you should care only. mass desertion for ukraine's army as over four hundred soldiers cross into russia asking for shelter in the largest but not the first such case he of though promises and rapid victory over the militias also. moved down the line. broken truce palestinians say israel has violated its own ceasefire by attacking its refugee camp in gaza and killing a child there just twenty minutes after announcing the latest humanitarian window. jihad islamic state fighters consolidated their hold over iraq by capturing another oil field a dam and three more towns. six

pm in moscow watching r.t. international live from the russian capital on marina josh over four hundred ukrainian troops have crossed the russian border appealing for sanctuary and it's the largest number of ukrainian military personnel to lay down arms and and to russia but it's not the first time. is at the checkpoint where the soldiers arrived . four hundred thirty eight ukrainian military have indeed laid down their arms and have crossed into russia through the checkpoint that she can see behind me looking for a shelter here in russia they explained that they were trying to escape and then tends to fall against anti-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 to be transportation and they're now on their way but other is sad that they refuse to fight against their own people and they diffract they will be staying for some time these refugee camp 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 his soldiers' lives and deeds 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 them lay down their arms and crossed into russia seeking shelter here some of them were saying that they refused to fight against their own people in this conflict but others who are complaining about the situation in the ammunition and lack of training are these marines and their denies

that the soldiers who crossed into russia earlier today asked for sanctuary retaining the manpower necessary for its operation in the east has not proved easy the spine launching three recruitment drive since the start of the crackdown case army is struggling to fill its rank and file military analysts say the army needs over eleven billion dollars to replace old weapons and machinery just a couple of days ago a little under eight hundred million it was allocated to the military from the states reserve fund the soldiers are running out of food and have to rely on handouts and. there is 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 or in a cost of a takes a closer look at the state of the crimean army police believe they're being called up to serve their country but with complaints of having to fire on their own people

diminishing supplies and or living conditions more wrong and the ukrainian army seems to be hitting rock bottom. is the. disease near here. are the stories that we. are says there. are people out there. and it's not just poor equipment frustrating the troops as many are forced to live on supplies son from home we had to got most of the brats from these a love child with of they only have a small edible part in the middle but there are a lot of people here see a couple of cool things for you while others say they're being left to fend for themselves but you know. the you know there was a boy oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

oh oh oh. oh second over that and so count it's hardly surprising that women in ukraine are begging their loved ones to stay put. mothers and wives of those who were 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 ultimately it was. just yet in the midst of all that does that mean that you could see fifteen year old come looking. like 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 or 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 the reports of the noise in the celestial agencies despite their earlier support for the crackdown. this is what happened to one local government official when he tried to encourage men to join the army. local suggests that he should go to the from my own self. the real cost of our team. ukraine's budget is being drained by the military operation in the east according to the country's defense ministry it could be two point five billion dollars short come the end of the year legal expert exam or korea's believes financial woes are caves biggest problem right now the problem it seems to me that kiev has is not so much lack of weapons which is what presumably the western west would provide those the simple economic burden of moving tens of thousands of people into the

eastern ukraine and keeping them there and at the same time they're all over the major problems of command and control within the ukrainian army itself and just don't see how all of that can be sorted out in a few weeks before the winter weather closes in and despite that assertion ukraine's vence minister says the key of troops are very close to victory over local militias praising the progress the army has made in recent days ukrainian forces are closing in on their resistance strongholds in the city of donetsk where the population of almost a million is one of them it has been under continuous shelling for weeks whether residential areas frequently coming under fire. these are the latest pictures we received from the outskirts of the which is also a regional capital they purportedly you show family homes radical you grace to the ground apparently by army shelling locals say there were no anti-government forces

stationed in the area. and these pictures also emerging from the outskirts of the allegedly show ukrainian tanks emerged entering the city in the past hour russia's foreign ministry has claimed king of is concentrating ballistic missile launchers near the city which is controlled by local militia last month c.n.n. reported sighting u.s. intelligence sources that ukraine is using having ballistic rockets against anti-government forces in the path of dawn is reportedly urged to have to exercise restraint russia's foreign minister compared the plight of the people in eastern ukraine to that of palestinians in gaza 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. to many of the residents which is another target of crackdown say they are too

scared when it will be their homes let alone send their children to kemah gardens luckily no one was inside this building when it was hit by a rocket last weekend reports of civilians being killed a common almost every day with more urban areas getting hit residents in say a crowded shop came under fire and 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 and front is damaged as you can see. now 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.

now 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 eight year old girl was killed and thirty people were injured in your town a seven hour humanitarian window was a player 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 in the town of rafah in southern gaza were three israeli soldiers died recently in an ambush along comes after sunday saw ten people killed when a school run by the night of nations was shelled. and. witnesses say that the man they were true for through the gate at the time of the strike israel says the incident may be linked to an attempt by its army to kill who must

come in as they drove by the man shelter the world body had repeatedly informed the i.d.f. where it's still these are located but just last week twenty people were killed in another bombing of one school in gaza. oh you can hear it everywhere. you. well you know this is. the one i did i leave. with. the bombing of the gaza shelter caused outrage around the world un chief ban ki moon described it 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 appalled by what it calls the disgraceful shelling but israel continues to insist the schools are used to store weapons and we talked to medics without borders advisor michel back from the all shifa hospital. you know gaza is a very small area it's seven. kilometers so it's one point seven million people living in this very small area and still even in this area we ourselves every night eighty percent are civilians and three hundred of the best are children and just just. when i want to go to camp even if we say it's supposed to be ceasefire even when i will go to camp has been shelled and i just passed through the emergency room and again children women elderly. get other developments israeli police say they've shot dead

