orders. the. power and water and supplies are running low and an estimated seventy percent of health personnel have fled the area the un. over the worsening humanitarian crisis in eastern ukrainian cities that have been under. siege for weeks. there is no. crisis in ukraine as abuse continued to be portrayed by our russian colleagues and kiev denying the state of affairs as bad as being as people are saying says it needs no international help to cope with the issues on the ground. haunted by death and destruction and havoc thousands of refugees lined up at ukraine's border with russia. we follow those forced to leave their lives behind on

their journey to safety. and u.s. officials confirm a new inside leaking secret surveillance documents to the media more than a year after edward snowden began lifting the lid. is holding for. after a near month long israeli leaves the tiny territory with almost nineteen hundred palestinians killed. thanks for joining us on r.t. international. people in east ukraine second largest city of say life there has become unbearable since army troops began the siege half of the residents have abandoned their homes. and with essentially no water power or food supplies the

city council has announced a humanitarian crisis the phone connections also been severed and social networks are boiling with attempts to get any information on those left trapped in lugansk there when the internet was sporadically restored we managed to get some accounts of what's happening my parents and relatives there on the ground there are no gunshots anymore only been 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 the 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 un security council session but it seems that kiev as representatives don't actually share the same views as their citizens so there is

no need to monitor and 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 with more details from new york and the u.n. headquarters is artie's alexia ships. there's a general acknowledgment in the united nations 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 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 and supplies are running low and an estimated seventy percent of health personnel have fled to and this will continue to deteriorate for as long as violence persists so what vitaly churkin the envoy 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 warden moving from russia to ukraine because as i've said and as mr schorr can underline this situation is getting serious every day artillery tanks as well as grad rockets used locals are saying phosphorus and cluster bombs are still being used there is indiscriminate shelling of housing and locks 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 u.n. officials what talking about it 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 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 just 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 search shows that if i let's bring up for you now the video purportedly showing the moment when a rocket hits the highway right there somehow the driver survived he actually says that's because he had plated his vehicle. now ukrainian officials say several civilians have been killed by artillery fire on the outskirts of dawn yet the second key antigovernment stronghold and we've been getting reports of very heavy fighting between kiev's troops and local militia forces the fighting that actually went up into the night let's bring up some details here on the map of the international the ukrainian army is said to be

closing in on the city of donetsk have been reports it is bolstering its ground missile systems with kiev saying it is preparing for a decisive offensive well here in our international we're hearing that the outskirts of danielle scar already under fire we spoke to one local journalist who got there minutes after the shelling. for a while to come here if you want to return szell era has come under artillery fire almost the very center of the district where there is huge supermarket there's at least one victim the shells hit a school an office building and a bus stop there were about five or six massive blasts and they hit the residential area in the biggest district of the nets near the supermarket and at the pass there were no self-defense forces for sure. it's normally supposed to be a pleasant summer time for the people out on yet let's show you some of the pictures of the same time in previous years ukraine's fifth biggest city was full of world smiling faces of different colors when it hosted matches for the european

football championships that was in two thousand and twelve which included a semi final as well it's hard to contemplate for us let alone the locals for the suburbs of the same city are now a war zone and have been reduced to looking like this or just in time for the euro two thousand and twelve don't yet open a brand new international airport terminal all flights though now are suspended and it's since been the focus of fighting. and driven to desperation by the now four month long army offensive thousands have been fleeing in the conflict zone to russia are forced to leave their lives and homes behind artie's where if an awful reporting are from one of the 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 bill overclock the march will be a larger engine of numbs made up of the national sociopath. who. live in his no car got more snow with this train you don't usually many of the cars here have a sign saying they've got children on board they war doesn't discriminate between age or gender only your child will pull out your choice it's a good game to to salute. him or put a little sheepish will get us closer to his nose the way that little i'm going to press the button on the chopper 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 worse you should have brought him up so i'm a bit from afterward it really could be so but i was floored didn't go so far but also ardent. supporter and doctor says his family has no room to go back to ruin his story the more you draw. your thoughts enjoy your oath before a board the no rights group over for. most women or union you're going to have to use if you're going to be ethical. he invites me to see where they've 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. a before and now of. the litany of. the regular dorm before. you get a. crush this could be cheap this camp is designed for

a thousand people but there are at least twice as much air now every afternoon officials managed to send up to three hundred refugees from eastern ukraine to different parts of russia but every evening even more arrive these people have managed to escape a war that their fight for a peaceful life is just beginning. and if nationality from russian ukrainian border. maria has been in the thick of both the violence and the humanitarian crisis under way across ukraine's restive eastern regions you can keep up all across the very latest developments with all of her reports just go via you tube channel. ten minutes past the hour here in moscow the u.s. government has hundreds of thousands of seemingly innocent people on his terrorist watch list that's according to the very latest revelations in the media but the secret information was not leaked by edward snowden this time there's

