this is our to international 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. is a rapid victory over the militias also. broken troops. israel violated its own sees the attack in the refugee camp in gaza and killing a child just twenty minutes self-financing the latest humanitarian window. and jihadist islamic state fighters consolidate their hold over iraq by capturing another oil field and three more towns.

there it's eleven pm here in moscow my name is kevin though in our top story than there were four hundred ukrainian troops have crossed the russian border appealing for sanctuary 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 looking for a shelter here one hundred eighty of them held a gun back home but two hundred fifty are still here in this camp in russia's restore region it was set up specially to embrace them we were able to speak to some soldiers and officers here and this is what they say about what happened and

why. we were encircled we had no way so to keep the manpower safe or commanders decided to escape to russia i think for no clear reason the ukrainian population is destroying itself because on both sides they are the same people are not there for it is mike no you know we're just doing it but. we already hear a reaction from officials in key of the kind of just how far i military's behavior saying they were under shelling for months they were running out of ammunition and weapons and they practically didn't have other choices and the commanders took this decision to save the boy's lives 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 hung 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 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 last month forty others 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 operation in this part of the country still continues others were complaining about a very bad situation in the army and lack of ammunition weapons and training. artie's marouf a national there will care of denies that the soldiers who crossed into russia earlier today asked for sanctuary were telling the manpower necessary for its operation in the east has improved easy despite launching three recruitment drive since the start of the crackdown cares 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 that just a couple of days ago a little under eight hundred million was allocated to the military from the states reserve fund but as you can see it seems to be way out of proportion to what's needed the soldiers are running out of food and they've got to rely on handouts and also he's a civil website that's been set up calling on people to donate food to the army on top of that new cranes leaders appear to be struggling to pay their soldiers and just recently the country's parliament introduced a military tax next that when a cost of a takes a closer look at the state of the ukrainian army. the real they've been called up to serve their country but with complaints of having to fire on their own people diminishing supplies into eleven conditionals morong and the ukrainian army seems to be hitting rock bottom. is this new.

roof for either. of us is there. a proper way to. and it's not just poor equipment frustrating the troops as many are forced to live on supplies sun from home we had to got most of the bread 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 so you know. the you know her was oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh. oh second over that in so cal and 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

the sun 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 ultimate. yet you need someone that does that to me if you could teach. the muslims that you like the crimean army should have money to feed and equip their soldiers they get extra cash from online fund raising campaigns a 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. consultations are not being reported in the in the special interests i described earlier support for the crackdown. i think this is what happens when local

government official when you try to encourage mounted on a. local suggests that he should go to the front line in south. korea hostage by fighting. ukraine's budgets being drained by the military operation in the east according to the country's defense ministry could be two point five billion dollars short come the end of the year legal expert alexander mccurry is police financial woes and biggest difficulty right now the problem it seems to me that he has is not simmers lack of weapons which is what presumably the west and west would provide as the simple economic burden of nuvi 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 don't see how all of that can be sorted out in a few weeks before the winter weather closes in. despite the desertions we're talking about ukraine's defense minister says care of troops are very close to victory over local militias praising the progress the army has made in recent days we take a look at the map the ukrainian forces are closing in on resistance strongholds the city of donetsk with a population of almost a million is one of them it's been under continued shelling for weeks with residential areas frequently coming under fire. these now the latest pictures we've received from the outskirts of donetsk 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. and they want to these pictures also from the outskirts of damascus legibly showing ukrainian tanks entering the city security officials say they're preparing to storm it russia's foreign ministry claims kiev concentrating ballistic missile launchers near the city which is still controlled by local militias last month in addition to that the c.n.n.

news channel reported u.s. intelligence sources saying that ukraine is using heavy ballistic rockets against anti-government forces the pentagon's no fault of urge kiev to exercise restraint while russia's foreign minister compared the plight of the people in east ukraine to the palestinians in gaza. which. 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 how to respond to it albeit disproportionately. many of the residents of lugansk to which another target appears cracked them say they're too scared to leave their homes let alone send their children to kindergarten these days luckily no one was inside this building when it was hit by rockets and reports of civilians being killed coming almost every day with more

