government strongholds in the east. with heavy weapons. a tit for tat. between the west. european businesses look for compensation. after a few days. between hamas and israel. palestinian civilians finding themselves on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe. in the u.s. reruns of iraq president obama. in the north with washington

having to fight the same group its supporters in syria. today welcome to the week. is moving towards. the ukrainian army prepares to use its full force on the city not that it hasn't already been shelled and bombed extensively already. in one of the latest strikes to apartment buildings. leaving at least one person dead huge houses all over the city. i see them in the photo where those roads are unsure how slough. giving up looking. for you or

your was a national. poll can. feel. that it. well donetsk is a regional capital right here in the heart of government resistance now but it's also a vital hub for the entire economy but at least is to be used let's bring up some facts for you on r.t. international well it's ukraine's fifth largest city with a population of nearly one million last year forbes named it the most attractive city for doing business in the whole country it's one of the states main economic hubs in the center of the nation's mining industry and just two years ago it drew tens of thousands of football fans from all across europe when it was a host city for the euro twenty twelve foot board championships now how things

changed now getting out of the area as you can see very dangerous dash cam video there showing a rocket nailing the motorway right in front of a car hitting meters just ahead of the driver though he survived only because as he said the driver said he played his vehicle most of the people trying to go get away from the violence and i'll fleeing to russia and often went to one of the border crossing. in each of these cars individual stories of anger uncertainty and two months. these ukrainians are fleeing their homes for russian after months of conflict tends to left well over one thousand civilians dead and reduced whole cities to rubble the people in these cars have already spend six or seven hours sitting in line waiting to cross the border which is still a kilometer away but they say they are ready to wait as they practically have no other choice but deal of a cruel. would be was an inch of muslims made up of the national.

guard got more snow with this don't you don't usually many of the cars here have a sign saying they've got children on board the war doesn't discriminate between age or gender neutral i know it's a. time to salute. but you know. it was told through his nose the way that little little. crystal point in the chopper you eat it i mean this is where many refugees will end up when they make it across the border to russia and people here are angry. presence of the mafia but also mayor but i still not all feel that it should have brought so i'm a beautiful measure worthy because we feel forgotten florida didn't go so good i started. the doctor says he's planning his need to go back to. your thoughts i'm sure

your. mercy. he invites me to see where they found shelter the rest so many refugees many don't have a proper place to sleep prisoners wife also doctor tells us how she lost her home and is therefore does a before i know. it didn't have to be a regular dorm farkle. you get a. crush this could be cheap this camp is designed for a thousand people but there are at least twice as much here now every afternoon officials managed to send up to three hundred refugees from eastern ukraine to different parts of russia but every evening even more erratic these people have managed to escape a war that their fight for

a peaceful life is just beginning. me from ocean r.t. from russian ukrainian border. but it's not only civilians who are trying to run away from the conflict on monday more than four hundred ukrainian troops entered russia seeking sanctuary. there's so many deaths and other terrible things. to be here we've been given a new moon and managed to wrestle. with which. we were encircled we had no way out so to keep demand powers say our commanders decided to escape to russia and i think for no clear reason the ukrainian population is destroying because on both sides they are the same people are not. in kiev denied the soldiers who cross the border even asked for sanctuary however retaining their power necessary for the government's alterations to the east has not proven easy despite

launching three recruitment drive since the start of the crackdown kiev's army is struggling to fill its rank and file military analysts say the army needs more than eleven billion dollars to replace old weapons on machinery but only a little under eight hundred million was allocated to the military from the state's reserve fund the soldiers are running out of food and have to rely on handouts we'll show you a website here that is set up by civil activists are calling on people to donate food to the army and just recently the country's parliament introduced a military tax that says ukraine's leaders appear to be struggling to pay their soldiers and several attempts by city or authorities to dismantle the central square outraged the protesters who burnt tires on the tents huge plumes of smoke rising into the air before the firefighters managed to arrive barricades have remained on my down since last november of course that's when antigovernment protests started leading to the overthrow of president john of covert in february

people were shouting slogans from the stage on my dad and supported by a crowd so i would go on actually to become the new government however six months later protesters still seem dissatisfied with those they helped to bring to power and foreign affairs analyst derek monro says this situation well it's all too familiar. actually situation's quite ironic to say the least since the revolution seemed to be taken to see the return where the situation is keeping the same for the banks it was last november when the this took place so right now it seems to me that all the variety of different people who lives or the livelihood us 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 where 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. an eastern ukraine is proving particularly dangerous for many journalists covering the conflict. the photo correspondent went missing that five days ago it's believed he's being held by the security services a free andrew hash tag has been launched on twitter to help win the release of a stunning. and now food producers on both sides of the atlantic of warner rushers ban on western imports could cost them billions of dollars restrictions were imposed after the u.s. and the e.u. along with other nations slapped moscow with sanctions over what they say is influence in the ukraine crisis artie's peter oliver has details. market for those that back sanctions russia's ban on the force of certain food stamps from the u.s. canada australia. you see the response to it not exemptions 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 and export is demanding compensation for their losses if someone there know. 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 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 else. the german trade union that deals with wholesale foreign trade said that posed a risk to the economy in his country in greece the opposition party says accuse 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 exports which were valued at four point five million euro in twenty thirteen european analysts a warning that sanctions aren't the way to find a solution free trade is

