after yet another failed humanitarian ceasefire in gaza the people here gathered for the free palestine protest in front of the white house aren't just grieving for the tragedy happening overseas they're also feeling a lot of impatience impatience because their relatives are the ones ducking for cover in gaza and many of them say this is not just a war of weapons and of ideology it's also a war of rhetoric and perception but we're here because there's obviously a devastation that's going on right now in gaza and we're calling for an end to the conflict there the freeing of the siege all show the end occupation that is all over the west bank and gaza and to really point out the fact that there is something that is immoral on justice and in equal that is going on here representatives of this community here in washington say that based on what we've seen so far just this summer alone there are two clans for moving forward from here

a line is to proceed as before every time bombs drop on gaza organize the protests and laments the government and media bias or instigate an about face change the perception of this community in the government and in the media the u.s. media's role is clearly to evoke sympathy for israel and downplay if not covered all the palestinian boy as first generation americans and immigrants many of them from palestinians these people here residents of washington many of them know that they are their relatives best representatives for what needs to change in the perceptions of gaza and its residents now israel's prime minister is vowing to push on a was a military operation in gaza quote no matter how much time or force it takes james petras an expert on arab israeli relations toller tease kevin zero one that israel enjoys support of some powerful backers. they destroyed all the working facilities

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 our block of 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. both of. these. will. as it unfolds hamas. is. it was or was. it was good 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 call to condemn israel every country in the world i would say the majority condemn says israel's brutality but israel continues to act because it feels it has imbued a team 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 but continues to engage in business as usual with israel. now more stories i have for you here is here the national including shell shock it is sure in ukraine war traumatised civilians are caught up in the standoff between the army and local militia in a region war that and weeks other global headlines after parties venture capital

with katie. clean more zero casualties war this is the great fantasy of war mongering politicians. capturing people is this what do you do if the innocent killing them easy we were serve the right to kill any person anywhere any time. they could do that in the city but they can be drowned that's what makes these things sort of heard and politicians get a new kind of power via this technology savvy is very tempting.

it will be. sunny it's technology innovation all the news developments from around russia we've got the future covered. hello that welcomes event to campus so we. and we are still going to today from look those iconic red square not because it is the peak of some rights and boiling but this plane has been averaging around thirty degrees celsius that we thought we'd get outside and make the most of it why not i on this one plenty going on as far as the russian economy is consensus quite appropriate we're all going to be talking about those of us. sanctions that will target the russian economy and the peculiar sectors of the economy we're going to focus on the energy companies the businesses the internationals that will be affected later on in the show and

talking about multinationals we are going to talk about the role snatched yes tim cubbie he invested in that company this week about the will land and i'm more intrigued an effort to find out what's going to happen because of course our company has been in the limelight this week but first we start of the show going to talk about you chris because this particular edgy company was once the richest most powerful oil company in russia bought dot change the company's downfall it began in two thousand and three when the c.e.o. of the company called of course he was arrested on full charge is now what then happened was the assets of the company frozen him because of the escalating tax debts it meant the shares of the company was sold off to all the russian oil companies and it was it was bankrupt as a consequence now just this week the hague ruled that you could in fact eggs appropriated by the russian government stands as

a consequence russia is expected to pay fifty billion dollars back to the forma shareholders of the company now the poll concluded that the primary objective of the russian federal. not to collect taxes but rather bankrupt you cus appropriate is a valuable asset now denies this accusation it must be said now the phones while will be shared amongst the u.k. shareholders the biggest ultimate beneficial is expected to be the russian born leonid ness when he was a business partner who fled to israel to avoid prosecution and he has about a seventy percent stake in that company imus nephilim was found guilty of organizing five murders he was sentenced to life in prison in the courts he never did sentence as we know obviously this has the makings of a hollywood movie a drama it's got the murders it's all going on it certainly got the money that's

for sure and i spoke to moscow based journalist he's a political analyst as well and career. and his what he told me. so in your opinion was that it was completely wrong anyway and i could go on then tell me one more thing is that the court's jurisdiction was done simply over the energy charge even though russia is part of their never ratified it they don't ratify it because they want to preserve state sovereignty they want to make sure that it's in accordance with russian domestic legislation and the ruling is that the ruling was meant to punish russia first and foremost and when it comes to the energy charter treaty punishes for what we want to look at the current contemporary look at what's happening right now we're seeing from the quote unquote obviously russia this is one of the methods that they're trying to do they're trying to make russia appear on a track to for business even though it's not the case because the same issues have been very very successful so mr medlin he was an angel a that was a no not at. all he was also another criminal they had to leave russia because he

