it was. seventeen people are killed or died over a thousand injured as israeli soldiers fire bullets and use drones and tear gas as they accuse palestinian protesters of inciting violence at the gaza border. american diplomatic staff leave the u.s. consulate in st petersburg ahead of the official closure on sunday as the standoff escalates over the poisoning of former spies started this clip in the u.k. . and police fire water cannon and tear gas at protesters letting off flares during a demonstration over the expulsion of environmental squatters in the french city of gold.

this is r.t. international coming to you live from moscow on trips thank you for joining us. over a dozen palestinian protesters have been injured on the gaza border one day after seventeen people died and over a thousand were injured in clashes with israeli soldiers the u.n. secretary general is now calling for an independent investigation into the deaths local journalist who three has been at the scene. so today is the second day of protests demonstrations and praise for the palestinians palestinians from all over the gaza strip are coming to march through the fence and as you see we can still see this israeli soldiers night prayers trying to target all of the all of the protesters who are coming near the fence palestinians protesters are holding the palestinian flags and are trying to put them near the fence yesterday thousands of

hundreds of palestinians were on the scene that israeli army used to i mean nation live bullets and tear gas. and for the first time the israeli army used a drone to throw tear gas canisters and on the protesters anticipate them. the annual march of return is a demonstration denouncing the israeli occupation thousands of palestinians have pitched tents across five like ations where they're expected to stay for six weeks in response the israeli defense forces have station more than one hundred snipers overlooking the area we spoke exclusively to the senior political leader of the palestinian political movement hamas. masuk he says the israeli actions a criminal. returned the mother of all those killed were from gaza what the

israelis did is a crime against unarmed civilians who just want to return to their villages and towns and who have a right to under the nine hundred forty eight un resolutions or these really is are displaying the kind of fears seen in the thief was trying to protect what he's stolen this is how they treat unarmed civilians who just want to return home. well hamas confirmed that five of those killed were members of its military wing israel blamed its violent response on hamas which if used as a terrorist organization we are see israeli prime minister's foreign media spokesperson david keyes whether the idea for spawn's was proportionate blood stone thrown at someone's head can kill them as has happened in the past but there's no reason for someone to be twenty meters away from the fence and if you look at the pictures. we are trying to infiltrate a peaceful protest this is not we know a peaceful protest look like and they don't involve people taking guns and shooting at the other side namely israel this can stop this can stop this very second all it

requires is for hamas to say don't approach the fence and don't try to storm into israel by the thousands and start shooting missiles and gunfire at israelis the moment that this all of this goes away. american diplomatic staff had been leaving the u.s. consulate in st petersburg ahead of its official closure on sunday this comes after moscow's announcement on thursday to expel sixty u.s. envoys and shut down the diplomatic compound it's a reciprocal response to washington's decision to deport the same number of russian diplomats and close the country's culture in seattle. well this latest tit for tat measure comes amid a growing diplomatic crisis over the poisoning of double agent said basically powell in the english city of seoul was great britain has so far failed to provide any evidence of russia's guilt yet london blames russia for the attack and over twenty countries have expelled moscow's diplomats in solidarity with the u.k.

in response russia has made similar moves against those states well earlier under pharma discussed the consequences for moscow's relations with the u.k. with senior correspondent would have guessed if this is part of russia's response to it for tat mirror response for every russian diplomat expelled from great britain the united states and two dozen or other countries most of them either need two states or countries that are seeking to do in nato for every russian diplomat expelled russia is expelling one of those countries diplomats from russia in the case with great britain twenty three diplomats have been expelled but doesn't end there russia has also asked the u.k. to reduce its diplomatic staff in russia by additional fifty this is so that the number of russian diplomats in great britain and the number of british diplomats in russia is the same so to establish parity this is i suppose you could

say a punitive measure for great britain's role in this entire affair it was london that launched this campaign that went to these countries and convinced them to kick out the russian diplomats and russia sees this is unjust and unfair because there's been no evidence no proof of russian involvement in this attempted assassination attempt in great britain and this tension is extending elsewhere too isn't it i mean we had an incident involving an aeroflot plane in london yesterday also just tell us about that well this is this is all part of it part of this degradation in relations russian passenger jet that had arrived in london was unexpectedly with. warning and without reason searched by british authorities at first there's confusion because nobody admitted the search the police said that we wanted well involved they even tweeted about it however it turned out that there was in fact the search going on and the russians say went against all protocol the u.k.

