goals that make money based decisions are much more common than they would ever admit publicly. and 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 ease sanctions while ukraine considers halting russia's energy transit to europe. israel and the palestinians agree to another seventy two hour cease fire after talks in egypt that follows a week of violence that has continued to take the lives of. u.s. jets complete four runs of first strikes against us in iraq amid accusations that washington is fighting the same group that's arming in syria.

you're watching the weekly here in our to international wrap up of the top stories from the past seven days and right up to the minute developments as well i mean i know neal welcome our top story kiev's army has surrounded the city of. nearby and that's the regional capital which was shelled all day on 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 these deadly attacks. but wonders if you and says you i did not ride.

i think you're going to the folk over the road desertion have. given up looking. for you know you will not. hold. government activists in the nats say they're ready for a ceasefire with kiev forces in order to prevent further civilian deaths just about every neighborhood in the city has been bombarded on the rafah electricity shortages. not so long ago dinette school is a completely different place let's look at some facts about the country's fifth largest city population of nearly one million people in forms need but the best place for business in ukraine last year three one of the nation's key economic hub

the center of its mining industry as well and a couple of years ago donetsk hosted euro twenty twelve football championship matches today driving around internet 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 hard and many others have fled the embattled city and ended up in russia refinished i 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 overclock. well below average of muslims made up of them nationalists you. can even use no car got more snow with this but i knew the intrusion 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 safe to be in two to three. but you know it will put a little sheepish will get us closer to his nose that what little it'll. cost to put you know much of your way to the planet this is where many refugees will end up when they make it across the border to russia and people here are angry. that saddam also but also my but i still not all feel worse you should have brought him so i'm a bit from afterward it really could be so but i'll start here scopes over all started. the quarter the doctor says his family has to

go back to ruin your story the more you draw. your thoughts enjoy your rights for abortion the no rights group over for. most of what are you when you get here thirty years if you can't be ethical. 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 use those to design. before i know. it didn't have to be a regular dorm so far can. 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. the un says seven hundred thirty thousand refugees have fled to russia from eastern ukraine since the beginning of the year moscow also offered aid for those displaced inside ukraine but washington say 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 they 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 to them about which we were encircled that we had no way out so to keep the manpower say our commanders decided to escape to russia i think for no clear reason the ukrainian population is destroying us because on both sides we and they are the same people are not in the book as you could see there are the soldiers rejoice in a special company nearly half of them have now returned home care is having a hard time creating 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 date its weapons for other needs but ukraine struggling to revive the cash on the soldiers and are running out of food there's a charity website up to help them out and ukrainian troops are being paid far from good wages as well citizens are being forced to fund a military tax. the events that are happening in ukraine now it can be traced back to protests and kiev's independence square which led to a government coup in the winter and 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 set up on the square back then the violent clashes led to the overthrow of president calico but many of those who are still camped out believe the revolution isn't finished and they are unhappy

with some of the people who came to power in ukraine. it's easy to miss it. some in the crowd burned car tires and others even set their own tent song fire a number of police officers were injured when they clashed with the demonstrators kiev's mera for telling klitschko came in to help this model the tend to camp he was an activist on the same independence square just months earlier some say that people are still out on my down because they haven't seen the changes that they hoped for on the expected. 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 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 own western imports could cost food producers billions of dollars that 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 in the ukrainian crisis people all over us the details no bulk of it but those that sanctions russia's ban on the imports of certain food stamps from the u.s. canada australia go away have you received response to the economic sanctions imposed all must go the bun will block meat fruit vegetables some dairy and fish imports for one year those watching international trade say this shows that russia is they

differ. and 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 cultures set to bear the brunt of the import ban e.u. leaders that backed sanctions against russia look likely to face farmers in 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 from 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 last year if you win year and then land with the first to contact brussels about compensation some estimates suggest the ban could cost the finnish economy four hundred million euro mostly from dairy exports elsewhere the german trade union that deals with wholesale foreign trade said the ban posed a risk to the economy in his country in greece the opposition party says 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 we trade is a key for peace we shouldn't. these game of tit for tat thing we sanctions we we should be negotiating on the same table but as it stands russian consumers are going to have to go without certain imports and western exports is going to be knocked out the market peter all of a multi now ukraine is considering its own sanctions against russia and choose their the parliament is expected to vote on measures are lined by the prime minister which could include stopping the transfer of energy supplies to europe but let's take a look at what that could all mean for buyers of russian gas in the e.u. because right now the bloc gets about a third of its gas from russia with most of the delivered via ukraine cutting the route off could be harmful for the industry of some european countries take slovakia or indeed bull dariya for instance 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 site stream a pipeline project bypassing ukraine right done here on the mop its construction is being hindered by e.u. lawmakers but southern nations say they're ready to push through construction foreign affairs experts in the voice and knowledge police washington is pushing for a gas blockade with little regard for the use well being well it's not question i would want 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 of washington then 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 in the program a small passenger plane crashes in the year really uncomfortable thirty nine out of that forty eight people on board are reports of being killed off the aircraft came down right after takeoff we for all months after the break here in r t international. live. with the economic ups and downs in the final months day but the deal sank night and the rest because i think me taking a little bit of a briefly on please please. the media leave us so we leave that maybe. some of the scenes motion security play your

