power and water and supplies are running low on an estimated seventy percent of health personnel have fled the area. over the worsening humanitarian crisis in eastern ukrainian cities that have been under siege for weeks there is no new crisis in ukraine and kiev denies the state of affairs is being as bad as big as it needs no international help to cope with the issues on the ground. hosted by death destruction. thousands of refugees lined up at ukraine's border with russia and here are some of those forced to leave their lives behind on their journey to safety. and u.s.

officials confirm. there was leaking secret surveillance documents to the media more than a year after edward snowden began lifting the. cease fire is holding between hamas and israel after a month long i.d.f. . territory that's almost nineteen hundred palestinians dead. now eleven am right here in the russian capital international with me rule resewn. thank you for joining us people in east ukraine second biggest city of lugansk they say that life has become unbearable since army troops began the siege of the residents have abandoned their homes with the sensually no water or food supplies.

city council has announced a humanitarian crisis the phone connections have all been severed and social networks are boiling with attempts to get any information on those left trapped in lugansk when the internet was sporadically restored we managed to get some accounts of what's actually happening there via online my parents and relatives there on the ground there are no gunshots anymore only bombardments 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 the crisis was of course in the spotlight during the latest a un security council session but it seems kiev's representatives don't at all share the views of their own citizens there is no new human in their in prices in

ukraine as it is continued to be portrayed by our russian colleagues well 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 with more details from the u.n. headquarters in new york is r.t. is alexia she asks. there's a general acknowledgement in the united nations as 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 insecurity and violence prevailing in conflict areas resulting in a steady worsening of the humanitarian situation fighting has caused significant damage to infrastructure affecting the power and water supplies and access to basic services how supplies are running low and an estimated seventy percent of health personnel have fled and this will continue to deteriorate for as long as firelands persists so what in the 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 wanted to order moving from russia ukraine because as i've said and as mr schorr can underline the situation is getting serious every day artillery tanks as well as grad rockets have been used locals are saying phosphorous and cluster bombs are still being used there is indiscriminate shelling of housing blocks and critical civilian infrastructure in many small towns about eighty percent of houses have been destroyed according to the most conservative estimates more than six hundred buildings have been razed to the ground while representatives of russia china chile and the un officials what talking about as a great humanitarian situation representative of france said talked about the sanctions against russia and out of oil the united states said that there is no need for more international help at this site because people from the from

international that isolation is 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 a video we've just received from the region clearly shows that assure the pictures right now up reportedly showing the moment when a rocket hits the highway and drive a somehow survived the driver saying that's only because he actually plated his vehicle. and ukrainian officials say several civilians have been killed by artillery fire on the outskirts of donetsk other second key anti-government stronghold though we've been getting reports of heavy fighting between kiev's troops and local militias and ultimately the fighting that went into the late night hours as well let's bring up a map here on r.t. international to give you an idea the ukrainian army is said to be closing right

here in on donetsk there being reports it is bolstering its ground missile systems with kiev saying it's preparing for a decisive offensive and we're hearing that the outskirts of donetsk are already right now coming under fire we spoke to one local tour journalist who got there minutes after the shelling. out of here you're eventually has come under to the required almost the very center of the district which is huge supermarket there's at least one victim of the shell skeeters school an office building in a bar there were about five or six massive blasts and they hit the residential area in the biggest these two governments 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 behind their lives and homes. for national 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 spent 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 of numbers made up of the national sociopath. who. can even use moco got more snow over the throne you don't usually many of the cars here have a sign saying they've got children on board the war doesn't discriminate between age or gender only your child will pull out you know choice it's safe to be in a tutu saluting. us or put

a little sheepish will get us closer to his nose the way that little i'm going to press the point you know which of you wait a minute 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 but also my but i still not all feel warsi shirt abortion so i'm a bit from afterward it really could be so but i'm scared didn't go so far but i started. the quarter the doctor says he's family has need to go back to ruin your story the more you draw. out your thoughts i'm sure you're ready for abortion rights group over for. most women are you and you're going to hear through the years if you're going to be ethical. he invites me to see where they found shelter the rest so many refugees many don't have a proper place to sleep. his wife also doctor tells us how she lost her

home and user does a story before i know. i didn't have to be a regular dorm farkle. pressure this could be cheap this camp is designed for a thousand people but there are at least twice as much in 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 a rule that their fight for a peaceful loan is just beginning. me from ocean r.t. from russian ukrainian border. and maria has been in the thick of both the bargains and the humanitarian crisis under way across ukraine's restive eastern regions you can keep across the very latest developments with all of her reports via our to use

you tube channel. for now on the program the u.s. government has hundreds of thousands of seemingly innocent people on its terrorist watch lists that's according to the latest revelations in the media the secret information wasn't league by edward snowden this time though there's a new insider in town and washington is right now scrambling to find his arteries going to church or. 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 raw site an unnamed source in the intelligence community the documents that the sources provided to journalists cast 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 nearly half of the people on the u.s. government's 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 and whistle blows of course. throughout since there are no

strong laws to protect them in the united states or the opinion there of defense on the list either news. 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 so they 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 there's supposed to be laws that protect them the but there are in the united states they're probably not. strong enough so so why you see people taking risks to make the story known so ahead for you here in aussie international the long awaited teeth the debate on scottish independence on the program we look at the heated arguments and bitter exchanges of the two rivals also still to come here on the international learn how the russian empire contributed to the allies schools in

the post world war and ultimately what price to pay when the war came to an end. as the media leave us so we leave the media. by the same motions to. your party physical. issues that no one is asking with the guests they deserve answers from. politic only on our t.v. . they just want to keep 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 addresses where we have a hundred thousand four to sixteen year old children who have been schooled in these mature assets which is encouraging complete non integration within the society.

