraine with weapons foreign affairs analyst serge attributes

things to things ample of double standards especially when moscow is accused of supplying a so-called self-defense fighters with our. it is blatant hypocrisy not totally as the russian foreign ministry said because they wanted to ban such supplies we had a coach but are now giving it to this lot but because the actually defused to treat this as a conflict in the first place it's simply a rebellion in the loop so-called legitimate ukrainian last thought it is already involved in the security operation to stablish law and told it if there is more weapons coming the ukrainian government's way more training where it looks pretty green for the self-defense forces this will only hold meat to go all the way using indiscriminate violence in resolving the issue in beast its way

through 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 in the east of the country u.k. journalist neil clark closely following the situation says kiev is using the far right group to do with dirty what it clearly the right sector to do things crane. government would like to be seen good little selves so to look eighty two stations and so i think good it's a kind of good cop bad cop small really even though you can be grateful for it is a good question anyway however they need the right step to do things like this the country's running short of money supplies and therefore it's back to full the ukrainian authorities if the right sector is taking this kind of activity is located two stations are all of them local cells because the government doesn't want to control these people each of them needs the right sector came to power with the right sector and it still needs them today. an american journalist working for

r.t. is roughly video agency in western ukraine has been told to leave the country she was detained and questioned for several hours by security services after trying to film a protest here's how she described the incident journalist with a camera you know just it was abruptly sticker on my tripod and straightaway said you know russia today first of all they questioned me themselves about seven of them i gave them all the details that could give them i gave them my press card that 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 rio shouldn't picture of it so they followed me to the hotel until they could see the actual passport they

asked me that i absolutely had to give my footage away and they had to raise it. first of all they put it on their computers so someone out of the officials has it right now they have all the footage that it took of myself being questioned and also at the protest. and they gave it back to me it was blank. not the first time a journalist has been kicked out of ukraine there have been more than a dozen cases where t.v. crews were barred from entering the country or sent home when the official saw russian id papers the latest case though the first to target an american citizen last month a british journalist graham phillips also working for r t was arrested and deported from the time barricades. are keeping on top of updates coming out of ukraine around the clock online at r.t. dot com as well. this week washington and its european allies unleashed their toughest sanctions yet on russia over the ukraine crisis the latest u.s. measures barred some of russia's financial pillars from dealing with the u.s. one of them v.t.

be the country's second largest bank which operates in europe asia and africa and its subsidiary the bank of moscow also on the sanctions list russia's agricultural that's russia's largest holding in that sector one u.s. lawmaker voicing regret over the latest political fallout you know after the soviet union film there was a tremendous potential to making russia our friend of tremendous potential they withdraw 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 a tremendous opportunity i should say was squandered. the e.u. has barred some of russia's key financial institutions from raising capital in europe stake a closer look at how the latest sanctions are targeting the russian economy in the finance sector the country's biggest notice bank in the firing line the energy sector targeted as well russia now banned from importing advanced western technology and equipment for extracting fossil fuel also russia's defense sector

being restricted arms sales accounted for more than fifteen billion dollars in two thousand and thirteen to russia sanctions work both ways and some of russia's you top european trading partners are bracing for cuts 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 has plenty to lose annual turnover between the two countries comes to some seventy six billion euros six thousand german companies do business with russia with hundreds of thousands of jobs at stake you citizens may be forced to pay the price for ambition for political ambitions according to economists michel moss. when you talk to the people on the street when you talk to people who haven't run a business all executives in a big company they're not for this all this sentence i can tell is to you because sanctions never a one way street you have always action to ascension and when it comes to this imposed sanctions all distinction to be imposed on russia then of course the

germans the ones who are suffering most it's easy for united states to shout full sentence but the ones who are suffering are the germans all those countries who are close to russia because they naturally have the biggest business implications overall european officials estimate that russia and the e.u. could lose more than one hundred billion euros over the course of the next two years because of the latest sanctions some european firms already calculate counting their losses sports company adidas shares tumbled a record fifteen percent thursday after the firm said it wouldn't hit its targets in russia europe's largest carmaker volkswagen reported an eight percent decline in russian sales for the first half of two thousand and fourteen compared to last year european sanctions are valid for a year but could be reviewed after three months i always think the will try to minimize the impact of the sanctions on its own 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 just bad for everyone but they also have a pretty mediocre history of achieving the goals that are set out for them so that has a korea the 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 step today on the story on air and online always more analysis and opinion on our web site r.t. dot com. for the mainstream media across the atlantic the ukraine crisis in its complexity boils down to one person a lot of your putin takes a look. president obama

