this is tonight mass desertion for ukraine's army is over four hundred soldiers crossed into russia asking for shelter in the largest but not the first such case care of the promise is a rapid victory over the militias also. getting and. broken truce palestinians say israel's violated its ceasefire by attacking a refugee camp in gaza and killing a child just twenty minutes after announcing the latest humanitarian window. and jihadist islamic state fighters consolidate their hold over iraq by capturing another oil field down and three more towns.

giving aid to one of the evening here in moscow when it was kevin i win this is the international first than over four hundred ukrainian troops have crossed the russian border appealing for centuries it's the largest number of ukrainian military personnel to lay down arms and enter russia but not the first as i just mentioned. the checkpoint where the soldiers arrived. four hundred thirty eight ukrainian military have indeed laid down their arms and have crossed into russia through border checkpoint a t. can see behind me looking for a shelter here in russia they explained that they were trying to escape an intense fighting against and to government forces on the ukrainian territory we have been able to speak to the head 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 the fray and some of them were inside that they're ready to come back to the army they were provided with transportation and they're now on their way but other is sad that they refuse to fight against their own people and they defragged they will be staying for some time these refugee camps and 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 save his 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 them lay down their arms and coarsening to russia for shelter here some of them were saying that they refused to fight against their own people in this conflict but others were complaining about the situation in the ammunition and lack of training or if they will confirm that

a group of its soldiers entered russia but ukrainian officials say it was only because they were encircled and ran out of ammunition where you can operation in the east has been quite tough for the whole three recruitment drive since the start of the crocked and it's proved increasingly difficult to man the military first ukraine's army suffers a lack of equipment see it needs over eleven billion dollars to replace the old weapons of machinery yet the government put less than ten percent of that aside so far here's what some of volunteers are georgia national guard think of the word. right. this is the. business news of. the roof. this is the. further to the troops taking part in what here calls an anti terrorist operation

having to rely on charities to feed themselves is a web site set up by civil activism urging food collections few created and forces the donations are proving quite crucial it seems. the muscles we had to cut most of the brats from the same love for you they only have a small edible part of the the middle but there are a lot of people here. who do it on top of that ukrainian leaders appear to be struggling to stay on top of their military budget and pay their soldiers just recently the country's parliament had to introduce a military tax in addition to personal income tax. and there are growing protests against conscription across the prairie little really been three military recruitment drives since april mothers and wives of soldiers fighting in kiev's military operation in the east block traffic landing the return of the sons and husbands some troops families say the struggling to make ends meet. but the middle.

east here. is that he ukraine's budgets 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 legs random occurrence police financial woes archytas biggest problem right now. the problem it seems to me that it has is not so much lack of weapons which is what presumably the western west would provide is the simple economic burden of having 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 are just due to see how all of that can be sorted out in

a few weeks before the winter weather closes in but despite the desertion ukraine's defense minister says that kiev troops are very close to victory over local militias praising the progress the army has made in recent days is taking them out . ukrainian forces are closing in on the resistance strongholds the city of donetsk with a population of almost a million is one of it's been the continued shelling for weeks now with residential areas also frequently coming under fire despite the further civilians aren't supposed to be in the firing line is the latest pictures we've received from the outskirts of the net which is also a regional capital as well they purportedly show family homes practically razed to the ground apparently by army shelling locals say there were no anti government forces stationed in the area though and there are these pictures also from the outskirts of donetsk allegedly showing ukrainian tanks and during the city security officials say they're preparing to storm the city russia's foreign ministry claims

care of concentrating but listing missile launchers near the city which is still controlled by local militia and adding on to that last month you may recall the c.n.n. news channel reported u.s. intelligence sources say that ukraine is using heavy ballistic rockets against anti government forces the pentagon's thought for urged kiev now to exercise restraint while russia's foreign minister compared the plight of the people of east ukraine to that of palestinians in gaza. i hope that the international community which is very concerned about the humanitarian crisis in gaza will in the end turn their eyes to southeast ukraine where the population suffers no less than the civilian population in gaza with just one difference israel has come under rocket fire from gaza and had to respond to it albeit disproportionately. many of the residents of the guard scritches another target of here is crackdown say they're now too scared to leave their homes let alone send their children to kindergarten

luckily no one was inside this building when it was hit by rockets last weekend reports of civilians being killed come in almost every day with more urban areas getting hit there has been similar guns they are crowded shop came under fire and one of the latest attacks. parts are literally decent sort of 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. plenty more stories coming out of fear including what president obama is getting wrong about russia later on we examined his remarks and received a view which those will tell you are quite wide of the mark in reality. palestinian smear accusing israel of breaching its own truce by bombing a house in one of gaza's refugee camps just twenty minutes after the latest

