absolutely doesn't sound anything. to teach creation why you should care about humans and. this is why you should care only. the week's top stories on r.t. international. control of government strongholds in the east supporting its promises with heavy weapons and more attacks. a tit for tat exchange of sanctions between the west and russia making european business now looking for compensation for a multi-billion dollar losses they're now faced with. after a few days silence the roar of returns to gaza is the ceasefire between hamas and israel and the palestinian civilians finding themselves right in the middle of a humanitarian catastrophe. and the u.s. returns to iraq as president obama authorizes airstrikes against militants in the

north of the country but washington now having to fight exactly the same group it's been supporting and in syria. headlines over the weekend of today welcome to the weekly on r.t. international with me rule received. the heavy is moving towards. the ukrainian army prepares to use full force on the city not that it hasn't already been extensively shelled and heavily bombed. one of the latest strikes to apartment blocks right in the city center were attacked in a week of a soul smaller than a dozen people were killed in. said only that the

photo were present our discussion has left. several blocks. for you or your muslim national. school. fees. if. you got it. amid intensified attacks from the army the republic says it is now ready for a ceasefire to avert a humanitarian crisis in the area and yet scare is the regional capital it is the heart of the antigovernment resistance but it's also a vital hub for the entire country well at least it used to be here are some facts for you on the china will bring up on the program ukraine it is donetsk is the fifth largest city a population of nearly a million last year forbes named it the most attractive city for doing business in the whole country it's one of the state's main economic hubs and the center of the country's mining industry now just two years ago it drew tens of thousands of

football fans from across the europe when it was a host city for the euro twenty twelve football championship but all how things have changed even getting out of the area is dangerous right there dash cam video a rocket or a missile slamming into the side of the motorway there the driver had a lucky escape most of the people trying to get away from the violence of fleeing to russia or if an officer went to one of those border crossings. in each of these cars individual stories of anger uncertainty and loss. these ukrainians are fleeing their homes for russia after months of conflict has left well over one thousand civilians dead and reduced 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 are ready to wait as they practically have no

other choice but deal overclock no more 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 to do it on board the war doesn't discriminate between age or gender neutral will tell you no choice it's. in a tutu swooping. us off with a little sheepish will get us closer to his nose that little group a little too close to the point you know which of you which is the planet this is where many refugees will end up when they make it across the border to russia and people here are angry because a saddam also brought a mare but i still not all feel lucy you should have brought him so i may be treasure wording but we've still got inspired dudes go to war but also are to. go to the doctor says his family has no room to go back to your story of.

your thoughts i'm sure you're going to. use if. 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 is therefore does a before know. the litany of to be regular dorm farkle. have to cover for 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 arrive these people have

managed to escape a war but their fight for a peaceful life is just beginning. me for nationality 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 offered aid to the embattled zones but washington says it's not russia's place to do so heated words were flying at the latest u.n. 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 deliver it. apparently u.n. philanthropists think children. ignores pleas from russian human rights groups to move youngsters to safety and what does the un think kids deserve to be safe.

which is not only civilians who are trying to run away from the conflict on monday more than four hundred ukrainian troops entered russia seeking sanctuary but we have witnessed so many deaths and other terrible things so all of us would be very happy to be here we've been given new clothes and managed to rest and we're very grateful for that which about which when we were encircled we had no way out so to keep the manpower safe our commanders decided to escape to russian i think for no clear reason the ukrainian population is destroying itself because on both sides we and they are the same people are not in the book and kiev denies the soldiers who crossed the border had asked for sanctuary over attaining the manpower necessary for a government operation in the east has not proven easy despite launching three recruitment drive since the start of the crackdown kiev's army is struggling to field its rank and file military analysts say the army needs more than eleven billion dollars to

