and protestors storming the israel border and the cover of burning tires and with pistols and molotov cocktails that situation is unprecedented and he says that israel did the best it could and yet despite this ninety percent of media coverage was biased and critical against the israeli defense forces the american ambassador did however concede that some criticism against israel is legitimate now israel's position has always been to blame her for the protests and the ensuing violence and this is a position that american officials have echoed hamas terrorists backed by iran have incited attacks against israeli security forces and infrastructure and we understand that israel has a right to defend itself and urge the members of the security council to exercise at least as much scrutiny of the actions of the hamas terrorist group as it does to israel's legitimate right of self-defense now despite the fact that american

officials have come out in support of how the israeli army behaved in dealing with those gaza protests there has been unprecedented criticism in the international community particularly by human rights groups you have for example human rights watch saying that the ideas behavior was a bloodbath you have the united nations saying that it was outrageous you have amnesty international saying to quote it was a horrifying use of a lot of every mission against unarmed protesters now the latest figures we have from the gaza health ministry are that one hundred and nineteen people were killed in nine weeks of violence the situation on the ground is still tense and unfortunately we are bracing ourselves for those figures to climb. amnesty international is also concerned about what's been happening in syria is accusing the u.s. led coalition of committing potential war crimes during last year's operation to liberate the city of rocker from islamic state the rights group says the strong evidence that america and its partners used indiscriminate and disproportion. force

of the impact was catastrophic more details now from us to see a check into this an amnesty international report a dubbed war of and they have nation devastating tolls and civilians in iraq a syria is a very highly critical analysis of the airstrikes that were carried out by the u.s. led coalition that involved britain and france on the city of raka from june to october twenty seventeen in their fight against isis and this amnesty international report talks of decimated families and neighborhoods says that not enough was done to protect civilians and that some of the attacks resulted in violation of international humanitarian law and indeed talks of potential war crimes as a result of the these strikes the report finds that one hundreds of people died and thousands were injured despite the coalition saying they did everything they could to minimize casualties you know when you're finding it and it. uses noncombatants as collateral damage you know it's very difficult when you when you

fight it to to completely avoid. any casualties of war like i can tell you we have a process that we go through. to minimize civilian casualties the cost. the coalition's claims that its precision air complaints allowed it to bump islamic state out of while causing very few civilian casualties do not stand up to scrutiny on the ground in iraq we witnessed a level of destruction comparable to any seen we've seen in decades of covering the impact of wars well amnesty international interviewed one hundred twelve civilians in as many as forty two locations of airstrikes for this report and some of their focus was specifically on four families who had lost very big numbers of family members in these airstrikes they look at one family that lost as many as eight members in one airstrike another lost sixteen another family lost eighteen and

a fourth family that lost as many as thirty nine people in those airstrikes and of course while we know the coalition says that in this case as others they did all they can to minimize casualties and in these kinds of scenarios according to them this is inevitable according to amnesty international that is just not good enough and they have called for investigations and justice for the victims of those strikes is also younger merkel's under pressure for an action over an asylum corruption scandal in germany we'll have the details for you after the break. join me every thursday on the elec so i will be sure and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics or business i'm sure business i'll see you the.

seems wrong but i. just don't. get to shape out just because the ticket and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. to say anything he wants to say and he can't fire you know it won't be another election until twenty twenty and he's gliding into twenty eight saying probably won't even many representatives support in the in this election this year. come back germany's refugee agency is being investigated for corruption it's

accused of offering asylum for bribes chancellor merkel has now also been dragged into the scandal with claims that she was aware of the problems but did nothing to reform the organization our europe correspondent peter all of the reports next from berlin. is the cash for asylum investigation into the german federal office for migration and refugees all on up is speed public focus has turned to the german chancellor angela merkel and what she knew about the agency's problems its former heads frank here didn't fly skaven interview to a leading german some they tumble and which he said he held face to face meetings with the chancellor and made it explicitly clear that his agency couldn't cope with the pressure is being put on it by a refugee policy. there was no structure or organized development in the form of specific tasks set of priorities or occult collation of personality acquirements since no instructions were available everyone could work as they saw feet in

