crosstalk rules in effect that you can jump in anytime you want. massed assertion for ukraine's army as over four hundred soldiers cross into russia asking for shelter and the largest but not the first such case give those promises a rapid victory over the militias. not been known to do that now but. the procedure is now a sunni and say israel has violated its own ceasefire by attacking a refugee camp in gaza and killing a child there are just twenty minutes after announcing the latest humanitarian window. and jihad islamic state fighters consolidate their hold over iraq by capturing another oil field down and three more towns.

what you are t international coming to you live from moscow i'm marina joshie welcome to the program and over a four hundred ukrainian troops have crossed the russian border appealing for is sanctuary it's the largest number of ukrainian military personnel to lay down arms and to russia but it's not the first time i just maria is at the checkpoint were the soldiers arrived and we can talk to her now well this is a large scale defection tell us a bit more about it. well four hundred thirty eight ukrainian military have indeed laid down their arms and have crossed into russia through the checkpoint ichy can see behind me looking for a. they explained that they were trying to escape an intense against and to

government forces on the ukrainian territory we have been able to speak to the had of russia's regional border control service here and he told us that more than one hundred eighty of them wanted to come back to ukraine and some of them were inside that they're ready to come back to the army they were provided with first protection and they're now on their way but others sad that they refuse to fight against their own people and they diffract they will be staying for some time these refugee camps that you can see behind me some of them even asked for refugee status he have confirmed this incident just to find its military behavior is saying that the commander of the battalion took this decision to say he's soldiers' lives and indeed it's not for the first time that there's we see something like this happening just last weekend we saw another dozen of the ukrainian military and last month more than forty old. corson into russia seeking shelter here.

but they did not want a cat on each of. they refused to fight against their own people in conflict but others were complaining about the situation in the army of ammunition and lack of training back to you. barbara thanks so much for bringing us this. the reporting from the region and waging an operation in the east has not been easy for despite having launched three recruitment drives since the start of the crackdown it's still struggling to find the manpower to fill its rank and file military analysts say the army needs over eleven billion dollars to replace old weapons and machinery and just a couple of days ago and a little under eight hundred million was allocated to the military from the state's reserve fund the soldiers are running out of food and have to rely on handouts and here's a website set up by civil activists calling on people to donate food to the army on top of that ukraine's leaders appear to be struggling to pay their soldiers and

just recently the country's parliament introduced a military tax rate across syria takes a closer look at the state of the ukrainian army. they're being called up to serve their country but with complaints of having to fire on their own people diminishing supplies and poor living conditions more wrong and the ukrainian army seems to be hitting rock bottom. is the. business news. or the stories that we. post says there. are a lot of. and it's not just poor equipment frustrating the troops as many are forced to live on supplies sun from home we had to cut most of the bread from these a lot of they only have a small edible part in the middle but there are a lot of people here. for

a. second all that into account it's hardly surprising that women in ukraine are begging their loved ones to stay put. mothers and wives of those who are going to be sent to the war zone held protests rallies and strikes across the country in an effort to block the ongoing recruitment drive and it's not only out of fear for their lives. but the middle. east and yet in the midst of that does that mean that you could use did. look. at the crimean army should have money to feed and equip their soldiers they get extra cash from online fund raising campaigns and special military tax salaries cuts and from sales over so-called separatists here's mineral water but it appears the proceeds don't always reach the soldiers as of august the first will have

nothing to pay the military. concentrations are not being reported in the oil in the agencies despite their early support for the crackdown. i think this is what happened to one local government official when he tried to encourage mounted you. suggest that he should go to the front of my self. rehab hospital by our team. well for more on the situation in the iranian army and why its soldiers are crossing into russia let's bring in our legal expert alexander corps this murderous thank you so much for joining us here and here the national so this recent incident is the largest case of desertion in the ukrainian army what's driving the soldiers to cross into russia i think there's two things firstly there is the general military situation which as your program explained is actually quite bad the ukraine is economically in a very difficult position there's not enough money to sustain an operation like

this very well and i think the troops are very demoralized but secondly i think there's also a tactical aspect to this if i can put it like that in that it seems that these troops were part of an attempt by kiev to cart all of the rebels supply routes from the russian border instead what happened was they got trapped and they've now had to lay down their arms and cross over into russia and surrender apparently as a complete group of troops which must be very serious indeed. well i mean looking at the situation around this incident the fans ministry claims the operation is a success and the mission will soon be accomplished what is your take on the situation there i mean do you think we'll soon defeat local militia.

