so. russia cold international action to stop the humanitarian crisis in the east ukrainian cities. the issues being blown out of proportion. soldiers by death destruction and thousands of refugees lined up at ukraine's border with russia and here an odyssey we follow those forced to leave behind on their house or just joining to safety. u.s. officials. is leaking secret surveillance documents to the media. to edward snowden began lifting the lid. of a ceasefire is holding between hamas and israel. and the tiny

territory that left almost one thousand one hundred palestinians killed. the world headlines for this hour it's international live from moscow for me and the whole news team welcome to the program. people in east ukraine the second biggest city of lugansk are saying that life there has become unbearable since the army troops began the siege half of the residents have abandoned their homes and with essential e no water food or power supplies the city council has announced a humanitarian crisis but the phone connections of all been severed and social networks are boiling with attempts to get any information from those trapped in lugansk and here at r.t. international we did manage to get some of counts of what's happening online my

parents and relatives there on the ground there are no gunshots anymore only by arguments and they're aimed at residential houses which are being destroyed this is you ation is critical the signs don't work emergency services on fixing their electricity quickly enough there are empty shelves in the stores people are scared to go outside to buy food in the street markets and the prices they are astronomically high. now the crisis was of course in the spotlight during the latest u.n. security council session but it seems that kiev's representatives don't share the views of their own citizens so there is no new humanitarian crisis in ukraine as it is continued to be portrayed by our russian colleagues while the russian ambassador has called for swift international efforts to stop civilian suffering moscow in

fact initiated the emergency meeting of the un security council more details now from the u.n. headquarters in new york with parties alexy oceans. the situation is getting grave every day that is according to the russians and boy to the united nations and there's a general acknowledgement in the united nations as we can if we could have heard from that meeting that the situation is a full blown war at the moment with more and more casualties every day more and more i.d.p.'s every day and civilian residential areas being bombarded and destroyed by the military forces so what can be and what rush to the united nations offered is international intervention into this humanitarian catastrophe first of all that would involve convoys with humanitarian aid internationally supervised and internationally money toward moving from russia to ukraine because as i've said and as mr show can underline this situation is getting

serious with every day let's listen to what russia's and boy have to say. or to agree as well as grad rockets have been used. closer bombs are still being used there is indiscriminate shelling of hose critical infrastructures many small towns both eighty percent of houses have been destroyed according to most conservative estimates more than six hundred buildings use a good reach to the ground it's worth mentioning as well that while representatives of russia china chile and u.n. officials are when you terry and. in affairs what talking about the great humanitarian situation representative affronts said talked about the sanctions against russia and the voice of the united states said that there's no need for more international help at this site at the scene at the eastern ukraine because people from the from international get isolations already there they just need access to the sites and that it's up to russia to provide that and to stop this

fighting in eastern ukraine. and attempts to flee the war zone or even getting around in areas which haven't yet suffered heavy fighting is getting increasingly dangerous and we have a video we've just received from the region that clearly shows that now the pictures we're bringing up for you here proportionally showing the moment when a rocket hits the highway the driver somehow survived he says that's because he had actually armor plated his vehicle now ukrainian officials say several civilians have been killed by artillery fire on the outskirts of donetsk the second key antigovernment stronghold there here on ars the international we've been getting reports of heavy fighting between troops and the local militias there as well that went on into that night let's bring you up some details them up here on r.t. international the ukrainian army is said to be closing in on this city they have been reports that it's bolstering its ground missile systems with kiev saying it's

preparing for a quote decisive offensive rules are hearing that the outskirts of donetsk are already coming under fire we spoke to a local journalist who got that minutes after the show. for a look forward to hearing what you want to return to iraq has come under the required almost the very center of the district where there's huge supermarket there's at least one victim the shells hit a school an office building and a bar still there were about five or six massive blasts and they hit the residential area in the biggest piece to the next near the supermarket and the past there were no self-defense forces for sure. and driven to desperation by the now four month long army offensive thousands have been fleeing the conflict zone to russia forced to leave their lives and homes behind r.t. correspondent maria phenomena now reporting from one of those border crossings.

