in this edition of the weekly we look at key events across ukraine including the conflict in the east and more protests in the capital central square. also moscow imposes a food import responding to the new sanctions while ukraine considers halting russia's energy transit to europe. israel and the palestinians agree to another seventy two hour ceasefire after talks in egypt it follows a week of violence that has continued to take lives. on u.s. jets complete four rounds of first strikes against you have a sin a rocket amid accusations that washington is fighting the same group it's armed in

syria. you're tuned in to the weekly on r.t. international iraq bump of the top stories from the past seven days and right up to the minute developments as well i mean only welcome our top story kiev's army house surrounded the city of a nearby internet shelled the regional capital all day and sunday. there were similar scenes earlier in the week two apartment blocks in the city center suffered significant damage from constant bombardments local residents describe the horrors of those deadly attacks if you put blinders if you insist you might be a bad guy. i

think you're going to the folks at overthrow desertion have. given up looking. for you it was a national. poll. government activists in the net say they're ready for a ceasefire with care forces in order to prevent further civilian deaths just about every neighborhood in the city has been bombarded and there are food and electricity shortages not so long ago dinette schools a completely different place let's look at some facts about the country's fifth largest city the nets cut a population of almost one million people and forbes named it the best place for business in ukraine last year it's been one of the nation's key economic cubs' on

the center of its mining industry as well on a couple of years ago don't ask of course as you may remember hosted euro twenty twelve football championship matches today driving the next could lead to things like this you're watching a missile hit a highway with the driver who filmed it extremely lucky to escape on the hard and many others have fled the embattled city and ended up in russia for national met some of those refugees up the border. 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 deal of a cruel. would be illusion inch of muslims made up of them national. guard got more snow with this don't you don't usually many of the cars here have a sign saying they've got children on board the war doesn't discriminate between age or gender. it's a. game to. just to get. us off with a little sheepish will get us closer to his nose the way that little request took place 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 or so but also my but i still not all feel worse it should have brought so i'm a bit from her word it really could be simple but i'll start here skeptical but i started. with the quarter the doctor says he spanky has

to go back to ruin your story the more you draw. your thoughts enjoy your version of quarter board here the no rights group over for. most of what are you in your group here to use if you can't be ethical. he invites me to seeing where they found shelter to 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 you served as a board of the flight now. and then you have to be a regular dom before. you get up the. 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 erratic these people have managed to escape. but their fight for a peaceful loan is just beginning. to meet notion from russian ukrainian paulton. now the u.n. say seven hundred thirty thousand refugees have fled to russia from eastern ukraine since the beginning of the year moscow also offered aid for those this placed inside ukraine but washington says there's no need for that type of help 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 does the un think kids deserve to be safe. because

this week more than four hundred ukrainian troops crossed into russia because they didn't want to fight for the kiev government anymore it's happened before but there were never so many soldiers laying down their arms at the same time. well we have all witnessed so many deaths 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 itself because on both sides we and they are the same people are not. the soldiers where is an especial company almost half of them have since returned home care is having a hard time recruiting new soldiers and those already fighting have been

complaining of terrible conditions faulty equipment and incompetent commanders. the army says it needs eleven billion dollars to update its weapons for other needs but ukraine struggling to provide the cash on the soldiers and i running out of food there's a charity web site set up to help them out and ukraine troops aren't exactly getting good wages either and us citizens are being forced to pay a military tax. the events that are happening in ukraine now can be traced back to last year's protests in kiev's independence square the iconic landmark has seen a new wave of violent clashes and demonstrations this week just like back in february people are refusing to leave the camps that they've set up on the square back then the violent clashes led to the overthrow of president. but many of those who are still come to believe the revolution is not finished they are all happy

with some of the people who came to power in ukraine. some in the crowd burned car tires and others even set their own tents on fire a few police officers were injured when they clashed with the demonstrators. call came in to help the mobs hold the tent camp he was enough to visit on the same independence square just months earlier some say the people are still out on my town because they haven't seen the changes to be expected. situations quite ironic to say the least since the revolution seemed to take in 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. russia's ria novosti news agency has launched a support campaign for its photo reporter who is missing in eastern ukraine the agency set up a stand with the photographs he previously worked in syria ghassan egypt among other places c.n.n. was last heard from on choose the russian officials have suggested he may be held by ukrainian security officers and people have been drawing attention to stand in his disappearance on twitter as well many are calling for him to be released others suggest kidnapping reporters will not prevent the truth from being told. by russia's ban on western imports could cost food producers billions of dollars it

