the headlines this hour for palestinian children were killed in an airstrike after israel ramps up military pressure on garza ground forces joining the air assault at the border and we felt like a war in harm but it was worse than harm there was bombing everywhere. as the city and only the roads are busy at this time is absolutely no one or nothing on the streets. there sirens are heard across television bringing life there to a standstill gaza militants say nearly 1800 rockets have been fired into israel since tensions flared on monday and also to come retired u.s. military officers say they are tired of the state of the nation with their win censureship and the border crisis in

a joint letter they question whether the president's health is up to the job. though they're just gone 4 pm here in moscow you're watching r.t. international. now the death toll mounts as israel steps up airstrikes and ground assaults on guards or is the region teeters on the brink of all out war medics and emergency workers have been filmed recovering the bodies of 6 victims including 4 children from the rubble following in the attack on thursday local media say they were from the same family. this was said. was over the. ambulances have been ferrying those who survived the airstrikes to local hospital since monday 109 people have been killed in gaza according to the

palestinian health ministry 28 of them said to be children or people in gaza are fleeing in their droves and that they have been shelling leaving behind what's left of their homes some of them have taken shelter in schools run by the united nations where families arrive by any means they can they say they have never seen such horror before. the night was very difficult because of the missiles and airstrikes that destroyed homes all the children are afraid and we're afraid for them i don't know about my son is sick i've been carrying him and i could not keep carrying him all night the shelling was random and we could not move. the neck until we felt like we were in horror movie but it was worse than a horror movie there was bombing everywhere the planes were above us and the tanks in maybe were shelling so we couldn't move children along with women and men were screaming i have never seen anything worse than this in my life. israel that does say these massing troops along the gaza border and is called up $9000.00 reservists

that is fierce due growth an imminent ground invasion of the hamas run gaza strip so far the israeli troops haven't entered the enclave although archery and tanks have been firing into the strip overnight. i. israeli army claims to have destroyed several kilometers of underground tunnels in and around its border with gaza during strikes in the early hours of friday morning the i.d.f. released footage to showing a large scale operation involving ground forces artillery and 160 aircraft according to a statement and that would make it the largest round of strikes against gaza so far in this 4 day flare up the israeli air force has also been targeting the strip since monday after the militant palestinian group hamas began launching rockets into israel now this is unverified video of israel's intense bombardment of gaza

overnight israel has bombed more than $650.00 targets in there destroying several high rise buildings in the densely populated palestinian enclave the i.d.f. said its strikes have killed dozens of militants this week including some top hamas commanders a local journalist sent us this report from gaza. the scene where where i am is very tense for the moment as this really. planes and israeli tank infantry have intensified their shilling and the board. of the palestinian guards us to read the population here are being forced to endure because of the intensity of the chilling in the 2nd day of the aisle for raid and actually it is one of the largest israeli attack on gaza in the last few days and the people of guards are as a citizen indoor and following god and the answer from you is on the social media and

people are saying that children are screaming out of the volatile situation of the of the loud. around them around the cities and towns where the death toll in gaza is on the rise a 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 the infantry troops israel has beefed up their presence on the border 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 days like mr bass and the islamic jihad have warned against such an invasion by the israeli saying that there will be some sort of

a retaliation a strong retaliation to any ground attack by capturing more israeli soldiers by by air by by attacking the israeli soldiers. to attack the gaza strip palestinians are being very concerned about their action by the international community especially by. then i did a stage which described as really 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 in the region that's up to date for the time being. or since monday 7 israelis have also died including a soldier killed by an anti-tank missile and also a 6 year old child hit in a rocket attack meanwhile house says it is already fired 50 rockets into israel this morning in the latest exchange of fire.

