doesn't sound anything. to teach me. to care about. this is why you should care only. comes under missile attack with the army stepping up as a. militia groups trapping civilians in the crossfire. because. everything has the violence is forcing women and children to flee their homes are refugees from lives have been turned upside down by the fighting. rival can step up their campaigns a one hundred days ahead of scotland's historic independence referendum with. a liquid towards the un says a water shortages

a will feel major conflict will. explore how such battles already starting to happen. everyone welcome to you if you've just joined us here on our team to national we're live from moscow you're with me along with. the latest reports of from ukraine's eastern city of slovyansk say it's once again been targeted by government troops the army reportedly stepped up its offensive against militia groups in of the region was civilians caught in the crossfire four people including a child were killed in a strike day on sunday womanly you can see in this 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 from actions house where four year old girl was reportedly killed during an attack. and say the most popular with young families military forces came and militia we're using it as their. central square of the city has also come under fire locals claim of the attack happened when many people were outside following a church service the constant danger has forced people to leave their homes policy or met some of those fleeing the violence in neighboring lugansk. also even do so still exists 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 the truth carrie 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 and 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 long time due to it's game on him being. human 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 the people of the past are preparing their documents and russia the final destination. just a few minutes away. i congratulate the repass in general with crossing the border to russia i am kind of. 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. despite 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. is a sophie seven r.t. you can watch that full interview at r.t. dot com 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 under 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 to see these civil victim is in the east of ukraine victims who are dying surrounded by the general indifference of the european political the world feels and media. it is a real scandal which is happening on our doorstep. that

you. reporters from russia's news agency and there's vs the 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 meanwhile two other russian journalists who have been detained in ukraine for two days have arrived back in moscow the men were captured at a checkpoint near slavyansk while they were on route to cover the inauguration of ukraine's new president a security service had accused them of observing and collecting information on army checkpoints it was the latest episode in a number of similar accusations and the 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 because their accounts of what happened. to the people who detained this used force in trying 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 china and windsor and not enough oxygen the security was close in the wind it was at least fifty degrees celsius inside we also did not have much water in the u.k. it's just one hundred days before the historic referendum for scottish independence and as the clock const down both the end and out camps us stepping up their games for now polls are show that the no vote leading but the supporters campaign is steadily gaining supporters with a four percent rise over the last four months however those who want to say goodbye to british rule have plenty of issues to wrestle with billy boy to listen to some of them. 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 automatic they also 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 the five million citizens make a choice for their country's independence i know from dealings with diplomats and politicians across to union they will accept that nato is another elite members

club that the yes campaign insists it would be able to stay in a big part of nuclear armaments resting in scotland and the us 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 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 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 well then both sides will have to enter a complicated negotiations that could take many years to settle. see london. party gauge to the opinions of both supporters and opponents of scottish independence here's what each side have to say. and. your money and they also get a good deal of money out we have a lot of cost and we've got to worry about when to pay off our pension bell the oil is going to get taxes a role she's from what. you know the oil prices dropping through the floor you can

be sure tar. you know your tire calling me on oil with together through war and peace basically these people are just fanatics. for what it's worth is. for the united states and we want to break with that and everything but we we want to say that we want to have influence we want to have influence with partners there with the economy and britain has been one just know is leading towards massive inequality on a historic scale and i think the real question is can we afford not to vote yes in september when all the british government has got itself into an unexpected drawl regarding the no vote campaign if it is in toys figures from the famous lego company to illustrate why scots stay within the u.k. prompting outrage from the toy maker sarah further joins me now live with the details so sara what exactly was london trying to do here. well as you

just heard in my colleague's package one of the focal points of this campaigning on both sides is being the economic benefits to scott so both sides have been really pushing as the campaigning totting up pushing for the economic benefits that scots could enjoy if they voted either way now western is the recently put out a press release and in it they attempted to show twelve ways that scott's with enjoy the one thousand four hundred pounds they would apparently save if they voted against independence another huge illustration design gave because she makes their point showing examples such as going on a holiday and lounging in the sun scuffing two hundred and eighty hotdogs at the edinburgh festival leaving anough left over for endless hugs now this was supposed to be a light hearted campaigning piece but it prompted this criticism on social media and ridicule for many scottish betas he simply felt that it wasn't

a serious message at all and not particularly appropriate for what is a very serious issue the issue of baiting for independence when that referendum comes around on september eighteenth now lego itself came out saying that the government hasn't asked for permission to use those images and it maintained its position as a politically neutral company after which westminster the removed the images now it's fair to say that both sides have had some campaigning clangers i'm pretty sure there'll be a few more to come one hundred days of campaigning left but in this instance the millionaires will be jealous faces proving this one a very big red face for it's certainly not a fine and toys sort of situation the sarah reporting for us a life far from our from london thank you very much. right and the referendum

is a schedule for the eighteenth of september and as the day of the potentially groundbreaking vote approaches archie's keeping its nose to the ground stay with us what detail coverage along with expert opinion and analysis. by find out more at r.t. dot com about the ambitious project that's coming up we're going to be talking about clouds lots of the let me tell you also what's coming up next the newly reelected syrian president announces a general amnesty correspondent brings us the details and right off to the break stay with us for more on that. schedule from the care of ukraine has a new president and he's made it clear we have no new ideas on how to resolve the

country's dire problems but a show called says he wants a peaceful ukraine but in his inaugural address if you do declaration of war they are going to make them. choose your language. make it without going through some of. the sense to. choose instead to be grateful to. choose the stories that impact. access to. the. economic down to find out. the new york shanghai and the rest join me it will be every week.

