if you're happy with us your kids today are in roller sutured. a humanitarian disaster is declared in the eastern ukrainian city of a ganske locals are running out of electricity water and food after weeks of siege by kiev troops. pulling its troops from gaza as both sides agree a three day cease fire will 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 ends after this occasion reveals young latin americans were recruited to finance unrest across the island.

international coming to you live from moscow i'm marina josh welcome to the program lugansk is said to be in the grip of a humanitarian disaster local leaders assessment of conditions in the eastern ukrainian regional capital come after weeks of being besieged in the city which has long been a focal point for and key of resistance almost half of the population has fled but two hundred fifty thousand remain and are now trapped going fighting has left lugansk without electricity and is now hindering repair works water supplies have also been cut off as have an 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 which is more if it is in the besieged city forests. 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 and go in conflict 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 two major percenters 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 town 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 a shell exploded in her garden and sort of the flowers should planted there is now a deep crater. is there and should when you break a deal is a hoot of them i suggested

a day or. two would you. like other locals here who haven't already fled the fighting on good has taken shelter in the basement yet to get back you shall not. be a fool to sign my junior bach or be an actual fact to dicky i grew to love to predict how a good many of those sheltering underground osieck. and desperate hope you know where you are just now you go up here for sure you're not she just started growing one night here. as we are speaking electricity drops out like cows are a constant problem here the lines were apparently repaired just before we arrived not down as the way you. look at it but when you get out of. it here the look really is very crowded really dealing with what they believe is the reason shelter under almost every apartment building in lugansk and they're

rarely empty there's 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 regardless you can see it is really leave here every family has its own place here like an apartment building that underground in one of the corridor or a school meter the youngest resident i've seen here so far he has many of the fears of the older people here. paul says here there's really well just a couple of go. at nine pm every day people in different basements restart the same prayer the ask for god to protect them and bring them peace but as the shelling continues around them the furthest a day to plan a had is tomorrow when they say they will meet here again brief notion r.t.

lugansk ukraine. now their grain army is also closing it on either and take a stronghold in the east it's announced it's preparing for a major offensive this will target the regional capital donetsk which is now the main hub of resistance the city has a population of almost a million. now these new pictures allegedly show tanks and armored vehicles on the outskirts of deniece it's documents started deploying hardware in there on monday the suburbs of the besieged city have frequently come under heavy fire in the past weeks this is what one of the local schools looked like after it was pounded by shells but he adds is an important city both in the region and in the country and here are some of the key facts. the nantz busy grains fifth largest city with a population of nine hundred fifty thousand last year forbes named it the most attractive city for doing business in the whole country it's one of the cranes main

economic hubs and the center of the nation's mining industry and just two years ago the massacre drew thousands of football fans from all across europe when it was one of the host cities for you were twenty twelve things are very different now the months of heavy shelling of forced residents to live practically on the ground. the only good you says is you know they do you know look i mean you are going to you got all these very very bizarre because one of the reasons you were. i. around two hundred fifty grand soldiers are now housed 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 ukraine after they said they wanted to return home monday's mass defection was the largest of its kind they're not the first the group said to have been circled had run out of ammunition and felt abandoned by q ukraine's army has not found it easy way to 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 around eight hundred million ukraine soldiers are suffering from food shortages and are having to rely on charity and here's a website set up by civil activists calling on people to donate food to the army he also appears to be struggling to pay its soldiers just recently the country's parliament introduced a military tax and here's what he craned soldiers who crossed into russia told r.t. . fortune sitting home alone you don't forget we have 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 in circles we had no way out so to keep the manpower safe all 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 in the book moscow is weighing its response to the sanctions recently imposed by the west later this hour will be looking out one option reportedly on the table which could see european airlines lose up to a billion dollars in three months. in the meantime 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 onslaught around four hundred thirty of them were children the mission also damaged over one hundred sixty schools and destroyed twenty four hospitals which have been overflowing with injured and dying palestinians or earlier i spoke to on a stein from israel's foreign ministry and she explained why she thinks the israeli operation was justified this is a terror game is a sham that we're fighting terrorism is a sham that's want to bring destruction disagreement here it 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 i mean she is a warrant 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 had a doubt that you know and also said that they found missiles. into one risk pools they went out and said it that's you and 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 if you can look at what merkel said you can look at what obama said so actually actually we have a lot of support and these are the latest pictures from birmingham that we're getting them from roughly the video agency pro palestinian campaigners have

