intriguing story. for visit our big. breaking news of the saw on the u.s. why did jet strike islamic state positions near they rocked the city of erbil president obama had said the operation would only go ahead if the americans were in danger. ukraine says they could cut the transit of russian gas through its territory as part of economic sanctions against moscow potentially affecting states that have really depend on russia energy this winter. for. the ukrainian army begins just around the largest cities in the east so with shells are hitting residential areas hospitals and churches moscow's already providing aid to children injured in the conflict. also the missile strikes resume in gaza

after a cease fire expires with reports suggesting israel's offensive is spring and to symmetric sentiments of across the globe. there's a lot of to international live from moscow this evening with dr with the breaking news this hour. the u.s. has carried out air strikes on a tillery belonging to islamic state fighters near the iraqi city of it bill some reports suggest hundreds of militants have been killed or wounded president obama said he would authorize the military operation only as a last resort is of the jihad is attack the kurdish area where u.s. personnel are deployed political analyst and author william and all believes

washington should be should never be believed about its politics in iraq. i think the obama administration has been extremely hypocritical if not utterly dishonest about its policy toward iraq since the emergence of i suspect going to early june i don't think go washington is particularly interested in stopping the islamic street or the isis jihad as i think obama is whining to the world he's lying to the american people about what the u.s. military is doing with the surgical nurse sharks and. they are i think the arm of the government is out of its mind to fight u.s. military to make airstrikes there are other militaries so make such strikes that could be invited and show but that's another question a new round of u.s. military action will concern many americans who remember the cost of the previous invasion of iraq let's look at the figures the white house spent

a huge one point seven trillion dollars on the whole deal so every second of the occupation cost american taxpayers five thousand dollars deploying just to one u.s. soldier cost three hundred fifty thousand dollars and billions and pension payments are still to be paid to war veterans antiwar activists richard baucus says the bill washington is paying is actually much bigger. the cost of the war has not really been added yet in terms of the damage done in iraq the damage done to people . from the united states and the actual cost which will be ongoing 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 knowledge of what a catastrophe that war was for the people in iraq and also for the people in the united states we're following developments in iraq and we'll bring you more as we get it here on our team to national.

ukraine could block of the transit of russian gas to europe as part of a set of economic sanctions against moscow approved by parliament the measures are far from a done deal yet the possibility was outlined by the ukrainian prime minister. has more on the possible consequences of course these possible sanctions could affect russia being the exporter of gas but more importantly it will affect european countries when we're talking about europe of course they're getting a lot of the countries in europe are getting bulk of their gas supplies from russia especially the countries in eastern europe when we're talking about slovenia bulgaria poland and czech republic we're talking about countries they're getting almost a hundred percent of their gas supplies from russia and ukraine and that means that if the sanctions indeed indeed are implemented it means these countries will be left out in the cold for sure been next winter season and of course ukraine is

trying to follow in the footsteps of the e.u. and the united states and punish russia with these sanctions however by looks of it out the moment it appears that they are punishing their european neighbors more than they are punishing moscow. all transit would also be affected by a possible ukrainian blockade but russian oil drowns but company transnet to has offered assurances that it will be able to fulfill most of its obligations one option will be to redirect the flow to another branch of the pipeline network through a better route instead of ukraine the company's spokesman said abandon would hit hungary slovakia and the czech republic the hardest. south stream pipeline that's currently under construction remains one possible route for russian energy supplies a round ukraine its construction however was of frozen bible gear in june after brussels said it didn't comply with the e.u. regulations or carriers of is highly dependent on russian gas supplies which make

up over ninety percent of its domestic consumption right for more on ukraine's possible sanctions against russia let's talk to tears at dawn fields a political analyst at the berlin center for caspian region studies good to have you with us this afternoon now the gas transit block is just one of a number of possible sanctions how likely do you think here is to go through with this good afternoon from berlin we have a very summary here but. hearing this proposal from prime minister yatsenyuk i was really shocked because ukraine is then targeting more the european union and energy security for its eastern member states than russia because as we saw in two thousand and nine mostly hidden

war slovakia bulgaria and partially other countries i seeing that this proposal will never gets reality since the pressure from brussels by commission and other actors from the national states will stop this proposal by in new york but furthermore it shows that the ukrainian government is not willing to cooperate at all and sees only their own interests what we will what will be the resell the result will be that it was already mentioned will be extended and enlarged and we have still capacities not stream. after hearing this it is caly for all the states in southeast europe like ours. hungary. area to lobbying much more for the construction of south stream to get a very secure supply of gas and if you create is not willing to guarantee it there

will be other options as i already mentioned and so given that this has just been suggested the e.u. has been supportive of ukraine's moves against russia do you think that they could possibly back this. i don't sing so i don't sing so because this is just you know to put pressure on russia but all the consequences as i already mentioned you know are so tremendous on the national states that you will hear more boisterous like this of prime minister orbán from hungary and say turkey the european union's energy policy vis interconnector as we see you know other strategies is not working yet he has to guarantee that his country is not you know suffering. natural gas cut in winter so he takes you know the steps to support the south stream in the same applies you know for other countries

