four years later. and. today's headlines and a roundup of the week's top stories here on are to international at least ten people have been killed in an israeli air strike on a un school in gaza this is doctors say thirty palestinians were killed early sunday as israel began bre deploying troops. all resistance centers in east ukraine are besieged by kiev stroup the un says the number of civilians killed in the crackdown has surpassed eleven hundred. european business is braced for a multi-billion year in trade cuts over the latest sanctions imposed on russia by the us and e.u. governments.

which are to international coming to life for moscow with me marina joshie welcome to the program now israel has been shelling gaza again on sunday morning and another un school has come under fire killing at least ten people that's despite reports the israeli defense force has been scaling back its operations and winding down its destruction of hamas' tiles here's the latest from our middle east correspondent possibly or. 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 these raids side but it does follow a similar incident back on when stage in that particular incident some twenty people were killed when these raids shells hit a mother un school we hundreds of displaced people 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 russia and in 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 as 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's south would be safe for citizens and that's responded by saying that netanyahu is comments were a declaration of failure and defeat in that they believe that they were an attempt to raise them a role from among the israeli army now israel has also if needed kid did a soldier that when missing over the weekend there was an incident on friday when two other soldiers were killed when a mass suicide bomber blew himself up after emerging from a tunnel that the israelis were trying to destroy at this. state it doesn't seem as if any of these when you see spy 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 be gyptian capital and the operation protective adj is the deadliest israeli offensive in years more than seventeen hundred palestinians and sixty six israelis have so far been killed that's hundreds more than were killed in

the so-called caste lead operation in two thousand and eight. was. that was the. cause. was that's not. the cause of this. and harry fear a report of fourteen gaza has been speaking to the palestinian medics working around the clock to help the injured. it's hard to fathom how such a boss 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 city is all. this rain is demolished the house of this family. so we deceived his mother two brothers with severe beds 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 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 crying all his families he will since father his mother his brother his grandfather and all the time he's crying he wants his mother so i closed the door of my office and. those that survived this war will have to the physical and psychological scars for years to come. what degree is causing these injuries it's not entirely clear that. having is very severe the magnitude of destruction of the of the human beings those are intended to kill. the people. on the ground it feels as if during this war. the fixed on stopping hamas rockets once and for all regardless

of the credible civilian toll very. well the conflict in gaza has led to demonstrations in support of both sides and you are of the demos were mainly against the israeli operation protestors in berlin and waves palestinian flags and banners denouncing the civilian deaths hundreds of protesters also gathered at the israeli embassy in the forty's capital lisbon and thousands marched across london voicing their anger against israeli strikes in france more than ten thousand more inched through paris in support of the palestinian people the country has seen weeks of protests since the start of the conflict with some demonstrations anding in clashes and across the atlantic in new york to rally is to place at the same time on the same street one pro israel the other pro palestine. israel's prime minister is vowing to push on where the military operation in gaza ganz hamas no matter how much time or force it takes and quote expert on israeli

arab relations james petras told kevin zero one that precious little is being done and the bloodshed. they've destroyed all the working for civil liberties electricity water supply sewage systems making it unlivable because the ultimate coal is an exclusively jewish israelis stay they want to drive the entire palestinian people out of inhabitable region of 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 netanyahu is 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. decent people who. will. as it unfolds hamas.

isn't that it was or was. it his group of us others who were james will they stand with israel the question is who will stand with israel to great britain geraghty of people in the world are all call to condemn israel every country in the world i would say the majority condemn says israel's brutality but israel continues to wear 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 wrings its hands and continues to engage in business as usual with israel i will keep you updated on the situation in gaza do stay with us here in our senior national.

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interview and much much. only on the bus and only on a. welcome back you're watching r t international now kiev is continuing to tighten the noose on anti-government resistance in eastern ukraine well take a look at this map here red marks here are put together by ukrainian media outlets show areas that are still controlled by the opposition and they are shrinking on a daily basis areas under have a siege include the eastern regions largest cities and lugansk with local authorities saying the situation is on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe. and this is one of the latest battlefield videos emerging line apparently shows that

fighting continues for every scrap of land although we can't verify where and how the images were taken. out of all the disturbing images coming from the region these are probably some of the most striking people in wheelchairs died in broad daylight after a care home for the elderly in lugansk was apparently pounded by shells both sides blamed each other for the killings and right now here a look at the latest pictures from the outskirts of dinny at school we've seen gruesome scenes before in neighboring towns and cities and now there are bodies on the ground in the region's capital which just two years ago hosted phobos euro two thousand and twelve playoffs now this district is the closest to the front line from where kiev stroup sir trying to advance towards the city the videos are in stark contrast to the warrants of ukraine's president who repeatedly promised that

civilians would not suffer in the conflict. ukrainian military forces the national guard and other units will not 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 now being a home school or a church with a list of buildings that have been under artillery fire and ice ukraine kept growing this week and locals are asking why is a have to live through the horrors of the crackdown. you said leave. or you go when you get there you can only. you do you have to you go who took the clue and. it was a for the money but the. world

