breaking news this hour the israeli forces launched massive air strikes at hamas targets in gaza this almost exactly. a huge military operation that resulted in thousands of deaths. some it takes to the white house announces donald trump is inviting the russian president to the united states in the autumn causing outrage in the american media . to washington top spy in the united states he doesn't know how is that possible that the president of the united states is inviting. a couple months in the pall over at the white house.

the story of the rebels see each and for thousands of residents of two syrian towns after they were moved to government controlled territory in a prisoner exchange. for joining us you're watching international and let's start this hour with some breaking news because the israeli air force has launched large scale strikes on hamas positions in gaza this is a live feed of pictures that we're getting from close to the border we'll be speaking to correspondent. to get the very latest information on the situation very shortly stay with us for coverage of this as it.

on to the news just as the dust the started to settle on the putin summit in the finnish company whole thing keep the white house announced this inviting the russian president to washington in the autumn and interview donald trump a since confirmed his intention to meet again with a. second meeting potentially with out of your putin. is that in the works is it planned has it been you know i would say it's in the works look we had a tremendous discussion on many things but fact is we got along very well i think i have a good relationship with you so far the russian side is neither accepted nor declined the invitation the decision to invite putin to the us is once again spunk outrage in the western media demand that even president trump now says interfered in u.s. democracy invited to the white house and now the president has apparently doubled down they stand by having him to washington so let's collude again like we did last top spy in the united states he doesn't know how is that possible that the

president of the united states is inviting putin for a second summit in a couple of months in the fall over at the white house because the president he works for is donald trump. white house press secretary sarah sanders confirmed the invitation on twitter. in helsinki president of the united states agreed to go in working level dialogue between the two security council staffs president trump asked john bolton to invite president putin to washington in the fall and those discussions already on the way we have the announcement from sarah huckabee sanders the white house press secretary this comes in the aftermath of quite a bit of media hysteria in response to donald trump's a meeting in helsinki with the russian president if you look at time magazine or the new yorker there's been quite a bit of hysteria in u.s. media now in recent comments the russian president has actually warned the world

about the hysteria in the us media and about you know forces that would push false narratives about the meeting in helsinki to advance their own political gain. there are forces in the us ready to easily sacrifice russia u.s. relations for their political ambitions. these sorts of people is pitiful and pathetic but these people who are the pitiful nor pathetic on the contrary they're pretty powerful if they can fool such stories to millions of the citizens and they count in the aftermath of the helsinki meeting which took place on monday we've seen quite a bit of shifts and changes in how the us president has described that meeting his explanation and assessment of the events seems to go back and forth they have president putin he just said is not russian i will say this i don't see any reason why it would be and should have been i don't see any reason why it wouldn't be

russia. sort of a double negative it would be with us intelligence that. russia meddled in the election twenty sixteen i would say that that is true but you haven't condemned putin specifically do you hold him personally responsible well i would because he's in charge of the country getting along with president putin getting along with russia is a positive not a negative if that doesn't work out i'll be the worst enemy he's ever had the worst he's ever had so this new announcement that trump is indeed planning to invite the president of russia to the united states to the white house for another meeting it fits in with a recent tweet from trump he said he was looking forward to a second meeting with the russian president but many people are wondering what will happen next as trump seems to have gone back and forth and as trump faces widespread media hysteria and criticism for the fact that he met with the russian head of state. residents in the to rebel held towns of food and

in the northwestern syrian province of idlib have been successfully evacuated from the area under a deal between the syrian government to militants all residents would move to where it was controlled by the muskets in exchange for imprisoned rebel fighters is transported almost seven thousand people to safety the deal that ended years of suffering during book eight explains. for three long terrible years the people of. live besieged two pro-government villages in the middle of. his kingdom in syria and the islamists the warlords and the terrorists were out for blood. on a. sunday they had been previous evacuation

attempts last years five thousand civilians were being bussed out in the deal with rebels a suicide bomber blew up nearby over one hundred died. well . you know about. that. i met some of the evacuees last year they were clearly traumatized scarred here men and women and yes even children fought for three years they held out. to. think i was pretty for my family with basic game like the speech was very.

