really. food water and power shortages songs of the seas such ease of eastern ukraine worsen the situation has led the un to demand a stop to fighting to end the humanitarian crisis. and the united nations believes nearly three hundred thousand people have been displaced by the escalating standoff between the kiev army and local militia as most of them free into russia r.t. follows their road to safety. also the new ad would snowden the u.s. suspects new whistleblower why is leaking sensitive data about its spying programs more than a year after the scope of this group of the n.s.a.

surveillance was first exposed. and a fragile truce in gaza with two days of a humanitarian ceasefire left or to run the israelis and palestinians prepare for tough talks to prolong the deal. from or wherever you're watching from around the world to your welcome to moscow this is our team to national you with me to say. the un is calling for an end to violence in eastern ukraine to prevent a severe humanitarian crisis new ganske the second largest city in the region has been worst hit as these pictures here show on monday officials they declared a state of humanitarian disaster and say the situation hasn't improved since here's what a senior u.n.

official thinks about it 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. senior united nations official don't drink now he was talking to a u.n. emergency meeting about the increasing hardships of life in eastern ukraine killed however sees a situation differently there is no need how many there are in crisis in ukraine as it is continued to be portrayed by our russian colleagues there was a could but somewhat western delegations are with the u.s. representatives questioning whether the humanitarian situation in ukraine actually needed any moving sea meeting of the u.k. envoy blamed russia for the crisis moscow requested the meeting of the u.n.

security council russia's envoy called for a humanitarian mission saying the situation there is catastrophic. bring it down to accelerate tanks as well as grad rockets if we used. locals a saying 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 people are stuck in lugansk on a wall to leave getting out of the war zone is proving dangerous and often fatal take a look at this video from the region 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. officials in the near school which is another key anti government stronghold saying three civilians were killed there overnight as the outskirts of the city came under heavy a teller if i am. stepping up its offensive in the near regional capital with a population of just under a million reportedly concentrating tanks and armored vehicles in the area preparing for major of sense of to retake it from local militia russia's foreign ministry believes ukrainian forces are moving heavy rocket launchers close to danielle's locals living in fear of what's to come for 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 an abandon all of their belongings but it's terrifying to stay as well. this is what the near school used to look like at this time of year now when it was a pleasant place to be in the summer for locals as well as visitors ukraine's a fifth largest city and one of the country's main economic hobbs' was also a host city during the twenty twelve european football championships but the ongoing violence has challenged things a drastically the suburbs of the city have turned into a war zone pounded daily by shells thousands have been. from their homes and this is the international terminal. airport open just two years ago it's been a focal point of combat and all things of the are now suspended. five hundred years hotel welcomes as guests to with a warning of possible rocket attacks had to r.t. dot com for the details as well as minute by minute updates on the situation in

eastern ukraine. the un says almost three hundred thousand people have become refugees since the conflict in ukraine began most of them have been fleeing to russia where if a 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 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 bill overclock the man well below average of muslims made up of

all of them national service you. can even use moco 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 the war doesn't discriminate between age or gender only your child will poor jocosity. him to to swoop. in. with us or put a little shit which will get us closer to his nose there with a good little simplistic but you know which of you which is. this is where many refugees will end up when they make it across the border to russia and people here are angry. president saddam also brought somewhere but i'm still not all you should have brought so i'm a bit from measure we're going. to go but i'm floored jets go to go but also ardent . supporter a doctor says he's found his new room to go back to ruin your story of.

your thoughts i'm sure you're going to the know. most of what are you. going to use if you're going to be. he invites me to see where they found shelter the rest so many refugees many don't have a proper place to sleep through his wife also doctor tells us how she lost her home and is therefore does a before know. we didn't have to be regular dorm farkle. have to cover for 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 the war but their fight for

a peaceful life is just beginning. me for national t.v. from russian ukrainian border. where it has been in the midst of the ukrainian crisis over the recent two weeks you can watch the reports she's been sending us on artes you tube channel. to be in the. edward snowden may no longer be washington's a most wanted man there's apparently a new insider in town leaking classified documents to the media and the government is desperately trying to track them down and it should 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 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. whistleblowers taking huge risks or to get the truth 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 does care about this so blowers are very dedicated because they're there's all sorts of informal and formal sanctions against the whistleblowers they're supposed to be laws that protect them the but 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 to decide whether to split from the u.k. the head of the rival cams hold a televised debate to win a the undecided they chose laying out the arguments for and against scottish independence we'll bring you more shortly. this is the media leave us so we leave the media. loves the bush and secure. your party physical. issues that no one is asking with to get that you deserve answers from. politics only on our team. they just want to keep building that allowing saudi arabia qatar and iran to fund millions and millions of pounds worth of the building of mosques in this country where they may 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. i. was staying with us here on r.t. international the ceasefire between israel and hamas is holding for a second day the agreement was for seventy two hours and both sides sent delegations to cairo to try and prolong the length of the deal on tuesday israel

