let's protect its own existence and existence. in. gaza residents are hit by power blackouts and severe water shortages israel's deadly air strikes leave homes and infrastructure in ruins when israel launches its worst onslaught so far response to palestinian rockets while rejecting international calls for a cease fire while israelis say the mass bears responsibility for the tragic escalation. i want to say is a former commander in the i.d.f. to the citizens of gaza we love you we want you to leave and lot more like you need to know that your leadership hamas leadership making all the problems.

and anti israel protests break out across europe as thousands take to the streets calling for the killing of civilians in gaza to stop. get even just on 6 o'clock here in moscow you're watching r.t. international now israel has unleashed a series of u.s. strikes on the gaza strip on monday in the ongoing tit for tat it followed militants firing a barrage of rockets at its neighbor palestinians say at least 198 people have been killed in the coastal enclave in the past 7 days including 58 children in israel 10 are dead including 2 youngsters where you can see the aftermath of a palestinian rocket strike on the city of ashdod in southern israel a residential building was severely damaged and at least 3 people were injured emergency workers say people managed to evacuate quickly. anting further casualties

as a base i mean on the guardian reports now from inside the territory. even stationed by the israeli warplanes oh freeze it in shell homes and different parts of the gaza strip but you can only hearing gaza city and more specifically right in the street where we are is standing has not only left a rendered many people killed and injured including women and children but also impacted the basic services of the community of the palestinian community in gaza. the whole neighborhood is suffering from a water shortage each building houses at least 80 people all of them lack drinking water water for other purposes this causes great suffering for everyone in the neighborhood as for the electricity supply it's only on for a couple of hours a day. and what didn't have a couple of water containers that will only be enough for a couple of days but others don't even have that are now forced to buy drinking

water for extremely high prices the price has gone up by 30 times and this happens along with other hardships with unemployment soaring and people not getting their salaries all of them i provide locals with water people are desperate to fill the tanks that many simply can't afford it right now receive a large number of calls from the local residents daily complaining about the power outages they ask us to fix the damage and restore the power supply many residential buildings have already been destroyed or shelled and these damaged buildings are very dangerous now because of the work recently flowing deep inside the rubble many international relief organizations mainly the united nations relief and works agency policy. and the gaza strip warns against what it terms the shorties the sharp shortages of power supply and water supply for the population of gaza especially in areas like this one that. have been damaged by the israeli

airstrikes over planes the strikes against them and the past a few days and this comes under the situation that bad economic situation and the territory with about more than 50 per cent of the people live under above or d. line and that employment records have recorded saw in the territory of the over the past years and that's the situation for the moment palestinians year in gaza have been badly affected or impacted by the ongoing israeli attacks on their territory of the past week. where families in gaza can be desperate search for loved ones in the aftermath of the strikes after hours of scrambling 3 dead one father was finally reunited with his injured child the infants are vive a strike on a residential building in which his mother and 4 siblings died we spoke to father. just one innocent children were targeted while they were going to visit their uncle

and cousins the israeli army bombed their uncle's house which led to the martyrdom of 4 of his sons and his wife as well as 4 of their uncles cousins and his wife dr who called baby omar god survived and is now lying in hospital was of children done to deserve being bombed with missiles from 35 aircraft and what have they done to this child by rockets israel what did he do to be targeted by missiles what is how many guards is a crime against humanity house of being bombed in collapsing on a residence without warning or notification the only crime is that they are children of gaza and while the palestinian prime minister has called on the international community to step in to help stop the bloodshed. what so what are the goring images and pictures of those children whose clothes have dripping in blood and of died so soon one of the biggest crimes punished by the international law we follow what is going on minute by minute and call upon the international community to intervene. but israel until little moment is not responding to anyone.

ok well let's talk now with mary ice and she's a retired colonel with these rail defense forces in this coming to us live from tel aviv and we appreciate your time this evening thanks for coming on just firstly let's pick up on what was said in our last report there calls from the palestinian leaders for a cease fire asking the international community to speak with israel but it appears that netanyahu doesn't want to say spy is not in everybody's interests to have one there's no question that all of us want to stop any kind of carnage as you are talking about my heart thousands really goes out well for the palestinian children for the palestinian people who are held there by hamas by those leaders not just firing the rockets but to me that her reflect career tragedy an irony is how hamas of invested over the last decade in a submarine a rino to protect the fighters the rocket launchers the headquarters look at that

