choose the stories to. choose the. ukrainian army founds to take the rest to regional capitals in the east block by block as residents flee in the tens of thousands artie's on the russian ukrainian border to meet those braving the crossing to try and help refugees. russian navy says it's chased away an american attack submarine near russia's coast in the arctic ocean not for the first time in recent years is. true for the terror that the israeli state is playing out well since the israel read news it's bombardment of gaza that is triggered mass rallies worldwide we report from london and berlin which saw just two of the global protest against the

spiraling palestinian deaths all. american airstrikes to take out militant positions in iraq amid accusations washington is bombing the very same fighters that helped in syria. welcome thanks for joining us this hour my name is neil harvey and you're watching international ukrainian army says that it's getting ready to take lugansk and yet skinny east street by street building by building the city's a regional capital centers of anti-government resistance and now the target of a fierce military campaign. at least four people were killed in the latest attack on lugansk the army shelling has left much of the city in ruins here's

a map for you of areas that have been hit as plotted by local residents and as you can see here it's quite clear there's barely a spot but as escape the onslaught of five hundred thousand people who used to live there or half of them have now left we're financial reports from the russia ukraine border where thousands fleeing the war zone. it's the final countdown for lugansk and demands warnings for now eastern ukraine remains under the control of and together and forces the challenge in the region is intensifying we tried to cross the border to cover reveries to come the next checkpoint at the russian ukrainian border the line of cars and people stretches for kilometers and almost nobody is willing to cross into ukraine once you are through here we're in the n.t. terrible ration zone where no one can guarantee your safety for hours we searched for a driver to take us towards the guns with little success then we met and i told.

he's sixty three years old and east from the guns almost every day he travels to russia and then back to equate with a mission. when people escape from the attacks they took very little with that that's why many of the refugees don't even have documents when they arrive in a new place so why bring them in the way mr recently people have started to ask him to bring the ring to close they've lost hope of a quick and the crisis. and the tourist says sometimes he arrives too late and the house he has been sent to has either been looted or lies in ruins we ask him to take us along on one of his salvage treats but he says he hasn't been able to get across the border for two days himself the report of a world where you don't know if you'll be shot at or not when you're driving through the ganske there is an area the army uses to attack the syrian army they're surrounded but they keep attacking the city. so instead we try to get to danny ask

we ask an anti government fighter what lies ahead alexander tells us his small town which lies between the city and the border has seen some of the most intense shelling in the area he's driving back there and he admits the right he traced is really a boomerang i think they don't want to let the refugees cross the russian border which is why they are shooting at the roads they're also trying to cut us off from humanitarian aid food and water a little bit of an alexander politely refuses to take us with him we take his number and agree to keep in touch to check on him and the road once he reaches his destination we ran several times but no one is answering rafe nationality on the russian ukrainian border. he's playing an active role in kiev scrag down in the east is the national guard that's a privately funded group that largely consists of ultra nationalists are here one

of the units is on a witch hunt for what they call separatists you can see soldiers storming after house and they've dragged out a man and beat him they then take him away in a car with a bag over his head. more than three thousand two hundred ukrainian soldiers unaccounted for in east ukraine are presumed dead that's the number given to russian media by a defense ministry source the men have gone missing during kiev's antiterrorism operation which was launched in april the official said many had found themselves ambushed by anti-government forces and expressed little hope that any would now return alive and ukraine's defense minister when asked when the operation would and couldn't name a day or month. russia says that all relevant governmental agencies have joined the search for a photo reporter who is missing in east ukraine he works for the russian rear navas the news agency and they stand in disappeared on tuesday the latest reports suggest

that he may be being held by ukraine security service he has made no comment and is providing no help in identifying the reporter's current location a string of journalists working for the russian media have been snatched by the authorities. and his disappearance is there to a strong show of support on twitter a campaign has been launched by people concerned with stand ins fate they're calling for him to be released and returned to his loved ones other suggests that kidnapping reporters will not prevent the truth from being told. central square is on fire again after a second attempt to clear it in as many days met with resistance the activists there are refusing to leave despite all the efforts by police and city services to dismantle their camp their tents we've seen burning but were later extinguished and earlier scuffles broke out leaving dozens of police injured several protesters

