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 troops the u.n. saying the number of civilians killed in the crackdown has passed eleven hundred. european business is brace for a multi-billion euro trade cuts after the latest sanctions imposed on russia by the u.s. and e.u. .

bring you today's top stories in a look back at the week's news it's one pm in moscow israel has been shelling gaza again this morning and other u.n. school came under attack this despite reports the i.d.f. has been scaling back its operations and winding down destroying hamas tunnels let's get more from middle east correspondent paula sleep so paula what do we know so far. well the information we have is coming from palestinian sources what we are hearing is that the israeli air force has hit a nother united nations school and at this stage at least ten people are reported to have been killed and this is a facility where thousands of people were seeking shelter so it is highly likely that among the casualties are going to be women and children as of yet no official comment from the israeli side but it does follow a similar incident back on wednesday in that particular incident some twenty people

were killed when these radio shells hit a nother un school where hundreds of displaced people were seeking shelter the israeli response to wednesday's incident is that it is investigating it there have been harsh words from the united nations which has said that they have repeatedly informed and warned the israeli army we civilians are using the facilities for seeking shelter but as i say we are waiting to hear from the israeli side regarding this latest incident it certainly follows a renewal of fighting what we know is that at least thirty gazans were killed in the early hours of sunday morning this is as israel resumed its strikes over the towns of ruffa and jabalya it follows harsh statements made by the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu on saturday night he said and this was an explicit warning to him us that they would pay an intolerable price if they continued with the airstrikes netanyahu saying that the focus of the army and the ground forces inside gaza was still to destroy tunnels but that even when that was completed they

would continue to ensure that gaza was militant free and that israel south. would be safe for citizens and must responded by saying that netanyahu comments were a declaration of failure and defeat and that they believe that they were an attempt to raise them a roll from among the israeli are. now israel has also efficiency did cade did a soldier that we missing over the weekend there was an incident on friday when two other soldiers were killed when a mass suicide bomber blew himself up off the emerging from a tunnel that these raids were trying to destroy so there's a lot of increased violence as i speak to you to speak to you we receiving reports of an arms again sounding in the south and central israel so there are reports of rockets coming at israel at this stage it doesn't seem as if any of these were new cease fire efforts that are supposed to be taking in cairo will bear any fruit we

know from the israeli side that they have said that they are not the same thing a delegation to the egyptian capital. was leader live for us from tel aviv thanks for that update. operation protective edge the deadliest israeli offensive in years more than seven hundred palestinians and sixty six israelis have been killed so far in the fighting that's hundreds more than were killed in the so-called caste lead operation back in two thousand and eight. was i. think it was i. was. told was this are you fear reporting for our team from 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 garza's main hospital in its burns unit are a small fraction of the surviving injured this girl three years old. this israel is demolished the house of this family. so we deceived her mother two brothers with severe burns. this morning this woman is a very severe condition she is presented to us about five days ago with her son and her husband her son and husband died with severe burns and she is still surviving with very critical condition the doctors and nurses here look as stunned

as the civilians who survived in heavily bombarded areas it's hard to imagine how the medical staff can cope with these truly horrendous cases a human being if i see whole family is the killed under the rubble of their house the house. and 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 father his mother so i closed the door of my office and i sat crying those that survived this war will have to bat the physical and psychological scars for years to come. as for what weaponry is causing these injuries it's not entirely clear. it's very severe

the magnitude of destruction of the human beings those. casualties of people the bodies and faces badly on the ground it feels as if during this war israel is fixed on stopping hamas is rockets once and for all. the critical civilian toll. escalating conflict in gaza skin peled some to turn their backs on the fighting more than fifty israeli soldiers have refused to serve in the nation's reserve forces saying the military is playing a role in oppressing palestinians and saying they're supporting all those who are resisting being called up. it'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 some are still under arrest

for trumped up charges you know the kind 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 to send us five or ten or twenty five people to death is something immoral. i don't think even more we can do with a very whatever you want without boundaries conflict in gaza is lead to demonstrations in support of both sides in europe demonstrations were mainly against the israeli operation protesters in berlin where you palestinian flags and banners denouncing civilian deaths hundreds of protesters also gathered at the israeli embassy in the portuguese capital lisbon. thousands of protesters voiced their anger in london against the israeli strikes and in france more than

ten thousand people marched through paris in support of the palestinian people the country has seen weeks of protests since the start of the fighting with some demonstrations ending in clashes. across the atlantic in new york two rallies happen at the same time on the same street one of them supporting israel the other supporting palestine. israel's prime minister vowing to push on with the military operation in gaza against hamas quote no matter how much time or force it takes expert on israeli arab relations james petras tells my colleague kevin zero one that little is being done to end the bloodshed to destroy the working for somebody you so much risk. city water supply sewage systems making it unlivable because the ultimate goal is exclusively jewish israelis stay they want to drive the entire palestinian people out of inhabitable region the world 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 now you know it's also called for the international community to stand by israel before i come back to you but let's take a listen to that quick clip. responsible. these people who. stood with all. of those rumors of the false hamas. is that. it was a was. it was group of us others who were james will they stand with israel the question is who will stand with israel to great geraghty of people in the world are all to condemn israel every country in the world i would say the majority condemns israel's brutality and israel continues to act because it feels it has impunity that is the united states government continues to supply arms and

provide diplomatic protection for the genocide that is taking place in the european union rings its hands and continues to engage in business as usual with israel. we also heard from a lot of stying with us really foreign ministry who told us that palestinians make the wrong choice when backing hamas we even have a running joke saying do they understand the word cease fire or maybe it was lost in translation ceasefire means ceasefire 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 terror ten miles it's one point twenty five billion dollars with that amount of money they could have had a hospital we could have 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 terror 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 them but when they actually physically use him as a human shield and. that's what happened unfortunately still to come destruction and death in eastern ukraine stay with us our senior national. i marinate join me. into impartial and financial commentary interviews and much much. only on the bus and.

