picture of today's. from rose to. brooklyn. in the weekly here 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 and blazing protest in central kiev. plus sanctions skirmish moscow fights back against the e.u.'s punitive measures with a food import ban or ukraine says it could hold russia's energy transit to europe. israel and the palestinians agree to another seventy two hour cease fire after talks in egypt follows a week of violence that has continued to take lives in gaza. and u.s. fighter jets make a comeback to iraq for three rounds of strikes against you how this militants

washington is accused of fighting the same group it paid in syria. welcome my name is neil harvey and you're watching our international. heavy armor is moving towards done yet the ukrainian army prepares to unleash its forces to take the city it's already been extensively shelled and bombed. one of the latest strikes to apartment blocks in the city center were tagged in a week of assaults dozens of people were killed in the sun to rest the regions in the east. blunders if you insist you are the bad guys.

are worth of road. trip in the book you. are you are you it was a national. school. fees. amid intensified attacks from the army the self-proclaimed republic says it's ready for a cease fire to avert a humanitarian crisis in the area then yes because the regional capital on the heart of antigovernment resistance in ukraine but it's also a vital hub for the entire country or at least it used to be it's ukraine's fifth largest city with a population of almost a million last year forbes named the most attractive city for doing business in the whole country it's one of the states main economic cubs in the center of the

nation's mining industry just two years ago tens of thousands of football fans from all across europe when it was a host city for the euro twenty twelve football championships but how things are changed 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 there had a lucky escape and most of the people trying to get away from the violence of fleeing to russia so maria fanaa went to one of the border crossings. in each of these cars individuals tori's 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 spend 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 or below average of muslims made up of them nationals that. live news mogahed got more snow get this don't you don't usually many of the cars here have a sign saying they've got children on board the war doesn't discriminate between age or gender only your child will i notice it's a. in the two through the. movie. he was off with a little sheepish will get us closer to his nose that what that little bit i'm going to cost to play you know which of you which is and 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 to worship shirt abroad so i'm a bit from other wording. simple but inspired different scopes i go but i started.

with the quarter the doctor says he stands he has to go back to your store the more you do. your thoughts insure your version for abortion rights group over for. most of what are you and your good here to use if you can't be. he invites me to see where they found shelter the rest so many refugees many don't have a proper place to sleep. tutor's wife also doctor tells us how she lost her home and is therefore desirable because of before i go to begin in order to get any of ditching your book may not be a regular dorm farkle. you get up. early and able at the cover of. 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 that their fight for a peaceful life is just beginning. and if nationality from russian ukrainian border. the u.n. says that more than 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 in battle zones but washington said it's not russia's place to do so heated words fluid 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 u.n. philanthropists think children a better. ignores pleas from russian human rights groups to move youngsters to

safety and what is the un think don't kids deserve to be safe. this week more than four hundred ukrainian troops crossed the russian border appealing for sanctuary is the largest number of ukrainian military personnel to lay down arms are known to russia in a single go but it's not for the first time. we have witnessed so many doubts and other terrible things it's not all of us or be reasonably to be here but what we've been given new clothes and managed to rest and we're very grateful for that which about which we were encircled we had no way out so to give the man power say our commanders decided to escape to russia and i think for not clear reason the ukrainian population is destroying itself because on both sides we and they are the same people are not. soldiers were placed in

a special camp more than a third of them have now returned home their commander says he doesn't consider himself a deserted because he acted only to save his men. retaining the manpower necessary for its operation in the east has not proved easy to spot launching three recruitment drive since the start of the crackdown is struggling to fill its ranks . unless say that the army needs more than eleven billion dollars to replace old weapons of machinery but only a little and eight hundred million was allocated to the military from the states reserve fund the soldiers are running out of food and had to rely on handouts and here'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. this week has also seen unrest in the capital of ukraine since thursday clashes have been flaring in kiev's central

