when some find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. the number of victims grows as israel's shelling of gaza enters a 2nd week coming up r.t. speaks to a 10 year old girl who witnessed the destruction of her own neighborhood. every day at night. even in 3 years the missile in the mornings here the private screams of people i'm just coming in with a shyness myself. i can't. be time. to continue to sound in israel with pensioners particularly vulnerable to attack they were. in new homes in the middle. if. it's holiday in town well keeps me strong and the people there let.

us weapons sale to israel is causing friction among democrats with warnings it's going to make the conflict with garza worse. hello there good morning from russia this choose day the 18th of may my name is kevin owen here at international with the latest for you for the next 30 minutes if you can stick with me to us to take you through that one story dominating again this morning the death toll in gaza 1st off has risen as israeli forces continue to shell the own claim that these 212 people including 61 children have now been killed there since the latest violence began a week ago explosions late the night sky and gaza city again as israel launched 30 new airstrikes over night.

presidential buildings as well as gaza's main covert lab have been hit in the latest israeli air strikes more than 100 houses have been destroyed in the area since the start of this latest conflict with many more properties severely damaged 2 we spoke to people whose lives have been shattered by these latest attacks. both of us said it was my little children my call wife why were we treated like that the children were asleep and suddenly there was an explosion my wife and i we were shocked the airstrike was very strong we ran to the children to drive them out into the streets and save them from the bombing we are terrified i think the 1st thing was them bombing us at night suddenly it became severe close to us we started being shelled with tear gas canisters we were suffocating from the gas we called the civil defense and 1st state in order to take us and get us out of the place and

into the schools. when the bombing started and everyone was falling of course life is precious to everyone we left quickly we even didn't put on our shoes there was no blanket or anything thank god we got to the school we broke open the doors and sat in the school in fear we spent 5 days without water or food no one looked after us. the headquarters of a humanitarian group was also among the buildings hit in the latest raids their cats red crescent society saying that 2 of its staff were killed and 10 wounded there yes strike came a day after the door from the group allocated a $1000000.00 to support those affected by airstrikes a 10 year old girl shared with us to the shock and pain of seeing the bombing of houses around. i dream about a little better future i dream to be a doctor and i dream to be helping my people but perhaps when that happens i'm just

a kid i want the right to learn any more so what do you tell me to do. i'm just trying it with a china stop myself well. i can't i can't every day at night or at least in 3 years the missiles in the mornings we hear the cries and screams of people so we try to check it out so we can help those people over we even can help people because we can't do anything in this war we're just kids in the parents don't know how to raise there's kids in this in the situation it's hard for them hard for us no one is safe in palestine no one who can play with our friends out when the streets because every day missiles our 8th time you get a hit like i only say a 2nd any minute now where is always your future in that many or 2nd or our could

be our death so i don't play outside everytime i hear a missile my brother shoots those missiles and he gets scared so i try to let him calm down i put me and my family when we hear missiles we stay away from windows and stay away from the glass doors like we have been knocked out and we put in the hallway through matches to and then we fall asleep i try to sleep but if i can turn the missiles and cries of children out there. goes officials say the terror is just days away from a total power blackout to the only post-race of running out of fuel the relentless bombing raids have also left money without drinking water goes a place journalist romeo mcgarry reports next. that if a stay should buy these radio war of planes oh frizzy didn't show homes and different parts of the gaza. but you can only hearing gaza city and more specifically right in the alley where 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 whom like drinking water or 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 i'm glad i 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 we 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 and provide locals with as right know the electricity started

coming locals who are desperately want to fill in their trunks but actually many of them just cannot afford it so 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 tricity flowing deep inside the rubble 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 to line palestinians year in gaza have been badly affected by the ongoing israeli attacks on the territory of the past week. meanwhile sirens have been sounding in the south of israel as how much fired 90 rockets overnight according to the israeli defense forces palestinian militants who shot more than 3000 missiles into the country now since the start of this new confrontation forcing locals into bomb shelters

