israeli warplanes bombard garza for an 8th day leaving almost $200.00 beds destroying homes and crippling power and water infrastructure israel's prime minister vows to continue the onslaught in response to palestinian rockets while rejecting international calls for a cease fire israeli say how must bear responsibility for the tragic escalation. i want to see is a former commander in the i.d.f. to the citizens of gaza we love you we want you to leave. you need to know that your leadership hamas leadership making all the problems and anti israel protests break out across europe as thousands takes the streets calling for

the killing of civilians in gaza to stop. their good evening it's just gone 7 o'clock in moscow you're watching r.t. international now israel has unleashed a series of 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 a dead including 2 youngsters for families in gaza continue the desperate search for loved ones in the aftermath of these strikes after hours of scrambling through debris one father was finally reunited with his injured child the infant survived a strike on a residential building in which his mother and 4 siblings died we spoke with the father. innocent children were targeted while they were go. to visit their uncle

and cousins 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 5 month old baby omar thank god survived and is now lying in hospital was of children done to deserve being bombed with missiles from earth dirty 5 aircraft what have they done to this child iraq it's israel what did he do to be targeted by missiles what is how many guards is a crime against humanity how's of being bombed in collapsing in their residence without warning or notification their only crime is that they are children of gaza . well guards or officials they say to get the territories just days away from a total power blackout with the only power plant now running out of fuel the relentless bombing raids have also left many people without drinking water cars a base journalist army al mcgarty reports now from inside the territory. the devastation by the israeli warplanes ofr is it in shell homes and different parts

of the gaza strip but you can literally hearing gaza city and more specifically right india where the street where we are is standing has not only left already endured 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 whom lack drinking 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. yeah and i didn't have a couple of water containers that will only be enough for a couple of days others don't even have that are now forced to buy drinking water for extremely high prices and the price has gone up by 30 times often and this happens along with other hardships with unemployment soaring i get in their

salaries and all of them i provide locals with water people are desperate to fill the tanks that many simply can't afford it so yeah right now we 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 if you look through city flowing deep inside the rubble many international relief organizations mainly the united nations relief and works agency. and the gaza strip warns against what terms the shortest sharp shortish 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 or warplanes or strikes against them and the past a few. days and this comes under the situation the 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 so why 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 the territory of the past week. while the pilot palestinian prime minister has called on the international community to step in to help stop the bloodshed was so waterlogged form images and pictures of those children whose clothes are 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 with israel to lift moment is not responding to anyone. but we discuss the situation with these really political analysts that

he never he says think that the palestinian pay was there for foreign support will be left unanswered. the international community doesn't care. we're. going to see you. for both where you can vote it's true to see you can reach where no how we do you really think you can carry through for 14 years now is the core issue or anything here but now we're all here when you leave here led by the united states seems to be quite well folks. we do know you few days from waco we. know this very very remain secure now as for the few months that we hear. you're in the same position very. well religious buildings were also destroyed in these radio raids

a mosque in the north of gaza was leveled with surrounding buildings suffering massive damage at least 3 civilians were reporters to have died. about the 2nd i'll leave next to the mosque and the street separates mosque bachmann 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 tell the jews that you are destroying the mosques of got and not bombing the security forces inside the right children the elderly and women their homes are destroyed the seris civilian and there is no military presence for the resistance fighters in the 2014 war this house was bombed but it was rebuilt again sarah does not fire on the jews and no rockets came out on what basis was the smallest destroyed. and here you can see the aftermath of the palestinian rocket strike on the city of ashdod in southern israel

a residential building was severely damaged and at least 3 people were injured when the agency workers say people managed to evacuate quickly preventing further casualties. and israel prime minister benjamin 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 well our correspondent paula slate to speak with a former i.d.f. officer about his experiences in garza and also 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 friends i lost fighting for this country for our robes and jews in the same way. i'm asking myself sometimes if it will all more so to last

