the. week's top stories on international. control of the government strongholds in the east supporting its promises with heavy weapons. change of sanctions between the west and russia makes european businesses look for compensation in the multibillion dollar range facing enormous losses. for a few days silence the roar of. the cease fire between hamas and israel comes to an end with palestinian civilians finding themselves right in the middle of a humanitarian catastrophe. on the u.s. to iraq as president obama authorizes airstrikes against jihadist militants in the

north of the country but washington now having to fight exactly the same group it's been supporting in syria. headlines over the weekend off today welcome to the weekly or nazi international with me role research. heavy is moving towards the ukrainian army prepares to use full force on the city not that it hasn't already been heavily shelled and bombed already. in one of the latest strikes two a pop on blocks right in the city center were attacked in a week of assaults more than a dozen people were killed in don yes hugh. the photo we're.

having here. are you are you. will. a maid intensified attacks from the army the self-proclaimed republic says it's ready for a ceasefire to avert a humanitarian crisis in the area i don't have the regional capital and the heart of the antigovernment existence but it's also a vital hub for the entire country well at least it used to be let's bring up some facts for you here on r.t. international to give you a better idea for example you it's ukraine's fifth largest city a population of nearly one million last year forbes named it the most attractive said he was doing business in the whole country it's one of the states main economic cobbs in the center of the nation's mining industry 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 two thousand and twelve football championships well how things changed even getting out of the area is highly dangerous right there as a video from a dash cam looks like a missile was shot straight into the road hitting the highway the driver survived a lucky escape indeed most of the people trying to get away from the violence fleeing to russia or if an option i went to one of those border crossings. in each of these cars introduced tomi's and. uncertainty and to know. these ukrainians are fleeing their homes from russia often months of conflict has left well over one thousand subpoena. instead and reduced whole cities to rubble the people in these cars have already spent six or seven hours sitting in line waiting to cross the border which is still a kilometer away but they say they're ready to wait as they practically have no other choice but bill overclock the man well below average of muslims made up of

the national sociopath. who. live in is no car got more snow with this train 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 only no trouble i go to is it safe to be in a tutu through the. us or put a little sheepish will get us closer to his nose the way that little i'm going to press the point you know which of you wait a minute this is where many refugees will end up when they make it across the border to russia and people here are angry. because i said the mafia but also my but i still not all feel worse it should have brought in the same maybe try measure what it really could be so but i thought you'd skeptical that i started. the quarter the doctor says his family has no room to go back to ruin his story the

more you draw. your thoughts enjoy your rights for abortion the no rights group over for. most of what are you and your good here to use if you can't be ethical. he invites me to see where they found shelter the rest so many refugees many don't have a proper place to sleep. because his wife also doctor tells us how she lost her home and you served as a boy or before i know. you didn't have to be a regular dorm farkle. to get a. crush this could be cheap this camp is designed for a thousand people but there are at least twice as much air 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 around these people have

managed to escape a war that their fight for a peaceful loan is just beginning. me from notional from russian ukrainian border. the u.n. says over seven hundred thousand refugees have crossed the russian border since the beginning of the conflict and the humanitarian situation in ukraine is grave moscow has repeatedly offered aid to the embattled zones but washington said it's not russia's place to do so heated words were flying at a un security council meeting given that ukraine has allowed international humanitarian groups to deliver aid within its territory there is no logical reason why russia should seek to deliberate. almost. apparently un philanthropists think children a better. ignores pleas from russian human rights groups to move youngsters to safety and what is the un think kids deserve to be safe. but was not

only civilians who were trying to run away from the conflict on monday more than four hundred ukrainian soldiers entered russia seeking sanctuary. but we have witnessed so many deaths and other terrible things all of us are be very happy to be here we've been given a new clue and managed to rest and we're very grateful for that which. we were encircled that we had no way out so to keep the manpower say our commanders decided to escape to russia and i think for no clear reason the ukrainian population is destroying it because on both sides we and they are the same people are not in the book and denied the soldiers who crossed the border had asked for sanctuary however retaining the manpower necessary for the government operation of the east has not proven easy but despite launching three recruitment drives since the start of the crackdown he is struggling to fill its rank and file military analysts say the army needs more than eleven billion dollars to replace all the 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 here's a website right there actually set up by civil activists calling on people to hand out food to the army and just recently the country's parliament introduced a military tanks as ukraine's leaders appear to be struggling to pay their soldiers . and this week has also seen unrest in the capital of ukraine several attempts by city or thora to use to dismantle a camp on central square enraged protesters who started once again burning tires and burning their tents as well a huge plumes of smoke rose into the air before the firefighters could get there barricades have remained on my down since last november you'll remember that's when the anti-government protests first started leaving to the overthrow of president you know coverts in february the people were shouting slogans from the stage on my down and supported by crowds who would then go on to become the new government

