it's. only taken. the life. of. israel announcing a cease fire after a un school is palmed in gaza killing ten people the united nations condemning the latest attack on the shelter calling it a criminal act. civilians in east ukraine city of lugansk forced to seek shelter from the military bombardment in basements and bomb shelters witnesses say what attack targeting people who are just lining up for food. money making scheme or backdoor immigration policy some critics question a u.s. quota system ensuring tens of thousands of people remain behind bars sometimes for petty crimes.

ten am in moscow good to have you with us our top story this hour an israeli air strike killed a hamas militant leader in his home in gaza monday israel earlier announced a seven hour cease fire plan to come into effect in the next hour on sunday an attack on a school run by the united nations killed ten people witnesses say many were lining up for food at the gates at the time of the strike. israel says the incident may be linked to an attempt by the army to kill a hamas linked gunmen who drove by the un shelter shelling happened despite the world body repeatedly informing israel's defense force where exactly its facilities are located in order to avoid civilian losses despite the warnings that israel presses on last week twenty people were killed another bombing of a un school in gaza. oh wait i

actually. believe that. the letters are. not genuine actually i took the bombing of the gaza shelter sparking international outcry un chief ban ki moon calling it a moral a region criminal act as well as a gross violation of humanitarian law saying the madness of war that's wreaking havoc in gaza must stop even israel's main backer the u.s. says it was appalled by what it called a disgraceful shelling still israel continues to insist that schools are being used to store hamas weapons. israeli army working to justify its mission on sunday it released a video of what it says was a precision strike on a hamas rocket launcher hidden inside of gaza residential area also images of i.d.f. soldiers removing motorbikes from what they say were hamas tunnels like josh he

talked about it with the israeli spokesman lieutenant colonel peter lerner who says the military is just responding to the persistent rocket attacks from militants in 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 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 so it's a huge challenge it's something we are facing but indeed we are determined well i still don't know isn't your response a bit disproportionate prime minister netanyahu says hamas rulers would pay an intolerable prize if they continued 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. turkey's prime minister tayyip erdogan accused the country of deliberately killing palestinian mothers and children the well known critic of israel has said this during a campaign speech ahead of the presidential vote next sunday air to one claim the country's aiming at creating a pure race like hitler once tried it was also an israeli sentiment in jordan where crowds gathered outside the u.s. embassy in amman burning american israeli flags and accusing washington of supporting israel's army operations also in pakistan hundreds protested against the

continued shelling of gaza some protesters calling for a jihad. palestinians in the west bank express their solidarity with gaza harry fear filed this report. billboards and banners across the city read here now we are going to see this though is remote now palestine's and minister to capital since israel's campaign began nearly a month ago the outrage at the devastation gazans one point eight million inhabitants has boiled over into solidarity demonstrations and angry clashes several months of one killed some shot in the chest with life by israeli troops people here are in mourning their lives on hold we are living that were normal life anymore since the start of the work it's very hard and. we do not consider

ourselves like a distant part of palestine living the war we watch the news. we send our prayers we send our thoughts and our deep our hearts is with. west bank palestinians see gaza as horror on their t.v.'s and in newspapers filled with harrowing images of death ruins of those stuck inside gaza what they consider a defacto ghetto just tens of kilometers away. they are fighting comers they i'm not afraid to come as they are fighting their humanity i'm crying in front of the skis of the t.v.'s all all the members of my family and my. all. here around us never forgot. to do anything to help because many palestinians here have relatives in dance or who've been injured or killed in these past weeks. lost fifteen relatives in the

highly dangerous border neighborhood of abba son in honde eunice in southern gaza leaving you come to the is the description and the clearly we have about fifteen people. till it. has been shot in the street. in the school this. crofts. not a single house has been escaped the surely. so the structure has taught that in recent weeks not only has hamas strengthened but also the islamic jihad movement flexing against israel from within gaza despite the obvious geographical and administrative separation between the west bank and gaza it's clear that all palestinians have gaza are on their minds with prevailing anger at israel's actions frustration with their own powerlessness and dismay at the world's reaction. azzi.

many more details i mean israeli gaza conflict on our web site r t dot com. here is defense minister says he's sure his troops are only a few steps away from victory over anti-government forces in eastern ukraine people in the region second largest city in libya suffering severe water and food shortages as well as power cuts wong lions outside shops and a distribution centers in the besieged city one of them shelled by forces according to witnesses. there was a crowd of thirty to forty people standing outside but then came a loud whistling noise and a flash of the explosion was just across the road about fifteen meters away we opened the shop door so everyone could hide there were splinters all over the place the shop windows in front is damaged as you can see in the. meanwhile in the same area another artillery strike in kindergarten.