square as authorities there trying to dismantle the camp for many of the scenes evoked a sense of deja vu this is what happened in care in february when the their north origins also tried to remove protesters back then the classes led to the overthrow of president than a covert and now here is an image from this week the government has changed the dissatisfied protesters remain do again. and raised the crowd set fire to car tires and their own tent crashes resulted in dozens of injuries and arrests and one point here has merit for my down activist himself arrived at the scene six personally take part in the cleanup commentators believe that people feel deceived by the promises made to the. 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 it's simply replaced the other and they're simply at a point of exit right now it seems like nothing much has changed over all plus there's a civil war in east some forces from the might ban 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. personality fighting and really a power play among different factions. food producers on both sides of the atlantic of war and russia's ban on western imports could lose their billions of dollars restrictions were imposed after the u.s. and the you along with other nations hit moscow with sanctions over what they say is its influence in the ukraine crisis our correspondent peter oliver has the details no market for those that backed sanctions russia's ban on the import of

certain food stamps from the u.s. canada australia norway of the e.u. is in 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 or recently what's striking is that when the sirens. where 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 set to bear the brunt of the import ban e.u. leaders but sanctions against russia look likely to face as an export is demanding compensation for their losses some of them it's going to affect us all for us it

will take two or three months to collect all remaining crops of oranges and we don't know what will happen if no one buys them. 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. i don't know what we're going to do if this continues the industry is being threatened in our region and we have dedicated to good a card of our produce to this market and so this is very dramatic force that european food exports to russia were worth over twelve billion euros last year it's a 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 says accuse the

current government's actions of being detrimental to farming and in ireland the minister for agriculture said there was real worry particularly regarding cheese exports which were valued at four point five million euro in twenty thirteen european analysts 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 on the same table but as it stands russian consumers are going to have to go without certain imports western export is going to be locked out the russian market peter all other party. ukraine is 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 so let's take a look at what that could mean for the buyers of russian gas in the well right now the u. gets about a third of its gas from russia with most of that delivered via ukraine now cutting

the route of could be harmful for the industry of some european countries take the vacuo bulgaria for example which are almost entirely powered by russia and the others rely on its gas as a main source as well of course the scheme could be replaced by south stream a pipeline project that bypasses ukraine its construction is being hindered though by e.u. lawmakers however so the nations say they are ready to push through construction of foreign affairs expert in a bush i believe that washington is pushing for a gas blockade with little regard for the e.u.'s well being well it's not a question of what you have wants which people who are running want because let's face it the government. the question is how much should be controlled from washington not if. if the regime in kiev is entirely under control washington then this is an attempt another attempt to make the sanctions. far

more than the russian sanctions already have. and it's basically the european union is paying the price of washington's attempts to research the cold war to stay with us there were plenty more news on the way after this short break. i'm abby martin the stories we cover here not going here in iraq other big story that it's been like the same time there's a reason they don't want you to know that i am one. 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.

. come back israel and palestinians have agreed to a new seventy two hour ceasefire this week witnessed a new wave of violence with civilians in gaza are again bearing the brunt the side said restarted a still it is up to previous talks to prolong a cease fire brought little result.

i. i. mean i don't yeah. i know. one i did i mean you. know. a month long conflicts this kind of the nineteen hundred lives that god ruins on the return of us that is brings the region even closer to 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 hall for a million people were displaced that's almost a third of the population for more than a million civilians there is no fresh drinkable water bill done as felled from human rights watch told off it's fair to brown the israeli operation in gaza a war crime gaza's infrastructure is on the brink of collapse 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 criminal accountability for war crimes. and the deaths in gaza sparked massive protests across the globe over the weekend tens of thousands of people united in a world wide day of rage against the israeli offensive with the latest in brussels . in new york several hundred people marched to the u.n. headquarters to protest the killing of palestinians and the guards a blockade rally in the german capital for more than thousand waving palestinian

