the. e.u. countries say they stand to suffer billions of euros in losses from russia's restrictions of food imports imposed as a response to western nations sanctions. here of burns again as protesters dig in and fight back against police it turns to dismantle tent camps and barricades that have become symbols of the winter uprising in ukrainian capital. also hope for a long term truce between israel and gaza fades as both sides fail to agree turns almost nineteen hundred people have died in a month of fighting. plus n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden is granted a three year residence permit for russia with the possibility of permanent

citizenship in the future. welcome my name is neil harvey and you're watching r.t. international some e.u. countries have expressed along about how severely they will be hit by russia's retaliation to sanctions over the ukrainian crisis moscow has been food imports from a number of nations speak to all of our reports on the measures. well russia has placed a ban on certain foodstuffs coming from those nations that backed sanctions against russia so that's the united states canada australia norway the european union the european union perhaps most significantly it does an awful lot of trade with russia around the export of food stuffs now the type of things that are going to have

restrictions placed upon them are meeting fruit vegetables dairy products and fish of their prime minister dmitry medvedev said that this ban would be a place of or around a year would be in place for a year you could be under review should there blow ballpark. what he called reasonable east towards russia that shows an awful lot of money at stake here over twelve billion euros trade is done exporting food from here in europe to russia already countries searches finland. contacted brussels and said look if we're going to miss out on this type of trade because of sanctions you've put in place we need compensation our farmers need compensation from brussels to make up the shortfalls particularly in finland in the dairy markets they could stand to lose up to one billion euro from the finnish economy elsewhere

we've heard statements coming out across from across europe here in germany the trade union that deals with wholesale trade and foreign trade said that this could have a detrimental effect on the german economy in greece the main opposition party said that well the fact that the greek government the current greek government was just blindly following sanctions from brussels and from washington was going to have a detrimental effect on the farming sector there on the agriculture sector there and in ireland the minister of agriculture has said that he's very concerned that there is risk particularly when it comes to cheese exports that last year ireland exported for a half a million euros worth of cheese to russia and they got to be missing out on this over the next twelve months. french political and economic analyst alex corbell thinks the sanctions will cross over into different economic sectors in the you as well as russia european produces such as polish farmers german manufacturers and

french producer first significant losses from the sanctions a certainty we. will make these negative impact jump from one sector of the economy to the other creating employment raising prices especially in the euro zone and russian economies which both suffer from a lack of economy groups problem right now free trade is a key for peace we shouldn't be in this game of. tit for tat thing with sanctions we should be negotiating on the same table. clashes have erupted in central kiev between protesters and police the city center has been shrouded in black smoke as people there burnt tires police and special units called the situation under control but failed to dismantle the barricades and. here central square the protest is that the projectile and the tank the leaving about fifty injured according to

police officials the term people have been arrested and a criminal investigation opened under hooliganism charges this is the exact same place that saw the start of the government in november of last year that standoff also began this police trying to tear down barricades and ended in the overthrow of the president and this comes as the ukrainian capital hosts a high profile guest nato secretary general anders fogh rasmussen for more about his visit or speak to who joins us live now good to see you again how was the chief received and what did he have to say. anders fogh rasmussen received possibly the warmest welcome as you could possibly imagine he went from one place to another really covering a lot of ground and meeting all sorts of green officials in one place in particular when he was meeting with president poroshenko he actually was awarded an order of freedom from the ukrainian president and then returned it during the fizzles have

gotten well it doesn't seem like a gotten anything new as a matter of fact because anders fogh rasmussen went on to give a lot of speeches again talking about russia being the aggressor and how nato is going in fact is severing all ties that with moscow and of course also we've heard about support coming from nato and other western countries to work coming coming in full force towards ukraine. with that anders fogh rasmussen left by its those words about support could be could also be reaffirmed with a vision that has actually happened in. at the south in the south from here we're talking about the black sea which was entered by a u.s. warship and despite it raised eyebrows in moscow apparently there mysel ship's purpose in the black sea is to bring peace and maintain stability in the region particularly in ukraine. bring is the latest there thank you to.

now author and analyst martin mccauley says that the mind and protesters feel deceived by the efforts of the new government. from the point of view of these protesters are going to stay there because they see the revolution as they call it only half done all the government can say to you if you are critical we're doing our best we're getting help from abroad and so on but they cannot deliver on the promises made during the revolution because of the country's you know a very very poor state this will continue as long as the conflict in eastern ukraine continues. and entire family has been killed in army shelling just outside lugansk in east ukraine graphic footage shows neighbors pulling five bodies from a basement where they have been taking shelter is reported to the show their house causing it to collapse and buried them. why.

