forces in eastern ukraine refused to surrender is kiev continues its softly attacks across the region we visit a training camp for self-defense fighters. ukraine's government fails to meet a deadline set by russia to start paying off its gas debt and faces a supply cut off later today if further talks break three. zero tolerance for rough sleepers london so-called defensive architecture triggers anger and frustration. coming up on r.t. we'll be telling you how these small spikes on one london see international outcry

on cécile media to initiate a. welcome once again my name is the harvey and you're watching r.t. international. there has been no letup in the ukrainian government's military offensive in the east of the country despite a pledge from the new president petro poroshenko to broker a ceasefire with pro autonomy fighters and entire villages being almost completely razed to the ground and as you can see there's barely a building left in that hasn't been damaged and the streets day lined deserted the villages being pounded by intense artillery fire locals there say the army's multiple rocket launches against them meanwhile the german foreign minister has warned kiev against disproportionate military action that could actually add to separate separatist sentiment and. so far the local self-defense forces very are

showing no signs of caving in of these policy reports now from the training camp. where when the anti-government fighters were on the way to a training camp here in the city of new guns they're not telling us exactly where this camp is because of security reasons that men how much time want to take us to get their. cigarettes it's a question that we all know when we get there bettman was a former officer with the ukrainian elite police before switching sides only a month ago he commanded a team of just twelve men today they numbered more than one hundred and are 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 which people are very scared the city is preparing for war we're evacuating women and children from the city bettman says that ukrainian military static is to attack

from behind so he's had his main spall out across the city were 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 also to see them do training with knives this is training for close combat but a whole which ones comes with the marines not planning on close combat fighting the heat from the bombing with heavy artillery like in sloviansk in donetsk the guys here come from just about every background you have former students you have form of 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. two of these in my years because there's going to be a hell of

a noise. the automatic weapon training is the most important battle and keeps tight control over his men many still have families inside ukraine and while we constantly about them. it's not becoming a war it's already a war. most of the guys are citizens of lugansk city they're highly motivated they're between the ages of twenty and sixty 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 to clear is enough is enough policy r.t. outside guns eastern ukraine. you can follow pause twitter feed for all the latest updates on ukraine and she is reporting that two children

have died in slovyansk in the week long army shelling that's according to officials in the region and sent a dunya it's. the end of. the deal on russian natural gas supplies to ukraine is looking increasingly fragile with a payment deadline set by moscow expiring today the taps could be shut off unless overdue bills are covered or a new agreement is reached remains heavily reliant on russian gas pumped vi ukraine but despite that brussels is demanding a freeze of the south stream pipeline project which would have provided an alternative supply route. bulgaria haunted work on the pipeline so i think e.u. recommendations the prime minister of serbia then said the construction of its section would go ahead as planned that was despite bulgaria's position and it appears that the us may be weighing in as well the decision to freeze work on the south stream came just after a meeting with american senators former u.s.

treasury official paul craig roberts believes that washington is forcing europe to jeopardize its energy interests question why it is really up to europe it's not up to watch if the europeans say well look we don't want to take those who risk with our lines just sort of washington to beat up on russia in the pipeline will continue the problem with the existing one german through ukraine news ukraine. through russia. trying to supply europe. through ukraine. share it with gas. its gas but my point is wash them doesn't share anything any make you do hurt russia it wipes out their hours they could care less well the use now seeking to diversify energy supplies to reduce its

reliance on russian gas about a third of the natural gas it can seem to comes from russia geopolitics as well as growth in fuel prices they are forcing europe though to turn to coal which is a relatively cheap source of energy so let's take a look at some of the details these coal consumption has been steadily rising as we can see here that's compared to the use of natural gas and also 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 peter all of us now reports. 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 code debility of germany's cadential 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 that was 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 tons 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 other 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. 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 oliver r.t. germany. tackling homelessness is never an easy task but a wealthy london neighborhoods approach to the problem has been raising some eyebrows sharp metal spikes have been installed outside doorways to vent rough sleepers from settling down for the night so firth has more. well these small spikes of calls were all social media over the last couple of days the so-called anti homeless they're 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 widescale debate with everyone from the mayor of london he 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 for me. it's

a it's almost obscene i mean i was really offended when i saw myself because i thought it's sending an awful bad message to homeless people you know that say and move from here don't come back but 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 companies that they say fall fails to respond to artie's questions this isn't a new phenomenon as we're told by angie ferris he spent six years homeless on the streets of london stream the dangerous it's very lonely it's very very hard you don't know where the next new is coming from because you have no positions you have no money homeless people have nothing if they're on the street they have this place literally to sleep on which they are now at the moment. you know that's the place

they have to sleep that's their home that is all they've got there's nothing else in the world i think that's very sad don't you think other areas of london to you 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 mazal first 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 the rough sleepers never spend more than one evening on the story the reality of what we're told by famous charities and from what the biggest thing to indicate is that homelessness and rusty thing is an ongoing and growing problem and this latest controversial anti home is like that of the pit perhaps a sad indication of just how far person still has to go in tackling this issue he

served reporting for us from london. home the spikes are also dividing opinions on twitter some of call them inhumane and even hall breaking while others see it as property owners just exercising their rights head to dot com to follow the reaction. and also on the way we follow the spiral of violence in karate pakistan where gun battles have broken out once again side the port we'll be bringing you live analysis after the break. the. economic downturn the final. day. shanghai and the rest i meet every week.