response to those claims a spokesperson for angle merkle had this to say it's not religion and of course there was an ongoing intense process of changing the work of the german federal office of migration and refugees when the refugee crisis broke out i'm just trying to make clear that this device is repeated reported on these changes in the proving so the how the federal states the the stock the cabinets he spoke at press conferences and again and again to the public and major league the chancellor was informed of the reforms and the measures taken in this agency. the investigation began after it was alleged that an employee at the un fought for us in bremen wrongfully granted asylum to twelve hundred people on the list though security services say were to islamic extremists one of whom they describe as an actual terror threat while forty four others belonged to islamist groups prosecutors allege that the female employee took both money and gifts to grant asylum

wrongfully between twenty thirteen and twenty sixteen as the investigation continues she did nice those charges against her politicians both from the opposition and from within and glimmer of course on coalition partners saying they want answers. it is not about accusations it is not about vindication of a conspiracy theory but rather about a sober investigation. we have to investigate the accusations of negligence and corruption and you have to do it quickly everyone who was involved should give testimony of the former refugee card to nato and the interior ministry there is a way to be done in this investigation last month the country's largest opposition party alternative for germany launched a lawsuit. against anglo merkel's refugee policy they say that the chancellor's decision to welcome around one of the half a million refugees to the country should have gone through

a vote in the start and the fact that it didn't is unconstitutional and so we put a legal cross in front of the court to question whether there are there is a legal. explanation or a legal reason to open our borders hopefully we'll have a special committee to go into that scandal well the point we're making is probably the scandal is not something about. someone one office environment and has to do with political responsibility and we have to look who is responsible for everything what has happened there before now the big question remains if the chancellor knew that the migration and refugee agency was struggling why was nothing done to relieve the pressure betrayal of r.t. . it's nine days and counting until football showpiece tournament kicks off right here in moscow thirty two nations will battle it out to get their hands on the world cup trophy and a little earlier we got

a closer look at the biggest prize in football. i'm really proud to tell you that there is more than just a special reason for me to be wearing this golden tie because here in this studio right now we're going to show you a very special shiny gold guest can we please have a look for. is this the actual trophy world cup winners get their hands on after the final the winning team will lift this exact trophy above their heads and this is the one that they keep only for a short while. before the ultimate possession they get a so called the so-called winners trophy which it looks like exactly this one but only made of bronze and it's a gold plated bronze so even lionel messi seen as the best footballer today can't touch it indeed this is the one in on li made of eighteen karat solid gold.

official fee for a world cup trophy and only heads of state and people world cup winners can touch this magnificent for the price how far has the trophy traveled on its tour trophy traveled from kaliningrad to lot of us talk literally a massive geography we estimated that around forty million people live in the nearest proximity to the cities where the traffic visited any special moments in russia in kaliningrad for instance a young guy made a marriage marriage proposal to his to his girl and that was really really touching and almost you know i almost had tears in my eyes and a lot of new words coming to see this trophy after their wedding there was a. longtime fan of football he was around sixty years of age and the guy was crying and i haven't seen you know a sixty year old guy crying at the side of the trophy. it

looks good doesn't it well as the excitement builds over which country will lift the world cup in the final in moscow next month artie's been picking the brains of man new football coach joe same arena on how the tournament will play out and we're inviting you to challenge the special one to make your own predictions a little interview. is to be available to the traditions because you know where you live please do with the rules or the road that is the all it is for this is what it does. well if you feel up to testing your knowledge against the might of merino head to our facebook or twitter page and follow the hash tag match merino and to make sure you don't miss any of the games as well they'll be two rounds of predictions from the group stage the knockouts with the first starting this wednesday and if you had to r.t. dot com for more information about our world cup coverage with cho say marino and our other footballing great to our own team r.t. for this tournament. we're going to go live to the palace now

in vienna where vladimir putin is holding a media conference with his australian counterpart alexander vander bell and let's join in now. this is an example from the very beginning. was it in. this i mean if it's on the word it was president putin. in a video of you and you're going to be in. norman how. many years to be king. over for a limited is the human problem in. this venue to commence in the future. where we don't have a translation for that i'm afraid so we can hear what president alexander vent about and saying that but we will work it out for you when president putin speaks