said he does not believe this growing tension with russia could be the beginning nearly new cold war no. no new cold war one could only wish journalese 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 all for an outdoor adventure and why don't we see him smiling very much he's not really driven 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 the 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 the 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 our team. and sober. news into us this hour reports from gaza say at least seven people have been killed in an israeli air strike on

a un run school a building said to be a shelter for palestinians displaced by the conflict just to remind you twenty people killed wednesday after another un school was shelled by israeli forces we'll keep you up to date as more information comes in this is live video you're looking at right now. and still to come spies assassination and poison britain putting an inquiry into the killing of former russian intelligence officer alexander litvinenko eight years after the event plus pictures of a hot it's probably not taken in syria or iraq but in the heart of europe find out what locals in the hague had to say about the sanction a demonstration. well known told me my language as well but i will only react to situations i have read the reports of. the pollution and no i will leave them to the state department to

comment on your latter point of the month to. secure a car is on the docket. thank you no more weasel words. when you need a direct question the prepared for a chase when you punch be ready for a. freedom of speech little down to freedom to question. in fish farms waters. the pond to me because. i saw it spread all over norway is the most cultured food you have in the whole will profit drama zones in the fischel inquiry further more restrictions. really knows what's inside the field.

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forty five minutes past the hour now britain has started a public inquiry into one of the most mysterious deaths of the decade the murder of former russian security officer alexander litvinenko poisoned eight years ago in london artie's a marina closer it takes a look. sick and lying on his deathbed this is how the world got to know alexander litvinenko a former f.s.b. officer who fled russia and made london his new home it was his accusations against the russian government which propelled his not serai stories of senior officials in moscow supposedly ordering assassinations and carrying out terror attacks and the world ate it up because litvinenko was presented as a famous this of and of somebody who was upsetting the kremlin who was revealing some sort of secrets that were upsetting president putin himself this was not the case at all it's been nearly eight years since alexander litvinenko death yet his

family are nowhere near the truth and very pleased to see this decision about public inquiry and i know it's in there as a long time to wait and it's not is it months is in the air but finally if it were to see if this but why has it been such a long road to this truth let's take a look at what's been achieved so far british prosecutors accuse the two men co's former colleagues of murder and him durance he both deny any involvement russia refuses to extradite any of its own citizens because the constitution doesn't allow it's the british inquest is delayed as the coroner decides a public inquiry will be better ministers rule out that option the high court supports the idea of an inquiry so a public inquiry is announced the main twist to this case came after revelations litvinenko was allegedly working for m i six as well us with the spanish security

services and this is precisely the kind of data which will now be scrutinized as a public inquiry does allow secret sensitive government material to be examined i do this not it gainst. not i do this for just if i do this for two years i would like to show people you able to get justice in any difficult situation. a truth which could turn out to be uncomfortable to swallow for some marine a cost of artsy or spoke with a living goes brother in an exclusive interview who has his own theory about what happened. so far we haven't seen one official piece of evidence that would prove the cause of alexander's death it's been eight years and all we've had interviews and newspaper articles as far as i know alexander was trainee agents for amite six in that time he found out a lot about the life of russian dissidents in the u.k.

he didn't know any english and after he lost his job he wanted to start a business in russia of course his previous employers didn't like the idea of him go we back soon i suppose the western security services decided to get rid of him. in another case that reemerge this week to european courts awarded a total of more than fifty billion dollars in damages to the former shareholders of you goes the defunct russian oil company was owned by mike who was arrested for tax evasion two thousand and three the firm was sold off and went bankrupt which moscow claims was all legal year ago a european court of human rights said the case was politically motivated. h.s.b.c. one of the u.k.'s leading banks has closed accounts of several muslim groups and they can meet in the country saying they pose too much of a risk h.s.b.c. accused of prejudice by various muslim organizations but the bank and says the decision it wasn't based on race or religion of customers at the same time it didn't offer any exact explanation for the decision the trustee of