the air raid sirens were heard throughout several cities on thursday 14 people of incoming fire from gaza including television from where paul asleep sent us 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 was shit i was sleeping in as 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 wow that sounds a bit loud that's coming from there so that's quite close to where we are i really shouldn't be africa now i should make my way back to the shelter room where i was sleeping up until a minute ago. policia r.t. tel aviv. israeli city of lot has become a flashpoint tomb of the clashes we've seen this week it is one of the cities with

a mixed arab and jewish population a fireman were seen dumping down a synagogue which had been torched his race acuity force of law also patrolling the streets tensions ease compared to previous days but the situation does remain fragile that the local mayor earlier likened events on the streets there to civil war now former pink floyd from month and activist roger waters does think that 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 by global civil

society in my view again you understand i have to give israel a point if you all know if they say an israeli court has ruled prior to 948 land was in jewish how little. is the heart because of jordan davis' taken away from them this is not an equal conflict this is not when we're talking about gaza which will king a barrel full of fish in the israelis as 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 ghosts or and how that the next thing you'll be telling me is that rockets rained down on jerusalem or some it's equally nonsensical. story which they've been saying they've been saying the same thing over and over again a single state from the river to the say

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 all human affairs that we're all going to have to adopt to put in to save this fragile planet from this from what we're seeing on our screens here sort of water speaking to us a bit earlier well an i.d.f. spokesperson told r.t. 2 is how mass that triggered the violence in israel is simply trying to protect its people that say it's not under siege all it's all it's a security blockade he has nothing no interest in this really think about it not

a holy place a tiny place we want to live in peace but in the strip the risk it target is a sure thing a. brother and they disagree to have israel i need only jewish state. enform time to time they launch many results on the neighboring estate and say commands and now it's escalation above the ground forces we have to consider it because you have to think what will be next if you ask me i don't think that we really see israeli troops in gaza i think that our else forces are trying to do the best not to harm the population but to harm the stalk in cetera but you know the whole must use the population is human shield but i i want to say something about the culture ok

i saw in our international t.v. they always try to look like a football or basketball maybe there is just the casualties in israel and. or in the palestinians or and i think it's not fair ok because these really just trying to call take the civilians in every house we have a new house we have a shell like in my house we try to protect our civilians and they deliberately. endangered. now the widow of a british army veteran who took his own life says that more needs to be done to help those who were left from the ties after life on the front line 34 year old father of 2 launch england had been suffering from post post-traumatic stress disorder since leaving the army in 2008 his mental state had been further strained to you since attending the funeral of each of his corn comrades been killed in

action in iraq and was found collapsed in his home back in february of this year and died a short time later in hospital his widow had to go off shared what happened. i was a huge that's the army and it popular because i'm quite clear that if you look at the army. and he was diagnosed back in 20 toll of. full when he was diagnosed it was certain it wasn't a great you know. it all rights that should be none of our streets really even when i was a remembrance i. put completely $40.00 that's when it was really really that i see actual massive so far this go as far 'd as he went and that chassis went to combat stress and not one person in any open i was actually not can't you help that he deserved according to the campaign group better engine ited against suicide

67 former servicemen took their own lives last year while in the last 2 decades there were almost 300 suicides among serving personnel during this period u.k. had been involved in several conflicts including in iraq afghanistan and also syria and gulf again thinks that veterans just aren't getting the support they need. the why these veterans all treat seeds and for me those girls are going to part from contrite and that combat we have a terrific memories that none of us will and you know not comprehend what happened . but you know that you. try to solve it that he told her that she contacts there's no one that can deal with trends and to me that's not good you know. because he wasn't how. and you know it used to come that's going to be a difficult conversation to have your question but you know that you could have

been if it wasn't for the organ i was actions i that's how most complete while. you watch not taste of something over the next few minutes unemployment benefits to help people in the u.s. get through the pandemic i said to be a good leaving some people reluctant to get back to work but having it could be arguments on that story just awful.

