thank. god. for water and power shortages the receipts cities of eastern ukraine a worsening 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 killer for me and the local militia as most of them are free to russia r.t. follows a road to safety. also the new ad would snowden the u.s. suspects a new whistleblower was leaking sensitive data about their spying programs more than a year after the scope of the n.s.a. surveillance was first exposed. and the fragile truce in

gaza with two days of a humanitarian ceasefire left to run israelis and palestinians prepare for tough talks to prolong the deal. i. live from moscow this is our duty international here with me till i'm with you it's good to have you company with us the u.n. is calling for an end to violence in eastern ukraine to prevent a severe humanitarian crisis lugansk the second largest city in the region has been worse hit as these images 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 john ging of the now he was talking to a un emergency meeting about the increasing hardships of life in eastern ukraine however sees the 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 echoed by some western delegations with the u.s. representative questioning whether they communitarian situation in ukraine actually needed an emergency meeting all 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 a is catastrophic. giving itself deledio accelerate tanks as well as grad rockets have been used locals are 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 of people are stuck in lugansk unable to leave getting out of the war zone is proving dangerous and often fatal take a look at this video from the regime now 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 hated

his here. officials in the near school which is another key antigovernment stronghold say three civilians were killed there overnight as the outskirts of the city came under heavy a tillery they. been setting up there is offensive in a regional capital with a population of just under a million it's reportedly concentrating tanks and armored vehicles in the area preparing for major offensive to retake it from local militia russia's foreign ministry believes ukrainian forces are moving heavy rocket launchers close to the nearest locals are living in fear of what's to come. one more. food stocks have decreased severely and we're having shortages of water and electricity in the areas close to the aircrew 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 belongings but it's terrifying to stay in. by this

is what the near is going to use a look like at this time of year when it was a pleasant place to be in the summer for locals as well as visitors ukraine's fifth largest city and one of the country's main economic hubs was also a whole city during the twenty twelve european football championship of the ongoing violence has changed things drastically the suburbs of the city have turned into a was pounded daily by shells thousands have been forced from their homes and this is the international terminal at the airport open just two years ago it's been a focal point of combat and all feisty and now suspended. right one deniece hotel welcomes its guess a 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 mark well below average europeans made up top of the national sociopathy. leaving is 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 the war doesn't discriminate between age or gender only your child will i go to is it safe to be in a tutu saluting him. for years or put a little sheepish will get us closer to his nose the white little boy that i'm going to put up by 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 worse it should have brought him up so i maybe try measure what it really could be so but i thought here's kosovo but i started. the quarter the doctor says he's handling his need to go back to ruin your story of the murder of. your thoughts ensure your oath before a board the no rights group over for. most of what are you and your group you have

to use 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. tutor's wife also doctor tells us how she lost her home and is therefore does a breath before the narrow. litany of. the regular dorm farkle. 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 erratic these people have managed to escape a war that their fight for peace for long is just beginning. refn otieno t. from russian ukrainian border. by maria has been in the midst of the ukrainian crisis

is over the recent weeks you can watch the reports she's been sending us on our tease you tube channel. the. edward snowden may no longer be washington's most wanted man there's apparently a new insider in town leaking classified documents to the media the government is desperately trying to track them down if 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 gave poland 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 been 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 is that taking huge risks to get the truth out since there's no strong laws to protect them in the u.s. that's according to defense analysts i've been a 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 the u.s. government does care about this whistle 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 they're in the united states they're probably not. strong enough so so i you see people taking risks to make the story known. coming up just weeks before scotland decides whether to split from the u.k. the heads of the rival camps hold

a televised debate to win over undecided voters laying out the arguments for and against independence will bring you more shocking. in justifying their stance they're citing all sorts of what they see as international press advance in cost of what they are coming referendum in scotland but the response that they're hearing from the one thing is that what you're doing is illegitimate but what we've been doing is still full of life a measure if you break into their still. what america does is right. is a name for other people for centuries like russia or all countries like this trade . but whatever america does is right because america doesn't.

delete speak your language. programs and documentaries in arabic it's when you hear. reporting from the world talks about six of the c.o.r.p. interview intriguing story to tell you. arabic to find out more visit arabic. you're watching 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 send 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 destroying the hideouts and

tunnels belonging to hamas but the campaign has crowded the worst of a station and civilian losses in the air for more now i'm joined live by polarization from the israeli ministry of foreign affairs thank you very much for being with us on r.t. international so now we've seen statistic that show israel. we've seen statistic that israel violated recent cease fires more than twice as many as that of hamas and there's frankly no comparison in terms of the loss of civilian lives now does that not concern you at all well i'm not one hundred percent sure that i'm with you on this we haven't seen any evidence of israel violating any of the seven cease fire resolutions that were put on the table we we accepted them all we implemented them all and we abided one hundred percent by all of them. the exact opposite of what could be said about us and the other terror organizations with of

course the exception of the current one which at least asked for is holding. so why did the israel decide to withdraw now has anything been achieved apart from the large scale of loss of civilians that we've all seen happen. well we could talk about the civilians in a in a moment if you want far too many have been killed probably half by hamas themselves but the reason that we redeployed out of the gaza strip is twofold first of all we did want to be in this conflict in the first place we said that very loudly and openly and publicly we said quietly through the diplomatic channels that would be responded to with calm this was a message which was rejected out of hand by some as to who insisted on this collecting the violence we went on to accept as i mentioned all of the the ceasefire proposals but essentially when it came to the decommissioning of these terror tunnels we basically finished the work which is to decommission those

