so picture today. from around the globe. ukraine's army targets the restive east with artillery fire leaving one village practically raised to the ground meanwhile our t.v. the training camp of self defense. they're preparing to take on the government forces. a card a militant seized control of a northern iraqi province setting thousands of prisoners free and forcing local laurent forces to flee on the way. it's almost obscene i mean i was really offended when i saw. anger and frustration from locals at the so-called anti homeless spikes designed to deter rough sleepers from the streets of london.

thanks once again for joining us my name's neil harvey and you're watching international calls by ukraine's newly elected president petro poroshenko to stop the military offensive in the country's restive east appear to have rung hollow that says heavy artillery fire has already left one village in ruins. this is the footage showing the devastation in sim your in africa vocal say there's not a building left intact after the army reportedly pounded the village from multiple rocket launchers for days but as the pro-government forces step up their assault the local self-defense forces are saying that they will stand still be and so if you fall asleep in a report from one of the training camps. we are with the anti-government fighters 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 badman how much time would it take us to get there. it's. 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 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 in close combat fighting the heat from 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 all. some 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. you automatic weapon training is the most important bettman keeps trying to 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 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 force the r.t. outside to guns eastern ukraine. paul has been reporting the latest from eastern ukraine on her twitter feed and she's quoting done yet school officials that you say that two children have been killed in slovyansk in the army shelling. here of 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. we reduce to prove those are the sort of this which of those are intensified salutes ukraine is maintaining its military action and in some cases stepping up the assaults the failure to invite representatives from the southeast to the dialogue means dragging out the conflicts you continue betting on the military hoping to secure quite a bloody victory and therefore dictate terms to the southeast and it's a way to deepen the crisis it's a path to a catastrophe plus that if you. 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 must saw forcing police and army forces to flee police stations were set on fire and nearly three thousand prisoners escaped

from jails the fighters are believed to be from an al qaeda affiliated group that's responsible for a vast majority of bloody and ruthless attacks in the country the moves forced the prime minister to call on parliament to declare a state of emergency in the north r.t. contributor afshin rattansi told us the latest attack is an especially alarming sign. after that long sequence of events from nine eleven what the whole iraq war was about we've ended up with al-qaeda linked organizations in charge of military helicopters over iraq they have taken over the second or third largest city but the commercial hub. 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 their lives security in the region will obviously be have to have to resort to maybe would some go to conference that does not allow

the americans or the british to be involved they have singularly failed here and what has to be done of course is to try and have allies in the region well today also saw an 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 they killed twenty nine people and you can see how the civilian death toll has been constantly growing in the country. and from iraq to pakistan which is again being shaken by a new taliban attack later this hour we examine the impact that american drone strikes have had on the people of a country still in the grip of a deep security crisis. and moving on the payment deadline is once again looming for ukraine kiev needs to cover its massive over two

bills for gas otherwise supplies could be halted as soon as wednesday the deadlock has been turning heads in europe which remains have been reliant on russian gas pumped via ukraine versus energy giant gazprom a stretch that the supplies would not suffer unless care start siphoning gas from the pipelines which it has done before despite that though the has been pushing for a freeze in the south stream pipeline project that's designed to provide an alternative supply route in brussels is demanded that bulgaria holds work on the pipeline citing violations of e.u. laws however both bulgaria and the second in the line of construction serbia they have pledged their full commitment to the project former u.s. treasury official paul craig roberts believes europe is jeopardizing its energy interest you to pressure from washington. question why it is really ought to europe it's not up to wash it's the europeans so it will look we don't want to take this

risk with our watkins just so washington can beat up on russia in the pipeline will continue the problem with the existing pipeline joining through ukraine news ukraine. and russia. trying to supply europe. through ukraine will result share that gas. its gas but my point is why some doesn't share anything any make you do hurt russia it wipes out their l.o.'s they could care less. well the east the relies on russia for about a third of its natural gas consumption and in a bid 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 coal amid rising fuel prices the 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 terms of energy has been no exception as our correspondent peter oliver explains the black hearted 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 crude debility of germany's as regards climate mitigation it's an issue that runs deep in miracles 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. 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 needed this pace 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 coal 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. 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. little spikes installed to deter homeless people from sleeping by the front doors of a luxury apartment block in london of course outrage after the pictures went viral with the number of rough sleepers having nearly doubled in the british capital in

the past three years the issue over what to do is proving a dire lemme see their first takes of the story. well these small spikes have caused 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 see on windowsills to prevent pigeons from landing there but it seems that these have been installed to prevent homeless people from sleeping well 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 removed. 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 company but they say far failed 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 extremely dangerous 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 it being documenting the rising number of painless in london

say this simply isn't the way to deal with the ishii well the london mayor's office 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 rusty does never spend more than one evening on the streets the reality though from what we're told by homeless charities and from what the biggest thing to indicate is that homelessness and rusty thing is an old going and growing problem and this latest controversial anti homeless spikes that have appeared perhaps a sad indication of just how far person still has to go in tackling this issue surf reporting for us from london. still to come for you this hour sold off a chinese for an american electric car maker that went bankrupt but despite receiving millions of dollars of taxpayers' money story after the break.