replace old weapons and 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 and five what you're seeing here is a website set up by civil activists calling on people to donate food to the army just recently the country's parliament introduced a military tax that says ukraine's leaders appear to be struggling to pay their soldiers. and this week is also seen on a restaurant in the heart of the capital of ukraine are several attempts by city or authorities to dismantle the camp on kiev central square just in rage the protesters who burnt tires and burned the ten started dismantling the pavements as well a huge plumes of smoke rising above the capitol before the firefighters arrived barricades though have remained on my dander since last november you'll remember that because that was when the antigovernment protests first started leading to the overthrow of president on a covert in february the people who were shouting slogans from stage on my down and

supported by the crowds would then go on to become the brand new government however six months later protesters still seemed dissatisfied with those that they helped to bring to power and experts believe people feel deceived by the promises that were made to them. from 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 our best we're getting health will grow 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 a three hundred sixty degree turn the government they have right now is simply replaced the other and they're simply at a point of exit right now where 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 have warned 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 of what they say is its influence in the ukraine crisis artie's peter all of us details the market for those that backed sanctions russia's ban on the imports of certain food stamps from the u.s. canada australia norway and you as a response to the economic sanctions imposed on moscow the ban will block meat fruit vegetables some dairy and fish imports for one year those watching international trade shows that russia is a different animal to other nations sanctions recently what's striking is that when the sanctions were ramped up against iran there was very little iran could do the west a 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 the european i've said to bear the brunt of the import

by an e.u. leaders that backed sanctions against russia look likely to face an export is demanding compensation for their losses there's someone there now. it's gone. into effect that's all it will take two or three months to collect our 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 the german trade union that deals with wholesale foreign trade said the bomb 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 are 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 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 of our party. and ukraine's planning to punish moscow with sanctions of its own and the parliament is expected to vote on restrictions on choose day which could include stopping the transit of russian gas to europe in fact right now the e.u.

gets about a third of its gas from russia with most of that delivered right here through ukraine cutting the route off could be very harmful for the industry of several european countries or we can take for example slovakia even ball garia which are almost entirely powered by russian energy and many others rely on his gas as a main source as well of course the scheme could be replaced by this right here that is the south stream pipeline project that clearly bypasses ukraine there was construction is being hindered by a very small group of e.u. lawmakers making various complaints there were a large group of southern nations say they are ready to see past any complaints in finnish construction political analyst matthias dorn felt believes ukraine's plan could actually change the way the politicians feel about this alternative suppliers . i seeing that this proposal will never get to 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 clearly 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. thanks for joining us here on r.t. international research showing in moscow just a few minutes we'll tell you how the russian navy chased away an american for a junior class submarine that was moving so close to the northern border. i'm abbie martin the stories we cover here you're not going to hear any right so our big story the extra headlines and talk there's a reason they don't want you do not. want to reset you. now let's break the

set. when the you have been union promise to met ukraine become part of it it clearly contributed to the exacerbation of tensions within ukraine ukraine will not become part of the european union who won't tell tales ukraine absolutely doesn't have the economic level to become part of the e.u. and.

it is a sunday afternoon here in moscow thanks for joining us for the weekly a passenger plane crashed immediately after taking off from an airport in the iranian capital tehran aircraft was carrying up to forty eight people local t.v. reporting everybody onboard including six children were killed it came down in a residential area five kilometers away from the runway injuring several people on the ground as well the plane was heading off on an internal flight some reports say the crash may have been caused by an engine problem now including this accident there have been at least seventeen fatal catastrophes involving iranian planes since two thousand sanctions imposed on the country prohibited from buying new aircraft or even aircraft pods him during the maintenance of its fleets and this week's or new spiral of violence in gaza after the three day truce between israel and hamas expired on friday the sides refer to the use of force with palestinian