poor child killed underneath their house is going to be a bunker or otherwise israel is willing to go forward if hamas steps aside hamas is not willing to stop hamas wants to destroy and they continue to do so and my heart goes out to the families to the children of humble sons earlier in the week and either hamas said look we will stop firing if israel is prepared to do the same that it doesn't seem to be the case now that israel wants to stop what's his motivation to continue and not to stop at this stage. no one of the interesting aspects andrea that everybody keeps asking is about the numbers and it seems that so few israelis have been killed and injured and so many on the palestinian side as you said 200 killed so many children and i want to look at that for a moment and say what's that israeli interest in that sense i sit here in tel aviv

mentality of is pretty much protected by iron dome one the state of israel with all of its drawbacks is the one that invested in putting in an anti rocket system i always wonder so if there hadn't been an iron dome over the last week would people feel more comfortable how muscle fired in 3150 rockets into israel over the last week do any of you in the world want to have hamas have these rockets that's what they're investing and they're investing in firing into israel and trying to send in deployment of all different types of munitions into the hearts of cities and we've talked before about the targeting israel is doing its absolute utmost best more than any country i can think of from allowed to be rude and afterwards careful more than russia did ever in syria but i'm going to compare myself to the united states and say more to any other country in the world those buildings that you saw destroyed which is horrific when children are there getting advance notice

to telephone calls before i don't think that it's good and i think that war is terrible but i think that israel in its quest to stop this type of terror firing into israel terror structure and terror army is doing the right thing for the future of the palestinians in the gaza strip i understand your perspective there and you raise many good points but the one issue is if israel decides it has to continue how long will it continue to davis and what is his ultimate goal lead. and i hope that israel will not continue absolutely like you fear they were in a cycle where how does somebody stand up now and stop and think that israel right now the israeli government right now seen need to we've done in that sense the damage to hamas to their capabilities and hamas will be able to continue firing rockets that's part of their and what for us is israel we are certainly the

stronger party for a moment i'm not saying not but we need to stop now in a move everybody in that sense in the world right now we have achieved what we've wanted against the hamas and stop it now i worry that the israeli government right now may not choose to stop in the next day or 2 or 3 because they are in a mode of trying to finish off more of hamas them before it's a scary stage it's the stage where you make the kind of military mistakes that i really would not want us to do as i said we've been very exact and i want to be with the false front say war is terrible we're never targeting the innocent and the bystanders and that's why they are called innocent bystanders were announcing ahead of time like nobody does where we're going to attack how we're going to attack that doesn't make it any easier for the people suffering on either side and it doesn't say when this is going to be over ok mary eisen we appreciate your time tonight in

talking to us and giving us your perspective on all of this that was mary eisen a retired colonel with the israeli defense forces speaking to us live from tell of it thank you. now religious buildings meanwhile the ship royd in the israeli air strikes a mosque in the north of garza his level of the surrounding buildings suffering massive damage at least 3 civilians are reported to have died there. about the 2nd mile leave next to the mosque and the street separates marsh parklane from it i hug my children and my wife thinking we would die from the intensity of the bombing but thank god we were not harmed unfortunately missile killed 3 of my brothers to my sisters and one neighbor i told the jews that you're destroying the mosques of gazza not bombing the security forces inside the right children the elderly and women their homes are destroyed the seris civilian and there is no mildred presence for the resistance fighters in the 2014 war this house was bombed

but it was rebuilt again and the syria does not fire on the jews and no rockets came out on what basis was the smallest destroyed. or promise and netanyahu has defended his country's actions saying that israel is doing everything it can to avoid civilian casualties and blaming hamas for using people as human shields netanyahu added he sees no clear end in sight to the violence though meanwhile armed groups in gaza including how mass continue to target israel with rockets with the southern city of ashkelon a recent focus their synagogue was damaged and numerous cars were destroyed no casualties were reported and in east jerusalem a palestinian rammed his car into israeli police on sunday injuring 6 officers the driver was immediately shot dead after what police called a deliberate attack on a slate appraised drive. our correspondent porus clear spoke to a former i.d.f. officer about his experiences in cars

a handle on the current tensions. when i'm seeing what's happening now in the gaza border it's killing me from the inside because you know i'm thinking. about what i read through and about the trends i lost fighting for this concrete for our robes and jews in the same way. i'm asking myself sometimes if it will all worth it to last part of your hands to the last part of your body the last part of your soul if this situation will continue and i'm uncertain myself every single time that yes is if she's on this plane 6 years in the israeli army 3 of them in gaza where he commanded 130 combat soldiers and i had improvised explosive device ended his service and almost his life it was 6 in the morning ideas tanks were waiting to return to israeli territory and because of