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a monkey watching r.t. international next this hour the united states is expanding its military presence in europe sending a pair of b. two stealth bombers to the baltic region is part of the second major nato exercise in the area in the space of two months defense analyst yvonne eland believes 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 in missouri 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 and now we're willing to go. to and including the nuclear threshold and maybe above that to defend them. using online to better late than never almost a month after two palestinian teens were shot dead by the israeli military human rights watch says it could well be a war crime for more on the recent report go to our web site. plus a horror from the past find out what tests were carried out on irish orphans in the nineteenth. chinese companies on a shopping spree in the u.s. investment doubled in twenty teens reaching

a record high of fourteen billion dollars over the past decade the chinese have been buying up firms insect does that range from energy and food to entertainment the biggest deal yet was last year's purchase of america's largest port producer smithfield. they are and in the most recent case a taxpayer backed electric car company that was sold to a chinese manufacturer. has not. america's costly loss has turned into a big 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 it satirizes supplier

and the patents in the u.s. bankruptcy auction painting one hundred forty nine point two million dollars the chinese company reportedly plans to turn around and sell this same plug in car to u.s. markets by the end of the year 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 this for 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. rachel for us production in the future imagine a scenario where china is bringing manufacturing. bring from new york arena for now. and they will but they are now starting with a gun battle that has broken out outside the qur'an international airport in pakistan like a stunning taliban militant school based security training camp fired 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 begun explains what is fueling the unrest. the war in

afghanistan the bombing of tribal areas the use of u.s. drones has radicalized. on pakistani society and so you know that. without it may stop warfare but actually the drone strikes will continue and that will still be a major factor in the road because of many people and that's why you start 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. the crew of the capsized south korean ferry of face a preliminary trial with the hearing attended by dozens of the victims' relatives prosecutors accuse the crew of abandoning the doomed ship while passengers many of them children on a field trip were told to stay inside their cabins out and three others are facing

death sentences for homicide but deny the charges the tragedy in april claimed the lives of some three hundred people in the search is still ongoing to recover all the bodies. that. nigeria twenty women have been abducted by gunmen who want to be islamist militants from a remote settlement in the northeast that women were reportedly ordered into vehicles at gunpoint and driven away with the latest in a series of attacks in the country including mass kidnappings slayings of villages and bombings the fate of three hundred schoolgirls abducted two months ago remains unknown. the world cup kicks off in just two days time celebrations around the tournament have been marred by protests for the past few days brazil's biggest city polo has been in traffic chaos a subway workers went on strike demanding a hike and salaries police used tear gas and stun grenades to disperse those

protests union leaders have temporarily halted the strike warned it could resume on the opening day of the footballing showcase as thousands of found streamed into the city. on the global media isn't letting brazil off the hook easily highlighting all the failures from security problems to organizational hiccups such as changes in seating plants british journalist graham phillips is in rio de janeiro farty. so there are real with the city's iconic copacabana beach side to side to what's to be the main things i'm here to tell because construction with just two days until the world cup begins to zero the host of the world cup should be a celebration for any nation particularly one is famously football obsessed is going to want to pursue national team has won the world cup five times that's right kids but the reality is that this will come here in brazil to the headlines for all the wrong reasons it's 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 the violence and rising inflation what are the conditions which of secret ports where they work is killed on world cup construction sites that's a feeling of general dissatisfaction of course throughout the country we have had the surveys there was even one showing seventy two percent of brazilians only this month feeling negatively about the world cup we have been something which is the sentiments of the time for this mark to pass but not with the world cup it is kicking off in two days and brazil's valentine's day the twelfth of june it could be the time to show some love for this once in a lifetime is truly international fame the world cup here in brazil this is great for those with r.t. . so they have been plenty of said banks in the preparations for such a big event but that hasn't led to a lack of enthusiasm financial correspondent joy silva says that just days before the first match most presidents of the game of nothing but the sport in the past two weeks the mood had changed. based on some parlor and last week there was also a real these and you know the data that i got from to students is that people are

starting to get ready for tea parties in the celebrations i think for now long we can expect. people to be more in a positive mood because try me. i think from now this all goes to reveal the sport brazilians was very well built close to meet there is nothing more we can join against the worst so let's celebrate and have. bank will the top of the of the very latest news headlines for you stay with us though here and on the international just ahead we'll bring you breath footage from the conflict torn you back in one thousand nine hundred ninety three.

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 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 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 local population because maybe that's who the quote threat actually is but that's just my opinion. try to. mark you like. to think everybody. knows the law now a. little less likely but he. thinks this. excuse is.

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