arrested activists set car tires on fire blanketing the city center and smoke. for my down activists vitali klitschko as valid to clear the area living here ready has reached an agreement with those occupying the square and the city council building but as you can see here there are few signs to back that claim up. ukraine could cut the transit of russian gas through its territory of believes that that will help increase the pressure on moscow after sanctions were imposed by the e.u. it could also however and up hurting its allies. are reports obviously it will affect russia's shipments to a euro but it will should look at the implications the situation will have on russia's european partners especially of the countries that are in the center in the east and in the south of europe some of them are getting as much as almost one hundred percent of their gas supply from russia and ukraine and of course we all

those countries have already found themselves out and called literally during the so-called gas wars between russia and ukraine some years back and they could be looking for another repetition of that experience if indeed ukraine does go through with its promise of sanctions and we may assume that ukraine wants to punish russia by imposing these sanctions but as a result what we're looking at really is ukraine punishing its european neighbors. meanwhile political analyst martin believes that ukraine sanctions plan is likely to raise eyebrows among its european partners i seeing that this proposal will never gets reality since the. pressure from brussels by commission and other actors from the national states but furthermore it shows that the ukrainian government is not willing to cooperate at all and sees only their own interest after hearing this is called for all the states in southeast europe like slovenia hungary

serbia and bulgaria to lobbying much more to get a very secure supply of gas and if you create is not willing to guarantee it there will be other options. and one of the options to pump russian gas into europe while bypassing ukraine is the. construction of the pipe is storing under pressure from lawmakers who argue it doesn't comply with certain regulations despite that though certain european nations involved say that they are ready to adopt the necessary laws in order to finish the construction. and in other news an american submariners reportedly be detected near russia's northern shores artie's around as more. the american submarine was detected by a russian northern fleet in the barents sea near the russian border according to the commands of the russian navy they've pushed a vessel. off that area and the vessel had left after about half an hour

contact now the submarine itself is reportedly all five virginia class it's a nuclear powered it's capable of carrying two as well tomahawk missiles as meanwhile the reconnaissance mission against russia continues both underwater and above ground as well in the sky just about a month ago a an american spy plane was detected near the russian border the crew of the american spy plane reportedly headed to sweden in order to avoid confrontation with the russian fighter jets and them american and the swedish authorities tried to keep. it for about a month but the swedish media wanted none of that they had made a huge deal out of the story the u.s. embassy in sweden had to eventually admit that this fact had taken place and they apologized to the swedish government for illegally crossing the border with sweden . at least five palestinians have been killed in gaza are a day after

a fragile cease fire with hamas crumbled three bodies including one of a senior hamas official were found under the ruins of a mosque in total three more were destroyed overnight as israeli warplanes continued strikes on palestinian territories fighting erupted on friday breaching a brief in the month long conflict which is claimed nineteen hundred palestinian lives and sixty seven israelis the death toll triggered widespread protests across the west bank harry fear reports for all say from ramallah where one of the fiercest clashes took place. behind me palestinian use caution. with israeli troops many have just buried their relative and friend twenty year old mohammad al qatari who was killed yesterday by a gunshot to his heart in clashes with israeli soldiers this side an illegal settlement nearby here and earlier this morning another palestinian man

a middle aged man succumbed to his who were sustained in separate clashes in the south of the occupied west bank yesterday how mass had called for a day of rage and thousands of palestinians came out yesterday and clash with his radio troops throwing stones and in some cases fireworks against well armed and well armored israeli soldiers who responded with tear gas and in some cases gunfire now inside the gaza strip several palestinians are being killed including at least three children since israel resumed its operation against hamas hamas has resumed its rocket fire into southern israel the hamas movement wants to win serious concessions from israel mainly the lifting of the eight located over the gaza strip inside the perceived coast along play of all of gaza almost one third of the population remain in the displaced and today israel has stepped up its airstrikes

on the gaza strip and its not only the west bank that is in guilford in protests thousands of europeans have also states they must protest over events in gaza our correspondents are following the protest in london berlin. thousands have gathered here and b.b.c. have quarters it was all saying this is their biggest rally to date in support of the palestinian people the rally sort of here because these protests against what they say is that they will seize on their advice all right the conflict in gaza the first time they're here but they're back because they feel that their message is not being heard the baby not present how could you want to know that they're not moving over to the u.s. embassy but they'll be demanding the was government stops to what happens if you. want to are demanding god to do as he was also whether arms exports are already people who are going to go out and. thanks for the u.k.

