so join us at the. forum made in the shallows. israel military pressure against the gaza strip with ground forces joining the air assault on the border with children caught in the crossfire. legend of peace activists for water. when we're talking about gaza which will barrel full of fish and israelis a shooting in. this city and only the boats of busy at this time. no one or nothing on the streets while their sirens are heard across television bringing life there to a standstill the answer militants say nearly 1800 rockets have been fired into israel since tensions flared on monday. another news retired u.s.

military officers say that they're tired of the state of the nation with its left wing censorship and border crisis joint letter they question whether the current president allows them to perform. watching out international thanks for joining us. in disturbing scenes victims including children was seen being pulled from rubble in garza following airstrikes medics and emergency workers on thursday recovered the bodies of 6 victims including 4 children local media say all of the victims were part of the same household since monday $109.00 people have died in gaza or according to a mass health ministry $28.00 of them believed to be children. and while israel says it's massing troops along the gaza border and calling up 9000

reservists that's as fears grow of an imminent ground invasion of the gaza strip israeli troops. but artillery and tanks have been firing into the strip overnight. i. a mass says gaza was hit by 150 strikes in just a matter of minutes that would make it the largest round of strikes against garza so far in this 4 day flare up strikes rained down on the area throughout the night the israeli air force including drones helicopters and fighter jets have been hitting the strip since monday after the militant palestinian group must become launching rockets into israel. is unverified video of israel's intense bombardment of gaza overnight in israel's bomb more than $650.00 targets in gaza destroying several high rise buildings and densely populated palestinian enclaves the i.d.f. said it strikes have killed dozens of militants including some top amass commanders

local journalists and as this report from gaza. the scene where where i am is very tense for the moment as this really were planes and israeli tank or infantry have intensified their shilling and the ball boggled by argument of the palestinian gaza strip where the population here are being forced to endure because of the intensity of the chilling in the 2nd day of the raid and actually it is one of the largest israeli attack on gaza in the last a few days and the people of guards are as a city stayed indoors and following god when the answer from the news on the social media and people are sick saying that children are screaming out of the. situation of the of the loud. around them around the cities and towns.

in gaza is on the rise the women are being killed children are being killed inside their homes because of what is being described by international organizations like the i.c.r.c. as being indiscriminate fire against palestinians which is which is illegal according to international law. and 3 troops israel has beefed up their presence on the ball did lines and it is likely that israel will take a sort of action on the ground the ground invasion for the gaza strip and i would like to mention here is that the palestinian resistance factions including this love mr bass and the islamic jihad have warned against it such an invasion by the israeli saying that there will be some sort of retaliation a strong retaliation to early ground attack by capturing more israeli soldiers by by air by by attacking israeli soldiers. to attack the gaza strip palestinians

are being very concerned about their inaction by the international community especially by the native the state which described israeli actions against gaza being not exaggerated and giving a chance for more talks to happen in order to continue to be able to contain the volatile situation and the region that's the update for the time be. the number of casualties has been rising daily since monday so far $109.00 palestinians been killed in the conflict 7 israelis have also died including a soldier killed by an anti-tank missile and a 6 year old child in a rocket attack in all hamas says it's already fired 50 rockets into israel in the latest exchange of fire. the oh no. the air raid sirens running out on thursday throughout so rule cities warning people of incoming fire from gaza including intel of of course listen to this

report. the sirens are sounding here in tel aviv i've just woken up and i'm just going to walk through the apartment to go outside and see what's happening so i'm just switching on the lights because it's about 1 o'clock in the morning and they're coming from that direction and there's usually a pause after the sirens and then an explosion as to where the rockets have landed this is not the direction one should be moving in actually most people are sleeping in sheltered rooms i wish i was sleeping in a shelter clean up until now people should be hunkering down but i just want to show you what it's like here when the rockets sound so if we go here. and you walk with me. you can also seeing the roads are completely quiet tel aviv is a busy city and only the roads are busy at this time there is absolutely no one or nothing on the streets now is the pause i told you about and then after

