and supplies are running alone and an estimated seventy percent of towns. have fled the area. banging the alarm over the worsening humanitarian crisis in eastern ukrainian cities that have been under kids on the siege for me. there is no need they're in crisis in ukraine as it is continued to be portrayed by our russian colleagues kid of the state of affairs is as bad and being made sense says it needs no international help to cope with the issue on the ground. haunted by death and destruction and have a. border with russia. forced to move.

on their hazardous journey to safety. u.s. officials confirm a new insider is leaking secret surveillance documents to the media more than a good offer to edward snowden began lifting the lid. and this is why it is holding . a month long is the way the onslaught leaves the tiny territory an old one thousand nine hundred fifty. hello to you know welcome to our to international live from moscow this afternoon you're with me with say. people in east ukraine is a second biggest city of league on scarcely the life they have become unbearable since army troops began a siege of the residents have abandoned their homes and with essentially no water

power all food supplies the city council has announced a humanitarian crisis a phone connection has also been soviet and social networks are boiling with attempts to get any information on those left trapped in lugansk here's some of what's been reported by the un human affairs official insecurity and violence prevail 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 violence persists the report was part of the latest u.n. security council session where the issue queen crisis was of course in the spotlight but it seems the kids are representatives neither particularly trust the u.n. data nor share the views of their own citizens there is no need how many there are

in crisis in ukraine as it is continued to be portrayed by our russian colleagues this is bad but some western delegations who are instead trying to shift the attention towards russia's alleged role in the conflict and even brought up the issue of sanctions while in fact it was last initiated the emergency meeting of the un security council on the humanitarian crisis the russian ambassador called for swift international it falls to stop civilian suffering and open awaits to bring in aid supplies. 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. the attempts to free the was there no even

getting around in areas which haven't you have suffered heavy fighting is getting increasingly dangerous this video we've just received from the region clearly shows that while the pictures purportedly show the moment when i walk it hits the highway the driver miraculously survived he says that's because he'd plated his car although little was left of the vehicle itself. thank. you craig and officials though say several civilians have been killed by artillery fire on the outskirts of danny a school a second key antigovernment stronghold now we've been getting reports of heavy fighting between kip's troops and local militia there that went on into the night the ukrainian army is said to be closing in on the city they have been reports it is sponsoring is a ground missile system with care of saying it is preparing for

a decisive offensive also hearing that the office of the nearest have been coming under fire and this is the latest footage of the devastation the teller is shells of course local resident told us people we must get. one year for the war no more food stocks have decreased severely and we're having shortages of water and electricity in the areas close to the airport people are forced to cook their food on bonfires it's a very tense situation here the majority of people don't know what to do they can't even abandon all of the long. things that it's terrifying to stay in. one is no one is appraisal be a pleasant summer time for the people of the near here are some pictures taken at the same time previous years ukraine's fifth biggest city was full of smiling faces different colors twenty. measures for the european football championship in twenty twelve including a semi final it's hard to contemplate four hours let alone the locals that these

suburbs of the same city and now a war zone and have been reduced to looking like this just in time for the euro two thousand and twelve the near opened a brand new international airport terminal of flights are now suspended and since been the focal point of fighting. driven to desperation by the now four month loan army offensive thousands have been free in the conflict zone russia forced to leave their lives and homes behind where if a national reports now from one of the border crossings. in each of these cars individual stories of anger uncertainty and to 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 mark well below average of muslims made up of all of them national sociopath. to live in 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 they war doesn't discriminate between age or gender only your child will i go to is it safe to be in a tutu through the. years or put a little sheepish will get as close to his nose the white little boy that i'm going to put the plate in the reach 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 a saddam also brought a man but i still not all feel worse you should have brought him

a sam maybe try measure what it really could be to what i thought didn't go so far but i started. with the quarter the doctor says he's family has need to go back to ruin your story the more you draw. out your thoughts enjoy your daughter board the no rights group over here. most of what are you in here to use if you can't 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. tutor's wife also doctor tells us how she lost her home and is there for dessert or before i know. it didn't have to be regular dorm before kill. this could be cheap this camp is designed for a thousand people but there are at least twice as much here 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 to to fight for a peaceful long is just beginning. from russian ukrainian border. by maria has been in the thick of both the violence and the humanitarian crisis under way across ukraine's rest of eastern regions across the latest developments are with all of the reports she's been sending us on you tube channel . the u.s. government has hundreds of thousands of seemingly innocent people on a terrorist watch list according to the latest revelations in the media but the secret information was not leaked to why edward snowden this time there's a new insider in town and washington is now scrambling to track him down he is

going to cheat again. 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 light on 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 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. was a blow as a taking huge risks and to get the truth out no strong laws to protect them in the u.s. that's according to defense analysts i've been the land. 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 big u.s.

government does care about this missile 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. i hade to the long awaited t.v. debates on scottish independence we look at the key to the arguments and basic changes of the two rivals. public coming up when i see learn how the russian empire contributed to the allies cause in the first world war what price it paid when the war and it was all coming up to this. this is the media leave us so we leave the media. by the same motions to the other your party there's

a bill. for shoes that no one is asking with to get that you deserve answers from. politics only on our team. they just want to keep building the 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 current we have one hundred thousand four to sixteen year old children who have been schooled in these mature asses which is encouraging complete non integration within the society.

