what if. like. ukraine's army targets the restive east with artillery fire leaving one village practically raised to the ground. the training camp of self-defense you say they're preparing to take on the government forces. al qaeda militants seize control of a northern iraqi province setting thousands of prisoners free and causing local lore and forces to flee also. see i mean i was really offended when i saw yourself and get an frustration from locals at least so-called antique homeless spikes designed to deter rough sleepers from the streets of london .

welcome and thanks once again for joining us my name's neil harvey and you're watching international. calls by ukraine's new year president petro poroshenko to stop the military offensive in the country's restive east appear to have rung hollow as heavy artillery fire has already left one village in ruins this is the footage showing the devastation in simulant africa locals say that there is not a building left intact after the army reportedly poundage a village from multiple rocket launchers for days but as the pro-government forces step up their assault the local defense self-defense forces are saying that they will stand until the reality is paula slid of course now from one of the training camps. we are with the anti-government fighters were on the way to a training camp here in the city of new guns they not telling us exactly where this

camp is because of security reasons badman how much time would it take us to get there. it's a good 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. 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 these men 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 will to see them do training with knives this is training for kurds come by but a hole which once comes with the. plan. close combat fighting the who are trying to bombing with heavy artillery like in slovyansk in donetsk the guys here come from just about every background you have former students you have for the businessmen you have former advisers and you also have ex-military and police so you have people with a lot of military experience but 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 an automatic weapon training is the most important bettman keeps trying to control over his men many still have families inside ukraine and what 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 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 to clear is enough is enough policy r.t. outside your guns eastern ukraine. dollars been reporting the latest from eastern ukraine on her twitter feed she's quoting donetsk officials there who say that two children have been killed in slavyansk in the army shelling. stepping up its military assault is a pathway towards disaster that was the statement from russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov as he met with his german and polish counterparts in st petersburg.

rudy used to prove the. salutes ukraine is maintaining its military action and in some cases the assaults the failure to invite representatives from the south east to the dialogue means dragging out the conflicts usually you're betting on the military hoping to secure quite a bloody victory and therefore dictate terms to the southeast it's a way to deepen the crisis it's a path to catastrophe would give us a little food on your plate of the. would be in the. un. in iraq militants have taken control of the entire province of nineveh in the north dealing a fresh blow to the country struggle against the insurgency earlier they also seized iraq's second largest city of mosul forcing police and army forces to flee the fighters are believed to be from al qaeda affiliated group that's responsible for the vast majority of the bloody and ruthless attacks in the country let's

discuss this further with r.t. contributor afshin rattansi who joins us know good to see or to say this latest incident actually says about the overall situation in the country it's a landmark event we known for quite a while thousands of families have been fleeing the al qaeda linked attacks but now after that long. what the whole iraq war is about we've ended up with al qaida being the guys agent in charge of military helicopters over iraq they have taken over the second or third largest city but the commercial. region of iraq this is a huge importance it's already raising questions in washington because they were u.s. trained personnel who had to flee for the al qaeda linked people in this stronghold and there were all classes being the result of the iraq war can you foresee any

time soon a situation in which iraq could actually get on top of get to grips with security. well the idea that iraq can possibly have security whilst the americans and the british have been supporting al-qaeda linked operatives either directly or indirectly of course there's been no admissions but we've heard all the statements in syria and this is where the over skills are occurring this is the lead result so the idea that security in iraq was ever going to be helped by a invasion by of course the american invasion. three was one thing we have. sponsored saudi sponsored instability because these groups the spillover the very groups that we've been hearing in britain that we should be supporting and security in the region will obviously be have have to be sorted out maybe with one gram of confidence that does not allow the americans or the british

to be involved they have singularly failed here and. this is to try to have allies in that region to try and stop the salafi forces that are learnt all saudi arabia to stop funding them it's pretty clear from what you said that you don't think the british or american interference would be a good thing but how on earth do they curb this violence i mean perhaps some other kind of foreign assistance would that help and if so from. well we probably all know the lesson is that in the past the americans were supporting both sides in the iran iraq war then they supported saddam hussein and then they supported the people against saddam hussein it's any alien from outer space they'd say they want constant volatility. what we need is an urgent conference of the key partners in that region not involving the united states which can be trusted to be

