really. deliver. food water and power shortages saundra the sea cities of eastern ukraine the worsening situation has led the un to demand a stop to find the humanitarian crisis. and the united nations believes nearly three hundred thousand people have been displaced by the escalating standoff between care of army and local militia with most of them fleeing to russia argy follows their road to safety. also the new ad with snowden that the u.s. has suspects so new whistleblowers leaking sensitive data about the spine programs well then a year after the scoop of the n.s.a. surveillance was first exposed. and

a fragile truce in gaza with two days of a humanitarian ceasefire left to run israelis and palestinians prepared for tough talks to prolong the deal. it's four o'clock in the afternoon here in moscow you live with us on our t. international with me tom would say it's good to have you with us. the un is calling for an end to violence in eastern ukraine to prevent a severe humanitarian crisis ganske the second largest city in the region has been words head says these images show on monday officials that they declared a state of humanitarian disaster and say the situation hasn't improved since here's what a senior u.n.

official said about the situation 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 health 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 senior united nations of the killed john ging the he was talking to a un emergency meeting about the increasing hardship of life in eastern ukraine kiff however sees the situation very differently there is no no i mean there in crisis in ukraine as it is continued to be portrayed by our russian colleagues there was a echoed by some western delegations with the u.s. representative questioning whether the humanitarian situation in ukraine actually needed any mergence the meeting of the u.k. envoy blamed for the crisis moscow requested to the meeting of the un security

council russia's envoy called for a humanitarian mission saying the situation is catastrophic. artillery tanks as well as grad rockets have really used locals the same phosphorus 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. a quarter million of people are stuck in new guns gun able to leave getting out of the war zone is proving dangerous and often fatal take a look at this video from the region right it appears to show a rocket presumably fired by a heavy missile launcher hitting a highway just in front of a car fortunately the driver survived he says he's alive only because he almost

plated his vehicle. but there's a linden in their school which is in another key antigovernment stronghold to say three civilians were killed there overnight as the outskirts of the city came under heavy a tillery fire kids been stepping up offensive right here in the knesset a regional capital with a population of just under a million as reportedly concentrating tanks and armored vehicles in the area the parrying for major offensive to retake it from local militia russia's foreign ministry believes ukrainian forces are moving heavy rocket launchers close today near the locals are living in fear of what's to come. why our new bravo 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

leave in abandon all of their belongings but it's terrifying to stay in. by this is what in the near like this time of the year last year or the last couple of years when it was a pleasant place to be in the summer for locals as well as visitors you queens of fifth largest city and one of the country's main economic hard it was also a whole city during the twenty twelve european champ football championships but the ongoing violence has changed it has drastically and the suburbs of the city have turned into a war zone pounded daily by shells thousands have been falls from their homes and this is the international terminal at the nearest airport opened just two years ago it's been a focal point of combat and all flights they are now suspended one hotel welcomes guests with a warning of possible rocket attacks at r.t.

dot com for the details as well as minute by minute update on the situation in eastern ukraine. the u.n. says almost three hundred thousand people have become refugees or since the conflict in ukraine began most of them have been fleeing to russian river national went to 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 deal overclock the more well below average immigrants made up of

the national sociopath. who. live in a smoke got more snow with this thrown 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 or menial job or you know choice it's a good game to just look at. what you wish or put a little sheepish or get as close to his nose that what that little little girl can cross the plate 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 saddam also brought a man but i still know all to war she should have brought him up so i may be treasurer didn't really gotta be so bad but i thought different scopes of it all started. with the quarter the doctor says his family has no home to

go back to ruin your story of them are. your thoughts ensure your oath before a board the no rights group over for. most of what are you and your going to have to use if you can't 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. tutor's wife also doctor tells us how she lost her home and if those critters are born before i don't know. the litany of. the regular dorm fark you'll. have to cover for question is 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 a war that their fight for a peaceful long is just beginning. from russian ukrainian bolton. our maria has been in the midst of the ukrainian crisis over the recent weeks we can all watch the reports she's been sending us on our tease you tube channel. and. i do want to snowden that may no longer be washington's most used to wanted man there is apparently a new insider in town leaking classified documents to the media and the government is desperately trying to track them down you can has more online news source the intercept published an article this tuesday titled barack obama's secret terrorist tracking system by the numbers where its authors jeremy scahill and wind of raw