you. know. you but yes we do. know how these images are from ukraine's don't yet screen name one town five people have been killed today ten more wounded in artillery shelling the footage shows a wooden church burning after it was hit by a shell and right next to it a children's playground you can see here also came under fire. now this is what the center of the city of donetsk looks like local say artillery shells have been hitting residential buildings there forcing inhabitants to flee the local hospital was also hit and water and gas supplies damaged by the shelling and also

an elementary school here. hit in the city many classrooms completely bombed out and riddled with shrapnel all that in a regional capital city an industrial center with a million strong population. now obviously international has accused a member of ukraine's radical party of terrorizing the east of the country human rights activists say that the ash core has violated abducted and abused people in violation of international legal standards and nationalist lascaux and third in the presidential election since created a squad for eastern ukraine to arrest and intimidate people that he considers separatists and terrorists is menu's threats of jail time for alleged links to anti forces and this week tried to detain the police chief in the city of mariupol but local prosecutors that declared his attempt illegal reason misty international's director for europe and central asia says that actions are just the very tip of the

violations in eastern ukraine he does this without any. outside the realm of the law and gravely risking. the important need in the ukraine in north origins have to demonstrate that they are capable of restoring the rule of law and the respect of all passengers rights in areas that they take back into their control there's a much bigger issue in a much bigger problem in the ukraine around impunity for human rights violations and abuses at the moment that extends far beyond the activities of mr. himself but it is clear that he has committed. a number of very serious crimes they need to be investigated and he needs to be brought to account the likely outcome of that would be a criminal prosecution. the initial evidence about who was responsible for the shooting down of flight m.h. seventeen in ukraine was based on nothing more than social media postings that admission came from the head of the u.s. defense intelligence agency washington has blamed the catastrophe in which almost

three hundred people died on antigovernment fighters in eastern ukraine the former pilot robert stein says a lot of questions remain about the evidence coming from washington. the latest military intelligence evidence the americans were showing to the public is not the best evidence they had when they have a satellite over the crash site when they have radar data when they have the xti airborne warning and control system station interim any incursion they were flying around why are there not opening their files that this is also really really suspicious and in my eyes they're hiding something or they know the truth better not willing the truth because the truth is too ugly for them they use every dirty trick in the book to blame it for russia if it would show a clear evidence that russia would be the perpetrator they would have it published immediately cease fire in gaza or is close to expiring and there is no agreement to

prolong it talks in cairo between israel and a massive so far brought no results the month long conflict has already claimed nine thousand nine hundred lives mostly palestinian civilians and as harry fear reports now hospitals can do little for those who've been injured. every day and patients arrive from guards or to palestinian hospitals in jerusalem and 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 business skull fractures after the bombing of his house here deceived unconscious aware of the environment. in his first few days here khalid's life was maintained by it until it was made a solid recovery doctors say and is now able to move his leg his mother has been by

his side for almost three weeks only one relative was allowed to accompany such medical cases from gaza but the only granted one day's access to israel. you know again i was leave the hospital because my son and because i have a permit to remain in israel for just want to date but when i leave i show them the medical records of the crossing and they let me pass into gaza it 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 her i asked if she felt lucky to be outside of dallas or receiving expert treatment yeah it was situation in the gaza strip is an

absolute disaster how can i feel like 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. in 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. no i do see all of the israel all the promise still millions is winning we the citizens of the full to 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. but awaiting them is a horrified and devastated community. thousands of palestinian staged a pro hamas rally in gaza city people waving green flags carrying guns burning israeli flags jur in the protest a mass officials at the rally insisted that the war wouldn't be over until their demands are met they want the blockade of gaza lifted and the security palestinians a short. stay with us here and i'll take plenty more still to come including more than half a million small phones across the globe are infected with an invisible bug and we will look at how the program is dealing private data everything from passwords to text messages. the u.s. senate's accuses the cia of trying to cover up the truth behind its use of torture

during the bush administration. they just want to keep building allowing saudi arabia qatar and iran to fund millions and millions of pounds worth of the building of mosques in this country where they have addresses where current we have one hundred thousand four to sixteen year old children who have been schooled in these metacity which is encouraging complete non integration within the society. economic downturn the find out. the old saying i and the rest don't need to believe it's really.

on merit in the financial world. to see these developments happening and start to see very strongly take the credit not going to get. in life there are groups and there are but. n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden is being granted a three year residence permit in russia according to his lawyer snowden fled to russia more than a year ago after telling the world about the global surveillance projects maintained by the u.s. and the u.k. artie's medina cochon of a has the details. these reports have come from his lawyer . who says that having received a residence permit which is valid for three years mr snowden may now move freely across the country as well as travel abroad but what's more important is that

according to a. may actually get a russian citizenship only later in the future. edward snowden is allowed to move freely across russia in trouble to other countries with a limit of steen abroad for no more than three months according to russian would just he also has a right to receive russian citizenship after five years of living in the country. now after the former n.s.a. contractor leaked sensitive u.s. intelligence washington. with fast off government property and an authorized communication of national defense information and in june twentieth thirteen now mr snowden learned in moscow airport he landed in a transit zone coming from hong kong and his final destination was aqua door however the u.s. authorities counseled passport down that allowed to the leaker getting stranded in

