on. breaking news here on r.t. moscow rolls out its own restrictions on imports from countries which have imposed sanctions on russia over the crisis in ukraine. food water and power shortages the b.c. cities of eastern ukraine the worsening situation and the un to demand a stop to fighting to end the humanitarian crisis. in the united nations believes that nearly three hundred thousand people have been displaced by the escalating standoff between the kiev army and local militia with most of them fleeing to russia r.t. follows their road to safety. and

a fragile truce in gaza with two days of a humanitarian ceasefire left to run israelis and palestinians prepare for a tough talks to prolong the deal. welcome to the a hard when you're watching r.t. internet. we will start this hour with breaking news because moscow has imposed sanctions against countries which have brought in their own restrictions on russia over the crisis in ukraine to get the latest details on this now from the artesia gold piece going off who joins us. we saw last week you go for the sanctions that were brought in fresh ones from brussels and washington against russia russia is responding now to spring is the details. well the president has signed a decree which either bans or limit importing products from countries which have been taking part in sanctioning worship over its policies on ukraine this means

products from the u.s. and canada your member states japan and australia now the sanctions will affect farming goods raw materials and food there's no precise or specific a list of products yet we do know that the government has already started putting it together we've also heard from russia's retailers or sources who predict that while these sanctions the russian sanctions won't affect the average russian consumer. will fact more the a luxury end of the market the limitations are expected to last for about a year but it does say on the kremlin's website that this may be revised now it is viewed here as a moscow's response to the sets of international sanctions which have been targeting the russian economy for instance last week we saw perhaps the most powerful set of sanctions which targeted all sectors of the russian economy several

companies have already thought the fact in fact some russian companies had to temporarily suspend their operations altogether but not only in russia their. partners have also felt the weight of these limitations as well and as recently britain's largest labor union has called on its government not to take part in sanctioning russia saying that they don't only affect russian companies but british firms as well. because you said these sanctions details have just come in i'm sure will be analyzing the more in more detail as time passes thanks ring is the latest you go off. now 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 the worst hit as we can see by these images on monday officials there declared a state of humanitarian disaster and said the situation hasn't improved since

here's what a senior u.n. official thinks about it. there is no new humanitarian crisis in ukraine as abuse continued to be pulled through by our russian colleagues. ok senior united nations official john ging speaking there he was talking to a un emergency meeting about the increasing hardships of life in eastern ukraine kiev sees the situation very differently. well i was echoed by some western delegations with the u.s. representative questioning whether the humanitarian situation in ukraine actually needed an emergency meeting while the u.k. envoy blamed russia for the crisis moscow requested the meeting of the u.n. security council which is envoy called for a humanitarian mission saying that the situation there is catastrophic.

artillery 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 of a million people are stuck in the ganske unable to leave getting out of the was only spoofing dangerous and often fatal just 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 only alive though because the armor plated his vehicle. the officials in down yet scritches another key anti

government stronghold say that the recent millions were killed overnight as the outskirts of the city came under heavy artillery fire kiev has been stepping up its offensive on down yet a regional capital with a population of just under a million it's reportedly concentrating tanks and armored vehicles in the area but caring for a major offensive to retake it from local militia and we've got the latest pictures from donetsk air show in the aftermath of overnight strikes at least on the violence was closer than ever to the city center. of. the universe but it will not spare a few rules for your purposes you claim you can register with the. utility. after weeks of siege and heavy battles on the outskirts of donetsk locals

there are living in fear of what's to come we spoke to one of the residents why a new brother or. 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 their belongings but it's terrifying to stay as well. or to take a look at what donetsk used to look like at this time of year a very pleasant place to be in the summer for locals and for visitors ukraine's fifth largest city and one of the country's main economic hubs it was also a host city during the twenty twelve european football championships but the ongoing violence has changed things and drastically so the suburbs of the city have turned into a war zone pounded by shells the thousands have been forced from their homes and this is the international terminal at donetsk airport opened just two years ago

it's been a focal point of the combat and all flights there are now suspended. one down yes kotel welcomes its guests with a warning of possible rocket attacks head to r.t. dot com for all the details as well as minute by minute updates on the situation in eastern ukraine. now the u.n. says that almost three hundred thousand people have become refugees since the conflict in ukraine began most of them have been fleeing to russia rif an option i 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 bill overclock the march will be all over an inch of muslims made up of the national sociopath. who. live in a smoke 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 pull out your choice it's a good game to through the. years or put a little sheepish will get as close to his nose that what little boredom can cross the plate you know which of you which is the clinic this is where many refugees will end up when they make it across the border to russia and people here are angry . because i saw them or so but also my but i still not all feel worse if certain

brought so i maybe try measure what it really could be so but i'll start didn't go so far but i started. curator the dr says his family has no home to go back to ruin a story of the memory drawn. your thoughts i'm sure you are going to board the no rights group over for. most of what are you and your group here to use if you can be eco. 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 desirable because before you know. they didn't have to be regular dorm before kill. harry and abel at the cover of sports 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 a war but their fight for a peaceful life is just beginning. me for nationality from russian ukrainian border. has been in the midst of the ukrainian crisis over the last few weeks you could watch the reports that she's been certainly goes on artie's you tube channel . snowden may no longer be washington's 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 gun each account 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 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 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 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. still to come 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 scottish independence we'll bring you more shortly. and also the way after the break we'll tell you about the biggest cyber theft ever and why there is a good chance that your e-mail account no longer fully belongs to you.