sniper threats xiv advanced alone to open the gate separating gaza and israel the id blew up in his face i opened my eyes and you know the pain filled my body and i medically noticed that my left hand was missing there was blood everywhere and i remember myself trying to reach and apply pressure on the room but nothing happened and i looked on my right arm i realized exactly why it was also almost disconnected lying on the flaming hot soil hanging all small pieces of skin and flesh so for days it was touch and go no one thought he'd pull through $700.00 and nearly a year of intensively habitation has lift him with 10 percent movement in his left arm and a prosthetic arm on his right now he's taken it upon himself to make sure the world understands what it's like for israeli soldiers fighting in gaza i risked my life

so many times just to make sure that no civilians from the palestinian side really hurt until very complicated operations i risk my soldiers we walk. exposed completely instead of send sending a tank or a missile from a plane just to make sure that no child all no innocent people will be on this specific place in the gaza border here and recent video of the israeli army stopping in a strike after seen children playing in the area looking acquainted with the big man are going to bring in a limited quantity. and the members a 14 year old child riding a donkey in approaching him and his soldiers they yelled at him repeatedly not to come any closer after we decided not to shoot this child at all he ran away and the donkey was close to us and it was explode. in.

such a powerful way that it. destroyed completely the friends we will rock that we was under shelters and not to me and not my soldier was harmed by this incident if israel want considering only the power of the army. could be vanished in 24 hours but we're not doing it we're not doing it just because we know that many civilians that live there i want to say as a former commander in the i.d.f. to the citizens of gaza we love you we want you to live a normal life you need to know that your leadership hamas leadership making all the problems as contrasted it is continue to heat up the prospect to turn into normal

life seems in small ways in police here and syria. well we spoke to tanya rice and he previously with the israel defense forces and says that how mass makes it impossible for the i.d.f. to avoid civilian casualties the idea of study abroad as. military targets not everyone will know what the target was because some. intelligence information but there have been prohibitions on attacking civilian targets even when they attack of military target they do everything they can to verify the minimum number of civilians all most civilians preferably is a mess and unfortunately because hamas has placed all its military installations in the middle intentionally in the middle of the civilian life of gaza it's incredibly difficult they create an intentional b. level thoughts i don't know about which obviously what they're looking for or what

we don't fire about you would see the tragic judgment of well after that incident tragic. it's always the way that i know we don't get mad at all you'll show no pictures of boat but you'll see. european cities witness probably palestinian protests over the weekend with thousands demanding the attacks on gaza stop some demonstrators have been israeli flags 2 and 3 stones and bottles please respond to take out some water cannon and a number of arrests were made. i . was. i. i. hope. i. was. now around between russia and the czech republic over 2014

blast is back in the headlines the czech president is hinting a new version of events directly contradicting some earlier allegations against moscow so let's get the latest on this one them and artie's down hawkins he joins me studio alligator hello again dan just run 3 there and. the main essence of this story because it is quite complicated isn't it did well this story dates back 7 years that was all but forgotten about by many people until april last year when the czech prime minister accused russia's special forces of being behind this explosion at an ammunition dump in the czech republic within days of mass expulsion of russian diplomatic staff was announced and the rest as they say is history calls for answers and evidence though have been growing the most prominent coming again today from the czech president who was once again said there are several possible versions of events several possible causes behind these explosions all of which

need investigated. unlike others i'm not drawn to any single line of investigation it's a meeting this week with the justice minister i asked her what she meant by this 3rd version she said there could be a cover up for a supply shortfall or pretty contradictory statements there from top czech officials those involved are absolutely adamant that while previously many versions may have been considered there is only one possible culprit no at the moment that is moscow. i explained to the president that the police are investigating one version there may have been other versions during the investigation but now there is only one maybe that created a misunderstanding it's not the 1st time the president has gone against the tide of the rush accusations calling for all the actions to be looked into so far though his call seemingly have gone unheeded so what's been the reaction then from moscow

to all of this also has responded for tat as is customary in cases of diplomatic expulsions a way of explaining diplomatic staff and restricting the use of the embassy might extend off and crash in relations between moscow and prague in many many years before according to them officials have come up with the evidence and with a consensus on who exactly is to blame this was the russian foreign minister earlier who said to impose order i'm sure you can see the sense of shame with which the story of the explosions that took place 7 years ago has now been disentangled in the czech republic and no one has yet been able to explain what the investigating authorities have been doing all this years they're confused in their testimony they're pushing more and more new versions they should 1st sort it all before expelling diplomats accusing them of something that hasn't even been established in their own investigation and judging by the way they're going about it it's unlikely to with any concrete result and regardless of what happens next

