breaking news on our team more than four hundred thirty ukrainian soldiers cross into russia and asked for shelter this follows kiev's claims that the army was soon to win the war against anti-government forces in the east. partially humanitarian ceasefire efficiently in place in gaza following the israeli bombardment of a un school that killed ten people sunday the un condemns the attack on a shelter calling it a criminal act. money making scheme or a backdoor immigration policy some critics question the us put a system ensuring tens of thousands remain behind bars sometimes for petty crimes.

noon in moscow are starting this hour with breaking news from the russian border with ukraine where more than four hundred thirty ukrainian soldiers are deserted their posts and sought refuge in a russian details from our correspondent marina kosar. so this is a large contingent that has abandoned their posts tell us more about that yes not in this not the first time we hear about this but is that from the first time we're talking about such numbers this is a hundreds of soldiers laying down their arms and choosing to flee the country and in fact that one of the soldiers crossing the border that was enjoyed than was taken to hospital immediately and even though we're talking about this massive crossing this is not the first time in the biggest such incidents will date was july of one we had to troops in seeking shelter and that it was this. sunday when

the twelve troops crossed the border and we in fact spoke to them let's listen to what one of them had to say about why he was. the last bill of. rights let's put it another. shot you will see about me i'm. not sure what point you're all. of the out there with such a part. of. the ukrainian officers have said before that they don't want to be seen as traitors but they said they feel uncomfortable the situation and they want to ensure that their subordinates are out of the country safe and sound and even though they don't see themselves as traitors kiev authorities do and now they're refusing them of abandoning their military duties this is when it comes to that across the border. there's. both parties marine across a river thanks for that update. there have been regular reports that the ukrainian

army had been demoralized at times some complained of having to fire on their own people others pointed out the appalling conditions and less than standard equipment . does this mean you. are the reason. this is there. some soldiers complain of lack of food saying they survived on supplies sent from home. well we have got most of the grants from these a little bit but for the building a little edible are hard to do but there are a lot of people are seeing colored clothes there for the protests against the ongoing mobilization efforts that have sparked across the country mothers and the wives of those who'd been sent to the war zone were already had their held rallies

and watched traffic and even in loyalist western regions where the population has been supportive of the crackdown and he's accurate but i think it's become increasingly difficult for the ukrainian government to support their country's army he has been hesitant to impose a state of martial law in the country but a special military tax is already in place and salaries cut to support the military sales of so-called a separate is tears mineral water launched in the west revenues this were also supposed to be spent on the military fund raising campaigns launched online but the money hasn't reached the troops but they say they've paid the salaries which we didn't get any money in my husband didn't get it and they keep promising it will happen to more of my two year old daughter who moved off this morning and said that she's hungry what i'm supposed to tell her here is defense minister says he's certain the troops are only a few steps away from victory over anti-government forces in eastern ukraine people in the region second largest city lugansk suffering severe water and food shortages as well as power cuts there have been long lines outside shops and aid distribution

centers in the city one of them a shelled by the military according to witnesses. there 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. meanwhile in the same area and other artillery round struck a kindergarten. many residents say they were too frightened 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 killed coming in almost daily with more areas targeted the u.n. says the number of innocent lives lost the crackdown has surpassed eleven hundred another group of journalists caught up in the fighting even when not on the ukrainian territory a crew from russia china had to take cover after shells of struck near their

filming position on the russian side of the border here's how one of the journalists described the incident. should not cripple percoco our national security and our way from the russian chicken with the ukraine. explosions. to some to me clearly through a flash in the sky then we had the massive fragments get to didn't different directions we ran to the area. told us that they had shrapnel in the roof of the checkpoint. there's been a series of incidents at a russian border checkpoint in the same area sunday oa c e monitors confirm they saw an attack there was another shell reportedly damaged a house on the russian side moscow claims the strikes are deliberate but kiev has repeatedly denied attacking russian territory. for keeping on top of all the updates from ukraine around the clock on air and online at r.t. dot com. seven hour humanitarian cease fire in place in parts of

