it was. it was. fifteen people were killed and over a thousand didn't show does israeli soldiers use live bullets tear gas and drones in clashes with palestinians during the first day of rage on the gaza border. you can see babies that can year old and eleven close to the fans of. russia takes action to expel foreign diplomats in a tit for tat measure is the route over the script all poisoning escalates. in germany also it is our own eyeball to deport sixty five thousand illegal migrants is the asylum seekers don't have valid id papers.

this is r.t. international coming to you live from moscow i'm kate partridge thank you for joining us. fifteen palestinians have been killed in clashes with israeli soldiers on the gaza border during the first day of rage over a thousand others are also said to have been injured in the protest the israeli defense forces use live bullets tear gas and drones. the annual day of rage is a demonstration denouncing the israeli occupation thousands of palestinians have

pitched tents across five locations while i.d.f. soldiers have stationed bore than one hundred smyth has the protest expected to last six weeks local journalist hinde who three has been following the clashes on the gaza border where only one hundred meters away from the front as you see we can see the israeli army sniper is you can see the israeli army soldiers keep said trying to target all of the protesters that are being very close to the front by live i mean a shed rubber bullets and tear gas canisters but they are using that you look up they didn't have a low weapons i you see this is the good guys by joe now by the israeli i mean i think they are using that drive through that your gas canisters on the protesters and this is like the tenth time they're using get fundamental. sense. the beginning of the day today here he is out live and just right now from that young gas

canisters that went throughout all the protester just right now and as you see everyone is trying to take this as you might do that unless you go to the hospital directly. to the west bank city of ramallah is also witnessing a violent standoff with i.d.f. soldiers shooting at palestinians who are throwing stones and president mahmoud abbas has declared saturday and national day of mourning. well earlier the i.d.f. admitted they would respond to what they claim op planned gaza riots they added they fear breaches over israeli sovereignty and damage to the security fence. i i. was one of the dead is a palestinian farmer killed by an israeli tank shell earlier in the day thousands of mourners marched on the streets of gaza as his body was being carried the twenty seven year old was harvesting past me before dawn near the city border when the

shell was fired. from the ocoee. on tuesday ahead of the day of rage i.d.f. soldiers in hebron seized a three year old boy they were filmed clutching the terrifying child as his father attempted to get his son back in the i.d.f. deal with the little boy's actions of provocation as he reportedly tried to throw stones at. us discuss this further we're now joined live by middle east expert daniel sacks thank you very much indeed for joining us well as has been the case it's almost some of the process that you're welcome some of these protests have had faith tell it is the i.d.f. says it opened fire after some protesters had engaged in suspicious behavior near the border fence as well as reports of protesters trying rocks at israeli soldiers but where does the blame lie for the injured and for the deaths right well first of

all it wasn't just rocks it was molotov cocktails and you know when people are running out of packages and weapons and bags you know you don't know exactly what going what's going on and what the threat is but i would say the blame lies begins with their leaders who are cowardly taking advantage of the humanitarian struggle of the palestinians in the gaza strip and using these and civilians from sites these events and escalate tensions with the israeli defense minister when the palestinians to stay away from the border fence i mean given the current tension i mean do you think that was a reasonable request. well years of president show us that it's pretty reasonable to ask that people keep away from the border and keep away from massive vents like these and keep away from places where people are using you know tear gas and all of talk the talk cocktails you know if you want to be safe from a dangerous situation you know the tragedies on both sides can only escalate this and make it worse when in the meantime we have been meeting at the u.n. security council representative says that the talks will focus on avoiding escalation and also investigating what did happen in gaza i mean do you think that

this meeting these talks will have any impact on the situation in gaza well you know it's pretty sad that whenever the u.n. has a meeting on a crisis anywhere whether it's syria or africa or iran or whatever the crisis of the week is you know they never really seem to really bear fruit so i i think maybe people on both sides ought to get a little creative and figure out how to have dialogue you know and bring this to a swift and also as we were hearing earlier i mean the protests in gaza by that are expected to last six weeks until mid may i mean what do you think that they are the chief well you know if they're not careful they might just achieve a war at least or not you know firing rockets from civilian centers to israeli civilian centers but if they did so and do years of quiet and probably not achieve it probably you know and do. you know this was i don't know if you can call it progress we've had but a preferable status quo but again i think i hope that they would achieve