we saw this during the state this is the official visit of president putin in austria in june. to you know be. the extension to austria to baumgarten and a political backing i think this would be not possible to realize you know since it has a very harsh impact on the member states and also we have now forestall riches you never know how the winter will show up it will be a very hard and strong winter and if so we will be in very very bad situation. we'll have to leave it right there dunfield a political analyst at the berlin center for caspian region studies thank you very much for your input and outlook on the story. the possibility of a gas blockade comes or with some even countries already brains for an academic hit

they fear they could lose billions of euros because of russia's ban on food imports russia is blocking in parts of the need to fruit vegetables and some dairy and fish products for one yeah european agriculture will take up the brunt and some farmers and the export of those are demanding to be compensated for their loss someone there it's going to affect us all for us 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 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. it's a disaster for my company will need to stop production the money will receive without imports to russia won't even be enough to pay for the buses that bring our staff to work. some estimates suggest the ban could cost the finnish economy as much as a one billion a year were mostly from dairy exports elsewhere the german trade union of that

deals with wholesale foreign trade said the ban posed a risk to the whole economy in greece the opposition party syriza accuse the current government of hurting farmers and an arland the minister for agriculture said there was real worry particularly regarding cheese exports which were valued at four point five million euros in twenty thirteen there are just a fear of the voices in europe who believe their countries can't afford to lose a key trading partner. russia has been a strategic partner for greece and many foreign food exports. grow that's the last fill in the gaps from the. decrease of exports for greece or other countries greece has our. home history for additional good ties with russia and we should. be able to have old marcus on such discuss some of our own political issues

of course on that since we are trying to. push here into an on the political decent. shall be done as soon as possible peace. to i can see the reasonable budget toss on that kind of emphasis. russian resolution of the u.n. security council calling for all sides to abide by a cease fire at the site of the malaysian plane crash in eastern ukraine has been blocked the countries who refuse to accept the document wanted an anti government forces blamed in the wording on the inside let's cross live now to professor. from of the national institute of eastern civilization professor good to have you with us this afternoon how could the u.n. security council block a proposed peace and

a leg down of arms. you know it's logical in a certain sense because it's not the security council it's united states that are blocking and you know they they began. campaign at the beginning of the of this incident of the malaysian plane and most obviously they see the inquiry's not going on the way they would like to do so they have to just hold on the line and make sure that. there will be no real inquiry and. do not. get to the real truth so let's just listen to what russia's a. minister should can let's just listen to that quickly. unfortunately the members of the security council some members of the security council reacted in the typical way. being adamantly against any kind of criticism of the

ukrainian authorities even though we have a case of. attempted while ation of twenty one sixty six is it possible to say the u.n. is president is against towards russia. yes it's of course it's a it's a it's a tool against russia and it. is it's logical from the very beginning i mean. very concerned. to have an inquiry about the incident of the accident of the malaysian plane plane but most obviously united states don't want to cooperate on that field. they don't give the information they have they don't want to communicate they just want to make pressure. against russia. they cannot accept the resolution that russia wanted to have

a security council several times ukraine's president has agreed to cease fires that were later violated by his army does he want a truce at all. i suppose that you know ukrainian army. is not a good position but. know something about what happened at the malaysian plane and most obviously ukraine don't want. power in ukraine. they don't want to. make the truth about this accident speaking about the cease fire. the actual crash site of the mh seventeen flights that has been suspension of fighting there why do you think that is done. you know a ceasefire was only for a short time it's all over so it looks like. they don't want to have to have

ceasefire because of course ceasefire can be overtrained if both sides want it but most obviously. inside. ukraine. do not want to fire while keeping a close eye on developments thank you very much a professor. from of the national institute of eastern civilization for coming in on r.t. and sharing your points with us. more news after the show breaking the latest from eastern ukraine where the army continues its push into some of the country's biggest industrial centers will be right back. the stories we cover here we're not going to hear any other big story. there's a reason they don't want to. break the

set 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 them addresses where current we have a hundred thousand four to sixteen year old children who have been schooled in these which is encouraging complete non integration within the society. with. the consent. choose to. choose to. choose peace.