a moment or so they should be an explosion and that would be the iron dome anti-missile defense system intercepting with the ruckus they were it is there it is it's quite far away so it doesn't seem as if the rocket landed in tel aviv it sounded a little bit off to that direction. but for this reason at least 5000000 israelis are hunkering down in bomb shelters tonight while that sounds a bit loud that's coming from there so that's quite close to where we are and really shouldn't be outright now i should make my way back to the shelter where i was sleeping up until a minute ago. paula r.t. tel aviv the israeli city of lot has become a flashpoint of clashes this week it is one of the cities with a mixed arab and jewish population of firemen there were seen dumbing down a civil god would have been torched israeli security forces are patrolling the

streets tensions ease compared to previous days but the situation does remain fragile local mayor earlier likened events on the streets there to a civil war. for pink floyd front man and activist roger waters thinks the israeli occupation of palestinian lands is untenable. unless some pressure is brought to bear upon the israeli government to stop the ferocious murderous attack upon on gaza they're not going to stop of their own accord their will is not going to suddenly disappear but clearly in the long term. the israeli occupation of palestine is untenable it is not a future that compulsively survive public opinion is changing all over the world and they are not going to be allowed to get away with it by the global civil society in my view again you understand i have to give israel's point of view all not they say an israeli court has ruled that prior to 948 was

in jewish. and. because of jordan it was taken away from them this is not an equal conflict this is not when we're talking about gaza which who can a barrel full of fish in the israelis is shooting into it with hugely efficient weaponry and them and you talking to me about what some israeli spokesman is saying about what's going on in the coaster and how that the next thing you'll be telling me is that rockets rained down on jerusalem or some us equally nonsensical. story which they've been so say they've been saying the same thing over and over again a single state from the rivets at the sea a proper democracy with equal rights all rights equal equal human rights for every single citizen all people citizens all the jews all the arabs all citizens

of a single state from the rivets of the sea that would work. that would have a chance a real real chance of working you know why because it speaks to the collective management of our human affairs that we're all going to have to adopt to put in the safe this fragile planet from this from what we're seeing on our screens here. an idea spokesperson told r.t. it's how master trick of the violence in israel simply trying to protect its people that's made not under siege all it's all it's a security blockade we have nothing no interest in the story really think about it not a holy place a tiny place we want to live in peace but in the street the risk from us it target is ation we see a. brother and they disagree to have israel hind me

the only jewish state. and from time to time they launch many many sights on the neighboring settlements and now it's escalation about the ground forces we have to consider it because you have seen what will be next if you ask me i don't think that we receive israel in gaza i think that our forces are trying to do their best not to harm the population but to harm the stock. but you know they become must use the population is human shields but i want to say something about the culture ok. i saw even international t.v. they always try to look at the like a wall or basketball image there is just 7 the cousin is in israel and.

or in the palestinians are and i think it's not fair ok because these are really just trying to call the civilians in every house we have a new house we have a show like in my house we try to pick our civilians and they deliberately. in danger. of british army veteran has taken his own life after attending funerals of 9 of his comrades killed in iraq 34 year old father of 2 lunching or been suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder since leaving the army in 2002008 his mental state had been further strain since attending funerals of each of his fallen comrades who'd been killed in action in iraq it was found collapsed in his home in february of this year he died a short time later in hospital his widow haley got shadow and. was a huge that's the army and it popular because quite clearly if you look at the

army. and he was diagnosed back in 2012. well when he was diagnosed it was certain it wasn't a great you know inquiry would come out of it to write it up should be you know none of our streets really even then obviously remember it so i. put it completely $40.00 that's when it was really really bad i see actually out much simpson on this go as far as he went and i tracked you want to come back straps and not one person in any organ i was actually not can't you help that you deserved. according to the campaign group of veterans united against suicide $67.00 former servicemen took their own lives last year in the last 2 decades there were almost $300.00 suicides among serving personnel during this period you could have been involved in several conflicts including in the gulf gallus down in syria early gulf thinks veterans

just aren't getting the support they need. why these veterans are treated for me these boys and girls are going to fight frank control and neck combat with these horrific memories that none of us will ever you know not comprehend what happened there but you know they're literally thrown aside would that be taught that they're too complex there's no one that can deal with veterans and to me that's not good you know. i've had to sit 2 children down town talk to dad because he wasn't helped . and you know it needs to come that's going to be a difficult conversation to have with my children but you know not that he could have been sorry if it wasn't for the organizers actions and that is how completely . your chart international more news coming up after the break.