forcible to describe it is impossible to express it. but on. this latest deal was made by the syrian government and had. previously. in syria islam ists let seven thousand civilians leave the two towns and the syrian government releases hundreds of militants from prisons the rebels have lost the two villages they use this bugging chips for years they have also lost swathes of territory and homes and southern syria. in the span of me a months. after

the evacuation the rebels drove tanks into foo and trashing national flags and defacing acids portraits and damascus now has a serious problem lib filled to the brim with islamists and rebels from all over the country and with nowhere left to run the stage is set for the last bloody showdown of the syrian war. ok let's go back to our breaking news story this hour these really forces reported to launch must've strikes on a mass positions in gaza let's cross live to our correspondent all asli paula what

details can you tell us. when as you say right now as we speak there is a massive bombardment being carried out over gaza the largest since the last war back in two thousand and fourteen now the country's defense minister avigdor lieberman has threatened to quote him that it will be a large and painful military operation he says that israel will go to war with her must if the kites and balloons that are attached to explosives do not stop coming from gaza into israeli territory and today friday was given as the deadline that has not happened and that is why we're now hearing from a senior israeli official that the coming hours will tell whether or not israel goes ahead with a full scale military operation at the same time in the last few hours there has been any mergence the meeting held by the country's defense and political leadership and what we're hearing from these maybe defense forces is that they're promising ever spawn's taking us on. the idea a few days it's like the whole storm activity is treated by hamas throughout the

last month with great severity hamas chose to escape the security situation i moved the consequences for its actions. now residents who live in israel along the gaza border have been ordered to stay in the a bomb shelters at the same time we know that is evacuating army commandos and ports under the understanding that they could be an israeli attack that will intensify in the coming hours now this is not something new already earlier this week israel did launch an attack against them we have heard the country's prime minister netanyahu promising that he would strike back. during the sabbath we get to march hard my policy is clear. when anyone seeks to harm us we will strike back with great force. now in the late hours of this afternoon and into the early evening there were clashes along the israel gaza border we are hearing from the gaza health ministry that at least four people are

confirmed dead and a hundred and twenty have been injured the israeli army released a statement in which it said its actions were telling a tree that its troops had been fired on by palestinian militants at the border and it confirmed in the statement that it had hit eight amassed sites it says that its tanks and its aircraft are carrying out those strikes at the same time the i.d.f. has been accused of excessive force we are hearing some reports that it has used live ammunition in several cases now the protests along the border have been happening for the better part of four months and this flare out comes four years after the last gaza war that was known as operation protective edge that was a war that lasted seven weeks there were thousands of people who were killed and certainly the sense on the ground any concern on the ground as tensions escalate between the sides is that we might be witnessing another war unfolding in the coming hours. and i think so our correspondent in israel there paula slay with the very latest information for us thank you. ok let's speak to

a guest now you only been man of herman really gentle journalist general director and chief editor of israel radio kayo israel thanks for coming in first of all your your reaction to these strikes you feel that these are justified or not. hey i think this is a retaliation for provoke a should. be made an arab. short boards of the israeli soldier could not specify exactly what happened there will be an idea for a statement later on but. i think this is. still. you know the israeli defense forces for the escalation of hamas and i think this is a very dangerous game and they are trying to drag israel into another round of violence and i think the situation is escalating and unless there will be some

intervention from egypt or from the united nations i don't think that these rounds will stop and the situation is very dangerous you talk about a scale ation i mean this is serious escalation from israel isn't it the claims of sniper fire at the i.d.f. defense force members now we're talking about them retaliating with air strikes. this is a retaliation there were also responded hamas they showed. at least three rockets were fired by hamas in the last hour towards israel so it's not. just that israel is attacking the hamas is using violence on the border by attacking the idea of soldiers on the other side of the border not in gaza itself.

