why you should watch only. a humanitarian disaster is declared in the eastern ukrainian city locals are running out of electricity water and food after weeks of siege by key of troops. israel spalling its troops from gaza both sides agree and three day cease fire a look at the devastation wrought so far by the month long mission that's killed nearly nine hundred plus. the u.s. is under fire over using aid programs in cuba as a cover for political and after investigation reveals young latin americans were recruited to ferment breast across the aisle and.

international coming to you live from moscow with me marina cha she welcome to the program all ganske is said to be in the grip of a humanitarian disaster local leaders assessment of conditions in the eastern ukraine regional capital come aster weeks of being besieged in a city which has long been a focal point for answer key of resistance almost half of the population has fled by its two hundred fifty thousand remain and are now trapped the young going fighting has left lugansk without electricity and is now hindering repair works water supplies have also been cut off as have more bile and internet communications removing waste from the city has also become impossible creating a serious health hazard and there is a shortage of medical supplies and food. is in the besieged city.

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 cum 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 all 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 and should be in very high ideal is a hoot of them i suggested they. do would you. like other locals here who haven't already fled the fighting own good has taken shelter and basement here to get back you shall not. be a fool to stand my junior bachrach be an actual fact to dicky i grew to love you pretty good how i could have done many of those sheltering underground osieck. and desperate attack you know where yeah you know you go up cheer throughout europe she did very well for you very much here. as we're speaking electricity drops out like cows are a constant problem here the lines were apparently repaired just before we arrived the damage the way you. look at it but i really don't know. if it and he gave me

a look we're. going to go out with the same being the reason shelter under almost every apartment building in the gun store and they're 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 wagner and you can see they're literally leave here every family has its own. place here like an apartment building but underground in one of the categories tony to them the youngest resident i've seen here so far he shares many of the fears of deal do people here. who go through. this don't go particularly well just the gospel she shouts with god . there's a difference for it was at nine pm every day people in different base when this recent the same prayer. the ask for god to protect them and we bring them peace

but as the shelling continues around them the furthers the day to plan a had is tomorrow when they say they wound up here again with relief notion of lugansk ukraine. now the ukraine army is also closing in on other indicate strongholds in the east it's now just preparing for a major offensive and this will target the regional capital of dinny outscored has now made a hobby of resistance in the city has a population of almost a million. now these new pictures allegedly show tanks and armored vehicles on the outskirts of deniece get stocky have started deploying hardware there on monday the suburbs of the seed city have frequently come under heavy fire in the past weeks and this is what one of the local schools looked like after he was pounded by shells that is an important thing both in the region and in the country here are some of the key facts. the answer is ukraine's fifth largest city with

a population of nine hundred fifty thousand people one last year forbes named it the most attractive city for doing business in the whole country and it's one of ukraine's main economic hubs and the center of the nation's mining industry just two years ago don't ask drew crowds of football fans from all across europe want to host the games for euro two thousand and twelve the months of having shelling out forest residents to live practically on the ground. that you enjoyed yourself you know they do you know look i mean you are going to be you've got all these very very views not a view of the reasons you were. i . think. around two hundred fifty grand soldiers are now house in

a tent camp in russia after laying down their arms and crossing the border there from a group of over four hundred who appealed for sanctuary on monday the others were sent back to crane after they said that they wanted to return home monday's mass defection was the largest of its kind though not the first the groups out it had been encircled had run out of ammunition and felt abandoned by a key of ukraine's army has not found it easy waging its operation in the east launched back in april. military analysts say it needs over eleven billion dollars to replace old weapons am machinery while the amount of money recently allocated to the army was only a little under eight hundred million ukraine soldiers are suffering from food shortages and are having to rely on charity and there's a website set up by civil activists calling on people to donate food to the army and kiev also appears to be struggling to pay its soldiers just recently the country's parliament introduced

a military tax and here's what he granny of soldiers who crossed into russia told r.t. . fortune sitting home alone you don't forget we have all witnessed 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 and we're very grateful for that which. we were encircles we had no way out and so to keep the manpower safe our 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. now moscow is way its response to the sanctions recently imposed by the west later this hour we'll be looking at one option reportedly on the table which could see european airlines lose up to a billion dollars in three months. israel is pulling its troops out of gaza three day cease fire brokered by egypt is now officially in place