ceasefire was announced they say an eight year old girl was killed there and thirty people were injured in the attack seven hour humanitarian with the risk to clear to try to facilitate the flow of humanitarian aid in the hundreds of thousands of displaced gazans return home the i.d.f. says the pause doesn't apply though to the town of rough in southern gaza where three israeli soldiers died recently in an ambush this lull comes after a sudden they saw ten people killed in a school run by the united nations show. i was i was. witnesses there say that many were just food at the gates at the time of the strike now israel says the incident may be linked to an attempt by its army to kill a masked gunman as they drove by u.n. shelter the world body had repeatedly informed the i.d.f. where its facilities and located but just last week twenty people two were killed in another bombing of a un school in gaza. was the

official. i were god. deucalion. was only the only. moment where an accurate record of an eye. and bombing of a gaza shelter caused outrage around the world here in chief ban ki-moon described it as a criminal act in 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. now says it was appalled by what it calls this disgraceful shelling but israel continues to insist the schools are used to store weapons we told medics without borders advise michelle back from the el schieffer hospital. you know gaza is

a very small area it's seven 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 ourselves every night eighty percent civilians than three hundred of the best children and just just. one hour go to camp even if we say cease fire now it's supposed to be ceasefire even one hour of a book schatz a camp has been shelled and i just passed through the emergency room and again children women elderly. experience meantime comment from turkey's prime minister who's accused israel of deliberately killing palestinian mothers and children. the country was attempting to create a master race just like hitler once tried it was also plenty of israeli sentiment

in jordan crowds gathered outside the u.s. embassy and burning american and israeli flags and this is the scene in the netherlands thousands attending a rally in support of the people of gaza demonstrators laying flowers on the small coffins representing palestinians killed by israeli airstrikes. for its part the 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 in a residential area in gaza are also images of i.d.f. soldiers removing motorbikes from what he said was an hamas tunnel the on the steam from israel's foreign ministry believes the operation is the only option left for israel under the threat of militants now they found missiles into on risk pools they went out and said it that's un schools that were used to hide missiles is that in any way relevant to the education of children in gaza i don't think so also u.n. secretary ban ki moon now called your action

a war cry. time but you know why does this not unsettle you it unsettles us a lot we would not want to be in this situation in the first place that's why in the beginning we did not start a military operation but once you have rockets flown at you again and again by the way we said we ceasefire not one not twice or three times. you are lots of. community is condemning israel i mean why is it that you're not paying attention to that you're not taking their concerns on board is there one country among the g. twenty states that supports israel in this can you name one of course the whole e.u. went out and declared that the hamas has to be militarized meaning they understand that hamas has to withdraw all their weapons and stop being a threat to people in transit what he says and let me know what we're. actually actually we have a lot of support. risk it more the international reaction to an implications of the

bloody conflict in gaza we're joined now live by israeli journalist gideon levy from the eretz newspaper getting good evening to you the times of israel recently published an article didn't it wasn't it was an ad for a long. quote called when genocide is permissible in which the author tried to justify what was happening in gaza and it was quickly taken offline it was quickly removed again but what does it say about the general feeling in israel at the moment but the motives for this and the general course. as it started it continues there is vest majority a very very clear majority for this operation and for the continuous of the separation at the same time there is almost over or indifference this suffering of the palestinians the suffer of the inhabitants of the guys. it's

pretty serious security prices hardly covered it is really media israeli media is concentrated on lee in its own security for eyes these really price. by and large you see indifference or even extreme cases even joy. the horrible scenes that we expose for gaza while you mention that let's show our viewers the quick clip of a week or two ago of men chanting overlooking garza basically whooping him whistling as the bombs are falling on gaza let's listen to that a second very quick. and you know the second there i hate all arabs guards there is a cemetery what is it tell us about the general feeling that it whipped up by the media is a general heartfelt feeling from a lot of the population there. first of all let

me be clear d.c. is an extreme example in this does not reflect the general feeling but unfortunately the general feeling is characterized mainly by indifference told to blind this no more adults almost no debate about the morality of this operation about the shocking figures of children killed women killed civilian kids killed all d.c. is almost not on the israeli agenda we heard from an upbeat foreign minister represented just before chatting to you know say there's a lot of backing she said for israel a moment from within the e.u. eccentric cetera but hang on the times they do seem to be changing the winds they seem to be moving here after what happened he said un schools. ban ki moon america especially america coming out very strongly against it yesterday is the tide changing and what about israel's reputation after they.

