full picture posts. on to and from around the globe in the book to dump. breaking news this hour israel announces the complete withdrawal of troops from gaza as a three day cease fire begins. a city near the eastern ukrainian industrial hub of donetsk reportedly bombarded by rocket launchers we look at how civilians in the region are trying to survive the regular attacks. u.s. officials criticize a covert u.s. aid operation to stoke unrest in cuba under the guise of a harmless health program. nine

am in moscow good to have you with us our top story this hour israel announced a complete withdrawal of troops from gaza these are live pictures from the area a new seventy two hour cease fire has begun the last three day truce and soon after it started on monday hamas accused israel of breaching its own partial ceasefire by about being a gaza refugee camp. officials say an eight year old girl was killed and thirty people injured in the attack here's some pictures from gaza city taken shortly after israel announced a cease fire on monday people seen clearing away the rubble from a bond house the operation protective edge deadliest israeli offensive in years the numbers of palestinians who've been killed in gaza since the start of july approaching one thousand nine hundred sixty seven israelis have also lost their lives artie's marina joshie spoke with

a lot of stein from israel's foreign minister you explain why the country feels the operation is the only option. this is a terror going to zation that we're fighting terrorism is a sham that's one to bring destruction disagreement here was not about him us it was about civilians innocent civilians they're being killed here yes and unfortunately the from us uses these people as human shields you know anything untoward is there on a number of occasions about you know where civilian objects are located in this specifically this particular school why is it that israel has not heeded that that you know and also said that they found missiles into one risk pools they went out and said if it'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 holy you went out and declared that the hamas has to be militarized meaning they understand that hamas has to weave draw all their weapons and stop being a threat to the people of israel and they said if you can look at what merkel said you can look at what obama said so actually actually we have a lot of support calls mounting to start beilenson gaza among the top officials speaking out is france's foreign minister he says israel security does not justify killing children and armed civilians but in israel peace activism is getting less popular as archy's polis leaders been finding out. fallacy man so these people are israeli haters they're not jewish even an arab wouldn't behave like this they call themselves beautiful souls but they harm the jewish people. israelis opposed to the

military operation of finding it increasingly hard to get their voice heard about the fighting is when people do speak up their shouted down and physically attacked it's extremely hard to demonstrate. when you're fighting because the people are doing the fighting are our kids or brothers or husbands people are saying things and selling things and doing things violently that they would never even dared in past years the right wing is move focalin ever. know that they need to be executed executed between ass and the arabs there will be no peace they don't want peace if they had wanted peace they wouldn't shoot rockets bombs at us and with every passing week the number of people attending the antiwar protests in central tel aviv to be smaller this is a pretty poor turnout but it's not unexpected the israeli left is a pretty quiet voice at the moment in israel what the shouting is that they're racist government will not bring security and after that it's bad but godless of

whether it's in israel or gaza. is one of the few who's not afraid to speak his mind of that home and people dying it's. still my brother in gaza if you know right now that. my uncle died in lebanon thirty years ago i want the war to stop that's it and he's not what he is not your typical peace activist an operative in israel secret services for more than twenty years the fifty seven year old is now a campaigner at combatants for peace once a new force of the occupation he now works alongside palestinians and former israeli soldiers to dismantle these really leftist trying to bring exist a striving to be left to be had because a. small minority a when there is a war if we can call it what's happening in the war people tend to sympathize.

with the state and not to be and to talk against it's not easy to be on the one side of public opinion but honey and i dislike him hope that with time they will be on the right side of history. television. over and i think rainier army has been bombarding residential areas in the city of gori near the regional capital dynastic according to witnesses and locals they claim he has forces are using heavy weaponry including a rocket launchers that were deployed in the area on monday this video believed to show some of the hardware moving through the streets and government forces claim the army is seeking to take control of areas surrounding donetsk ahead of a full out assault on the city people in another suburb also a recent crackdown hotspot say they are in despair. when you have been you go start your new group when you join you. got you know.

the region second largest city lygon skin used to be devastated by artillery fire almost daily a team of journalists had a near miss while working in the area here's how they describe us that. we went to the film site where shelling to place early and we still some people at the bus stop and the explosion took place just a few meters from a vehicle blocked most of the blast so the civilians at the bus stop weren't killed shell fragments he vehicle three of them injured me. we were just about to get out of the car when the blast happened i was injured with the doctors managed to extract all of the fragments the area that was bombed was full of civilians and there was a shop very close by attacks like this happen every day here in new guns. or he's a very if an ocean also in

a besieged city she says it's barely recognizable. lugansk is a shadow of its former self it was once a flourishing regional center with a population of half a million today it is largely abandoned and dangerous destroyed schools and hospitals silent reminders of an ongoing conflict and this is the hotel in the center of the gaza where we used to stay just two weeks ago there were gas here mostly journalists but also ukrainians running from violence in the towns of crime i thought against libya as they used to be a major percentage of the large scale military operation here in eastern ukraine there was also a chinese restaurant on the seventh floor but now as you can see the dow has been shut down the sign says. tahoe is quote the further we go from the center the greater the destruction of his house was damaged when he shall explode in her garden and sort of the flowers she planted there is now