part of your hands to last part of your body the last part of your soul if this situation will continue and i'm concerned myself every single time that yes as if she spent 6 years in the israeli army 3 of them in gaza where he commanded 130 combat soldiers an i.e.d. improvised explosive device ended his service and almost his life it was 6 in the morning id of 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 the pain filled my body and i medically noticed that there 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 lifted 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 and they were very complicated operations i risked 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 or no innocent people will be on this specific place in the gaza border here and recent video of the israeli army

stopping a strike after seeing children playing in the area looking at where it is going to be where the big man is going to bring in a limited quantity. and members a 14 year old child riding a donkey and 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 fence we will rock you 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 how must leadership making all the problems as come interested in continue to heat up the prospect of turning to normal life seems a small way is in police here and cilia. well we spoke with daniel reiser about this he previously worked for these route defense forces and says that hamas makes it impossible for the i.d.f. to avoid civilian casualties the idea studied nor does the. military targets know not everyone will know what the target was because sometimes it's it's intelligence information but they all have to probe issue on attacking civilian

targets even when they attack of military target they do everything they can to verify the minimum number of civilians all know 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 dilemma either we go back which obviously what they're looking for or what we don't fire back you would see the tragic judgment of the last relevance of the tragic. it's a win with i know we don't care that all you'll show long pictures in both. meanwhile major european cities witness pro palestinian protests over the weekend with thousands demanding the attacks on gaza stop some demonstrators burned to trade planks and threw stones and bottles police responded with tear gas and water

cannon and a number of arrests were made. i was the outline. i. was. ok well let's look at some other news now derive between russia and the czech republic over a 2014th. blast is making the headlines again the czech president is hinting a new version of events directly contradicting some of the allegations against moscow that hawkins has more details. 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 that 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 by armies explosions all of which need investigating unlike others and 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 from top czech officials those involved up saluki adamant that while previously many versions may have been considered there is only one possible culprit know at the moment that is moscow. i explained to the president of 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 moscow has responded that tattered is customary in cases of diplomatic expulsions a way of explaining diplomatic text offer restricting the use of the embassies and consulates in the russian federation and top russian officials of question as to why prague really in their opinion has jumped the gun initiating what is the most serious diplomatic standoff 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. that 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 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 at the diplomatic damage is already done you can't back time of course and this has wider ramifications as we know than just 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. forest fires sweeping through parts of siberia at the moment driven by a nearly. heat wave hundreds of square kilometers room frames over the vast territory these images from russia's tomb and region where temperatures have been

hovering over 30 degrees celsius more than 1500 firefighters are working to contain the blaze. the russian pranksters known for targeting celebrities and officials from elton john to the president have struck again this time they made their way into a conference call of the american national endowment for democracy by posing as their roots opposition leaders and they got some surprising insights to you on how the u.s. government funds opposition movements in eastern europe. as more. 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 of naaman's 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 us and these are the immediate problems that we. are different media have left and in. that we have really a grand relationship couldn't record relationship with looking at the deployment of russian military. in the country and have. tried it we should be raising us some of our some of our time to do this work with the group and others you know tracking what these question but official forces and unofficial force. the take away here is that lead is essentially a us state intelligence organization we have the media on field and tempting to

recruit who they believe is the form of the russian 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 some money in the how would we how could be arranged. 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 a socal is possible already in contact presumably those are the entities that have already bankrolled something that the real deal had also would have already noted now the intelligence community has has no known what the hell ned really is and why it was banned in russia yes and no net is appropriate it's in the russian now.

well. 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 employ program in russia it's a mention goes even grasp. a lot outside of west it's very deep and 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 have needed to helping those in financing those who are destabilizing russia staging protests and running for office on american money and so it's an important area of dialogue between your movement and the russian movement as to you know how to carry to struggle forward. you know with combination of both the protests that they've been having but also now preparing

for the elections and local elections 'd 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 leave his legs or is remarkably loose lipped they like villains out of cartoons that the boast about how grand their plan these for world domination but ultimately they fall in there but in all seriousness these seas moring stuff that's the sort of meddling is worth bringing up here and lead to me of putin's proposed meeting with joe biden the sama will unite with the russian opposition we can. make a big pressure to regime right right right. and obviously i think you know with the . with the new administration here in washington. there is