the transit zone off the airport for more than a month. after which russia grant temporary asylum and that happened on the first of august russian owing to a company has discovered hoffa million phones across the globe are infected with malware which allows them to be controlled remotely and that means that everything from banking passwords to text messages could be stolen earlier i spoke with a member of the company that uncovered the security breach. what is that we got here well basically this is a panel created by cyber criminals to control these phones we're going to chart here and you can really abuse the names of this current telephone our number i see id which is a serial number if you're seeing current model operation system it's russian in may which is a factory number a few or physical devices i basically they're extremely organized criminals and

they come up with their own software for organizing all the information stealing is how it looks like how do they deal that sort of imitating well known their commitments to well known companies they try to mimic to. deeds to well known our software applications and plugins and i just wonder does that perhaps a good defense against this kind of. malware if you've got a very old fashioned doesn't even connect to the internet then that this most one hundred percent secure would be your old phone computer science engineer and activist jeremy zimmerman believed that so many phones were affected because they were designed to be easily spied on. currently the first time that we see on such a large scale a computer virus is 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 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 and you find plenty more stories over maher web site it's from bad to worse at the fukushima nuclear plant has been discovered that every road in one affected reactor melted at the height of the crisis meaning now take a lot longer to decommission you can get the full story online. and employees across the government in the u.s. have had their personal information stolen find out what happened on our website

that's of dot com. russian police carrying out a routine raid on a suspected cannabis field found the sting had a very real sting all of its own you go piece going off explains you have the last . 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 we 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 who was stung on her face 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 we was planted there on purpose. ok let's round some of the world headlines for you now starting with africa's most populous country nigeria he says that the bold outbreak there is now a national emergency isolation tents have been erected as five more cases of the virus were confirmed in lagos a city of twenty one million people outbreak has also hit guinea sierra leone and nigeria killing over nine hundred people so. bangladeshi police stormed a factory in the capital dhaka and fired rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse strikers worthless the protesters retaliated by throwing bricks hundreds of garment workers have been on indefinite hunger strike demanding the payment of three months salary and promised bonuses to say that several workers and journalists sustained

injuries during the class and. that's where two car bombs went off in the northern iraqi oil town of kirkuk at least nine people died in the blast near a shia mosque it's estimated almost two hundred thousand people have fled fighting in the area in recent days the militant group islamic state has already taken large parts of iraq including the country's largest down president of the middle east four and daniel pipes explains why iraq's water supply is being targeted if you control them in iraq you control while you control the water and you can threaten to fly and even to destroy one more you know they're on their own that it is strange you see all the governmental forces and all the kurdish on mark able to stand there. with. u.s.

senate reporting to cia torture will be delayed after the senate intelligence committee chairman accused the agency on the white house of censoring the documents . dan feinstein says that the government at its word distorting key facts in the initial report she says will not be published until she is satisfied the much anticipated report of all the six thousand pages is expected to expose the practice of torture in the bush era which was acknowledged by president obama last week we tortured some folks. we did some things that were contrary to our values. however barm also defended the cia saying that the agency was just doing its job and us journalist and historian douglas valentine told us the government is likely to keep delaying the report in order to hush up the ugly truth. well there is a lowball. legal also psychological reasons for the

administration to try and keep this as narrow. undisclosed as possible there are concerned about what will the american public think of this report so they're trying to contain the damage as most as much as possible basically along with would certainly constrains you only the news on the administrator in his 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. you stay with us up next boom bust is going to be reporting on the seemingly never ending rise of facebook and what is behind the success of the 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 please allow me to suspect first obama is the. master so if you love to read off a screen i doubt this was some sort of slip up this was probably done consciously

but why well it always helps if you look good by condemning the moral feelings of previous presidents liberals and democrats love to hate bush so this could be substance kind of pandering or trying to look good by comparison headlines like obama condemns torture sounds nice and drown out the fact that he sure approves of shelling civilians in eastern ukraine if obama really does feel that the post nine eleven torture was a shameful part of american history that 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. the strategy of china in africa is to build stuff and the strategy of america in africa is to bomb stuff so i think the africans are thinking you know i think we go with the belt stuff rather than the bomb stuff and the us is running out of.

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 it's tech thursday i know we're talking facebook today now the social networking site is having a tremendous day and better yet it's tremendous and here we look into why and how coming right out then steve hanke is on the show now hank you sat down with me to talk about arjen tying debt and there is quite a bit of it and in today's big deal edward harris and i are covering the latest tech stories from the past week and we're looking into everything from microsoft to amazon forest fires latest acquisition you won't want to miss a moment and it all starts right now.