decided to withdraw its army after almost a month of fighting the i.d.f. says it has completed its main mission which was to destroy the hideouts and tunnels belonging to hamas but the campaign has brought the worst devastation and civilian losses in years and even within the israeli forces there are many dissenting voices while a spear talked to some of them. you know that there are a lot of soldiers a come back and say to yourself you know what the hell are we doing here you know why are we using so much force why are we treating the best way is one such form israeli soldier she calls herself an anti occupation activist and was one of fifty percent of troops to sign an open letter to the washington post refusing reserve juicy pocket 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 of spreading billion billion

a rural or. the firm system and there is no top of the pool. of the four it will repeatability prove overcoming five wars in eighty years levanon two thousand and six thirty four days more than eight hundred people killed and in the end israel faced an even stronger hizbollah four devastating wars with them us two thousand and six eight twelve and fourteen thousand killed international outrage and in the end israel faced a unity government between former rivals hamas and fatah foreign policy was it we had four years in which we lost the middle east. we lost. him away last 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 destroy hamas there isn't and there's nothing that indicates that it will work this time or indeed the next time and that's taking its toll on the reputation of what was once considered one of the world's most efficient fighting forces the hope is that the coming days will see a permanent cease fire in place but bottom line gaza is in tatters mistrust between israelis and palestinians is at an all time high policy r.t. tel aviv. the ceasefire is the longest lol in a war that has killed nearly one thousand nine hundred palestinians both the israeli military and palestinians have violated previous truce is all one sided see and do so more frequently than far more fatally israel has breached a cease fire over one hundred and one thousand times and ten percent of those cases resulted in death and almost half of them cause injuries while on the palestinian

side there are around seventy five violations just four percent ended with people being wounded and none in deaths bill of an as fell down from human rights watch says it's fair to brand of 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 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. 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 finally for once in gaza there needs to be criminal accountability for war crimes. and this will also witness some extraordinary moments this little girl was thought

to have been killed the house she was in collapsed after the headline is strike last week but miraculous miraculously right there rescuers pulled the eight month old out of the rubble alive and here she is today israeli attack and killed her mother and oldest sister as well as my nine hundred other people in the building of father is alive and says still to as a reminder of their loved ones. with scotland's his story again depends referendum now just six weeks away the heads of the two rival camps called in there for his live t.v. debate the pro dependence leader debated the heads of the better together campaign with each attempting to win the undecided votes is. 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 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. but we still get government but he was accused of torturing 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 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 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 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 go by one of the. world's 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 already entrenched in either the yes or the no camp so it's the undecided voters that could have been swayed by yesterday's debate. saudi arabia has provided one billion dollars in aid to lebanon's army as it battles fighters belonging to the islamic state group inside the country jihad is have already sees a lebanese town on the syrian border as they look to add to the vast areas of iraq and syria are already in the grip middle east expert he. joins me now to discuss what is happening general jobber good to have you with us on our t. saudi arabia is giving a money to lebanon but there are also rumors of islamic states getting funds from

saudi arabia how could the money be coming from the same source. first saudi arabia gave already before this one billion three billion dollars last year. or so those men now those and serve who are alone and fighting that he needs army the pressure from qatar and saudi arabia and some respect to leave the city and to go. to go through whatever they have been on the mountain i don't know what what is going to be the deal with those and so we heard that this conflict between. darwish and i'm not there in the city because i'm not. and they started to with the old but i don't think. who are the majority would

accept easily. we are optimistic that if the long. liberty society is behind every. tree is standing and its supporters and surrounded. or so as long. as city the population in that city will convince those answers on that they are not going to come anymore. i think they don't have any choice. first or to stay in this difficult situation or to leave the city or. generals step to the mountains. yes general let me ask you this hizbullah is offering to help the government forces what does this tell us about how why we get the region is about this let me state movement. is

a very careful not to touch any sense as sensitivity as well is fighting terrorism . for three months but a little bit north of. all was to avoid any direct contact with that city city and thrown or saw enough to fire very close to the armed forces but hezbollah is very capable to live and his army we hear of yesterday that as well as support from the people in his army and all means but i don't think hezbollah in lebanon i mean the military support on the field will not interfere on the left would receive of requests from the government from the army and also from the population of that area it's very sensitive there as well it's situation is very critical in general how much of

a risk then does the islamic state pose to lebanon. again please how much of the risk does the islamic state pose in lebanon. no i think. but it's not direct. because there is no environment. this kind of of. the moment is not the north of syria out of. lebanon a different. level for the population. and we'll find many people now all of a nice part of the political party are support from the army it's very very important the problem is tactical refugee problem. if. the city is very difficult because the army invade. we are talking about.

forty thousand lebanese civilians. six thousand syrian refugees you know and it's not easy for the army to fire. not direct negotiations. with terrorists. you know. committees and government and now i think the general was respect to me yes general i have a. general interrupting you there but thank you very much for your insight into the situation out there general. director of the center for middle east studies. right after the break aaron eight expose facebook's attempts to get into the television and ad business boom bust is next.

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