able to eradicate the scourge of these al-qaeda linked. terrorists is good with the militants as soon as possible because let there be no doubt about the fact that they have those military helicopters. to j.c. the parliamentary speaker in baghdad said that this is a this is a threat to the entire region now that they have air forces. there needs to be this urgent conference and it is clear that the rebels in syria were being supported by the british and the americans and this is what they have a game reach but this is again what we get that they would be in play and this time . and i see this as they call the middle of all. these militant groups because they are quite a few of them they have a key base right there in the heart of the middle east well being we are talking to

journalist afshin rattansi option thank you well. also sword attack not far from the capital of baghdad where twenty people were killed in a bombing at a funeral procession yesterday truck bombs exploded outside the offices of two kurdish political parties also close to the capital that killed twenty nine people and you'll be able to see now how the civilian death toll is being constantly growing in the country. the payment deadline is once again looming for ukraine kiev needs to cover its massive overdue bills for gas otherwise supplies could be halted a soon as wednesday that deadlock has been turning heads in europe which remains heavily reliant on russian gas pumped via ukraine russia's energy giant gazprom a stressed that the supplies would not suffer unless kiev start siphoning gas from the pipelines which it has done before despite that though the us been pushing for

a freeze in the south stream pipeline project which is designed to provide an alternative supply route brussels has demanded that bulgaria hopes work on the pipeline citing violations of e.u. laws however both bulgaria and the second in the line of construction serbia have pledged their full commitment to the project when u.s. treasury official paul craig roberts believes that europe is jeopardizing its energy interests due to pressure from washington should live is really up to europe it's not up to watch it's the europeans say well look we don't want to take those risks with our lines just so washington can beat up on russia in the pipeline will continue problem with the existing pipeline dreaming through ukraine news ukraine through russia faces. trying to supply europe. through ukraine.

and gas. its gas but my point is washed and doesn't share anything any make you do or russia it wipes out their our lives they could care less. well the e.u. still relies on russia for about a third of its natural gas consumption and did a bit to lessen that share it appears as though brussels is being forced to take a step back and turn to an old school source of energy namely coal amid rising fuel prices that use coal consumption has been steadily rising compared to the use of natural gas and that is despite massive environmental campaigns to reduce carbon emissions and cut back on highly polluting fuels even germany known for its commitment to alternative energy has been no exception as peter oliver explains. the black heart of the center of the green dream in germany coal is back in vogue we see

a renaissance of coal combustion and naturally this is a desire 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 in europe's most robust economy is to increase the use of coal by thousands of tonnes a year that's when it was a misstep 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 needed 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 tequila type of coal that produces a lot of carbon dioxide deeply concerns environmental campaign most. 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. 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 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 of a germany. of spikes installed to deter homeless people from sleeping by the front doors of a luxury apartment block in london because outrage after those pictures went viral the number of rough sleepers having nearly doubled in the british capital in just the past three years the issue of what to do is proving quite a dire lemme sarah firth picks up the story. well these small spikes of calls roll on social media over the last couple of days the so-called anti homeless they're more like the sort of thing that you'd 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 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 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 and really relieved that 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 this isn't a new phenomenon as we're told by angie ferris he spent six years homeless on the streets of london stream be 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 near 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 have been documenting the rising number of homeless in london say this simply isn't the way to deal with the issue well the long. this points to the fact that they've already invested thirty four million pounds in schemes like no second night out designed to try to ensure that rough sleepers never spend more than one evening on the story the reality that from what we're told by homeless charities and promote the biggest thing to indicate is that homelessness and rusty

thing is an ongoing and growing problem and this latest controversial and the homeless by the baptist sad indication of just how far person still has to go in tackling this issue served reporting for us from london still to come for you this hour sold off chinese for an american electric car make it went bankrupt despite receiving millions of dollars of taxpayers' rescue money more on bunch to the price . and this pakistani shaken by new taliban the type we examine why the region is still in a deep crisis while u.s. drone strikes continue.

