picture. from a rose to the. e.u. countries say they stand to suffer billions of euros in losses from russia's restriction of food imports imposed as a response to western nations sanctions. kiev burns again as protesters dig in and fight back against police to dismantle some barricades that have become symbols of the winter uprising in the ukrainian capital. also hope for a long term truce between israel and gaza fades as both sides failed to agree terms almost nineteen hundred people have died in a month of fighting. and the white house considers airstrikes on islamic militants in iraq after they seize even more areas of the country.

welcome good to have you with us this hour my name is neil harvey and you're watching r.t. international some e.u. country survey expressed a lot about how severely they will be hit by russia's retaliation to sanctions over the ukrainian crisis moscow has banned food imports from a number of nations auntie's peeta all of reports on the match. 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 meat fruit or vegetables dairy products and fish their prime minister dmitry medvedev said this ban. of around a year would be in place for a year you could be under review should their global partners what he called reasonable east towards russia there's an awful lot of money at stake here over twelve billion euros of 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 half a million euros worth of cheese to russia and they got to be missing out on this over the next twelve months. and several experts have told us they think sanctions will cross over into different economic sectors both in the and in russia it will

have a devastating impact on particular countries including poland romania the netherlands and you will have individual producers who will be hit very hard indeed if you have perishable goods you can't simply sell them to someone else the next day for the same price they're going to lose a lot of money these negative impact of certainty. can jump quickly from one sixth of the economy to the other creating employment raising prices especially in the euro zone and russian economies which are for from a lack of economy groups problem right now. on our website r.t. dot com we're asking you about the effect that the latest sanctions will have on both russia and western countries so far a third of those who voted think that all sides will be affected equally an equal number believe that the sanctions will hit average e.u. and u.s. citizens the hardest just under twenty percent say that average russians will be

the ones to suffer the most and the smallest percentage about sixteen percent of those who voted they think the effect will barely been noticed as economies will quickly adapt and compensate not too late have your say though just head to r.t. dot com and cast your vote. now clashes have erupted in central kiev between protesters and police the city center has been shrouded in blank smoke as people there burned tires police and special units got the situation under control but failed to dismantle all of the barricades in the tent camps located in kiev central square the protesters there pelted them with projectiles and attacked them leaving about fifty injured according to police officials ten people have so far been arrested a criminal investigation has also been opened under hooliganism charges and this is the exact same place that saw the start of the anti-government uprising in november last year that standoff also began as police tried to tear down barricades and it

ended in the overthrow of the vend president here's what some of the protesters a said about why they are there right down there my done is the only thing stopping the authorities from stealing money of course we don't want us to stand here. and ukraine parliament should first finish the war in the east before taking on my done my down won't do anything wrong while our guys are fighting and dying. i think it's all the people that decided to stay here helped our military it would be a lot more useful than standing on my door not that was what it was. the international affairs and security analyst mark sloboda says that the current or thirty's are run likely to meet the demands of the former comrades in arms i don't think that we will see the demands of the my don met first of all because the my don is a rather divided political movement with no clear direction some forces from the

might have gone on into power and they are now acting against those that are outside of power that have political differences with the regime that has come to power and so we see a lot of ideological differences. personality fighting and really a power play among different factions as to who will chart the future course of this new ukrainian regime the writing comes as of hosts nato secretary-general anders fogh rasmussen has more on how he was greeted and what he promised ukraine. nato secretary general has received possibly the one mr welcomes in the ukrainian capital he was all over the place meeting where the various ukrainian officials and in one place in particular when he was meeting with the president poroshenko he actually received an award he was awarded an order of freedom and in return ukrainian officials have gotten well nothing new really they've gotten

a lot of speeches from anders fogh rasmussen who went on to say once again something that he has mentioned before that russia is the aggressor that nato is seizing all cooperation with russia on all fronts and instead turning to ukraine and is going to offer all sorts of assistance and assuredness to kenya what imus progress consumers need to get everything in here in united states warship entered black sea the united states had that apparently the ship is there with a peaceful mission that is to observe and maintain stability and security in the region particularly in ukraine. showing her updates on the situation there via twitter and. she says the barricades in the city now actually appears stronger following failed attempts to remove them you can follow it to its feet for latest developments as well as pictures from the spot. next that entire families being killed in army shelling just outside lugansk in east