hello babe the three day ceasefire is so far holding in gaza and shoes day israel decided to withdraw its army after almost a month of fighting with hamas both sides send their delegations to cairo aiming to secure a long term deal the idea of says it has completed its main mission which was to target hamas by destroying their hideouts and tunnels but the campaign has brought the worst devastation and civilian losses in yes there are many dissenting voices within the israeli forces policy or talk 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 you know why are we using so much force why are we treating them as one hundred is one such for me israeli soldier she calls herself an anti occupation activist and was one of fifty reserve troops to sign an open letter to the washington post refusing reserve

duty blocking their show or the law during the service i didn't talk about this thing and so when you are 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 billion billion a rural or. the firm through the system and there is no law top of the firm to move or of new pool. for the river possibility 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 for devastating wars with hamas 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. we had

four years in the which we lost the middle east we lost. we in a way lost egypt. we are 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's nothing 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. tell of of. the israel fired well over four thousand rockets at gaza their result was that nearly nine hundred palestinians

have been killed in the onslaught around four hundred thirty of them with children the mission also damaged one hundred and sixty schools among with twenty four hospitals which had been flirting with the injured and dying palestinians the un estimates that up to four hundred eighty five thousand gazans the way displaced bill event asked cells from human rights watch says it's fair to brand the operation 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 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. 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.

by this war also witnessed some extraordinary moments this little girl was thought to have been killed the house was in collapse after being hit in an airstrike last week but by some miracle rescuers pulled the eight month old out of the rubble alive and there she is today the israeli attack killed her mother and older sister as well as one thousand nine hundred residents of the building a father is allies and says his daughter is a reminder of the loved ones lost. there isn't to scale back the operation follows a chorus of global condemnation spain's outrage as just seen it become the second country to ban arms sales to tel aviv operations said it's viewing its eight billion pound weapons agreement with israel but khalid mahmood a british labor m.p. told r.t. is kevin when 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 that's taking place with frankie muniz 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 of nuclear foreign office resigned initially from the government she couldn't support this anymore you think we'll see more people doing that kind of thing or not want some help so i think you know until we saw the complete those not listening to the rhetoric but the idea of a live coverage from forward and look at what's happening on the ground 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 a dispute that's going on about territory and who should be what this is about an unjust strike and retaliation against people who are mobile to defend themselves.

right well british police have now spent exactly one hundred and seventy seven days watching acquittals embassy in london that's of course to make sure we could leaks founder julian assange doesn't on a website reveal how much the absolutes have cost so far. hold on r.t. dot com the already an active twitter user however he believes people should spend their time one more fruitful activity. with smartphones and chatting online. the first t.v. debate on scottish independence has seen the leaders of the two rival camps class just six weeks before the historic referendum and examined the leader of the scottish national party took on alistair darling the head of the better together campaign i'm joined now by party boy who listen to the arguments partly just

so give us a little bit of what happened the clash of the titans some we call it did anyone come out a winner well in the run up to the debate alec salmon had been advised to change his usual aggressive style and become a bit more statesman like in order to try and draw in more supporters in the two figureheads of the referendum did both start out quite demure but the gloves came off pretty quickly alistair darling was accused of being a bit shouty afterwards but it was alex salmond who gave us the best sound bite of the night perhaps when he was explaining why he thinks that the politicians in westminster are irrelevant to scotland let's take a listen to him now one more party goes. to the m.p.'s in scotland but we still get the tory government. well he's great at

sound bites but he was accused of dodging difficult questions about what an independent scotland would look like in particular in relation to a scottish currency and the economy he was asked several times by alistair darling and by members of the audience what currency an independent scotland would use if it can't keep the pound as westminster has been saying that it won't be able to alex salmond couldn't come up with an answer he just kept repeating that he thinks that the best option for scotland would be to use the pound and it didn't seem like a satisfying aunts of the many scottish people who are wondering how they'll be paying their mortgages and their bills if scotland does become independent now we had another heated exchange where the shoe was on the other foot and alex salmond had backed alistair darling into a corner by repeatedly asking him if he thought that scotland could be a successful independent country and he really budget him about it but i mr darling

just wouldn't give him a straight now the leader of the better together campaign has been accused of being slightly negative throughout the debate and talking up the risks of voting for an independent scotland we can take a listen to him talking about those risks now. i don't want to see your children's future go i want to have the. world. well despite the outlook the polls today seem to show that i listed darling came out on top by quite a narrow margin but he was the one that sort of been spoken about as the winner in this debate which is a surprise because bookmakers had been predicting that it would be alex salmond who would be the winner but point out how important can such t.v. debates like the speed. well this debate drew so much interest from around the globe that the website streaming the debate online crashed so

overwhelming was people's interest in it but that said political experts say that t.v. debates are really rarely game changing they don't make much difference because there's only six weeks to go until that referendum and most people's opinions in scotland are already entrenched in either the u.s. or the no camp so it's the undecided voters that could have been swayed by yesterday's debate. in london following those debates of course six weeks ago we're watching very closely on our chief international we bring you more in the coming weeks. right one hundred years on of the world is common rating the start of the greater war with the battles which took place in western europe the main focus that's leaving the eastern front largely overlooked archies and reform assesses the role of russia in

the global conflict. franz ferdinand in the late gene 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 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 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 and 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 too many had lost the strategic advantage but it was too late for russia people exhausted by war coupled with a 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 road is hard to overstate it carried on each shoulders alone the burden of the eastern front and helped end the war which would claim eighteen million lives.

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