in justifying their stance they're citing all sorts of what they see as international pass a dance in cost of the upcoming referendum in scotland but the response that they're hearing from the one is that what you're saying is illegitimate but what we have been during. the marriage if you break into their story. what america does is right rules are made for other people for centuries like russia or countries like this straight. back to america. because america doesn't. do we speak your language. news programs and documentaries and spanish what matters to you breaking news a little too much of angles stories. for you here.

the spanish find out more visit. welcome back the ceasefire between israel and hamas is holding for a second day the agreement was for seventy two hours and both sides delegations to cairo. try prolong 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 spoke 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 as

a way hanna 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 but fusing was sort of juicy talking there so long about 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 we are spending billion billion a rural or. friend through the system and there is no top of the. pool. for. the 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 four devastating wars with a months 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 which we lost the middle east. we lost. we in a way lost egypt. in the middle east and many would argue more vulnerable the latest operation protective it 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 that an all time high policy r.t. tel aviv. this cease fire is the longest lol in a war that has killed nearly nineteen hundred palestinians both the israeli military in the palestinians are violated previous truces although one side did so more frequently and far more faithfully israel has breached the ceasefire over one hundred ninety times and ten percent of those cases resulted in death and almost half of them caused injuries on the palestinian side there were around seventy five violations just four percent of though and did with people being wounded a non in deaths earlier we heard from paul here sion from the israeli ministry of foreign affairs and he told us that israel resorts to such measures only under pressure from harm us. 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 first of all we didn't want to be in this conflict in the first place we say that

very largely in open me and publicly he 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 us who insisted on this collecting the violence we basically finished the work which is to decommission those territories traverse the international front here having done that we still have the issue of the rockets mortars the missiles that are being fired tells of billions 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 the terrorists of the others which these forty min perhaps approaching a thousand civilians and being killed will find that maybe hoffa's being killed by hamas many of whom in the execution style of call for so-called collaborators and people who demonstrated against hamas 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 asked for here is the scale in which you went into this attack sure is questionable many civilians dies quoted by many human rights watch organizations as well as a un and the world is watching and i'm merely asking you is this right that you do every magill you you did as a government as a country to make sure that little kids small children women i secured 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 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 outs 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 public relations war against israel. this war also witnessed some extraordinary

moments this little girl was thought of being killed and how she was in collapsed after being hit by an airstrike last week but miraculously rescuers pulled the eight month old out of the rubble alive and here she is today the israeli attack killed her mother and older sister as well as nineteen other people in the building a father is alive and says that his daughter is a reminder of the loved ones that they lost. believed to be the largest ever known theft of confidential internet information a group of russian hackers a stolen more than a billion username password combinations from websites in the u.s. across the world ortiz arena has the details we usually don't think twice before logging on computers sometimes to browse social media sites or to pay bills online but the results of a new investigation could make you want to give it another thought if you're not

careful next time you type in your password you may see something like this a number of russian hackers have amassed a mind blowing one point two billion usernames and passwords online cyber specialists from hold security after an investigation that lasted more than half a year believe more than four hundred thousand web addresses have been hacked the affected sites large and small include leaders in virtually all industries across the world among them companies from the top five hundred in u.s. as well as many smaller and even personal websites cybercrime costs as much as five hundred billion dollars a year affecting many industries and this is the first time russian hackers have been at the epicenter of the scandal recently a group known as energetic bear gained access to control systems of more than one thousand european and north american energy firms and last year saw how colonel in

his reach was this the specter the author of point of sale more where he didn't personally use it in his acts but sold it to dozens of others who use it to hack the likes of target neiman marcus and other u.s. retail giants. we scotland's historic independence referendum now just six weeks away the heads of the two rival camps crossed swords in the first live t.v. debate pro dependence leader debated with the head of the birth to go the campaign with each attorney to win over undecided voters auntie's police was watching well in the runup 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 figure heads of the referendum did very start out quite didn't your 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 answer 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 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. about the latest headlines at the top of the hour stay with us though up next abby martin will be looking at america's questionable anti terror tactics in breaking this a. clean more zero casualties war this is the great fantasy of warmongering politicians.

capturing people is this what do you do if they're innocent killing them easy we reserve the right to kill any person anywhere any time. they can do that in this region but they can be drowned some of it makes these things so. politicians get a new kind of power via this technology that is very tempting. right down the street. first street. and i would think the church.

on a reformist twitter. instrument. to be in the. 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 of people as

terrorist with little to no established evidence or criteria but the sheer volume of people on this list makes it clear that those who are actually dangerous will be overlooked and yet another so we've been dragnet outspread the site. it was a. very hard to take. that back with the terror threat there.