our younger sister. sad is very tempting. but. another un school is hit in gaza at least ten people are dead as israel steps up its air attacks while redeploying ground troops along the border. a german newspaper claims israel's been bugging the u.s. secretary of state's phone while he mediated peace talks with the palestinians. and russian checkpoints come under fire from the ukrainian side just as european security observers were monitoring the crossing the same attack also reportedly hit a family home. and the international probe into the malaysian plane crash has hampered by combat in the area where graphic scenes show how key of troops are

tightening the noose on anti-government strongholds. which are due to national life from moscow at six pm here on marina joshie now there's been a half rasher tack on another u.n. school in gaza this time at least ten people were killed according to palestinian officials the idea of had earlier signaled that it's whining down its operation along the border of hair if you reports from the heart of the conflict. i would this is say that the israeli air force struck a motorcycle just outside of a proprietary boys school in the rougher city we know that at least ten palestinians were injured we believe all of them were civilians at least four children now the united nations has of course condemned this attack but the united

nations has made clear that historically and recently it's told us throughout the precise location of this structure and the fact that in this school there are around three thousand palestinian civilians seeking refuge well this is not the first time that a u.n. run school shelter has been attacked in these almost four weeks of deadly conflict and just in the last couple of weeks a handful of other schools have come under direct and indirect fire killing scores of civilians journalists at the u.s. state department question the u.s. state on why it hasn't directly condemned israel for these incidents are not ready to come is real person for the showing of the school correctly having said that there needs to be a full investigation to see what happened here but specifically are you asking the israelis q. not make any you will the saudis a target because there are civilians that are seeking shelter there i'm not going

to make i'm trying to 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 well this is obviously in the context of the vast civilian devastation for those in the gaza strip we've been catching up with some of those most severely injured in gaza's burn unit in its main hospital. it's hard to fathom how such 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 or. a small fraction of the surviving injured this girl three years old. this raid is demolished the house of this family. so we deceived the girl her mother two brothers would see. 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'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 families 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 he lost 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. as we are having is very severe the magnitude of destruction of the of the human beings those ones are intended to kill mass casualties of people the bodies and faces are buried badly on the ground it feels as if during this war israel is fixed on stopping harasses rockets once and for all regardless of the incredible civilian toll. in. gaza. a palestinian delegation was due to hold true stocks in sunday in cairo with senior american and gyptian officials but israel says it sees no point in sending any of its negotiators lieutenant colonel peter lerner from the israeli army told

me that the i.d.f. is only responding to persistent militant rocket attacks and 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 and 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 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 a specific location so it's a huge challenge it's something we are facing but indeed we are determined. that any additional isn't your response a bit disproportionate prime minister netanyahu says hamas rulers would pay an

intolerable price if they continue to fire rockets at israel and that options are on the table and we have this huge civilian death toll among palestinians so what options do you think prime minister was talking about when he said that every single time hamas has had the opportunity to deescalate the situation with a cease fire 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 threats. now the campaign which is called protective adj is the deadliest israeli offensive in years one more than fourteen hundred palestinians died in operation cast lead back in two thousand and eight this time around many more lives have been lost it's already passed seventeen hundred in

a barrage of that shows no sign of ending annie time soon. the. way it. was the story. with. germany's spigelman magazine as revealed that israel spied on u.s. secretary of state john kerry while he mediated last year's failed peace talks with palestine some of the diplomatic calls were made not via scrambled channels but using regular phone lines intercepted by israel the details from our middle east correspondent paul is near. the german weekly did spiegel says that the israelis as well as at least one secret service agency eavesdropped on the phone conversations

of the us secretary of state john kerry it's understood that this was supposed to have happened last year at the height of the negotiations that kerry was mediating between israelis and palestinians to try and see it was some of the very much stored peace talks the magazine goes on to detail that the east dropping happened while kerry was in a plane using a regular satellite phone that had no kind of encryption now kerry was using that phone to talk with his colleagues in the middle east as well as with leaders in china and in russia it follows a series of reports earlier this year that with the newsweek magazine and according to that magazine it outlined a number of cases where israel head eavesdropped and spied on the united states in one reported talks about any israeli spy who hid in an aide to act in a hotel room of the bin vice president al gore but it goes on to say that the

