interviewer's intriguing story for you. the. visit. of. the united nations chief condemns the latest attack on a un school in gaza as a criminal ten people died in the incident israel steps up its air attacks deploying ground troops along the border. the us secretary of state. 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 hit a family home. on the international probe into the malaysian plane crashes.

in the area but graphic scenes of troops to tighten the noose on government strongholds. international are coming to you live from moscow at six am here in the russian capital it's good to have you with us. israel has announced a seven hour ceasefire in most parts of gaza to come into effect later on monday it comes after its forces shelled a un school even as reports were coming in the soldiers were withdrawing to israel the school shelling left at least ten people dead bystanders say that many were queuing for food at the gate at the time of the strike where the u.s. state department says it's appalled by the disgraceful shelling while the un secretary general general ban ki-moon called the attack on a moral outrage and

a criminal act or a 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 thousand 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 israel is demolished the house of this family. so we do see the girl her mother two brothers with severe burns this morning this woman is in a very severe condition and she is she presented to us about five days ago with her son and her husband has been 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 had a child here he was all the time claim kids 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 it's further his mother so i closed the door of my office and i sat crying those that survived this war will have to bear the physical and psychological scars for years to come. as for what weaponry is causing these injuries it's not entirely clear. 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 bodies and faces out of bearing 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 being a credible civilian toll. in. gaza. well it's hard to grasp the amount of destruction in gaza but here is a snapshot of how much damage the current operation has done so the city now these are satellite pictures of gaza published by a u.n. research organization 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 and attending colonel peter lerner 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 third were killed in an attack coming out from a tunnel and this is a repeating the current hamas which has hundreds and hundreds of men. terms utilizing exploiting the civilian arena just yesterday i have an indication of the numerous schools 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 to do you know 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 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 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 or the campaign called protective edge is the deadliest israeli offensive in years in two thousand and eight more than fourteen hundred palestinians died in operation cost lead including more than two hundred fifty children there's time around many more lives have been lost it's already more than eighteen hundred unicef says at least three hundred fifty children have died in the barge which shows no sign of ending any time soon.

was. was was. thank god i was. i was was that was. the first. meanwhile germany's 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 by a scramble channels but using regular phone lines which were intercepted by israel the details now from our middle east correspondent paula. the german weekly 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 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 and 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 bin 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 in 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 asked 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 for the conflict in gaza has sparked numerous demonstrations worldwide in europe they remain against the israeli operation protesters and palestinian flags and banners denouncing the civilian deaths hundreds also gathered in amsterdam to rally behind the palestinians who are under attack in london. to voice their own go over the israeli strikes. more than ten thousand took to the streets of paris in support of the palestinian people and seeing weeks of protests since the start of the conflict and across the atlantic in new york two rallies were held similar

tiniest lake on the same streets one for israel the other for palestinian hundreds gathered outside the white house writing banners and johnson slogans in support of gaza else read things into doubt in jordan where locals protested outside the u.s. embassy to show that i'm good at the israeli offensive so. after the break here on r.t. international we're bring you up to date on the ear crane including shell shock in the aist as mid-sized civilians are caught in this down between the army and local militia more not on the waves of the headlines the short break and. there's a media leader so we leave the media. by the see bush is secure the other your party visible. shoes that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from it's all on politics only on our team.

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been a series of incidents a russian checkpoint on the border with ukraine a russian t.v. crew from these reza to channel says a shell fired from the ukrainian side exploded near them earlier on sunday european security monitors confirm they'd witnessed a separate attack while another shell reportedly damaged nearby residential home on the russian side with more not his ego. a group of always sea observers were at the checkpoint at the time along with border guards and customs services officials and so only 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 being killed by in a similar incidents another show came from also the ukrainian side and we have heard statements from several senior russian officials including the foreign minister we see 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 responding using military perhaps as well in the deeply sensitive area around the crash site of malaysia flight m.h. seventeen militias report further clashes in the nearby towns of shock as ukraine's president had to basically ordered a forty kilometer no combat zone around that area where the plane came down but that's now been reduced to twenty kilometers now 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 heard artillery fire and anti government forces still blame each other for getting in the way of the mh seventeen recovery and fact finding mission. these the latest pictures we're getting from the outskirts of the regional capital don't yet see one of the main hubs of antique you have resistance residents being killed in heavy shelling as ukrainian forces close in on anti-government strongholds and the latest military attack on another eastern city of new gun it's important enough three civilians dead and at least eight injured several buildings including a school and the supermarkets also suffered heavy damage. and some disturbing images emerged from the city earlier this week a care home for the year of lay 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 valid the

