recover here not in starbucks stores and strong winds and talk there's a reason they don't want to. raise that. now let's break the set. in the weekly on our teaser international or a look at the top news from ukraine including fierce fighting in the country's east lead into a growing humanitarian crisis and blazing protests in central kiev. plus a scare sanctions a skirmish in moscow fights back against the ease punitive measures with a food import battle while ukraine says it could hold russia's energy transit to europe. is or is a salt on gaza spurs a huge wave of public indignation inside and outside the country as protesters are urging their governments to stop supporting the killing of palestinians. u.s.

fighter jets make a comeback to iraq for three rounds of strikes against you how does militants but washington is accused of fighting the same group it aids in syria. five pm here in the russian capital you with me to say heavy armor is moving towards the nearest square as the ukrainian army prepares to unleash its force to take the city that's already been extensively shelled and bombed. in one of the latest strikes to apartment blocks in the city center was attacked in a week of assaults of dozens of people were killed in the centers of two rest of regions in the east. what bothers you and says you i did not ride.

them into the photo or the road as i'm sure how you fly. cover up look you. are you are you was a mouse with. no cold. feet. when we did. amid intensified attacks from the army the self-proclaimed republics say it's waiting for ceasefire to avert a human create tarion crisis in the area near the regional capital and the heart of an empty government resistance in ukraine but it is also a vital hub for the entire country at least it used to be if you crave the fifth largest city with a population of nearly a million last year forbes named as the most attractive city for doing business in

the whole country it's one of the staid main the economic hubs and the center of the nation's mining industry now just two years ago it drew tens of thousands of football fans from all across europe when it was a whole city for the euro twenty twelve football championship and how things have changed even getting out of the area is a highly dangerous there's cam video shows rockets presumed to have been fired from a missile launcher hitting a highway fortunately the driver has a lot to scape most of the people trying to get away from the violence are fleeing to russia so maria for 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 russia 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 mark below average of muslims made up of all of them national service you. got. thrown you don't usually many of the chorus here have a sign saying they've got children on board the war doesn't discriminate between age or gender only. no trouble for you know choice it's a. two to three. years. that has told through his nose that went that route a little too close to 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 a saddam also brought a man but i still know all you should have brought him so i'm

a bit from her wording really could be simple but inspired didn't go so far but also ardent. supporter a doctor says his family has no room to go back to your story of. your thoughts i'm sure you're. going to. most of what are you. going to use if you're going to be. 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 doctor tells us how she lost her home and is therefore does a before i know. i didn't have to be a regular dom before kill. to be. able 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 manage 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. 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 they 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 the words 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. apparently u.n. 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 as 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 witnessed so many droughts and other terrible things so all of us are very happy to be here we've been given new clothes and managed to rest and we're very grateful for that which. we 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 they

are the same people. the soldiers were placed in a special camp over thirty of them have now returned home here deny the soldiers have crossed the border and had asked for sanctuary however retaining their member when necessary for the government operation in the east has not proven easy despite launching three recruitment drives this is the start of the crackdown here is army is struggling to fill its ranks analysts say the army needs over 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 there's a website set up by civil. activists are calling on people to donate food to the army and on top of that ukraine's leader appear to be struggling to pay their soldiers just recently the country's parliament introduced a military tax. and this week has also seen unrest in the

capital of ukraine on thursday clashes began as authorities tried to dismantle the camp in kiev central my done square for many the scenes evoked a sense of deja vu this is what happened in kiev 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 purchases remain. and great crowds that set fire to car tires and their own tenth the clashes resulted in dozens of injuries in a rez at one point kids may fall on my dad activists and self 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 seemed to take a three hundred sixty degree turn the government they have right now is simply replaced the other and they're simply to a point of exit right now we're it seems like nothing much has changed over all plus there's a civil war in east some forces from the might don 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. food producers on both sides of the atlantic have wanted to russia's ban on the western imports could lose them billions of dollars restrictions were imposed after the u.s. and e.u. along with other nations hit moscow with sanctions over what they say is its influence in the ukraine crisis peter oliver has the details. for those that

sanctions russia's ban on the import of certain food stamps from the us canada australia norway have you said response to the economic sanctions imposed on moscow the ban will block meat fruit vegetables 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 there's someone there know it's going to

affect us all for us it will take two or three months to correct all 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. the national put it 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 their 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 that 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 sanction is we we should be negotiating 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. that's ukraine's planning its own sanctions against a moscow i don't choose to say the parliament is expected to very turn 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 buyers of russian gas in the u.

right now the e.u. gets about a third of its gas are from russia and most of it is delivered by ukraine but cutting that loot off could be harmful for the industry of some european countries takes all of our gear as well as bulgaria which was entirely powered by russia many others rely on its guess as a main source as well now of course the scheme could be replaced by the south stream pipeline project bypassing ukraine its construction is being handed lawmakers but some other nations say they ready to push through construction political risk analyst eric rosa says the situation could force the west to rethink its involvement in ukraine well this would be excellent news because that huge to stop playing games with the situation to get seriously involved to broker peace deals you got to realize that the region would hold up maybe forty eight hours without the west show here freedom elections and if they push it to

a crisis will that by. each people its true ukraine. money is coming your way shortly including the palestinian humanitarian catastrophe in gaza. the stories we cover here. back story straight ahead one sector there's a reason they don't want to. go crazy. now let's break the set. when the european union promised to net ukraine become part of it it clearly contributed to the exacerbation of tensions within ukraine ukraine no longer become part of the european union float telltales ukraine absolutely doesn't have the economic level to become part of the e.u.