in each of these cars individual stories of anger uncertainty and loss. these ukrainians are fleeing their homes for russia after months of conflict has left well over one thousand civilians dead and reduced whole cities to rubble the people in these cars have already spend six or seven hours sitting in line waiting to cross the border which is still a kilometer away but they say they're ready to wait as they practically have no other choice but deal overcook the more well below average immigrants made up of the nationalists you're. living is no car got more than over the throne you don't usually many of the cars here have a sign saying they've got children on board a war doesn't discriminate between age or gender of the children in your trouble i go to is it safe to him to just look. for us or

put a little sheepish will get us closer to his nose the way that little bit i'm going to press the point you know which of you which is going to this is where many refugees will end up when they make it across the border to russia and people here are angry. because i said the mafia brought america but i still know all the deal was you should have brought in i said i'm a bit from afterward it really caught up with phil but i thought didn't go so far but i started. the quarter the doctor says his family has no home to go back to ruin a story of them i don't. know a thousand sure you have got a board here there's no rights group over for. most of what are you in your group here to use if you're going to be eco. he invites me to see where they found shelter the rest so many refugees many don't have a proper place to sleep. because his wife also doctor tells us how she lost her

home and use those to design before i know. i didn't have to be a regular dorm before. you get up. could be cheap this camp is designed for a thousand people but there are at least twice as much. every afternoon officials managed to send up to three hundred refugees from eastern ukraine to different parts of russia but every evening even more around these people have managed to escape but they fight for peace from alone is just beginning. me functionality from russian ukrainian bolton. has been in the fiqh of both the violence on the humanitarian crisis underway across ukraine's restive eastern regions you can keep across the very latest developments with all of the reports

he's been sending us via our odds he you tube channel. well thank you for joining us here on the program today ahead for you the long awaited t.v. debate on scottish independence a program we look at if you could arguments and strangers of the two. also coming up here an aussie national how the russian empire contributed to the allies cause in the first world war and what price it paid when the war came to an end. there's a media leave us so we leave the media. by the sea bush and secure the way your party years ago. for shoes that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from. politics. are today.

they just want to keep building allowing saudi arabia qatar and iran to fund millions and millions of pounds worth of the building of mosques in this country where they have them addresses where we have a hundred thousand four to sixteen year old children who are being schooled in these mature which is encouraging complete non integration within this is so i. thank you for joining us this is r.t. international for the us government has hundreds of thousands of seemingly innocent

people on its terrorist watch list this is according to the latest revelations in the media but the secret information wasn't leaked by edward snowden this time there's a new insider in town and washington is scrambling to track him down. online news source the intercept published an article this tuesday titled barack obama's secret terrorist tracking system by the numbers where its authors and why and of last site an unnamed source in the intelligence community the documents that the sources provided to journalists calf's aware of the u.s. government's use of ever expanding federal watch list of suspected terrorists according to the journalists report more than forty percent of the six hundred eighty thousand individuals listed in the u.s. terrorist screening database have quote no recognized terrorist group affiliation it's about two hundred eighty thousand people their names being shared with local

police agencies contractors and governments around the globe so in nearly half of the people on the u.s. government widely shared database of terrorist suspects are not connected to any known terrorist group the source couldn't be edward snowden because the document featured in this latest intercept story is they did august two thousand and thirteen that would be weeks after snowden identified himself as the source of the n.s.a. leak and had already arrived in moscow there's someone new willing to take the risk of revealing what the u.s. government is doing under the umbrella of national security someone who probably wants to change something but sees no way to do that other than turning to the press and to the public he's going to you can whistle blowers are taking shoes to get the truth out since there's no strong laws to protect them in america but that's according to defense analyst i ever knew. snowden and wiki leaks they lost

