breaking news on our team more than four hundred thirty craney and soldiers have crossed into russia and asked for refugee this follows he has claims that the army was about to win the war against the anti-government forces in east ukraine. a partial humanitarian ceasefire is officially started in gaza following the israeli bombing of a un school but killed ten people on sunday united nations condemned the attack on the shelter calling it a criminal. money making scheme or backdoor immigration policy some critics question a u.s. quota system that ensures tens of thousands of people remain behind bars sometimes for petty crime.

good to have you with us in our international eleven am in moscow we begin with breaking news from russia's border with ukraine where more than four hundred thirty ukrainian troops have crossed into russia and asked for refuge according to the federal security service there it's not the first time such as such has been the case with ukrainian servicemen sunday a group of twelve soldiers abandon their positions and sought refuge in russia the biggest incident before today was when four dozen troops did the same in july. with reports that troops in the ukrainian army were the more allies have surfaced regularly we've reported some of those cases before protests against mobilization have occurred in most regions of the country. these.

is the. consumer the freezer. this is the. he has defense minister says he is sure the troops were only a few are are only a few days away from victory over anti government forces in the east of the country people in the region second largest city lugansk are suffering severe water and food shortages as well as power cuts or been long lines outside shops and aid distribution centers in the city one of them shelled by horses according to witnesses. quite easily teach that sort of thing that was a crowd of thirty to forty people standing outside then came a loud whistling noise in a flash 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. well in the same area another artillery round struck a kindergarten. many of the residents say they're too scared to leave their homes let alone send their children to school luckily no one was in the building when it was hit by rockets reports of civilians being killed coming in almost daily much more urban areas targeted the un says the number of innocence lost in the crackdown has so far surpassed eleven hundred another group of journalists caught up in the fighting and even when not on ukrainian territory grew from russia's is a dodge channel had to take cover after shell struck near their filming site on the russian side of the border here's how one of the journalists described the incident . should not go out in our security and our way from the russian chicken in the ukraine. explosions were hard to sometimes. in the sky then we had the massive fragments gifted in different directions. and the area.

in the roof of the checkpoint. has been a series of incidents that are russian a border checkpoint in the same area sunday always c e monitors confirm they witnessed an attack there another show reportedly damaging a house on the russian side moscow thinks the strikes are deliberate kiev has repeatedly denied attacking any russian territory while in the south of ukraine. group of far right protesters clashed with police at a nightclub in the city of odessa masked men armed with baseball bats tried to disrupt a concert of ukrainian pop singer blaming her for continuing to perform in russia in may dozens of people most of the government activists were killed in odessa during a bloody standoff with pro radicals. are keeping on top of all the updates coming out of ukraine around the clock on our t.v. and online at our t.v.

dot com. and israeli airstrike killed a hamas militant leader at his home on gaza monday the previous day saw ten people killed after a school run by the united nations was shelled witnesses say many people were lining up for food at the gates of the time of the strike. was i. israel saying the incident may be linked to an attempt by the army to kill hamas led gunmen as they drove by the u.n. but shelter the world body repeatedly informed israel's defense forces exactly where it was sort of these were located just last week twenty people were killed in another bombing of the u.n. school in gaza also ten palestinians have been killed overnight during the arab.

league. i. mean that you're. not going to actually have the bombing of the gaza shelter sparked an international outcry u.n. chief ban ki moon calling it a moral outrage and criminal act as well as a gross violation of humanitarian law he says the madness of war that's wreaking havoc in gaza must stop israel's even israel's main backer the u.s. says it's appalled by what it called a disgraceful shelling still israel continues to insist that the schools are being used to store hamas weaponry and he is really army is working hard to justify the mission on sunday it released a video of what it said was a precision strike on a mosque rocket launcher hidden inside one of gaza's residential areas also images of i.d.f. soldiers are moving motorbikes from what they said was a hamas tunnel my colleague marina joshie spoke with their spokesman intended colonel peter lerner who says the military is only responding to persistent rocket

attacks from hamas. and 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 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 it. it's the musts which has hundreds and hundreds of militants utilizing exploiting the civilian arena so it's a huge challenge something we are facing but indeed we are determined. that any enemy 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 ceasefire 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 a seven hour humanitarian aid into gaza has officially started these are the latest pictures from the israeli palestinian border israeli army has warned that if the truce is breached it will return fire the idea of also says the ceasefire will not apply to the town of rafah in southern gaza again these are the latest images from the conflict zone. me prime minister aired on accuse the country of deliberately killing palestinian mothers and children the well known critic of his

he said this during a campaign speech ahead of the presidential vote next sunday in the country aiming at creating a pure race like hitler once tried and it was all plenty of empty israeli sentiment also in jordan where crowds gathered outside the u.s. embassy in amman burning american and israeli flags and accusing washington of supporting israel's army operations in pakistan hundreds of people protested against the continued shelling of gaza some protesters calling for a jihad against this with. palestinians in the west bank express solidarity with gaza fear filed this report. billboards and banners across the city read here now we are dancing 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 of gaza's one point eight million inhabitants has boiled over into solidarity demonstrations and angry clashes

several nights of one killed some shot in the chest with life fire 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 the west bank palestinians see gaza's 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 only 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 gas or who've been injured or killed in these past weeks dr. lost fifteen relatives in the highly dangerous border neighborhood of abba son in honde eunice in southern gaza leaving you come to the. description and they're clearly we have about fifteen people. tilt under the rug always being short in the street buddy it didn't listen to this many lists crofts. not a single house being escaped the surely. so the structure is totally 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 sivia administrative separation between the west bank and gaza it's clear that all palestinians here 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 sorry fia azzi ramallah. many more details on the israeli gaza conflict on our website our team. and still to come gender neutral toys and no concept of race we look at the latest attempts in europe of tolerance after a short break. crosstalk