or been. thank you for staying with us according to recent reports palestinian negotiators have accepted and egyptian proposal for a new seventy two hour ceasefire in gaza that's after this week witness a new wave of violence the size reverted to force previous trolls to prolong the ceasefire brought little result palestinian civilians again bearing the brunt.

of. the he was the it was the i. one i did i leave again let me know. a month long conflict that has claimed more than ninety one thousand nine hundred lives has left gaza in ruins and the return of hostilities brings the region even closer to a humanitarian crisis tens of thousands of homes were destroyed or damaged by israeli strikes university 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 but more than a million a civilian say there's no fresh drink of water we talk to medics without borders advisor michel back from the al schieffer hospital she says the israeli strikes

achieve only one thing the death of civilians you know gaza is a very small area it's seven kilometers large on thirty kilometers high so it's one point seven million people living in this very small area and still even in this area we are we are shelled every night eighty percent are civilians more than three hundred of the best are children shut you can. has been shelled and i just passed through the emergency room and again children women elderly. experience. the atrocities in gaza spot massive protests across the globe and on saturday turns of thousands of people united in a worldwide day of rage against the israeli offensive in new york several hundred to march to the hate you we hate which as you protest the killing palestinians in the gaza blockade rally in german capital for more than

a thousand to waving palestinian flags and chanting antiwar slogans one of the largest protests take place in my sales in france where i asked if he condemned president alone for his support of israel's actions and more than twenty thousand people gathered in london slamming the government for sponsoring israel and accusing the b.b.c. of bias and i'm afraid coverage destruction of gaza also brought many dissenting voices from within the israeli army policy here talk to some of them you know that 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 the best way it is one such form israeli soldier she calls herself an anti occupation activist and was one of fifty percent of troops to sign an open letter to the washington post refusing received talk on their show. 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 of spending. or a. different system and there is no top of the. pool. of the four of them verbal river possibility prove 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 him 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 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 is 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. a passenger plane has crashed immediately after takeoff at an airport in they run in capital to run the craft was carrying up to forty eight people reports say thirty nine of them were killed it came down in

a residential area five kilometers from the runway injuring several people on the ground early reports are just the crash may have been caused by an engine problem including this accident and there has been at least seventeen fatal crashes involving iranian planes since two thousand sanctions imposed on the country prohibited from buying new a cross or spare parts hindering the maintenance of fleet average an expert at crissy aids the thing so was the sanctions have undermined the safety of iran's passenger jets were talking about an aging fleet of aircraft and we're also talking about the fact that. lines within parts of the world no longer being store they. needed to maintain those. craft fully. primarily because of the truncheons of the being imposed so the fleet getting old the bits for the aircraft in short supply or non-existent already being

bought on the black market for which there is no. safety guarantee. there's an issue with. the safety of flight. the u.s. military carried out three air strikes on radical islamists in iraq who are seeking to expand their zone of influence in the country f. eighteen fighters and drones targeted at salary and military convoys belonging to the islamic state terror group the jihadists have seized or oil rich territories in the north west of iraq proclaiming an islamic caliphate there and are now advancing on kurdish controlled regions during the advance religions have surrendered some four million people from their religious minority it will fighting in trying to feed to turkey but are trapped by the extremists and are facing execution unless

they convert to islam hundreds have already been killed in the kurdish minority was among the reasons president obama gave authorities strikes while promising u.s. involvement will be strictly limited but journalist john wild things are the jihad as were given more than a leg up by the us. we have a situation where the west is opposing isis rebels in northern iraq and right we saw but has been tacitly or implicitly supporting them in syria in the region right now is not between sunni and shia it's not between rich woman on this one is between sectarian and nonsectarian so the rule must be. secure in forces to bolster nonsectarian forces so they have to also look at the relationship with the saudi arabian. gulf states who are for mentoring and funding this chaos in the region and have been for quite a number of years now. a foreign submarine thought to be american was chased

away from russia's shores this week apparently the navy spotted the vessel in the northern barents sea and sent a strike group to intercept a man kozyrev has 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 the nuclear powered virginia class submarine is capable of launching twelve tomahawk missiles among other armaments after about half an hour of radio contact them 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 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 colleagues made sure the violation of the country's borders was firmly made public knowledge remark koester of r.t. moscow. a serious escalation in a long term conflict in a disputed region brought the out of many and as a vision presidents to the negotiating table since the end of july up to thirty soldiers from both sides have been killed in violence in the south caucasus and the region of the go to make her a buck is an ethnically out of maybe an enclave in azerbaijan at the beginning of the ninety's the region wanted independence which led to a war between the nations the consequent some thirty thousand lives before finishing the ending in one thousand nine hundred four when the ceasefire was

introduced independence of the region still wasn't recognized since then have been ongoing yet occasional shooting incidents the recent escalation is a model of the war a so the leaders of both countries met to negotiate in the russian city of. freddie may have heard it was also there and he said the conflicting sides have shown the will to end violence clinton also says that russia will work to keep the peace between the two nations are faces to say something important. after the break is back to iraq as we take a closer look at america's use of drones in the country.

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 look good by condemning the moral failings of previous presidents liberals and democrats love to hate bush so this could be subs kind of pandering or trying to look good by comparison headlines like obama condemns torture sound nice and drown out the fact that he sure approves of shelling civilians in eastern ukraine if obama really does feel that the post nine eleven torture was

a shameful part of american history that as the leader of the executive branch of the nation he could do a lot to punish those who did the torture then and prevent it from happening again in the future but if i do obama this is all just a bunch of sweet talk but that's just my opinion. the slippery slope doesn't only concern the use made of these machines. technological evolutions give these weapons more and more sophisticated capabilities.