i. think for palestinian demonstrators reportedly killed and over $100.00 more injured in the west bank because they faced off with israeli security forces with burning ties and the high yield of stones also to come for palestinian children and killed meanwhile in an airstrike after israel ramps up military pressure on guards with ground forces joining the air assault at the border. there was bombing everywhere the planes were above us and the tanks in the media were shelling so we could remove the children along with the men in the mountainous dreaming i have never seen anything was worse than this in my life but tell me this is a busy city and only the roads off the city at this time is absolutely no one or

nothing on the streets meanwhile air raid sirens are heard across television bringing life there to a standstill gaza militants say nearly $1800.00 rockets have now been fired into israel since tensions flared on monday but also to come this hour retired u.s. military officers say they are tired of the state of the nation with left wing censorship on the border crisis in the joint letter they do question whether the president's health is actually up to the job. but i welcome you watching r.t. international this friday evening start this hour these pictures from the west bank thick plumes of smoke can be seen there is a palestinian state clash with israeli security forces molotov cocktails being thrown tires satellite rubber bullets have been fired in response well this is happening in the town of beit el just north of jerusalem.

now according to authorities for palestinian protesters. have been killed and over 100 injured in friday's finest as following days of unrest all across his trial in cities with mixed you wish arab nations with mopes from both sides setting fires and vandalizing fakers and buildings of the past in the west bank being created by finding trashy staying one of the hot spots is that a mile or. mohamed. from. this all began last night as images of the bombings and been distributed across social media as people have seen these bombs falling up on residential how and residential buildings over 80 people have died in the gaza strip last night and this had pushed people beginning at 3 30 in the morning and went down into the streets in ramallah in hebron in nablus in. protesting the israeli war all of those protesting the situation in jerusalem

chanting slogans calling for another intifada calling for more popular action on the ground is an increase of protesters not only in ramallah as i mentioned but there are also situations involved involving 1000 protesters in israeli military forces in other cities in the west bank there are protests right now in nablus extremely. intense protests are happening in hebron where a lot of serious injuries have been incurred among the protesters there are also protests and around janine where 2 of palestinians have been fired upon inside their vehicle by israeli forces and those policies have been arrested despite their injuries preventing the israeli forces prevented any paramedics why there from the hospitals or the palestinian red crescent from approaching the injured palestinians we have at least in the west bank 7 people have been killed in these protests in clashes scores of people have been injured so far and the situation's only seeming

more and more dire as we're looking at the situation here in the ground. but the death toll has mounted israel steps up airstrikes and ground assaults on gaza as the region tases 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 in garza following an attack on thursday local media say they were from the same family. that's why i was going to sit with them. was the ambulances have been ferrying those who survived the airstrikes to local hospitals since monday 122 people have been killed in gaza according to the palestinian health ministry 31 of them are said to be children but an office of the t.r.t. news channel was also hit by israeli airstrikes while the reporter was live on air his more on the story from a local journalist. right now the. hospital of gaza city which was one of the

largest hospitals and the gaza strip belonging to the palestinian health ministry total families were killed like what like we can say 8 families were some $24.00 members out of those 8 travelers were killed so with the situation is very miserable and it seems that they have not taken the lesson from the last time where the international criminal court will certainly convict them for the previous crimes they are still insisting to commit more crimes in the gaza strip here some of the injuries that have been received and admitted to the hospital are being treated out of their injuries that were hit by the israelis israeli warplanes it is really really attacks on the territory over the past few days 100 is a 13 year old boy his home was hit by israeli warplanes to the east of gaza city were hunted and his family used to live for many years. i was in the car when

my hand was hit opened the door and then fell to the ground. and then peelings came over to get me he in the hospital they treated my hand he's injured in his right. by. shrub nests from from the remains of rockets. he has to fracture and has his right arm and. my cousins and i were sitting in front of my soles if i shared her chair and you know any of those street again we all went to cause the injured people to provide 1st aid to us as i attempted to one of them i won't play inside iraq and i fell on the ground and i don't understand what we did to deserve this why do they do this to us and them today with us and with us with that aggression and with good on and with the closure you are speaking about it is our stuff the situation is very hard and complicated and i am in this interview i hope that all hope those who will hear

me today extend a helping hand to the place you know mr perry by supporting us my medication the medical supplies and intensive care units utilities. well people in gaza are a fleeing in droves at the moment amid the heavy shelling leaving behind what is left of their homes some of them have taken shelter and food from by the united nations where families do arrive and things they can at the moment they say they haven't seen such horror before. a room in the saw for 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 then i was already sick and carried him and i could not keep carrying with us and shelling was random and we're not going to. assume they're going to feel like we're in horror movie but it was worse than a harm's way there was bombing everywhere the planes were above us and the tanks in maybe you were shelling so we couldn't move children along with women and a man who is screaming i have never seen anything worse than this in my life.