who is a fascist well given the state of our politics a fascist is your political opponent even. tragically dangerously the term fascist is more times than not a political slur to destroy someone's character fascism is an odious ideology and

political practice we all should be careful when referencing. questions about president joe biden's health the once again fierce debate in america after $124.00 retired military officers signed an open letter claiming the administration's most an all out assault on their constitutional rights and they question the president's fitness to rule their words angered other military servicemen and of course democrats explains. well you watch the news so you know joe biden's the best we've seen with president biden he's demonstrated to the country what a difference. the change of presidents has made president biden is confronting

this enormous loss directly and publicly help americans heal on any front that something did show biden is uniquely qualified to do as a job. giving america a message tonight the one i think the only this president president could give not the former one the thing is apparently the mainstream media doesn't speak for everyone shocking so what bones does this letter have to pick with the current us administration well quite a few ranging from joe being too buddy buddy with beijing to killing off thousands of jobs with a big percentage of americans thinking that the ongoing border crisis is biden's fault open borders jeopardize national security by increasing human trafficking drug cartels terrorist entry illegals are flooding our country we must reestablish border controls and continue building the wall and while the white house won't call it a crisis 10 times more migrants record last 7 month at the border compared to

a year ago border patrol says it's a crisis and people in texas a teaching our children to shoot here just in case but totally not a crisis though at least wool oh yeah didn't you hear by to the man who said there will not be in the fruits of wool constructed on my administration is a surprise constructing ok not a wool but a barrier which apparently is very different but while biden's building back better on the border then lets it claims that freedom of speech is crumbling down. censoring speech and expression distorting speech spreading disinformation by government officials private entities and the media is a method to suppress the free flow of information a tyrannical technique used in closed societies which is strange because he promised to be a president for all americans want americans except subscribers to paula anyone

who's up and a red cap or donald trump that banned and given all these mixed messages coming from the white house the letter ends all thing the question is if biden up to the job. the mental and physical condition of the commander in chief cannot be ignored he must be able to quickly make accurate national security decisions involving life and limb anywhere day or night now one simple video can prove that joe's not sleepy at all. but that the one star group of democrats who ugs spuyten to think about giving others the authority to launch a nuclear attack not exactly a vote of confidence in the commander in chief so as you can see a fiery laughs with some serious allegations that have got people a bit angry that was way you bors and i was expecting some of it is very

antidemocratic they are absolutely violating the norm to be a political they're being used for partisan purposes they're going against their constitutional all all very good points a very very good point that was not raised last year when almost 500 national security need has decided to publicly dump truck the current president has demonstrated he's not equal to the enormous responsibilities of his office he cannot rise to meet challenges large or small let me guess that was different isn't it always in a country like america has a leader who clearly has some sort of cognitive decline who is not evil to independently lead up to alone can cause great instability in the global arena and the global leader one of the biggest problems we have is the mainstream media outlets in the united states who have not only there are no longer journalists

there's no journalistic integrity within mainstream large media outlets in america and some of their allies and progeny they are have now become an arm of the democratic party in news. because our american mainstream media outlets are propaganda arm for joe biden and the democrats when the news coverage of you know people are going to have to make up what that is and so they're going to come up with what are they trying to cover up it might make it much worse than it is or maybe better than it is and that will cause so much more instability so many more risk and that's that's what's dangerous dangerous to the citizens of this country it's dangerous to people throughout the world because of the role the united states is played in the world. joe johns also feeling the heat at home over his pandemic recovery plans for the economy now several u.s. states are looking to slash emergency benefits in a bid to boost the job markets restaurants across the country been struggling to

her of staff despite hiking pay rates to track down critics claim generous unemployment checks leaving many people reluctant to search for work all that but argument's been rejected by the white house how does the white house know that people are just choosing not to apply for jobs because yes or an employment benefits are so we don't see much evidence that the extra unemployment insurance is a major driver in people not rejoining the workforce. amid coded restrictions being eastern more people vaccinated the u.s. or 266000 people find new jobs in april that was the way of the bark of what economists predicted expected around a 1000000 to find work the short form and those little improvement in the overall unemployment rate. through into the order the americans are receiving additional payment of $300.00 per week which is sometimes higher than what's being offered by employers childcare issues schools being closed the no vaccination yet are also