a great readiness to help a great readiness to help i think we're really wonderful people in this new administration for one i'm not looking forward to watching these wonderful people tear apart what remains of relations between russia and the u.s. suffice to say at the very least ned has been worked out a notch it's always fun isn't it seeing the spiders high in the scenes in the dark those that think that they pull the strings and nice 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 truth realize they fell for a private call oh do you know this is ok just do your billers so as you know we have listened to everything that you have said you know the rights originate any figures to be used against you in court you have the right to talk to a lawyer for. which you have the right to have

a lawyer with you jury questioning can you start like oh you're. casting for that report that we have asked american national for democracy to comment on the story and we'll let you know when we get a reply. the international energy agency has clashed with joe biden's to meanwhile over whether the u.s. should spend trillions of dollars accelerating clean energy transition does come as he watched ok she's a report that questions just how green the country's policy actually is as the details on this. if we take drastic action right now to address the climate disaster for you soon as you know. 25th the united states will be 100 percent. with new mission. of the world's clean energy. that probably 7 to turn into a green tizzy and it does sound great wind turbines solar panels electric cars

a green new world the problem is green energy not so green i'm not so crean and these thoughts the conclusion of a new report by a top energy policy adviser and it's a bit of blow to the countries on the climate bandwagon who have already committed trillions to the fight. the building blocks of a clean energy future a mineral z. i'm talking things like nickel kopel and i'm talking a whole bunch of them because if you will bite and thought that the average car on the street was a gaza while introducing green energy machines typical electric car require a 6 times the mineral inputs of a conventional car and an onshore wind plant requires 9 times more mineral resources than a gas fired power plant so to feed this we need to mine more will the report alleges that the future president will see demand explode by 2040 lithium supply

will rise by full 1200 percent graphite by 2500 these are some serious numbers in the wild can catch up but even if we do have enough it will be a very insecure future why well movement 3 quarters of critical minerals lie in the hands of 3 produces that's a whole lot of pressure on very few sources what if there was flooding or a war the supply chain shuts down and what if you fall out with one. there's 3 produces something probably that washington's mind is on since china mines more than 60 percent of raw minerals that's one trade war you just can't win. but even if we started building the mines to match the rising to mond tomorrow the earliest we'd see actual results is 2035 the same year that by to margins will have

100 percent carbon free electricity an innocent mistake or a political promise to pieces party and put in the photos and i wonder what those voters would think if they knew the price of that guilt free electricity mining and mineral processing o'flynn generates toxic and ready active materials these can leak into groundwater causing major health and safety issues including fatalities environmental impacts including biodiversity loss and social disruption due to land use change water depletion and pollution waste related to contamination and air pollution like i said green energy not exactly what it says on the box. and why did the minerals for biden's utopia come from if we take an electric car what does it need a battery what's the core ingredient of the battery lithium where do you find lithium in kopel but who is getting your cobalt the real frontier of the

battery revolution is in the unregulated coal mines of the deal see what children as young as 7 work in perilous conditions a couple of dollars a day to work in narrow tunnels at risk of collapse it's an acceptable for businesses to shrug their shoulders about their supply chains consumers deserve to know that their cars are not powered by human rights abuses the mining of many minerals is mired in slave labor allegations which will only get worse when demand increases ahead of a price for someone to drive around with a carbon free conscience in a tesla so going green is a great slogan it's definitely a great way to get you some voters and it's great p.r. for administration that wants healing but dig a little deeper and biden's clean future has got a whole lot of little secrets here from journalist charlie boyd about this he does say that the report leads to more questions than answers. the biggest. economic

perspective that i can see. if you're running a large. and you come across the stumbling blocks for example a lack of supply or inflation issues you can have to have quite a lot of government school or around the world in order to get out of these obstacles because whichever way you look at these companies still make money one way or another so it's not it's not of use governments like the us saying now i'm saying right right we're not fine it's. manual energy and then 510 years down the line yes it's already got the money and so i think these problems will be russell you know the other we have to get close to these to these targets but it's going to need government support rather than just short term gesturing which which is what i'm seeing at the moment and that is our news wrap per for this hour that brings you up to date don't forget there because a website full of stories too you can find that at r.t.

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