on a mission to surround eastern ukraine city the army shells hitting residential buildings a hospital and a school in. western wall and they could lose billions of dollars as moscow responds to the food imports saying it's taking its business elsewhere. writes of our military to take targeted strikes against terrorists convoys should they move toward the city the u.s. prepares to get involved in iraq again but islamic militants have managed to gerry's of territory including the country's largest christian city.

puts jewish people worldwide at risk of ballance against the palestinian people. across the globe. the world's top headlines right now an international. the ukrainian army is encroaching on the largest city in the country's east to crush the anti government resistance that a series of attacks on the center of don't yet to brand new apartment blocks killing at least one person. and this footage right here shot inside one of those apartments you can see how badly damaged it is just two hundred meters from the buildings is

a hospital its second floor completely destroyed including walls furniture and of course the medical equipment just to give you an idea don't yet skews a city of almost a million people which is roughly the size of birmingham in the u.k. . i'll show you this video here this is from a town just outside on yet that is a church in flames in a fire ball after being shelled as you can see right next to it a children's playground here luckily empty at the time and all of this happened in just one day and in fact this crater right there well that's actually from a previous air strike from just a couple of days before now military officials are saying they already being troops for street fights in town yet and lugansk is part of a crucial phase in the operation to take back control of the rest of regions. she's got more on this. ukraine's national security and defense council has confirmed that the army is currently preparing to regain control of the major cities in

eastern ukraine it is also now confirmed by the officials of what kate calls its antiterrorist the region in these parts of the country they spokesperson has said that the military will take the cities and the towns and the villages street after street building after building without specifying which city will come first saying that it will either be dead or lugansk these are big cities of course when these promises from cave to intensify the attacks the concerns are that there could be even more civilian deaths in less than four months of the operation in ukraine more than one thousand people have already been killed ordinary civilians we just couple of days ago visited this city all the guns going we saw a very dramatic picture on the ground many have already scaped the town but to many are still inside and they're hiding in their basements they're living under constant shelling and they're mostly women children or see and

old this is the situation now in ukraine. and now a photo correspondent for the real news agency is missing in eastern ukraine stand in it was last heard of three days ago when he was filing in footage from the region at first it was thought destruction to communications in the area was the reason he had gone quiet but now there is genuine concern about his whereabouts stand in his well known for working in dangerous areas like syria and egypt in fact he's been taking photos all over the rest of regions where a number of journalists have been killed or abducted. now moving away from the east to the ukrainian capital kiev which was also witnessed a turbulent twenty four hours people on the central square again clashing with police the burning tires and then they started to dismantle the pavement it happened when the city or authorities tried to ted down barricades that have been on my done since last november of course last november you'll remember when the protests against the then government started and we spoke to foreign affairs

analyst eric monro he says all of this is all too familiar. actually situations quite ironic to say the least since the revolution seemed to be taken to see the return of the situations that transpired today the same. as last november when the process took place so right now it seems to me that all the variety of different people who are really people dead wife's or the livelihood as far as the overall revolution is concerned are simply realizing that a government they have right now is simply replaced the other and they're simply to a point of exit right now it seems like nothing much exchange overall plus there's a civil war in east so overall if i can sum it up the whole developments in the ukraine is a bit of complete disaster and there's really nothing else to show for the greek destruction am. i'll be european food industry is sounding the alarm over the band

that russia has placed on most imports fearing billions of euros in potential losses now moscow move to counter western sanctions which of course the nations that had resorted to sanctions over the events in ukraine peter all of us he's got more. no market for those that back sanctions russia's ban on the import of certain food stamps from the us canada australia norway and you is in response to the economic sanctions imposed on moscow the ban will block meat fruit vegetables some dairy and fish imports for one year those watching international trade shows that russia is a different animal to other nations sanctions recently what's striking is that when the sanctions were ramped up against iran there was very little iran could do the west didn't really need much from iran that's not the case with russia and i think russia has made very clear that it will retaliate in

a proportionate manner with european culture said to bear the brunt of the import ban e.u. leaders that backed sanctions against russia look likely to face farmers in export is demanding compensation for their losses there's someone there know. it's going to affect us all it will take two or three months to collect all remaining crops of oranges and we don't know what will happen if no one buys them so if there isn't a sufficient market prices will go down and we don't know if we can cover the costs of production because it is so expensive. european food exports to russia worth over twelve billion euros last year if you win year and finland were the first to contact brussels about compensation some estimates suggest the ban could cost the finnish economy four hundred million euro mostly from dairy exports elsewhere the german trade union that deals with wholesale foreign trade said the ban posed