massive amounts of secrets and so i think they're probably very nervous that they've got another leaker and maybe they don't know who it is big u.s. government does care about this so blowers are very dedicated because they're there's all sorts of informal and formal sanctions against the whistleblowers they're supposed to be laws that protect them the but they're right in the united states they're probably not. strong enough so so are you see people taking risks to make the story known. the three day cease fire is so far holding in gaza israel decided to withdraw and infantry out of the area on jews day discussions though underway in cairo right now to try and secure a longer term deal the i.d.f. says it has completed its month long mission which was to target hamas by destroying their hideouts and tunnels the campaign has brought the worst

devastation on civilian losses in years and there are many dissenting voices actually within the israeli forces. went and talked to some of them. you know that there are a lot of soldiers a come back and say to yourself you know what the hell are we doing here now why are we using so much force why are we treating them this way is one such families where the soldier she calls herself an anti occupation activist and was one of fifty deserved troops to sign an open letter to the washington post refusing mrs juicy talking national holton on the battlefield here in the service i didn't talk about this thing in so many out there if you just part of it but more and more soldiers are choosing not to be part of an army increasingly seen as the bully in the region who are spending billion billion a rural or. different through the system and there is no totally different to through the world with reporters. we are not prepared for a very real river possibility from overcoming five wars in eighty years levanon two

thousand and six thirty four days more than eight hundred people killed and in the end israel faced an even stronger hizbollah four devastating wars with them us two thousand and six eight twelve and fourteen thousand killed international outrage and in the end israel faced a unity government between former rivals hamas and fatah foreign policy was. we had four years in which we lost the middle east. we lost. we in a way lost egypt. very isolated in the middle east and many would argue more vulnerable the latest operation protective age has done seemingly little to protect israel in the long term you're not going to finish by trying to physically destroy hamas there isn't and there's nothing that indicates that it will work this time or indeed the next time and that's taking its toll on the

reputation of what was once considered one of the world's most efficient fighting forces the hope is that the coming days will see a permanent cease fire in place but bottom line gaza is in tatters mistrust between israelis and palestinians is at an all time high policy r.t. tel aviv. and israel fired well over four thousand rockets the result was nearly nineteen hundred palestinians killed around four hundred thirty of them were children in the mission or so damaged four hundred sixty schools along with twenty four hospitals which had been overflowing with the injured and dying palestinians the un saying up to four hundred eighty five thousand gazans displaced bill that has failed from the human rights watch he says it's fair to brown this operation as that of a war crime. operation has been

a catastrophic failure. you know whether or not we will continue to see rocket launches whether or not the israeli political and military leadership feels they are able to claim success now is of less direct concern than the fact that gaza's infrastructure is on the brink of collapse there has been such massive destruction in areas that the israeli military declared a no go zone that covered almost half of gaza's territory many families were not able to return to the remains of their homes not their homes but what's left of them a large number of attacks we've seen where attacks were launched without any military objects in the area large numbers of civilians getting killed by very precise advanced weapons and you know despite the fact that there were no rockets being launched from their areas that there were no members of palestinian armed groups in those areas but what's most important from our perspective is that there be accountability for the crimes that have been committed here ceasefire or no

ceasefire i mean we've seen cease fires in the past be held up as as justifications when western countries or the israeli military claims that hamas violated the cease fire in the past that has been held up as a justification and a claim that any future civilian deaths would be the responsibility of hamas for violating the cease fire and that is completely incorrect and quite dangerous what has to happen is that you know the laws of war need to stop being violated and that finally for once in gaza there needs to be criminal accountability for war crimes the decision to scale back the operation follows a chorus of global condemnation spain's outrage as you're seeing it become the second country sales to tout of eve while britain has said it's reviewing its eight billion pound weapons agreement with israel as well. but a leader must mort is a british labor m.p. he told artie's cavanagh when he doubts is countries condemnation will go any further than what. unfortunately they have dragged their feet for too long they can