israelis gave their response to it. look it's not logical that hamas is dictating how we live from 10 to 12 am you can rest then hamas launches rockets it cannot continue like this they want to attack gaza so they are left without weapons to launch at us. i live here in the house there was a siren and i went down on the floor to take shelter my mom is disabled but she was able to get to the shelter and that's what saved her prime minister benjamin netanyahu insists attacks are going to continue to as long as needed to restore peace and security for israelis as he put it he blamed hamas for gaza civilian deaths outing it uses people as human shields a retired israeli colonel says you know who's right. i worry that the israeli government right now may not choose to start in the next day or 2 or 3 because they

are in a mode of trying to finish off more of hamas the before my hard thousands really result well for the palestinian children for the palestinian people who are held there by hamas by those leaders not just firing the rockets that to me the peripheral peripheral tragedy an irony is how hamas of invested over the last decade in a sub 2 arena reno to protect the fighters the rocket launchers the headquarters and look at the poor child killed underneath their house is going to be a bunker or otherwise israel is willing to go forward if hamas starts aside hamas is not willing to stop hamas wants to destroy and they continue to do so and my heart goes out the families to the children. the elderly are especially restoring bomb attacks with health issues often making it harder for them to physically think shelter artie's correspondent paula slayer spoke to one pensioner

about her fear of getting caught up in this assault. israel has the most advanced defense system in the world and the army is amongst the best there is but still as much as a 3rd of his radius of vulnerable and exposed to rocket attacks from gaza. is 76 years old she's a retired artist whose husband died 10 years ago she lives alone in an apartment block in central israel unable to reach the maclet bomb shelter pretty fit really put for the reason that and actually to be foolishly and very scared that there would be a. carriage and i went here and obviously and advocate for the top of the flat on the flow and i can't get that to the mc left i am only go down the stairs to the fickle floor and. beg anywhere between 2 to 3000000

israelis live in homes that do not have a bomb shelter it was only in the last 30 years that it became law for new apartments to build one room that was fortified in older buildings such altars are either on the ground floor or outside from the moment the siren sounds is in he has one minute 60 seconds to get to safety that's the time it takes for a rocket fired from gaza to reach central israel but for those living close to the gaza border they have just 15 seconds when the bomb falls you hear the move move and walk go through me matt if they're been in in fear it's frightening when you all of them learn if if it's hard to encounter flash among the 1st civilians to be killed in israel by a rocket from gaza was a woman you know eighty's and her indian caregiver they never made it out of their apartment as in she immigrated to israel from south africa decades ago she's witnessed many wars over the years but feel something is different this time around

. constantly for her grandson who's in the army but wouldn't have it any other way but it keeps me strong the level this. and confident we've got the best defense force in the world and like really have 3 of them and most of my grandkids are here in israel. keeps death keeps me very strong and i think the people there left the biggest wish is that this war will be israel's last seen enough to know that it's unlikely the police here r.t. . we've time on the diplomatic side of all this while some members of the u.n. security council have expressed fears of an escalation in the fighting between israel and gaza efforts to bring it to an end of fall on deaf ears so far because not all are expressing a common view the u.s. for instance has blocked for the 3rd time in a week a joint statement from the u.n.

security council calling for an instant cease fire at the same time as joe biden and sells reiterated support for an end to hostilities in a phone call with this israeli counterpart at the same time stressing to the israel's right to defend itself washington is facing internal scrutiny too over its role in the conflicts with democrats split over a planned arms sale to israel worth millions one of the 1st muslim women elected to congress illinois mup has called the sale appalling saying it's going to provoke the situation well that moment an independent consultant on u.s. foreign policy claims that biden's team knew what was coming yet still went ahead with the deal. if there is even the book if there is even a bill introduced in congress it would be historic it would be an historic precedent there's never been a fight like this in congress over

a weapons deal to israel and when the binding ministry approved this weapons deal before may 5th they knew what the israeli government was about to do in the year approving it and giving it a green why every day that this goes on it clearly the biden history has been trying to protect the israeli salt block 3 times a security council statement for a ceasefire all other 14 members of the security council square the state so they're coming under increasing pressure both internationally by ministrations both internationally and in washington so i think we could see a shifting picture on this even in the next day. choose to morning good morning this is our international with me kevin now in thanks for checking out this is ahead among the stories we're covering not at all but we look at the plight of

