america does is right because america does. tonight on r.t. international mass desertion for ukraine's army is over four hundred soldiers crossed into russia asking for shelter and the largest but not the first such case here though promises a rapid victory over the militias also. many other. troops palestinians say israel violated its own ceasefire but tacking a refugee camp in gaza and killing a child it just twenty minutes for announcing the latest humanitarian wind. and you had a state fighters consolidate their hold over iraq by capturing another oil field

down when three more towns. good evening it's nine pm here in moscow my name is kevin our top story tonight over four hundred ukrainian troops have crossed the russian border appealing for century it's the largest number of ukrainian military personnel to lay down arms and enter russia but it's not the first time. that the checkpoint where the soldiers arrived. on sunday night four hundred thirty eight ukrainian military laid down their arms and crossed into russia through google a border checkpoint not far from where we are now looking for a shelter here one hundred eighty of them held a gun back home but two hundred fifty are still here in this tent camp in russia's restore region it was set up specially to embrace them this one term soldiers and officers say about what happened and why we've been almost completely out of

ammunition and fuel for the past two weeks even provisions ran out i couldn't feed my people they're worn out not so much by the fighting but rather by despair the only help we got from kiev were hiding in their commands and during the past week they didn't even get in touch with us as if we were already dead to save people commanders decided to cross the russian border we've had to leave our equipment and weapons on the other side saving the people was our priority we already hear reaction from officials in key of the kind of just how far i military's behavior saying they were under shelling for a month they were running out of ammunition and weapons and they practically didn't have other choice and the commanders took this decision to save the boys' lives but actually that's not the first time that we see something like this happening just last we can we saw a dozen of ukrainian military again and last month forty are there is laying down their arms and crossing into russia again and asking for shelter here some of them

were explaining it saying that they do not want to fight against their own people in the eastern ukraine as you know the large scale military operation or how key of calls it anti terror peroration in this part of the country still continues others were complaining of all it's a very bad situation in the army and lack of ammunition weapons and training. for its part of the noise of the soldiers who crossed into russia earlier today asked for surgery returning the necessary for its operations in the east not proved easy though despite launching three recruitment drive since the start of the. here's army's still struggling to fill its rank and file military analysts say the army needs over eleven billion dollars to replace old weapons of machinery just a couple of days ago a little under eight hundred million was allocated to the military from the state's reserve and the soldiers are running out of food they've got to rely on handouts and indeed 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 because of a take a closer look at the state of the ukrainian army the army is the real thing called up to serve their country but with complaints of having to fire on their own people diminishing supplies in poor living conditions more wrong and the ukrainian army seems to be hitting rock bottom. is that. this is the view. from the roof for either. of us is there. a proper way. 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 eight loves they only have a small edible part in the middle but there are

a lot of people here. for a good while others say they're being left to fend for themselves you know. the you know or the oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh. oh 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 resentment. and yet the needs of that does that to me is that you could. look.

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. confrontations are not being reports of the loyalist western regions as well despite their earlier support for the crackdown in the east . arrest this is what happens when a local government official when he tried to encourage men to join the army of. local suggests that he should go to the front line in south. during the cost of art scene. ukraine's budget is being drained by the metro braised 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 the macoris believes financial woes are

kiev's 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 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 weather closes in. time will tell of course but despite the desertion ukraine's defense minister says care of troops are very close to victory over local militias praising the progress indeed the army's made in several days let's take a look at a map ukrainian forces are closing in on the resistance strongholds here in the east the city of donetsk with a population of almost a million is one of them it's been on the continued shelling for weeks with

residential areas frequently coming under fire despite the fact that president poroshenko said that shouldn't these the latest pictures we've received from the outskirts of donetsk which is also the regional capital the port of the show family homes practically raced the ground apparently by army shelling locals say there were no anti government forces stationed in that area though and let's take a look at these pictures also from the outskirts of the nets allegedly showing ukrainian tanks entering the city give security officials say they're preparing to storm the city russia's foreign ministry claims kiev is concentrating ballistic missile launchers near the city which is still controlled by a local militia last month c.n.n. reported u.s. intelligence sources say ukraine is using heavy ballistic rockets against anti government forces the pentagon's thought for a verge now to exercise restraint while russia's foreign minister compared the plight of the people in east ukraine that the palestinians in gaza. you're wishing which. is my hope 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. it meantime many of the residents of lugansk which is another target of here scrag say they're 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 week and reports are civilians being killed coming almost every day with more urban areas getting hit residents in a crowded shop came under fire in one of the latest attack. 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 ahead including what president obama is getting wrong about russia and later on we examine his remarks in a recent interview which we'll tell you were quite wide of the mark in reality. but next palestinians are accusing israel of breaching its own troops by bombing a house in one of gaza's refugee camps just twenty minutes after the latest ceasefire was announced the same eight year old girl was killed and thirty people were injured in the attack the seven hour humanitarian wynberg was declared to try to facilitate the flow of humanitarian aid and let hundreds of thousands of displaced gazans return home the i.d.f. says the pause doesn't apply a load to the town of rafa are in southern gaza where three israeli soldiers died recently in an ambush this lol comes after sunday saw ten people killed when

