pleasure to have you with us here today. in eastern ukraine here with. a look at the methods used by the. a growing number of ukrainian troops revolt against the way they. speak to some of the seeking refuge in russia. holds into its final days. raising fears of renewed bloodshed on the channel we report on those struggling to get medical help in the deadly conflict. plus.

a million smartphones are infected with a virus allowing to control them as if they were their own. good morning from moscow it's now ten am here in the russian capital for me and the whole crew welcome to your world headlines and it has been killed in shelling. in east ukraine graphic footage showing neighborhoods pulling out five bodies from a basement where they had been taking shelter it's reported a shell hit the house causing it to collapse. what wonders if you are just not right.

with. you but does it give you. and this gigantic crater was what residence in a small town in the donetsk region found after a heavy bombing campaign and kiev is denying that it's using any banned weapons in its crackdown on the eastern provinces but let's check what they have been deploying craters like this for example are left the by ballistic missiles they strike a pre-determined target within a range of up to three hundred kilometers with a variety of warheads which can include chemical and it's holes for example like these in residential areas in eastern ukraine which have been caused by missiles from gotten a powerful rocket launcher and strikes are seen as highly inaccurate and the area

of damage can be up to forty two hectares and of course mortar shells have been raining down on eastern regions well for several months now causing this kind of damage and when they hit their targets shrapnel explodes causing widespread destruction and wounds military expert says whoever is arming the military and aiming the weapons should bear responsibility for the hundreds of deaths states on targets use weapons of course sceptically if as they say they're acting in self-defense all times states have an obligation to safeguard civilians that means to say that i can't target civilians with these weapon systems and they target areas in which civilians if you like. predominant that it becomes a typical disproportion attack and of course the. the larger the weapon here we're talking about lifting weapons that are they use that had very large will hit

places even more onus of responsibility on those using those weapons to ensure that they don't disproportionate harm civilians and in these kind of urban battlefields that mark the east ukraine yet if you like it's almost impossible to use those weapons without harming civilians and so again their use could be very easily described and could amount to a war crime and some ukrainian soldiers have been appalled by the methods being used in the east in fact almost five hundred troops cross the border to russia seeking refuge there are more if an option i went to meet them we would need thanks to the successful anti terrorist operation a country will soon be cleared of militants and mercenaries. but before we were carrying out operations in ukraine we were surrounded and we

couldn't escape. if there's nothing in the disposition the thing is we didn't have enough equipment to hold the enemy and that's why we made this decision. the political turmoil of money on how awful the soldiers were lied to they don't want to fight and many of them were grabbed from towns and villages and made to join the army. do you want to fight no no one wants to. know why does the war go on. this tent camp and russia's restore region was set ups passionate embrace the ukrainian military who crossed the border on sunday night one hundred eighty of them have already gone to ukraine two hundred fifty are still here facing an uneasy choice of what to do next. yes you're right that our country may accusers they could consider us to traitors who would cross another country's border.

because i support with voting with and now what can i say about going back i don't know but i certainly don't want to no matter how much money they'll pay me will they allow you not to come back or this is a big question i don't know. meanwhile western officials are claiming that russia was planning to move troops into ukraine something moscow denies. nature can reporting on the arguments. speaking in germany u.s. defense secretary chuck hagel said there was the right old russian invading ukraine based on the buildup of russian troops along the border u.s. and nato officials say there are now about twenty thousand russian troops massed just east of ukraine's border russia's defense ministry has the night such a buildup saying that the pentagon and nato make up numbers as they go on tuesday

