not to patients she condemns the latest. criminal acts ten people died in the incident as israel steps up its air attacks deploying ground troops along the border. a german newspaper friend israel's been bugging the u.s. secretary of state while he mediated peace talks with the palestinians. russian checkpoints come under fire from ukrainian territory just as european security observers were monitoring the crossing. also reportedly a family hired by. the international probe into the malaysian plane crashes.

in the area graphic scene troops are tightening the noose on government strongholds . the day's headlines on the week's top stories here on r.t. international coming to you live from moscow where it's five am good to have you with us. israel has announced a seven hour ceasefire in most parts of gaza to come into effect on monday and it comes after its forces shelled a un school even as reports were coming in that soldiers were drawing to israel the school shelling left at least ten people dead bystanders say that many were queuing for food at the gates at the time of the strike the u.s. state department says it's appalled by the disgraceful shelling or the un secretary-general ban ki-moon calls the attack a moral outrage and

a criminal act kerry fear 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 boy's 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 we've been catching up with some of those most severely injured in gases burn unit in 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 are a small fraction of the surviving injured this girl three years old. this raid is demolished the house of this family. so we do see of the girl her mother her two brothers with severe burns this morning. this woman is a very severe condition she says 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 survived in heavily bombarded areas it's hard to imagine how the medical staff can cope with these truly horrendous cases 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 here those that survived this war will have to battle physical and psychological scars for years to come. ask for what weaponry is causing these injuries it's not entirely clear. it's very

severe the magnitude of destruction of the of the human beings those ones are intended to kill mass mass casualties of people with bodies and faces 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 credible civilian told. r.t. gaza. well it's hard to grasp the amount of destruction there is in garza but here's a snapshot of how much damage the current operation has done to this city these are satellite pictures of garza published by u.n. research organization now they show residential areas before and after bombardment by israel in the after pictures you can clearly see how entire blocks have been razed to the ground lieutenant colonel peter learn from the israeli army says the i.d.f. is only responding to persistent militant rocket attacks. israel 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 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 honor 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 to still . 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 then 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 threat the campaign which is called protective is the deadliest israeli offensive amy is now in two thousand and eight more than fourteen hundred palestinians died in operation cast lead including more than two hundred fifty children this time around many more lives have been lost it's already more than eighteen hundred and unicef says at least three hundred fifty four children have died in the which shows no sign of ending any time soon.

was was. thank god was. was that was meanwhile germany's der spiegel magazine has revealed that israel spied on u.s. secretary of state john kerry or 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 intercepted by israel details now from our middle east correspondent paula slinger the german weekly did spiegel says that the israelis as well as at least one other secret service agency eavesdropped on the phone conversations of the u.s. 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 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 that 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 anya's raiding spies who hid in an aide to act in a hotel room of even vice president al gore but it goes on to say that the americans delayed to keep this quiet when they found out that israel was the guilty . at the same time the magazine quote said mary can intelligence officials who say

that israel's knowledge against the united states has now crossed all read lines thirty 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 all the conflicts in gaza spot numerous demonstrations worldwide in europe they were mainly against the israeli operation protesters and palestinian flags and banners denouncing the civilian deaths underage also gathered in arms to the surroundings behind me to under attack while in london thousands marched to voice their anger over the israeli strikes more than ten thousand took to the streets of the french capital paris in support of the palestinian people france has seen weeks of protests since the start of the conflict on the cross the atlantic in new york two rallies were held. on the same street one pro israel the other pro palestine

hundreds also gathered outside the white house waiting banners and chanting slogans in support of gaza elsewhere things he did up in jordan where locals protested outside the u.s. embassy and up the engine really offensive. coming up after the break we'll bring a bang up to date with ukraine including shell shock in the east as more formal ties are billions of course in the standoff between the army and local militia more not on the words all the headlines coming up after this short break. but. did you know the price is the only industry specifically mentioned in the constitution and. that's because a free and open process is critical to our democracy. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is because. if you look up