a risk to the economy in his country in greece the opposition party accused the current government's actions of being detrimental to farming and in ireland the minister for agriculture said there was real worry particularly regarding cheese. sports which were valued at full point five million euro in twenty thirteen european on a list so warning that sanctions the way to find a solution trait is a key for peace we shouldn't be in this game of tit for tat thing we sanction is we we should be negotiating on the same table but as it stands russian consumers are going to have to go with out certain imports western exports is going to be locked out the markets peter all of a multi billion. greece is the largest opposition party syriza is urging the government to drop the sanctions against russia even if the move is not supported by other e.u. nations across the us is you also a member of the party's political secretary out now joining us live here on r.t.

international to delve into delve deeper into this cost us good to see you today why is your party calling to have the sanctions dropped well first of all because greece is going through a fifty year of a constant recession the memo around all this news which we followed with all staring in the last five years have created great problems from greek and bonamy and especially for greed exports russia has been a strategic partner for greece in many farming and food export. products and we believe that the sanctions that have been followed by a counter sanctions would have been critical to this process because it's fueling that crisis it's not deescalating the rights of the confrontation due to the ukrainian crisis so we believe we are very very critical and very much in disagreement with the greek government's policies and following sanctions because that is there any chance the government actually listen to what you have to say when we are no position. the first party in the last european elections as far as

percent of this is from sarah we are a very large political force we are trying to interview heavy. heavy situ. ation a virus from vincent the greek government that has to stop following its sanctions leaches been imposed by washington and brussels this is going to hurt both the greek people the south and european countries from the russian consumers of course and it's not a situation of the fuelling that crisis or deescalate in the greats. don't make war in the first state just don't worry too much we're very much worried because of the geopolitical geographic and economic security situation a breach of this moment greece as you were saying a moment ago it's still in the e.u.'s bailout program it's been a very very tough five years for greece to i mean do you think the country can afford to lose a key trade partner because i know we don't know if we should stand for expanding strategic issues as far straightest i'm sorry go brush up well from energy food

exports tourism industry and so on instead we're seeing a decrease of relations economic relations on both sides and this is going to resell lot not only in the short term but in the medium term and long term. perspective and we believe that we need partners to increase our economy explore exports in the next years and this is a situation which is one of the herders the last greece remains in a very fragile position it has done for the possible years are right now because we're hearing that a couple of the e.u. countries are actually brussels to fill the financial void left by russia's actions do you think it's possible that greece could be picking up the panic phone to brussels while i do see that possibility the fall in the next hours or days but this is not going to be a recipe that it's going to have a broad will make some aspirin but it's not the long term medicine in the whole

recipe that it's going to hear of the economic crisis we're going through brussels don't fill in the gap the economic gap on the economy decrease of exports for greece or other countries what we have to do is we have to look for a new dialogue the basis of new dialogue not confrontation between the european union and russia they should be strategic partners working for consultation of beats a normal that konami life on both sides because just before before but out of time some sort of jump in here but do you think do you think at all it might have been possible for greece to. use imposing sanctions during the whole process among the e.u. nations could greece have been independent do you think. even though we have lost much of our several because of this memorandum which has created a very deep. love for greece on its own that the normally it's i was with the west and western balance on the i.m.f. and so on how as

a long history of traditional good ties with russia and we should continue on that road. also a member of the political secretariat of greece's see it is a party thank you for joining us today here on out to international. and thank you for joining us as well president obama has given him permission to launch u.s. airstrikes on jihadist militants of the so-called islamic state that have occupied the northwestern areas of iraq while northeast as well i should say however he did say that the strikes would only take place in the event of in the midst of talking the kurdish city of erbil where many u.s. diplomatic posts are based now this comes as the militants have stepped up their offensive capturing the largest christian city of. it's thought some two hundred thousand people have fled the fighting in recent days meanwhile bombs went off in baghdad and the oil town of kota cook killing dozens. brings up the latest on the mission of the u.s. to get in the way of the humanitarian crisis on raveling in the country as these

