republican rule by black people since each year for. over a dozen palestinians are injured on a second day of clashes at the gaza border as israeli soldiers use live bullets to drones with tear gas accusing the protestors of inciting riots. 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 spy service clip out in the u.k. . and french police fire water cannon and tear gas of protesters letting off flares during a demonstration over the expulsion of environmental squatters for the city of known .

this is r.t. international coming to you live from moscow i'm kate partridge thank you for joining us. over a dozen palestinian protesters have been injured on the gaza border a day after seventeen people died and over a thousand were injured in clashes with israeli soldiers the un secretary-general is now calling for an independent investigation into the deaths local journalists here and who the really has been at the scene. so today's the second day of protests demonstrations and praise for the palestinians listing us 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 palestinian flags and are trying to put them near the fence and 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 well the annual march of return is a demonstration denouncing the israeli occupation thousands of palestinians have pitched tents across five locations where they're expected to stay for six weeks in response the israeli defense forces have stationed more than one hundred snipers overlooking the area we spoke exclusively to the senior political leader of the palestinian political movement hamas. he says the israeli actions are criminals.

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 fear seen in a thief who was trying to protect what he's stolen this is how they treat unarmed civilians who just want to return home. last confirmed that five of those killed were members of its military wing israel blamed its violent response on hamas which it views as a terrorist organization when we asked the israeli prime minister's foreign media spokesperson david keene is whether the i.d.f. response was proportionate. large stone thrown at someone's head can kill them as has happened in the past but there is no reason for someone to be twenty meters away from the fence and if you look at the pictures you see directly or trying to infiltrate a peaceful protest this is not we know what peaceful protest looks like and they don't involve people taking guns and shooting at the other side namely israelis

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 is all of this goes away. american diplomatic staff have 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 conscient in seattle well this latest tit for tat measure comes amid a growing diplomatic crisis over the poisoning of double agents. in the english city of saul's break 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 my colleague andrew farmer discussed the consequences for moscow's relations with the u.k. the senior correspondent would have guessed the. this is part of russia's response to the tat mirror response for every russian diplomat expelled from great britain the united states and two dozen odd other countries most of them either nato states or countries that are seeking to join 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 it doesn't end there russia's also. the u.k. to reduce its diplomatic staff in russia by an additional fifty this is the number of russian diplomats in great britain and a number of british diplomats in russia 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 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 to 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 without warning and without reason searched by british authorities at first there is 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 speak with the crew being present which is strictly prohibited by the relevant regulations. only off to the arrival of an embassy official and lengthy negotiations was the pilots allowed to be present during the inspection the u.k. representatives refused to provide any documents that would specify the reason for the search its 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 rooster phobic crusades or certainly looks like we were in a spiral downward spiral and difficult to see any way out when we woll with the investigation

into the script our case still ongoing russia's foreign ministry has called on the u.k.'s government to respond to fourteen key amounts of questions. well earlier we spoke with investigative journalist martin summers and george samueli from the think tank global policy institute they think the u.k.'s case of the script balance a dentist based on weekends and 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 have to have done it because they're the only ones who can develop this know be killed 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 could make this chemical agent and the other argument against the russians is that while the russians are inherently bad and that the find 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 russian's perfectly legitimate questions one of the things that's quite interesting is when they took the blood samples from both of them while they are still unconscious they had to get legal legal permission to do that and they have to go to the court in souls pretty and in the legal document they provided they said that no 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 whether it was nova chalk or not and as various people have pointed out have real nerve

agents have been used and the whole half the population soulsby would be dead so and of course how would the british know it was not a joke unless the got some knowledge of 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 tear gas of protesters who were let off last year in a demonstration over the expulsion of environmental squatters. was was. was. was. the was the own

the. the protesters had been squatting nearby for ten years their reign was to stop the government from building an airport on that piece of land and after a decade of campaigning they won as the government scrapped the plans. well. yes. for sure in those ten years the protesters have set up their own and i kissed you turn peer that commune contains around three hundred people you have their own library workshop and even radio station and the activists known as augusts don't want to give up what they cool bez to defend shelagh do bensky was a demonstration of how the french are still is almost all round us now so now running we've got the police running behind us oh wait the middle of this where you can see the police are trying to come i tell you the protesters into one particular

spot trying to move them down the street we have already seen tear gas being fired at the protesters in the protests is throwing things out the police every some small skinny she says and this is over your child on the lawn and these are just sites they've made this place their home base was up place of land that was a must for a possible airports the french government decided earlier this year that he would not be building the airport but it has said that it wants to expel all of the saudi . so on a case by case basis from this land you can see behind me now the police are having to come back the protests just pushing them on for mistreating not they came here to protest against the expulsion of the people who started it should not do or don't do that and we're going to have to move quickly now because the police we've got things are being run out on the police who have been using cheap gas as well

trying to get the protesters out of the way and join the cordon them down to just certain factions but what we seeing now here's some of the protests is coming out from the street and you can see the police are also trying to blockade other protesters were joining them splitting them up in or around us are you seeing small clashes now between the police and the protesters here all over that site that. well he might say i did not you don't learn oh you're getting some of the effects of the cheer gas that's being put up by the sea or ice is your job or you were just making it a little bit difficult to breathe so you just were right as you can see that the precint trying to prove a dutch treat from the protesters from coming out they had to protest against the expulsion of the people from the sad sight but not try don't do lunch they say they will do whatever they can within their means to protect that site because it is now their home charge even ski or to you know. well meanwhile billboards have

been have started appearing in european cities quite pro boycott at this time as football well here in russia a beggar 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 because 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 i was an 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 over the years to weaponize 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 demonize the syrian government and to accused russia of supporting so why don't they launch

a petition that is calling for another fly zone or a petition that is demonizing one particular side in a conflict it is that 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 well one of the host cities for the world cup is rust off in southern russia in preparation for the event former iceland striker i do johnson and city also it is officially open to the football park on saturday fans visiting the venue can find out more about the tournament and even show off their own skills

daniel hawkins went to visit. it's. just seventy five days to go and i want to look at the from world cup here in russia where in the subtle city of little school it's all of the host cities for the games it's got a brand new stadium and today the city's got a bit of a special look at the to mark the occasion opening this football park let's take a look inside. the. people should get united and should come and we've just enjoyed watching some of the best footballers on display some of the most amazing stadiums you'll see.

this is also have a chance to test their goal scoring skills against this robot goalkeeper no no you . didn't score from three attempts so low pressure on me. please. please please please please please cut very hard for the money he makes me to play from russia. in the election i mean for a long time to see how brazil plays with my own eyes that he believes. that that's an extremely important international event that improves friendly

relations between people. if your opportunity to learn foreign languages because this is possible is just a preview to the big file you saying that we built here in rostock but thousands of visitors will be able to see every single game and big screens in the sights and of course meet your visual mascot gave the city of arka. podium the appropriate phrase i'm confident that those who come to russia will not be much use for the march. when we were all almost a 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 in the city to mark the beginning of easter residents say that after seven years of brutal conflict they finally feel safe paula showdown is actually up or became safe and there were no more clashes in mortars we came back and we're

happy here it's easter happy easter how do the work 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 rocker after it was retaken by u.s. led forces five months ago but they still live in squalid conditions watched all the infrastructure has been destroyed and there is no access to running water and other basic necessities the russian military reports that frustrated people have become an uprising against u.s. banks rebel forces in the area. said that we were forced to leave our homes because myself when we returned we

found every.