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past the hour now in the last five years a record number of illegal immigrants have been locked up in the u.s. officials driven critics say by a federal mandate that obliges them to keep thirty four thousand behind bars it daily and they say nothing more than it's nothing more than a money making scheme others claim it's also a way to curb backdoor a backdoor way to curb immigration were important i report. the country that once opened its doors to immigrants. is becoming better known as the land that jails them 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 incentive to keep the jails filled at full occupancy yours is going to know about my profit nasri was stuck 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 something they are not criminals not 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. before hand i was a green card was renewed every ten years and 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 and seventy eight thousand immigrants many of whom are housed in private corporate or detention centers up contracted by the u.s. government to make me sick because. just bad quality to. me. they tell me they're poor high i want money five hundred or nine hundred sixty eight hundred sixty dollars a night. in the same time you know i. me working to support my family just to do it because there is this company can make money out of me be doing it 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 visit that it's cheaper for them allow you to visit only through glass and use those kind of big start making it a reality in which that puts

a price tag on the lives of tens of thousands of immigrants bring up or not 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 in the country's biggest dam holding the mosul dam allows the hardest to manipulate electrical output to major iraqi cities even flood them the latest setback to the embattled government in baghdad that's failed to contain the insurgency. formally known as isis the islamic state group is expanded across northern parts of syria and iraq jihad is controlling five oil fields reportedly selling crude on the black market to fund their activities they also hold a total of five dams in key military bases including one of saddam hussein's former chemical weapons sites the radical groups ultimate goal is to forge a massive islamic state in the region they'd find a cure if a bola came to london said britain's top doctor you can head on by the basket

pharmaceutical companies for their response to the deadly viral outbreak also one life. 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. and i would think that you're. going to. be in the. in an attempt to combat racism the swedish government has plans to scrap all mentions of race from his legislation party's peter all over looks at 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 in 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 the racists 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 agenda in a message to try and spread the word to a quality and tolerance across the region national afro swedish association there are things the measure will do little to lessen racism in the country. when we remove the race. make it impossible for. the reality of people's water race and light for this event to really fight this time to take

the conceptual to away from us and leave us such a foreign born national born we think that it's a way of mystifying people keeping them from coming and we should be conscious we're not behind what the swedish government really. uninformed and and then will not meet the needs of result. in a number of european states people can change their gender and official documents without undergoing surgery or treatment german parents have babies born with characteristics of both sexes no longer after classify them as male or female creating a third gender in the public registry and in france officials tried to introduce gender equality classes in primary schools but the initiative was scrapped after protests from parents. turning now to some other stories making global headlines beginning with an earthquake that struck southwest china killing at least three

eighty one people and wounding nearly two thousand others a six point one magnitude quake toppled buildings forcing people to leave the survivors describe seeing nothing but ruins and buildings reduced to rubble the quake the strongest to hit the united province in fourteen years. the british royal navy ship has evacuated one hundred ten people from libya as militant raja's continue in the capital tripoli passengers british irish and german citizens are being taken to malta more than one hundred or more than two hundred ten people have been killed almost a thousand wounded since july is rivaling militias fight in tripoli and benghazi. heavy rain lashed southern europe bringing areas in a handful of countries to a standstill in northern italy at least four people were killed more than twenty injured when a flash flood tore through a festival two people drowned in bulgaria more than nine hundred fled their homes when a river burst its banks and floods paralyzed turkey's

a city of istanbul backing up traffic all over the city. in a ferry carrying about two hundred fifty passengers capsized in southern bangladesh the vessel went down in the pad more river some forty kilometers from the capital dhaka forty four passengers have been rescued but the exact number of casualties is so far unknown. and recapping for you now our breaking news story more than four hundred thirty ukrainian troops have crossed into russia and asked for refuge according to the federal security service will have more information on that as we get it not the first such case with the ukrainian servicemen on sunday a group of twelve soldiers banding their positions and seeking refuge in russia the biggest incident before that was when four dozen troops did the same in july. that story and more coming up in the next hour but coming up next crosstalk with your bell or if you're watching us from the u.k.

find out where the solution comes from in a special report on the fishing industry. 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 assesses 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 unintended 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 lethal ends 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. is water. on to me because the. spread all over this is the most toxic food you have in the room. drowns out in the tissue inquiry further more restrictions.

really. follow and welcome to crossfire all things considered i'm peter lavelle the return and we venture of the neo cons as the middle east descends into a regional civil war and ukraine becomes a failed state washington's foreign policy neoconservatives are on the march the world is their playground.

to cross-talk the neocon agenda i'm joined by my guest robert perry in washington he is an investigative reporter for the a.p. and newsweek who now edits the online news site consortium news dot com also in washington we have jim lobe he is the washington bureau chief for intra press service and director of a blog on us middle east policy called low blog dot com and in champaign we cross to francis boyle he is a professor of international law at the university of illinois college of law and gentlemen cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it robert to go to you first in washington you wrote an article recently obama's true foreign policy weakness what is that weakness. well president obama has been willing to fall into the control under the control pretty much of the neoconservatives and some of their liberal interventionists friends he has instead of asserting more of a real break from george w. bush policies he has he has adopted.