RT News - August 01, 2014 (12:00 MSK)

The humanitarian ceasefire between Israel and Hamas is breached as fighting erupts in Gaza, just hours after the truce comes into force. The latest EU sanctions against Russia targeting banks, oil and defence come in to full force with the country's biggest bank also blacklisted by the bloc. Lawlessness and mayhem sees EU governments and the U.S. evacuating citizens from Libya, as radicals declare an Islamic emirate in the country. And the U.S. mulls its largest ever shipment of hellfire missiles to the Iraqi government, that has lost control of vast oil fields to jihadists.