slamming states and al qaeda affiliated group also known as isis ravages through northern iraq pushing two hundred thousand iraqis to flee and trapping about forty thousand religious minorities on mount sin jar where according to unicef forty children have already died from heat and dehydration air drops of humanitarian aid in iraq are now being conducted by the u.s. these climate militants have been sweeping through northwestern iraq taking over multiple towns and cities as well as the country's largest dam intensifying concerns that this is only the tip of the iceberg and that the instability in the country will only keep growing directed our military to take targeted strikes against terrorists convoys should they move toward the city. we intend to stay vigilant and take action if these terrorist forces threaten our personnel or facilities anywhere in iraq but are there any other options one of those is actually putting together a nato type organization which consists of jordan turkey egypt saudi arabia you can

organize the sunni nations which we've helped train and equip to go take care of this nobody wants isis to be successful even the so many was so you've got to look at this realistically and frankly the american people are tired of war so which steps if any could actually bring more stability to the chaos torn country and how far could any u.s. involvement lead these are sensitive questions after almost a decade of the u.s. presence in iraq which cost over seven hundred fifty billion dollars and the country is now at the point of catastrophe as chaos and six hereon violence continues to rage on and. previously the u.s. incursion into iraq was a very costly exercise both in terms of human life and financially let's bring up some numbers for you now the white house spent a whopping one point seven trillion dollars on the holo deal that is five thousand dollars a second of the occupation every american soldier costs three hundred fifty thousand

dollars to deploy and the government will still need to give billions to his veterans and pension payments and he will activist richard becker says are now still washington has got to pour even more money into iraq the cost of the war has not really been added up yet in terms of the damage done in iraq the damage done to people who died in it from the united states and the actual cost which will be ongoing and hundreds of billions if not trillions of dollars will be added to that in terms of health care in the future and i think people are quite aware of that now what a catastrophe that war was for the people in iraq and also for the people in the united states. all right parents and bloggers in the u.s. they're up in arms over a controversial book that promotes gun rights to children but that story and the rest of your top world headlines just a moment. told

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to find out more visit our big. dog called. hello again. renewed rocket fire on israel shortly after the truce between both sides passed by despite that though the peace talks in cairo to continue without any progress to date by the month long conflict has already claimed almost one thousand one hundred lives with most of the dead being palestinian civilians a correspondent now reporting from the ground. well the situation is extremely tense it's a lecture rick here in the west bank over the last month of the crisis we've seen real increasing tension over one hundred twenty palestinians have been arrested just in the last eight days on tuesday more than two dozen arrested overnight we've seen several killed in clashes with israeli troops and the human rights watch here

on the ground says that at least some of the coliseum a protest was ostensibly constitutional crime are facing war crimes result of these ready force used so here the situation has its own kind of crisis and we've seen a vast amount of terror and efforts here in the west bank for the gaza strip gaza has on has experienced incredible human loss of these last thirty days we've seen tens of thousands of palestinians have lost their homes their homes have either been partially or totally destroyed meanwhile it's not just homes but also schools and mosques that have been attacked more than one hundred schools have been damaged and one hundred mosques have been down and damaged a quarter of the population of gaza quarter one point eight million people have been tunney displaced and one million palestinians do not have access to water in gaza and hundreds of protesters in madrid have taken to the streets in protest of the violence in gaza demonstrators demanding israel put an end to his military

ambitions and lift the occupation of palestinian territories this is just the latest in a series of rallies that have swept across the world during the month long offensive . but it's not just protests and demonstrations that have been sparked by the israeli operation tell of a u.s. military campaign has given way to growing anti semitic sentiment and types on jewish people worldwide. looking at the latest incidents. we've seen the tragic images. and the public outrage that followed. and now it appears that backlash is being directed at anyone who has any links to israel or judaism. in sydney australia five teenagers were arrested for allegedly screamin and to sematic abuse at a group of jewish school children as young as five. in the french city of toulouse

police arrested a man for throwing fire bombs at a local jewish center in the danish capital copenhagen police had to disperse a pro israel rally fearing for the safety of those taken parts in italy rome's historic jewish area has been transformed by the graffiti and flyers covering shops and walls and even in berlin german protesters were seen barren and systematic banners and chance in hate slogans thousands of brits show up at each procrustean rallies calling for an end to israel's operation and demanding the french government stop selling weapons to the. foreign office minister baroness policy also quit calling david cameron's position on the morally indefensible others and their anger over the stuff that. according to the metropolitan police and systematic crimes have doubled in london over the past year and these figures predates israel's a recent operation in gaza on the fish really it appears there's been an even