sure shooting rockets and mortar shells towards israel and so this is the duty of these really defense forces to protect the citizens of these were and. how confident are you about the accuracy of these strikes that this there will be no civilians injured. i think that hamas expected these air attacks these are only attacks on the military facilities. the military infrastructure of hamas and other organizations in gaza it's not on civilian targets it's only on the military facilities and hamas evacuated all these facilities the early this afternoon so they dissipated it and i don't think there will be civilian casualties. how do you think this will be viewed globally as you said it is an escalation what

do you think the international response will be to this. i'm sure that the security council of the united nations will discuss the situation in gaza but this is been going on for the last four months from march thirtieth when hamas started the march campaign of the march to the border then they started using balloons and cry. in order to cause fires in the inside israel. this is the thing that is going on in the day and the problem is that it's escalating in not coming down there were some attempts to to reach a cease fire there was a cease fire for a long for a short time but what we need these are more intervention from the gypsies who are mediating between israel and hamas in order to achieve some ceasefire and try to

calm things down the way it looks now i think there come osses trying to initiate another round of more or smaller confrontation military confrontation with israel. many thanks for your time of in speaking to israeli journalist and menachem thank you. meantime another four palestinians have been killed on friday brings the total number of those who have died to over one hundred thirty since the start of the protests as part of the great march of return journalist and has more from the israel gaza border but not nearly one hundred fifty meters away from carney the fence and as you see the palestinian youths protesters are describing and expressing expressing their rage by climbing this fans i have to say that this is one of the hardest days we have been covering. the protests on weekly basis for more than five months and this is one of the hardest days today we saw explosions on both sides scores were injured have been also hearing airstrikes artillery

should tell every targets we have been also hearing explosions on the both sides today is a very very hard day it's very dangerous and this was one of the toughest days we have ever witnessed by live even in should here guys airstrikes and a lot in a lot of more weapons the israelis have been using against the palestinians. to foreign minister stuff block is facing a storm of criticism after saying that there is no such thing as a peaceful multicultural society. in. the. form. of.

the minister also dismissed the former dutch colony syrian army as being a failed state due to ethnic divisions refugee groups and politicians alike have expressed dismay over blocks remarks blocking orderly offends people who look like me but our whole national history and identity this isn't worth your government official minister block is undermining efforts by this government to make joint agreements in europe on the proper reception of refugees and bloc has apologized for his remarks saying they were meant to spark a debate and not to offend so we decided to put the issue up for conversation with an appendage earnestly greif a and un coordinator on minorities mohammed soak up. he says things which up and former unfortunately real is that diem multicultural societies that were promised us that the perfect twenty first century site is don't

function in the west at least in western europe i think this last remark you just based on. ignorance of how can societies can bring together big example. we can witness is the work of the french team for example look at french team french team contains a multicultural society france beat another team from a small country from the balkans and all the players in this small team of the country of origin so there is no rule to be taken out of that to meet the multiculturalists that doesn't function is what you have communities living next to each other and not mixing it is very easy for example for asians to. melton and become members of society but we have some some part of the population that refuse it to want to impose their culture in the public space like islam for

example democracy can only be based on respect respect of or there are each other culture respect it comes also from form not to fear from other people culture from the other society we import misery we have a social security system which is based on the contribution of everyone and the problem is that the millions that come to europe never participated they never contributed they come with families look at examples off the continent of africa if we have left africa alone would not have seen african migrated to to to europe if we had not it would not have sucked the richness of africa there diamond the gold live the oil and those people who stayed in their own country that would be years and years no no if you have. been in your result when the laws of the world to try to invade residence reasons critical of police countries and they complain. why immigrants come back to europe because you're conquered they conquered those countries and they impose laws they believe come back to with us if you when it's

right in england does it right spring is here migrating they ask you for the black in the sixties to come and work in england same for the indian this is not people are how the choice is by force is not a choice minorities are welcome when they are minorities one it is a real invasion in millions they say no and it doesnt stop living there for thirty years in europe for over thirty five years i believe because the multicultural has made europe as rich of this country is not by wiping someone else and is not about . you know imposing someone else culture in another i didn't see that i would like to see or read integration more. the hash tag walk away used by people abandoning the us democratic party has been picked up by the media who suggest the trend is actually the work of russian automated accounts or bots trying to sow discord we spoke to the creator of the walkway movement to find out more. big or do you think that the walk away campaign is comprised of russian

butts i would suggest that they check out our facebook page which is where the campaign really takes place that's how we campaign go there on facebook and what you'll find is video testimonials of actual human beings who are looking into the cameras and telling their stories and then i say friends the deal i was instantly hoped to his message the democrats don't care about us not one bit they walked away from us a long time ago and it's time for us to do the same i chose to walk oh they're telling their stories about why they're walking away to the left and there's people in the raid were also telling their stories about reclaiming their voice and the narrative what it means to be a conservative which has been hijacked by the left there telling you what it means to be conservative and what their values are and welcoming people who are talking we laughed so i mean this is a pretty easily disputable think these are real people making real video testimonials and you can see them with your own eye. or movement whose motto is not