ukraine graphic footage shows neighbors pulling five bodies from a basement where they had been taking shelter is reported to the show house causing it to collapse and burying them. wonders if you are just not right. with the. motor vehicle if you know. what does it give you. these images are from ukraine's done yet screeching in one town that five people were killed and ten wounded in artillery shelling today this footage shows a wooden church burning after being hit by shall i write next to this is a children's playground that also came under fire and here is

a video from the city of done yes k a regional center in east ukraine with a million strong population an elementary school that was hit by shelling many of its classrooms completely bombed out and riddled with shrapnel as you can clearly see that and also he is a residential area bodies can be seen lying in the street holes punched through apartment walls and windows blown out. for joining us not sure what it's going to do so. you've got the bug but the most situated little. daughter was there more to the. more than you started from what being here was surreal. keer of denies that it is using any banned weapons in its crackdown on the eastern provinces but let's just check what they have been deploying first this particular crater and this was found in one of the villages in

the don't yet screech in another's become a combat zone creators are also left 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 holes like this one here they are a frequent occurrence nowadays all across eastern ukraine is residential areas they are caused by missiles from oregon or multiple rocket launcher and it strikes are seen as highly inaccurate and an area of forty tears can be damaged but i for the most frequent type of damage is this caused by mortar shells that have been raining down on eastern regions for months now when they hit their targets shrapnel explodes and that causes widespread destruction and injuries the rounds are highly inaccurate which means that they can hit civilian objects even when they are aimed at troops military expert shall shew bridge says that whoever is

a ming the story arming the military bears responsibility for hundreds of deaths. states are on target to use weapons of course particularly if as they say they're acting in self-defense but at all times states have an obligation to safeguard civilians and of course the larger weapon and here we're talking about political opponents allegedly being used that have very large warheads that places even more onus of responsibility on those using those weapons to ensure that they don't disproportionate harm civilians 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 photo correspondent from russian news agency rian obviously has gone missing in east ukraine communication with and honesty and in was last more than two days ago he was last heard from on the fifth of august that was when he sent

photos to the agency he was last seen the the ukrainian town of top scritch was suffered fierce fighting in recent days it was thought a disruption to communications in the area could be the reason that he'd gone quiet but now there is genuine concern about his whereabouts and it is well known for working in dangerous areas like syria and egypt so went to ukraine when the fighting began now he's taken photos in embattled cities like don yet. a number of journalists have been killed the initial evidence about who was responsible for the shooting down the flight m a 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 and washington has blamed the catastrophe in which almost three hundred people died on antigovernment fighters in eastern ukraine the former pilot robert stein says that a lot of questions remain about the evidence that's 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 in germany and in cook and 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 used 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. do stay with us plenty more to come this hour including edward snowden is in russia to stay and say whistleblower is granted a three year residence permit for russia with the possibility of permanent citizenship in the future.

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really. welcome back the u.s. is considering strikes on islamic state militants in iraq the group of c. scott of course the biggest christian town in iraq causing thousands of religious minorities to flee to discuss this further i'm joined by retired u.s. army lieutenant colonel anthony shaffer to discuss the latest initiative that's coming out of the the white house anthony thanks for joining us. a bomber as we understand is mulling the military strikes on the islamic state militants in your professional opinion these likely to be effective. well i'd like to

believe that the white house has woken up to the fact that if we do nothing you're going to consider to continue to see that region fall further into chaos and through my think tank we've been working with members of congress encouraging them to come up with a path forward which would include a range of options to include military airstrikes against isis centers of gravity this point especially when we're talking about certain infrastructure such as the dam which if broken would destroy most of the enemy and energy production for the region as well as flood baghdad these are really serious consequences if we do nothing and continue to see isis gain ground. the u.s. of course has already been involved into the full blown wars in iraq what are the chances do you think they could be drawn into it. i don't think it requires u.s. ground forces i do believe that there's two areas we can be very helpful first as stipulated air strikes and air support right now they're talking about humanitarian