a better route for dialogue and reconciliation and to figure out how we can you know coexist and improve the standard of living for the people in the streets and in trying to achieve those and what do you think the road is of the u.n. and the security council do you think they have a positive role do you think that will have an influence do you think that have a big impact on this. well you know also i will say they're not objective and i don't i'm not so sure that anybody really respects what they're saying so i'm like . you know i don't know if you can cite if you can begin example in history where they actually did accomplish. you know any sort of progress without the two sides actually just coming together that's what you have to have as a basis we're going to go see action and see what happens over the next six weeks is that daniel middle east analyst thank you very much indeed for your thoughts thank you thank you so much. now the russian foreign ministry has been handing out notes of process to diplomats from countries that have expelled their russian counterparts the ministry has also informed these representatives of russia's

reciprocal measures the u.k. germany sweden several eastern european nations and some baltic states have already confirmed their diplomats have been ordered to leave russia and has he left the foreign ministry germany's ambassador to go von frisch stressed the importance of keeping lines of communication open. like i used today's opportunity to outline that it's in german interest to maintain good relations with russia the people in germany and russia understand each other we remain ready and open for dialogue well the magic comes after moscow's announcement on thursday that sixty u.s. diplomats would be expelled and the american consulate in st petersburg closed earlier more than twenty countries had expelled russian diplomats with the most being ordered out of the u.s. artie's what i guess the of reports. promised russia has responded tit for tat for every russian diplomat kicked out from the two dozen or so countries one of

their diplomats will be kicked out of russia almost one of those countries by the way either nato members or hopefuls the united states though may have to charter a jet sixty evidence diplomats have been ordered to leave russia the same number kicked out by washington though when the u.s. consulate in st petersburg is being closed down in response to the closure of russia's consulate in seattle and mirror spawns no more no less and again moscow has called on the united states to stop it is proposed to u.s. authorities inciting in fueling the smear campaign against our country to rethink and curb their reckless actions destroying bilateral relations the sum up russia which denies any role in this poisoning says never before have we witness such mockery of international law it is also convened

a special meeting of the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons would be c.w. has sent technical experts to examine the substance with which the former russian double agent and his daughter were poisoned but their best the geisha will be technical. o.p.c. w. explosive arrived in london to analyze the substance used in the alleged poisoning of surrogate ambulance grupo this will only allow them to distinguish the chemical formula of the substance the o.p.c. w. technical secret syria doesn't have the mandate to verify the u.k.'s allegations by the way the investigation into the case is due to the u.k. and its allies insist that russia was behind this russia then eyes any such thing and. says that this entire affair is politically motivated more tension between russia and britain has been escalating for weeks following the poisoning of double

agents and his daughter a year in the english city of sorcery western countries have been quick to point the finger at moscow despite an ongoing investigation into the case which may take many months britain's foreign secretary boris johnson earlier alleged russia has told many lies about the incident and then they said that the attempted murder again you just reply was revenge for britain's supposed poisoning of ivan the terrible we did it to spoil the world. well in reaction the russian embassy called on the british authorities to stop counting on official versions of the case instead they are to the u.k. to respond to the very serious questions still unanswered and issued twenty seven of them.

all the diplomatic standoff threatens to continue escalating as washington says it may respond further to moscow's moves. we reserve the right for there to any russian retaliation against the united states and we are reading this we are reviewing it and will respond accordingly i want to remind you that there is no justification for the russian response and i'm not trying to understand you you guys threw out sixty of their people we don't see this as a diplomatic tit for tat the american diplomats who are being expelled are not. spies under diplomatic cover i'm saying that they work for the u.s. state department they are our colleagues who have served there with great

distinction but you but you're saying that these that your your action was justified there is wasn't because these people are the equivalent and legs i think we're forgetting what got us to this place essentially you're asking russia to just admit that they did it and and take their punishment might be the adult thing to do they're saying that they didn't you are in fact asking them to you know admit to something that they say that they've done you know what there's nothing wrong with admit it meeting wrongdoing previously said that i've read the russia just doesn't want to have good relations with other countries i mean this is unbelievable in a serious matter led by completely unnecessary they serious matter this did not have to get to this point except that that's what britain and the united states want but this is this is about not going through the process due process to investigate a crime and then wait to see what the results are and then weed out punishment if someone's found guilty there's nothing to do with this this is purely political

obviously a political play by the united states and the u.k. it gets worse and worse and more dangerous and the celera marks by the state department spokesman do not help at all at all in. well the u.s. state department has made serious accusations against russia however to partly had less to say when journalists started asking questions. i'm not going to get into specifics about that i'm not an expert on that that would probably be an intelligence matter but i have not seen the president's comments myself. i can't answer that question you'd have to ask russia why they chose to select st petersburg. act. how much is a lethal dose of nova choke that is a very interesting question i am not an expert. i'm not aware of all the phone calls or the contacts that we have had on this campaign if you will.

