over western europe when you take that conventional military and now try to retire ask it as a counter-insurgency force it creates a lot of gaps and that's the kind of private sector stuff. i. united nations chief jams the latest attack on a un school in gaza or at least ten have died as a criminal act as israel steps up its air attacks while we deploy ground troops along the border. the german newspaper claims israel's been bugging the u.s. secretary of state's phone while a mediated peace talks with the palestinians. russian checkpoints come under fire from the ukrainian side as a european security observer said the monitoring the crossing the same attack also reportedly hit a family home. and the national probe into the malays in plane crashes hampered by

combat in the area where graphic scenes show how troops are tightening the noose an anti-government stronghold. good evening this is the weekly from arts international with me kevin owen it's surrounded by the big stories of the last seven days and while making headlines right now to start with there's been a fresh attack on another un school in gaza this time at least ten people have died the victims who queuing for food at the gates at the time. called it a moral outrage and criminal act the i.d.f. had earlier signaled it was winding down its operation along the border reports next 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 sousing palestinian civilians seeking refuge well this is not the first time that a un run school shelter has been attacked in these almost four weeks of deadly conflict in gaza 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 everything said that there needs to be a full investigation to see what happened here but specifically are you asking the israelis to not make any u.n.

facilities a target because there are civilians that are seeking shelter i'm not going to make a blanket 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 and we've been catching up with some of those most severely injured in gaza as burn unit and its main hospital. 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 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

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'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 had a child here he was all the time claim kids he lost all his families he lost his

father his mother his brother his grandfather and all the time he's going he wants is further his mother so i closed off the top of my office and i sat crying you those that survived this war will have to be physical and psychological scars for years to come. ask for what weaponry is causing these injuries it's not entirely clear the type of injuries we are having is very severe the magnitude of destruction of the of the human beings those ones are intended to kill and mass mass mass casualties of people bodies and faces are bearing very badly on the ground it feels as if during this war israel is fixed on stopping her masses rockets once and for all regardless of the incredible civilian told. r.t. gaza well as harry's reports been airing there's been some reaction just in to the shelling of that un school and gaza or at least ten people died and it has been

labeled as a criminal act strong words coming in from the u.s. now the white says says it's appalled by what it calls the disc race full shelling of the u.n. school in guards that it was also confirmed that they did fire a target near the u.n. gars a school that was struck today as we get more on this we'll of course bring you up to speed about it is just one of the buildings of course of so many that have been razed to the ground it's hard to grasp indeed the amount of destruction that has been in gaza but we're about to show you some satellite pictures a snapshot. time lapse photography of the current damage that's happening just a little snapshot to give you an idea these are satellite pictures of gaza published by the u.n. research organization most recently the show residential areas before and after being bombarded by israel and only after pictures you can clearly see entire blocks raced to the ground there we spoke to a left turn colonel peter lerner from the israeli army told us that the i.d.f.

really responding here to the persistent militant rocket attacks that's less. it 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 onerous 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 you know isn't your response a bit disproportionate prime minister netanyahu says hamas rulers would pay an intolerable prize if they continue to fire rockets at israel and that options are

on the table and we have this huge civilian das tell 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 this current campaigns called protected age it is the deadliest israeli offensive in years well more than fourteen hundred palestinians died in the last operation call cast lead then back into the two thousand and eight this time around many more lives have been lost it's already way past the seven hundred mark in a barge that seems to show no sign of ending any time soon either.

was the. was was was was. was does not. mean time of the developments to tell you about in the weeks germany's to spiegel magazine has 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 scramble channels but using regular phone lines that with an intercepted it seems by israel the details about that from middle east correspondent paula sleep now. the german weekly spiegel says that the israelis as well as at least one at this 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 a resumption of the very much stored peace talks the magazine goes on to detail that the east topping 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 it was published by 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 then vice president al gore but it goes on to say that the americans later kept this quiet when they found out that israel was the guilty

partner and at the same time the magazine quotes american intelligence officials who say that israel's is pure 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 asked these are two countries that are supposed to be firm friends in it so he sends a very wrong message to the united states if indeed israel is spying on her close ally middle east correspondent well the conflict in gaza spot numerous demonstrations worldwide in europe there were maybe against the israeli operation protesters here in berlin waving palestinian flags and banners denouncing the civilian deaths of those also go to the israeli embassy in portugal. says the picture there in london meantime thousands marched. to voice their anger over the israeli strikes across to france paris more than ten thousand rally for the couple in support of the palestinian people fronts a single weeks of protests since the start of the conflict with some demonstrations

resulting in clashes also in new york to two rallies and held civil taney asli on the same street one pro israel the other pro palestinian. i will bring a completely up to date on ukraine in a couple of minutes time including shell shock in the east as more traumatized civilians are caught up in the standoff between the army and local militia in the region. i marinate join me. for into impartial and financial reporting commentary interviews and much much. only on going bust and.