what evidence comes to light the automatic damage is already done you can't turn back time of course and this has wider ramifications as we know than just the relations between moscow and prague there are now are the e.u. states of all the baltic states among others so really this isn't the last we're going to hear of this story which is going on into its 8th year already amazing isn't ok thanks dan that was artie's dan hawkins. now to russian prime this is known for targeting celebrities and officials from elton john to the turkish president have struck again this time they made their way into a conference call of the american national endowment for democracy by posing as better roofs opposition leaders well they got some surprising insights to one how the u.s. government funds opposition movements in eastern europe is more against the. generally a prank is supposed to be funny and isn't supposed to make a sit up straight and raise the hair on your arms at the seriousness of what you

just heard the national endowment for democracy or neb recruits funds and uses what it calls journalists to track russian troops the numbers anonymous in russia and beyond we don't we don't know what the strategy is going to be nobody really knows but we're concerned that there may be russian troops even so this is a concert to us and these are the immediate problems that we face there are different media have left and as recruiters that we have really agreat relationship and interact relationship with looking at the deployment of russian military. in the country and have. tried and we should be raising our some of our kind debts and do this work with the

group and others you know tracking what these russian but official forces and unofficial forces. doing the takeaway here is that lead is essentially a u.s. state intelligence organization we have the media on field and tempting to recruit who they believe is the form of belorussian presidential candidate to gather information on the movement of government officials and the russian military and apparently offering the money for it so we need the money and. how would we how could we arrange it. well you know i think you're already. you know you're in touch with with us with with other institutions with european and down and with with our government and i know our government wants to be as hopeful as possible already in contact presumably those are the entities that have already bankrolled something

that the real deal had also would have already known now the intelligence community has has no known what the hell ned really is and why it was banned in russia so no net profit it's in there in a russian now. well and senator i'm just as. you know we don't have we don't have offices so far up there they can't kick us out so we had a very empty program in russia it's a mention those 3 grass. lots outside of the west it's very deep it's very bright they also complained for a while about how tough it has become to meddle in russian elections as a bad foreign organization bent and regime change in russia the poor things but they aren't giving up they had need to helping those in financing those who would destabilizing russia staging protests and running for office on american money and

that too is an important area of dialogue between your movement on the russian movement as to you know how to carry the struggle forward. you know with combination of both the protests that they've been having but also now preparing for the duma elections and local elections as well and so we're very very committed to helping on that on that front and we will working with our networks and our institutes for an organization that aims to overthrow governments and install puppet leaders negs who is remarkably loose lipped they like religions out of cartoons that the boast about how grand their plan these for world domination but ultimately they fall in that but in all seriousness these seas moring stuff perhaps the sort of meddling is worth bringing up during vladimir putin's proposed meeting with joe biden the samba will unite with the russian a position we can. make

a big pressure on to regimes right right right. and obviously i think you know with the. with the new administration here in washington. there's a great readiness to help a great readiness to help i think we're really wonderful people in this new administration i for 1 am not looking forward to watching these wonderful people tear apart what remains of relations between russia and the us suffice to say at the very least ned has been bored out a notch it's always fun isn't it seeing the spy this high in the scenes in the dock those that think that they pull the strings and lease world it's always nice to see the dumb look on their faces when they realize they aren't as smart as they think what is the my ass troops realize they fell for a pride and cool and it is made. of billers so as you

know we have listened to everything that you have said you have the rights originate and you figure say be used against you in court you have the right to talk to a lawyer but. this is how you wish you have the right to have a lawyer with you during questioning each can disrupt only your. well we have asked the american national dam for democracy us to comment on this story and we'll let you know when we hear back from them. just coming up to half past 6 in moscow you're watching r.t. we're back again at the top here. i'm

afshin rattansi and we're going underground for the final lockdown edition is here in the u.k. draconian measures are raised even further which was johnson but it's down to injections like the oxford astra zeneca vaccine and i do will talk to the lawyer catalyzed the bally murphy inquest into the british parachute regiment killing of civilians but 1st joining me now from oxford is the director of the jenner institute who worked on the team to create the oxford astra zeneca vaccine professor adrian health thank you so watch and adrian for coming on i'm going to declare an interest i've been doubly vaccinated by your vaccine 1st of all i suppose everyone's talking about the same indian variant i protected against the indian variant possibility yes i think it's likely that you are if you can actually

see the very long time like you and you will be so this might drop to a level. it's more difficult for them to. be in a small number of people and if you. want you to answer those you should have thought about submission most people you'll be protected nearly all variants to assert. starts to look steps now what i mean is you're very unlikely to end up all spittle or severely on well you might have some symptoms but it should be a mild exception and i know you've helped countless millions of people with this vaccine and you're working maybe you moved on working on malaria which kills 400000 people a year but just a quick practical question if you experience more painful thing.