many residents say they are too scared to leave their homes let alone send their children to school luckily no one was inside this building when i was struck by rockets reports of civilians killed coming in almost daily which is a bit of an area is targeted the u.n. says the number of innocent lives lost in the crackdown has surpassed eleven hundred. another group of journalists caught up in the fighting and not even on the ukrainian territory at the time a crew from russia's visit channel had to take cover after shell struck near their filming position on the russian side of the border here's how one of the journalists described the incident should not go on national security there are away from the relationship and we need the you can only. know for some time at least the reflection the sky that we had the massive fragments gifted in different directions we ran to action was in the area. of the trick

point. of a series of incidents had a russian border checkpoint in the same area sunday always seem auditors confirm they saw an attack there while another shell reportedly damaged the house on the russian side he have repeatedly denied attacking russian territory as more. a group of always sea observers were at the checkpoint at the time along with border guards and customs services officials and suddenly a show 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 comes under fire as the fighting in eastern ukraine continues and this definitely only aggravates the situation since one person the already been killed by in a similar incidents another shell came from the ukrainian side and we have heard statements from several senior russian officials including before the minister will

say that so far moscow has incidents that's actually what they're warning that if it will be established that these are deliberate attacks of then russian media. using military perhaps as well. meanwhile in south ukraine a group of far right protesters clashed with police at a nightclub in the city of odessa masked men armed with baseball bats trying to disrupt a concert of the ukrainian pop star they blame for continuing to perform in russia in may dozens of people most of the government protesters were killed in odessa during a bloody standoff with pro. we're keeping on top of all the updates coming out of ukraine around the clock and there . still to come a gender neutral toys and no concept of race we'll look at the latest attempts in europe or in a short break. this

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quarter past the hour in the past five years a record number of legal immigrants have been locked up in the u.s. officials driven by a federal mandate that obliges them to keep thirty four thousand behind bars every day critics of the system say it's nothing more than a money making scheme and others say it's a way to curb immigration are an important reports. the country that once opened its doors to immigrants. is becoming better known as the land that jails that the congress for the past several years has set a mandatory requirement on the federal government to maintaining thirty four thousand detention beds for immigration detention purposes only its otherwise known as detention bed quota exclusive to america's immigration and customs enforcement agency. with

a minimum of thirty four thousand beds the quota serves as an incentive to keep the jails filled at full occupancy is there to know about my. nazarene was stock him served three hundred and thirteen days in an immigrant detention facility unable to post bail or receive a bond hearing. and see who was seen how it affected the guys in there a lot of the guy just had expired visa or not criminal immigrated to the country legally at thirteen and his wife is a u.s. citizen he was arrested at his home in two thousand and eleven in connection with a four year old guilty plea for drug possession we never had any encounters with immigration. beforehand i was a green card was renewed every ten years ago now is the extent of it the us is immigrant and customs enforcement agency has a budget of nearly two billion dollars

a budget put it by american taxpayers in two thousand and twelve the agency detain nearly one hundred seventy eight thousand immigrants many of whom are housed in private corporate owned detention centers contracted by the u.s. government to make me sick because. bad quality. made me. stay in the. tell me the poor high i want money my hundred or nine hundred sixty eight hundred sixty dollars a night. in the same time you know i can see me working to support my family disowned it because there's this company can make money out of me and locking up immigrants is hardly the only option available to the u.s. government congress or at least many members who are pushing this agenda don't trust the president to enforce immigration laws and they think that by requiring

these people to be detained that it's going to urge the president actually effectuate their eventual removal from the country there are other methods such as alternatives to detention use of intensive supervision custody checks on the person telephonic monitoring but the cost effective options would necessarily benefit the corporations behind america's detention and deportation machine you realized early on when you start reading if you article that oh there's something called a you know group in the cia and they make billions of dollars off of this and then you start seeing how a line out paralleled with like the lack of medical adequate medical care in the food quality and why they don't even allow contact that it could be cheaper for them why you did it only through glass and use those kind of things are making it a reality in which that quote puts a price tag on the lives of tens of thousands of immigrants marina port i am r.t.

new york. job as militants from the islamic state group made a major advance in northern iraq seizing another oil field three towns and the country's largest dam holding the mosul dam allows the hardest to manipulate power output throughout major iraqi cities or even flood them it's the latest blow to the embattled government in baghdad that failed to contain the islamic insurgency. formally known as isis the self-proclaimed islamic state has expanded across northern parts of syria and iraq jihad is now control five oil fields and reportedly selling crude on the black market to fund their insurgency they also hold a total of five dams and several key military bases including one of saddam hussein's former chemical weapons sites the radical groups ultimate goal is to forge and massive islamic state in the region they'd find a cure if a bola came to london says britain's top doctor you can. find out how he led bastid

particle pharmaceutical companies for their response to the deadly virus outbreak also online. almost half a million residents of the u.s. state of ohio warned not to use tap water learn what's behind the mass alert on our web site. right to see. first rate. and i would think that you're. going to. some news just into us here on r t from the russia ukraine border some four hundred ukrainian soldiers crossed into russia and asked for refuge according to the federal border security service not the first such case with ukrainian servicemen

