in the weekly on r t international a look at the top news from ukraine including fierce fighting in the country's east leading to a growing humanitarian crisis then a blazing protest in central kiev. sanctions a skirmish moscow fights back against the e.u.'s punitive measures with a food import ban while ukraine says it could hold russia's energy transit to euro . after a few days of calm of violence returned to gaza as a ceasefire between calm us and israel and leading to more destruction and more palestinian lives one of pods. u.s. fighter jets a meigs come back to iraq for three rounds of strikes against jihadists militants

but washington is accused of fighting the same group with aids in syria. good afternoon to you and welcome to moscow are you with me to say first heavy is moving towards done yet scale as the ukrainian army prepares to unleash its forces to take the city and it's already been extensively shelled and bombed. in one of the latest riots to apartment blocks in the city center were attacked in a week of assaults more than a dozen people were killed internets. only that the photo where does our desertion has left. seven o'clock you. or your muslim national. school

can. feel. for you that it. amid intensified attacks from the army the soft proclaimed republic says it's ready for ceasefire to avert a humanitarian crisis in the area donetsk is the regional capital and the heart of anti-government resistance in ukraine but it's also a vital help for the entire country at least it used to be if you crave the fifth largest city with a population nearly a million last year forbes named it the most attractive city for doing business in the whole country and it's also one of the state's main economic hearts and 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 the host city for the euro twenty twelve football championship how things have changed now even getting out of

the area is highly dangerous this dash cam video shows a rocket presumed to have been fired from a missile launcher hitting a highway fortunately the driver had a lucky escape most of the people trying to get away from the violence are fleeing to russia so weary of the national went to one of the border crossings. in each of these cars individual stories of anger uncertainty and loss. these ukrainians are fleeing their homes for russian after months of conflict has left well over one thousand civilians dead 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 over the more well below average of muslims made up of all of

them national service you. got more snow british throne 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 old. gender only no trouble poor you know choice it's a good enough to just move. for us or look a little sheepish will get us closer to his nose that went that route a little too close to the point you know which of you it 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 i saw them also but also my but i still not all feel lost it should have brought so i'm a bit from other wording but we still don't get inspired yet scope so gross margin . curator a doctor says his family has no room to go back to ruin a story of. your thoughts i'm sure you're going to.

most of what are you. going to use if you are. he invites me to see where they found shelter the rest so many refugees many don't have a proper place to sleep through his wife also dr tells us how she lost her home and you served as a bomb before you know. we didn't have to be regular dorm farkle. to be. able have to cover for groceries 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 to move national t.v. 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 them battle zones but washington said it's not russia's place to do so heated words through 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. apparently un philanthropists think children a better being. ignored pleas from russian human rights groups to move youngsters to safety and what is the un think don't kids deserve to be safe. but. this week over four hundred ukrainian troops across the russian border appealing

for sanctuary it's the largest number of ukrainian military personnel to lay down arms and enter russia in a single go but it's not the first time. we have. another terrible feelings all of us are very happy to be here. and manage to rest and we're very grateful for the above which were encircled we had no way out so to keep the manpower safe our commanders decided to escape to russia i think for no clear reason the ukrainian population is destroying its own because on both sides very are the same people you know. the soldiers who were placed at a special camp over third of them have now returned home did i the soldiers who crossed the border had asked for sanctuary retaining the manpower necessary for the

government's operation in the east has not proven easy despite launching three recruitment drive since the start of the crackdown gives army is struggling to fill its ranks and analysts say the army needs over eleven billion dollars to replace all the weapons and machinery only a little under eight hundred million was allocated to the military from the state reserve fund the soldiers are running out of food and have to rely on handouts there's a website set up by civil activists calling on people to donate food to the army on top of that ukraine's leaders appear to be struggling to pay their soldiers just recently the country's parliament introduced a military tax. and this week has also seen undressed in the capital of ukraine on thursday clashes began as authorities try to dismantle the camp in care of central my done square for many of the scenes evoke a sense of deja vu this is what happened in here in february when the then