israel says it has completed its month long mission which was to target hamas but which brought the worst devastation and civilian losses in years nearly nine hundred palestinians were killed in israel's own slaughter around four hundred thirty of them were children and the mission also damaged over a one hundred sixty schools and destroyed twenty four hospitals which have been overflowing with injured and dying palestinians well earlier i spoke to a lot of stein from israel's foreign ministry and she explained why she thinks the israeli operation was justified. 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 the 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 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 declare 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 i actually actually we have a lot of support now this is going to scale back the operation follows

a chorus of condemnation from europe and the united states the u.n. chief describes one school shelling as a criminal act and gross violation of humanitarian law bunky moon the madness of war that's wreaking havoc in gaza must stop even israel's main backer the u.s. says it's appalled by what it calls disgraceful shelling while france cold for the international community to impose a solution from outside of what it calls the gaza massacre. now these are live pictures from birmingham we're getting them from our video agency pro palestinian or campaigners have launched a fresh action urging for an and to israel's attacks on palestinians well as you can see they have placed a banner u.k. stop arming israel on a local factory which they claim is supplying arms for the operation in gaza. the international criticism of israel's operation is loud enough but peace activism

was then the country is becoming increasingly difficult policy are met some of those who won't give up. very. soon these people are israeli haters they're not jewish even america behave like this they call themselves beautiful souls they harm the jewish people. israelis opposed to the military operation of finding it increasingly hard to get their voice heard about the right thing is when people do speak up their shelter dome 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 made folk will they never. 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 they 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 the time and just 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 one 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 it this israeli left. briggs's a striving to be left to be had because. we have a small minority a when there is a war if we can call it what's happening now war people tend to sympathize with with with the state and not to be a to talk against it's not easy to be on the wrong side of public opinion but barney and others like him hope that with time they will be on the right. side of history point. tel aviv. israel has a long history of mobilizing against its opponents but rarely seems to achieve its desired dance in two thousand and six israel invaded lebanon to take on has abilify others the result the group got stronger and the conflict help it into power in beirut since than there have been for devastating wars between israel and hamas but

now the former rival sides fatah and hamas have formed a unity government and in doing so only strengthening opposition to the idea well also the human cost of those bloody conflicts is what has really gained traction in people's minds inflicting damage to israel's international image and twenty thirteen is found itself mung the world's least popular countries. ally in a sickening game appeared recently in one of the world's biggest app stores challenging players to bomb hamas while trying to avoid civilian casualties have to r t dot com for more details on that. coming up yeah after a short break islamic state fighters savagely murderously congress parts of syria and iraq are now in lebanon stay with us as we ask whether any force is capable of stopping them.

so we leave the people. who should see your. party is it the. shoes that no one is there with to get that you deserve answers from. politics. they just want to keep building that allowing saudi arabia qatar and iran to fund millions and millions of pounds worth of the building of mosques in this country where they may have them addresses where current we have a hundred thousand four to sixteen year old children who have been schooled in these mature asses which is encouraging complete non integration within the society .

welcome back watching r.t. international a group of british business leaders say sanctions against russia over the mh seventeen crash won't help resolve the crisis they say the public and those doing business and russia are not responsible for the tragedy in moscow is preparing its own response to the sanctions is reportedly considering a limit seeing or banning european flights from crossing its airspace to asia and joining me now is katie pilgrim who's the host of artie's venture capital is this program kitty things much for being with us will do tell us what's happening especially how could this measure affect airlines and consumers well be costly for

both the shortfalls we're going to go into detail just now because it's the timing marina resonates holiday season we are now at the peak of the holiday season and people wishing to travel to asia from europe could find themselves caught up in all the function kyle so in response to european sanctions grounding one of russia's low cost airlines russia is now considering shutting down its major transit routes for european head lives. so far as you can see from this map we've taken recently from flight traders twenty four dot com the flights are performed three rushes siberia right back. because it's shorter and therefore cheaper which ultimately means a cheaper ticket for the consumer if rush to close this route your holiday flight from europe to asia will be several hours long and it's already going up right now in fact the european allies will need about four thousand kilometers to their

routes which equates to an extra thirty thousand dollars per flies an airline source quoted by a domestic media outlet m.s.t. says the possible losses of western allies could amount to one billion euros in just three months and ultimately you the consumer that would be paying more money even though you've got the inconvenience of having to fly for longer we're getting so much for this katie pilgrim there is splitting things for us two other stories washington is accused of putting health initiatives around the world at risk on monday it was revealed that in each of the prevention program was used to sand young americans to cuba to stir up political unrest and online for you to day. apologise for this we have a different story now we go to our correspondent who is in the u.s.