a suspected terrorist in central jerusalem who rammed an excavator he was driving into a collision resulted in the death of one pedestrian and injured five others israeli army is working hard 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 one of gaza's residential areas and there are also images of awe of soldiers removing motorbikes from what it said was a hamas total i talked to their spokesman of the town colonel peter lerner and he says the army's only defending itself from rocket attacks from militants. continues to be threatened by indiscriminate rockets 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 soldiers and then were killed in an attack

coming from a tunnel and this is a repeating occurrence which has hundreds and hundreds of militants 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 of a disproportionate prime minister netanyahu says hamas rulers would pay an intolerable prize if they continued to fire rockets at israel and that all 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. while turkey's prime minister has accused israel of deliberately killing palestinian mothers and children the one said the country was attempting to create a master race just like hitler once tried and there was also playing 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 laid flowers on top of small coffins representing palestinians killed by israeli airstrikes and living in the west bank are also expressing their solidarity with gaza as heresy are now reports . for you. build banners across the city read here now we got. this though is remote now palestine's and minister to of capital since israel's campaign began maybe a month ago the hour rage at the devastation gaza as one point eight million

inhabitants has boiled over into solidarity demonstrations and angry clashes several along with so one killed some shot in the chest with a dry fire by israeli troops people here are in mourning their lives on hold we do not concerted ourselves like a distant part of time with living the war we watch the news. we send i would say years we send our thoughts and i would keep our hearts is with the 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 not tried to come as they are fighting their humanity i'm crying in front of this news of the t.v.'s. to do under thing to help because many palestinians here have relatives. who've

been injured or killed in these past weeks. lost fifteen relatives in the highly dangerous neighborhood inside. the surely so the scriptures talk to. the news the bad news. in recent weeks not only has hamas 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 minds with prevailing anger at israel's actions frustration with their own powerlessness and dismay at the world's reaction. now there may be strong words from the united states against israel bombing gaza but it's quite different behind the scenes after the break we'll tell you about the documents revealing the scale of washington's in israel's military operations.

in justifying their stance they're citing all sorts of what they see as international precedents in cost of the coming referendum in scotland but the response that they're hearing from the one that what you're saying is illegitimate but what we've been doing is still full of life a measure if you break into their story. america does is right. for other people for centuries like russia or countries like australia but whatever america does is right because america does.

economic up down to the final. day the love to do your child night and the rest of life they meet they will be if we. welcome back you're watching and seeing international while the white house shakes its had at the i.d.'s bombing of gaza turns out to the n.s.a. has been close friends with israel for the past decade new documents released by glenn greenwald who broke the n.s.a. snooping scandal a year ago show washington has been providing intelligence as well as cash to combat palestinian terrorism playboy go has the details. when greenwald says that every time another attack on gaza takes place just like that shelling of the un

school shelter the u.s. 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 with 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 munition and grenade launchers amidst this very violent offensive now both the n.s.a. and g 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 curve and it is squarely at odds 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 . 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 find a cure if the virus came to london r.t. dot com has more on his fury at the drugs industry's response to the deadly infection also fancy learning spying want to want to be the next

seven britain's 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 in the north and their wrested control of another or oil fields three towns and what is believed to be country's biggest dam possession of the missile dam gives extremists the ability to manipulate electricity supplies to major rocky c.d.'s or even to flood them now the islamic caliphate recently declared by the two hottest fighters stretches across the northern parts of syria and iraq the militants now control five oldfield's and are reportedly selling crude on the black market to fund their insurgency while the also hold five dams as well as several key military bases including one of saddam hussein's former chemical weapons facilities.

you know racism is not something that will go away by simply pretending it doesn't exist but that's precisely what the swedish government is being accused of doing are just bitter 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 in remey or removing this wording from legislature isn't going to stop racists when we remove that really. make it impossible to the reality of people or races or this invented in the race we're trying to take the conceptual tools away from us you leave us with terms that

are foreign born or national born we think that that is a way of mystifying people keeping them from becoming a little and racially conscience we're not behind there 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 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

down there on official documents without first having to undergo surgery or her moral treatment have now been introduced in a number of european countries in. many parents can refrain from classifying their newborn babies as male or female leaving it up to the child to decide for itself later and it can even choose to leave and determine it but in france a plan to introduce gender seery classes in primary schools was scrapped after mass protests by rich parents the idea was to teach kids that they can choose their own sexual identity. now some other real world news rescuers are still searching for survivors after a six point one earthquake that hit china's province on sunday killing at least three hundred ninety one and injuring more than one thousand nine hundred others officials expect the number of the deaths to rise as rescuers scramble through the ruins of levelled at villages rain and thunderstorms are being forecast which could

hinder efforts to provide emergency relief for the victims. flooding have swarmed a small town in northern bulgaria killing one person and causing fifty houses to the last heavy rain forest a swollen river to burst its banks hundreds of homes remain underwater officials describe the situation as critical a deadly flood of these bulgaria killed nearly a dozen people earlier this summer. and the next an investigation into whether something fishy is happening with our seafood there's inside beyond the headlines if you're watching us in britain where she returns. 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 on the high tech quote non lethal weaponry against the protesters they used a 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 fifty meters we see. all across the country so-called non-lethal weapons being used to very harmful and even to well we thought ends 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 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 but when you take that conventional military and now try to read task it as a counterinsurgency force it creates a lot of gaps and that's the kind of private sector stuff. the stories we cover here not getting here in iraq that are big star in the hands. of reason they don't want to. point out. now let's break the set. 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. go out and buy some herring and some in some. before selling them to us the fishmonger is going to say something rather surprising as she's warning us about her own merchandise it's not there in front of me says quote if you think you should be careful and out there i'm not sure you would have a more than a at the most polite. and it's the same thing with you. and if you're pregnant you shouldn't eat the fish from the ball to get oil. if she gives this warning it is thanks to the work of jan in the swedish government.