a key for peace we shouldn't be in this game of tit for tat thing or we sanction as we we should be negotiating on the same table but as it stands russian consumers are going to have to go without certain imports western exports is going to be locked out the russian market peter all over berlin and ukraine is planning to punish moscow with sanctions of its own restrictions could include stopping the transit of russian gas to europe right now the e.u. gets about a third of its gas from russia with most of that delivered via ukraine cutting off the root could be very harmful for the industry of europe take for example the slovakia or ball garia which are almost entirely powered by that of russia and many others rely on its gas main source as well of course the scheme could replace by the south stream which is a pipeline project actually bypassing ukraine right here there was construction is being hindered by e.u. lawmakers those southern nations say they are ready to adjust the rules to finish

construction and political analyst mathias don't hold believes ukraine's plan could change the way politicians feel about the alternative supply route. 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 for all the states in southeast europe like austria still being hungary. and bulgaria to lobbying much more to get a very secure supply of us and if you create is not willing to guarantee it there will be other options. this week saw a new spiral of violence in gaza after the three day truce between israel and hamas

expired on friday the sides reverted to the use of force with palestinian civilians suffering the most in the crossfire. i. mean i knew then and. only one i did i leave. the morning. trying not to anyone actually had come in. this one long conflict has now claimed more than one thousand eight hundred lives it's left gaza in a state of ruin and the return of hostilities brings the region even closer to a humanitarian disaster of tens of thousands of homes were destroyed or damaged by israeli strikes at least two universities hundreds of schools and mosques were

rendered into rubble. reports say half a million people were displaced almost a third of the population more than a million civilians there's no fresh water and we talked to medics without borders advisor michel back from the hospital she says the israeli strikes achieve only one thing the death of civilians you know is a very small. so it's one point seven million people living in this very small area and still even in this area. every night. three hundred. children camp has been shelled and i just passed through the emergency room and again children women elderly. cbs.

the campaign has brought the worst devastation on civilian losses in years and it's also brought many dissenting voices from within the israeli military forces. spoke to some of. you know that there are a lot of soldiers have come back and say to yourself you know what the hell are we doing here why are we using so much force why we're treating them this way is one such form. and activist and was one of fifteen troops to sign an open letter to the washington post refusing. to you're in the service i didn't talk about this thing is when you are there you just a part of it but more and more soldiers are choosing not to be increasingly seen as the bully in the region are spending billions. and there is no top of the. we are not prepared

for a very real river possibility from overcoming five wars in eighty years levanon two thousand and six thirty four days more than eight hundred people killed and in the end israel faced an even stronger hizbollah four devastating wars with them us two thousand and six eight twelve and fourteen thousand killed international outrage and in the end israel faced a unity government between former rivals hamas and fatah foreign policy was it we had four years in which we lost the middle east. we lost. we in a way lost egypt. in the middle east and many would argue vulnerable the latest operation protective age has done seemingly little to protect israel in the long term you're not going to finish by trying to physically to start hamas there isn't and there's nothing that indicates that it will work

this time or indeed the next time and that's taking its toll on the reputation of what was once considered one of the world's most efficient fighting forces the hope is that the coming days will see a permanent cease fire in place but bottom line gaza is in tatters mistrust between israelis and palestinians is at an all time high policy r.t. tel aviv. i mean israeli offensive has been sparking massive protests across the world this week and again people taking to the streets just in recent days all over in fact new york several hundred miles of the u.n. headquarters to protest the killings of palestinians they called for an end to both hostilities on the grounds of i. think the rally in the german capital saw more than a thousand demonstration a central square waving palestinian flags and chanting israeli and she israeli

slogans. and one of the largest protests took place in march say in france people condemned president for a supporter of israeli actions and demanded the violence. i twenty thousand people gathered in london to raise their voices against the hostilities they called upon the government to stop shipments to israel which were then used to kill the palestinians. are just a moment here what are the international we look at whether recent u.s. air strikes in iraq may. really helped tackle the advance of islamists. i'm happy martin the stories we cover here we're not going to hear any right other big story the facts are that while same time there's a reason they don't want you to know that are important. now let's break the

set. when the you are paying union to net ukraine become part of it it clearly contributed to the bathtub ration of tensions within ukraine ukraine become part of the european union loans telltales ukraine absolutely doesn't have the economic level to become part of the e.u. or.