of course we will come back to post happening in the. meantime u.s. federal prosecutors working on the trump russia probe of accused president trump's former campaign manager of pressuring witnesses to give false evidence ahead of a trial for what is said to have failed to register as a foreign agent when he lobbied for ukraine and twenty twelve but he now explains when it comes to interfering the u.s. is a past master they matched meddling in the two thousand and sixteen u.s. presidential election still dominates headlines stateside russian meddling into the twenty sixteen election russian interference russia is again trying to disrupt our elections russia did meddle in the two thousand and sixteen election but he didn't need a history lesson to understand that foreign meddling is a global game one that the u.s. plays very well. through our history when we tried to manipulate or influence elections or even overturn the governments it was done with the best interests of the people of that country in mind given the traditional reverence for human rights

according to studies between nine hundred forty six and their two thousand great powers intervened one hundred seventeen times in foreign affairs with the us making up a large chunk of those statistics. part design in the cold interventions and i do it situations when great powers that intervene in elections in other countries in an attempt to determine the election result the united states intervened in elections of. elections in this manner in forty seven countries for this purpose between one thousand nine hundred eighty six and two thousand here's a few examples the say i publicly admitted it was behind the notorious nine hundred fifty three k. of iran's democratically elected prime minister he insisted on oil should be nationalized which perhaps wasn't in the best interest of iranians or washington so it seems so he was overthrown and the shells were installed for the next twenty six years to safeguard the west's all ambitions in the country until it all ended and

the west an islamic revolution. the one who's in the me is america there is not based on prejudice or pessimistic point of view but rather it stems from experience from a cripple and real understanding of the actual realities of the world from a wrong to chile two decades on and the cia is supporting a bloody military coup in south america the pinochet government prisoned torches and killed some forty thousand and also political enemies including us citizens and the f.b.i. surveillance like caesar peering into the colonies from distant rome nixon said the choice of government by the chileans wasn't acceptable to the president of the united states the act that he had in the white. how seemed to be if in the wake of vietnam i can no longer stand in the marines then i will send in the cia with this in mind is alleging russian meddling in the us election

a little hypocritical the reelection campaign of former russian president boris yeltsin was secretly managed by three american political consultants they spilled the beans to a us magazine about their collaboration with the clinton white house to bump up his approval ratings although the americans spoke no russian and worked through translators they began secretly laying out an american style campaign to counter the public sentiment running against yeltsin the plot was thrilling so much so showtime made a movie about it based on a true story told the russians how to play the army you did not your government whether they wanted. to look out today apparently. it seems as though outside intervention in domestic politics is as old as politics itself and when it comes to us meddling it's all change your country for the best whether you want it why not. fifty six mission to the international space station

is set to blast off on wednesday from the baikonur launch site in kazakhstan on board an international crew of three are expected to take two days to reach the orbiting the board directly at the launch site. into the baikonur cosmodrome as the sun was rising in order to catch the first glimpses of the craft as it left a subway platform to slowly surely and ever so cautiously make its way to the launch pad. the so you system is actually made up of two parts the rocket and the spacecraft itself first one of the gate was the rocket which contains the most eye catching aspect the first stage boosters which pressure around twenty metres long they will burn for only one hundred eighteen seconds before falling away at which point the stack and then the third stage rockets take over the top half is the actual

spacecraft and it can also be broken down into three sections at the very top of the orbital module where the close it for take up into that and roll through for a full hour of news live to austria vladimir putin tell the good news conference with that australian counterpart let's join it that. it didn't all spot his guts complex has to be like that i didn't see one solution it was done under sedation at a public. good and. he would see one session it was done and. we didn't doctor but usually we were there. legally i can tell you let me. alone. i mean his t. . shirts guys and so we're in the front seat and. i'll be a joy to. see digs i think a hundred also floored me as i was and soon the simpson. just was it was going to go about or to others i don't know the only thing you do when you first i mean sometimes i'm usually in the you know but only on another level so i don't dilute