representatives tried to inspect the plane with the crew being present on board which is strictly prohibited by the relevant regulations only off to the arrival of an embassy official and links to negotiations was the pilot allowed to be present during the inspection the you could representatives refused to provide any documents that would specify the reason for the search it's legal basis and the results of the russian foreign ministry has come out and said that this is you know outrageous and just another example of the depths that things of have sunk to the side from all the expulsions there's been a lot of rhetoric flying around and the russians say that the united kingdom is needing these anti russian russo phobic crusades or certainly looks like we were in a spiral downward spiral and difficult to see any way out well meanwhile with the investigation into the script still ongoing russia's foreign ministry has called on

the u.k.'s government to respond to fourteen key unanswered questions. well earlier we spoke with investigative journalist martin summers and george tommy lee from the think tank global policy institute they think the ukase case in the script is based on we kept the government seems unwilling to provide answers. i think the case that the british have made is extraordinarily flimsy some of the substance of the case is that the russians had to have done it because they're the

only ones who can develop this. agent which is transparently false because the formula is in the public domain everybody knows what the formula so anyone or that with an access of a sophisticated lab would make this chemical agent and the other argument against the russians is that while the russians are inherently bad and that's the kind of thing that they would do so i think that it's very unlikely that we are ever going to get on says in any of the russians perfectly legitimate questions one of the things that's quite interesting is when they took the blood samples from both of them well those still unconscious they had to get legal legal permission to do that and they had to go to the court in souls pretty and in the legal document they provided they said that novacek or some similar agents had been used so in other words in the legal documents they didn't say that they don't the found out where there was no virtual not on his various people pointed out have real nerve agents are being used and the whole half the population of soulsby would be dead so of

course how would the british know it was not checking with the themselves and you know all of these questions obviously come to the surface and i think if we really pursue this case and don't let it go it may be that the government is in this country is going to be severely embarrassed because they haven't really got a lot of proof here. police in the french city of new orleans have fired water cannon and tear gas at protesters who were let off less during a demonstration of the expulsion of environmental squatters. was the was the was the was the.

well the protesters had been scorching nearby for ten years there a was to stop the government from building an airport on that piece of land and off to a decade of campaigning they won as the government scrapped the plans. was . bought in those ten years the protesters have set up their own on a kiss to utopia that commune contains around three hundred people who have their own library won't shop and even radio station and the activists known as artists don't want to give up what they call they is to defend. the was at the demonstration. former french are still has almost around a thousand now running we've got the police running behind us who are in the middle of this where you can see the police are trying to curtail the protesters into one

particular spot trying to move them down the street we have already seen t.v.'s being fired at the protesters in the protest is throwing things out of the police saving some small skirmishes in the hague and this is all over north and on the lawn undesirable side they've made this place their home base was a place of land that was came up for a possible airport the french government decided early this year that he would not be building the airport but it has said that it wants to expel all of the saddest on a case by case basis chrome this land as you can see behind me now the police are having to come back the protests just pushing along from the street in no they came here to protest against the expulsion of the people who are satisfied not just on the land we have to move quickly now because the police we got things are being run out on the police who have been using che gases well trying to get the purchases of the

way and trying to cool them down into certain factions but what we're seeing now here's some of the protests is coming out from the street and you can see the police are also trying to block a way to other protesters who are joining them splitting them up in around three seeing small crashes now between the police and the protesters here only for that site that damn well he might say i did not you don't glance oh you're getting some of the effects of the changes that's being put out by the c.r.a. says your governor you were just making it a little bit difficult to breathe so you just were brave as you can see that the police in trying to prove gaydar street from the protesters from coming out they had to protest against the expulsion of the people from the south site but not close. don't do loans they say do what you want ever they can within their means to protect not so much because it is now. so much even ski ought to know.

when we won tessa patient is building ahead of the football world cup in russia but a mysterious group in europe is calling for a boycott or not break. didn't look for the perpetrators they were covering up their tracks you know the month of . the year there. was ukraine who did. more good ones russia to clash with the rest of the world. when you have no clean water no health care no infrastructure those are all symptoms of a greater problem in haiti and that greater problem is imperialism the problem is

dead dependency and domination that haiti has had to deal with since it became the first. free republic ruled by black people since eighty four. welcome back billboards of started appearing in european cities calling for a boycott of this summit football world cup in russia. takes a closer look at the group behind the campaign. the beautiful game takes an ugly turn to international friendlies this week in europe were hit with less than friendly billboards outside the stadiums the campaign also has an online petition against what it dubs the cup of shame and that site probably boasts that the u.k.

