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militants but washington is accused of fighting the same group in a in syria. welcome thanks so much for joining us this hour my name's neil harvey and you're watching international. heavy armor is moving towards done yet because 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 tanked in a week of assaults dozens of people were killed in the centers of two restive regions in east. bludgers if you insist you want to.

live in the book you. are you are you. know will. feel. good amid intensified attacks from the army the self-proclaimed republic says it is ready for a cease fire in order to avert a humanitarian crisis in the area the regional competition on the heart of government resistance in ukraine. but it's also a vital hub for the entire country or elise it used to be if you crane's fifth largest city with a population of almost a million last year forbes named it the most attractive city for doing business in the whole country it's one of the states main economic hubs and the center of the

nation's mining industry and just two years ago drew tens of thousands of football fans from all across europe when it was the host city for the euro twenty twelve football championships but how things have now changed even getting out of the area is highly dangerous and 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 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. that. 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 are ready to wait as they practically have no other choice but bill overclock dumb are well below average of muslims made up of them nationalists you. can even use no god got more snow with 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 go to a city. in time to salute. you for all the temporal shit mitchell that has told you it is knows them a little bit a little too close to place you know each other you eat plenty. 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 was you should have brought him so i'm a beautiful measure worthy because we still got inspired didn't go so far but i

started. her doctor says he's found his new home to go back to new story of the move. your thoughts i'm sure your. 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 because his wife also doctor tells us how she lost her home and is therefore does a before i know. the litany of teaching you do not be a regular dorm farkle. you get a. hiding about the cover for pressure 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 un 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 described as grave bosco's offered aid to the embattled sones but washington said it's not russia's place to do so heated words flew 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 deliver. almost. apparently un philanthropists think children a better. ignores pleas from russian human rights groups to move youngsters to

safety and what does the un think don't kids deserve to be safe. which. this week has also seen unrest in the capital of ukraine since thursday clashes have been flaring in kiev central square as all forty's try to dismantle the camp that for many of the scenes evoked a sense of deja vu you know this is what happened in care of in february when the then of thora he's also tried to remove protesters back then the clashes led to the overthrow of president yannick over it and here now is an image from this week the government has changed the dissatisfied protesters remain dug in. this. enraged crowd set fire to car tires on the road tense clashes resulted in dozens of injuries and arrests and at one point there a former mine down activist himself arrived at the scene to 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 is simply replaced the other and they're simply at a point of exit right now were it seems like nothing much exchange overall 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 of war and russia's ban on 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 to all of the details. no market for those that back sanctions russia's ban on the imports of certain food stamps from the u.s. canada straining the way you see response to it don't make 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 than the two 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 iraq 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 an 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 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 and sent them. so i don't know what we're going to do if this continues. being threatened in our region we have dedicated to good part 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 when you 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 ban posed a risk to the economy and his come. three in greece the opposition party says cuse 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 are warning that sanctions aren't the way to find a solution the 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 with out certain imports western exports is going to be locked out the russian market peter all over r.t. 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 let's take a look at what that could mean for the buyers of russian gas in the e.u. all right now the e.u. gets about a third of its gas from russia with most of that delivered via ukraine cutting the route off could be harmful for the industry of some european countries takes the vacuo bulgaria for example which are almost entirely powered by russia and many others rely on its gas as a main source as well of course the scheme could be replaced by the south stream that's a pipeline project that bypasses ukraine its construction is being hindered by either lawmakers but southern nations say that they're ready to push through construction let's get the opinion on this issue now of daniel mcadams the executive director of the wrong paul institute for peace and prosperity thanks for joining goes first of all here is expected to vote on the same issues on tuesday as we understand do you think they'll go through. well i think given the bellicose

nature of the prime minister yatsenyuk of those foreign the reckless manner in which he's governing i would certainly expect them to really what ukraine is is doing is committing economic suicide in the us it's so demanding that the e.u. apply its own sanctions is demanding that the europeans commit economic suicide so it makes no sense but i suspect it probably will go through in the short term but remember ukraine is spending six million dollars a day on its war against the people in the east of that country this money is is borrowed money the money it expects to make up for not allowing the transmission of gas they're also expecting the i.m.f. i.e. the american taxpayer to pony up i think the going to end up at the hands in the end of the day dunhill who do you think will be the hardest hit by the sanctions well i find it ironic that the most bellicose of nations and i'm thinking

particularly of poland and its foreign minister roddick sikorsky he's the one who is taking the most pleasure in sticking it to russia while the average poll is going to have an awfully bitter winter this year thanks to sikorsky as you know poland i think it's around ninety percent of its gas its energy from russia so they will be cut off the baltic states as you pointed out earlier are also heavily dependent they're also particularly bellicose against russia so in a way they're cutting off their own noses to spite their faces now silvino ukraine has already lost its own supply of russian gas do you think this move to make effectively other european nations suffer as well is that an act of desperation or do you think the catholic planned move. well i think you've seen ukraine escalating the situation continuously from the beginning of this government in kiev and there has been no one to tell them to put the brakes on however you are seeing now and west european media i think the panic is starting to set in when russia first