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international the united states is expanding its military presence in europe sending a pair of b. two stealth bombers to the baltic region and they will be taking part in the second major nato exercise in the area in just the space of two months to get more on this sign joined by security analyst michael maloof good afternoon to you michael. mentioned nato sending reinforcements to eastern europe include warships and fighter planes is this just show where they really use them what's the goal here. well i think it's a show of. force on the one hand to engage in exercises military exercises to send the message more than to show our might and i think it it's a prelude to the united states coming evolving a new policy approach toward russia working with the allies to extend a perhaps a new defense line from poland down to azerbaijan and and

the idea is to try and protect those areas and and show that there is a commitment now i think that because we lack resources in that region that it would take a considerable amount of effort to bring in many military forces there certainly the europeans do not. have not lived up to their nato commitments and have not. provided the necessary manpower and equipment and kept it updated i think the exercises are to send a message but i think more importantly there's more to be going on behind the scenes politically to try and neutralize the russian effort to move forward into those countries and i think from the russian standpoint they they don't want to see they want to create a buffer they don't want to see nato encroaching any further and i think that's why

the russian foreign minister lavrov is going to finland. to moldova in a number of other locations to try and shore up that the back in if you will to ensure that they don't join e.u. or some other western multilateral. legislator because nato is saying that exercises in their opinion to counter what they perceive as. russian aggression over ukraine and yet that just hasn't been able evidence of that in fact the only thing we are seeing evidence of is is shelling from the ukrainian government on the proton m e militants sometimes innocent civilians so why are we not getting any concern from the west about violence. well the united states is trying to send a message. it's a message i guess that. they don't want to see any further russian gains

inside ukraine ukraine is going to be critical it's it's it's regarded as a buffer by both russia and and the west and i think russia and the united states would be very content if ukraine remain neutral i think russia's very concerned that it's going to that ukraine will join the e.u. and and this could create additional problems for or for russia i think the one thing that is really of concern to moscow now and the and the americans know what is the is the economy of russia and how delicate it really years in terms of oil exports and what have you the united states has a weapon other than the military at this point which it could exercise and that is the oil export and and be able to flood the market if they will if they want to start becoming a net exporter and they realize that the russian economy is very dependent upon

russian oil and the price of oil and so this is a hidden hidden weapon if you will and the military is to display is two hundred. underscore a nato commitment now to on the other hand it's going to be an incredible amount of effort if they really want to bolster forces to bring in shore up those things because we've actually united states is actually tremendously cut back in manpower and equipment and resources over the years and it would take a tremendous amount of effort to put that back in a tremendous expense and i think the united states really doesn't want to do that and i think the message right now is that they are. appeared to. help the nato allies and i think with the hope that. the movie near

any further than the then he's already there and so i. think we're going to hear thanks so much though for joining us great authority security analyst thank you again i hope. it's moved to other world news for you now world update islamic militants of the since all of a northern iraqi province they've reportedly released around three thousand prisoners after storming several jails and its main city mosul the gunmen are thought to be members of the extremist organization known as the islamic state of iraq and levant radicals are holding the regional airports along with administrative buildings and arms depots the army and local officials they have fled the city. nato says five u.s. soldiers have been killed in the province of zabul in southern afghanistan one local serviceman also died in the attack the alliance has given no further details but afghan sources say the deaths were caused by friendly fire this brings the

coalition death toll in the war zone to thirty six since january most of the remaining western troops are due to be withdrawn by the end of this year. and widespread floods 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 army helicopters deployed to rescue some of the thousands of people left without shelter the worst affected areas include the state of but are nar whose capital is one of the twelve host cities of the upcoming world cup. next the gun battle has broken out outside kharaj international airport as pakistani taliban militants attacked a security training facility there the gunmen carrying rocket launchers and high caliber firearms stormed the building fired two different entrances and thousand police officers have been sent to the site and it comes to days after the airport itself was taken siege by the pakistani taliban resulting in at least thirty six

death yet more on this development i'm joined now by journalist asaad. this to beg the airport well it's been a very difficult few days because it was stormed on sunday night why do you think the government failed to prevent this repeat attack i think the situation has just become saw unpredictable now for the pakistanis as they increase some of their military operations against the pakistani only by the northwest it's because. many different people are it's just becoming very difficult for them and you wouldn't have thought that just two days after a major attack on the country's busiest airport that there would be another one and maybe there's some question. for the security forces but also about from the government about what they're actually doing about it. now the taliban have said that the reason for the first raid was a recent u.s.