urban areas getting hit residences 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 and front is damaged as you can see. coming up what president obama is getting wrong about russia later on we examine his remarks in a recent interview which i will tell you one of them are when it comes to reality. but before palestinians are accusing israel of breaching its troops by bombing a house in one of garza'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 the attack the seven hour humanitarian window was declared the flow of humanitarian aid and try to let hundreds of thousands of displaced gazans return home the i.d.f. says the pause does not apply to the town of rafa in southern gaza where three israeli soldiers died recently in an ambush comes after sunday saw tens. people killed when a school run by the. show. i feel i i was i would just say that many were just kids getting gates about school at the time will strike israel says the incident may be linked to an attempt by its army to kill from a gunman as they drove by the un shelter at the un the world body and repeatedly informed the i.d.f. where its facilities and ok there's some talk of course the instant last week twenty people killed in another bombing of a un schooling of gaza. was

if we should win a war over what. i . do then and. one only did i leave again let me know but really it is a fairly accurate if not the only one actually that doesn't. the bombing of the gaza show is a cause outrage around the world un 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 now must stop even israel's main backer the us says it's appalled by what it calls a disgraceful shelling but israel continues to insist the schools are used to store weapons we're told to medics without borders advisor michelle beck from the isle schieffer hospital. you know gaza is a very small area it's seven kilometers. 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 more than three hundred of the best are children and just just. one hour ago chatty can't even if we say ceasefire it's supposed to be ceasefire even one hour ago schatz a camp has been shelled and i just passed through the emergency room and again children women elderly. c.b.s. . now turkey's prime ministers accused israel of deliberately killing palestinian children. and said the country is attempting to create a master race just like hitler once tried but there's also plenty of anti is really sentiment in jordan pictures from the crowds gathering outside the u.s. embassy in amman burning american and israeli flags 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 c. . so it may be a rising tide event israeli sentiment around the world but at home israeli nationalism is also gaining strength as a discussed earlier with gideon levy from the newspaper. 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 but what does it say about the general feeling in israel. at the moment but the motives for this there is a vest majority of very very clear majority for this operation pretty serious secure frys is hardly covered it is really media is really media is concentrated only in its own security for eyes these really price and by and large you see indifference or even extreme cases even joy.

the horrible scenes that we expose from gaza while you mention that let's show our viewers quick clip. a week or two ago of men chanting overlooking gaza 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 that d.c. is an extreme example in this does not reflect the general feeling but unfortunately the general feeling is character mainly by indifference told to blind this no more adults almost no debate about them or really two of these super ration. israeli army is working hard to justify its mission however on sunday it

released a video of what it says was a precision strike on a hamas rocket launcher hidden in a residential area there are also images of i.d.f. soldiers removing most of. the tunnel along the stone from israel's foreign ministry told me to just shoot the operation is the only option left for israel now under the threat of the militants this is a terror organization that we're fighting terrorism is a sham that's one to bring destruction i want to remind you that even today we haven't a humanitarian ceasefire for quite a few hours while the well the people of hamas kept on shooting at us just today twenty three rockets when we left 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 were being killed here yes and unfortunately the hamas uses these people as human shields you know i mean shouldn't a war is there on a number of occasions about you know where civilian objects are located in

specifically this particular school why is it that israel has not heeded that the u.n. 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 called 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 the people of israel and they said you can look at what merkel said you can look at what obama said so actually actually we have a lot of support. ilana stein there from israel's foreign ministry well maybe she missed some of the most recent comments coming out of europe france is calling for the international community to impose a solution from outside of what it calls the garzon massacre while britain's prime minister backed the un's condemnation of that school bombing as criminal. stay with us we tell you how america's just spring caught using undercover travelers to do its dirty work against cuba with live reaction coming up in a minute or two to the revelation of the u.s. recruiting young the latin american for the job and we hear the state department has left a lot of questions from journalists. in

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to find out more visit. us is reporting really sending young latin americans to cuba to ferment political unrest and i pay investigations lifted the lid on the secret program launched by the obama administration back in two thousand and nine the project was over. seen by the u.s. agency for international development which was recruiting young people apparently from venezuela peru and costa rica it worked on the cover pretending to be two wrists and traveling around cuba in search for people they could turn into political activists a spokeswoman for the u.s. state department has just been fielding questions about washington's plan destroying program on the island with journalists left rather puzzled about how the situation is not going to affect the work all day and geos. the first thing that