however six months later protesters still seem dissatisfied with those they helped to bring to power experts believe the people feel deceived by the promises that were made the point of view of these protesters they're going to stay there because they see the revolution as they call it only half done all the government can say is the situation is critical we're doing a bit we're getting close to the borders but they cannot deliver on the promises made during the revolution actually situations quite ironic to say the least since the revolution seemed to take this is the return of the government they have right now is simply replaced the other and they're simply at a point of exit right now we're it seems like nothing much exchange overall plus there's a civil war in east and now food producers on both sides of the atlantic of war and russia's 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 details here with artie's peter all of our. market for those that back sanctions russia's ban on the import of certain food stamps from the us canada australia norway and you said 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 said this 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 a didn't really need much from iran that's not the case with russia and i think russia. but it will retaliate in a proportionate manner with european cultures set 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 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 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 but 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 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 we trade is a key for peace we shouldn't be in this game of tit for tat thing we sanctions we we should be negotiating on the same table but as it stands russian consumers are going to have to go without certain imports and western export is going to be locked out the russian market peter all over r.t. belin. and ukraine's planning to punish moscow with sanctions all 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 most of that is actually delivered right there through ukraine cutting the root off could be harmful for the industry certainly of

several european countries you can take a slovakia or ball garia for example here which are almost entirely powered by russia and many others rely on as gas as a main source as well of course on the scheme could be replaced by what is called the south stream line right there it's a pipeline bypassing ukraine there was construction is currently being hindered by a small group of lawmakers are going over some laws to deal with it there are now many southern nations saying they're ready to adjust whatever rules in order to finish that construction political analyst mathias don't feel believes ukraine's plan could change the way politicians feel about this alternative supply route. i see 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

this will be hungary. 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. a quarter past the hour here in moscow it's all too international the weekly with me rule re sushi thanks for joining us here just a second we'll tell you the latest story of how the russian navy chased away an american virginia submarine that was moving so suspicious of the close to the northern border. i'm abby martin the stories we cover here we're not going to hear any right other big story the extra headlines same time there's a reason they don't want to. point. out now let's break the set. when the unit being union promised to net

ukraine become part of it it clearly contributed to the bathtub ration of tensions within ukraine ukraine will become part of the european union won't tell tales ukraine absolutely doesn't have the economic level to become part of the e.u. . hello again a passenger plane has crashed immediately after taking off from an airport in the

iranian capital tehran reactor off was said to have been carrying up to forty eight people local t.v. saying everybody on board including six children were killed in the plane reportedly a locally produced a version of ukrainian a scuse me ukrainian one forty was heading off on an internal flight some reports say the crash may have been caused by an engine problem details as they come to us here on r.t. international. this week's or new spiral of violence in gaza after a three day truce between israel and hamas expired on friday the sides reverted to the use of force again with palestinian civilians suffering the most in the crossfire. he was.

one of. a month long conflict that has claimed more than one thousand nine hundred lives as left gaza ruin and the return of hostilities brings the region even closer to that of a humanitarian disaster tens of thousands of homes were destroyed or damaged by israeli strikes universities hundreds of schools and mosques were rendered into rubble reports say half a million people were displaced that's almost a third of the population for more than a million civilians there's no fresh drinking water and we talk to medics without borders advising michelle back from the hospital she says the israeli strikes achieve only one thing and it's the death of civilians. morning it's seven kilometers long and thirty kilometers high so it's one point seven million people living in this very small area and still even in this area we ourselves

every night eighty percent civilians more than three hundred of the best children schatz a camp has been shelled and i just passed through the emergency room and again children women elderly. it's. the worst devastation and civilian losses in years it's also aboard many dissenting voices inside the israeli military forces is. that there are a lot of soldiers a come back and say to yourself you know what the hell are we doing here why are we using so much force why are we treating them this way is one such for me israeli soldier she calls herself an anti occupation activist and was one of fifty troops to sign an open letter to the washington post but fusing was. during the service i didn't talk about this thing and so when you are there you just a part of it but more and more soldiers are choosing not to be part of an army

increasingly seen as the bully in the region are spending billions and billions. or . system and there is no talk of the. the for the river possibility overcoming five wars in eight 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 for devastating wars with a months two thousand and six eight twelve and fourteen thousand skilled international outrage and in the end israel faced a unity government between former rivals hamas and fatah foreign policy was. we had four years in the which we lost the middle east we lost. we in a way lost egypt. and we are very isolated in the middle east and many would

argue more 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 or story hamas there's 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 azad an all time high policy r.t. tell of of. and the israeli offensive has certainly been sparking massive protests across the globe and this week people once again took right to the streets of new york several hundred miles to the u.n. headquarters to protest the killing of palestinians it calls for an end to both the violence and the gossip.