said to be discouraging people from going back to work president biden system america's economy is headed in the right direction and the low job figures there for justify his new spending plans. we put the issue of how the u.s. government should move to a pandemic economy up for debate. when you have not working haying almost as much if not more then working that creates a disincentive for people to go and get jobs in the economy and that was on purpose during code that we didn't want everybody flooding in after that disruptions in hospitality and travel but we need to be thoughtful about how we move out of that covert economy and back into a more normal economy and i think wages are going to have to rise in order for that to move forward properly the schools have not really opened in us and most of the

places they say they're open but for maybe a couple hours or a couple days a week well that means parents have to continue teaching their kids they can't go back to work i suspect a lot of the recalls to work business isn't just testing the market and bringing people back and part time in other words their weekly earnings are far less if you want these people who come back raise the minimum wage for these people pay them a decent wages so they can afford childcare make sure they have the same hours of work that you did before and the people are welcome back to work the idea that all these benefits isn't having an impact on the unemployment numbers is absurd sure there are other aspects of this that there are other factors in this equation but yes they do need to start moving more towards getting people back to work which means not paying them to stay home and we need to reopen our schools that is a that is a factor as well that is

a good point so it's not so this won't fix the problem it is hard as just removing the benefits but we also need to reopen schools there's also the fact that there are a lot of people especially here in austin texas who are just afraid to go back to work one because again the benefits and because they're still afraid about coping so it's a variety of factors we can't. say that benefits have nothing to do. investigations continue into a mass shooting at a school in the russian city of concern this week it left 9 people including 7 children and 19 year old suspects appeared in court for a pretrial hearing on wednesday he pleaded guilty and was remanded in custody his mental states currently being assessed after he claimed he was acting as god the massacre occurred on tuesday when the former student went to his old school and opened fire along with the 9 deaths maybe 20 people were injured most of them children 8 of since been lifted to moscow for specialist treatment with some said

to be in a critical condition. following those horrific events the mother of a local teenager who committed suicide last year as asked or so it is to investigate a possible connection between the tragedies her son and the shooter studied at the same college both proclaim themselves to be god's will and believes there may be parallels in their behavior rather than reveal that when i saw the video of the shooter lying in detention center in a cage with his hands behind his head half naked and the way he said all those wires and his behavior i saw my son he was saying god i am god the same words i heard from my child for about 2 years that he was both god and the travel in one person and that he knew everything and he knew how to live and he knew what was going to happen he said something like that i can't just remember everything right now but i just saw my boy at that exact moment my son wasn't quiet he was on the

country hyperactive but when he left school and went to study programming he changed he dressed all of black and had a hood covering his head you could only see his eyes he was always wearing a mask. the teenager killed himself last may his family says he had problems with his girlfriend and the tried to commit suicide several times prior to that after the neil's death his mother found out on his phone and gives instructions on how to use weapons from all contact the nearby it was in college when my son became very distant from his family he completely pushed us away and didn't want to communicate at all he began to call his stepfather my 2nd husband by name although from the age of 7 he called him dat suddenly daddy became just max to him his last words were mother you'll be fine when i'm gone you'll live in peace my ex-husband sat there on the night of the death my son came to him with a red painted face he stood for a while and that it out for him he found out our son was not at home in the safe

where the gun was had been opened with a key. leverage up so they don't forget though plenty more stories you can check out by having to our website r.t. dot com. but you got the end of the spanish empire the end of the british empire the end of the roman empire and you have some similarities and differences but the 3 cities traffic we talk about the rise of one nation in this case china and the fall of the ruling at the time this case the united states we've got all those kinds of things happening right now the people who are least informed about this are the americans

themselves because the cable news network of mars the corporate news it's not in their interests to actually prepare people for this they're just considered to be expendable. that if you want when you can put up with a chance. to do a good idea for a major overhaul. just took a cue to interweave. which neck do you still use that i didn't know was listening to because i thought it might incomplete you. who fish. bill and want to go to these the the. buddhist the outsourcing the she beautiful. school that wants this issue of. you know wolf are just really. trotting out the story to get to the beat. of much interest which i mean it. was

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