ukraine's eastern city of slavyansk comes under missile attack with the army stepping up its offensive against down to kiev militia groups trapping civilians in the crossfire. going to sleep at night because the bombs will. every means as the violence is forcing women and children to flee their homes auntie talks to refugees from lugansk lives have been turned upside down by the fighting. rival camps step up their campaigns one hundred days ahead of scotland's historic independence referendum looks at the arguments of both sides. plus liquid war says the un says water shortages will fuel major conflicts for the world's most vital asset we explore how such battles are already starting to happen

. welcome you're watching r.t. international the latest reports from ukraine's eastern city of slovyansk states once again being targeted by government troops the army reportedly stepped up its offensive against militia groups in the region with civilians caught in the crossfire four people including a child were killed in a strike there on sunday whom you can see in the video was severely wounded by shrapnel from one of the missiles as she was riding her bike through the city luckily medics were quickly on the scene and able to get her to hospital. and this burning building is what remains of the city's landmark merchant's house where a four year old girl was reportedly killed during the attack house museum in a cafe most popular with them families where the two forces claim anti care militia

were using it as a barracks. the central square of the city has also come under fire locals claim the attack happened when many people were outside following a church service because the dangerous forced people to leave their homes paula slim at some of those fleeing the violence in neighboring lugansk. he says it's not safe for them to stay here after everything that is happening. we want them to stay alive a bittersweet for world families leaving for an uncertain future between a scary went to sleep at night because the bomb will forward everything. so it's really scary we're making our way to the russian border no one's quite sure how safe this journey is but people here desperate to leave they've been on a waiting list for days the phone call came in the morning giving these women less

than four hours to pack up all their belongings and leave again the big one we don't know what will happen there and for how long the situation will continue we want to return home as quickly as possible but they say they have no choice they simply have to go see one of the airplanes in the bombing said the scariest because you don't know where they're going to fall and when we can't always stay in a basement because of the small children victoria is traveling with her two daughters and like all the women here she's left behind a husband and family yes my grandfather grandmother and my father stayed behind. i told my father and grandmother that i want to come home to them it's a three hour drive to the russian border and in every organizer has asked us not to interview him on camera because he says he's getting indian free it's not putting this trip together and many feel torn about taking the decision to leave velour worries about

a father he left behind. it's really hard to the girls are you probably won't see him for a web site. you tube is going to be mocking him b. . even years thousands of women and children have already made this journey and thousands more on waiting lists trying to leave the crossing through the ukrainian border we're having to fullness a little bit discreetly as there are border guards everywhere but people in the past are preparing the documents and russia is the final destination. it's just a few minutes away. the repass injure with crossing the border to russia. tears of relief but for many here this is just the first difficult step towards an uncertain future policy r.t. on the ukrainian russian border for the violence and deaths in eastern ukraine european politicians remain indifferent even though it was them who sparked the

fire that's according to the leader of france's national front party marine le pen who spoke to r.t.c. sophie shevardnadze don't miss that interview in just over twenty minutes. we are at the culmination of a cold war that has been fought against russia by the united states to which the european capitals have completely submitted on an international level it's as simple as that and a shame as well my lord if i meet them whatever and i would like to seize this opportunity to express my compassion and my sadness and my disgust if to see these civil victim is in the east of ukraine. who are dying surrounded by the general indifference of the european political while it feels and media it is a real scandal which is happening on our doorstep.

reporters from the russians it outlasts news agency in these first dire news channel have been denied entrance into ukraine the border patrol said they hadn't provided enough documents to explain the purpose of their visit to the country while two of the russian journalists who've been detained in ukraine for two days have arrived back in moscow through from the first dart of the channel were captured at a checkpoint near slovyansk while they were ripped to cover the inauguration of ukraine's new president security services accuse them of observing and collecting information on army checkpoints it was the latest episode in a number of similar accusations and detentions of russian journalists in the area the pair were released on sunday night and taken out of the country in a russian military aircraft here is their account of what happened when the people who detained this used force and tried to find out if we belonged to the special services we were treated quite badly it was hot it was dirty and often painful we also didn't get enough food it was a small room with a tiny windsor and not enough oxygen the security was closing the window it was at