party there's a goal to wear shoes that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from it's all on politics only on our t.v. . i'm abby martin the stories we cover here are not going on here in iraq it's not our big story the extra headline same time there's a reason they don't want him to. leave now let's break the set. welcome back to the program special forces loyal to iraq's prime minister have been deployed in the center of baghdad according to sources the military is controlling entrances to the city a curfew is expected and guards at the presidential palace have been put on high

alert after nuri al maliki give a tough speech accusing the president of violating the constitution as he failed to support maliki's third term as prime minister on sunday a constitutional deadline for the new prime minister to be named expired meanwhile the u.n. on the u.s. repeated their calls for baghdad to come up with an all inclusive government thoughts as many accuse the current prime minister's mostly shia cabinet of deepening the sectarian divide in the country. they deepening political crisis comes just as washington will authorize the new military operation in iraq it's comes of this week because u.s. jets cari died for runs of strikes on jihadist militants sweeping iraq's north on approaching that couple of the semi autonomous kurdish region f. eighteen fighter drones targeted militants or to the repositions on the hills aiding the kurdish military in their attempts to push the islamic state group back

as a result of a summer offensive that seized oil rich territories in the northwest of iraq proclaimed this law mikala fate there. hundreds of thousands of people from the city religious minority had to flee the militants who are threatening to kill them unless the convert to islam and seeking to escape to turkey refugees ended up surrounded by jihadists in a month in this region jihad a soft kill five hundred is ibiza while scores more reportedly died stranded on the mountain the u.s. president named protecting my. groups as one of the main goals of the country's military involvement but some of our gas suggested that the hottest 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 hostility 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 us weapons us weapons on both 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 are from the united states and you're going to have u.s. weapons halt on all sides which is just fine for absolutely our atlas weapons makers looking for a profit but each fuels destruction. as llamas sovereign portably captured another city in the north of iraq earlier a suicide blast killed ten kurdish fighters there the so-called peshmerga forces were defeated after days of fierce clashes with militants according to reports kurdish fighters you earlier regain control over to other towns in the north. clashes erupted in berlin when a rally against the advance of islamic states was itself attacked by

a group of islamist supporters the violence broke out as iran three hundred people forced their support for kurdish families trumped by radical militants in iraq a similar protest in the hague so a dutch police intervened leaving one officer injured fighting once again triggered by bucking the militants who chanted islam mix that when six people were arrested. 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 bearing the brunt the sides had restarted all still in season after previous talks to prolong a ceasefire brought little result. he was. i was.

you know to be a nice man and. when nobody. was good i don't like. a month long conflict has claimed more than one thousand five hundred lives as left gaza in rooms 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 left in ruins reports say half a million people were displaced not so almost a third of the population and for more than a million civilians there's no fresh drinking water bill vanasse fell from human rights watch told r.t. its furniture brumley its really operation 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 deaths in gaza sparked 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 grounds of blockade the german capital so more than a thousand people waving palestinian flags and chanting slogans one of the largest protests took place in march say in france where crowds condemn president all

around for his support of the israel's actions and more than twenty thousand people gathered in london slamming the government for sponsoring israel i'm accusing the b.b.c. of quote biased and unfair coverage the destruction of gas also brought many dissenting voices from within the israeli armed forces polis spoke to some of. you know that there are a lot of soldiers have come back and say to yourself you know what the hell are we doing here now why are we using so much force why are we treating the best way is one such for me is where the soldier she calls herself an anti occupation activist and was one of fifty views of troops to sign an open later to the washington post but fusing was talk of national know nothing about the deer in the service i didn't talk about this thing in so many years. they're 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 billions and billions . on. the friends system and there is no top of the

firm to move or a group will. we are not prepared for it very well with a possibility from 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 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 wise. we had four years in which we lost the middle east. we lost. we in a way lost egypt. in very eyes 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 to start 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. as always we have plenty more on line few including teach them young children just three years old could be vulnerable to extremism the u.k.'s education secretary says head to r.t. dot com to learn more on london's plans to ensure youngsters are taught british values. plus the brightest moon in twenty years on me and you will proceed to meet your shower means this august the sky is even more spectacular than usual on

our website we've got photos video all the details. of 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 if you say about forty eight people were on board including at least five children it crashed 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 . there been at least seventeen fatal crashes involving remey in plane since two thousand but the country perhaps did from buying new or craft aviation expert christie aides thinks western sanctions have undermined the safety of iran's posture jets but talking about an aging fleet of aircraft and we're also talking about the fact that. lines within parts of the world have long been

starved of the spares needed to maintain those. fleets. primarily because of the sanctions that have been imposed so the fleet getting olds the bits for the. in short supply or non-existent or indeed being bought on the black market for which there is no. safety guarantee. two 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 vote is two rivals were a little known diplomat and a kurdish politician the presidential vote took place just three months after the one's ruling conservative party won local elections. a person believed to be infected with ebola has been hospitalized in romania

a fifty one year old man is showing symptoms all the after returning from nigeria. people have died in west africa from the largest recording i break up the disease so far nigeria in liberia ready to turn a state of emergency as the virus continues to spread. nicaragua has been hit with its worst drought in thirty years with a food shortage expected lack of rain could wipe out the majority of crops of rice corn and peanuts and have a huge impact on the country's culture based economy meanwhile the government is looking at ways to the first of five the nation's economy and reduce the impact of the drop on the population. for a short break here in our to international we take a closer look at america's use of drones in iraq 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 nab 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.