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post only what really matters. to your facebook news feed. there's been a series of incidents at a russian checkpoint on the border with ukraine a russian t.v. crew from these rez the channel says a shell fired from ukrainian territory exploded near them earlier on sunday european security monitors confirm they'd witnessed a separate attack while another shell reportedly damage a nearby residential home on the russian side with his ego peace cannot. a group of always c. observers were at the checkpoint at the time along with border guards and customs services officials and certainly a show 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 shell 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 been killed why in a similar incidents another show 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 on these incidents that what they are warning that if it will be established that these are deliberate attacks and then russian media was. using military perhaps as well in the deeply sensitive area around the crash sites of malaysian flight m.h. seventy militias report further clashes in the nearby towns of shock as ukraine's president had initially ordered a forty kilometer no combat zone around the area where the plane came down but that has now been reduced to a twenty kilometer radius where this week international teams just about managed to get to the scene of the mh seventeen tragedy but only after having been prevented

several times because of the ongoing fighting that on saturday the experts withdrew from a nearby village after they had artillery fire kiev and anti government forces still blaming each other for getting in the way of the mh seventeen recovery and fact finding mission. and these are the latest pictures we're getting from the outskirts of the regional capital done yet one of the main harbors of anti kiev resistance residents are being killed in heavy shelling as ukrainian forces close in on anti-government strongholds and the latest military attack on another eastern city of lugansk reportedly left three civilians dead and at least eight injured several buildings including a score under supermarket also suffered heavy damage. some disturbing images emerged from the city earlier this week a care home for the elderly was shelled and five residents were killed both sides are blaming each other for the deaths this is one of many examples of populated areas being attacked president petro poroshenko had previously 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 ever threaten women children and elderly men this is the eternal chivalrous nature of the ukrainian army and 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 eastern ukraine he says not enough is being done to protect them locals are devastated by the continuing fighting i mean you can you see. all these are. you. this is a different part of the. world . praised structural you know what

i want you know when you. go. there is there ever such talk. this is. really. this is what it is really for the most of you. are there for. me to miss it was the movie. which was literally just. the molten tensions of again boiled over in the south ukrainian city of odessa. a group of far right protesters clashed with police and there were nights when one of the city's beaches lost men armed with baseball bats tried to break up the concert of the ukrainian singer several people were injured and three activists

were reportedly detained just three months ago forty eight people most of them until government protesters were killed in the desert during a standoff heated radical kiev activists. as the ukrainian crisis unfolds the mainstream media across the atlantic seem to be focusing on just one person that's the russian president and i did you can take a look at where the american media is real interests lie. 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 journalists 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 isn't working or often an outdoor adventure and why don't we see him smiling very much he's not really driven by by women or by or distracted by alcohol he's very tough he. 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 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 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. and

now many use it to comment on pretty much anything it didn't rain in my country today i blame boortz him 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 it goes if you are in trouble just playing putting it in washington i'm going to check out. the strongest sanctions against russia since the cold war have been put in place over the ukrainian crisis now america's latest measures stop some of russia's banking heavyweights from operating in the united states on the list russia's second largest bank which also operates in europe asia and africa as well as its subsidiary bank of moscow now russia's agricultural bank which funds the farming sector has also been targeted on the united shipbuilding corporation which is the country's largest holding falls under the punitive measures it isn't unanimous in its support for sanctions you know after

a short film there was a tremendous potential to making russia our friend tremendous potential they withdraw their troops from eastern europe. the russians. do all kinds of interactive human being can be a part of the world community and. a horrible tremendous opportunity i should say was squandered or brussels has also barred some of russia's banks from trading in european markets it puts the country's biggest and oldest bank in the firing line the energy sector is also targeted western know how and equipment for offshore fuel exploration is under embargoed for russian companies arms sales are also restricted in two thousand and thirteen russia's global weapons export market was worth about fifteen billion dollars now analysts tell us that the measures are a two way street and european businesses should prepare for cuts as well estimates in germany suggest it could lose six billion euros in exports to russia this year