a deep crater. is there i'm sure when you break a deal is i who are them i just are they are. you would you. like other locals here who haven't already fled the fighting on good has taken shelter in a basement here to get back you shall not. be a fool to stand my junior bach or be an actual fact to dicky i grew to love you predict how i could get back many of those sheltering on the ground and seek. and desperate attack you know where you are you know you go up here sure you're not she very much like here. as we're speaking to city drops out like cows are a constant problem here the lines were apparently repaired just before we arrived not down in the way you. look at it but i really don't know. if it and he gave me

a look we're. going to we're going to say give me the reasons shelter under almost every apartment building in lugansk and there really empty this is another basement that the has recently become home to local residents and it's not that they hide here at the time of intense shelling and the bodleian you can see literally leave here every family has its own. place here like an apostle building underground in one of the condo risk only to the youngest resident i've seen here so far he shares many of the feelings of deal do people here know who goes here there's. not just a couple of chefs will come. as it has for east was at nine pm every day people in different basically so we saw it the same prayer. the ask for god to protect them and we bring in peace but as the shelling continues around

them the further stay day to plan ahead is tomorrow when they say they will need him again with relief notion lugansk ukraine more than four hundred thirty ukrainian troops have crossed the russian border appealing for sanctuary some of them have already returned to ukraine but entered an area that's free fighting it's the largest number of ukrainian military personnel to lay down their arms and enter russia but smaller groups have done it before latest group describing their motives which in cinema when you don't forget what we have always missed so many deaths and other terrible things all of us are very happy to be here we've been given new clothes and managed to rest of them and we're very grateful for that which was about which was a provided we were encircled we had no way our lives are sold to keep the manpower safe our commanders decided to escape to russia and i think for no clear reason the

ukrainian population is destroying itself because on both sides they are the same people are not in the book. at r.t. dot com where in the history of reported morale slumps within the here military and some often ways the government came up to tackle the problem. right to see the. first strike. and i think that your. some u.s. officials have accused the government of undermining global health programs after revelations washington was secretly using an hiv prevention campaign in cuba to foment political unrest there the undercover operation run by usa id since two

thousand and nine is but unveiled by the associated press he's got reports. it's no longer a secret that some of the u.s. government aid programs have a dual purpose the u.s. agency for international development usa known for overseeing billions of dollars in u.s. humanitarian aid was this batching venice oil and close to weaken and peruvian young people to cuba hoping to provoke a revolution in their young latinos often pose the poorest they traveled across the country and recruited people whom they believe they could turn into political activists a form administrator with a venezuelan over station who participated in this effort said there was no safety net for these inexperienced workers if they were caught by cuban authorities so the spying program involving the use when done even after the scandalous the rest of the album go off in two thousand and nine who worked as a stop contract with the usa he's now serving a fifteen year sentence in cuba the u.s.

trying to foment honesty in cuba is nothing new of course but this latest investigation by the associated press reveals how humanitarian aid programs were used to that end. prevention workshop in memo subterrane peas labeled as quote unquote the perfect excuse for the program's political goals the government actually is they are hiding the fact that some of their programs have a dual purpose speaking about this they should be workshop program the usaid said quote it unable to support the cuban civil society while providing a secondary benefit of addressing the desired cubans expressed information and training about prevention. when u.s. state department spokesperson jen psaki was asked about the revelations she denied the us a program had a mixed mission. first thing that people will ask them is how do we know that you're not cia well strengthening a civil society and empowering a civil society to be more capable is 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 former of white house official paul craig roberts things the u.s. government is no stranger to covert overseas programs. anytime you see anything funded by washington directly or indirectly you know you are permitting washington to undermine your own country or your own government and the same goes true if you say oh oh look how wonderful that americans who dream about us this in a bank here all their energy companies are going to come help us they're not there will be there conducting subversion this is what they do and i did blows my mind trenchers follow us over and over and all the countries don't fall

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eighteen minutes past the hour now to cement u.s. relations with africa president obama is hosting a first ever summit with the continent's leaders washington expects a billion dollars worth of business and to widen its funding to peacekeeping food and power programs the continent already has been the twenty first century's next great growth region and it's been so far living up to the title out of the ten fastest growing economies in two thousand and thirteen forward africa and president obama expressed high hopes for the ongoing summit that he called a truly historic event washington's push coming and made a loud speculation though that its interests in africa are purely to challenge china the u.s. has increased trade with the continent almost one hundred billion dollars that number still though not near china's involvement there beijing's direct foreign investment has been growing by leaps and bounds lawrence freeman from me executive intelligence review who was at the summit says washington can't match china in this regard according to the official policy of the state department this