meanwhile israel says it is massing troops along the gaza border and has called up $9000.00 reservists that is steve grove an imminent ground invasion of the hamas run gaza strip so far israeli troops haven't entered the enclave although artillery and tanks have been firing into the strip over night. thank. god the 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 showing a large scale operation involving ground forces artillery and 160 aircraft according to a statement that would make it the largest round of strikes against gaza say far in this 4 day flare up the israeli air force have also been targeting the strip since monday after the militant palestinian group hamas began launching rockets into israel well this is verified video of israel's intense involvement of sales of

overnight israel's more than $650.00 targets in there destroying several high rise buildings in the densely populated palestinian enclave the i.d.f. says its strikes have killed dozens of militants this week including some top hamas commanders meanwhile across the border in israel. oh no. oh the air raid sirens were heard throat several cities on thursday warning people of incoming fire from gaza including television from where coarsely 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 wish i was sleeping in a shelter clean up until now because 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 will be the iron dome anti-missile defense system intercepting with the ruckus they what 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 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. policy of party television ok let's talk more about the israeli operate. now because we can speak with brigadier general form a pretty general i may have even from the israeli defense forces and we appreciate your time saving thank you for coming on and i look i understand that both sides have been criticizing this conflict but from your perspective gee think israel's response has been proportionate given the palestinian death toll that we're seeing is where it has been a duct through sleep by a terror organization this government doing basic crimes it shooting within its own civilian population and that israeli population israel was shot more than 2 rockets though rick you looked into our cities were citizens hamas has more than

50000 rockets. and civilian areas and the israeli press forces are responsive will probably tell you in making sure that this capabilities are destroyed we have to defend our citizens and this is what we are doing we are attacking you know very carefully weigh all their military installations it's a very complicated operation because everything is inside a very densely 1000000000 area and we're doing that surrender to the best when we can can you do it without a ground invasion of gaza. well we are not interested in the. invasion of gaza this is why we're attacking from the air obviously when you attack only from the air it's much more difficult but the i.d.f.

has improved dramatically its capability to collect information and use for size munition you know that will diminish the capability of the hamas and then i think we have the chief of staff who is doing and the amazing job. in this operation i think that the masses thrillingly which pressure and i believe that the pressure will continue until hamas will say enough we cannot hold anymore but we need to really destruct the capabilities of the build for so many years so how far away then do you think mr v.v. are way from reaching that point where hamas would no longer pose the danger you say to israel well it's a hard question i would assume probably did is we have to take into account 3 main issues one that will succeed in our mission actually managed to destroy most of the capabilities that are really sure is our civilians will be basically

a one she will go back to normal life and the other which was of course the you know what is going on in the international arena the pressure that always stick around not such a big scale operations but one thing is very important if we are not decisive we're going to win decisively in this matter war might escalate to other a has likely been on syria and iran why when you accept hamas is author of a cease fire it said look if we if we will stop it he will stop why won't israel accept that. why don't. we want to accept that because when it will destroy the capabilities we cannot leave their organisation how being 50 stars and rockets with large warheads cover all of the state of israel in their organizations that there's no problem simply shooting at citizen civilians should think into center of

cities i think that any other country in the war there would have suffered such an attack would have probably already been throwing everything unconquerable the syria we are a bit more careful for many reasons but this isn't how it is ok well ok thank you very much for coming in to our team explaining they will position that was a retired israeli brigadier general amir i.v. thanks he talked very much. pink floyd front man and actually stated what you want is to 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 global civil society in my view if i can you understand i have to give israel's point of view all not they say an israeli court has ruled prior to 148 and one was in jewish girls and if the hearts because of jordan has 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 something it's equally nonsensical.

story which they've been saying they've been saying that same thing over and over again a single state from the rivets of the say a proper democracy with equal rights all rights equal equal human rights for every rich single citizen all people citizens all the jews only 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 word because it speaks to the collective management about human affairs that we're all going to have to adopt we're going to save this fragile planet from this from what we're seeing on our screens here. now since monday 8 israelis have died in also including a soldier killed by an antitank missiles our and also a 6 year old child hit in

a rocket attack. not only 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 traumatized after life on the front line 34 year old father of 2 blanching has been suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder since leaving the army in 2008 his mental state had been further strain too since attending funerals of each of his fallen comrades who'd been killed in action in iraq he was found collapsed in his home back in february of this year and died a short time later in hospital his widow how he got off shared what happened. obviously he that's the army. because quite clearly. the army. and he was diagnosed back in 2012. well when he was diagnosed it was certain it wasn't a break you know. it all writes that should be none of our streets really