authorities also tried to remove the protesters back then the clashes led to the overthrow of president. and this is an image from that week now the government has changed but the dissatisfied protesters remain dug in. oh. and great crowd set fire to cut to add to their intense clashes that resulted in dozens of injured and arrests at one point he was mayor of follow my down activism selves arrived at the scene to personally take part in the cleanup commentators believe people feel deceived by the promises made to them situations quite ironic to say the least since the revolution seem to be taken three times to see the return to government that 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 some forces from the might dawn have gone on into power and they are now acting against those that are outside of power that have political differences with the regime that has come to power and so we see a lot of ideological differences petty personality fighting and really a power play among different factions. so producers on both sides of the atlantic have wanted to russia's ban on the west and ports could lose them billions of dollars restrictions are way off to the u.s. in the along with other nations had moscow with sanctions over what they say is this influence in the crisis in ukraine he to all of a has the details. no market for those that back sanctions russia's ban on the import of certain food stamps from the us canada australia norway you see the 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 say 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 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 just 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 there's someone there now it's going to affect us all for us 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 and 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. then i should put it but it's a disaster for my company will need to stop production the money will receive without imports to russia won't even be enough to pay for the buses that bring our staff to work in the sense of european food exports to russia worth over twelve billion euros last year between year and finland with 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 ban posed a risk to the economy in his country in greece the opposition party says. the current government's actions have been 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 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 western exports is going to be locked out the bush market peter all of our party. ukraine's planning its own sanctions against moscow on tuesday the parliament is expected to vote on measures outlined by the prime minister which could include stopping the transit of energy supplies to europe let's take a look at what that could mean for the bias of russian gas in the e.u. all right now the e.u. gets about a third of its gas from russia now most of that is delivered via ukraine cutting this route all of this could be quite harmful for the industry of some european countries take slovakia and bulgaria for instance which almost entirely powered by

russia many others rely on its gas as a main it source as well now of course the scheme could be replaced by this out there in the southern stream a pipeline project bypassing ukraine its construction is being hindered by e.u. lawmakers but southern nations say they're ready to press reconstruction for more on the situation of course now to political risk analyst eric across he joins me live now mr across the gas transit block is just one of a number of possible sanctions coming out of ukraine how likely do you think kiev is to go through with this well you've got to understand that we're not dealing with responsible adults here we have. a regime which will basically comprised of all arts who have their own economic interest. that they will be able to push through the simple reason that. go through

a long term without exporting gas we have plenty of sore losers europe would treat european industry. without russian gas so i'm quite sure the europeans are not going to get. quite that crease. do you think blocking russian gas could encourage brussels perhaps maybe even and freeze the south stream project which is a has been on hold for quite a while now but what one would hope so i mean the they've got a sort of damocles hanging over their heads and being dependent upon ukrainian goodwill is not a good situation especially since the summit as you pointed out to some of the eastern european countries who have been very hostile towards russia well all of a sudden they're going to find themselves sanctioned by ukraine the country they were proportionately supporting considering the blocking of the gas flow i mean that this could no doubt as you just said hurts the e.u. which can see it as its ally so what is ukraine's and game here than they don't

that's that's a good point they don't have it and it's a little like the americans in iraq they're going to shake it up and hopes the best the problem is that ukraine needs to keep the crisis going because economically it is non-viable as an entity it is about the deep fault industry has been decimated agriculture has been very badly damaged g.d.p. is collapsing they need not tens but hundreds of billions of dollars to be able to to do what happened with what we saw in east germany but there you had the germans who were just pumped in huge amounts of money and no one is ready to do that city ukraine so they're just they're just shaking it up and open to us last one mr croes just saying case let's just say hypothetically have says yes we're going to block that that that gas pipelines russia's gas pipeline via trade what do you

think they will do will they back this. well this would be excellent news because that would source you to stop playing games with the situation and to get serious when you go to do over eighty steals you've got to realize that the region would hold up maybe forty eight hours without she courts and the west show here freedom of action is very limited and if they push it to a crisis well that might end some misery for the people street ukraine crowe's we're going to leave it right there thank you very much for your analysis a political risk analyst of the arab crows sharing some of his insights on what's going on there with those possible sanctions that could hit russia from ukraine more economic analysis will be in venture capital later this hour meanwhile more news coming your way just after the short break.