for us and she has this report. 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 usaid known for overseeing billions of dollars in u.s. humanitarian aid was dispatching venice oil and coast to weaken and proving young people to cuba hoping to provoke a revolution in their young latinos often posed as tourists they traveled across the country and recruited people whom they believe they could turn into political activists a form administrator with a venezuelan over the 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 don't even after the scandalous the rest of the album gloss in two thousand and nine who worked as a sup 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 so paint by the a.p.'s label this quote unquote the perfect excuse for the program's political goals the government actually is not 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 enables support for cuban civil society while providing a secondary benefit of addressing desired cuban six press information and training about the prevention. now fighters from the islamic state movement who are moving fast across the middle east have now gained their first ground in lebanon bloodthirsty group already controls swathes of land in iraq and syria they have captured the lebanese city of our salt on the syrian border and after days of heavy fighting it is a must have set up checkpoints but have not yet declared the city part of the

caliphate they have announced on the occupied territories of syria and iraq the lebanese militant group hezbollah has vowed to help the army to retake ourselves from the jihad as well let's bring in now political analyst come on was do you think it's so much for mr wasn't for joining us to discuss the situation well it's indeed very worrying that a third country now has to fly back against islamic state fighters what can stop them in your opinion. well obviously there is a determination and lebanon to fight this terrorist organization wherever it exists on the lebanese soil and obviously the. lebanese town and the lebanese army and the lebanese people actually behind the lebanese forces in the friending the end of the of the lebanese territory and i think the consensus on lebanon that they have to and these terrorist organization and the fact the lebanese forces actually

been fighting them for a couple days with the help of the support that overwhelming in lebanon obviously it's going to be some time before you come and for this for us on the organization because obviously. it's not the only town there is fear that some other places could be all sort of a source of tension as as it is in the northern part of lebanon in tripoli and it could be another part of lebanon. yes i don't think in light of what's happening how do you assess the potential of the lebanese army do you think they will be able to withstand you hardest to find them back. absolutely absolutely definitely the lebanese army will be able to take these terrorist organization it will be some time but you have to remember when you have the lebanese forces fighting these fights and the whole lebanese faction behind it then there is

a strong force is to make sure this sort of organization will not have a life in lebanon lebanon is different from sudan is different from iraq here in lebanon and i think there's a. couple of thousand of these. terrorist fighters here and they're going to be some kind of take sometimes but eventually i think the lebanese army and the people. in lebanon will be able to carry a battle against these terrorists tool. these terrorists from lebanon but we have to make sure that we don't have to rush saying this is going to be all over and my operation this will probably take maybe take some days maybe. months before lebanon comes to put this behind it can watch the political analyst thanks

so much for talking to us here nineteen international. now it's turned to some other stories from around the world down with story in china where some ten thousand troops are desperately trying to find survivors from sunday's huge earthquake zaf there is thought to have left more than four hundred five hundred dead and injured well over two thousand others a number of dead is expected to rise as rescuers scramble through the ruins for the missing thunderstorms and huge downpours are forecast for the next few days which could hinder emergency relief efforts. a massive forest fire that's been raging in central sweden for six days has killed one man and force around a thousand people to flee to safety the blazes the country's biggest in almost half a century and covers around one hundred fifty square kilometers it's been declared a national emergency and firefighters warn it could take weeks or even months to put out. crowds of angry teachers gathered in buenos aires demanding

their on paid salaries and for wage talks to be reopened argentina was pushed into default a few days ago by creditors who refused to restructure the country's borrowings demonstrators wants the government to pay for education before it starts paying back foreign hedge funds. and the kaiser reports next taking a broadside on britain becoming a hopeless frag addict. fact that. they were going to do that you know the price is the only industry

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