i would just refer you back to the government of israel i don't have any information. as you know the main party on the ground there and when you say leave it to other people that's so lisa i can't comment on what the president supposedly said i haven't seen and i have to refer you back to the white house but you're not aware of any poll she did determination. to pull the u.s. out of sight and not know ok so the president is just speaking off the cuff and i don't know i don't know if they were already back in the white house i'm not a i'm not aware do i need to remind you that i work at what is it twenty five. and i don't want you to do you want to see i'm still learning the address. and the u.s. state department is proposing new visa regulations that will require you to reveal online activity we'll have more details on after the break.

if i'm in surgery or terrorist group enjoys foreign sun surely no matter how much mood to be put a show you all know there do will be a new one. to. hibernate. come by time it would be like conquering the. north to take you to just. say i'm a client defamed off her who is writing extensively on environmental issues and social justice issues went to these conferences in puerto rico and her takeaway was that a bunch of rich people all showed up and this is a danger to the local economy and to the local fabric of society so the first thing that strikes me is that lefties like they owe me feel they have a monopoly on good intentions which i'm not sure where that comes from.

welcome back germany is struggling to deport around sixty five thousand failed asylum seekers because they lack valid documentation that it doesn't know to which country could even return many of these people aunties and ceci a small. in the first speech of his new chancellor ship angela merkel couldn't avoid all could be the most controversial me if that's a game for one million migrants into germany. yet she still tries to stick with her we can do this mantra despite its promise that deportations the kind people who have no right to protection will have to leave our country preferably voluntarily but if necessary by state deportations but that si easier said than done as it tends out safe the number of rejected asylum seekers that can be deported has

jumped up by seventy one percent in one year away thousand according to reports by the german interior ministry seen by major chairman publishing house funky media this increases from thirty eight thousand in two thousand and sixteen sixty five thousand in two thousand and seventeen reasons behind it swell a lack of travel documents and the lack of communication between chairman thora ts and countries of origin india processing requests for replacement passports is slow or nonexistent despite frequent visits to the embassy pakistan replacement passport procedures are being processed but there is a lack lebannon replies to requests very rare contact with the embassy is poor. thousands about the constraint even have a country they can be deported to is three thousand eight hundred up because national tea is a marked out unclear in the worst case scenario the failure to deport a rejected asylum seeker can have tragic consequences the man behind the deadly

christmas markets attack and ben in two thousand and sixteen was or check to the silent but he couldn't be deported because he didn't have the documents. we spoke to gets from ng member of parliament from a.f.p. a party which won seats in parliament partly on promises to deal with illegal immigration there are many many plans the new minister or c.e.o. for tries to build up new centers for for speeding up the deportation.

we are we are not sure if this will really solve the problem first of all we have to close and control our borders again and right now i think we have to enforce the pressure to the people who have to leave our country it's really a big problem and i wonder if the new government will make its. well i contacted the german interior ministry for clarification on this issue they didn't respond to the direct providing the information on the voluntary return ease. that the u.s. state department has proposed new visa regulations that will force operations to repeal this social media histories samir khan has the details but well if you're looking to apply for a u.s. visa you might need to clean up your social media posts or risk getting rejected these applicants could be asked to turn over their social media history as part of trump's new extreme betting policies now if it does pass applicants will be forced

to disclose five years of their social media history and then the information will be used to apparently bet and identify them but the state department says this not might not be it they could even expand the list of required disclosures and if you think that's too intrusive the plan also requires e-mails and phone history well the proposal received a mixed reaction online from people saying it's an attack on privacy and others mocked it as of having to have a visa and passport to travel the world is bad enough how they want to be easy don't your social media t.v. well there goes freedom of speech as well as freedom of movement u.s. government we want your social media names in order to get a visa me because freedom of speech is only something the almighty americans get. is only for tourism now the other countries we see for american tourists can't wait to print out every single one of my six thousand seven hundred fifty four tweets

one per page and hand them to immigration. the plan could potentially affect about fourteen point seven million people every year a similar policies in the past only applied to people that pose a serious security risk and these new plans are supposedly part of trump's larger counterterrorism policy now some even joked that if other countries had a similar laws in place trump's inflammatory twitting could have gotten himself banned from traveling abroad. independent journalist terry gross thinks the bounds of personal privacy are shrinking quickly where there's always going to be this these arguments between freedom versus security those who say you know we have to give a little bit of our freedoms in order to ensure their security and safety especially in the u.s. we're dealing with because of the nine eleven terror attacks but i think if you look at the situation objectively and you see that sense of nine eleven the u.s. has had a massive increase in surveillance measures and police state like measures and as a journalist i posed this surveillance increased these steps to you're going to be