pentagon spokesperson talked about ten thousand russian troops at the border the next day nato said twenty thousand moscow says carrying out such a maneuver within a day let alone secretly from monitors currently in the region would be impossible the russian defense ministry says under the open skies treaty u.s. and nato monitoring missions have been flying over russian regions east of the ukrainian border almost every week meanwhile russia is very much concerned about key of smily operation across its border involving twenty five thousand ukrainian troops at this point it seems anything worth should does even drills on its own territory prompt u.s. officials to talk about russia threatening ukraine the state department said russia's drills pose to ukraine are provocative and contribute to the escalation of the conflict there moscow asked the state department to check the map again the current drills are going on in the east of russia's region which is roughly five hundred miles away from ukraine and the exercises were planned and approved last year some in nato believe moscow could at some point unilaterally decide to go into

seeing ukraine as a peacekeeping force meanwhile moscow believes the u.s. and nato are only eager to hype up the tension with russia and ignore what's actually going on in eastern ukraine. he's going nature can western nations which imposed sanctions on moscow over the crisis in ukraine on no longer allowed access to russia's food market a whole range of sectors in the agricole. all industry are being affected despite the e.u. and the us saying this stuff is counterproductive political commentator for the e.u. reporter magazine. she believes it's a move the west could have easily predicted when you put it russia on to its blacklist is the only logical answer because our as the president of a country our mr putin has to defend russian interests and if the voice of freshened is not heard and still there is no negotiated solution there is no there is no investment people are not really engaged into negotiated solution of ukraine

there is no answer than to have a sort of a mirror like reaction there europeans who will pay the bills it's not a bad news for russian speakers it's basically a very good news for russian agricultural producers because they will try to do their best to feel that gap. so what are the debate over the counter measures russia is taking in order to secure its markets well it's certainly moving online you can go to r.t. dot com to join the discussion share your views with the hundreds of users in the comment section. part of the mideast now where a ceasefire in gaza is still holding but it's feared it won't last much longer its off to the sides fail to agree on extending the truce and the months long conflict has already claimed up to nineteen hundred lives most of the victims palestinian civilians and as correspondent harry fear reports only

a handful of them are lucky enough to get the adequate medical help they need. every day patients arrive from gaza to palestinian hospitals in jerusalem and the west bank the market said hospital in east jerusalem has received dozens of cases since the latest conflict erupted in this room he is six years old patient that was two weeks ago he has multiple bizarre skull fracture after the bombing of his house here received unconscious aware of the environment. in his first few days here khalid's life was maintained by a country later he's made a solid recovery doctors say and is now able to make his life. his mother nihad has been by her side for almost three weeks only one relative is allowed to accompany such medical cases from gaza but the only granted one day's access to israel.

i cannot sleeve the hospital because my son in because i have permits to remain in israel for just one day because when i leave i show them the medical records of the crossing and they let me pass into gaza there is not easy to come out of gaza it is not easy to be coordinated there is checkpoints that are procedures that israelis have and therefore we're not getting enough patience although there are thousands upon thousands of patients we need support and help. forty two year old pfizer was in her home preparing dinner for have family when her house was suddenly demolished upon i asked if she felt lucky to be outside of dallas or receiving an expert tree yeah it was situation in the gaza strip is an absolute disaster how can i feel lucky when my people are dying. over nine thousand palestinians have been injured in gaza getting medical treatment outside of its overstretched health system is

like winning the lottery three year old young mean a boob job or survived an attack on his family home in gaza as they gathered for the first night of the islamic festivals someone thought an eighteen members family was wiped out leaving just this one child little yeah i mean still calls out for his favorite sibling his older sister he doesn't know she's being killed along with all the others a relative. has lived through six wars between the palestinians and israel. and i do see either israel or the palestinians as winning we the citizens of the folder for war everybody is a loser whoever thinks of peace is the true human being. these patients are lucky to have temporarily escaped gaza to receive the very best in medical treatment many are looking forward to returning to their families in gaza but awaiting them is a horrified and devastated community. r.t. . and in the u.k.