waters today you have the palm of me because. you have a new will cross that drowns out in the tissue inquiry further more restrictions. that. really knows what's inside. fourteen minutes past the hour kiev continuing to tighten the noose on anti-government resistance in eastern ukraine is red marks on this map put together

by ukrainian media live show areas still controlled by the opposition there are shrinking daily areas under heavy siege include the eastern regions largest cities don't yet scandal ganske with local authorities saying the situation is on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe. this is one of the latest battlefield images to emerge on the lion it purports to show fighting continuing for every scrap of land that we can't verify where or how these images were taken. of all the disturbing images coming from the region these are probably some of the most striking people in wheelchairs who died in broad daylight after a care home for the elderly in lagos was apparently pounded by shells at both sides of blaming each other for the killings. this is video from the outskirts of dyad this is the aftermath of an assault in part of the city as kiev troops advance these videos in contrast with the words of ukraine's president repeatedly promised

civilians would not suffer in the. ukrainian military forces the national guard and other units would never allow themselves to do harm to civilians ukrainian soldiers were risked their own lives but won't threaten women children and elderly men this is the eternal chivalrous nature of the ukrainian army yet to home school or church the list of buildings that have come under artillery fire in east ukraine kept growing locals asking why they have to live through the horrors of the crackdown. i mean even when you say leave you or he's out of obscene you go when you get there you can morning you. knew you would see you couple who took the conclusion. we've seen. but that's the. praised structure of soccer you know you guys are more i were you didn't go through

the door. the brawl you're going to leave the readers us door. means you are you know that i will such go up. this is. really the. this is a put it these are the rules for the city. for. them is it was a movie. or she was literally just. as by the lies being claimed in kiev's crackdown every day the offensive is finding for their support in the west with washington planning to train and equip pro-government militia while the e.u.'s lifted a ban on supplying ukraine with weapons foreign affairs analyst serge attributes thinks is an example of double standards especially with moscow 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 we had a coach but are now giving it to this wallet but because the actually defused to treat this as a conflict in the first place it's simply a rebellion in the loot 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 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 in the country's east u.k. journalist neil clark who's been following the situation there says you have been using the far right group to do dirty work. i could see clearly the right steps to do things crane government to be seen. did little self such stations and so i think 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 sect to do things like this the country is 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. to stations or all of them local cells because the government doesn't want to control these people it eats them he needs the right sector came to power with the right sector and it still needs them today meanwhile an american journalist working for r.t. is roughly video 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 here's how she described the incident 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 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 the 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 free oh i 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 computer 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 a 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 as soon as the official saw the russian id papers the latest case that was the first to target an american citizen last month british journalist graham phillips also working for r.t. was deported from a critical point but keeping across all the updates coming out of ukraine and around the clock on air and online it. is free for washington and european allies unleashed the toughest sanctions yet on russia over the ukraine crisis the latest american measures barred some of russia's financial pillars from dealing with the u.s. one of them d.t.b. the country's second largest bank which operates in europe asia and africa the subsidiary of bank of moscow also on the sanctions list russia's agricultural bank which funds the farming sector targeted as well there are two united shipbuilding

corp russia's largest holding in that sector one u.s. lawmaker voicing his regret over the latest political fallout you know after the film there was a tremendous potential to make sure a friend of 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 blocked some of russia's key financial institutions from raising capital in europe let's take a look at how the latest e.u. sanctions target the russian economy in the finance sector the country's biggest oldest bank in the firing line the energy sector targeted as well russia now banned from importing western advanced technology and equipment for extracting fossil fuels on top of that russia's defense sector being restricted arms sales from russia accounting for more than fifteen billion dollars in two thousand and

thirteen sanctions work both ways and some of russia's top european trading partners also bracing for cuts german experts say the country could lose six billion euros. on exports to russia this year alone moscow's number one the e.u. trading partner berlin has plenty to lose annual turnover between the two comes to some seventy six billion euros six thousand german companies do business with russia hundreds of thousands of jobs at stake each citizens will now be forced to pay the price for political ambitions according to economist michel morris 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. full of this full of this sentence i can tell is to you because sanctions never a one way street and you have always action to ascension and when it comes to this imposed sanctions old essential to be imposed on russia then of course to germany the ones who will suffer the most it's easy for united states to shout full

sentence 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 and the could lose more than one hundred billion euros each year 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 percent on thursday after the firm said it wouldn't achieve its targets in russia europe's largest automaker volkswagen reporting an eight percent decline in russia sales in the first half of twenty fourteen compared to last year european sanctions valid for a year they could be reviewed after three months analysts believe the e.u. 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 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 stay up to date with 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 and 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 the 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 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 that'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 doing. it washington i'm going to show. still to come a first hand account of what it's like to roam the waters of the atlantic in an eighteenth century tall ship stay with us.

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 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. talking about language as well but i will only react to situations i have read the reports for. the puts the know i will leave them to the state department to comment on your letter play them safe. secure a car is on the docket no. thank you no more weasel. when you need a direct question the proof for a chase when you know you should be ready for a. pretty speedy letter and the freedom to watch. since he's from now you'll be more disappointed part of things you didn't do them

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