one london three international outcry on cécile media two and a field day. news live from moscow welcome to the program on r.t. international. there is no letup in the ukrainian government's military offensive in the east of the country despite a player from the new president petro poroshenko to put a broker so i should say a ceasefire with pro autonomy fighters and entire village in the meantime has been almost completely razed to the ground as we can show you up on the sign here and there's barely a building left in. that has not been damaged the streets like deserted the village has been absolutely pounded by intense artillery fire locals say the army used multiple rocket launchers against them but as kiev stepped up its operation

self-defense forces are vowing to stand firm as are now reports from one of their training camp. with the anti-government phrases we're on the way to a training camp here in the city of no guns they're not telling us exactly where this camp is because of security reasons bagman how much time going to take us to get there. it's. it's a question that we'll know when we get there. was a former officer with the ukrainian police before switching sides only a month ago he commanded a team of just twelve men today they numbered more than one hundred and growing by the day all of them volunteers each with a code name to hide his identity how is the situation on the ground at the moment it's good you which people are very scared the city is preparing for war we were evacuating women and children from the city batsman says the ukrainian military staff. tick is to attack from behind so he's had these men spall out across the

city about to approach the cap and balance on steps to switch off the camera deep in the forests it's easy to see why they've set up base here everything is camouflaged making it difficult for the ukrainian army to find them. where now at the military training camp and we're off to see them do training with knives this is training for close combat but i hope which one comes with the not planning and close combat fighting the heat from the bombing with heavy artillery like in slovyansk in donetsk the guys here come from just about every background you have former students you have former businessmen you have former drivers and you also have ex-military and police so you have people with a lot of military experience but you also have some for whom this is the first time that they're picking up a knife or a gun and so the sharing of skills and experience is vital and the guys have told

me to put two of these in my ears because there's going to be a hell of a noise. the automatic weapon training is the most important batsman keeps tight control over he's made many still have families inside ukraine and when we constantly about them. it's not becoming a war it's already a war. most of the guys a citizens of new guns to city they're highly motivated they're between the ages of twenty and thirty five when i asked one of them whether there are enough people here to take on the ukrainian military his answer was there's enough. but how many more need to die before the kiev government itself declare is enough is enough police the r.t.c. outside two guns eastern ukraine. and for more insight on how the self-defense forces are preparing themselves for battle you can follow paul on twitter user

posting regular updates and striking images straight out of eastern ukraine. the. a deal on a russian natural gas supplies to ukraine is looking increasingly fragile with a payment deadline set by moscow expiring today the taps will be shut off unless overdue bills are covered or a new agreement is reached or europe remains heavily reliant on russian gas pump vio ukraine despite brussels is demanding a free use of the south stream pipeline project which would provide an alternative supply route now ball garia halted work on the pipeline citing e.u. recommendations the prime minister of serbia then said the construction of its section would go ahead as planned despite ball gary its current position meanwhile moscow has criticized brussels efforts to hold back the project calling them on constructive international oil export things the e.u.

is ultimately shooting itself in the foot. they are punishing themselves because as you appreciate the european union although it's a huge economy could block politically it doesn't have much a great influence the influence is between the united states and i share and of course china so they are actually punishing them send and if they impose sanctions only as lies from russia to the european you know you know they will be imposing get it and get it close because the russian gas supplies can never be the least in the short 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 mid east or in goes to the asia pacific region so it doesn't help

then when i was in any way they would be actually thinking themselves now the e.u. is seeking to diversify energy supplies to reduce its reliance on russian gas about a third of the natural gas it consumes comes directly from russia now geopolitics as well as a growth in fuel prices as well as europe turning to coal now coal is a cheaper alternative but is very very dirty and so share some details here on r.t. international the coal consumption has been steadily rising compared to the use of natural gas you can see the growing difference that and us despite environmental campaigns to reduce carbon emissions and cut back on highly polluting fuels even germany known for its commitment to alternative energy is no exception as r.t. correspondent peter all of us now investigates. the black hearted the center of the green dream in germany coal is back in vogue we see the

renaissance of coal combustion. naturally this is a disaster to the credibility of germany's as regards climate mitigation it's an issue that runs deep in america's government they hope to be able to generate a massive eighty percent of energy from renewables like solar and wind by twenty fifty while getting rid of nuclear and the only other option then to keep the lights on europe's most robust economy is to increase the use of coal by thousands of tons a year. plan this isn't how it was planned we wanted to increase renewables while lowering c o two emissions we've done the first part but at the same time we're having to burn more coal to meet demand so our c o two emissions have gone up rather than down in early june the local authority near this pits agreed to remove a further two hundred million tonnes of brown coal from the open cast mines in the

area up to twenty twenty six that germany is ramping up its use of this particular type of cold that produces a lot of carbon dioxide deeply concerns environmental campaigners. from all the scientific results we have the inevitable result of the continued use of brown coal would be a global catastrophe the effects will be felt worldwide. but it's power plants like this that are needed if germany is to continue its economic cutting edge as well as prevent household energy prices from soaring. coal has a massive role to play for many years if we want to secure an affordable source of power. germany has the second highest reserves of brown coal on the planet those in charge of this operation question the government line that the only future is renewables dr michael had chancellor merkel is a doctor of physics and i'm sure she realizes that those laws can't be broken if we