also a rally in the german capital saw more than a thousand demonstrate in a central square waving palestinian flags chanting anti israelis. and one of the largest protests took place in march say in france people that condemned president for his support of israeli actions and demanded the violence. more than twenty thousand people gathered in london to raise their voices against the hostilities called upon the government to stop the arms shipments to israel which are then being immediately used to kill palestine. thanks for joining us here in r.t. international law in moscow an american submarine has reportedly been chased away from russia's shores apparently the navy spotted the vessel in the northern bering

sea and dispatched a massive submarine strike force for a month as most of 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 of 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 press along with their foreign called leagues made sure the violation of the country's borders was firmly made public knowledge room on call for f r t moscow this week america approved down launched as strikes against she hottest militants in iraq. i've directed our military to take targeted strikes against terrorists convoys should they move toward the city fighter jets carried out three rounds of bombing attacks targeting the so-called islamic. isis it's managed to occupy large areas of northern iraq declaring a caliphate at the advance of the jihadists it's led to hundreds of thousands fleeing the violence the groups even consider to prove why al qaeda. and half a million people from the minority have been trapped by militants on

a mountain near the border isis considers them to be devil worship posts and has threatened to execute those already captured but as our guests told. you how it is to are given a bit more than a leg up by those on capitol hill. who really have to. teach them foreign policy in the middle east has to take place because right now we have a situation here where is opposing isis rebels in northern iraq and rightly so but has been tacitly ordered personally supporting them in syria is madness these are u.s. weapons u.s. weapons on both 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 evolved on all sides which is just fine for absolutely our weapons makers looking for a profit but each fuels destruction. london is seeking to get the u.k.

space industry flying a high but also scotland in the process is pony boy. the scottish are being promised all sorts to stay in the u.k. but now they're being sold on trips to the stars. that's because the british government wants to reach the final frontier or rather build a space port for commercial space travel by twenty eighteen and scotland has a shot at housing the launch pad the u.k. space industry is growing at an astronomical pace it already contributes over in levin billion pounds to the u.k. economy every year it employs a vet thirty thousand people bought as the focus of one british satellite building company put it you face based always piggybacking on someone else's rocket so ministers say that this is an industry that needs more room to grow and that means

having a place in britain to launch these from the government's come up with eight possible remote seaside locations for the potential space space six of them are in scotland where there's an independence referendum in just six weeks some social media responses accuse westminster of dangling a scottish spaceport and the potential local jobs and economic growth it would create as a carrot for scots to stay in the union if you listen to the gas company they will say that they want to work very closely with the rest if you listen to the press because our side nor this is a complete new countries and that really they are good working towards the say are they going to or perhaps he will be scottish national party leader alex salmon says that whatever the outcome of the referendum scotland would still be the best location for a new base but the rumble is that scotland won't want to gift an independent

scotland a spaceport that would create jobs that could be kept south of the border richard branson's virgin galactic. is already advertising space tourism in the window display of its london head courses from the end of this yeah anyone willing to stump up one hundred twenty thousand pounds can take a trip into space from a spaceport in new mexico these are just the sorts of that shows that ministers here hope they can attract with their very own roots site the transport department told us that it's consultation would focus on the suitability of all eight locations and questions about potential scottish independence were premature either way the shortlist is expected to be unveiled at the end of the year off to the results of the scottish referendum to come to. london you think the fish sure thing is healthy think again and watch our next report when i see it's

just. a few weeks ago we discussed detroit's plans to shut off water to those who can't pay their bills logically what a basic human the system he could get taken away some protesters gathered to give their opinion on the issue at heart plaza and what is the response from the state maybe some sort of dialogue or explanation as to why they have to turn off the water you know they turned on the high tech quote non lethal weaponry against the protesters they used an hour red system which basically blasted the protesters with sound which sounds pun intended you mean until you look into it and read that the weapon can cause permanent hearing loss the company even admits this is true at less than fifteen meters we see all across the country so-called non-lethal weapons being used to very harmful and even to well we thought but why does this happen

because they make breaking up protest easy unsafe for the cops remember in the old days when you had to physically break up protests or things like el read lot a. any coward to just flip a switch and disperse a crowd with not a drop of blood visible and the fact that it seems not harmful as the police to be justified in using it whenever they want for the sake of the constitution i think no police forces should be able to use a spell read technology but that's just my opinion. the baltic is one of the most polluted seas in the world.