gaza these are pictures from gaza along the israeli palestinian border the israeli army has warned that if the truce is breached it will return fire the i.d.f. also says the cease fire does not apply to the town of rafah in southern gaza that's where three israeli soldiers died in an ambush on friday and israeli airstrike killed a hamas militant leader in his home in gaza monday the previous day saw ten killed after a school run by the u.n. was shelled witnesses say many were lining up for food at the gates at the time of the strike. i think. i israel says the incident may be linked to an attempt by the army to kill hamas claimed gunmen as they drove by the un shelter the world body repeatedly informed israel's defense force exactly where its facilities were located just last week twenty people were killed in another bombing of a un school in gaza at least ten palestinians killed overnight during air raids. it was a. little. thing

that you're. not going to actually have the bombing of the gaza shelter sparked an international outcry un chief ban ki-moon called it a moral outrage and a criminal act and 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 us said it was appalled by what it called a disgraceful shelling israel continues to insist though that the schools are being used to store hamas weapons and the i.d.f. is working hard to justify this mission sunday was released a video of what it said was a precision strike on a hamas rocket launcher inside of one of gaza's residential areas also images of i.d.f. troops removing a motorbikes from what they said were hamas tunnels dug terror tunnels earlier my colleague marina joshing spoke with their spokesman lieutenant colonel peter lerner who says the military is only responding to resistant 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 and they have continued to attempt to attack us through tunnels and indeed we had the incident on friday when two two soldiers and then a third were killed in an attack coming out from a tunnel and this is a repeating occurrence from us which has hundreds and hundreds of. militants are utilizing exploiting the civilian arena so it's a huge challenge something we are facing but indeed we are determined to examine the enemy 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 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 meanwhile turkey's prime minister tayyip erdogan accuse the country of deliberately killing palestinian mothers and children a well known critic of israel said this during the campaign speech ahead of the presidential vote next sunday they don't want to claim the country is aiming at creating a race like hitler once tried also plenty of anti israeli sentiment in jordan crowds gathering outside the u.s. embassy in amman burning american israeli flags and accusing washington of supporting israel's military operations also in pakistan hundreds protested the continued shelling of gaza some protesters calling for jihad. palestinians in the

west bank expressing their solidarity with gaza fear filed this report. billboards and banners across the city read here now we are gonna say this though is remote now palestine's administrative capital since israel's campaign began nearly a month ago the outrage at the devastation wrought in gaza is one point eight million inhabitants has boiled over into solidarity demonstrations and angry clashes several units are being killed some shot in the chest with life fired by israeli troops people here are in mourning their lives on hold we are living not that we're 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 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 are fighting comers they are not afraid to come as they are fighting their humanity i'm crying in front of the skis of the t.v.'s. all the members of my family and my. all. here are known to us never. to do anything to help because many palestinians here have relatives in gas or who've been injured or killed in these past weeks. ago last fifteen relatives in the highly dangerous border neighborhood of abas son in honde yunus in southern gaza leaving you come to the. discussion and there clearly we have

a boat or stupid people. kill. under the bill always being shopped there in the street targeted in the schools this medalists crofts. not a single house would be a skate the surely. so the school shows 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 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 but in more details on the israeli gaza conflict on a website or t. dot com. still ahead gender neutral toys and no concept of race

a look at the latest attempts in europe to promote tolerance after a short break. choose your language. calling for a week you know if you know that you will feel for the. place of the six choose the consensus to. choose the opinions that you think are great. choose the stories that impact your life. choose access to your office. in justifying their stance they're citing all sorts of what they see as international pass a dance in costs of the coming referendum in scotland but the response that they're hearing from the one that is illegitimate that's what we have been doing. the

measure if you break into their. marriage it does. reduce the other people for countries like russia countries like this straight. to america. because america. fifteen minutes 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 obliging them to keep thirty four thousand behind bars every day critics say that's nothing more than a money making scheme and others claim it's a backdoor way to curb immigration rayna porton explains. 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 this is good 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 detained how it affected the guys in there a lot of them are you know i 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 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 detaining only one hundred seventy eight thousand immigrants many of whom are housed in private corporate or into detention centers contracted by the u.s. government to make me sick because. this better quality. made me. stay in. help me the poor high amount of money five hundred or three hundred sixty one hundred sixty dollars i mean i. wanted to see you know i can be