we're back with more news here on our to international the syrian leader bashar al assad has announced a general amnesty for all crimes committed to date he was reelected last week after winning the country's presidential race by a landslide arches maria financial 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 a fact those charged with terrorism the country's justice minister clergy are following the news for coexistence and this is exactly what syrian army after years of devastating war that continues we saw this initiative a talent for reconsideration 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 the rebels the militants agreed to withdrawal from the old town that they have time for months and actually for years and now the government is doing its best to true or to try to help them reintegrate into syrian society and experts say following this report of a general amnesty that it will also build bridges of trust between the syrian people and build. reconciliation and forgiveness atmosphere in the country. the south stream gas projects day is inevitable that's the statement today from bulgaria the energy minister on sunday the country put all work on hold after a series of demands from brussels citing alleged violations of law it included rules concerning ownership of the pipeline the massive project designed to provide a new route for russian natural gas supplies to europe half of the joint venture is

controlled by russia's guess giant gazprom europe's major energy players or make up the other half we know the second country along the route of construction serbia has today really pledges commitment to the south stream project live now to dr salama international economist and consultant on oil and energy at the world bank thank you very much for joining us russia's president has said that no country would do willingly refused to cooperate with russia in the energy sector do you agree with that statement. well most of the companies which are already dealing with russia will continue to deal with it whether in terms of oil and gas exports or by lines of course there might be some pressure from the united states and from the european union in a gesture of a political gesture against russian but these sanctions including

stopping they were on the south stream pipeline out seem pipeline. will up work because. a lot loser and. investment and who loses as in the future that's why i'm saying such measures would never work and any sanctions against russia would not work out of i show if the project. with the e.u. knows why it wasn't that noticed early on during the construction or during the negotiations of these pipelines it's been there for ages why now. well as i said. earlier might have come under pressure from the european union to do our buy buy some sort of

protest against russia reserve the crisis but as i said it doesn't have a bull garia even the european union cannot impose strict sanctions against russia because you are or could never replace the lives from russia it might be able to get war or oil supplies from outside that i share but forget as it can never replace gaz and concede twenty the sanctions will never succeed so i've heard what you've said so subsequently the e.u. is sort of punishing itself then because they should invest themselves in the foot if they say let's put pressure on russia let's put pressure on other people who support gas lines i mean then they do get thirty percent of the gas from europe from from russia pardon me. in a way they're are punishing themselves because as you appreciate the european union

or go it's a huge economy could block politically it doesn't have much a great influence the influence is between the united states and russia and of course china so they are actually punishing themselves and if they ever impose sanctions on gas and oil supplies from russia to the european union they will be imposing getting it and a great loss because the russian gas supplies can never be replaced in the shore and oil supplies if they have to look for oil in the middle east and that means that the price of oil will go up because most of middle eastern oil goes to the asia pacific region so it doesn't help but when i was in any way they will be actually punishing themselves dr doom international or economist and

consultant on oil and energy at the world bank thank you very much for joining us and sharing your views with us. right the united nations estimates in just fifteen years from now around half of the world's population will suffer from a lack of water its recent report also predicts the vital resource will become the main driver of regional and global conflicts of all of the water covering the planet only around two percent is freshwater about a third of the global population are currently under so-called water stress with a day countries underground reserves already severely depleted now this figure is dramatically rising with almost one third of the population predicted to be hit by critical shortage just over the next decade now elso the demand of fresh water is of course going up and is tripled over the past five decades and global water

consumption is looking less likely to sustain population growth not combination of overcrowding pollution and poor resource management and climate change will bring major security threats these are the concerns that have been raised by the un secretary-general ban ki moon is also warning water scarcity could cause new conflicts in the forseeable future but as our g.'s damage can reports water was our ready becoming a 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 islamic 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 destruction 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 back with a contract to repair the country's water supply the same back to lead being forced out of believe the after fears public protests broke out at the price hikes for water the company went into the country thanks to the world bank the organisation said he would only give believe in a development aid if the public water system was privatized similar conditions are forced on many other countries seeking help the trend toward privatization of water is a difficult one and a very controversial one hand 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 of 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 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 kind of check on our team. after the break a clash of opinions in cross talk with peter the bell but if any is watching us in the u.k.

you'll be going underground with the absence of times i'll see you next hour. 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 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 the 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 why is are two are such a big deal well if you send guys with guns in the fight they're going to see their target dry 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 brains 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 load. population because maybe that's who the quote threat actually is but that's just my opinion.

below and welcome to cross talk for all things considered i'm peter although schizophrenia care ukraine has a new president but he has made it clear he has no new ideas on how to resolve the country's dire problems but says he wants a peaceful ukraine but in his inaugural address he issued a declaration of war and an ultimatum whose agenda is he pursuing. crosstalk to crisis in ukraine i'm joined by my guest. in cleveland he is a professor and former czechoslovak diplomat in boston we have daniel patrick welch he is a writer and political analyst and in moscow we cross to mark he is the senior lecturer in researcher at moscow state university for the jailing cross-talk rules in fact that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it it's go to cleveland first ukraine has a new president but he has no new ideas let me what do you make of what bush and co has said on the back of his trip to normandy. many people were hopeful.

coming into office will turn the page. make certain breakthroughs possible and as many other people more realistic. frighten expect it. for him to. the program which is a full scale war on eastern ukraine with any qualms with any quarters given and he essentially wants that eastern ukraine they don't us in lugansk peoples republics submit surrender and bizarre and for the for bush and co and his. patrons this would be peace or pacific ation in history we know that certain powers were calling for peace open.