it's not. good for cars good cars it's much more complex than just. really what is good quality food what's a balanced diet and it's not about these 3 match. because food is actually that you 1000 chemicals. welcome back with our questions about president biden's health are once again stoking fierce debate in the united states after 124 retired military officers

signed an open letter claiming the administration's rules to all out assault on americans constitutional rights and questioning the president's fitness to rule but their words and could of the military servicemen and of course the democrats. explains while you watch the news so you know what joe biden's the best boosie worst president biden he's still true to the country what a difference. the change of presidents as made president biden is confronting this enormous loss directly and publicly americans heal on any friday that something good joe biden is uniquely qualified to do as a joe biden 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 and along 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 month at the border compared to a year ago border patrol says it's a crisis and people in texas are teaching their children to shoot here just in case but totally not a crisis though at least at the wool oh yeah didn't you hear biden the man who said there will not be another foot of wool construction 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 the letter 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 probably has to be a president for all americans want americans except subscribers to paula anyone who's ever owned a red cap or donald trump that banned and given all these mixed messages coming from the white house the letter and asking the question is biden up to the job the mental and physical condition of the commander in chief cannot be ignored you 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 is not sleepy at

all. but that is the one star group of democrats who spied and to think about giving others the all thora tea to launch a new. their 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 oath all very good points very very good point that was not raised last year when almost 500 national security needers decided to publicly dump tromp the current president has demonstrated he's not equal to the enormous

responsibilities of his office he can address 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 global theater 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 in progeny they have now become an arm of the democratic party the news is covering something up because our american mainstream media outlets are propaganda arm for joe biden and the democrats when the news cover something up 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 they might make it much worse than it is or

maybe better than it is and that will cause us so much more instability so many more risks 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 has played in the world. not joe biden is also a. feeling the heat see you over his pandemic recovery plans for the economy because several u.s. states are now looking to slash is emergency benefits in a bid to boost their job markets restaurants across the country say they've been struggling to hire enough staff that's despite hiking pay rates to attract applicants and critics claim is because generous unemployment checks are leaving many actually reluctant to look for work although that is an argument that has been rejected by the white house. as a way to know that people are just choosing to. be close. but it's personal we don't see much evidence that the extra unemployment insurance is

a major driver in people not rejoining the workforce well made code restrictions being eased to more people vaccinated the u.s. did see 266000 people find new jobs in april although that figure was way off what economists had been predicting they expected around a 1000000 people to find work and that shortfall has meant there was little improvement in the overall unemployment rate well until the autumn americans are receiving an additional payment of $300.00 a week which is sometimes higher than that offered by employers childcare issues the schools being closed and novak's vaccination yet are also said to be discouraging people from returning to work however president biden does insist that america's economy is heading 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 boost its economy up for debate. when you have not working paying 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 you got disruptions in hospitality and travel but we need to be thoughtful about how we move out of that cold economy and back into a more normal economy and i think wages are going after 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 and 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 are coming 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 as far 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. best

occasions to continue into a mass shooting at a school in the russian city of design this week which left 9 people including 7 children dead the 19 year old suspect did appear in court for a pretrial hearing on wednesday where he pleaded guilty and was remanded in custody his mental state is currently being assessed after he claimed that 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 more than 20 people were injured most of them children and 8 have since been there lifted the specialist treatment in moscow some of those are still said to be in a critical condition or following the horrific events the mother of a local teenager who committed suicide last year has asked the authorities to investigate a possible connection between the 2 tragedies her son and the shooter studied at the same college and both proclaimed themselves to be god's investigators have already expressed interest in the case and of promised to relaunch the inquiry the

mother of the boy who took his own life 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 in the temple 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 contrary hyperactive but when he left school and went to study programming he changed he dressed all in black and how to hold covering his head you could only see his eyes he was always wearing a mask. well the teenager killed himself last may his family says he had problems

with his girlfriend and then tried to commit suicide several times before after the newest death his mother found the now on his phone that gives instructions on how to use weapons. welcome back then you know 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 said that on the night of the death my son came to him with the red painted face he stood for a while and that it out for him he found out our son was not home and the safe where the gun was had been opened with a key and that brings you up to date with all the news so far this hour we'll be back with the latest particularly from israel in about a half an hour's time. you've

got the end of the spanish empire the end of the british empire the end of the roman empire hand you have some similarities and differences but the. 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 because the cable news network of news it's not a mere interest to actually prepare people for the us they're just considered to be expendable.