. the pressure cooker and the money should go to the why all the power to raise rightly so they can kill innocent children and women and published by an absolute this crisis of course comes on the wheels of the word of a summit is there any. reason was wrong this would thank god that it was running the system thank god the only as we got it was the protests. here in berlin we've seen a lot of people come out into the center of the city to show their support. and their opposition to the ongoing military operation is taking place from the israeli military just here we can see a flag in the shape of the flag of the palestinian people. each color representing the names and the ages of somebody who's been killed since the current idea for peroration goes under way what everybody's telling me here though is that this isn't an unseen israeli demonstration it's not an jewish demonstration but

this is a demonstration against this operation it is not about peace right but because the government of these tribes is ordering these atrocities. i would be against the same thing in the opposite side you know women when you don't want to see. innocent people to be killed with giora t. of people here actually calling for we can see here for the boy you caught it is really goods saying that that's the best way to try and try and send a message to israel to stop buying their products and hit them in the pocket rather than make any kind of anti semitic or anti jewish message. across the world protests have been held to condemn the israeli operation in gaza which shows no sign of ending paris was one of the european capitals to witness rallies elsewhere in the world from africa to australia a number of nations joined the displays of anger on the streets of new york are

also expected to become the scene of a very public show of condemnation later. and even inside israel itself there are many making their anger heard artie's polis live reports now there can be consequences to speaking out. the war going gaza is becoming a hash tag headache the air war in the skies has been joined by the hot air war online with almost two thousand casualties across the border it's no wonder many arab israelis are rebelling in support of the gaza brethren but sometimes there's a price to pay as russians are treating the most roger helped organize demonstrations against the israeli army and posted online about what he and others call the i.d.f. massacres in gaza police investigated me several times for my political activity especially during the war period and also i have received through the phone through facebook by right wing callers who work for things like.

killing and things like that several israeli mayors have suspended our bookers for posting support for gaza's fighters online some israeli universities hospitals and even mobile phone companies have followed suit one student who wore a t. shirt with the word palestine and a cafe near a traditional palestinian scarf now faces possible expulsion they are expressing their opinion it might be in a sarcastic way but it doesn't have any incitement to violence it doesn't have any incitement for its ism it doesn't call for an act of faith violence and therefore legally speaking it is part of the speech that should be given the protection of the constitutional air protection arab students were too frightened to speak to us on camera but what they would say is that the university had completely ignored posts calling for their death the reality shows us not only now but also before

that when it gets to the freedom of expression of the arabs it is easily more easily restricted deals with such cases as the head of a worker's rights organization he's now contacted almost daily baraboo police who've been fired. suspended for speaking out against israel's operation in gaza even those who condemn the racism of far right wing israelis face punishment sadly we have been in this before life before the second intifada of a situation of a lot like this time where it's much more wider. and you feel it's a lot of hate a situation of really going to the bad. i'm not feeling very big government is doing anything for a country that claims to be the only democracy in the region it's a serious charge in today's world that the fight for public opinion is arguably as important if not more than what goes on on the battlefield as critics of israel's

operation in gaza continue to climb both him and outside the country tel aviv will need to find a more efficient weapon than just merely trying to silence her detractors policy r t tel aviv. plans more news to come for you see you after this short break. i marinate join me. in that impartial and financial. carry interview and much much. only on been passed and. waters. upon the me because. this is the

most toxic food you have in the. process drowns out in the tissue inquiry furthermore those restrictions. really. welcome back the pentagon has released a video of ass strikes against you how this militants controlling large and strategically crucial sways of northwestern iraq as he can see it f. eighteen fighter jets obliterating artillery positions belonging to the islamic state terrorist group it tanks come after president obama's pledge to protect u.s.