your source for worldwide news is on the international the three day cease fire so far holding in gaza was on choose day that israel decided to withdraw its army off almost a month of bloody fighting with hamas both sides sending their delegations to cairo to discuss the possibility of securing a longer term deal though the i.d.f. now saying it has completed its main 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 deep within the israeli forces themselves. went to speak to you. there are a lot of soldiers a come back and say to yourself you know what the hell are we doing here you know why are we using so much force why we're treating them as a way hannah is one such form israeli soldier she calls herself an anti occupation activist and was one of fifty deserve troops to sign an open letter to the washington post refusing reserve duty buccaneer showed a lot learn about the island here in the service i didn't talk about this thing in so many out there you just a 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 we are spending billion billion a rural or. the friend through the system and there is no top of the front of the. pool. we are not prepared for it very well with a possibility to overcome it five wars in eight 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 him 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 the which we lost the middle east. we lost. we in a way lost egypt. in very eyes 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 to start 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. israel fired well over four thousand rockets at gaza the result was that nearly nine hundred palestinians were killed around four hundred and thirty of them were children mission also damaged one hundred sixty schools along with twenty four hospitals which had been overflowing with the injured and dying other students and u.n. estimates now that up to four hundred eighty five thousand gazans were displaced will live on as fell from human rights watch he says it's fair to brad this operation as a war. 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 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 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. and the decision to scale back the operation follows a chorus of global condemnation spain's outrage has just seen it become the second country to ban arms sales to tel aviv well britain has now said it will review its eight billion pound weapons agreement with israel. british labor m.p. he told my colleague kevin owen that he doubts his country's condemnation will go any further than words. unfortunately they have dragged their feet for too long

they can even condemn this portion ality of the action was taking place with frankie muniz quite rightly said it is a war crime and the issues are so desperate about innocent people men women and very very young children baroness warsi from u.k. foreign office resigned and she from the government she she couldn't support this anymore do 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 doing what this is about an unjust strike and retaliation against people who are unable to defend themselves are just a few clicks away on our website right now british police have now spent exactly seven hundred seventy seven days watching ecuador's embassy in london to make sure the wiki leaks founder julian assange doesn't sneak out on our website to reveal how much the efforts of cost so far it is not a small bill also at r.t. dot com the pope's already an active twitter you assert that we believe speed. to spend less time frolicking on their own droids and perhaps more time doing fruitful activities. thanks for joining us the first t.v. debate on scottish independence have seen the leaders of the two rival comes clash just six weeks before the historic referendum alex salmond the leader of the scottish national party took on our list the darling the head of the better together campaign and artie's pretty boy who was there to listen to the arc. while

running up to the debate news reports were 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 bites have come out of the evening was of alex salmond explaining why he thinks scotland should become an independent country more power. than tory m.p.'s in scotland but we still get the tory government but he had a bit of difficulty answering 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 answer to that he avoided the question about what his contingency plan

b. c. or d. would be another heated exchange was when alex salmond was asking alistair darling if he thinks scotland could be a successful independent country he was dodging that question pretty much as much as alex semin was dodging the currency question he didn't want to give an answer and he did manage to avoid it i don't want to see your children's future gambled away i want to have the best we both worlds in fact it's not clear and experts say that t.v. debates very rarely. in the very important issues that 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 with for the undecided voters to sway into some way or another to afghanistan now where a u.s. army general has been killed and several officers wounded in the latest shooting in

the capital a major general or old green is the highest ranking american officer to die in an overseas war since vietnam the attacker catching his victims by surprise because he was dressed in afghan military uniform more now with dante's anastasio truckin. more information on the gunmen is yet to be released but we do know that he was shot dead on site now according to a pentagon spokesperson the shooter is believed to be an afghan soldier who has served for quite some time this incident is reported to be an insider a top when members of the afghan forces turn against the nato led military coalition who are on the ground in afghanistan to train them this latest incident comes as the u.s. aims to end operations in afghanistan in the near future of course while leasing the key part of its tragedy on the ground on training afghan forces usually such insider attacks involve regular soldiers outraged by the continued presence of foreign troops on the ground and disgruntled by the way this one of course being

the longest in u.s. history the sweetest so-called green on blue attack is the first of its kind in months yet far from the first in this war insider shootings peaked in twenty twelve in afghanistan recorded a dozen such incidents that number is officially said to decline to fifteen last year more details will be brought into the light as the investigation of the shooting gathers and release what is certain is that it's a troublesome occurrence so close to a planned and of u.s. operations on the ground and r.t. new york. when we come live from moscow one hundred years on the world is commemorating the start of the great war the battles which took place in western europe being the main focus but that means ultimately leaving the eastern front largely overlooked. sussing the role of russia in world war one. prance ferdinand's murder in 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 ample 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 explosions 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 bucks it was too late for russia the people exhausted by rule couple of the weakened government sure read revolution enjoying growing support the bolsheviks to abandon their post let germany have whatever it wants and by early one nine hundred eighteen the war ended for russia but despite that the role it played is hard to overstate they carried on the shoulders alone in the burden of the eastern front and helped end the war which would claim eighteen million lives. well thanks for joining us on the international law from moscow on real research a short break for you from the hot topics and hard hitting questions being shelled out from peter lavelle and his guests on calls to.

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