least fifty degrees celsius inside the room we also did not have much water. in the u.k. just one hundred days before the historic referendum for scottish independence and as the clock counts down both the in and the out camps are stepping up their games for now polls show that the no vote is leading but the separatist campaign is steadily gaining support with a four percent rise of the last four months however those who want to say goodbye to british rule have plenty of issues to wrestle over police takes a look. scotland potentially going it alone is more than flying a flag and picking and and it would be a difficult divorce and both sides are throwing around figures and forecasts that are arguably leaving wavering scots scratching their heads one thing that scotland currently enjoys under westminster rule is the e.u. membership but the president of the european commission jos

a manual barroso has said that it would be extremely difficult if not impossible for an independent scotland to join his club many leaders of the european union have made it very clear that not only would it not be able to they will she wouldn't look favorably upon scotland applying to become a member of the european union down the line but those in the yes camp say that the e.u. can't just kick out all the scots that are already members five minutes to does make a choice for the country's independence i know from diplomats and politicians across the union who will accept that nato is another elite members club that the yes campaign insists it would be able to stay in the big part of nuclear armaments resting in scotland and the yes campaign of the s.n.p. have a strict no nuclear policy no nuclear weapons policy and whether they will stick to that or whether they will decide that actually they want to be more flexible in

order to become a member of nato remains to be seen there is for independence point to some notable exceptions to that rule scotland is a the very heart of the north atlantic so they would be very uncomfortable with scotland and we have to remember that nor do we know heads need to have a nation of five million that doesn't have nuclear weapons and one of the most contentious issues is the estimated price of going it alone u.k. treasury analysis puts scotland start up costs at one point five. billion pounds that figure has been rubbish by scottish national party leader alex salmond although he's staying tight lipped about what he thinks it would cost so it's just one hundred days to go it seems that there is just one undisputable fact and that is that neither side knows what's going to happen if the yes camp does when and bear in mind it's like being behind in the polls at the moment but then both sides

will have to enter a complicated negotiations that could take many years to settle. see london well r.t. gauge the opinions of both supporters and opponents of scottish independence here's what each side had to say. scotland. and your money and they also got a good deal a deal of money out we have a lot of scots and we've got to worry about going to pay off our pension bell the oil is going to get taxes a role she's from it. you know the oil prices dropping through the floor you can be sure. you know you're tired call me on oil with me together through war and peace basically these people are just fanatics. for what it's worth this is a vassal state for the for the united states and we want to break with that and everything that but we all we want to say that we want to have influence we want to have influence with partners there with the economy in britain has been one just know is leading towards massive inequality on

a historic skew and i think the real question is can we afford not to vote yes in september the referendum shuttled for the eighteenth of september and is the day of the potentially groundbreaking voter approaches artie's keeping its nose to the ground stay with us for details coverage along with expert opinion and analysis. the south stream gas project is inevitable that's the statement today from bulgaria's energy minister on sunday the country put all work on hold after a series of demands from brussels citing alleged violations of e.u. law and included rules concerning ownership of the pipeline a massive project designed to provide a new route for russian natural gas supplies to europe after the joint venture is controlled by russia's gas giant gazprom europe's major energy players make up the

other half the mother second country along the route of construction serbia has today replenished its commitment to the south project a financial expert patrick young says any peer pressure from brussels is unacceptable. this is another deriv power grab land grab by brussels attempting to dictate its own rules side of the european union bloc an essential we have a farcical situation here where the e.u. is trying to affectively say that it has the opportunity to decide who owns a pipeline that operates outside of the european union that is farcical it's a ridiculous tenet upon which to apply your rules but let's face it the european union are just trying to take something from the u.s. playbook and as we know even today the u.s. government is even trying to attack european banks in their own backyard in america so therefore it's all part of grid power politics the difficulty is the european union don't have the collateral to actually make the physician stick. and you can

find out more dot com about the ambitious project plus expert analysis of the hiccup in the plan. ahead abandoning the austerity ship three take a look at how the greek town known for its shipping traditions is trying to survive the economic slump. plus the newly reelected syrian president announces a general amnesty our correspondent brings us the latest on the move but right after the break. when the european union promised to met ukraine become part of it it clearly contributed to the bathtub ration of tensions within ukraine ukraine will not become part of the european union won't tell tales ukraine absolutely doesn't have the economic level to become part of the e.u. or.