alone as moscow is number one a huge trading partner in plenty at stake the annual turnover between the two comes to around seventy six billion euros six thousand german companies operate in russia and that could have have far reaching effects on hundreds of thousands of german jobs depended on business with russia all economist michael morris 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 run a business or executives in a big company there are not for the for the sanctions 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 will be imposed on russia then of course the germans are the ones who are suffering was this easy for united states to shop for thing 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. on our website we've got more analysis and perspective on what repercussions the fresh sanctions have for the global economy also on r.t. dot com. you're not seeing double here this is a parade in the united states that is only for twins head to our website r.t. dot com for more pictures of that event. on a whim and a prayer leaders of germany's three largest religions are set to build a joint place of worship now all they need is money and they're trying to get people to donate any fifty million euros all the details on our website. migrant workers in council who have been building the luxury offices for the organizers of the two thousand and twenty two world cup haven't been paid for a year some are stranded in the gulf state without paperwork after their employer

went bust now britain's guardian newspaper has been investigating how foreign workers are enduring conditions described as inhumane and as modern day slavery discovered how they were living in unsanitary conditions with power cuts and up to ten men living in tiny rooms while working six or seven days a week for ten hours a day in school xing temperatures many have reportedly died of heat stroke and cardiac arrest the invest investigation also discovered how their id papers are illegally taken from them and no medical care is provided salaries were apparently paid for the first few months but then the money stopped sharyn borrowed from the international trade union confederation believes other governments have chosen to turn a blind eye. ok tower is a slave state it some more than days state you up are only by one person so your contract is signed before you leave your home country but when you get to

get the employer can often simply tear it out or not pay you wages or treat you in any oppressive way they like workers about desperate for working poor countries so most of these migrants are from nepal india the philippines parts of africa and i don't understand because nobody tells them what they will face when they get to guitar it's not given enough attention by international governments companies governments they can say thank you to we don't want to work with you until you change the words until you abolish the foulest system until you put in place fundamental like to write some more of today's world news now and then intense earthquake which himself west china now known to have killed at least three hundred sixty seven people and enjoyed nearly two thousand of those six point one magnitude quake cracked open on top of buildings forcing people to rush into the streets for

safety some survivors describe seeing nothing but ruins and buildings reduced to rubble the state news agency says it's the strongest to have hit the province in fourteen years but. militants from the jihadist group islamic state have continued their arms sweep through iraq taking control of the country's largest and they've also taken three more towns under their control as well as an oil field overrunning the dam is a major coup for the militants to stage attacks on cities formerly known as isis the islamic state has declared a caliphate over a large swathe of land extending from southern syria deep into iraq. staying in the middle east in at least thirteen sold. and two civilians have been killed in northeastern lebanon a syrian rebels clashed with the army thirteen security force members were taken hostage by the militants rebels of several military checkpoints on the border as they try to release a fighter being held by the lebanese army. heavy rains last southern europe

bringing areas in a handful of countries just to a standstill in northern italy four people were killed and more than twenty injured when a flash flood tall for a festival two people who drowned in bulgaria and more than nine hundred five when a river bust its banks and floods of power lies the turkish city of istanbul backing up traffic across the city. up next martin international as countries commemorate the start of the first world war we take you to the battlefield for an inside take on one of russia's k. clashes with germany stay with us why.

it's technology innovations all the developments around russia we've got the future covered. the u.s. military was built to square off against the soviet union. over western europe but when you take that conventional military and now try to read task it as a counterinsurgency force it creates a lot of gaps and that's the kind of private sector stuff. talking about language as well but i will only react to situations as i have read the reports. put the no i will leave them to stay current a comment on your latter point of the month to say. a car is on the docket no. thank you no more weasel words. when you made a direct question and he prepared for a chase when you run should be ready for a. freedom of speech and little doubt the freedom to crush.

nice and fifteen. this is simon's needs to trust is more terrifying than i could have imagined. weeks travelling i finally made it to the eastern front where pitched battles seem an almost daily occurrence for months now the russian army has been pushed back by the german and austrian garion forces but they make them work for every inch the fundies fear the noise deafening and the bravery of the soldiers difficult to have a state. that's for myself i've already taken pictures i.