and there's a reason they don't want you to know. now let's break the set. in this edition of the weekly 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 ban responding to. 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. our u.s. jets complete four runs of her strikes against us in iraq amid accusations that washington is fighting the same group of its army in syria.

from the world you're watching the weekly r.t. international of the top stories from the past seven days and right up to the minute of elements as well no need to welcome our top story kiev is army has surrounded the city of. nearby donetsk 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 separate significant damage from constant bombardment local residents describe the horrors of the deadly attacks. but blunders if you insist you won't be a bad life. i

first said only that the photo work of roads really should have. given the book. i you know it was a national. poll. government activists in dinette say they're ready for a ceasefire with kiev forces in order to prevent further civilian deaths just about every nearby hood in the city has been bombarded on the rafah electricity shortages not long ago donetsk was a completely different place let's look at some facts about the country's fifth largest city desk how the population of almost one million people informs forbes named the best place for business in ukraine last year it's been one of the

nation's key economic hub some of the center of its mining industry and a couple of years ago dinette coasted through twenty twelve football championship matches today driving around the nets kodaly did things like this you are watching a missile hit the highway with the driver who filmed it extremely lucky to escape on the harm and many others have fled be in battle city and ended up in russia really for national met some of those refugees of 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 bill over the mark well below average of muslims many of them national. news mogahed got more look at this don't you don't usually many of the cars here have a sign saying they've got children on board a war doesn't discriminate between age or gender. it's a. two to three. but he was a little bit oh sure this will get us closer to his nose the way that little little girl can push the point 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 the monster but also man but i still not want to wash your shirt abortion so i'm a bit from matter what it really could be too but i was floored skeptical but i started. the course or the doctor says he's planning

to go back to your store the more you do on. your thoughts enjoy your rights for abortion the no rights group over for. most women are you and your cookie here to use if you can't be ethical. he invites me to scene 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 use those to design. before i know. i didn't have to be a regular dorm farkle. to get up the. pressure this could be cheap this camp is designed for a thousand people but there are at least twice as much. every afternoon officials managed to send up to three hundred refugees from eastern ukraine to different

parts of russia but every evening even more around these people have managed to escape. with their fight for a peaceful loan is just the. need notion from russian ukrainian told. the un say seven hundred thirty thousand refugees have fled to russia from eastern ukraine since the beginning of the your moscow also offered aid for those displaced inside ukraine but washington sees there's no need for the 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 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 kids deserve to be safe. because on 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 be very happy to be here we've been given new clothes and managed to rest and we're very grateful for that. which when 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 in the book. the soldiers were housed in a special almost half of them have since returned home he 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 and for other needs but ukraine struggling to provide the cash the soldiers are now running out of food a charity website has been set up to help them out while ukrainian troops are being paid far from a good wage as well and now its citizens are being forced to pay a military tax for. the events that are happening in ukraine now can be traced back to protests on here of independence square which led to a government who in the winter and the iconic landmark saw 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 yana called which but many of those who are still camped i believe the revolution is not finished they

are on 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 sort of fire a member of police officers were injured when they clashed with the demonstrators here. to tell he came in to help this month of the ten count he was an activist on the same independent square just months earlier some say that people are still out in my town because they haven't seen the changes that 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 where 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. rushes by western imports could cause food producers billions of dollars come to response to the e.u. the u.s. and some other nations imposing sanctions on moscow following what they say is russia's influence in the ukrainian crisis peter all over does this sums. it for those that back sanctions russia's ban on the imports of certain food stamps from the u.s. canada australia the way you see it responds to the economic sanctions imposed almost sco 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 other will to other nations sanctions recently what's striking is that when the sanctions were ramped up against iran there was very little arrow 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 is said to bear the brunt of the import ban e.u. leaders that backed sanctions against russia look likely to face farmers in exports 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 the

industries 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 between 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 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 this game of tit for tat thing or we sanctions we we should be negotiating on 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 bush market peter all other party. ukraine is considering its own sanctions against russia and choose the of the parliament is expected to vote on measures by the prime minister which could include stopping the transit of energy supplies to europe well let's take a look at what that could mean for buyers of russian gas in the news right now the bloc gets about a third of its gas from russia with most of delivered via ukraine cutting the route off could be harmful for the industry of some european countries take slovakia or bulgaria for example 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 sidestream a pipeline project bypassing ukraine altogether but its construction is being hindered by e.u. lawmakers but some southern nations say be are ready to push through construction dynamic albums executive director at the wrong paul institute believes that the consequences of a gas blockade will be drastic for ukraine and the. really what ukraine is is doing is committing economic suicide in the us itself demanding that the e.u. apply its own sanctions is demanding that the europeans commit economic suicide 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 well i find it ironic that the most the color codes of nations and i'm thinking particularly of poland and its foreign minister radek sikorski he's the one who is taking the most pleasure in sticking it to russia while the average

pole is going to have an awfully bitter winter this year thanks to use of course key as you know poland i think it's around ninety percent of its gas it's energy from russia so they will be cut off the baltic states 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. still to come this hour a small passenger plane crashes in the reading capital thirty nine out of the forty eight people on board are reported to have been killed as the aircraft came down right after takeoff. special forces loyal to iraq's prime minister have been deployed in the center of baghdad the troops and shia militias are said to be controlling all main roads in the city blocking entrances to that as well guards at the presidential palace has been put on high alert after nuri al maliki gave