its technology innovation all the developments from around russia we've got the future covered. dramas that can't be ignored. stories others refuse to notice. is changing the world right now. so picture. from around the globe. looking. serious reelected president bashar al assad has announced a general amnesty for all crimes committed to date starts after he won the

country's presidential race last week by a landslide. reports. what we see is actually him keeping his promises that was assad's major point during his election campaign reports say it will not affect those charged with terrorism the country's justice minister pointed out following the news the decree was issued in the context of social forgiveness national cohesion calls for coexistence and this is exactly what syrian our needs after years of devastating war that continues we saw this initiative a talent for reconciliation in the city of homs that used to be the capital of the uprising against the authorities in the central syria following the dialogue between the authorities and of the rebels the militants agreed to withdraw from the old town that they have to occupy and for months and actually four years and now the government is doing its best to try to help them reintegrate into syrian

society and experts say for them in this report of our general amnesty that it will also help build bridges of trust between syrian people and build. reconciliation and forgiveness atmosphere in the country. you noted nations estimates in just fifteen years from now around half of the world's population will suffer from a lack of water this recent report also predicts the vital resource will become the main driver of regional and global conflicts of all the water covering the planet around two percent is freshwater about a fifth of the global population of currently under so-called water stress with their country's underground reserves already severely depleted this figure is dramatically rising with almost one third of the world's population particular to be hit by critical shortages over the next decade. also the demand for fresh water has pulled over the past five decades and global water consumption is looking less likely to sustain population growth

a combination of overcrowding pollution poor resource management and climate change will bring major security threats and these are the concerns that have been raised by the u.n. secretary general ban ki moon is also warning water scarcity because new conflicts in the foreseeable future result is going to reports water was already becoming reality. a u.s. intelligence report predicts that in less than ten years water could become a cause and a weapon of war particularly in the middle east and north africa but it seems that time has already come example syria very severe drought started in the region around two thousand and eight it continued for many years and it led to decreases in agricultural production that led to increased unemployment to migration of large numbers of people from the rural areas of syria into the cities and growing unrest which contributed to the conflict islamist militants in syria have used water as a tool in the fight against the assad government when they targeted pumping stations in aleppo last month leaving two million people without drinking water in

libya the conflict has led to the disruption of the water supply system which the late colonel qadhafi had spent more than twenty billion dollars to build french companies are now said to be showing interest in privatization of libya's public water system after the us invaded iraq it secured one of its largest corporations recto with a contract to repair the country's water supply the same back to lead being forced out of believe the after years of public protests broke out at the price hikes for water the company went into the country thanks to the world bank the organization said he would only give believe you a development aid if the public water system was privatized similar conditions are forced on many other countries seeking help instance to trend toward privatization of water is a difficult one and a very controversial one and is likely to provoke more tensions around the world if it continues according to the center for public integrity western nations stand to make up to one trillion dollars from privatizing purifying and distributing water

in the middle east and north africa where water often cost more than oil one hundred years from now. we're going to have to pay incredibly high prices for water our wars are going to be fought for water meanwhile more than one point two billion people in the world don't have access to clean water the un predicts it will get worse many say water will become the oil of the twenty first century and whether controls water will have an enormous influence over any country's growth and prosperity and it seems the race for the control of water is on in washington i'm going to check on our team. of fresh water access has recently become a major point of contention between israel and palestine update two thousand palestinians in east jerusalem and spent three months without running water because an israeli utility company that supplies at least expert gideon bromberg believes that's largely due to israel's uncompromising stance the current way the water it

is man is really you know israel has full domination it's like having a single bath tub and two straws drinking from it one side the israeli side can draw from that straw as much water as it wants but from the palestinian straw there must be israeli palestinian agreement for every cubic meter for every water project to be advanced and that situation is not fear and it's really a matter of time before the population in gaza will not have clean water to drink i don't see any border any security fence or any military holding back one and a half million thursday people while we understand that the situation of negotiations is currently on pause well water will simply not wait.