. just grazed structural stock in what he dug up what i when you didn't go when you still didn't go. through all of your going will you go read is us go or what's the reason why you know that i will start go off. this it will. be. the. this is it but if you believe that religion you. are the. first minute or you meet in the streets you know it's a movie you know the suit was literally i just threw up at a spy the lies being claimed in kids' crackdown every day the offensive is finding further support in the west washington now plans to train and equip pro-government militia groups while the e.u. is quietly lifting a ban on supplying ukraine with weapons foreign affairs analyst subject says it's

an utter example of double standards especially when moscow was accused of supplying sell to fans fighters with arms. blatant hypocrisy not totally as the russian foreign ministry said because they wanted to ban a such supplies to have a coach but are now giving this well to the because the actually defused the streets this is a conflict in the first place it's simply everybody in the loop so-called legitimate ukraine you know most of it is already involved in the security operation. stablish law and order if there is more whether it looks pretty green for the so defense forces this will only be boldly to go all the way using indiscriminate violence in resolving these beast itself the way. our keeping across all updates coming out of ukraine twenty four seven on air and

online and dot com. well this week washington and its european allies unleashed their toughest sanctions yet against russia over the crisis in ukraine the latest american measures have barred some of russia's financial pillars from dealing in the u.s. and one of them is the t v the country's second largest bank it also operates in europe asia and africa although to be a subsidiary the bank of moscow is also on the list of sanctions russia's agricultural bank which funds out the farming sector has been targeted as well and there too is the united nation russia's largest holding in that sector one u.s. lawmaker voiced his regret over the latest political fallout. you know after the soviet union fell 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 interacting and being coming part of the world community and. a tremendous opportunity i should say was squandered now the e.u. has also barred some of russia's key financial institutions from raising capital in europe although take a closer look at how the latest you sanctions are targeting the russian economy well in the finance sector of the country's biggest and oldest bank is in a firing ally in the energy sector has been targeted to russia's now banned from importing vance western technology and equipment for extracting fossil fuels at a top of that russia's defense sector is also being restricted arms sales accounted for more than fifteen billion dollars in two thousand and thirteen but the sanctions work both ways and some of russia's top european trading partners are now

bracing for cuts to german experts say the country could lose six billion years in experts to russia this year alone as 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 in russia with hundreds of thousands of jobs at stake e.q. citizens will now be forced to pay the price for political ambitions that's according to economist michael ross. when you talk to the people on the street when you talk to people who have a one of business. executives in a big company. for the whole of this sentence i can tell this to you because sanctions never a one way street you have always been to a sanction and when it comes to this imposed sanctions all the sanctions and will be imposed on russia then of course the germans are the ones who are suffering most

it's easy for united states to shop for sanctions 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 now overall european officials estimate that a russia and 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 are already counting zero losses well sports company has shares it tumbled a record fifteen percent on thursday after the firm said it wouldn't act its target in a russia europe's largest carmaker volkswagen reported an eight percent decline in russia sealed in the first half of twenty fourteen compared to last year and european sanctions are valid for a year but could be reviewed after three months alice believe e.u. will try to minimize the impact of the sanctions on its own economy. so actions 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 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 a korea this 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 might 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 like you say up to date on a story on air and online and there's always more analysis and opinion on our website r.t. dot com now let's turn to our developing story now the u.n.

school has come under fire in gaza at least ten people have been killed and we can now talk to israeli army spokesman tema colonel peter lerner. well peter thanks so much for joining us here on r t international so another un schools been hit i mean despite the reports that we're getting from the israeli defense force that it's been scaling back its operations what do you make of this recent attack. where we're still a community through the specifics of this incident i can't confirm it at the moment indeed we. are not scaling back aren't. rethinking really organizing and changing a bit of the formation on the ground we have let's forces in the gaza strip but we'll still operating against hamas yeah but how does this justify an attack against the un school i mean you knew that people were sheltering there.