drops of aid to pockets of of minorities which are being assaulted assailed by isis so i think those are good uses of our military power and that a larger sense the other military option is actually working with our allies in the region we're talking about the egyptians turkey jordan saudi arabia all of which have militaries who've been trained by us so really simply put if we help organize those who are there and they're sunni by the way isis is sunni would be much better that a sunni organization trained by us working that we logistically support go after isis as a military option i think that's long term that would be should looking at is how we work through proxies with those we've trained and equipped to help actually do something like this tending to the humanitarian situation in iraq the white house blaming iraq's political leader is full of the situation if you agree with that do you think all of the blame lies with them. i think the primary blame does actually

sit with present maleki both the isis success as well as the complete chaos we now see regarding the elements of governance there were created when we left and he decided to expel the kurds and the shia elements of his government that this started pretty much the day we left so i think that indeed you got a look at the iraqi government for essentially screening conditions for the chaos we now see with that said i think there are things we could and should do to help rectify this but the bulk of the of the action has to be taken by the government and i think that's what we should focus on. ok we're hearing from the tenant colonel anthony shaffer from the center for advanced defense studies thanks for joining us thanks for having. now a ceasefire in gaza is close to expiring and there is no agreement to prolong it talks in cairo between israel and hamas of brought no results the month long

conflict has already claimed up to nineteen hundred lives mostly palestinian civilians and as harry fear reports now hospitals can do little for those who've been injured. every day the patients arrive from gaza 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 and that was two weeks ago he has multiple business confection after the bombing of his house he had received unconscious aware of the environment. in his first few days here khalid's life was maintained by a ventilator he's made a solid recovery doctors say and is now able to move his leg his mother nihad has been by his side for almost three weeks only one relative is allowed to accompany

such medical cases from gaza but they're only granted one day's access to israel. again as leave the hospital because of my son and because i have permits to remain in israel for just one day 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 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 ya 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. and 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 either israel or the palestinians is winning we the citizens or 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 very fear r.t. jerusalem. thousands of palestinians are staged a pro harasser rally in gaza city people there waving green flags carrying mock guns and burning israeli flags during the protest mass officials at the rally insisted that the war wouldn't be over until their demands are met they want the blockade on gaza lifted and security of palestinians assured. and i say whistleblower edward snowden has been granted a three year residence permit in russia that's 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. auntie's medina cochon of 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 him which may actually get a russian citizenship a leader in the future. edward snowden is allowed to move freely across russia in travel to other countries with a limited steen abroad for no more than three months according to russian would just also has the right to receive russian citizenship after five years of living in the country. now after the former n.s.a. contractor leaked sounds that if you asked intelligence washington charged him with the government property and an authorized communication of national defense information and in june twentieth thirteen now mr snowden learned to moscow's airport he landed in a transit zone coming from hong kong and his final destination was aqua door

however the u.s. authorities that 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 granted temporary asylum and that happened on the first of august. companies discovered toll for a million phones across the globe are actually infected with malware which allows them to be controlled remotely now this means that everything from banking passwords to text messages could be stolen representative from the firm that uncovered the security breach told us here at r.t. how hard it is to detect the malicious program. basically get access to pretty much everything you have on your phone perino or these criminals they use it to to mining via. is quite easy to imagine there in case they prime some pin interest in content least they could potentially use it to. do something more significant than

just doing mining they try to mimic to. deeds to well known our software applications and plugins general people wouldn't notice the small wear for years because he doesn't give a sign any sign that it is installed. if you decide to engineer an activist jeremie zimmermann believes that so many phones are infected because they were actually designed to be easily spied on 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 years there's been

turning those book at computers into black boxes that we cannot open disclose 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 enable discussion of attacks that the user cannot suspect and against the user cannot do anything. do stay with us here and they still to come it's not financial gun slinger. he's taking international frauds this to task this time in the latest report. 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 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 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 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 the future but if i do obama this is all just a bunch of sweet talk but that's just my opinion. i just want to keep building that allowing saudi arabia qatar and iran to fund millions and millions of pounds worth of the building of mosques in this country where they have them addresses where current we have a hundred. thousand four to sixteen year old children who have been schooled in these men trusses which is encouraging complete non integration within the society .