want to use power as we do we need coal not just now but over the next two to three decades despite the country's green lobby pushing for more wind and solar power it does seem that the only really reliable source of energy for germany at the time being is coal peter all over r.t. germany. and we come to you live from moscow as the united states is expanding its military presence in europe sending a pair of b. two stealth bombers to the baltic region as part of the second major nato exercise in the area in the space of two months defense analyst ivan eland he sees this all as a show of strength to try and intimidate russia. well it's just symbolic presence i mean those b. two bombers can hit the hit russia from their base in surrey but they're they've been transferred to england and there's also their nuclear capable fifty two

straddle fortress aircraft in. britain as well there's five planes total so i think that's also a statement to russia saying well united states is a nuclear power and we have to protect our allies in willing to go. to and including the nuclear threshold and maybe above that to defend them or still to come the program without international brazil faces an uneasy world cup launch we look at whether patriotism and football fever will shine through the street protests rather unfavorable media coverage that story is on the way. but for now tackling homelessness is never an easy task but our wealthy london neighborhoods approach to the problem has certainly been raising a few eyebrows shop metal spikes have been installed outside doorways to prevent rough sleepers from settling down for the night is on so you sara. well these small

spikes have caused uproar on social media over the last couple of days the so-called anti homeless by the more like the sort of thing that you see on windows to prevent pigeons from landing there but it seems that these have been installed to prevent homeless people from sleeping rough in this spot and it sparked wide scale debate with everyone from the mayor of london who called them ugly self-defeating and stupid to members of the public and even some of the residents who we've spoken to who live here he want to see the spikes removed. it's a it's almost obscene i mean i was really offended when i saw myself because i thought it's it's sending an awful bad message to homeless people you know it's in move from here we come back we'll move somewhere else and i think that's that's not going to solve the problem but others supported it one resident coming out angrily removes the ban is protesting the spikes the finger of blame is pointing towards

one of the private properties management company that they say fall fails to respond to artie's questions other areas of london to have seen similar measures like this supermarket in essential london high street charities that had been documenting the rising number of homeless in london say this simply isn't the way to deal with the issue well the london mayor's office points to the fact that they've already invested thirty four million pounds in scenes like no second night out designed to try to ensure that rusty was never spend more than one evening on the streets the reality though from what we're told by homeless charities and from what the figures seem to indicate is that homelessness and rusty thing is an ongoing and growing problem and this latest controversial anti homeless by that have appeared perhaps a sad indication of just how far will. and still has to go in tackling this issue

surf reporting for us from london. and these. are also dividing opinions on twitter some of called the move inhumane we've been breaking. homeowners exercising their rights you can log on to watch people call follow the reaction and get involved yourself. still to come here in washington national too big to fail too big to sell a chinese firms not as often american carmakers that went bankrupt despite receiving millions of dollars of taxpayers rescue money. react to situations i have read the reports but. no i will leave them to the state department to comment on your plan to. secure your car is on the job you

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moments away from the r.t. world update on the program for now chinese companies are on a shopping spree in the u.s. investment doubled in twenty thirteen is reaching a record high of fourteen billion dollars the chinese have been buying up firms in sectors ranging from energy and food to entertainment and the biggest deal yet was last year's acquisition of america's largest pork producer smithfield foods and in the most recent case a taxpayer back to electric car company was sold to a chinese manufacturer. reports. america's costly loss has turned into a freak game for its number one global competitor chinese auto parts dealer the want shang group has purchased a deep funk u.s. electric car company that actually failed to pay back nearly one hundred forty million dollars to american taxpayers before declaring bankruptcy to school

automotive receive the federal funds you want to energy department's advanced technology vehicles manufacturing loan program and shortly after getting cash in hand the company collapsed one shang group acquired fisker its satirise supplier and the patents in the u.s. bankruptcy auction paying one hundred forty nine point two million dollars the chinese company reportedly plans to turn around and sell the same plug in car to u.s. markets by the end of the year and now the irony of the situation is that one chang's founder are chinese billionaire has reportedly been trying to break into the auto industry for decades turns out the opportunity came courtesy of the washington with u.s. citizens footing the bill unfortunately american taxpayers will not recruit the one hundred thirty nine million that was paid into this car in the very savvy strategic move on the part of the chinese they want to dominate the next generation of

automotive which is the electric vehicle market this acquisition of this is just part of a long term plan the fact that the u.s. government extended millions of dollars of loans to this company and then let the company go bankrupt and then let a foreign entity purchase that technology shows the lack of long term planning on the part of the u.s. industrial policy the new chinese auto owner reportedly plans to produce the formerly u.s. owned electric cars in finland however one chang is said to be considering the for . functional for us production in the future imagine a scenario where china is bringing a factory one morning from new york. it's. always lots of goodies for you what i call more of the stories you can see right now with this one coming your way people in a flooded siberian village getting quite a shock when a whole piece of military hardware appeared outside the house. but.