launched a fresh action urging for an end to israel's attacks on the city and as you can see they have placed the banner u.k. stop arming israel on a local factory which they claim is supplying arms for the operation in gaza. now we can talk to paul murphy who in a previous conflict in gaza was abducted with his colleagues by israel's navy while supplying humanitarian aid to the palestinians thank you so much for joining us here on r t international well let's look at what's happening in the u.s. at the moment is pumping and now there are two hundred twenty five million dollars into israel's iron dome defensive system defense system while spain at the same time has just become the second country to ban arms sales to israel we're having totally opposite responses here why. well what we're seeing across the world is a mosque revulsion a mosque at the states terror imposed by israel on the people of gaza in particular

and we've had very significant protests really right around the world some of the biggest protests in history in favor of the rights of the palestinians and that is having pressure on for example the spanish government on the british government even on the u.s. government and fundamentally. you know western imperialism western capitalism the u.s. the major powers in the e.u. support israel they allow it to function as the kind of repressive states that it is with the likes of you know three billion dollars a year in military funding from the u.s. and they do support israel because they think israel can be a safe basis for them in what is a way to the region what they're called me hope against just the revulsion of ordinary people so that's why you have a potion of pressure on governments you know even the fact that the u.n. is forced by ki-moon is forced to describe what's happening as a war crime they are somewhat you developments and it's linked to i mean the scale

of the horror of what israel has gone but also the fact that people have mobilized around the world well israel has agreed to a three day cease fire and also pulling its troops out of gaza does that mean that israel has sort of given in to the international pressure i think it's too early to say well what happened we've seen a preview cease fires that were then broken by israel to say may happen again let's hope that the cease fire holds and i think. israel i mean the israeli establishment at home will try to present this as excess but it's a truly difficult to do so i mean there is no guarantee of peace or security or rising living standards for ordinary is ready jewish workers for and so you know the idea that they were going to go in and smash the tunnels demilitarized gaza none of those things are going to have been achieved by israel and so yet again you have you know really the weaknesses all over israel exposed in the region. and

actually it kind of you know exposed more divisions within israel itself and lead to a question over well why exactly did the israeli establishment bring israel to war again and why did they kill almost two thousand civilians you know targeting old u.n. refugee centers the targeting the school the targeting of hospitals. as you said the remains to be seen whether this latest these far will stand but. it was egypt brokered this peace why did the e.u. and the us are supposedly represent peace and democracy as they say failed to take the initiative. well i mean the u.s. and the e.u. through the courts that have been engaged in so-called peace talks for a long time between is right on the p.a. but what those talks are about who's about trying to get the palestinian leadership

will be willing to go quite far enough direction to to sign up to a long term oppression repression of the palestinian people and their agenda in this conflict is not as a neutral broker or an honest broker or anything like that but it is to side with israel because they deem it in their strategic interests and we also have to be extremely skeptical about anything brokered by egypt i mean the reality is that the counter-revolutionary government in egypt sisi is the second jailer of the people of gaza they have collaborated with israel throughout this conflict so again people have to ask a question about their motivations here and unfortunately there will be no lasting peace in israel palestine without justice for the other statins without a lifting of the blockade a thing of the siege without a viable palestinian state and in order to do that that requires a really big challenge but also an overthrow of the current route in class within israel right paul murphy thank you so much for talking to us here on r.t. international and the international criticism of israel's operation as loud enough

but peace activism within the country is becoming increasingly difficult policy or math some of those who won't give up. very. soon these people are is really haters they're not jewish even an arab would behave like this because themselves beautiful souls would be harmed the jewish people. israelis opposed to the military operation are finding it increasingly hard to get the voice of the fight when people do speak up their shots who don't 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 more vocal than ever. now 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 imagine what a shouting is that they're racist government will not bring security and if that is bad the goddess of whether it's in israel or gaza. is one of the few who's not afraid to speak his mind that home and just people dying it's. still my brother in gaza if you know right now that tomorrow. my uncle died in lebanon thirty years ago i want the war to stop that's it and he's not. what he says he is not to a 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 to struggle. 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 in a war people tend to sympathize 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 horny and i dislike him hope that with time they will be on the point. side of history. tell of you. now israel has a long history of mobilizing against its opponents but rarely seems to achieve its desired and in those two thousand and six israel invaded lebanon to take on it has a bar fighters and the result the group got stronger and the conflict helped it