a school run by the united nations and show. was i witnesses say that many were just queuing for food there at the gates of that school at the time of the strike israel says the incident may be linked to an attempt by its army to kill hamas gunmen as they drove past that un shelter the world body had to repeatedly inform the i.d.f. where its facilities are located though but just last week two twenty people were killed another bombing of a un school and guards it was the you know if it was a. woman. who. was. in new delhi and. i was only did i leave again let me. work.

the bombing of that girl's a show to cause rage 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 now must stop even israel's main backer the u.s. says it was appalled by what it calls the disgraceful shelling but israel continues to insist the schools are used to store weapons we talked to medics without borders advisor michele burke from the oshie four hospital you know gaza is a very small area it's seven kilometers uncertainty damages 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 c.b.s. mob and three hundred of the best children and just just. one hour go to camp even if we say ceasefire now it's supposed to be ceasefire not 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. c.b.s. . time reaction from turkey's prime minister has accused israel of deliberately killing palestinian mothers and children. and said the country was attempting to create a master race just like hitler once tried there's also plenty of anti israeli sentiment in jordan crowds gathering outside the u.s. embassy in amman burning american israeli flags and in the netherlands thousands attended a rally in support of the people of. demonstrators laid flowers on top of small coffins presenting palestinians killed by israeli airstrikes. so that maybe a rising tide of anti israeli sentiment around the world but at home is really nationalism is also gaining strength discussed earlier with gideon levy from the eretz newspaper. 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 try to justify what was happening in gaza now it was quickly taken offline but what does it say about the general feeling in israel at the moment but the motives for this there is this the majority of very very clear majority for this operation but it says secure for eyes is hardly covered it is really media israeli media is concentrated all lead in its own security for eyes these really arise. by and large you see in difference or even in extreme cases even enjoying. the horrible scenes that we expose for our civil war you mentioned that let's show our viewers quick clip. a week or two ago of men chanting overlooking garza basically we're playing in whistling as the bombs are falling on gaza let's listen to that a second. what

does 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 dc's an extreme example in these there's no truth flick the general feeling but unfortunately the general feeling is character mainly by indifference but told to in this no more is almost no debate about them or really to you of these operations israeli army is working hard to justify its mission on sunday released a video of what it says was a precision strike on a hamas rocket launcher hidden in a residential area in gaza that are also images of r.d.f. soldiers remove a motorbike from what he said was and hamas tunnel the augustine from israel's foreign ministry told me joshie the operation is the only option left for israel under the threat of militants. this is a terror game is a shame that we're fighting terrorism is a sham that's one to bring destruction i want to remind you that even today we have

a humanitarian ceasefire for quite a few hours while the well the people in hamas kept on shooting at us just today twenty three rockets when we let the passages be opened in order to bring in more than one hundred trucks and a lot of assistance to the people in gaza because we see them as hostages the disagreement here was not about him us it was about civilians innocent civilians they're being killed here yes and unfortunately the hamas uses these people as human shields you know a war it is or on a number of occasions about you know were civilian objects are located in this specifically this particular school why is it that israel has not heeded that you know and also said that they found missiles into one risk pools they went out and said it that's un schools that were used to hide missiles this is just another one when israel was warned about this that you know there are civilians in the school sheltering also u.n. secretary ban ki moon a cold your action a war crime 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 we've passed the three thousand rockets that were shot at us in the last month three thousand rockets is there one country among the g. twenty states that supports israel in this can you name one yes 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 through and what he says and let me know what we. actually actually we have a lot of support. lowenstein there from israel's foreign minister she makes some of the most recent comments coming out a europe france has been calling for international community to impose a solution from outside on what he calls the gazan massacre while britain's prime minister backed the un's condemnation of that school bombing as criminal still to

come in the program islamic state fighters make significant gains in iraq with more strategically important objects falling into their hands and to expert opinion coming up on the prospects of this so-called smart war after the break. fish farms waters do you have a pond to me because. i saw it spread all over norway is the most toxic food you have in the whole world. drowns out in the tissue inquiry furthermore restrictions .