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to the world update we go starting with afghanistan and nato says five of its soldiers are being killed in southern afghanistan this point no details have yet been given on the nationalities of the victims or where the incident is now brings the coalition death toll in afghanistan to thirty six since january and all fifty thousand of the remaining western combat troops in afghanistan are due to be withdrawn by the end of this year. a gun wielding married couple who shot dead two police officers in las vegas a believed to have been white supremacists the

attackers left swastika symbols in the apartment of one of their victims before heading to a nearby wal-mart shop where they killed a bystander who tried to stop them a surrounded by police a twenty two year old female shooter killed her husband then committed suicide it's the third gun massacre in the western u.s. in the space of three weeks. widespread flooding in southern parts of brazil have left at least nine people dead and three more missing a state of emergency has been declared in seventy seven towns with the army helicopters deployed to rescue some of the thousands of people left stranded at the worst affected areas include the state of the capital is one of the twelve host cities of the upcoming world. and did with due to launch on thursday celebrations are being overshadowed by massive street protests in brazil's largest city that paolo the city was brought to a standstill over the past few days by a transport workers strike over low pay as crowds took to the streets police for

them with tear gas and stun grenades. in the mean time half the city's metro stations were out of action and traffic gridlock took over the city center. has become the main focus of national discontent over the massive cost of venues and infrastructure built for the world cup much of which has not yet been completed. one of the flagship projects a new monorail partially collapsed in sao paulo on monday killing one construction worker. and the global media in no mood to give brazil an easy ride taking every opportunity to highlight organizational failure security failings or problems with accommodation for the many thousands of fans as well british journalist graham phillips he's in rio de janeiro for ati. so here rio the city's iconic copacabana beach was some of the sights of what's to be the main fan zone here as it undergoes construction with just two decent sort of world cup begins to visit the host of the world cup should be a celebration for any nation protecting what is famously football obsessed as penna

the brazilian national team has won the world cup five times that's right good but the reality is this cokie roberts who was in the headlines for all the wrong reasons is the most expensive world cup in history cost of over eleven billion dollars that's a record in a country which still struggles with poverty we've seen actions across brazil protests at events such as the clear the fail is a mighty inflation one and the conditions which of secret ports where they work is killed on world cup construction sites that's a feeling of general dissatisfaction is cursed throughout the country we have had these surveys and it was even one showing seventy two percent of resilience early this month feeling negatively about the world cup we haven't seen what is the sentiments of the time for this market past that not with the world cup imminent kicking off in two days of brazil's downtimes day the twelfth of june it could be the time to show some love for this once in a lifetime this truly international event the world cup here in brazil this is great for those with r.t. so plenty of setbacks for brazil but nevertheless there's also no shortage of the

u.s. yes and for this big worldwide tournament a financial correspondent joyce alba as she believes that once the world cup cup actually gets going people will put all the negativity fall behind. in the past two weeks the mood had changed i'm raising some proud and last week i was also in rio these and you know the data that i got from this to cities is that people are starting to get really sort of parties in the celebrations i think for now. we can expect. people to be more in a positive mood because. i think from now the focus has been this for the president and it's very well. close to meet there is nothing more we can do against the worst not so let's celebrate it. all with thanks for joining us here in our international research area in moscow up next a look at the chain of events that turn the peaceful nation of yugoslavia into

a war zone thanks for joining us. 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 our tour 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 over. 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. to try to. people are going to. feel like. it's a sure thing every minute. let me. know

what. your life like but. let's say. this case is. sometimes for nothing. it's not just a good story can still be just if he sees the state aid to be with each other. and. of course as history has shown there was one surefire way to mobilize public opinion in favor of a conflict and bring him back to the world war two mentality where all serbs became

check nicks and all croats was to shake hardcore propaganda. from the get go but. i. think. the police. would go for the will. the money doesn't actually work all that well known that you guys really don't you know most of whom we call it is sort of we're not getting these guys are they going to going to miss it we're going to want to get all right so he goes with so we're ready for proof you know you don't see it about zygotes. or will be only about sneakers will go out it's what you were going to make us with weapon above that's good but we're going there will be any sort of you know yep they were all pretty much the same not to be sued people in your name he pleaded it out to a policeman and i'm no good i mean brain it was through

a sonnet about the porch it goes out to the porch elite oh we're going to. do that not from again these are in the door that no bill dollars really the donna said no image to you it used to madonna which is true rock we wouldn't say i'm a witch and goodie yes the war had started best characterized by two words ethnic cleansing cleansing ethnic cleansing a snake cleansing ethnic cleansing the term however was nothing new in the balkans as it was first used in world war two to describe how the creation was to say we're cleansing croatia unwelcome ethnic elements such as serbs and jews in the minds of the serbs during the one nine hundred ninety s. this was very much engraved in their national memory you know didn't care because he knew he had the support of just the right people german foreign minister hun steve genscher in almost daily contact with zagreb gave his go ahead for croatian secession and actually pressured its western allies to recognize slovenia and croatia.