civilians suffering the most in the crossfire. he was. going on and on when. i was only did i leave a gun let me know. and the month long conflict that has claimed more than one thousand eight hundred lives has left gaza ruined the return of hostilities brings the region even closer and further into the humanitarian disaster tens of thousands of homes destroyed or damaged by israeli strikes universities hundreds of schools and mosques were rendered into rubble reports say half a million people displaced that's almost a third of the whole population and for more than a million civilians there's no fresh drinking water and here on our international we talked to medics without borders advisor michele back from the hospital she says

the israeli strikes achieve only one thing and that's the death of civilians. you know gaza is a very small. it's seven kilometers. so it's one point seven million people living in this very small area and still even in this area we show every night eighty percent c.b.s. mob and three hundred. children shots you can has been shelled and i just passed through the emergency room and again children women elderly. c.b.s. the campaign has brought the worst devastation on civilian losses in years and souls are brought many dissenting voices from deep within israel's military is on seize polis lives. yeah there there are a lot of soldiers a come back and say to yourself you know what the hell are we doing here you know

why are we using so much force why are we treating them as way hannah is one such form israeli soldier she calls herself an anti occupation activist and was one of fifty reserve troops to sign an open letter to the washington post refusing reserve duty book on their show or the law during the service i didn't talk about this thing in so many 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 we are spending billions and billions . or. different through the system and there is no total different in the. pool. for. the 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 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. we had four years in the which we lost the middle east. we lost. him away lost egypt. 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 destroy hamas there's 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. the israeli offensive has been sparking massive protests all across the globe and this week people once again took to the streets in new york several hundred marched to the u.n. headquarters to protest the killing of palestinians they called for an end to both the hostilities and the gaza blockade. and a rally in the german capital sold more than a thousand demonstrate in a central square waving palestinian flags and chanting anti israeli slow. and one of the largest protests taking place in march say in france it will be condemned president for support of israeli actions and demanded the violence.

and more than twenty thousand people gathered in london to raise their voices against the hostilities they called upon their government to stop shipping to israel which are then turned around and quickly used to kill the palestinian. it's r.t. international an american submarine has reportedly been chased away from russia's shores apparently the navy spofforth the vessel in the northern barents sea and sent over a large anti submarine strike force. a 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 clear powered virginia class submarine is capable of launching twelve tomahawk missiles among other armaments after about half an hour over radio contacts the americans 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 though a staunch u.s. ally sweden is not a member of nato so they infringement cause some anger the swedish priscilla luong with their foreign called leagues made sure the violation of the country's borders was firmly made public knowledge. of r.t. moscow and on our website right now another leap in space exploration as nasa tests an interplanetary landing system to deliver heavy payloads to mas the full story and stuff video on our website right now. and staying with a high tech world we tell you about an already gummy inspired robot that can

assemble itself from a flat sheet of material that's also at odds he taught college. for now though this week the u.s. approved on launched a as strikes against she hottest militants in iraq. i've 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 bomb attacks targeting the positions of the so-called islamic state militants formerly known as isis its managed to occupy large areas of northern iraq and declare a caliphate i think vonzell be jihadists has led to hundreds of thousands of scraping from their homes as the groups considered too cruel even by al qaida. half a million people from the minority have been trapped by the militants on a mountain near the turkish border isis considers them to be devil worshipers and

has threatened to execute those already captured but as our guest told these jihadists were actually given more than a leg up by various groups on capitol hill. who really huffed to. western foreign policy in the middle east the 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 of personally supporting them in syria is madness these are us weapons us 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 just struction. it's not the international drug gangs may

go out of their way to protect their illegal crops but it was nature that led them a helping hand this week when russian police tried to write a site. it's going to pick up a story. it started as an ordinary drugs raid 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 attacked this woman 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 we was planted there on purpose. thanks for joining us for the weekly here were naughty international on rule re sushi but next we're taking you backstage with us here at the international but latest installment of news team that's coming your way. 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 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 look good by condemning the moral failings of previous presidents liberals and democrats love to hate bush so this could be subs to kind of pandering or trying to look good by comparison headlines like obama condemns torture sounds 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.

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