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thanks to you on our team 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 analysts believe that it's a show of strength to intimidate russia well it's just symbolic presence i mean those b. two bombers can hit the hit russia from their base and reserve 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 they're spying 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 the willing to go. to and including the nuclear threshold and maybe above that to defend them. moving on line

better late than never almost a month after two palestinian teens was shot dead by the israeli military human rights watch says it could well be a war crime for more on that recent report go to our website. also there details of a horror in the past find out where what tests were carried out on irish orphans back in the nineteen thirty. chinese companies are on a shopping spree in the u.s. in sorry in the u.s. investments doubled there in twenty thirteen reaching a record high of fourteen billion dollars over the past decade the chinese have been buying up firms in sectors ranging from energy and food to entertainment the biggest deal yet was last year's purchase of america's largest pork producer smithfield and in the most recent case a taxpayer backed electric car company was sold to

a chinese manufacturer has the details. america's costly loss has turned into a big gain for its number one global competitor chinese auto parts dealer the want shang group has purchased a deep funk to the 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 saturday 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 a washington with u.s. citizens footing the bill unfortunately american taxpayers will not recruit the one hundred thirty nine million that was paid into fisker is a very 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

potential for u.s. production in the future imagine that a scenario where china is bringing manufacturing back to american morning from new york marina for nine arts. let's get a world update now starting with a gun battle that's broken out outside karate international airport in pakistan it is sunny taliban militants stormed a security training camp five two different entrances local forces repelled the attack after almost an hour just two days ago the airport itself was stormed which resulted in at least thirty eight deaths journalist asaad begg explains what is fueling the unrest. the war in afghanistan the bombing the tribal areas use of u.s. drones has radicalized people and. them into the say on pakistani society and so you know the emergency leave without the means stop all warfare but

actually the drone strikes will continue and that will still be a major factor in the road because each and many people in box and one is done so i don't think that terrorism and these attacks will stop anytime soon until we see a complete stop of foreign coach in those areas. the crew the sump in south korean ferry faced a preliminary trial on tuesday with the hearing attended by dozens of the victims' relatives the captain and three others are charged with murder and potentially face the death sentence the rest are excused of negligence and violating ship safety rules the tragedy in april claimed the lives of some three hundred people many of them children in the search is still ongoing to recover all the bodies. nigeria twenty women have been abducted by gunmen thought to be boko haram is listed militants from a remote settlement in the northeast the women were reportedly ordered into vehicles at gunpoint and driven away is the latest in

a series of attacks in the country including mass kidnappings the slayings of villages and bombings of three hundred schoolgirls abducted two months ago remains . of course one of the very latest news for you at the top of the hour stay with us though after the break aaron eight will be talking money and boom bust. 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 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. contemporary history of yugoslavia is formation as a prosperous and peaceful country was considered to be a success story of that socialism and in many regards it was

a muslim the development of. whom was this teacher of democracy and market economy if any republic in yugoslavia wanted for the us it would to break away from yugoslavia declared its independence. it's not a conspiracy theory it's not my speculation it's not my analysis it's public. and punish it harshly for every slight to the some unlearnt the serbs started this war. the serbs really original cause of the war they are looking plate aggressors and wrongdoers the bomb because. that. small body. bomb all of tofu kitchens six of them knew its own so

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stories that we're tracking for you today. first up a kick off to the twenty fourteen a world cup is just days away positions aren't necessarily welcoming the games with open arms now we're bringing you part two of my interview put forth the economist victor matheson he's telling us about the very wide range of issues facing the world cup both economic and otherwise and the european central bank is moving into chartered waters without a map to get a better understanding of what's going on in your own land dr ben steele is on the program senior fellow and director of international economics at the council of foreign relations is filling us in on what exactly is being overseen c.v. and in today's big deal edward.