territories traverse the international frontier having done that we still have the issue of the rockets mortars the missiles that are being fired at our civilians but but that is a second issue a separate issue which hopefully will be able to work out through the diplomatic channels i think that is the big question here really is the scale in which israel went into to try to get to those tunnels some people say that you know there wasn't enough target of exactly what it is you were trying to achieve a lot of civilians died a large scale of civilian civilians died yet. are you able are you still with me in this edition. right we seem to be having technical problems with mr haitian at the moment we hope to get back with him before the end of the bulletin or next hour to continue our conversation here on what's going on in israel and gaza right we're going to move on to our next story now what's called lens historic independence referendum now just six weeks away the

heads of the two rival camps crossed swords in their first live t.v. debate the pros independents leader debated they had all the better together campaign with each attempting to win over undecided voters. 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 the 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 firsts 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 was the 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 i don't want to see your children's future gambled away i want to have the. world 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.

right you watch march international we're going to go straight back to our top story where we speaking now to paul his son from the israeli ministry of foreign affairs mr hitchen we've seen and i'm president of backlash from european leaders spain has imposed weapons sanctions or britain is considering it did issues like this affect your decision to withdraw well no not at all actually if we look at what's happened in europe it's been very interesting the european union just last week came out all twenty eight members of the european union in a joint statement standing side by side shoulder to shoulder with israel demanding that the terror organizations be disarmed supporting the call for the militarization of the gaza strip so it's been quite fascinating to see there's been a significant level of understanding in the international community for the dilemmas that it's all faces and in a very difficult circumstance the head of the u.n. accuse israel of war crimes human rights watch says israeli missiles missiles have

been targeting residential areas for no reason do you think your country is above human rights and international law. well i know that you're enjoying accusing israel of all sorts of things i'm not excusing him i'm merely saying united nation i'm not accusing you i'm merely me if you look if you'll allow me if you'll allow me the head of the united nations did not accuse israel of any such thing what the united nations said is that they're concerned about what's going on on both sides and that like to to investigate you know the israel will probably investigates itself and monitor itself even more so than anybody else what the head of the united nations the general secretary of the united nations said and i think i question is that no country in the world could be x. expected to accept the kind of murderous rockets missiles and i think you know mr king

was supporting your argument because the united no one has no knowledge of. what is going on within is what israel is doing to the whole lives it is sad it is this is an attack it is an attack it is a war crime what you're doing i merely also quoting what the united nations has also said. no what you are doing is you are quoting what some individuals who work for the united nations have said the united nations has not spoken out the only or forty within the united nations the general secretary of the united nations who have said exactly what i say the israeli military has taken unprecedented steps moso than any other military in the world to try and limit and minimize civilian casualties the israeli military operates one hundred percent within the dictates of international humanitarian law and then as time goes by and hopefully the dust becomes to settle when this cease fire does hold i think the facts will come out hopefully hopefully the number of casualties will be lower than the numbers that

are being thrown around by the hamas ministry of health we certainly know that about fifty percent of the fatalities of terrorist of the others which these far too many perhaps approaching a thousand civilians are being killed we'll find that maybe half of being killed by hamas many of whom in the execution style of call of so-called collaborators and people who demonstrated against hamas a number of whom they've been cases of many cases of the human shields and those who've been caught up tragically caught up in the in the in the combat in the crossfire between the two visits and many have no idea who was killed by israeli. ordinance and who by the masses but this is the tragedy this is precisely the tragedy of this conflict and why we didn't want to be here in the first place mrs r. let me just jump in there i don't think any of us are standing is saying what hamas is doing is correct i want to clarify that what i merely austerity is the scale in which you went into this attack sure is questionable many civilians died quoted by

many human rights watch organizations as well as a un and the world is watching and not merely asking you is this right if you do every magill you you did as a government as a country to make sure that little kids small children when. men and children i secured the results we're getting is that tom and i have been targeted but many people died. many people died and that's the great tragedy of what goes on and that's why we didn't want to be in this conflict in the first place as i said the israeli military took unprecedented steps to try and minimize and limit civilian casualties i'm not going to belittle the death of any civilian even one is too many and we grieve all civilian casualties on both sides this is the difference between ourselves and come us who have deliberately done everything they can to generate civilian casualties on the israeli side because they hate us and on their own side

in order to prosecute a a public relations war against israel but the responsibility for the civilian casualties in gaza lies directly at the doorstep of commerce for their shameful way that they have abused the palestinian people in the last weeks and more than that the u.s. says it's appalled at what you what how israel has. sort of dealt with the situation do you think there's still support from members of the g. twenty for you as a country as a government in terms of what you are doing now. i think that there is a significant amount of support i think if we look at. what's going on with calm and cool heads you'll see that the united states has stood shoulder to shoulder with the usual supports the call for for disarming these terror organizations you'll see the european union has done the same thing all twenty eight members of the european union the united nations has said that turned schools into military

targets and that israel cannot be expected to accept the kind of murderous their origin of rockets that it's been subjected to look at is not an easy situation let's make no mistake about it this is the modern many frustration of warfare between between on the one hand the functional liberal democracy who abides by the rules in very difficult circumstances and on the other hand a school of thought which is ever going to suicide to a place in society amounts to nothing less than the worship of death these killers these murderers with their killer strategy will pursue death at any price including amongst their own nobody says this is an easy circumstance but i think you would agree with me that it's absolutely unacceptable the idea that israel should be expected to sit back and simply wait for more and more missiles or or death squads to come out of these these terror tunnels nobody would expect israel to do that. from the israeli ministry of foreign affairs thank you very much for coming on to

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