i'm abby martin the stories we cover here are not going to hear any rights other big story the plans for headlines and talk there's a reason they don't want and do not. want that i know phrase that we. now let's break the set. when the european union promised to net ukraine become part of it it clearly contributed to the bathtub ration 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. or.

i. welcome back this week witnessed a new wave of violence in gaza after a three day truce between israel and hamas expired on friday the sides reverted to force as talks to prolong the ceasefire broad little result say and civilians are again being the brunt bearing the brunt. of. the he was the. was the. only one i did i leave again let me know. the month long conflict has claimed more than one thousand nine hundred lives and left

in ruins and the return of hostilities has already left its bloody mark all in all tens of thousands of homes have been destroyed or damaged by israeli strikes at least two universities hundreds of schools and mosques where obliterated reports a house a million people have been displaced that's almost a third of the population for more than a million civilians there's no drinking water and as correspondent her fear reports among the thousands of injured only like you once get proper medical help. every day the patients arrive from gaza to palestinian hospitals in jerusalem and the west bank the market said hospital in east jerusalem has received dozens of cases since the latest conflict erupted in this room he is six years old the patient that was admitted two weeks ago he has multiple business school fractures after the bombing of his house here that she was unconscious aware of the environment we can

go. in his first few days here khalid's life was maintained by a ventilator he's made a solid recovery doctors say and is now able to move his leg his mother nihad has been by his side for almost three weeks only one relative is allowed to accompany such medical cases from gaza but the only granted one day's access to israel. i cannot sleeve the hospital because of my son and because i have permits to remain in israel for just one day but when i leave i show them the medical records of the crossing and they let me pass into gaza it is not easy to come out of gaza it is not easy to be coordinated there is checkpoints that are procedures that israelis have and therefore we're not getting enough patience although there are thousands upon thousands of patients we need support and help forty two year old pfizer was

in her home preparing dinner for have family when her house was suddenly demolished upon her i asked if she felt lucky to be outside of dallas or receiving expert treatment yeah it was a situation in the gaza strip is an absolute disaster how can i feel lucky when my people are dying. over nine thousand palestinians have been injured in gaza getting medical treatment outside of its overstretched health system is like winning the lottery three year old young mean a boob job or survived an attack on his family home in gaza as they gathered for the first night of the islamic festivals someone thought an eighteen members family was wiped out leaving just this one child little yeah i mean still calls out for his favorite sublime his older sister he doesn't know she's being killed along with all the others a relative. has lived through six wars between the palestinians and israel.

no i do see only the israel of the palestinians is winning we the citizens of the full to everybody is a loser whoever thinks of peace is the true human being. these patients are lucky to have temporarily escaped gaza to receive the very best in medical treatment many of looking forward to returning to their families in gaza but it is a horrified devastated community. human rights organizations to say gaza is witnessing a humanitarian catastrophe with some branding israel's operation a war crime you know gaza is a very small. it's seven you know made. you know. so it's one point seven million people living in this very small area and still even in this area. every night eighty percent c.b.s. there has been such massive destruction in areas that the israeli military declared

a no go zone that covered almost half of gaza's territory we've seen cease fires in the past be held up as justifications when western countries or the israeli military claims that hamas violated the cease fire in the past that has been held up as a justification and a claim that any future civilian deaths would be the responsibility of hamas for violating the cease fire the laws of war need to stop being violated and that finally for once in gaza there needs to be. for war crimes. the atrocities in gaza spout massive protests across the globe and on saturday tens of thousands of people united in a worldwide day of rage against the israeli offensive in new york several hundred to march to the un headquarters to protest the killing of palestinians and the gaza blockade a rally in german capital for more than a thousand waving palestinian flags and chanting antiwar slogans one of the largest

protests to place in must sail in france where crowds condemned present are long for his support of his obvious rails actions and more than twenty thousand people gathered in london slamming the government for sponsoring israel and accusing the b.b.c. of biased and i'm thick coverage destruction of gaza also brought many dissenting voices from within the israeli armed forces last year talked to some of them you know 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 best way is one such form israeli soldier she calls herself an anti occupation activist and was one of fifty reserve troops to sign an open later to the washington post refusing reserve duty book on national law 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. and there is no total different. 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 it has done seemingly little to protect israel in the long term you're not going to finish by trying to physically or 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. tell of of. a passenger plane has crashed immediately after takeoff at an airport in the iranian capital tehran the aircraft was carrying up to forty eight people reports a thirty nine of them were killed it came down in a residential area five kilometers from the runway in injuring several people on