wanted to escape persecution when i was hiding out in israel you know what's interesting is he owns about seventy percent of the stake of his holding company that was awarded the quote unquote. as of this for fifty one billion dollars and unfortunate a lot of people are under the false assumption that this money is going to be going to mom and pop investors is not the case going to this one all garko and about seventy percent of the holding and the other thirty percent is own largely by about four other all darks they're all russian of russian nationality so as rich people they're going to get even richer yeah well yeah and actually actually to make it even worse let's just say they get this money hope it hypothetically is going to be laundered right back into politics is going to come right into the russian federation and try to stop sure i would imagine the offshore but also there is a project to try to instigate a color revolution here although i think it's very unlikely the fact is if you give us type of money being invested towards regime change it could possibly have an effect in different areas in the russian periphery so presumably rosset is going to have to pay at least money. if they want all your fortune if they want to pay yes i think that's what they're trying to target and trying to target well as i mentioned

the part of the party that's found to be guilty is actually the russian state so they may be trying to seize all their estate assets sure it seems like as you mentioned what was snuffed will be called may be seen as culpable because they were involved with the acquisition of you by yukos rather we'll see i mean we'll see what happens is very dynamic and the fact is there's a lot of information warfare going on it's very difficult to have all of that is exactly what's going on but listen let's talk about mikhail khodorkovsky yes because someone docky that he was getting political vocally here in russia he had his eyes on the presidency perhaps and therefore was shipped off to a gulag in siberia well the thing about this he was getting politically minded but the thing is there's nothing wrong with that because i know he was punished because of tax evasion and what there is something wrong with this when you're trying to buy the state duma and when as a speculated you're trying to do this with the intent of changing the constitution

from turning russia from a presidential state into a parliamentary one where the prime minister of the the person in power and if you bought off the duma issue an issue of form no this is just back away and of course and a lot has been written about it in russia. sources washer's sources and one i would welcome any viewer to do their own research and draw their own conclusions but he wasn't politically punished as i mentioned before european court of human rights found it not to be a politically minded case although it was seen to be kwame not interdicted themselves by this wording by the hague which is designed it was very bizarre and makes it even more and more likely that there could be a possible mistrial and when you have different layers of european legislation one says one thing the other says the other who do you trust what's going on with the e.u. house because a friend i couldn't really get how serious could this get because if russia doesn't pay this fifty billion dollars what happens then because as it seizes you right richard which could happen yes but that sounds like a disaster what i think more than likely will be happening is they're going to try to make as much as there's information warfare going on they're going to try to make russia seem to be the new rogue state so to speak i mean as you see with the

tragedy with m.h. seventeen in ukraine they're really trying to make russia seem to be a state sponsor of terrorism we're not saying it but it's all brought in for a look at all the tabloids we look at even saw formerly respected. information as a touche like washington post of one will and they're really trying to push this narrative so the idea is to isolate russia and to make people not want to engage it but what happened is this is isolating the west from the russian market russia is moving very rapidly the east everyone talks about an american pivot to asia where we see what's been very successful economical with china b. i can days russia and china four hundred billion dollars gaston is going to justify just the beginning as a tip of the iceberg since you have russia and china in the same room at the same table talking about big money now just think about all the other possible prospects are going to happen and let's not exclude south korea and possibly japan sure it's appearance talk about sanctions south korea was likely yeah so it's funny because obviously this is a free political case very much you know makes it so to present to see you know

what if this yes this is a multi-factor situation i mean you have economics politics you have international relations you have this whole context of isolating russia you have information war you have so many things i mean this case. can be all things to all analyst and that's what makes its saw intriguing for me indeed all right thank you so much indeed talking to me from moscow's red square on this rather glorious sunny thank you very much. brian i'm going to talk about sanctions because the u.s. and particularly the e.u. so everyone is focusing on announced their sanctions this week they have been ramped up against the russian economy and this time they focus on particular sectors of the russian economy some talk about the state banks but an arms embargo as well as well as particular technologies that are used in the oil industry you know when it comes to these high tech machinery companies will beg for plants in the arctic deep sea the shale gas extraction and the companies that are involved

with those kind of activities would be the energy companies i am talking about the likes of b.p. exxon any hotel now. would probably be the company that is most exposed to russia not because it has about twenty percent stake in after we know the c.e.o. of the companies already on that side in this. so for more details on all of this we do know that president barack obama he did say he wants these sanctions to bite we're not going to find out if they would do that and the question is how hard of course we must understand that this sanctions. will be very serious not only for some companies also for european companies and of course for american companies and we can say that maybe for example to projects they're more for foreign companies like exxon mobil it's also important for russia we can stop the exploration of.