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in the. forum in the shallows. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then. i get a new in more than a 1000 sellers of fake covert certificates have been found online in the u.k. and worldwide offering false vaccine and test documents was little as 25 pounds in the u.k. alone border stuff for catching around 100 people a day with fake vaccine and test documents with most coming in from africa south america and asia it's got latest on this see how big

a problem is oded vanunu is head of. the vulnerability research he's led the study thanks for being with us how big is this problem i suppose it was always going to come if you think about how the world works but for the past 6 months we've been monitoring this is just the tip of the iceberg of what. yeah absolutely you know we believe that this is like the deep of the iceberg because this all comes from the darkness and of course the documentaries like huge power little network which we cannot see the darkness but we can see the trends and the trends are very clear and so we believe this is much bigger operation and in your assessment how do people kind of access the net the dark where. the minority of people is no end of the day absolutely no we need to understand that the darkness is a barrel of the economy that supply things that are like a gap between the supply and demand in the global network and we know that happened

damming situation. we have a large gap in the world between countries that can't supply and can't or is that once you have ever seen and once you have the gap it's created a black market in the global economy and once you have black market this is create a lot of money and this is something that we believe that it's what was driving people yeah i mean granted every country different around the world in the access they've got to vaccines and that the way the testing has gone so far no 5 on studies was making people do this is it the worry all the price of getting the actual vaccine because you think what 25 pounds for a certificate in some places a vaccine is not even a culture that in fact is free. yes and so there is like a few subject on this because i do beginning we just saw that there is like a big supply for. and we had like all the vendors that are available on the

darkness nation and across europe and across the globe moving from supply but then once the epidemic was moving on and things started to move on there was a need for negative tests and there was a need for faith certificate because people started to move between countries and borders started to be open with countries that moved with vaccination so we need to understand that the that is the place to supply is needs and we see it on the epidemic. not the work of dirty without a cause for a minute here. so who are the people that are buying these false documents and then to the de coster endangering everybody else because if they are positive for the traveling with a negative certificate if you're on a plane for instance is that could be 200 people infected maybe because you've got it. yes absolutely it's a it's a big question and that's we believe that people and we know that there is like an

give us a nation and there is about the theory and it's not small amount of people around the world and there are people that actually ever like it and will get vaccination on 3 months 4 months so why their decision now is not ok i would stop my life now oh i can try to manipulate things so it's just a matter of demand and supply and we see that there is a huge demand so it ted with your research what kind of paypal these fakes to fit because what's the demographic what's the age group where they from generally around the world so this is this is like operated on the documents we cannot understand exactly this information we don't have this private information because all the communication is encrypted now when her since we started this their research we what we do europe and on security and we've been driving companies and

we started to see that there is a big traffic and according to the u.k. police so you saw the demographic. distribution deliver about it it's usually broken for is that people who want to move on or try to access to. know the you know the $1000000.00 question how do you stop this to begin with it. it's a way of our yes in my opinion. you need to as long as the way since we started to see blast year we started to push it and provided evidence and discussion and your . announce and on security and it was like and around the world we are urging people to really understand that there is a risk situation i mean listen to in the places where it can see or search another

brother the authorities around the world listening to you. yes absolutely we have a lot of. force they are actually trying really hard to enter these. places and write it because it's a big deal i see that there are there is there are or there is. in research or did we do it thanks make the time to be with us we'll let you get on with it live in our tents and. residents of an affluent los angeles suburb fieri a sort of move to house vagrants parks and beaches because fire is related to homelessness have tripled there in the 1st 4 months of the year it comes as officials are defending their plan to house these homeless people in cabins and campsites opponents say children would no longer be safe for instance in the area authorities insist the move is temporary only almost $21000.00 people have now signed a petition against the campsites highlighting the use of drugs and mental illness