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 hoarding 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 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 is someone who probably wants to change something but sees no way to do that other than turning to the press to the public. now whistleblowers are taking huge risks to get the truth since there's no strong laws to protect them in the u.s. that's according to defense analyst ivan eland. 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 doesn't 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 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. coming up just weeks before scotland decides whether to split from the k. the head of the rival camps hold a televised debate to win over undecided voters laying out the arguments for and against scottish independence we'll bring you more shortly. also coming up on r t learn how the russian empire contributed to the allies cause in the first world war and what prize it paid on the war and. in 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 doing is illegitimate but what we've been doing is just a little like a marriage if you break into they're still. loved america does is right

rules are made for other people for centuries like russia or countries like australia. but whatever america does is right because america doesn't. choose your language. with. its recent. she was good because. she's going to use that in the great. stories but in the. excess of three. things will stay with us the ceasefire between israel and hamas is holding for

a second day the agreement was for seventy two hours then both sides ascend geishas to cairo to try and prolong the length of the deal on tuesday israel decided to withdraw its army after all was a month of fighting the i.d.f. says it has completed its main mission which was destroyed the hideouts and tunnels belonging to hamas the campaign has brought the worst devastation and civilian losses in yes and even within the israeli forces there are many dissenting voices. 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 we're treating them best way is one such form israeli soldier she calls herself an anti occupation activist and was one of fifty reserve troops to sign an open later to the washington post refusing reserve juice she thought national 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 are spending billions and billions of . different through the system and there is no top of the firm to. of the four it will 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 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 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 restore a hamas there's 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. the ceasefire is the longest in a war that has killed nearly one thousand nine hundred palestinians both the israeli military and palestinians have violated previous truces although one side

did so more frequently and far more fatally israel has breached a cease fire over one hundred and nineteen times and ten percent of those cases resulted in death and almost half of them caused injuries while on the palestinian side there were around seventy five violations just four percent ended with people being wounded and in death bill than felt from human rights watch says it's fair to bring the israeli 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 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 but 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. 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.

also there's some extraordinary moments in this little girl was thought to have been killed the house she was in collapsed after being hit by a strike last week but miraculously rescuers pulled that eight month old out of the rubble alive and here she is today israeli attack to kill mother and oldest sister as well as one thousand other people in the building a father is alive and says his daughter is a reminder of their loved ones they lost. what's called lenses story game dependence referendum now just six weeks away the heads of the june rival camps across all the aid they have for us live t.v. debate pro independence leader debated. together campaign with each attempting to women undecided very to. was watching. 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 and the two figureheads of the referendum did 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. but we still get the government but he was accused of. difficult questions about what an independent scotland would look like in particular in relation to 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 oncet for 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 she was on the other foot alex salmond had backed alistair darling into a corner by repeatedly asking him if he thought that scotland could be a successful independent country but i just adored him 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 i don't want to see your children's future gambled away i want to have the school. 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 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 already entrenched in either the u.s. or the no camp so it's the undecided vote is that could have been swayed by yesterday's debate online for you as julian has his seven hundred and seventy seven the day at the ecuadorian embassy in london these efforts to save the whistleblower has caused british taxpayers a pretty penny find out exactly how much at our t. dot com. also if you're sick and tired of bosses nagging you even

outside of office hours welcome to your many so-called anti's truslow could soon be in place the find out what that's all about that's just a click away. but also online a video of perhaps the world's most disciplined dogs has gone viral. shows from their russian owners the birds of. a bond of the soon in line and mancini in the good stuff inside for the first it has already got almost a million views and caused a flood of what she comments about the talents of the duck whisperer. one hundred years on the world is commemorating the start of the great war with the

battles which took place in western europe the main focus so with the eastern front largely overlooked artie's entry for most us was russia's role in the for is truly global conflict. 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 crag 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

rands 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 threaten the central powers sent thirty divisions to the eastern front easing the burden for the allies in the west from that moment germany had lost the strategic advantage but it was too late for russia people exhausted by war coupled with the we can government to 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 it carried on each shoulders alone in the burden of the eastern front and helped end the war

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