drone strike do you think there's a risk that this drone warfare could actually backfire by fueling insurgency in pakistan actually undermining the government and i think there's a risk i think it's already happening it's you know that the war in afghanistan the bombing of tribal areas use of u.s. drones has radicalized and then has. meant to that pakistan society and you know so many pakistanis have died and is undermining the government and if you just look at the figures before the u.s. intervention enough i understand there was not a single suicide bombing in pakistan you know by stand by in the athens so after the u.s. intervention we've seen a complete destabilization of pakistan yes the military is trying to fight back and that she what's happening is pakistanis coming at us to us is role for them in the tribal it was by bombing them and war against them and in turn those groups those

individuals are fighting back and being radicalized and those people wouldn't have joined militant groups and they're joining now there have been some recent suggestions that perhaps they could be paced because in recent ago ca sions we of course or the u.s. handing over an american soldier for five taliban commanders later the u.s. secretary defense he expressed hope there could be a truce with the taliban in afghanistan and so we had to say we had engaged. with the taliban up until two thousand and twelve they broke off those negotiations we've had no formal relationship since then so maybe this will be a new opening that can produce an agreement and yet that all sounds perfectly good and well we still see the u.s. attacking the taliban in pakistan so it's not fairly inconsistent. i think the us is foreign policy is inconsistent and i think that's

a good word to some there policy up keep in mind that the pakistani taliban and us plans on the planet two separate entities and even within the pakistani taliban there have been recent splits emerging after negotiations with pakistan with peace talks so you know that the americans may put it out there may stop formal warfare but actually the drone strikes will continue and that will still be a major factor in the radicalization of many people in boston and afghanistan so i don't think that the terrorism and these attacks will stop anytime soon until we see a complete stop of foreign intervention in those areas ok i've been talking to journalist outside bay thanks so much. thanks people in a flood it's not been a village got quite a shock when a home king piece of military hardware appeared outside the house john she belonged to a soviet era intercontinental ballistic missile floated right into the garden with two dogs sheltering inside find out where it came from and altie dot com. and while

you're there online pens school books at a military grade bullet proof blanket that is what children a taking to class in oklahoma following a nationwide wave of gun attacks get the full story on the web site. more news headlines at the top of the hour do stay with us though to find out why the u.s. department of agriculture kohls millions of wild animals every year coming up in breaking news that. 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 of randomly shelling populated areas or if we turn on our brains for a second we can see that are. tiller 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.

there's a famous line in jaws where. the fishermen on the boat one of them says we're going to need a bigger boat i mean this is what the european central bank has told the market that the fraud is so enormous at this point that in order to accommodate another ten to fifteen trillion dollars worth of credit default swaps and derivatives especially fraud they're going to expand their balance sheet by ten to fifteen trillion euros they need a bigger boat. what's happening folks i'm out in martin and this is great in the set so sadly sometimes animals have to die mostly because they're considered invasive species and can harm the biodiversity of ecosystems if their populations are allowed to reach out of

control numbers not to mention their ability to destroy property farmland and spread diseases as such the u.s. department of agriculture comes out with an annual list detailing all of the animals the wildlife services department has killed over the past year well the numbers are in for two thousand and thirteen it turns out that the wildlife services exterminated over four million living creatures just in the last year but surprisingly according to u.s.d.a. only report nearly half of the animals killed were classified not as invasive species but native species is including animals from gray wolves to beaver in fact last year wildlife services killed over seventy five thousand coyotes twelve thousand. prairie dogs nearly one thousand red tail hawks five hundred river otters former black bears and even the wreath golden and bald eagles yes a bald eagle america's national treasure that was just taken off the national debt

injured endangered species list a few years ago why would they kill this majestic bird you might ask we have no idea because perhaps the most disturbing part of all is that there's almost nothing in the report detailing the reasons for the killings or the methods the department uses not to mention there's zero accountability when it comes to mistakingly killing creatures that have never should have been targeted in the first place organ representative peter de fazio told the wildlife services quote one of the most opaque and obstinate departments i've dealt with we're not really sure what they're doing wow gee that sounds promising to fazio along with california congressman congressman john campbell are now launching a full investigation into wildlife services to account for the secrecy so if you don't think that taxpayers should be subsidizing animal murder in.