into power in beirut since then there have been four 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 strengthened opposition to the i.d.f. also the human cost of those bloody conflicts is what has really gained traction in people's minds inflicting deep down much to israel's international image and in twenty thirty nine it's found itself among the world's least popular countries. online 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 had to r.t. dot com for more details about. them coming out for you after a short break islamic state fighters who've savagely and murderously conquered parts of syria and iraq are now in lebanon stay with us as we ask whether any force capable of stopping them.

in justifying their stance they're citing all sorts of what they see as international precedents in cost of war be upcoming referendum in scotland but the response that they're hearing from the wife is that what you're doing is illegitimate but what we've been doing is still full of life and marriage if you break into there still. a marriage or does is right. the people for centuries like russia are all countries like this straight. back to america. as is right because america doesn't. do we speak your language from. programs in documentaries in arabic it's all

here on our team reporting from the world talks of the r.p. interview intriguing story for us. arabic to find out more visit our big don't teach dot com. welcome back to watching our team now a group of british business leaders say sanctions against russia over the mh seventeen grass will help resolve the crisis they say the best way to build trust between countries is through trade and conduct moscow is now preparing its own response to the sanctions and that's according to prime minister dmitry medvedev there are reports it is considering a limiting or banning european flights from crossing its airspace to asia artie's katie pilgrim takes a look at the potential consequences they 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 sanction 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 headlights so you saw as you can see from this map we've taken recently from flight traded twenty four dot com the flights up a full three russia's siberia right back because it shorts out of that for cheap hour which ultimately means a cheaper ticket for the consumer if the walls to close this route your holiday flight from. europe to asia will be several hours long and it's already going on 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 fly and analyze schools quoted by a domestic media outlet at m.s.k. says the possible losses of western allies could amount to one billion euros in

just three months and ultimately she used to conceive of that would be paying more money even though you've got the inconvenience of having to fly for longer. and a line for you fugitive former n.s.a. contractor edward snowden may be trying to keep a low profile while in russia but his love of theatre must have got the better of him as he was spotted enjoying a performance famous bolshoi. also a japanese anime fans are guarded after a crimean prosecutor who became famous the world over after she was turned into a sexy cartoon character online is blacklisted by tokyo find out why online as well as r.t. the. washington is accused of putting house initiatives around the world at risk on monday it was revealed that and hiv prevention program was used to send

young latin americans to cuba to stir up political unrest going to just account has more it's no longer a secret that some of the u.s. government 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 this backing venice well learn the rican and peruvian young people through cuba hoping to provoke a revolution in their young latinos often pose those tourists they traveled across the country and recruited people whom they believe they could turn into a political activist a form administrator with a venezuelan over this nation who participated in this ep. it 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 island go off in two thousand and nine who worked as a sub contract with the usa he's now serving a fifteen year sentence in cuba the u.s.

trying to foment on with the 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 such as an h.i.b. prevention workshop which in memo so paint by the a.p. is labeled as quote unquote the perfect excuse for the program's political goals the us 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 in an it enabled support for cuban civil society while providing a secondary benefit of addressing the desired cupid's express information and training about prevention as a look at some other stories from around the world at least twelve western soldiers mostly american have been shot dead in an attack at a military academy near kabul witnesses say a man wearing out again an army uniform and turned training facility and opened fire no group yet has admitted to the killings but foreign security forces are

often targeted in so-called insider attacks by the taliban. passengers on an air bus three hundred thirty flying from qatar to britain had an unusual fly had unusual science rather out of the windows their guitar airways jet was being escorted by a jet fighter on the final leg of its journey after the pilots radioed a possible bomb threat well the aircraft landed safely out of entry airport were all security were on full alert. well you're up to date here in us here at asho and after the break erin ade reports and out of all shapes and sizes and boom bust. led.

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