are not military specialists but my guess is the answer to that is no this operation has been going on for a long time now since april it escalated very seriously in june the two major cities donetsk and lugansk have not been captured the lines of communication to the border that the rebels have are still open and of course the rebels are fighting on their own territory the economic strain on here to win this is looking to me to be extremely difficult and i don't really think they're going to finish this off before the autumn when of course the bad weather starts and the problems will multiply or you have as promised to help ukraine where military gear and training how much of how poor do you think this will be for forces i doubt it will actually be very much help i'm sure they're

getting quite a lot of help already i'm showing i'm sure they're getting intelligence information from the americans for example and that darn thing but the problem it seems to me that. is not so much lack of weapons which is what presumably the western west would provide the simple economic burden of moving tens of thousands of people into the eastern ukraine and keeping them there and at the same time there are obviously major problems of command and control within the ukrainian army itself and i just don't see how all of that can be sorted out in a few weeks before the winter where the closes in. legal expert examiner is thank you so much for sharing your thoughts with us here in our two national. and despite the desertion that ukraine's the defense minister says k. of troops are very close to victory over local militias praising the progress the

army has made in recent years ukrainian forces are closing in on their resistance strongholds the city of donetsk is one of them and it's been under continuous shelling for weeks with residential areas frequently coming under fire. well these are the latest pictures we have received from the outskirts of deniece which is also a regional capital they purportedly show sally helms practically razed to the ground apparently by army shelling locals say if there were no anti-government forces stationed in the area residents and low balance which is another targeting its crackdown say in a crowded shop came under fire in one of the latest attacks. 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. how many our residents say they

are too scared to leave their homes lal low and send their children to kindergarten luckily no one was inside this building when i was hit by iraq is just over a week ago reports of civilians being killed is common in almost every day with more urban areas getting hit russia's foreign minister even compared the plight of people in eastern ukraine to the suffering of palestinians the population there suffers no less than the civilian population in gaza with just one difference israel has come under rocket fire from gaza and how to respond to it albeit disproportionately and we're closely watching the situation in ukraine on air and online as well our website team has minute by minute updates from the war torn country and that's at r.t. dot com. the.

palestinians are accusing israel of breaching its own truce by bombing a house in one of gaza's refugee camps twenty minutes after the latest ceasefire was announced they say an eighteen year old girl was killed and thirty people were injured in the attack the seven hour humanitarian window was declared to facilitate the flow of humanitarian aid and let hundreds of thousands of displaced gazans return home the i.d.f. says the pause does not apply to the town of rafah in southern gaza where three israeli soldiers died recently in the ambush the law comes after sunday's saw a ten people killed when a school run by the united nations was shelled. was ok. with this is say that manny were tearing through the gates at the time of the strike israel says the incident may be linked to an attempt by its army to kill the mosque gunman as they drove by the u.n. shelter the world body has repeatedly informed the i.d.f. were its facilities are located but just last week twenty people were killed in

another bombing of a un school in gaza. can you ever. been as it was when. i was it is highly. likely. the bombing of the gaza shelter calls our rage around the world un to you bunky moon described as a criminal act and a gross violation of humanitarian law he says the madness of war that's wreaking havoc in gaza must stop even israel's main backer the u.s. says it's a hold by what it calls a disgraceful shelling but israel continues to insist the schools are used to store

weapons we talked to medics without borders advisor shellback from the hospital you know gaza is a very small area it's seventy kilometers and thirty kilometers so it's one point seven million people living in this very small area and still even in this area we have shelled every night eighty percent are civilians mob and three hundred of the children and just just. one hour ago you can't even if we say cease fire now we're supposed to be ceasefire i'm not even one hour will go to camp has been shelled and i just passed through the emergency room and again children women elderly. and in another development israeli police say they have shot dead a suspected terrorist in central jerusalem who rammed an excavator he was driving

into abbas the collision resulted in the deaths of one pedestrian and injured five others. the israeli army is working hard to justify its mission on sunday it release a video of what it says was a precision strike on a hamas rocket launcher hidden inside one of gaza's residential areas and there are also images of i.d.f. soldiers removing motorbikes from what it said was a hamas tunnel i talked to their spokesman lieutenant colonel peter lerner and he says the army is only defending itself from rocket attacks from militants that 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 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 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. that 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. meanwhile turkey's prime minister has accused israel of deliberately

killing palestinian mothers and children. the country was attempting to create a master race just like hitler one stride there was also plenty of anti israeli sentiment in jordan crowds gathered outside the u.s. embassy in amman burning american and israeli flags and in the netherlands thousands attended a rally in support of the people of gaza demonstrators lay flowers and top small coffins representing palestinians killed by israeli airstrikes and those living in the west bank are also expressing their solidarity with gaza as harry fear and now reports. billboards and banners across the city read here now we are all gods of 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 brought on gaza as one point eight million inhabitants has boiled over into solidarity demonstrations and angry