able social media whether foreign or americans think is just another step in that direction of being very intrusive in our lives and the idea of privacy kind kind of going towards you know something of the past. a plane belonging to the russian airline ira flight has been searched by british authorities at london's heathrow airport u.k. has provided no explanation for the incident during the search the author has demanded the crew leave the aircraft which violates international procedures the captain refused and was isolated in his cabin while the officers were on board scotland yard denies its involvement moscow has already called the search a provocation and russia's embassy in the u.k. has demanded an explanation but so far received no response we have witnessed another blatant provocation by the british authorities are attempts to get in touch with the foreign office in order to clarify the reasons of the inappropriate behavior of british officials did not bring fruit of course will carefully analyze

what has happened at this moment we have no other explanation but that the incident at heathrow is in one way or another connected with a hostile policy that the u.k. government is conducting with regard to russia. of the european commission has set out a plan to speed up the movement of nato units and equipment across the block the foreign policy chief federico greeny says it's to prevent crises more effectively the military alliance wants to remove delays that might be caused by roads and bridges unsuitable for its equipment the e.u. says it will identify weak spots and propose improvements along north sea and baltic routes eastern europe has reportedly seen the biggest military buildup since the end of the cold war.

the new ability plan comes off to a series of problems encountered during recent nato drills. and i'll be back with a later said lines in just over half an hour meanwhile for more on or about stories

as you call. them. yes scotland yard did not look for the perpetrators they were covering up their tracks you have a lovable dear spirit here they are there for you didn't russia will find out who did it and think it was the ukraine who did that. ukraine or do you want to russia to clash with the rest of the world. the most expensive fish in the world each one selling for tens of thousands of euros it continues to grow its entire life if it was thirty years old you might

have a two ton fish out there and yet they don't get that big today because we're way too good to catch. it's only women themselves a much larger mission was once there and that was much more widely distributed we have politicians that are in office for a few years they have to get reelected everything is very very short term our system is not suited and is not cleared for the long term survival and that's why we have the catastrophes. this is boom bust broadcasting around the world from right here washington d.c. i'm part chilton coming up today we aren't too far from tax day and the i.r.s. is reducing audits the military will tell us why plus many are wondering if profits

on crypto currency is must be reported to the i.r.s. will get you that from certified public accountant victor to think and the bitcoin queen of switzerland olga feld wire is back with us we'll talk block chain and crypto as a multi-day crypto summit in switzerland concludes plus as the u.s. department of justice case to stop the eighteenth tee time warner merger deal continues we'll talk with someone who's been there every single day in court andre barlow of doyle barlow and mozart all that ahead but first let's get some headlines . we spoke last time about the merger mania out there with an increase of m. and a activity of sixty seven percent increased over last year well here's another one wal-mart is in early talks to purchase health insurance humana which currently has a market value of roughly thirty seven billion dollars if the sale went through it

would be wal-mart's biggest deal in nearly a decade wal-mart is not only the largest retailer it is a significant drug store owner the current market value of wal-mart is roughly two hundred sixty billion dollars. and germany has reported very low unemployment numbers for the second time in two months their unemployment numbers came in at three point five percent and that jobless rate is the lowest since one thousand nine hundred eighty and far below the average unemployment rate of five point six percent and speaking of great numbers the turkish economy grew by seven point three percent year over year in the fourth quarter of last year that figure beat what many considered an already upbeat expectations the seven point four percent compares with twenty sixteen g.d.p. rate of three point two percent. and e.p.a. administrator scott pruitt has set a plan to for a major rollback of the corporate average fuel economy standards known as cafe

standards to the white house for approval the fuel standards regulated by both the e.p.a. and the u.s. department of transportation seek to have a fleet of u.s. vehicles less dependent upon fossil fuels which cause global warming and could you know our problems for the country and the world with no specific numbers they're believed to be contained in mr pruitt sixteen page outline regulatory and industry expert expects specific deep cuts to the mpg rule requirements later this year administrative pruitt's move sets up a legal fight with the state of california interestingly which has a waiver under the clean air act to an air. standards higher than the federal cafe standards while auto industry leaders are pushing for the rollback of the u.s. standards experts say one unintended consequence could be the defacto creation of a second u.s. car market in california and the twelve other states that have moved in sync with california on pollute.