first of all let's not exaggerate because until now they were quite stupid and didn't really get any kind of harsh steps though these are all real pressure to put an end to the there was. a lip service but not much more than this i don't really agree was who the recent days changed the tone of some leaders in the woods but i still seeing that d.c. will not make a change in terms of israeli public opinion israeli public opinion knows how to protect itself from such for only now namely any criticism is in me immediately take it is the same it isn't and then it's not our fault it's their words for and so what is going to give here how long is this going to go on.

first of all i hope it will go on but. nobody knows how will it end because on one side it's very clear that old that bought these are interested in putting an end to it but hamas wants to come out with some kind of achievement and i'm not sure that israel and egypt will let hamas come out was any kind of achievement though the feat in this can take several days it's a very complicated sorry picture of you saying get in levy thank you very much the israeli journalists from the have rights newspaper much appreciated. well maybe strong words from the united states against israel bombing gaza is quite different behind the scenes the break we'll tell you about the new documents revealing the scale of washington's involvement in israel's military operation.

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exactly twenty minutes past eight here moscow now the u.s. president has been less than charitable about russia in a recent interview barack obama named a list of troubles he says a haunting moscow quote a few people have been quick to point out that some of the a crucial things he talked about he got wrong live to a washington correspondent can't see what's more what was right and what was wrong tell us what he's been saying and what people thought about what he said. right kevin so president obama gave a short answer on russia and judging by the transcript it was keen to move on to other questions but in that one paragraph he seemed to downplay russia's role in the world so the us president offered his perspective of russia in these words quote russia doesn't make anything immigrants aren't rushing to moscow in search of

opportunity the life expense expectancy of a russian male is around sixty years old the population is shrinking well those who looked at the statistics have pointed out a few inaccuracy in that one paragraph about immigrants according to the un department of economic and social affairs russia hosts the largest the world's largest population of him after the united states so second to the united states most people who've been to moscow couldn't help but notice the huge influx of immigrants to an extent when immigration reform is one of the main topics in the country's political discussions the life explained expectancy of the russian male is indeed said li lo but it's not sixty years old as the president said but sixty five you know it's a big margin affair when you talk about such data also according to president obama russia's population is shrinking but if you look at the latest numbers it's not shrinking it's actually growing on russia's population has been growing for at

least the past five years due to various factors it may indeed shrink in the future but now it is it is not about. you know not not making anything well russians themselves are very concerned about their economy being centered around oil and gas but there are some things that they still produce you know like spacecraft which to this day delivers us estrogens to space which many would find you know such remarks dismissive but i guess when tensions are this high between the countries we probably shouldn't be surprised because as per the course is the. gun each it should turn a washington correspondent. well while the show exudes the idea of sporting. garza's we're talking about just now turns out that the n.s.a. has been close friends with israel for the past decade maybe no surprises the new documents the 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 polly boyko reports. 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 d.c.

h.q. have said that they won'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 curved 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 bowler briggs put major pharmaceutical firms in a foreign land accused of letting people suffer a top public health dr britton says they'd find a cure if a virus came to london r.t. dot com has got more on his fury at the drugs industry's apparent inertia of the

deadly infection also to ransom that expired what i wonder be the next double zero seven well written spy agency signed of universities now to teach its next generation of cyber age of. the. next tonight's fighters from the self-proclaimed islamic state of tightening their grip on a rack of the making significant gains in the north the rest of control of another oil field three towns and what's believed to be the country's biggest dam and that is the extremists the ability to manipulate electricity supplies to major iraqi cities or even to flood them islamic caliphate recent declared by the jihadist fighters stretches now across northern parts of syria into iraq you see it in the black there the militants now control five all fields in a reportedly selling crude on the black market further from their insurgency they also hold five dams in total 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 simply by pretending it doesn't exist but that's precisely what the swedish government 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 we remove the race. make it impossible so the reality of people or races or this invented the race would be

conceptual tools away from relievers we've heard that is foreign born or national born and we think that that is what we have missed the 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 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 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 toy 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 laws allow people to change their gender an official dock. it's about having first to have to undergo a surgical surgery or hormonal treatment of noble introduced a number of european countries as a germany their parents can refrain from classifying the newborn babies as male or female leaving it up to the child to decide for itself later it can even choose to leave it six indeterminate in france a plan to introduce gender theory classes in primary schools were scrapped after mass protests by outraged parents the idea was to try to teach kids that they can choose their own sexual identity. thanks me with this news that fingertips twenty four seven r.t. dot com i'm back with more just about thirty two minutes time next though after the break return and revenge of the neocons washington's foreign policy in cross talk coming up shortly than.

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 a says city 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 hour it 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.