americans laid to keep this quiet when they found out that israel was the guilty party and at the same time the magazine quotes american intelligence officials who say that israel's knowledge against the united states has now crossed all red lines certainly there are a lot of questions that are being asked and will be honest these are two countries that are supposed to be firm friends and it's a very wrong message to the united states if indeed israel is spying on her close ally. of a conflict in gaza has sparked numerous demonstrations worldwide in europe they were mainly against the israeli operation protesters in berlin waved to palestinian flags and banners denouncing the civilian deaths hundreds also gathered at the israeli embassy in the four ticals capitalism while in london thousand march to voice their anger over the israeli strikes in paris. more than ten thousand rally through the capital in support of the palestinian people france has seen weeks of

protest since the start of the conflict with some demonstrations resulting in clashes across the atlantic in new york two rallies held simultaneously in the same street one pro israel and the other pro palestinian. well bring you up to date on ukraine in a couple of minutes including more shell shock in the east. as more traumatized civilians are caught up in the standoff between the army and local militia in the region. on marriage and the financial world. cannot stop exit only take the credit not going to get it in life there are good and there are books . they all told me about language as well but i will only react to situations i have read the reports i'm likely to put in the know i

will leave them to the state department to comment on your latter point completely . secure you have a car is on the job here no god. thank you no more weasel words. when you made a direct question be prepared for a change when you find you should be ready for a. critical speech and a little bit on the freedom to watch. no matter what unity international european security monitors have confirmed they witnessed an attack at a russian border crossing with ukraine another shell reportedly damaged

a residential home on the russian side are you going off has the details a group of always see observers were at the checkpoint at the time along with border guards and customs services officials and suddenly a shell had detonated thankfully no one got injured but the federal security service claims that the shell came from the ukrainian side and there are also reports that another shell had landed in a village nearby also on russian territory and this isn't the first time that russia that area covered under fire as the fighting in eastern ukraine continues and this definitely only aggravates the situation since one person is already being killed by in a similar incidents another shell came from also the ukrainian side and we have heard statements from several senior russian officials including before the minister will say that so far moscow of these incidents that's what they're warning that if it will be established that these are deliberate attacks of that russian

navy was. using military perhaps as well. in the deeply sensitive area around the crash site of malaysian flight m.h. seventy militia's reports further clashes in the nearby towns of shock tourist and tourists ukraine spread as untaet initially ordered a forty kilometer no combat zone around the area where the plane came down but that's not reduced to a twenty kilometer radius this week international teams managed to get to the scene of the mh seventeen tragedy but only after having been earlier prevented several times because of the fire on saturday the experts withdrew from the villages artillery fire was heard and you're by given anti-government forces blame each other getting in the way of the mh seventeen recovery and fact finding mission on the ground. and these are the latest pictures we're getting from the outskirts of

the regional capital deniece the main hub and taking of resistance as you can see residential areas are getting caught up in the violence as ukrainian forces closing in on anti-government strongholds we're also getting reports from lugansk and other target of military operation that three civilians were killed there in the past twenty four hours. some disturbing images emerged from the city earlier this week care home for the elderly was shelled there five residents were killed both sides are blaming each other for the deaths this is only one of many examples of populated areas being attacked president petro poroshenko is have vowed that civilians would not be targeted 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. a u.n.

report released this week has raised the alarm over the growing number of civilians being killed by shelling in eastern ukraine and says not enough is being done to protect locals are devastated by the ongoing fighting i mean you've got your city. or you still got upset you go when you get there you can morning you. need to do you have to you go cookbook moon. this is not for you or for the. world. she's praised structural you know what he does not want i want you didn't go but it still didn't do it. earlier go you know when you go read is just go off what you mean everybody knows that i was such a fool. to. go