a new insider in town and washington is scrambling to find him his artie's guy in a chicken. on line new source the intercept published an article this tuesday titled the iraq obama's secret terrorist tracking system by the numbers where its authors jeremy scahill and wind of last cite an unnamed source in the intelligence community the documents that the sources provided to journalists cast aware light on the u.s. government's use of ever expanding federal watch list of suspected terrorists hording 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 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. corresponding guy nature can now obviously whistleblowers are taking shoot risks to get the truth out since there's no strong laws to protect them in america or certainly the opinion right there according to a defense analyst i've been me. snowden 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 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 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 are you see people taking risks to make the story known so ahead for you here in our international the long awaited t.v. debate on scottish independence and the program we look at the heated arguments on the big changes all of the two rivals also coming up here on our two international learn how the russian contributed to the allies cools in the first world war and what price it paid when the war came to an. end justifying their stance they're citing all sorts of what they see as

international pass a dance in cost of what they are coming referendum in scotland but the response that they're hearing from the one is that what you're saying is illegitimate but what we've been doing is just a little like the measure if you break into they're still good luck america does is right rules are made for other people for countries like russia or countries like this trade that. america does is right because america does it. do we speak your language i mean some of the will or not of the. news programs and documentaries and spanish what matters to you breaking news a little. story. for you here.

is the spanish find out more visit. thanks for joining us we have your top headlines right now the three day cease fire so far holding in gaza but we can bring up some live pictures for you streaming from there right now and though it does look fairly quiet at them i will get those pictures for you in just a moment here we have the pictures live pictures right now it was on tuesday that israel decided to withdraw its army after almost a month of bloody fighting with hamas both sides sent to cairo to discuss the possibility of securing a longer. the i.d.f. says it has completed its main mission which was to target hamas by destroying their hideouts and tunnels the campaign has brought the worst devastation and civilian losses in years and there are many dissenting dissenting voices but actually from inside the israeli forces. spoke with some of.

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 you know why are we using so much force why are we treating them this way is one such for me israeli soldier she calls herself an occupation activist and was one of fifty troops to sign an open letter to the washington post refusing. during 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 of spending. and there is no top of the. for a verbal report ability prove overcoming five wars in eighty years eleven on 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 skilled international outrage and in the end israel faced a unity government between former rivals hamas and fatah foreign policy was it we had four years in which we lost the middle east. we lost. we in a way lost egypt. in. the 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 the story 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. as you can see there israel fired well over four thousand rockets of gaza the result was nearly nineteen hundred palestinian deaths about four hundred thirty of them were children in the mission also damaged over one hundred sixty schools along with twenty four hospitals which had been overflowing with injured and dying palestinians the un estimating up to four hundred eighty five thousand gazans displaced and billed as a veiled from the human rights what you said he says it is fair to actually brought this operation as 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. 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. 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 global condemnation of spain's outrages now seen it become the second country to ban sales to tel aviv while britain has said it is now reviewing its eight billion pound weapons agreement with israel the. british labor m.p. he told my colleague kevin zero in that he doubts the country's condemnation will go any just words. unfortunately the drug they feed for too long

they can even condemn this portion of the action that's taking place. quite rightly said is a war crime issues are so desperate about innocent people men women and very very young children are going to. resign didn't she from the government she she couldn't support this any mole do you think we'll see more people doing that kind of thing or not why is that now up so i think you know until we sought to come. and not listen to that actually the idea. really 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 recognizing 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 in retaliation against people who are unable to defend themselves on our website for you this hour british police have now spent exactly seven hundred seventy seven days watching ecuador's embassy in london of course to make sure the wiki leaks founder julian assange doesn't sneak out on our website reveal tallying cost of this whole operation and it is not cheap. also on r.t. dot com this hour the pope's already an active twitter user though he believes people should spend their time on more fruitful activities rather than fiddling with their smartphones and chatting online. for now the first t.v. debate on scottish independence have seen the leaders of both rival camps clashing just six weeks before the historic referendum alex salmond the leader of the scottish national party took on alistair darling the head of the better together campaign and it was there to listen to the. 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 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. but we still get the 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 pounders 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 alexander 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. world in fact it's not clear and experts say that t.v. debates very rarely have any sway in these 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 was for the undecided voters to sway into some way or another. one hundred years on the world is commemorating the start of the great war the battles which took place in western europe are taking basically the main

form leaving the eastern front largely overlooked. artie's under pharma now assessing the role of russia in the first world war. pran ferdinand's murder in late she 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 or three hungary declared war on russia when it all started crags 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 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 rands with

the explosion shaken expanse of the sea 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 threaten 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 people exhausted by war coupled with the we can government to read revolution it enjoying growing support the bolsheviks to abandon their posts and let germany have whatever it wants and by nine hundred eighteen the war ended for russia but despite that the road is hard to overstate they carried on each shoulder is alone in the burden of the eastern front and helped end the war which would

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access to your office or. what's going on everyone i'm out in martin and this is breaking the set so i frequently cover the absurd tactics the government uses to fight the war on terror everything from giving via agro to taliban insurgents to trolling nurseries to find radical extremists but as it turns out it has surprised absolutely no one the government isn't merely focusing on militant groups according to new classified documents released by the intercept nearly half of the government's official watch list of known or suspected terrorists are not affiliated with any organized group not only is it highly dangerous to classify hundreds of thousands.