announced sanctions on the on the food items there was a panic the europeans said well this is this is not fair this is playing politics. just after they had followed the u.s. demand that they apply sanctions but you see the publisher of the of a huge german economic journal handles plot with a very powerful call him out yesterday criticizing the german government and its sanctions you saw today in order to call in the b.b.c. highlighting all of the companies scottish fish explorers irish cheese makers who are going to take an enormous economic hit this tit for tat sanctions energy is no different the only person that will do well ironically is the vice president's son joe biden's son who as you know is on the board of one of the largest ukrainian embassy energy companies who are selling the lie that ukraine can make up for all of this by fracking and other alternative sources which is

a job interview what effect do you think this move will have on the south stream project that's effectively kind of ground to a halt i think is a green vague way to get it going much quicker well one can only wonder what the pressure is on the bulgarian government which as you know is gone back and forth on the one hand it's in its it's in its interest without question to continue with the south stream and to have its as good relations as a candy because as you point out it gets virtually all of the energy from from russia however i can imagine there is enormous pressure from the us one can only imagine the pressure to cancel the south stream project so i think we'll gary is the place to watch now. thanks so much for joining us and giving us your thoughts on us daniel mcadams executive director of the rome paul institute for peace and prosperity think tank ok do stay with us plenty more news on the way i'll be back after this short break.

the stories we cover here we're not going to hear any right other big story the same time there's a reason they don't want you to now you never want to reset. now let's break the set. when the european union promised to make 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. . welcome

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 again bearing the brunt the signs that restarted us that it is after previous talks to prolong the cease fire brought little results. i. mean is it true then and. only did i leave again let me know.

a month long conflict of this claimed more than nineteen hundred lives left gaza in ruins and the return of hostilities 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 and reports say harf a million people were displaced that's almost a third of the population for more than a million civilians there's no fresh drinking water we talked to medics without borders advisor michel back from the isle she for hospital she says these are really strong to achieve only one thing namely the death of civilians you know gaza is a very small area it's seven kilometers. kilometers so it's one point seven million people living in this very small area and still even in this area we are we ourselves every night eighty percent

civilians more than three hundred of them are children schatz a camp has been shelled and i just passed through the emergency room and again children women elderly. civilians. the deaths in gaza spot massive protests across the globe over the weekend tens of thousands of people united in a worldwide day of rage against the israeli offensive with the latest in brussels while in new york several hundred marched to the u.n. headquarters to protest the killing of palestinians and the guns blazin a. kate a rally in the german capital saw more than a thousand waving palestinian flags and chanting antiwar slogans while the largest protest took place in mass a in france where crowds condemned president along for his support of israel's actions are 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 many dissenting voices from

within the israeli armed forces themselves fall asleep talk to some of. 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 reserve duty document showed a lot about you and your in the service i didn't talk about this thing in so many out 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 billion billion a rural or. different through the system and there is no top of the front with the. poor. we are not prepared 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 for devastating wars with hamas 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. we of. the 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 destroy hamas there is 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 quality r.t. tel aviv. passenger plane has crashed immediately after takeoff at an airport in the rainy and capital to around 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 early reports suggest that the crash may have been caused by an engine problem including this accident there have been at least seventeen fatal crashes involving rain and planes since two thousand sanctions imposed on the country prohibited from buying new aircraft or spare parts hindering the maintenance of fleets aviation expert chris yes things that western sanctions of undermine the

safety of iran's passenger jets. we're talking about an aging fleet of aircraft and we're also talking about the fact that. lines within parts of the world has long been starved of the spares needed to maintain those craftily. primarily because of the sanctions that have been imposed so the fleet getting olds the bits for the. in short supply or nonexistent already being bought on the black market for which there is no. safety guarantee. the. u.s. military carried out four rounds of air strikes on radical islamists in iraq who are seeking to expand the zone of influence in the country of eighteen fighters and drones targeted artillery and military convoys belonging to the islamic state

territory of jihadists of seize oil rich territories in the northwest of iraq but claiming an islamic caliphate there and are now advancing on kurdish controlled regions during the band's 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 the facing execution unless they convert is one hundred several ready being killed defending the kurdish minority was among the key reasons president obama gave for authorizing airstrikes or promising u.s. involvement will be strictly limited to some of our guests suggested the jihadists were 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 that 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 implicitly supporting them in syria is madness these are

u.s. weapons u.s. weapons on all sides. 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 are from the united states you're going to have us weapons on all sides which is just fine for absolutely our weapons makers looking for a profit but each fuels just struction. clashes erupted in berlin when a rally against the advance of the islamic state fighters was itself attacked by a group of islam is supporters 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. and as a whistleblower edward snowden was granted

a three year residence permit in russia this week snowden fled to the country more than a year ago of the telling the world about the global surveillance projects maintained by the u.s. and u.k. now he's in hiding with his whereabouts known as he claims there's a threat to his life according to his lawyer will now be allowed to move freely across the country or abroad and could even get russian citizenship after five years. ok the next week the news bulletin will be starting right here in around thirty minutes time to stay with us over the next worlds apart but that's on a boy given what. clean . zero casualties war this is the great fantasy of war mongering politicians. capturing people is this what do you do if they're innocent killing them easy we

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