clashes several youths are clean killed some shot in the chest with live fire by israeli troops people here are in mourning their lives on hold 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 not afraid to come out the fighting their humanity i'm crying in front of the screens of the t.v. is ready 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 in southern gaza not a single house it's the surely so the structure has taught them to do. the news the bad news in recent weeks not only has how mass strengthened but also the islamic jihad movement flexing against israel from within gaza it's clear that all palestinians here have gaza are on their mind with prevailing anger at israel's actions frustration with their own powerlessness and dismay at the. reaction. now there may be strong words from the united states against israel bombing gaza but it's quite different of behind the scenes. after the break we'll tell you about the new documents revealing the scale of washington's involvement in israel's military operations.

clean. zero casualties war this is the great fantasy of war mongering politicians. capturing people is this what do you do if there isn't killing the easy we reserve the right to kill any person anywhere any time. we could do that in the city but they can't draw makes these things are very.

small. nuclear power feel. sad there's very tempting. welcome back to what's in our tea while the white house shakes its hat at the i.d.'s bombing of gaza it turns out that and essays been close friends with israel for the past decade new documents released by glenn greenwald who broke the n.s.a. snooping scandal year ago show washington's been providing intelligence as well as cash to combat palestinian terrorism boyko has the details. when greenwald says that every time another attack on gaza takes place just like that shelling of the un school shelter. us and public figures in the us talk about how

devastating the conflict is as though it's some sort of natural disaster but in fact according to glenn greenwald the u.s. directly enables israel's actions so he cites for example documents that say that over the past decade the n.s.a. has expanded the number of ways in which it works for the israeli intelligence agencies he also talks about large payments large sums of money that have been paid from the u.s. government over to israeli operatives now all this is on top of publicly available information that the u.s. government is continuing to supply israel with weapons such as i mean nation and grenade launchers amidst this very violent offensive now both the n.s.a. and d.c. h.q. have said that they wouldn't comment on their existing relationships but everything they do is within the framework of the law now glenn greenwald says that legal or

not these new documents highlight the role the u.s. role in israeli what he calls israeli aggression towards its neighbors he says that the help of the u.s. and its key allies is very covert and it is squarely at all with the image that the u.s. has cultivated of being a helpless by stand in this conflict of being completely detached in this conflict . now africa's terrifying a bowl outbreak has put major pharmaceutical firms in the firing line accused of letting people suffer a top public health doctor in britain says they'd find a cure if the virus came to london r.t. dot com has more news fury at the drugs industry's response to the deadly infection . also dancing learning spy why don't want to be the next double zero seven britain spy agency has signed up universities to teach its next

generation of cyber agents. fighters from the self-proclaimed islamic state are tightening their grip on iraq after making significant new gains and the north and they have wrested control of another oil field three towns and what is believed to be country's biggest down was ashen of the mosul dam gives the extremists the ability to manipulate electricity supplies to major iraqi cities or even to fly down now these like caliphate recently declared by the jihadist fighters stretches across northern parts of syria and iran the militants now control five all fields and are reportedly selling crude on the black market to fund their insurgency they also hold a five dams as well as several key military bases including one of saddam hussein's former chemical weapons facilities racism is not something that will go away by simply pretending it doesn't exist but that's precisely what the swiss government is being accused of doing it all over explains. 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 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 when we remove. race. make it impossible to the reality of people or races or this invented in the race started to try to take these conceptual tools away from relievers we've heard that is foreign born or national born and we think that that is a way of mr trying people keeping them from becoming

a little and racially conscience we're not behind. and it's not just in sweden that new laws on tolerance are coming into place here in denmark your 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 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. laws allowing people to change their gender on official documents without first having to undergo surgery or her moral treatment have now been introduced in a number of years. and countries in germany parents can refrain from classifying

their newborn babies as male or female leaving it up to the child to decide for itself later and anyone to use to believe in sex in the terminal but in france they plan to introduce janda seery classes and primary schools were scrapped after mass protests by outraged parents the idea was to teach kids that they can to use their own sexual identity. well after the break a paedophile cross talking on washington's foreign policy on our team or national but we continue our look at the murky side of the global fish trade if you're watching us in britain. 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 to read system which basically blasted the protesters with sound which sounds but intended to mean 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 and safe for the cops remember in the old days when you had to physically break up protests or 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 prick.

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