has announced ministers won't be attending of course it fails to mention that britain's decision has nothing to do with the situation in syria whatsoever and it carefully ignores what moscow's presence has contributed when it comes to the fight against terrorism in syria including deescalation zones and humanitarian corridors but i digress of oz and online global activism network is behind both the billboards and the petition and this is how they describe their aims of this is a global organization with a simple democratic mission closed the gap between the world we have in the world most people everywhere want their campaigns cover everything from saving elephants and bees to much more controversial topics like gun control in america and stopping the far right from taking power in europe so clearly they don't shy away from politics and when it comes to syria their position is crystal clear assad and by extension russia bad u.s. coalition and white helmets good and fact according to their site of oslo has

raised over two million dollars to help the white helmets but as we've reported before the group isn't exactly what they might appear to be. with some forty six million members worldwide and sixteen available languages on their website they make clicked of is an extremely. easy weather causes animal rights global warming or the children in syria as an organization they're very deeply imbedded in. american establishment into the corporate world

and into the political ruling elite world in america and so we've seen a far as used to weaponized as an instrument of war for example the petition was put forward for example against libya they were calling for a no fly zone we've also seen them for example supporting the alleged chemical weapon attacks to to demonize the syrian government and to accused russia of supporting so why don't they launch a petition that is calling for an hour fly zone or a petition that is demonizing one particular side in a conflict it is a recently linked to that humanitarian aspect now of off takes pride in saying they're one hundred percent member funded meaning that their agenda is not and cannot be swayed by anyone with deep pockets or special interests but at the same time they also acknowledge that they were founded by two advocacy groups who received major funding from george soros

a well known supporter of liberal political causes and to one of those companies sources open society foundation specifically funneled money to a vase so well p.r. stunts politicising sports are nothing new with this stunt in particular some are now crying foul. almost four thousand people have now returned to their homes in the syrian city of aleppo according to the russian defense ministry the city was liberated by russian and syrian forces fifteen months ago and as life in aleppo begins to get back to normal hundreds of christian worshippers attended the good friday mass and procession of the city to mark the beginning of easter residents say that after seven years of brutal conflict they finally feel safe. after lap of the games. even there were normal clashes in mortars we came back and we're happy here it's easter happy easter come the world here sing god finally we've been able to visit our churches and hold religious rituals we've had enough

in seventy years now it is safe and peaceful we can do everything freely. but however elsewhere in syria the humanitarian situation still remains dire ninety five thousand civilians returned to the city of iraq or after it was retaken by u.s. led forces five months ago but they still live in squalid conditions almost all the infrastructure has been destroyed and there is no access to running water and other basic necessities the russian military reports frustrated people have begun an uprising against u.s. backed rebel forces in the area. we were forced to leave our homes because myself when we returned we found everything that used to rubble look at all the devastation iraq is a ghost city. where living in the midst of destruction completely abandoned

everything around has been destroyed. and live here scorebook the city lies in rubble have to pay to remove the debris with all money there's no running water so we have to buy it in the burbs the u.s. coalition because the destruction of rock and has a responsibility to rebuild the city we need to help with restoring the water supply in clearing the rubble. i found a man on the streets near my house my friend and i tried to detonate it from a distance but it didn't go off and we thought the man didn't work and work towards it exploded my friend was killed i survived. in the us an independent autopsy has found police fatally shot unarmed black man stephen clarke in the back seven times it happened in the california city of sacramento

earlier this month the victim's family lawyer says the findings contradict the police officers claim that clarke was advancing towards them though what happened wasn't clear from the body count video that was released. where. police fired a twenty two year old clark eight times saying afterwards they had mistaken his phone for a gun they responded to a call about someone breaking windows where corker shot in his grandmother's backyard officials involved with their use and restrictive leave and the case is outraged locals with protests happening almost daily since the shooting. lou series approaches demonstrators have blocked highways and twice disrupted a local n.b.a. basketball game the day after parks few not black lives matter activists again the streets they called for justice and punishment for those responsible former georgia

state representative la dorn jones says improperly trained police officers are not being held to account the ideas that african-americans are automatically committing crime are in the foundation of our system and fairish training the right kind of training like this on how to shoot or when to shoot deescalating but then also the training biases that police officers may have in this country and it's in their systems and we need to look at their subjective belief of fear in determining whether they are guilty or not in their actions and the only other place to hold them accountable is it through the police departments making them lose their jobs but it's very hard to have the police police the police. now cryptocurrency is helping relief efforts in puerto rico where of following a major hurricane last year.