dramas that can't be ignored. stories others refuse to notice. faces change. the picture. from around the globe. look to. me. well again 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 quite a few people have been quick to point out though that some crucial things he mentioned there were wrong granted he can explain. 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 expectancy expectancy of our should male is around sixty years old the population is shrinking well those who looked at the statistics have pointed out a few inaccuracy is 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 the life explained expectancy of those melees indeed said li lo but it's not sixty years old as the president said but sixty five ways you know it's a big margin of error 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 quoting the 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 russia. 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 a spacecraft which to this day delivers u.s. astronauts to space which many would find you know such remarks dismissive but i guess when tensions are at this high between the countries who probably shouldn't be surprised maybe africa's terrifying a bowl or a major pharmaceutical firms in a foreign land accused of letting people suffer and now a top public health to britain which is the fun to cure the virus came to london. more on his fury of the drugs industry's apparent inertia to the die. the affection

. fans are learning spying one hundred one to be the next seven world britons a spy agency signed that we university is now to teach its next generation of cyber agents may be a career for the future. fighters from the self-proclaimed islamic state of tightening their grip on a rack after making significant new games in the north another wrested control of a nother oil fields retail and what's believed to be the country's biggest dam and that gives the extremists than the ability to manipulate electricity supplies to major iraqi cities or even to flood the islamic caliphate recently declared by the jihadist fighters stretches across northern parts of syria iraq you see in black there in total the militants no control five oil fields in the report only selling crude in the black market to further fund their insurgency they also hold five dams in total as well as military bases including one of saddam hussein's former

chemical weapons facilities the radical groups ultimate goal is to create a huge islamic state in the region most of all perspective on this where it may be going in toward the middle east expert some iran danny is now joining us live there sami this is being called a smart war that they're waging here it seems to be pretty successful getting control of key assets damns places like that they're holding the power are we going to see more of it. possibly possibly i think. it seems that this is a very well coordinated attack and obviously you for the last few years there were also three four time information. i says so-called ice is being active in iraq especially with the with the rising warfare in syria a lot of supplies came through charity to various on groups and in syria and also of these arms funds channeled into these isis cough where is the

supplies kept coming through from from various sources but mostly through work through gulf states specialists. supply billions of dollars worth of aid to the song groups and some of this went into the ice is group and it seems that he heard being planning this attack for quite a while i would put within an within an iraqi context they also gained oh oh oh oh sorry somehow how many servers so just interrupt each other great story how important is this mosul down there that they have now got strategically is it a game changer along. it's quite an important down because not only does it surprise. you know what they are surprised to mosul itself and move.

on point eight zero zero point seven million people but also if if ice is to commit a horrific crime by unleashing the walter from the job that could cause enormous floods alone would go down the river down the tigris all the way to baghdad so it's hard to find horrific scenario that. ever comes about you know you're saying it seems it seems very well thought out as well somebody's got to leave it there but thanks for your thoughts we do appreciate it show. some other world news no brief is twenty five minutes to twenty six minutes past nine moscow time rescue still searching for survivors out of the six point one earthquake that hit china as you know and province on sunday it killed at least three hundred ninety one now the thing and injured more than eighteen hundred others officials expect the number of death to rise though as rescuers scramble through the ruins of level villages there rain and thunderstorms adding to the

misery of being forecast which could hinder efforts to provide emergency relief to the victims and talking about whether to flooding swung to a small town in northern bowl guerrier it's killed at least two people forced nine hundred eight to safety heavy rain caused a swollen river to burst its banks hundreds of homes remain underwater official described the situation as critical a deadly flooding east bulgaria killed nearly a dozen people earlier this summer maybe as global warming to see more of it on when a ferry carrying around two hundred people is capsized in central bangladesh at least two people have died scores of missing one survivor said that ferry was overloaded with passengers no overturned in a strong current mid river scores of people are killed in ferry accidents every year in bangladesh is low lying river delta where boats are the most common form of travel. coming up instant program of the brain an investigation into whether something's fishy happening you know seafood coming up.

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 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 but intended humane until you look into it and read that the weapon can cause permanent hearing loss the company even admits this is true at less than

fifteen meters we see all across the country so-called non-lethal weapons being used to very harmful and even to well we thought ns but why does this happen because they make breaking up protest easy unsafe for the cops remember in the old days when you had to physically break up protests 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 a spell read technology but that's just my opinion. in justifying that is that they're starting all sorts of what they see as international precedents in costs of the upcoming referendum and. planned but their response that they're hearing from their wife is that what you think is illegitimate by what we have been tearing itself a way of life a measure of fields and break into their story good what america does is right

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