good morning from moscow and american submarine is reportedly being chased away from russia's shores apparently the navy spot at the vessel the north and barents sea and sent over a un to submarine strike force. picks up the story. the american submarine was detected near russia's northern border in the bering sea and was shadowed by a navy strike force and an aircraft then you could have powered virginia class submarine is capable of launching twelve tomahawk missiles among other armaments after about half an hour over radio contact them merican were pushed away from the border by the northern fleet reconnaissance of russia continues from under the water and in the skies in july an american spy plane the rivet joint was reportedly conducting surveillance of the russian military when detected by radar it was then forced to illegally cross into swedish airspace after being chased by a russian fighter jet swedish an american authorities kept silence about the

incident for nearly a month but were pushed to admit swedish airspace had been violated after reports in local media over the a staunch u.s. ally sweden is not a member of nato so they infringement cause some anger the swedish priscilla long with their foreign called leagues made sure the violation of the country's borders was firmly made public knowledge ramon cost r.t. moscow this week the us approved and launched as strikes against here how does militants in iraq. directed our military to take targeted strikes against terrorist convoys should they move toward the city fighter jets and unmanned drones have already carried out three rounds of bombing attacks on. so-called islamic state militants formerly known as isis has managed to occupy huge amounts of areas and northwestern iraq and declare a caliphate that. the advance of the jihadists is led to hundreds of thousands of

scraping from their homes as the groups consider even to cruel by al-qaeda. and half a million people from the minority have been trapped by the militants on a mountain near the codice border in the talkies border i should say i says considers them to be devil worshipers and states must threaten to execute them already captured but as our guests told these jihadists were given more than a leg up by washington in the first place. really hard to. western foreign policy in the middle east has to take place because right now we have a situation where the west is opposing isis rebels in northern iraq and rightly so but has been tacitly or implicitly supporting them in syria is madness these are u.s. weapons u.s. weapons on all sides in this combat just as three years ago in libya and in so many

wars when you are the top supplier of weapons to the world seventy nine percent of weapons transfers into the middle east or from the united states you're going to have u.s. weapons on all sides which is just fine for absolutely our weapons makers looking for a profit fuels destruction. the previous u.s. invasion in iraq turned into a costly enterprise not just in terms of human lives let's bring up some numbers for you here on the program what paying one point seven trillion dollars was spent on the whole deal that translates to. five thousand dollars per second over the occupation it's not cheap to deploy an american soldier three hundred fifty thousand dollars each and the government will still need to give billions to its veterans and pension payments activist richard becker says washington won't be able to avoid having to pour more money into iraq now the cost of the war has not really been added yet in terms of the damage done in iraq the damage done.

from the united states and the actual cost which will be. 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 war was for the people in iraq and also for the people in the united states and over on our website right now another leap in space exploration. into a. full story on video to. tell you about and. joining us for their weekly here and i say was a blow edward snowden has been granted a three year residency in russia snowden fled to the country more than

a year ago telling the world about the global surveillance projects maintained by the u.s. and u.k. now he's in hiding with his whereabouts as he claims as a threat to his life according to his lawyer will now be allowed to move freely across the country or abroad and could even get russian citizenship. drug gangs may go out of their way to protect their illegal crops but it was now. helping this week when russian police tried to raid one side in particular. takes up the story. it started as an ordinary drugs rate investigators were checking reports about wild cannabis growing on a private property in central russia the reports turned out to be true on the ground they found hundreds of marijuana plants some measuring more than six feet tall that's around two meters but the other thing they found almost ruined the entire operation hidden in the bushes were beehives and as police officers began pulling plants from the ground the bees attack this woman who was stung on her feet

in an uneven battle against thousands of angry insects the authorities had to retreat they were only able to finish the operation after putting on protective gear in the end they destroyed around five hundred plants the land's all in claims he knew it was cannabis but couldn't find the time to pull it out since he was too busy taking care of the bees now he's looking at up to eight years behind bars if it's established that weed was planted there on purpose or if you want to learn where you get your sushi from any of your fish you might be a bit worried about the upcoming report how much metal is in the fish you eat stay tuned is coming up next.

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 a look good by condemning the moral failings of previous presidents liberals and democrats to hate bush so this could be some kind of pandering or trying to look good by comparison headlines like obama condemns torture some 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 do obama this is all just a bunch of sweet talk but that's just my opinion. overall road in western norway. surrounded by glaciers and clips. a road is winding as the shores of the fiords.