we'll bring you more on this story as we get the details. in attempt to fight racism the swedish government plans to scrap all mentions of race from legislation peter all overlooks the latest attempts in scandinavia to promote tolerance. scandinavia has long being billed as something of a trailblazer when it comes to tolerance and multiculturalism in society the latest move in sweden could see all references to race or ethnicity removed from the country's legislation currently in sweden there are twenty laws that make reference to race or ethnicity and these include laws covering the country's criminal code using financing a on things like credit information law now the integration minister in sweden says that he's putting this forward because there's no such thing as race in his society anymore however it has come in for criticism from the national road swedish association who say that just legislating it would be for removing this wording

from legislature isn't going to stop racist and in fact could harm any future discussions about the issues of race in swedish society and it's not just in sweden that new laws on tolerance are coming into place here in denmark new legislation is set to make it easier for transgender people to officially register their change of gender without having previously had to undergo sexual reassignment surgery now this is a move that's been highly praised by amnesty international who see it as a shining example to societies around the world but also what's going on here in scandinavia is a toy company is trying to set out the message of not gender stereotyping early on by issuing a catalogue in time for christmas it's going to show gender neutral toyah advertisements meaning little boys and little girls playing with things like toy ovens and toy workbenches not dependent on their gender in a message to try and spread the word to

a quality and tolerance across the region. afro swedish association though think the measure will do nothing to lessen racism in the country. when we remove the race we make it impossible to follow i the reality of people who are racing like this invention in a race fight trying to take the conceptual to away from us believe both such as foreign born or national born we think that is a way of mystifying people keeping them from coming politically and racially conscient we're not behind that what the swedish government doing we need an informed and and then we'll still not meet any result. number of european countries people can change their gender on official documents without undergoing surgery or treatment german parents of babies born with characteristics of both sexes no law graphic ossified them as male or female

creating a third gender in the public registry and france officials tried to introduce gender equity a quality classes in primary schools though the initiative was scrapped after massive protests from parents. turning now to some other stories making global headlines beginning with an earthquake that struck southwest china. at least three hundred eighty one people were killed nearly two thousand injured the six point one magnitude quake talk a little unsettling people into the nuclear safety survivors describe seeing nothing but ruins and buildings reduced to rubble the quake the strongest to hit the united province in fourteen years. british royal navy ship evacuated one hundred ten people from libya as militant clashes continue in the capital tripoli passengers british and irish and german citizens being taken to malta more than one hundred forty people have been killed five hundred wounded since july as pro and anti-government militias fight for control of tripoli's airport. and heavy rain

southern europe three areas and a handful of countries to a standstill in northern italy at least four people were killed and more than twenty injured when a flash flood tore through a festival two people drowned in bulgaria and more than one hundred fled their homes when a river burst its banks floods have paralyzed the turkish city of istanbul backing up traffic across the city. still to come on r.t. international we hear from the founder of a notorious security firm walk water or if you're watching us from the u.k. you know about you know. a few weeks ago we discussed detroit's plans to shut off water to those who can't pay their bills logically what a basic human assessor he could get taken away some protesters gathered to give

their opinion on the issue at our plaza and what is the response from the state maybe some sort of dialogue or explanation as to why they have to turn off the water you know they turned up on the high tech quote non lethal weaponry against the protesters they used an el red system which basically blasted the protesters with sound which sounds but intended humane until you look into it and read that the weapon can cause permanent hearing loss the company even admits this is true at less than fifteen meters we see all across the country so-called non-lethal weapons being used to very harmful and even to well we thought ns but why does this happen because they make breaking up protest easy unsafe for the cops remember in the old days when you had to physically break up protests well things like el read allow any coward to just flip a switch to disperse a crowd with not a drop of blood visible and the fact that it seems not harmful as the police to be justified in using it whatever they want for the sake of the constitution i think no police forces should be able to use this technology but that's just my opinion.

welcome to sophie and go on sophie shevardnadze and enjoy a fortune boss erik prince founded blackwater the world's biggest private military company scoring billions in government contracts in iraq and afghanistan but the public backlash that followed news of atrocities committed by forcing out of the business center is bonds to cross lines can they be controlled and suffering inevitable when people are given a license to kill well we'll ask the man himself in our program today. blackwater the world's most powerful drug. us government they made a killing plugging holes in america's war on terror as soon as it is until.

washington is accused of fighters to draw. really go out of control in the war zone were they just thrown under the bus by the white house or did they get what was coming to. the biggest u.s. private military contractor blackwater welcome to the program it's great to have you with us so i'm going to start from the very beginning q created blackwater to train u.s. navy seals so how did it become one of the biggest security contractors in the world. well you know i i guess i was an accidental tourist i got out of the navy out of the seal teams because my father died my wife was sick with cancer so i built a facility to stay connected to the seal teams you know seal team special operations units in america have been using private this elite is really since the one nine hundred seventy s. and no one had ever done it on an industrial scale and so i did i was you know we had sold my father's business.