comes in response to the e.u. the u.s. and some other nations imposing sanctions on moscow following what they say is the influence its influence excuse me in the ukrainian crisis peter all of our takes up the story. no market for those that backed 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 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 culture set to bear the brunt of the import by an e.u. leaders that backed sanctions against russia look likely to face those 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. 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. european food exports to russia worth over twelve billion euros law. it's winnie 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 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 a warning that sanctions aren't the way to find a solution free trade is a key for peace we shouldn't be in these game of tit for tat thing or we sanction is weak 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 down to the bush market peter all other party. ukraine is

considering its own sanctions against russia on choose they the parliament is expected to vote on measures are lined by the prime minister which could include stopping the transit of energy supplies to europe let's go take a look at what could mean for buyers of russian gas in the e.u. right now the bloc gets about a third of its gas from russia with most of the delivered via ukraine cutting the roots off could be harmful for the industry of some european countries take slovakia or both garia for instance seen here which are almost entirely powered by russia many others rely on its gas as a main source as well of course the scheme could be replaced by a side stream a pipeline project bypassing ukraine its construction is being hindered by e.u. lawmakers but southern nations say they're ready to push through construction foreign affairs expert in a voice which believes 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 what people who are running want because let's face it the government is the question is how much is being controlled from washington not if if the regime in kiev is entirely under control washington this is an attempt another attempt to make the sanctions. the e.u. far more than the russian sanctions already have. and it's basically the european union is paying the price of washington's attempts to restart the cold war. still to come on the program a small passenger plane crashes in the arabian capital thirty nine hundred forty eight people on board a reporters have been killed us the aircraft came down right after takeoff suffered a break here on r t international.

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have the economic level to become part of the e.u. and. seventeen minutes into the program welcome back a new seventy two hour cease fire between israel and the palestinians came into effect at nine pm g.m.t. on sunday this week witnessed a fresh wave of violence with civilians in gaza again burning that brought the sides had restarted hostilities after previous talks to prolong a ceasefire the result. he was. i.

was only. a month long conflict that is claimed more than one thousand nine hundred lives has left in ruins on the return of hostilities brings the region even closer to 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 half a million people were displaced not so almost a third of the population for more than a million civilians there's no fresh drinking water bill van s fell from human rights watch told r.t. its first to prime the it's really operation in 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. the death seemed to spark 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 rally taking place in brussels also in new york several hundred people marched to the u.n. headquarters to protest the killing of palestinians on the gas and blockade the. topple so more than a thousand people waving palestinian flags and chanting r.t. your slogans one of the largest protests took place in march say in france where crowds condemn president on 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 quote biased on for coverage the destruction of gas all support many dissenting forces from within me it's really on forces fall asleep or spoke 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 we're treating them as a way hannah is one such form israeli soldier she calls herself an anti occupation activist and was one of fifty deserve troops to sign an open letter to the washington post but fusing reserve duty book on their show called the law only about a year 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 tooth. we are not prepared for. the possibility

overcoming five wars in eight years levanon two thousand and six thirty four days more than eight hundred people killed and in the end israel faced an even stronger hizbollah for devastating wars with them us two thousand and six eight twelve and fourteen thousand killed international outrage and in the end israel faced a unity government between former rivals hamas and fatah foreign policy was. we had four years in the which we lost the middle east. we lost. 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 or to start

a hamas there isn't 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 at an all time high policy r.t. tel aviv. a small passenger plane crash has reportedly killed thirty nine people in the arena and capital of tehran the aircraft came down right after takeoff evasion authorities say about forty eight people were on board including at least five children crushed in a residential area five kilometers from the runway injuring several people on the ground as well an engine problem is believed to have been the cause of the accident now there have been at least seventeen fatal crashes involving a really in plains since two thousand with the country perhaps hid from buying new