even then it was the remembrance that i. book could be years before he died but. it was really really that i see actually it much suits that are this go as far as he went and that chasse you know it's a combat stress and not one person in any open i was actually not kind of you know how. well according to the campaign group veterans united against suicide $67.00 former servicemen took their own lives last year while in the last 2 decades there were almost $300.00 suicides among serving personnel during this period to the u.k. had been involved in several conflicts including in iraq afghanistan and also syria again thinks that turns just stand guess in the support they need. the way these veterans are treated for me these boys and girls are going to fight frank control and now combat these horrific memories that none of us will ever you know not

comprehend what happened. but you know they're literally thrown aside would that be taught that the 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 downtown think that it's good because it wasn't helped. and you know in years to come that's going to be a difficult conversation with a half of my children but you know not that it could have been saved if it wasn't for the organizations i. could get. questions about president biden's health for once again stoking fierce debate in the united states after $124.00 retired military officers signed an open letter claiming that the administration has launched an all out assault against their constitutional rights and also question to the president's fitness to rule but there's been plenty of pushback too not least from the democrats to saskia taylor explain it. well you watch the news so you know joe biden's the best we see

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 a new front that something good joe biden is uniquely qualified to do as a joe biden giving america a message tonight them and 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 lesson have to pick with the current us administration well quite a few ranging from joe being too buddy buddy with beijing to kidding 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 month at the border compared to a year ago water 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 promised to be a president for all americans want americans except subscribers to part or 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 ends asking the question is it 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 spied him to think about giving others the all star a t. 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 wars 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 need has decided to publicly dump truck the current president has demonstrated he's not equal to the enormous responsibilities of his office he can address to me 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 equal to independently lead up to alone can cause great instability in the global arena and

a 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 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 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 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. following recent diplomatic spat sand sanctions against

russia moscow has now published a list of unfriendly states nominated to countries the united states and the czech republic so let's get more on this now and speak with our correspondent dan hawkins good evening dan just give us some background there now as to what triggered all of this well this list was in discussion since the end of april of course when president vladimir putin signed his decree on unfriendly states and these were counter measures brought in by moscow in response to actions deemed hostile towards russia by foreign countries and this of course follow all series of diplomatic standoffs and escalations between moscow and the number of countries so what does this actually mean while the decree signed on 23rd of april by vladimir putin restricts the diplomatic missions the consulate institutions the government offices of countries whose actions are deemed hostile unfriendly all damaging towards russia a russian entities or indeed russian citizens from employing foreign staff on the territory of the russian federation a very poorly from employing russian stuff now you know the list is so far fairly

short just 2 states and one country we can all guess would be on there indeed the foreign ministry spokeswoman has a card over said back in april it was obvious the united states would be number one on the list the 2nd is the czech republic and that follows of course allegations by prague against moscow of being somehow involved in an explosion at a weapons depot in the country back in well back 7 years ago now. that followed an expulsion of russian diplomats from the country. versions from moscow in response according to the list the czech republic can only employed 19 russian citizens in russia and the us can employ 0 those numbers of course could change they could go up and down and other countries could be added to the list as well and these measures will make it harder for consulates to operate in the u.s. embassy has already cut 75 percent of its staff in moscow. recent weeks they've put on the whole view showing a visas to russian citizens wishing to travel to the united states so the list the

so far short it could get longer of course and this comes on the back of the 1st meeting between president joe biden and writing a putin next month in june when hopefully there will be some sort of perhaps rebalancing following a very tense period between washington and moscow it could very well be this list would be one of those things discussed in that 1st face to face meeting so far though not good news on that front certainly not many people will be optimistic of a positive outcome given news measures ok thanks dan it was artie's that dan hawkins that. america's colonial pipeline has resumed operation after is brought to a standstill by a cyber attack last friday. still expected for several days to come it is believed to group known as the dark side supposedly from eastern europe was behind the hack but according to media reports the company operating the colonial pipeline has paid

close to $5000000.00 as a ransom to the hackers it is believed the payment was made using some form of crypto currency the president biden although the company's represents is of commented on those allegations his r.t. america's host rick sanchez with more. i happen last night the 1st side we got that something was up came from the president of the united states himself we have a very very close contact with colonial pipeline which is 21 you're talking about one of the reasons against the 1st is you can we know and i think. 24 hours and i think we'll be getting that under control he set it right i think you're going to be hearing something good in just a little bit here and we're going to have it all under control well not long after that colonial announced that the pipeline was open but nothing else they didn't

mention whether they had paid the ransom or not paid the ransom you know in america probably because of hollywood and partly because of our inflated sense of exceptionalism we tend to always think that this is what happens when somebody takes us hostage or anyone ever asks us for a ransom i just hear some possible because. i feel like it was what you. were just bad guys always lose right right it appears in this case that's not the case true lacking any other explanation at this point but according to a published report by bloomberg there's every reason to believe that colonial did pay 'd the ransom. was rick sanchez there with his thoughts on the story well the colonial pipeline is one of the america's largest fuel networks pumping nearly half of petrol he still needs.