the ground early reports suggest the crash may have been caused by an engine problem. including this accident or there has been at least seventeen fatal crashes involving iranian planes since two thousand sanctions imposed on the country prohibited from buying new aircraft or space spare parts hindering the maintenance of fleet every nation experts crissy eight things western sanctions have undermined the safety of iran's passenger jets but talking about an aging fleet of aircraft and we're also talking about the fact that. lines within parts of the world have long been store of those they. needed to maintain. primarily because of the sanctions are to be imposed so the fleet getting old. for the acro in short supply all normal existent already being bought on the black

market for which there is no. safety guarantee prime reason why there's an issue with. the safety of flights. around. the u.s. military carried out three is strikes on radical islamists in iraq who are seeking to expand the zone of influence in the country f. eighteen fighters and drones targeted a tillery and military convoys belonging to the islamic state terror group the jihad is have seized the oil rich territories in the north west of iraq for claiming an islamic caliphate there and are now advancing on kurdish controlled regions during their advance the militants have surrounded some half a million people from the religious minority there were trying to flee to turkey but were trapped by the extremists and are facing execution unless they convert to

islam hundreds have already been killed defending the kurdish minority was among other key reasons of her. the one i gave for the horizon is rice promising the u.s. involvement will be strictly limited but political analysts and author william and all things obama's words shouldn't be taken at face value. i think the obama administration is being extremely hypocritical if not utterly dishonest about its policy toward iraq since the emergence of i suspect going to early june and i don't think go washington is particularly interested in stopping the islamic street or the isis jihad as i think obama is whining to the world he's lying to the american people about what the u.s. military is doing with these surgical air strikes and see how limited they are i think the arm of the key government is out of it's mind to invite u.s. military to make airstrikes there and other militaries so make such strikes that

could be invited instead but that's another question. while distrusts can be explained by the apparent a contract contradictions between obama's earlier promises and current u.s. actions while leaving behind a sovereign stable and self-reliant iraq 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 and right now washington is a fighting off accusations the situation in iraq is partly of america's making some of our guests suggest that the jihad is a way given more than a leg up by the u.s. . we really have to look at the reorientation of 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 of personally supporting them in syria is madness these are

u.s. weapons u.s. weapons on both sides in this from bat just as three years ago in libya and in so many wars when you were 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 weapons makers looking for a profit but it fuels destruction. most scandal ad the n.s.a. the agency tried to use it could be persuaded just to delete parts of a public transcript from a cold case about illegal surveillance more on that online. poll so helicopters a drones and dogs all resources are thrown into a massive search operation for four year old girl who survived almost two weeks lost in siberia read her story at r.t. dot com. russia is mediating talks between mania

and azerbaijan over the ongoing armed conflict in the disputed. the region is an ethnically american mamie and clive in azerbaijan at the beginning of the ninety's of the region wanted independence which led to a war between the nations a conflict to claim some thirty thousand lives before officially ending in one thousand nine hundred four when a ceasefire was proclaimed independence of the region still wasn't recognized so then they have been occasional shooting incidents but the situation is seriously escalated at the end of july and around twenty soldiers from both sides were killed in violence out of me. breaking the cease fire. russia is promoting peaceful dialogue between the lead me to burgeon said both sides have shown the will to end the violence and reach a peaceful resolution three presidents met on official. to watch. as