our craft aviation expert chris yates thinks western sanctions of undermine the safety of iran's passenger jets. but talking about an aging fleet to back row we're also talking about the fact that. lines within parts of the world have long been starved of the spares needed to maintain those. primarily because of the sanctions to be imposed so the fleet getting old the bits for the crew in short supply all normal existence and already being galt's on the black market for which there is no. safety guarantee. here we've got breaking news here on r t international specif forces loyal to incumbent prime minister nuri al maliki have been deployed in the center of baghdad

valley's after the prime minister gave it tough televised speech saying that see will not drop his third term bay we will of course be getting more details on not as soon as we do we will be giving them to you. this week washington authorizing car died for it runs of strikes and just how this militant sweeping iraq's north and approaching the capital of the semi autonomous kurdish region f. fifteen fighters and drones targeted militants artillery positions on vehicles eating the kurdish military in their attempts to push the islamic state group back as a result of a summer offensive that you have a sub seized oil rich territories in the north west of iraq and performs an islamist caliphate. hundreds of thousands of people from the yazidi religious minority hunt to flee the militants who are threatening to kill them unless the convert to islam seeking to escape to turkey refugees ended up surrounded by

jihadists and the mountainous region to harvest have killed five hundred kids evey's while scores more reportedly died stranded on the mountain the u.s. president named protecting minority groups us one of the main goals of the country's military involvement but some of our guest suggests that jihad is the offensive was inadvertently aided by washington in the first place. we really have to look at the real western foreign policy in the middle east the hostage the place because right now we have a situation where the west is opposing isis rebels in northern iraq and rightly so but has been tacitly ordered personally supporting them in syria is madness these are u.s. weapons or u.s. weapons on all sides in this combat just as three years ago in libya and in so many wars when you are the top supplier of weapons to the world seventy nine percent of of weapons transfers into the middle east or from the united states you're going to

have u.s. weapons all to on all sides which is just fine for absolutely our weapons makers looking for a profit fuels just struction. islamists purportedly just captured another city in the north of iraq earlier a suicide blast killed ten kurdish fighters there the so-called forces were defeated after days of fierce clashes with militants according to reports kurdish fighters earlier regain control over to other towns in the north. and clashes erupted in berlin when a rally against the advance of the islamic state fighters was itself tucked by a group of islamist supporters the violence broke out as around three hundred people voiced their support for kurdish trial by radical militants in iraq on a similar protest in the hague saw a dutch police intervene leaving one officer injured fighting was again triggered by a gang backing the militants who chanted islamics that when six people were arrested

. the other global headlines starting in turkey where current prime minister recep tayyip erdogan has won the first direct presidential elections with over fifty two percent of the vote his two rivals were a little low in diplomat and a kurdish politician the presidential vote took place just three months after our to one's ruling conservative party won local elections. french forces have launched a nurse strike on the northern region of mali where separatists and al-qaeda linked militants have been octave bombs were dropped in the as a county region to the west of the city of timber to the operations started in january twenty third dean when france intervened in the country to neutralize rob and kill islamist groups. person believed to be infected with ebola has been hospitalized in romania a fifty one year old man showing symptoms of the disease after returning from

ninety or nearly a thousand people have died in west africa from the largest recorded i've brick of it so far nigeria and liberia have already declared a state of emergency as the virus continues to spread. coming up after the break it's worlds apart with host ups on a program to stay with us. it was recently revealed that under the guise of an hiv prevention workshop and as tourists you know latin americans were sent to cuba by the u.s. government to overthrow that government yes the u.s. agency for international development organized for these young people to go to cuba to recruit and set up new political activists however the infiltrators were not

very good at their jobs and the cuban authorities were able to now but these well funded travelers in their country this is nowhere near the first time that the u.s. government has tried to meddle in cuba in two thousand and nine usa he tried to set up a twitter like program to organize people in cuba and we can't forget about the ill fated cuban television airplane that was supposed to bombard the island with western media that was totally blocked by the government during the cold war i could see the justification. to dominate cuba if the us didn't have influence in a country that automatically the soviets did but now was just cation why does the us need to infiltrate cuba and by what right cuba doesn't have nukes put it america and they have limited industrial capacity they can't do anything to anyone just leave the poor island alone and let the people there figure out their own future without the us state department's help but that's just my opinion.