to. this is about it you really should remember to be. there for the. first minute or you meet in the streets you know it's a movie not a g. to the scene was literally i just threw up. and a group of ukrainian soldiers have laid down their arms at the border crossing with russia the one where o.s.c. observers witnessed shells land from ukraine they reportedly asked for asylum in russia and ukraine troops have refused to take part in caves military operation before and just over a week ago forty one soldiers abandoned their post in the grain and appealed to a local militia to help them cross the border into russia they said they refused to fight their own people. american journalist working forty's roughly video agency in western ukraine has been kicked out of the country all in a premium and i was filming a rally of local activists when security forces detained her and questioned her for

several hours having both russian and american citizenship she says she was forced out because of her russian passport and here's how alina described the incident to r.t. the. 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 cards i 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 when 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 real showed them a 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. many russian crews have been deported and banned from ukraine bot this is the first time and you want citizen has been kicked out in previous cases journalists were expelled as soon as officials learned they were from russia at the last month you can report or graham phillips who was working in eastern ukraine for our team was arrested and a benoit booted out of the country. as ukrainian crisis unfolds the mainstream media across the atlantic seem to be focusing on just one person the russian president got it you can take a look at where the american media is real interest lie.

president obama said he does not believe this growing tension with russia could be the beginning of the new cold war no. no 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 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. it's honest 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 to 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 in washington i'm going to show our team now with. star nations finger pointing at

russia over ukraine saw them further tighten the screws this week with the toughest sanctions since the cold war america's latest measures to stop some of russia's banking have a ways from operating in the united states while on a list russia second largest bank of v.t. b. which also operates in europe asia and africa as well as its subsidiary bank of moscow russian agricultural bank which funds the farming sector has also been targeted and the united building corporation which is the country's largest holding falls under the punitive measures too but the us senate isn't unanimous in its support for sanctions you know after the sort you fell it was a tremendous potential to making russia our friend have 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 horrible a tremendous opportunity i should say was squandered. brussels is also barred at some of russia's banks from trading in european markets it puts the country's biggest and oldest bank in a firing line the energy sector is also targeted western know how and equipment for offshore fuel expiration is under a bargain for russian companies and arms sales are also restricted in two thousand and thirteen russia's global weapons experts market was worth about fifteen billion dollars alice tells stats the measures are a two way street and european businesses should prepare for cuts as well as some reason germany suggests it could lose six billion euros in experts to russia this year alone as moscow's number one trading partner berlin has plenty of at stake while the annual turnover of between the two comes to some seventy six billion euros and six thousand german companies operate in russia and that could have

a far reaching effect on hundreds of thousands of german jobs depend on business with russia economist michael ross believes europeans will have to pay the price for this political gamble 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. called this sentence i can tell this to you because sanctions never a one way street and you have always failed to ascension and when it comes to this imposed sanctions all distinctions of will be imposed on russia then of course the germans are the ones who are suffering most it's easy for united states to. sanctions but the ones who are suffering all the germans all those countries who are close to russia because they actually have the biggest business implications and in our website we've got more analysis and perspective on what repercussions the fresh sanctions have for the global economy and that's very. well some of

today's world news now first to the intense earthquake which has hit southwest china which is known to have killed at least one hundred fifty people scores more have been hurt the quake registered six point one on the richter scale and he has destroyed entire streets and houses the state news agency says it's the strongest to have hit you know on problem ten fourteen years. old and liberian protesters gathered in the capital to demand more action over the deadly outbreak of ebola virus is transmitted through infected blood or eating diseased animals liberia is already banned the sale of bush meat to try and stop the spread of boa has claimed more than seven hundred lives in liberia guinea and is here the only kills ninety percent of those infected. next a former u.s. ambassador to iraq tells us whether the islamist advance in iraq will change

washington's geopolitical heading. to death row inmate joseph would rise in pain during a two hour execution this prolonged suffering was not part of the player and not constitutional but an accident and not quite a unique one at 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 and massive damage causing instant death every time i think we feel injection is popular not for the executed but for society as judge kozinski said shooting so

. one 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. you should.

come on. welcome to worlds apart a week ago the ukrainian crisis seemed 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's 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 korbel school of international studies at the university of denver ambassador hill thank you very much for being on the show right 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 the security interests and yet somehow despite the continued blotches in ukraine you know the events in the arc really seem to preserve a security danger a security challenge of a totally different.