even condemn this portion ality of the action this taking place with blanket when it's quite rightly said is a war crime and the issues are so desperate about innocent people men women and very very young children perish warsi from u.k. foreign office resigned initially from the government saying she she couldn't support this anymore you think we'll see more people of doing that kind of thing or not why i certainly hope so i think you know until we start to come to terms with those and not listen to the rhetoric that the i.d.f. israeli government is putting forward and look at the what's happening on the ground you have to try and do that you're in britain is second largest city there you want to fly the palestinian flag over city hall but the council said no i will continue to fight for that because it's about recognising the devastation that's taking place against innocent people civilians and children this is what this is

about this is not about taking sides in the dispute that's going on about territory and who should be what this is about an unjust strike and retaliation against people who are unable to defend themselves. a few clicks away the british police have. hundred seventy seven days watching. london that's of course to make sure we hear leaks founder julian assange. now website feel how much the. pope's already and. he believes people should spend more fruitful activities playing with smart phones and chatting online. the first t.v. debate on scottish independence has seen the leaders of the two rival. just six weeks before the historic referendum alex salmond the leader of the scottish national party took on. the head of the better together campaign. listen to the.

well running up to the debate news reports are saying that alex salmon the leader of the scottish national party had been advised to remain statesman like throughout the debate but the gloves came off from both the leaders actually pretty quickly alistair darling the leader of the benteke together campaign was accused of being quite shouty throughout the debate as well perhaps the best sound bite to come out of the evening was of alex salmond explaining why he thinks scotland should become an independent country more upon those in the. tory m.p. from scotland but we still get the tory government but he had a bit of difficulty only during specific questions about the currency and about the economy he was asked repeatedly both by alistair darling and by members of the audience about which currency scotland would have if it couldn't retain the pound as westminster is saying that it can't he didn't have

a concrete oncet to that he avoided the question about what his contingency plan b. c. or d. would be another heated exchange was when alex diamond was asking alast a darling if he thinks scotland could be a successful independent country he was dodging that question pretty much as much as alex salmond was dodging the currency question he didn't want to give an answer and he did manage to avoid it are you want to see our children's future gambled away i want to have the best both worlds in fact it's not clear and experts say that t.v. debates very rarely have any sway in these very important issues they rarely make a difference because a lot of scots will have already made up their mind which way they want to vote so the aim of this debate was for the undecided voters to sway into some way or another. right there now one hundred years on the world is commemorating the

start of the great war with the battles which took place in western europe being the main focus. as we were leaving the eastern front largely overlooked. by now assessing the role of russia in world war one. franz ferdinand in the set off a chain of events that would lead to the great war within a matter of days the great powers of europe particularly had war on each other and on this day exactly a century ago austria-hungary declared war on russia when it all started cranks cheered and welcome the fighting little did they know of the horrors that lay ahead while the battle lines were drawn long before russia joined with britain and france forming the allied powers on one side and on the other side the central powers of austria-hungary in germany later joined by the ottoman empire and both garia while russia fielded five million men at the start almost as much as germany and austria

hungary combined and war raged everywhere. and always warships delivered tons of ranks with the explosion shaking the expanse of the seas conflict filled the sky city for the first time in pilots of the first war planes were regarded as he writes the breakthrough for russia came in nine hundred sixteen russian armies managed to ram through enemy lines almost a hundred kilometers into austrian territory threatened the central powers sent thirty divisions to the eastern front easing the burden for the allies in the west from that moment germany at last the strategic advantage but it was too late for russia the people exhausted by rule coupled with the weakened government so read revolution it enjoying growing support the bolsheviks urged troops to abandon their post let germany have whatever it wants and by nine hundred eighteen the war ended for russia but despite that the role it played is hard to overstate it carried on

it shoulders alone in the burden of the eastern front and helped end the war which would claim eighteen million lives. thanks for joining us all the international law from moscow i will research right back in half an hour between now and then though aaron a talking all things economic and boom bust in leicester in the u.k. good morning to you abby martin coming your way. i'm abby martin the stories we cover here are not going here in the right spot our big story the extra headline same talk there's a reason they don't want international airport they're trying to raise that we should be completely out now let's break the set.

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