a tough speech accusing the president of violating the constitution as he feels to support maliki's third term but as prime minister on sunday a constitutional deadline to nominate a new prime minister expired meanwhile the u.n. the u.s. repeated their calls for baghdad to come up with an all inclusive government in washington as not a page full support to the president journalist and author laurie everest thinks the u.s. would like to see the embattled prime minister removed. molecule regime has put in power by the united states is a product of the two thousand three invasion of coral imperialist very reactionary very repressive regime it is fueled sectarian tensions carried out if she describes the sunni population and the us as a gun bombing iraq war and so i would not doubt the united states is

maneuvering behind the scenes to put in power every it is more comfortable with it it is now tomorrow all of this in the name of humanitarianism and the unity in iraq. the deepening political crisis comes just as washington authorized the new military operation in iraq this week u.s. jets carried out four runs of strikes on jihad its militants sweeping iraq's north and approaching the capital of the semi autonomous kurdish region f. eighteen fighters and drones targeted militants artillery positions and vehicles aiding the kurdish military in their attempts push the islamic state group by as a result of a summer offensive the java sub seized oil rich territories in the north west of iraq plain on this lama caliphate there. hundreds of thousands of people from the religious minority hunt to lead the militants who are threatening to kill them

unless they convert to islam seeking to escape to turkey refugees ended up surrounded by jihadists in a montanus region how does have killed five hundred use it while scores more reportedly died stranded on the mountain the us president to name protecting minority groups as one of the main goals of the country's military involvement but some of our guests suggest they fancy of was inadvertently aided by washington in the first place we really have to look at the real. western foreign policy in the middle east that has to take place because right now we have a situation where 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 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 weapons transfers into the middle east from the united states you're going to have u.s. weapons all that on all sides which is just fine for absolutely our weapons makers looking for a profit but each fuels just struction. islamists reportedly top should another city in the north of iraq earlier a suicide blast killed ten kurdish fighters there the so-called peshmerga forces where they feed it after days of fierce clashes with militants according to reports kurdish fighters earlier regain control over two of their tons in the north. now a new seventy two hour ceasefire 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 of the sides had restarted hostilities after previous talks to prolong a cease fire little result.

i. was. a month long conflict i was thinking more than one thousand eight hundred lines left in ruins and the return of hostilities brings the region ever closer to humanitarian disaster tens of thousands of homes were destroyed or damaged by israeli strikes universities and dozens of schools and mosques were rendered into global reports say half a million people were displaced that is almost a third of the population also 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 brown the israeli 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 death singles a spark must have protests across the globe over the weekend tens of thousands of people united in the 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 un headquarters to protest the killing of palestinians on the gal's a blockade the german capital saw more than

a thousand people waving palestinian flags and chanting slogans one of the largest protests took place and more say in france where crowds condemn president all around 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 course biased and unfair coverage the destruction of gas all support many dissenting voices from within the israeli armed forces polis leader spoke 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 why are we using so much force why are we treating the best way is one such form israeli soldier she calls herself an anti occupation activist and was one of fifty percent of troops to sign an open letter to the washington post but fusing was sort of juicy talk on their show about the 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 billions. and there is no top of the. we are not prepared for a verbal river 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 him us two thousand and six eight twelve and fourteen thousand killed international outrage and in the end israel faced a unity government between former rivals hamas and fatah foreign policy was. we had four years in which we lost the middle east. we lost.

we in a way lost egypt. 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 or 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 at an all time high policy r.t. tel aviv. a passenger plane crash has reportedly killed thirty nine people in the arena to run the aircraft came down right after takeoff aviation 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 there's been at least seventeen fatal crashes involving rhenium planes since the year two thousand with the country prevented from buying new york craft the aviation expert chris yates thinks western sanctions have undermined this safety of iran's passenger jet. but talking about an aging fleet of aircraft and we're also talking about the fact that. lines within 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 already being also on the black market for which there is no.

safety guarantee. the u.k. government's plan of space exploration requires building extra launching sites the attention is being drawn mainly to the northern areas but at the forthcoming referendum in scotland impede the idea well arty's polyploid go along to investigate. the scottish are being promised all sorts to stay in the u.k. but now they're being sold on trips to the stars. that's because the british government wants to reach the final frontier or rather build a space port for commercial space travel by twenty eighteen and scotland has a shot at housing the launch pad the u.k. space industry is growing at an astronomical pace it already contributes over the eleven billion pounds to the u.k. economy every year it employs a with thirty thousand people but as the focus of one british satellite building

company puts it you face space bombs are always piggybacking on someone else's rocket so ministers say that this is an industry that needs more room to grow and that means having a place in britain to launch these from the government's come up with eight possible remote seaside locations for the potential space space six of them are in scotland where there's an independence referendum in just six weeks some social media responses accuse westminster of dangling a scottish spaceport and the potential local jobs and economic growth it would create as a carrot for scots to stay in the union and if you listen to the gas company they will see that they want to work very closely with the rest if you listen to the press because our side nor this is a complete. countries and that really they are good working towards the say are

they going to or perhaps he will be scottish national party leader alex salmond says that whatever the outcome of the referendum scotland would still be the best location for a new face but the rumble is that scotland won't want to gift an independent scotland a spaceport that would create jobs that could be kept south of the border wretched bronson's virgin galactic. is already advertising space tourism in the window display of its london headquarters has from the end of this year anyone willing to stump up one hundred and twenty thousand pounds can take a trip into space from a spaceport in new mexico these are just the sorts of ventures that ministers here hope they can attract with their very own launch site the transport department told r.t. that its consultation would focus on the suitability of all eight locations and questions about potential scottish independence were premature either way the shortlist is

expected to be unveiled at the end of the year off to the results of the scottish referendum to come to. london. that's all the news for all but coming up after the break it's cross talk with host bureau bell and guests here on our two international stay with us. when the you have been union promise tonight.