thanks for staying with us a fortune correspondent working for the russian re are not as the agency has reportedly been detained by ukraine's national guard now the agency says under a steer steer in who disappeared in the east of the country three days ago is now in the hands of the security service although here denies that. it was a last heard from on or choose day when he sent photos from the region at first communication disruptions were blamed for the loss of contact he's been working all over the rest of regions where several reporters have been killed or abducted just two weeks ago a british journalist who filed a number of reports for r.t. was snatched by security services he was held for three days and says he was beaten and tortured before getting thrown out of ukraine to force. the ukrainian army is moving in on the largest cities in the country's east in an attempt to

crush the anti government resistance the military officials say the readying troops to fight in the streets of the nearest lugansk as part of the next phase to take back control of the rest of regions where if a national has more. ukraine's national security and defense council has confirmed that the army's currently preparing to regain control over the major cities in eastern ukraine it is also now confirmed by the officials of what kiev calls its anti terror of the region in these parts of the country they spokesperson has said that the military will take the city center towns and the villages street off the street building off to building without specifying which city will tom first say that it will either be dead or lugansk these are big cities of course with 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 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 still inside and their plight in the basins they're living under constant shelling and they are mostly women children or see and old this is the situation now in ukraine. moscow's receiving refugees that have fled the combat zones of east ukraine a number of children badly hurt in the fighting have now arrived in the russian capital but many more remain stranded under fire. reports nine severely injured children have arrived this morning to moscow from dying as you know a number of ambulances were waiting for them here at the city really station and we do know that two of those children were injury during the bombing of the city there

was one four year old boy on board of this train and a young girl who was injured during the firefight all these children are in need of urgent medical help doctors who accompanied them see that they only take those who can stay in the refugee camp and clean that. in that area there are over forty children in such condition they say they need a humanitarian corridor but show for the situation in that area remains too challenging to make that a possibility. a ten year old a palestinian boy was reportedly the first victim of israel's the year renewed strikes on gaza in response to hamas missile attacks the conflict to start is just hours after a cease fire between the two sides expired the month long conflict has claimed almost one thousand one hundred lives the majority of which are palestinian civilians artie's policy has more. all of this is happening as a follow on from talks in egypt that failed what we understand is that the main

sticking point was a demand put put forward by hamas insisting that israel lift its a.t.'s siege on gaza the situation on the ground is extremely tense both here in israel and in the west bank over the past few fridays we've seen what the masses called days of rage with clashes erupting both in palestinian cities and also kalandia checkpoint between israeli soldiers and protesters so being moved on the ground is extremely tense israeli police are on high alert and people in the west bank itself extremely concerned about what is happening inside gaza the breakdown of the verse humanitarian truce it does spell bad news mostly for the people of gaza where the humanitarian situation has been dying to say the least the latest figures suggest that tens of thousands of homes have been destroyed and damaged more than one hundred schools and mosques have been destroyed and damaged one point eight million gazans have been displaced and at the same time some one million gazans are without

access to drinking water. violence in gaza has triggered protests across the world one of the latest shows over and it came in madrid hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets demanding israel put an end to the month long offensive they also called for an end to the occupation of the palestinian territories. some of the protests against the israeli operation have been far from peaceful a string of incidents or just an increase of anti semitism and attacks on jewish communities in different parts of the world artie's where in a culture of takes a look. 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 which it is. in sydney

australia five teenagers were arrested for allegedly screaming and systematic 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 taking part in italy rome's historic jewish area has been transformed by anti semites a graffiti and flyers covering shops and walls and even the berlin german protesters were seen barren and systematic banners and chants in hate slogans thousands of brits show up at each procrustean rally calling for an end to israel's operation and demanding the british government stop selling weapons to the. foreign office minister baroness also quit calling david cameron's position on the morally indefensible others but their anger more destructively. 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 officially 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 symmetric 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. . some other global headlines now starting with the spreading a break that now has killed more than nine hundred and sixty people in west africa it's now been declared a thread of international importance by the world health organization it was first

detected in guinea in march and spread to sierra leone and liberia with some cases in my area there is no license treatment all but see. and the fatality rate has been about fifty percent. at least one person was killed three others missing after flash floods hit central and northern parts of wild man alert has declared a state of emergency evacuating hundreds of people from affected villages that's in the same area in may affected nearly two million people and caused to billions of euros of damage. of ok you know and that could or has begun spewing lava and rocks it has been shooting things of as into the sky over a distance of as much as three kilometers monday no injuries or deaths have been reported but authorities warn a more violent eruption is not likely. and

up ahead what's happened to portugal's banking system and why is it on the brink of collapse that's next. during a press briefing president barack obama said something very unusual and used a certain term you 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 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 failings of

previous presidents liberals and democrats love to hate bush so this could be solved kind of pandering or trying to look good by comparison headlines like. bamma condemns torture so nice and dry 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 go obama this is all just a bunch of sweet talk but that's just my opinion.

hello there i marinated this is boom bust and these are some of the stories that we're tracking for you today. first up we're talking about debt in all its forms in war and today the good the bad and the ugly of portugal's a bank though it's fair to sometimes the resolution plan is that top of the deck and what the rest of the eurozone can learn from it then william white is on the program the former chief economist of the b. i asked and current chairman of the economic development and review committee is joining us live on the show today the answer ontario to discuss ultra easy monetary policy and whether public and private debt is still a problem today post crisis now also in today's big deal edward harris and i are going to be sticking with this whole debt team will be looking at public and private forms of it and again how much of it exists post-crisis you want to miss a moment actually gets in that it all starts right now.