flags and chanting antiwar slogans while the largest protests though took place in mass a france where crowds condemned president alone for his support of israel's actions more than twenty thousand people gathered in london slamming the government for sponsoring israel and accusing the b.b.c. of biased and unfair coverage destruction of gaza also brought many dissenting voices from within the israeli armed forces or slayer 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 them as a way hanna 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 but fusing was served judy bachrach there so long about a year in the service i didn't talk about this thing instead 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 billion billion a rural or. different through the system and there is no top of the. pool. for. the possibility 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 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 for years in a way church we lost the middle east. we lost. we in a way lost egypt. in. the 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 her last visit and there's nothing that indicates that it will work this time or indeed the next time and that's taking its toll on the reputation of what was once considered one of the world's most efficient fighting forces the hope is that the coming days will see a permanent cease fire in place but bottom line gaza is in tatters mistrust between israelis and palestinians is add an all time high policy r.t. tel aviv. and other news 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 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 and early reports suggest that the crash may have been caused by the engine problem including this accident there have been at least seventeen fatal crashes involving iranian planes since the year two thousand sanctions imposed on the country prohibit it from buying new aircraft or spare parts hindering the maintenance of fleets aviation expert thinks that western sanctions have undermined the safety of iran's passenger jets talking about an aging fleet of aircraft and we're also talking about. the fact that. lines within parts of the world no longer in store although the spurs needed to maintain those. fully. primarily because of the sanctions are to be imposed so the fleet getting old the bits for the. in short supply or nonexistent or indeed being bought on the black market for which there is no.

guarantee. the u.s. military is carried out four rounds of airstrikes on brown tical islamist in iraq who are seeking to expand their zone of influence in the country. fighters and drones targeted artillery and military convoys belonging to the islamic state terror group jihadists to seize all rich territories in the north west of iraq but claiming an islamic caliphate there and are now advancing on kurdish controlled regions during their advance militants have surrounded some half a million people from the religious minority they were trying to flee to turkey but were trapped by the extremists and are facing execution a less they convert to islam hundreds of already being killed defending the kurdish minority was among the key reasons president obama gave for authorizing at strikes more promising u.s. involvement will be strictly limited some of our guests suggested the jihadists

were given more than a leg up by the u.s. . we really have to reorientation of western foreign policy in the middle east or the place because right now we have a situation where the west is opposing isis rebels in northern iraq and right we saw but has been tacitly ordered personally supporting them in syria is madness these are us weapons us weapons on all sides in this combat just stares three years ago in libya and in so many wars when you are the top supplier of weapons to the world seventy nine percent of weapons transfers into the middle east or from the united states you're going to have u.s. weapons on all sides which is just fine for absolutely our weapons makers looking for a profit but it's just struction. and clashes erupted in berlin when a rally against the. vance of the state fighters was itself attacked by a group of these the missile porters and the violence broke out as around three

hundred people voiced their support for kurdish families trapped by radical militants in iraq and a similar protest in the hague saw dutch police intervene fighting was again triggered by a gang backing the militants who chanted islamic slogans. that surround us and other headlines from around the world now starting in turkey where the current prime minister recep tayyip air though on has won the first direct presidential election with fifty two point three percent of the vote is two rivals were a little known diplomat and a kurdish politician the presidential vote took place just three months after add ons ruling conservative party local elections. elsewhere typhoon how longer slammed into western japan leaving one person dead and dozens more injured more than a million at risk residents were told to evacuate their homes extreme weather conditions of also affected travel leading to more than two hundred flights being

canceled the storm is expected to weaken before bringing heavy rains to tokyo. a foreign submarine thought to be american was chased away from russia's sure's this week apparently the navy spotted the vessel in the northern barents sea and said to strike group to intercept picks up the story. the american submarine was detected near russia's northern border in the bering sea and was shadowed by a navy strikeforce 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 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 long with their foreign called leagues made sure the violation of the country's borders was firmly made public knowledge ramon calls her of r.t. moscow. next if you think the fish that you are eating is healthy with you might want to think again what shall report after the break. 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 spec 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 to hate bush so this could be some kind of pandering or trying to look good by comparison headlines like obama condemns torture sounds 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 then 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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