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on our reporters were very. bizarre g.'s the weekly with me to say this week a high ranking u.s. general was shot day during a brazen inside a tag by an afghan soldier at a military university near kabul several other nato members including a german general well wounded the pentagon says the officer is the most senior military official to have been killed in action overseas a since the war in vietnam silent. in the afghan army for three years was also killed in

a shootout the taliban praised the attack but didn't claim responsibility defense analysts feel cythera believes the incident reflects the mood among many afghans after years of having an international military presence in their country this highlights large discontent among the afghan population for the presence of international military forces for over a decade in afghanistan and. you know this latest incident incident it's just a boiling over of that frustration of military presence military operations that haven't necessarily work to provide afghans with basic security and you know the human security needs that the population needs livelihoods jobs education and infrastructure that provides roads and sanitation. to us gun rights advocates have written a children's book and to promote the idea that attack is the best form of defense

and to trust your weapon and it is you can speak to parents who support the idea and those who don't. a new children's book has hit the bookshelves of america my parents' open carry is designed to explain to children why it is a great idea for their parents to be carrying guns with them everywhere to the thirteen year old character in the book the parents say when seconds count police are minutes away the book already has its supporters and its haters. why do you think it's because people need to know how to take care of themselves protect themselves and to protect the children in the home if they know how to use them in their safe with them are you are you a father very much i have three boys but i don't think that that's good for example like i think that we already have a pretty violent nation as it is so i think that we have a nation so that just promotes it in a sense some in social media hit back at gun advocates by changing the book's cover irenaeus site the american academy of pediatrics points to grim statistics firearms

are one of the top three causes of death among children in the u.s. killing twice as many as cancer injuries from fire arms send an estimated seven thousand children to casualty every year and an additional three thousand died from gunshot wounds before they get to a hospital and despite the growing number of deaths among children gun culture in america seems to be gaining momentum. the documentary film kids and guns features american families who encourage their young children to own and shoot arms . and those who regret ever having given a gun to their child he had a little twenty two thank you twenty two and i had just purchased it for him first and i purchased from us. obviously our great purchase he did it. and this hank was crossing the creek they said these

little rubber slipped. and when he did the better they get hit the guy on. you know we're not in shock. i ran into several non americans as i was asking people what they thought about the children's book you have to explain your kids why your parents carry guns i can't even stretch my mind that it's. for me it's just. very culture shock american children younger than fifteen or nine times more likely to die in a gun related accident and those in the rest of the developed world gun advocates in the us invariably see all attempts to restrict the use of guns as an encroachment on the constitution so all meaningful efforts to bring about policy change have hit a dead end in washington i'm going to check in on our team now some other headlines from around the world are starting in turkey where the president will be elected by popular vote for the first time in the country's history three candidates are vying

for the position of the current prime minister received the one widely expected to win in the first round is true rivals are a little known diplomats and a kurdish politician a presidential vote just three months after it on a ruling conservative party won local elections. typhoon hollow has landed into western japan leaving one person killed and dozens injured over one million at risk residents were told to evacuate their homes extreme weather conditions of also affected travel leading to over two hundred flights canceled the storm is expected to weaken before bringing heavy rains to tokyo. drug gang screw out of their way to protect the legal crops but major land a helping hand this week when russian police tried to raid a side art is a gold piece could have explained the story with a sting in its tail it started as an ordinary drugs read investigators were checking reports about the wall of cannabis growing on a private property in central russia the reports turned out to be true on the

ground be found hundreds of marijuana plants some measuring more than six feet tall that's around two meters but the other. the 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 attacks this woman was stung on her face 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 did was planted there on purpose coming up next a venture capitalist. the stories we cover here we're not going to hear any other big story. there's

a reason they don't want to. point. out now let's break the set. this is a media leader so we leave the people. of the same motions you're. the party isn't the. issue is that no one is asking with again that you deserve answers from . politics. well told her my language or what i will only react to situations i haven't read the reports so i'm likely to push the no i will leave them to the state department to comment on your latter point of the month to say it's secure yet a car is on the docket no god. no they do no more weasel words. when you made a direct question be prepared for a change when you throw

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hello i'm katie program and you're watching venture capital coming up roughed up by we took food as most a response to international sanctions and we also looked into the potential consequences of banning european flights crossing as space to asia also russia and iran team up and agree to an oil trade deal understanding to ease the impacts of such sanctions and some kirby joins me later he's going to be talking about they are but first the russian government has imposed a one year restriction on the import of agricultural products on the countries imposing sanctions so beef pork poultry fish cheese milk vegetables and fruit in.