you have the palm of me because. you have a new. drama on the tissue inquiry furthermore restrictions. again the but a series of instance a russian checkpoint on the border with ukraine a russian t.v. crew from this very channel says a shell fired from the ukrainian side exploded near them early as sunday european

security monitors confirmed they witnessed a separate attack there while another shell reportedly damaged a nearby residential when the russian sides with more on that. the group of always see observers were at the checkpoint at the time along with border guards and customs services officials and so only a shell had detonated thankfully no one got injured but the federal security service claims that the show came from the ukrainian side and there are also reports that another show had landed in a village nearby also on russian territory and this isn't the first time that russia that area comes 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 and minister will say that so far moscow has incidents that's what they're warning that

if it will be established that these are deliberate attacks and then russian media was. using military perhaps as well. you know piskun off in the deeply sensitive area around that crash site of malaysian flight m h seventeen militias report further clashes in the nearby towns of shed tears tatas craves president had initially ordered a forty kilometer no combat zone around the area where that plane came down but that's now been 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 ongoing fighting on saturday the experts withdrew from the villages artillery fire was heard nearby given to government forces blame each other getting in the way of this ongoing m eight seventy recovery in fact finding mission on the ground. now these latest pictures we're getting from the outskirts

of the regional capital the next the main hub still of resistance as you can see residential areas are still caught up in the violence there is ukrainian forces close in on anti government strongholds we've also been getting reports from lugansk to another target of kiev is a military operation that three civilians were killed there in the past twenty four hours. and in the week some disturbing images emerged from that city a care home for the elderly was shelled five residents died both sides again blaming each other for the deaths this is only one of many examples of populated areas being attacked president petro poroshenko had 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 well that's the official line but a u.n.

report released this week has raised the alarm over the growing number of civilians being killed by shelling in east ukraine it says not enough is being done to protect them locals are devastated by the ongoing fighting. i mean even when you said leave. or he's out of obscene you go when you get that you can morning you need you have to you go cook the collusion. we've also talked with. the. well. praised structural stock in a while back that up was i well you did go but you still do go the crawly again will you go readers us go or what's the reason why you know that i will start to go off.

to support you believe you're listening. to. push the new drugs meeting as you do with some of the g.d. who was literally i just. meantime getting the job done of reporting but the facts in the pictures are going increasingly difficult for some journalists in the week an american working for artie's roughly video agency in west ukraine was kicked out of the country alina a premium was fielding a rally of local activists when security forces detained there in question dificid was having both russian and american citizenship she says she was forced because of a russian passport is overly to describe the incident to me i'd be a journalist with a camera you know just there was a rug please 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 there 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 buy american passport was real sure that 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 foot into a and they had to raise it. first of all they put it on their computer so someone. else has it right now they have all the footage that it took of myself being questioned and also at the protest. and even back to me was blank. and elaine is not alone many russian crews have been deported and banned from

ukraine but this is the first time a u.s. citizen has been kicked out in previous cases journalists were expelled as soon as officials learned there from russia last month u.k. reporter graham phillips who was working in eastern ukraine variety was arrested and then booted out of the country. building fires to keep themselves. and as the ukrainian crisis unfolds seems the mainstream media across the atlantic focusing on just one person the russian president got it if you can take a look at where the american media is real interest my them. 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 a new 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. 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 a 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 pointing 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. western nations figured pointing at russia over ukraine saw them further tighten the screws this week then with the toughest sanctions since the cold war america's latest measures stop some of rush's banking heavyweights more praising in the united states on the list vitti be russia's second largest bank that also operates in europe asia and africa as well as its subsidiary bank of moscow to russia's agriculture bank which funds the farming sector was also targeted and the united shipbuilding corporation the country's

largest holding falls under the punitive measures too but the u.s. senate it seems engine animists in its support for said sanctions you know after the sort you 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 korean part of the unit and a horrible tremendous opportunity i should say was squandered. and brussels also barred from the russia's banks and trading in european markets it puts the country's biggest and oldest bank in the fire along spot a bank the bellagio sectors also targeted west know and equipment for offshore fuel exploration is under a bargain for russian companies arms sales are also restricted with bearing in mind in twenty thirteen russia's global weapons exports market was worth about fifteen

billion dollars a lot of money at stake here not just money to jobs analysts tell us that the measures are a two way street and european businesses could prepare for cuts as well estimates in fact in germany suggests it could lose six billion euros in exports to russia this year's alone and as moscow's number one e.u. trading partner berlin's got plenty at stake the annual turnover seventy six billion euros six thousand german companies operate in russia and that could as i was talking about jobs just now have a far reaching effect on hundreds of thousands of german jobs dependent on business with russia economist michael ross believes europeans will have to pay the price them for this political gamble. when you talk to the people on the street when you talk to people who haven't run a business or executives in a big company they're not for the for the sentence i can tell this to you because sanctions never a one way street always a reaction to

a sanction and when it comes to this imposed sanctions or the sanctions it 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 or those countries who are close to russia because they naturally have the biggest business implications and before i leave you for this just a quick reminder of course on the web so we've got more analysis more perspective on what repercussions the fresh sanctions are going to have for the global economy not only on russia acidity dot com twenty five minutes go to twenty six minutes past ten it might set this sunday are moscow thanks for choosing is up next after the break a former u.s. ambassador to iraq tells us whether the islamist advance in iraq is going to change washington's geopolitical heading now be falling more of that shortly.

death row inmate just avoid writhed in pain during a two hour execution this prolong suffering was not part of the player 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 what a stay of execution due to the course real 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. it's far to close range and 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.

hello and welcome to worlds apart a week ago and the ukrainian crisis came to one of the greatest challenges to global peace and security yet but thousands of extremists overtaking iraq's second largest city how put things into perspective well 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 her both full 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 blotches in ukraine you know the events in the arc really seem to preserve the security of dangerous security challenge of a totally different magnitude i wonder if he 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 and everyone interests 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 ukrainian government and to encourage positive trends in ukraine so i think that's an issue.