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 well that's the official line but a un report released this week has raised the alarm over the growing number of civilians being killed by shelling in eastern ukraine it says not enough is being done to protect them locals are devastated by the ongoing fighting i mean you got what you say. for yourself. if you. look. this is a different part of the.

phrase you know i don't know what i want you know when you. first saw what. was there ever such. this is. really. this is what it is really from the litani. river for the. first. meeting as it was the movie you know the truth was literally just. meanwhile tensions have again boiled over in the south ukrainian city of a desa. i a group of far right protesters clashed with police near a nightclub in one of the city's beaches masked men armed with baseball bats tried to break up the concert of

a ukrainian singer several people were injured in three activists will reportedly detained just three months ago forty eight people most of the money government protesters were killed in a desert journey a standoff with radical activists. whereas the ukrainian crisis unfolds the mainstream media across the atlantic seem to be focusing on just one person as russian president the russian president 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 nearly new cold war no. no it's not the 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's working or often in outdoor adventure and why don't we see him smiling very much he's not really driven by by women or 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 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 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 putin in washington i'm going to show. the strongest sanctions against russia since the cold war have been put in place over the ukrainian crisis america's latest measures stop some of russia's banking heavyweights from operating in the us on that list russia's second largest bank of the t.b.a. which also operates in europe asia and africa as well as its subsidiary bank of moscow 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 as well but the us senate is in unanimous

in its support for 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 world community and a horrible tremendous opportunity i should say was squandered. 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 embargo for russian companies and arms sales are also restricted in two thousand and thirteen russia's global weapons export market was worth about fifteen billion dollars analysts tell us that the measures are two way street though than 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's number one trading partner berlin has plenty at stake the annual turnover between the two comes to some seventy six billion euros six thousand german companies operate in russia and that could 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 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 is 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 was

this easy for united states to shop for the engines but the ones who are suffering are the germans or those countries who are close through russia because they naturally have the biggest business implications. and on our website we've got more analysis and perspective on what repercussions the first time since half the global economy also an r.t. dot com you're not seeing double hey this is a parade in the united states that's only if it's when this case watty dot com for more on a vent. in the wind and a prayer leaders of germany's three largest religions are set to build a joint place of worship now all they need is the money and they're trying to get people to donate fifty million euros on line visit our website for all the details . migrant workers in cattle who've been building the luxury offices for the organizers of the two thousand and twenty two world cup haven't been paid for

a year 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 are described as inhumane and as modern day slavery now we discovered how they were living in unsanitary conditions with power cuts and up to ten men living in tiny rooms all working six or seven days a week for ten hours a day in scorching temperatures many have reportedly died of heat stroke and cardiac arrest the 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 from the international trade union confederation believes other governments have chosen to turn a blind eye. look at tao is a slave state it some more than days like state you're up on by one person so it will contract you 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 treats 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 ticket. it's not given enough attention by international governments companies governments they can say thank you we don't want to work with you and t.v. you change the words until you abolish the foulest system until you put in place fundamental like the right so more of today's world news now and i'm in turn south quake in southwest china is now known to have killed at least three hundred sixty seven people and injured nearly two thousand and six point one magnitude quake want

to open topple 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 is the strongest of the united province and fourteen years. militants from the jihadist group islamic state have continued their arms sweep through iraq taking control of the country's largest 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 who could use it to hold further attacks holding. the islamic state as the threat of color photos a large swathe of are alarmed extending from southern syria into iraq. in the middle east in the least thirteen soldiers and two civilians have been killed in northeastern lebanon as syrian rebels clashed with the army thirteen security force members were taken hostage by the militants rebels have attacked several military checkpoints on the border as they try to release

a fighter held by the lebanese army. the range of last southern europe bringing areas in a handful of countries to a standstill in northern italy four were killed and more than twenty injured when a flash flood talk for a festival two people have drowned in bulgaria more than nine hundred fled their homes when a river burst its banks in floods of paralyzed your city of istanbul packing up traffic across the city. coming up next naughty international the former prime minister of israel tells us what's needed to make all sides of the israeli palestinian conflict settle for pain stay with us.

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hello and welcome to worlds apart a week ago and 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 help put things into perspective will the advance of isis in iraq change washington's view 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.