summit is to reaffirm the u.s. friendship and partnership with africa. so that's an almost immediately statement one of the programs that obama is calling his signature program power africa haile referred to as power lifts africa to be crazy in fact it's doing almost nothing and it's not going to lead to any development in africa china is doing what other countries have refused to do. the chinese are building infrastructure building railroads the building dams doing building other facilities. take a look now at some other stories making global headlines the nigerian military abused civilians in their fight against the islamist militant group boko haram according to amnesty international that released footage showing soldiers slitting the throats of detainees and the jury and officials are now investigating the

allegations human rights group also accuse the military of killing more than six hundred released prisoners. hundreds of teachers took to the streets of buenos aires demanding on paid salaries and reopening no salary negotiations protests coming several days after argentina defaulted on its debt protesters calling the government or calling on the government not to pay the hedge funds and protect funding for education. five lebanese are excited and wounded when their convoy came under fire in northern lebanon on their way to mediate a solution to fighting in the city of our sun near the border with syria it's been under control of the radical all news for a fraud. i mean isn't this and government forces in lebanon has raged for three days and left about twenty people dead. searching for survivors under way the aftermath of an earthquake that hit china's you nonprofit sunday it's thought to have left more than three hundred ninety people dead and injured nearly two thousand of them out officials expect the number of casualties to rise as rescuers

scramble through the ruins rain and storm is forecast for the next few days could hinder emergency relief efforts. london seeking to ignite the u.k. space industry and move scotland in the process artie's policy boyko looks at the prospects of britain's space tourism. the scottish are being promised all sorts to stay in the u.k. but now they're being sold on trips to the stars. that's because the british government wants to reach the final frontier or rather build a space port for commercial space travel by twenty eighteen and scotland has a shot at housing the launch pad the u.k. space industry is growing at an astronomical pace it already contributes over eleven billion pounds to the u.k. economy every year it employs a good thirty thousand people but as the focus of one british satellite building company puts heads you face space always piggybacking on someone else's rocket so

ministers say that this is an industry that needs more room to grow and that means having a place in britain to launch these from the government's come up with eight possible remote seaside locations for the potential space space six of them are in scotland where there's an independence referendum in just six weeks some social media responses accuse westminster of dangling the scottish spaceport and the potential local jobs and economic growth it would create as a carrot for scots to stay in the union and. they will say that he wants this to be a complete. countries and that really they are good working towards this so you are already going to or perhaps he will be scottish national party leader alex salmond says that whatever the outcome of the referendum scotland would still be the best location for in the face but the rumble is that scotland would want to gift an

independent scotland a spaceport that would create jobs that could be kept south of the border richard branson's virgin galactic is already advertising space tourism in the window display of its london head. or says from the end of this yeah anyone willing to stump up one hundred and twenty thousand pounds can take a trip into space from a spaceport in new mexico these are just the sort said that shows that ministers had hoped they could attract with their various groups site the transport department told t. that its consultation would focus on the suitability of all eight locations and questions about potential scottish independence were premature either way the shortlist is expected to be unveiled at the end of the head off to a results of the scottish referendum the coming day. it's a lot. still to come on r t international investigation into whether something's

fishy in the seafood stay with us. 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 heart 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 to our red system which basically blasted the protesters with sound which sounds pun 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 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 well things like el read allow any coward to just flip a switch and 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 el read technology but that's just my opinion.

a rule rode in western norway. surrounded by glaciers and clips. a road is winding as the shores of the fiords. after hours of searching i finally reach my destination. floating on cold water fish farms. where in my one of the country's most hidden treasures farmed salmon. in these deserted places surrounded by fences and closed doors. i have an appointment with a man who wants to reveal what he considers to be a scandal. couldn't under the waters of the fiords.

is one of the ways most respected environmental activists. has gone to war against salman farmers who according to him are responsible for a large scale health disaster. it is said the soft of this and know all this face because this is that to too many together you know with two million in the fish from like this that too many together and they get sick and today you have you have a you have a pond to me because p.d. and eisai spread all over norway and they don't tell they want to don't want to tell it to the customers like the people in france you know. over the last ten years kurt loder god has placed these factory farms under strict surveillance. gathering evidence. today he wants to reveal to me the practices of these norwegian fish farmers whom he considers it so dangerous. indecent images which he filmed he claims that these men are pouring a powerful pesticide into these waters one known to have neurotoxic effects.

they must protect themselves with work suits and gas masks from chemicals to treat salmon attacked by pests and diseases which abound in these farms. they would find different kind of teen you will find you will find food banks are on strike you know all kind of chemicals and that's that's disgusting you know you know it's. it's not safe for people to hear i mean. you know is the most toxic food you have in the whole wall. of. toxic fish which are regularly sold in our supermarkets. and no we can salmon is not the only species concern. to verify these accusations i spent several months investigating behind the scenes in the fishing industry. the ultimate health food

recommended by doctors and nutritionists fish is retained its image as a healthy and natural product. yet it's flesh holds many secrets among the most toxic in the agro food industry. from norway to vietnam via sweden and denmark i investigated the ins and outs of this global industry. fish livestock fish products but also prepared dishes were going to dive into the murky waters of an out of control industry which to our knowledge is pouring a dangerous cocktail of chemicals into the food which we choose our table.