a muslim charitable organization a former client of the bank said this about them. if there would have given us a clear reason then we would be able to at least maybe to address the issue or to find out but what we believe in is actually this is a clear campaign isn't slum a phobia policy that instituted by which a species against the british muslims in u.k. individual as well as charities and who believe they. should be held ashamed for their actions and should really be clearly that we should be working to stop such because it will have and he has a huge negative impact on the social cohesion of britain already as in the u.k. conduct an investigation into bahrain's top human rights activist nabeel rajab he and his family had their passports seize last week after arriving in britain where job was released from prison inmate told our t.v. incident shows the u.k.'s priorities. in the ground model of pollution more people in detention for thousands of people behind bought thousand of people have to be

dick on thirty thousand people out of here being looked at people people who were killed hundreds of people wounded. hundreds and thousands of houses being the lead and the you'd leave a lot of problems does that mean that all of the by the security person the so did a petition is the war according to you might try. to get ideation including the united nation nobody want to speak about it because nobody want to i'm going to think of what it meant because i'm getting but i think that what i meant in the back and get in saudi government and it would be neat is going to from those three from those countries it would need to make. those governments. time right now one of the many things that can land you behind bars in north korea a u.s. tourist finds himself in detention for leaving a bible in a nightclub bathroom all the details on our website. also they might look soft and cuddly but argentinean scientists say the ancient ancestors of penguins we know

today were as tall as basketball player. and cotter migrant workers who helped build luxury offices for the organizers of the two thousand and twenty two world cup how didn't been paid for a year some of them 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 as inhumane and modern day slavery a newspaper discovered on sanitary conditions and power cuts up to ten men living in tiny rooms while working seven days a week for ten hours a day in the scorching heat many have reportedly died of strokes and heart attacks investigation also discovered paperwork illegally seized from them and no medical care given salaries paid only for the first few months and then the money stops sharon borrow from the international trade union confederation things other governments have chosen to turn a blind eye. ok tower is a slave state it some more than days like state you up on by one person

so it will contract you signed before you leave your home country but when you get to get the employer can often simply tear it up or not pay you wages or treat you in any oppressive way they like work as above desperate for working poor countries so most of these migrants are from the poll india the philippines parts of africa and i don't understand because nobody tells them what they will face when they get ticket town it's not given enough attention by international governments companies governments they can say thank you we don't want to work with you until you change the words until you abolish the foulest system until you've put in place fundamental like the right job as militants from the so-called islamic state pushed further into syria and iraq sowing death and destruction as they go extremist

groups hardline take on islam has even alienated al-qaeda but it hasn't stopped the dutch government i'm allowing a pro islamic state rally in the hague where demonstrators shouted bloodthirsty anti semitic slogans and called on european muslims to support your high thousands of hate residents now want the city mayor sacked for sanctioning a protest analyst william ingall thinks the incident could be a wake up call for europe. but there are large muslim communities throughout europe and germany who are the. at least seven million. in the muslim faith their organization and some of jihad is forbidden solutions of trying to recruit from young muslim youth as are going on in holland we stop short of demonstrations of crisis i question the sanity of the dutch government for allowing it in the first place the very fact that they allow this on the. governments. were chanting death to the jews quite loudly in streets of a european country is this really what we could call what's what's going on here.

taking a look at some other stories making global headlines an american doctor infected with a deadly ebola virus has been medivac to the united states for treatment dr kent brantly has been taken to a specialized hospital in atlanta you can barely walk without assistance all precautions were made to protect against the spread of the virus during flight bola is contagious and causes severe internal bleeding there is no cure. for major landslide in nepal killed at least eight people and left more than one hundred missing blocked a highway connecting nepal with china and buried at least forty houses local police have used explosives to free a river affected by the landslide. i'll be back with more of the week's headlines in a couple of minutes stay with us on our to international. you

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these headlines in around of the week's top stories at least seven people killed in an israeli air strike on a un school in gaza doctors say thirty palestinians were killed early sunday as israel starts redeploying troops. all resistance centers in east ukraine besieged by keo troops the u.n. saying the number of civilians killed in the crackdown has passed eleven hundred. european business is brace for multi billion euro trade cuts after the latest sanctions imposed on russia by the u.s. and e.u. .