again i'm not certain with the specifics and i think that currently it would be irresponsible of me to to even comment on it at the moment cause i'm not clear we do not intentionally target human facilities it has been a huge challenge throughout this conflict we are continuing to operate to getting some us we are continuing to operate against those tunnels which aren't clear threat to us and indeed hamas are under attack continue to attack and we are continuing our operation ok well you said that you were not sure about this particular one but the u.n. said it repeatedly informed the i.d.f. about refugees sheltering inside the schools so how can this be ignored. i'm really can't comment on specific so i just don't know it's a developing is incident and i will soon as i have something up salute keep you updated well this one certainly is a developing incident but previously to that i mean there were other instances when

the u.n. a did inform the i.d.f. and then look what's happening in the world i mean israel is being can down and we have protests in the world capitals i mean is that something that. is to be ignored i mean why do you keep ignoring the international community on the outcry that we see now in the world. well here's the reality that we are facing is sort of continues to be threatened by indiscriminate rockets that are launched by hamas to israel even as we speak even during the continued days as we've seen in the last three and a half weeks i can also say that they have continued to attempt to attack us through tunnels and indeed we had the incident on friday when two two soldiers and then a third were killed in an attack coming out from a tunnel and this is a repeating occurrence so the i.d.f. is faced with a huge challenge we are charged with defending the state of israel that is what we are doing that is what we are trying to do we are doing it in church in a in a extremely complex situation where the terrorist organization this huge body of of

hamas which has hundreds and hundreds of militants are utilizing exploiting the civilian arena just yesterday i have an indication of an unknown or a school that for eleven times during the day rockets were launched from specific location so it's a huge challenge it's something we are facing but indeed we are determined well still intact that you know isn't your response a bit disproportionate prime minister netanyahu says hamas rulers would pay an intolerable prize if they continued to fire rockets at israel and that options are on the table i mean look of course the situation is complex as you rightly put a but then we have this huge civilian death toll among palestinians so what options do you think prime minister was talking about when he said that. well we need to realize the challenge that israel is facing we're sitting in our

towns in tel aviv and jerusalem and. even all the way up to haifa and our citizens have to be in fifteen seconds to thirty seconds between fifteen and thirty seconds have to be able to go to a shelter because of hamas is bad bad decisions you know this is a reality we are not willing to live by and that is why we are operating you know every single time hamas has had the opportunity to deescalate the situation with the ceasefire every time they've escalated it there would have been no more people killed if hamas would have abided by the internationally brokered cease fire on friday but what did they do they chose to escalate they chose to increase aggression they chose to exasperate the situation and this is an unfortunate outcome but we cannot and we will not. be willing to live under this type of threat surely just like in any conflict you know it's a two way street so both parties should be responsible for what's happening well for now the israeli army spokesman in town colonel peter learned thank you so much

for talking to us here on r.t. international and what you guys have a national and next world apart don't go away. death row inmate joseph would rise in pain during a two hour execution this prolong suffering was not part of the plan and not constitutional but an accident and not quite a unique wanted that just this year in both oklahoma and my native ohio there have been botched executions due to complications with lethal injection one judge alex kozinski who voted to give would a stay of execution due to the questionable nature of lethal injection drugs said that the good old firing squad would be a lot more humane and his opinion eight or ten large caliber bullets fired at close range inflict massive damage causing instant death every time i think lethal

injection is popular not for the executed but for society as judge kozinski said shooting someone in the head with a machine gun is instant death so why don't they use the firing squad because that would be messy and raise questions quietly injecting people way from prying public eyes allows the dirty deed to be done without the hassle of ugly news footage i think that it says something odd about society that we must kill the wicked and murderous but could you do it in a bloodless way completely out of sight i don't want to lose my appetite but that's just my opinion. i think the. economic down in the final. day on the deal sank night and the rest because i think meat may be extremely.

good. hello and welcome to worlds apart a week ago the ukrainian crisis came to one of the greatest challenges to global peace and security it but thousands of extremists overtaking iraq's second largest city helped put things into perspective will the advance of isis in iraq change washington political calculus well to discuss that i'm now joined by christopher hill a former u.s. ambassador to iraq and the current dean of the joseph horrible school of international studies at the university of denver ambassador hill thank you very much for being on the show my pleasure now the ukrainian crisis if i could start

with that was about security both for russia and the west and i think both sides want very far in defending their security interests and yet somehow despite the continuing blachford in ukraine you know the events in the rack really seem to preserve a security danger a security challenge of a totally different magnitude i wonder if they can be a sort of reality check for some of the decision makers in washington as far as what the real danger really is ok well let me first say that i think the ukrainian crisis is still with us and i think it's in every one interest that ukraine emerge from this crisis with its sovereignty intact with its territorial integrity intact so my hope is that there's an understanding that it's necessary to work with the new.