personnel in iraq against the fate of found something stray missed. going off for a full it's washington could be targeting its own military hardware in iraq one leaving behind a sovereign stable and self-reliant iraq three years on is america coming back today i'll summarize two operations in iraq. targeted airstrikes to protect our american personnel and a humanitarian effort to help save thousands of iraqi civilians the target this time is the islamic state formally known as isis a terror organization which hasn't only been rampaging through the country with tremendous speed and extreme violence but is even proclaimed its own state stretching from iraq to syria so radical even al qaeda says it's too much brutally murdering anyone even muslims in its way destroying holy sites attacking religious minorities taking control of key infrastructure including oil refineries and dams

military hardware as well while certainly potentially more dangerous today than al-qaeda they are very extremely radical group with increasing capabilities capabilities which you are only slightly state to set its sights way beyond iraq and syria. and can tell you. and i know. that to another part it wasn't just the you know the. lot of the not enough to get out of the cell phone the model. because you know can't buy shallow data that will sell enough i'd say a lot incapable of dealing with them on its own baghdad that's to washington for help but where did the slamming state or isis fighters come from we are where we are because we armed the syrian rebels we have been fighting alongside al-qaeda fighting alongside i says isis is now in bold and into countries but here's the anomaly we're with isis in syria we're on the same side of the war so those who want to get involved to stop isis in iraq are allied with isis in syria that is the

real contradiction to this whole policy white house says that the limited u.s. military action in iraq could be extended but while it deliberates the sliming state tightens its grip on iraq according to the un and around two hundred thousand new refugees have fled their homes what isis claims it's made more than a dozen military gains over the past five days alone you are just going off r t. washington says its latest operation in iraq is aimed at containing the advance of the jihadists but many believe they were given more than a leg up by the u.s. in the first place. we really have to look at new reorientation of western foreign policy in the middle east that has to take place because right now we have a situation where the west is opposing isis rebels in northern iraq and rightly so or but has been tacitly or implicitly supporting them in syria is madness these are us weapons us weapons on all sides in this combat just stares three years ago

in libya and in so many wars when you are that supplier of weapons to the world seventy nine percent of of weapons transfers into the middle east or from the united states you're going to have u.s. weapons. which is just fine for absolutely our weapons makers looking for a profit but each fuels destruction. in other news oil giants from russia and america have launched a joint project to explore the arctic rosneft and exxon mobil are using a giant rig owned by norwegian company north atlantic drilling to work on an oil well that's the most northern in russia during a teleconference the mark the launch for the emir putin had words of praise for america's exxon mobil and its cooperation in the projects sound russian companies have expressed their long term commitment. but if the potential resources in this project can be compared with the biggest reserves in saudi arabia and are much

bigger than the resources of the mexican goal of alaska or canada so we're paying special attention. for the most on your skin the platform is located far out on the open sea so there is a multi level system of security here and we're using the latest technology. and the sea where the two will be operating is covered with thick ice for most of the year but underneath is an estimated six billion tons of extractable oil it belongs to the west siberia province which already provides russia with most of its oil and gas platform is capable of drilling down seven kilometers and keith boy field of the center for policy studies think tang believes that despite sanctions this will be a successful example of international cooperation. this particular project they've been working on it for several years max are mobile of already invested many many millions of dollars they could do with the oil and they're going ahead the

sanctions do not apply to this particular project because the deal was already signed a russian state oil company has a twenty percent investment by b p a mobile exxon are really looking to find new sources of hydrocarbons so they really need this find and they've already invested considerable amount of money so they'd have to write that off if things didn't go ahead so i think in that respect prospects are relatively optimistic. they stay with us coming up after the break it'll be a billion bust ever in aid will be heading from two time presidential candidate ron paul on the twists and turns of u.s. foreign policy.

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 spec 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 some just 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. crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want.

i marinate this is boom bust and these are the stories that we're tracking for you today. ron paul is on the program today now the former congressman and three time presidential candidate sat down with watt to discuss u.s. foreign and domestic policy and you definitely don't want to miss what he had to say and hedge fund titans are going up against a pretty powerful institution may u.s. government where the powerful several big hedge funds are suing the government for taking too much of the profits from fannie and freddie the government dropped the ball somewhere are these billionaires just being vultures turds keep a little bit about we'll look into it coming right up then in today's big deal edward harris and i are discussing it.