the foreign office minister baroness warsi resigned over the government's support of israeli actions calling it quote morally indefensible the move comes after a number of large demonstrations were held in the country against the offensive in gaza artie's party boycott now gauging public opinion. well the streets of britain israel's actions have been deep need to find sitting there in the number of rallies it should have been saying but even now i'm pleased by part of my mistake you know you have. so many brits the conflict in gaza is hitting close to home the latest you gov poll shows that almost two thirds of the british public sixty two percent believe that the israeli government is committing war crimes while the hof of brits see israel's bombing of the gaza strip as unjustified now the u.k. v.-day is under a mounting pressure to outline a more robust israel policy of three four weeks of pictures of dead children of

families been reduced to nothing homes as rubble of course so to be actually the good people start to take the british government actually has been quite surprising in how how resistant it is towards criticizing israel david cameron i mean when he was opposition leader two thousand and six much more critical about the invasion of lebanon even when he came into power he was much more critical but this time it was a much more cautious response david cameron's back at the un is condemning nation of israel shelling of a un school shelter in gaza as a moral outrage but still short of agreeing that it was a criminal act as a strong pro is ready labia it just so happens a lot of the rich donors of the tory party a more sympathetic towards israel than they are it's protestant these activists from london's palestine action group took a radical stand by scaling the grief of an israeli drone manufacturer in the midlands calling for a boycott of arms sales to israel britain has issued forty two million pounds worth

of arms export licenses to israel and downing street spokesperson has said that those arms exports are now under review but ministers have resisted mounting calls to impose a blanket dome symbiote go on israel saying that it would hinder progress in the middle east peace process. our still to come here on the program the u.s. holding back the release of the cia torture report the senate committee chairman says true much information has been by the intelligence agency. very much needed to get to the bottom of any wrongdoing. swarm of these police raid. on the rest of the world.

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really knows what's inside the feeling of fish. hello again a russian i.t. company has discovered half a million phones around the world that are infected with malware ultimately allowing them to be controlled remotely with everything from your banking passwords to your text messages could easily be spied on my colleague neil harvey spoke with a member of the company that actually uncovered this security breach how do they feel like sort of imitating well known. to well known companies be tried to mimic through. software updates to well known or software applications and plugins. or sort of this and i am i right in thinking that it's not just kind

of reading your phone it gives them quite a lot of kind of control over it at the same time yeah correct basically we get access to pretty much everything you have on your phone now or those criminals will be using it to to mining via. is quite easy to imagine there in case they pry in some pin interest in the least they could potentially use it to move to do something more significant than just doing mining and i just wonder does that perhaps a good defense against this kind of. malware if you got a very old fashioned doesn't even connect to the internet then that this move your hundred percent secure would be your old phone. computer science engineer and activist jeremy zimmerman he believes that so many phones were infected because they were already designed to be easily spied upon it is apparently the first time that we see on such a large scale

a computer virus spreading on those so-called smart phones the real news here is the scale and the sophistication of this attack but by itself it is not really surprising there is a very high responsibility from the manufacturers of the devices whether it's the hardware of the software manufacturers in fact for the last two years there's been turning those book at computers into black boxes that we cannot open this closed ness of the device enables on one hand surveyance by government as we see with the n.s.a. revelations by it was snowden and on the other hand enabled this kind of attacks that the user cannot suspect and against the user cannot do anything on a few clicks away on our website right now from bad to worse at the fukushima nuclear plant that's not the site owner discovers every rock in one of the affected reactors melted at the height of the crisis that means it could take an awful lot

longer to decommission four story online for you right now. also we've got pictures from a devastating earthquake in china as the death toll continues to rise to get the images on these and other stories at the invision section about it all. right. first street. and i would think that your. last look. moments away from the r.t. will adopt it for now thanks for joining us given a tip off about a large cannabis farm russian police expected little more than a routine raid and arrests to be made what they didn't count on though was