people will ask them is how do we know that you're not cia well strengthening civil society and empowering a civil society to be more capable it's something that that was the focus of this program and again i think what's been communicated with any who have is the secretary comfortable with this apparent mixing of missions we would disagree with that characterization this is undermining the very credibility that is needed in order for these programs which are run directly by us. through other contractors namely n.g.o.s who are killed in on the goodwill extended toward the u.s. government in order to do their work effectively well i think you're jumping a bit to a conclusion there as i think there are programs around the world that are oriented towards developing a more vibrant and capable civil society consistent with democracy promotion programs worldwide and obviously this contract was in line with that well i was immediate reaction let's get some more reaction from people right to the fusion

puryear from the answer coalition is love the line from washington high the other say the state department is just fielding questions in the last fifteen minutes or so in what do you make of such tactics if they do hold up here recruiting people under the guise of others to desist as well actually undermining a nation. well i think it's absolutely deplorable i mean i think on multiple levels i mean first and foremost from the point of view of a regime change level you know the state department person constantly saying civil society promotion this that the third the reality is that the cuban government is in fact supported by the cuban people in supporting these types of programs these regime change programs i think are vastly misguided secondly sending people in there essentially viewing them as expendable telling them to go in there with almost no training and really just hoping to get something out of it but not caring whether they're imprisoned or anything of that nature and third and equally if perhaps not maybe most importantly of all of these things is the fact that now all

sorts of people not just aid workers but tourist for example enter as anyone who knows tourism is one of the main industries in cuba and now of course it may deter people who say oh i don't want to go there because i don't want them to treat me like perhaps i'm a spy or something of that nature and so it harms the it harms the nation of cuba and the people of cuba who depend on this industry to bring in a lot of their a lot of their foreign currency and to support their economy to allow them to have things like universal free health care that celebrated around the world does some of the greatest and so i think it's deplorable on multiple levels you use the word reality that you're pretty sure this is happening with the a.p. news agency has brought this forth now and so there's just been questions later in the last few minutes towards the state department about it how does this recruiting actually would. the thick end of it. well i mean it's difficult to say one hundred percent but we do know at the very least from some document from an individual who was a double agent inside of venezuela and cuba who was recruited this is released

a little earlier this year a few months this year that they recruit people from a number of ways especially young people from college campuses in particular different sorts of travel programs more or less anywhere where they feel that there will be some conglomeration of students who for whatever reason maybe they're from a country where there's already political turmoil people may have some personal predisposition against cuba but certainly it happens on any and all levels we also see moving away from young people in particular we know for absolute certain fact that the united states government has approached many of the cuban doctors that serve abroad in venezuela brazil and other places an attempt to woo them we see it in the sports world so really anyone who perhaps has any they they view they have any potential either predisposition to this or some sort of leverage against them and so with these young people and from what was reported you know many of them were recruited as students and i think this is the way these things often happen when people who are all well i'm interested in you know being involved in certain

in geo projects and you very sort of unwittingly signed up with an ngo that looks great and it turns out that it's a usa idea program and then all of a sudden they're asking you to write intelligence operation when it's time for a bit over that all n.g.o.s are doing this but it's bad news if you are an ngo in a foreign country. situation at the moment. oh it certainly is i mean it because ultimately it makes every single person even people who have entirely positive motives entirely outre sick motives it makes it much more difficult for them to do their work from the point of view of you know not only the goodwill of governments but the the attitude of peoples i mean i think quite frankly people are very well informed about these sorts of things they know that since nine hundred sixty there have been any number of u.s. efforts to over the cuban government from assassinations to invasions to the promotion of terrorist base out of miami and so you know people who are trying to coming in and offering aid certainly the people of cuba are not open to this woman it relation in any large scale way and perhaps they will also be more wary. coming

and not themselves wanting to be manipulated by a foreign power so it makes it much more difficult for aid providers to provide the aid and it makes it much more difficult difficult for those who are receiving the aid to really know that what they're getting is is a true person to person contact that is for the good of the people as opposed to potentially something where they're being used as pawns which i think many people in cuba and around the world for that matter are not interested. in the answer coalition along from washington there thank you thank you u.s. president has been less the charitable about russia and a recent interview barack obama named a list of troubles he says the whole scope quite a few people have been quick to point to some crucial things you go wrong is going to change you 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 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 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 against 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 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 of error when you talk about such data also according to president obama russia's population is trying things 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 estrella's to space which many would find you know such remarks dismissive but i guess when tensions are at this high between the countries we probably shouldn't be surprised. so up next the return revenge of the near comes in crosstalk so if the break international i was also inside the headlines if you're watching in britain special program few with ashton returns a joint. 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 assessor 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 you 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 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.