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 just a few article that oh there's something called

a group in c.c.a. and they make billions of dollars off of it and then you start seeing how a line out parallels 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 i.e. to visit only through glass and use those kind of things are making. a reality in which at that puts a price tag on the lives of tens of thousands of immigrants marina r.t. new york. job as militants from the islamic state group have made major advance in northern iraq seizing another oil field three towns in the country's biggest dam holding the mosul dam allows your hardest to manipulate electrical output to major iraqi cities the or even flood them latest blow to the embattled government in baghdad that has failed to contain the insurgency. formally known as isis the self-proclaimed islamic state expanded across northern parts of syria and iraq geodes now control five oil fields and are reportedly selling crude on the black

market to fund their group they also hold a total of five dams in key military bases including one of saddam hussein's former chemical weapons sites the group's ultimate goal is to forge a massive islamic state in the region. they find it here is a bold came to london saying britain's top doctor you can head on to argue dot com find out how he led past and pharmaceutical companies but they respond to the deadly virus outbreak also. 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. first. and i think.

in an attempt to fight racism the swedish government plans to scrap all mentions of race from legislation or he's peter all of our 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 and these include laws covering the country's criminal code student 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 afro swedish association who say that just legislating

a review or removing this wording from legislature isn't going to stop 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 you 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 catalog 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. while the national afro swedish association thinks the measure will do little to lessen racism in that country. when we remove. make it impossible. the reality of people who are racing late for this event in the race site is trying to take the conceptual to away from us. with such a foreign born or national born we think that that is a way of mystifying people keeping them from coming politically and racially cancian we're not behind the swedish government doing the uninformed and and then will not meet the new result. and number of european countries people can change their gender in official documents without undergoing any surgery or treatment german parents of babies born with characteristics of both sexes no

longer have to 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. now to some other stories from around the world beginning with an earthquake that struck southwest china it's killed at least three hundred eighty one people and injured nearly two thousand others the six point one magnitude quake toppled buildings forcing people to the streets for safety survivors describe buildings in nothing but rubble and cleared streets the quake strongest to have hit the united province in fourteen years. a british royal navy ship evacuated one hundred ten people from libya's millers in clashes continue in the capital tripoli passengers of british irish and german citizenry being taken to malta for safety more than two hundred ten people killed almost a thousand injured since july as rival militias fight in tripoli and benghazi.

heavy rain lashed southern europe bringing areas in several countries to a standstill in northern italy at least four were killed more than twenty injured when a flash flood tore through a festival two people drowned in bulgaria and more than nine hundred fled their homes when a river burst its banks and in turkey floods power allies to stand bull snarling traffic across the country's most populous city. a ferry carrying about two hundred fifty passengers capsized in southern bangladesh the vessel went down in the padna river some forty kilometers from the capital dhaka forty four passengers have been rescued but the exact number of casualties remains unknown. and recapping the news dominating the headlines here on r t international more than four hundred thirty ukrainian soldiers crossed into russia and sought refuge according to the federal security service not the first such case with ukrainian servicemen sunday twelve soldiers surrendered their positions and sought refuge across the border

they claim they have banned were abandoned by their commanders but the biggest incident before today was when four dozen troops did the same in july more on this developing story in the next hour coming up next though. we'll tell you what's in some of the fish you eat and you might lot like what you have what they have to say stay with us for that special report. 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 the system 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 you main 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 fifty meters we see all across the country so-called non-lethal weapons being used to very harmful and even to well lethal weapons but why does this happen because they make breaking up protest easy and safe 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's seen. harmful as the police to be justified in using it whenever 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.

the u.s. military was built to square off against the soviet union. over western europe and when you take that conventional military and now try to retest it as a counterinsurgency force it creates a lot of gaps and that's the kind of private sector stuff. the baltic is one of the most polluted seas in the world. and some of the species they catch there have become toxic contaminating the pellets but also the entire food chain. in sweden i have an appointment with jan isaacson he's a greenpeace activist. he brings me to a fish up to buy fish caught in the region. so i'd like some herring and sound like something. before selling them to us the fishmonger is going to say something rather surprising she's warning us about her

own merchandise it's not there in front of me says post if you think you should be careful and are very much aware of the more than at the most. and it's the same thing with you. and if you're pregnant you shouldn't eat the fish from the baltic at all or. if she gives this warning it is thanks to the work of jan in the swedish government which has started giving public health forming against eating baltic fish especially fatty fish like salmon or herring. because it contains high levels all signs and it's one of the most powerful toxic pollutants not that we know all today and extremely low levels or else and it's going to have a face on your home a form of systems that's. close counselor.