online u.s. stealth bombers in european skies the war craft are set to show that washington is committed to protect its european partners militarily find out who. whistleblowers have the chance of getting their hands on some serious cash megaupload founder kim dotcom is offering a five million dollar reward for information to help fight his online piracy case also. an unexpected savior stranded motor boat crew catches a ride to safety from a russian nuclear submarine details visit our website. the greek government may be hailing signs of the country's economic recovery but it seems that people aren't sharing the optimism or the unemployment that slightly still remains the highest in the e.u. . takes a look at how the country's time of the shipping industry is still fighting for survival. a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions that's how locals and better might describe the current situation and the country where maritime

traditions go back centuries just a half hour drive from athens it's one of greece's most important historic shores and should build then has always been the bread and butter for people living here that's until the crisis kicked in and kicked business out to shipyards in china korea entered behind me is the biggest ports in greece once providing services to tens of thousands of ships a year that's no longer the case as they come a crisis has brought the country to its knees we travel to the ports of curious to speak to the locals and figure out if it really has nothing to offer but a memory of better days. thousands of people used to work here and now we have one hundred to two hundred people a day at most and out of those who are here many aren't even getting paid. i haven't been paid since october just like many other people but we come when we work because we'll lose the money otherwise it will probably end up having to go to

court to get it it's not just workers who are struggling but employers to one of the main problems is the rigid labor regime imposed by unions which significantly increased costs but as part of a controversial reform package in february and ploy rest can now ignore those union wage agreements but this can be a double edged sword. we have no electricity no water and we are on paid those who can take it do those who can't leave. this we've asked the labor minister to meet us four times around ninety percent of workers don't have health care the meeting hasn't happened they refuse we can't even get that we approached the shipping minister and he said you're right let me see but there's been no answer which drawing and if things remain the same at the end the streak continues to stagnate there's worse to come according to some sort of stood up and he said the child will be sick on an island one day and there will be no

ships to take them to hospital because so many of them are closing there someone wanting to go to a neighboring island will have to come here first because there are no connecting journeys at the same time you have thousands of people here waiting for work many call the current situation absurd irrational and humane and it's only when you see a woman break down in seers asking not to be filmed because her family has been humiliated enough that you really understand how greeks are coping or not marina cost survive reporting fartsy from greece. in other world news in brief truck bombs have been used against the offices of two kurdish political parties north of the iraqi capital the pentagon people were killed in the first attack a suicide bomber drove a vehicle packed with explosives into a checkpoint where people rushed to the site of the blast another truck bomb detonated hours later a triple bomb attack reportedly killed three in baghdad. pakistani taliban has

claimed responsibility for the five hour assault on the country's largest airport in karachi that killed at least twenty eight people ten militants stormed a site armed with grenades machine guns and rocket launchers reportedly used fake i.d. cards to access the area and a gun battle with police all the attackers were killed yourselves dealt a serious blow to hopes of peace talks resuming. million police have used tear gas and stun grenades on striking public transport workers three days before the world cup kicks off protesters have been demanding a hike in salaries the ongoing strike is cause traffic chaos in the country's business have there been numerous protests across brazil ahead of the footballing extravaganza with people outraged by the excessive spending on that sort of. next to moscow courses handed down senses to five men for the murder of the russian investigative journalist anna politkovskaya two of them found to have been directly involved in the killing with even life behind bars also three coconspirators was

sentenced to between twelve and twenty years for costco shot dead in the elevator of the building where she lived in central moscow back in two thousand and six sustentation is thought to be linked to her work but questions remain over who ordered the hit. up next for the leader france's far right who is a sizeable winner in the recent european elections marine le pen talks the artes sophie shevardnadze. recent events in ukraine definitely have a wide range of interpretation both russia and the west accuse the other of doing a lot of meddling some people call those who are fighting out east separatists or

terrorists but others call them a people's militia fighting the kiev huta and this sort of situation everyone has their bias and it's hard to tell what is going on but i can tell you one thing in a sea of opinion the kiev side is using artillery and fact there have been numerous reports of artillery strikes like the one that just a few days ago hit the sales of hope orphanage which was thankfully empty at the time. is or to are such a big deal well if you send guys with guns in the fight they're going to see their target try to kill it but artillery shoots targets they can't even see they just throw shells at a general location and interestingly enough many locations seem to be in populated areas of the breakaway republics so who is the actual target of randomly shelling populated areas well if we turn on our brain for a second we can see that artillery is one of the worst ways to take out a specific threat in a local population but it sure is a good way to eliminate the entire local population because maybe that's who the quote threat actually is but that's just my opinion.

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