sharper rises since the conflict began and jewish communities living here in the capital and beyond are now warning everyone to take extra care with over three hundred and systematic incidents recorded across the u.k. in the first half of the year including twenty two quadrants attacks their concerns are understandable while politicians scramble to find a peaceful way out of the israeli palestinian conflict there are many other issues which will need resolving too far away from gaza marina cost of our reporting from london for r.t. . and over on our website for you this hour. protection will sometimes ignore the constitution and why one american police officer says he doesn't need to follow the country's basic laws and writes the full story right now on our web site also that is all we tell you how google is favoring web site owners who are boosting their online security just a few clicks away dot com. we'll get to the. shortly but for now

there's a new children's book that teaches youngsters about gun rights and it's raising more than a few eyebrows in the u.s. and while some are lashing out of the idea is completely inappropriate others have leapt to the defense of the authors are these guys nature can reporting on how the gun advocacy groups are taking their fight for rights to the next level. a new children's book has hit the bookshelves of america my parents' open carry is designed to explain to children why it is a great idea for their parents to be carrying guns with them everywhere to the thirteen year old character in the book the parents say when seconds count police are minutes away the book already has its supporters and its haters. why do you think it's because people need to know how to take care of themselves protect themselves and to protect the children in the home if they know how to use them in their safe with them are you are you a father very much i have three boys but i don't think that that's good for example . i think that we already have a pretty violent nation as it is so i think that we have

a nation so that just promotes it in the sense some in social media hit back at gun advocates by changing the book's cover irenaeus site the american academy of pediatrics points to grim statistics firearms are one of the top three causes of death among children in the u.s. killing twice as many as cancer injuries from fire arms send an estimated seven thousand children to casualty every year and an additional three thousand died from gunshot wounds before they get to a hospital and despite the growing number of deaths among children gun culture in america seems to be gaining momentum. the documentary film kids and guns features american families who encourage their young children to own and shoot arms . and those who regret ever having given a gun to their child he had a little twenty two thank you twenty two and i had just purchased it for him first

and a purchase from us. obviously are a great purchase to get. and this hank was crossing the creek they said his little red slipped. and when he did the better they're going to hit the guy all. and it will work i ran into several non americans as i was asking people what they thought about the children's book you have to explain your kids why your parents carry guns i can't even stretch my mind that it's so for me it's just a. very culture shock american children younger than fifteen or nine times more likely to die in a gun related accident and those in the rest of the developed world gun advocates in the us seem variably see all attempts to restrict the use of guns as an encroachment on the constitution so all meaningful efforts to bring about change

have hit a dead end in washington i'm going to check on our team. and ebola opens up the ante walled up to acknowledge the world health organization has announced that the spread of the obama. is now a threat to international importance africa's most populous country nigeria says the ebola outbreak there is now a national emergency has five more cases of the virus were confirmed in lahore starts a city of twenty one million. acres also. killing over nine hundred people so far. more than two thousand people had to be evacuated from the mexican town of san pedro after a gas line exploded creating a burning crater right there in the middle of a highway it's thought that a water leak toppled an electricity pole onto the pipeline causing a big explosion luckily enough there are no injuries reported. human rights watch has said that civilians in south sudan have been subjected to extraordinary acts of

cruelty including ethnically motivated murder and widespread gang rape the international body says members of the army and rebel forces have committed widespread killings and looting of property and potentially crimes against humanity violence erupted in december when the president accuses deputy of plotting a coup in the eight month conflict has now left thousands dead and forced at least one point five million to flee their homes that's according to the un. bangladeshi philly's have stormed a factory in the capital dhaka firing rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse striking workers the protestors react to retaliate by lobbing bricks hundreds of garment workers have been on an indefinite hunger strike demanding a payment of three months salary and promised bonuses reports say several workers and journalists were injured in the clashes. but thank you very much for joining us here at r.t. international on rory sushi in moscow what has happened to portugal's banking system why is it on the brink of collapse all over again that's next.

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