the news or but i do you know these are the lucky numbers that when you're sound. like you are you just going to really she would sort of zoom through there was so you know it was you know the easy going you try to get things i was going to be so . first quarter of this year we had a whole mess going one hundred percent certain increasingly sure we will turn over . for a visit. this is a fifty year anniversary of the first contract. natural gas from allies. to more than two hundred. meters of natural gas. supplies to. ensuring. energy

security for the entire european continent and this. marks the reliable corporation in that country to strengthen going forward russia planning to pump more gas to europe in consume news including a spark of nord stream to project and other infrastructure projects and their austrian partners have supported us. in this project definitely continued to discuss the same issues with the chancellor who are also. looking at. cultural and humanitarian. and we've had. cultural events cultural neutral events we had the year of. tourism in austria the year of music when your cultural disc and next year will

have a year of literature and the year of youth exchange program. mr president. but. from the hermit. the historical. museum we're also would like to set up. a new platform for the debates between the. scholars in researches. historians. who provide. a view of our past and. if they all resisted to revise some of the difficult to pages in our history like the wall street in the nation who are there attempts to bury your fallen soldiers.

from the soviet union who liberated. from nazi germany. and we discuss the. syria crisis. it's. good and you. like to thank. the president of austria once again for a constructive and fruitful meeting that's. flea given new momentum to the full spectrum of russian austrian ties and we would like to invite mr president to come to russia the time of his convenience. but. my name is rubin represent.

russian or. a major investor is what you talked about a lot of projects but given the current to pollute. situation is a potential for further growth. than one of these is where we should expect further growth. this is put in stone or. you can be on and all. of me to. those who resist. because those who resist the in their keepers into you can just as. often you could i was going spurs is. right ok as i mentioned earlier on we don't have anybody to be able to translate the german spoken by the austrian president there so we'll have to dip out of that

q. and a session where we will listen across so we do have some colleagues who do know what's going on there and we will be able to tell you what's being said at that q. and a between president putin and his austrian counterpart on what is his first international trip since starting his fourth term as a president he was congratulating there the anniversary of the fiftieth anniversary of gas and deliveries to austria that's the first european country to get russian gas and it continues to this day in fact a third of europe is get russian gas these days we've got a translator now we can hear what the austrian president say let's go back to austria. causation marked active. present output and got a. one hundred thirty million mention hundred xix and physically one mention was done for almost four billion. invested in russia. more than five hundred into prizes from austria that

operates in russia. again. with the austrian president russia has a population of more than one hundred forty million people who. cannot make union its more than one hundred seventy million people. soon it combines all her mean year. because a star named ruth. partridge has been growing it. very strongly and again the energy sector has been the prime sector for us and. ever since the soviet union. become an important or energy hub and is constantly developing austria's role in ensuring energy security for europe has been very important and needs we will continue to be creasing the

important role to have very good prospects seen. working transports machinery and logistics we have adopted a plan. for joined in modernizing our economy there are a number of areas like twenty arrears and for some of the areas we have completed our plans for there are others the efforts are underway we have very good prospects i'm sure everything will be implemented and very much. work could also give the strong input to implementation of these joint plans. have a question to president putin. have you discussed sir with the president or will you discuss. with the prime minister at the. issues that are your cooperation with austria qued lead

to the lifting of sanctions against russia. of initiative. we will. any politically motivated restrictions like sanctions. protectionist measures. these are. all the same means to. resolve political issues and you know feed to achieve the ultimate goal they are harmful for those who initiated those restrictions and for those who all the target of those restrictions. russia has overcome. all the challenges arising from trade restrictions. sure you have a couple of years ago was extremely difficult experience for. its

name on the heels. of the. collapse in the oil prices. well. as you know russia. now has a two point five percent inflation low is the lowest in modern history the lowest . the lowest unemployment and we have a one hundred. billion in external trade. and investment in fixed been going up so we all. seeing. the growth in g.d.p. . just. talking of sanctions they have been harmful.

everyone and so everyone is interested in the lifting of sanctions in we are interested. you would get rid of sanctions. we realize that every day you country individually. and you might find it difficult to talk about it i don't want to give you the reasons for it but everything is that it's happening in india politics doesn't prevent us from developing our ties with austria and we will do whatever we can to continue this going forward into the plans that i just mentioned. we. have had to cover. here and i thought that. when you rick.