a formidable army in the way. you got this kind of takes up the story it started as an ordinary drugs raid investigators were checking reports about wild cannabis growing on a private property in central russia the reports turned out to be true on the ground they found hundreds of marijuana plants some measuring more than six feet tall that's around two meters but the other thing they found almost ruined the entire operation hidden in the bushes were beehives and as police officers began pulling plants from the ground the bees attacked this woman was stung on her feet in an uneven battle against thousands of angry insects the authorities had to retreat they were only able to finish the operation after putting on protective gear in the end they destroyed around five hundred plants the land's all in claims he knew it was cannabis but couldn't find the time to pull it out since he was too busy taking care of the bees now he's looking at up to eight years behind bars if it's established that weed was planted there on purpose. all right some other

global headlines here in our international the world update now at least one person killed and ten wounded in an explosion in the northern lebanese city of tripoli a homemade bomb placed next to a car about thirty meters from an army checkpoint attentions of tripoli in recent days as a result of clashes between the army and islam is to militants. the world health organization is considering declaring an international public health emergency as the deadly ebola virus in west africa gains ground the latest victim is a nurse who treated infected patients in nigeria bringing the death toll to nine hundred thirty two liberia declared a state of emergency due to the rapid spread there you both are patients fevers sore throats as well as bleeding before an agonizing death. marketplaces and sheer districts of baghdad killing at least fifty one the first attack. in

a shopping area and. another car packed with explosives detonated in a nearby neighborhood a sunni militants from the islamic state group which has threatened to march on baghdad and thought to be responsible. for a report into torture by the cia it will now be delayed the senate intelligence committee chairman accused the white house of censoring their talk human saying now more time must be needed to fully describe the controversial interrogation techniques used by the agency dianne feinstein says that the government redactions were distorting key facts of the initial report she says it will not be published until she is satisfied that a much anticipated report of more than six thousand pages is expected to expose the brutal torture practiced of the bush era acknowledged last week by president obama . we tortured some folks. we did some things that were contrary to our values. and during the press conference however obama also defended

the cia saying the agency was just doing its job u.s. journalist and historian douglas valentine told us the government is likely to keep dilly dallying with the report in order to hush up the ugly truth. well there is a lobo a legal and also psychological reasons for the administration to try and keep this is the narrow. undisclosed is possible there are concerned about what will the american public think of this report so they're trying to shape it to contain the damage as must as what it was all simple basically along with would certainly constrains you only the news on the of ministrations mind is how can we do this and maybe american people think we're responding to their their desires and their needs and of course you have to realize the government doesn't really care and it's going to continue to do all the things it wants to do anyway

it's just going to try to make this report look like it has the interests of americans at heart it's also international law from moscow where backing off an hour's time with the rest of the world headlines for now boom bust is next on the seemingly never ending rise of facebook and what's behind the success of this social networking giant. during a press briefing president barack obama said something very unusual and used a certain term you'll almost never hear from a government bureaucrat he told the audience that in the immediate aftermath of nine eleven we america did some things that were wrong we did a whole lot of things that were right but we tortured some folks here it is a rare thing to hear someone in the white house admit to torturing people after

nine eleven but the question is why did he say this now police allowed me to suspect first obama is the teleprompter master since he loves to read off a screen i doubt this was some sort of slip up this was probably done consciously but why. i well it always helps if you look good by condemning the moral failings of previous presidents liberals and democrats love to hate bush so this could be subs kind of pandering or trying to look good by comparison headlines like obama condemns torture so nice and drown out the fact that he sure approves of showing civilians eastern ukraine if obama really does feel that the post nine eleven torture was a shameful part of american history as the leader of the executive branch of the nation he could do a lot to punish those who did the torture then and prevent it from happening again in the future but if i do obama this is all just a bunch of sweet talk but that's just my opinion.

in justifying their stance they're citing all sorts of what they see as international pass a dance in cost of coming referendum in scotland but the response that they're hearing from their one is that what you're saying is illegitimate but what we've been doing is just a little like america if you break into they're still good but america does is right. for other people for countries like russia or countries like this trace. back whatever america does is right because america does it. hello there i am marinated and this is boom bust and these are some of the stories that we're tracking for you today. is my favorite day of the week here on boom bust

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