among the homeless there on the risk of fire to mention they also say they don't believe temporary actually means temporary we got reaction on the streets. the handling of the homeless situation by the local county in the state government it's criminal there has been so much money. by the state government by the taxpayers of los angeles county by the federal government and this problem we need affordable housing we don't need campsites we don't heat storage cards we need what we were promised 10 years ago i think it's a good idea i mean it's a tricky situation because the homeless people need to live somewhere but i also see the other side of it were some of the homeowners around there you don't want to have this area homeless people living with them this whole proposal just putting people in parks and on beaches just like trying to put a band-aid over

a gunshot. just seems like. politicians trying to. make themselves look bad park can't serve double duty it can't be a full time. homeless camp and serve as a residential camp where people actually go out speak is great you know. and i see crew suffered a close shave with a landmine in the central african republic at the time they were accompanying local military and russian instructors the villagers freed from rebel control our correspondent there constantine reporting from the scene. this part of the country is considered to be under government control and that's true for the most part but there are still groups of armed rebels hiding in the jungles sometimes they lay mines in certain roads hoping to blow up a military truck and seize their weapons and supplies.

just as the train was saying that exploded out of the mine and we almost ran into one of those mines ourselves but luckily our ascared group spotted it in advance and it was destroyed. before it went off we managed to get some close up shots of it the mine was made in belgium which of course raises a lot of questions like how and where local militias get such deadly weapons because any firearms above $14.00 centimeters caliber let alone anti-tank mines like the one we discovered aren't allowed to be sold to the central african republic under a u.n. arms embargo anyway our days started as we took off any chopper and headed to a gold mine and village that were recently freed from rebel control as we flew over the think jungle i was sitting close to a supply of hand grenades the crew keep them in case they are fired at from the

ground and they need to scare the shooters off i mean it's that tough here. the village we saw was typical prissy on our poor and devastated people lack basic things like food and clothes but are still harassed by local gangs which usually come and take whatever they want and brutally killed those who dared to stand up against them and we heard accounts of entire villages being slaughtered for the equivalent of $50.00 as they had of this village told us they are lucky now to have a notary out that was nearby that is run by the local army with. russian instructors who work in the country under 80 u.n. mandate with. the government has sent russian forces here for the safety of the put collation is very quiet around here because the russians are here we don't win them to leave we want them to stay with sketch and finally we reached a gold mine that until a month ago was run by militants they work in primitive conditions extracting tiny

nuggets by digging clay with shovels and then washing it in small muddy holes the rebels force local villagers to work there is slave space equally and kill those who refused to do the job or who are simply too exhausted to carry on but it seems like now since the local army and the russians came along the poor miners can finally keep the gold for themselves and it doesn't get them much though and one of them told us that he'll be able to sell what he has worked for for it in higher we only for a $3.00. concert in russia r.t. from the central african republic. you know to hold it all together the power of the world isn't a lot to deal with that's the way things look in so far this morning it's coming to 28 minutes past the hour check it out so you don't call me on a social media throughout the day to keep posted and everything else we're talking about for now for me kevin i have

a great day. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy in sunday shouldn't let it be an arms race is on all sides very dramatic developments only really i'm going to exist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. a new gold rush is underway in ghana thousands of ill equipped workers are flocking to the gold fields hoping to strike it rich here's a good. day oh by the children are torn between gold. my family was very poor i thought i was doing my best to get back to school which side

will have the strongest appeal. the world is driven by shaped by those. dares thinks. we dare to ask.

hi i'm max caster this is the kaiser report i may have to start wearing even wider ties says for going back to the 1970s possibly even a leisure suit powder blue of course stacey cray i know i actually thought of wearing my poncho for this because you know how that how flower child thing was happening in the seventy's and of course you and i remember the seventy's during the oil embargo and then the iranian revolution which caused price spikes in gasoline and shortages here across america and we have them again max and i drove from northern virginia down to north carolina so about a 325 mile drive and as we're heading further and further south there are more and more gas stations without any gas and those that did have gasoline.