just the hash tag has gained a strong following online with one sixty thousand subscribers on facebook new cases of former democrat supporters of bundling the party's ideals are emerging every single day and the media are pinning walkaway on russian bots as the movement was mentioned by a site that tracks twitter accounts that are linked to alleged russian interference is called the how multan project but the site itself says the media have got it wrong. most of the third party reporting on the dashboard continues to appear with some variation of the headline russian books are pushing x. this is inherently inaccurate they're not all in russia we don't even think they're all commanded in russia at all we think some of them are legitimately passionate people that are just really into promoting russia. has been and struck again founder of walk away on why democratic officials are trying to denigrate the

movement i think it's an incredibly desperate attempt by the left wing politicians and the democrats to explain away the fact that people are leaving their party and they're no longer happy with what's going on. you know it's like they tried every every trick in the book to sort of dehumanizing people first it was you know calling people to get calling people racist calling people nazis you know anything that they can do to dehumanize people and that didn't work so now they've actually doubled down and religion really started calling human beings robots all of this in a desperate attempt to cover up the fact that their party has no plan their party has no appeal to people anymore because they really just become a party of reach hostility and now tory nonviolence people don't want any more people leading the left these are not robots these are actual people who are the democratic party abroad and so. british military personnel could be

prosecuted for alleged war crimes committed while assisting operations conducted by the u.s. a two year probe into drone use carried out by a cross party parliamentary group from the u.k. they have been complicit in targeted killings in afghanistan iraq and syria as well as in yemen somalia and pakistan countries where the u.k. isn't officially a. inquirers report raises concerns about the legitimate use of combat drones abroad claiming it could lead to a number of unacknowledged civilian casualties report says the u.k. is complicit in illegal strikes conducted by the states which were receiving british military and intelligence support u.k. government's policy regarding drone use is brandi's quote opaque and big u.s. and effectively unaccountable we spoke to lord nazir are a member of the parliamentary group behind the report we need to be more transparent and it has to be. very open and the information needs to be

available this should be a parliamentary oversight and the government also needs to make sure that there is proper legislation to ensure that transparency and also account ability as well as legality under international law and this also means that we make sure that there are no civilian casualties nor extrajudicial killings and wherever possible those culprits that they want want to catch this should be caught and brought to justice rather than the easy use of drawings and killing them without us knowing exactly what the allegations are. according to the reports some drone strikes were conducted without parliament's approval for the defense ministry admitting to only one civilian death. we do everything we can to minimize the risk to civilian life from u.k. strikes it is therefore deeply regrettable that strike resulted in an unintentional

civilian fatality the u.k. drone strikes within syria have killed one civilian that's the code of the official statistics obviously anyone the knows about drone strikes knows that that figure is absolutely ludicrous no one that i know finds that credible at all the u.k. government claims that only one civilian has been killed in a drone strike is insane no one believes that because it's low risk it means they don't have to there's no impetus on reporting it so there's no coverage in the mainstream media and there's certainly very little coverage from that from the likes of the b.b.c. here in the u.k. there are various sources really groups in the u.k. that are trying to monitor drone strikes but it obviously is very very difficult but the problem is growing definitely and it's it is a worry and i bring you right up to date thanks staying without international updates coming your way at the top of the hour.

join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest on the world of politics or business i'm showbusiness i'll see you there. greetings and salutation. you know while opportunistic politicians lapdog journalists and intelligence community sheep continue to froth at the mouth and fall all over themselves in paranoia nationalism over trump and putin in the

unbridled crazy that is russia gate there are actually real problems facing the citizens of united states of america you know you do you do still remember them right the good those good folks you you help our corporations fleece those good folks who who ultimately pay all your salaries until you get that prime think tank pundit gig you know the voters well i hope all your intelligence community bootlickers are sitting down because according to the voters your obsession over trump and russia is actually not what is most important to them in fact according to a recent gallup poll the situation with russia accounts for less than point five percent of what americans believe is the most important problem facing the country today you know what was number one dissatisfaction with government and poor leadership this was followed by the economy unemployment the gap between the rich and.