picture today. from around the globe. ukraine's army targets the restive east with. leaving one village practically razed to the ground. it's a training camp of self-defense find. to take the government forces. al qaida militants seize control of a northern iraqi prompt setting thousands of prisoners free and causing local forces. also on the way. it's almost obscene i mean it was really offended when i saw the south anger and frustration from locals at the so-called. rough sleepers in the streets of london.

welcoming thanks once again for joining us my name is neil harvey and you're watching international. now calls by ukraine's newly elected president petro poroshenko to stop the military offensive in the country's restive east appear to rung hollow but says heavy artillery fire has already left one village in ruins and here is the footage showing the devastation in sydney all of the local say that there's not a building left intact after the army reportedly pounded the village from multiple rocket launchers for days despite this local government forces are saying that they will stand until the end result is paul asli reports 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 bagman how much time going to 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 the 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'll also to see them do training with knives this is training for close come back but i hope which ones comes with the. plan even close combat fighting the heat from the bombing. slovyansk 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 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 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 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. paul has been reporting the latest from eastern ukraine on her twitter feed she is quote in donetsk officials there who say two children have been killed in slovyansk in the army shelling. is 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.

well you really do stupid those are sort of the switch of those instances if you sleuths ukraine is maintaining its military action and in some cases stepping up the assaults failure to invite representatives from the southeast to the dialogue means dragging out the conflict and continue 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 a catastrophe that i am. in iraq militants have taken control of the entire province of native a 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 some one hundred fifty thousand people are thought to abandon the city the fighters

are believed to be from an al qaeda affiliated group that's responsible for a vast majority of bloody and brutal attacks in the country the moves force the prime minister to call on parliament to declare a state of emergency in the north arctic contributor afshin rattansi told us that 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 would obviously be have to have to be sorted out maybe would some go to conference that does not allow the american people the british to be involved there singularly failed here

and what has to be done of course is to try and have allies in the region. today also saw an attack not far from the capital of baghdad where twenty people were killed in a bombing at a funeral procession while yesterday truck bombs exploded outside the offices of two kurdish political parties also close to the capital killing twenty nine people and you can see here how the civilian death toll is being constantly growing in the country. and from iraq to pakistan which is again being shaken by a new taliban attack they to this hour we examine the impact of american drone strikes of heart on the people of a country still in the grip of a deep security crisis. the payment deadline is once again looming for ukraine kiev needs to cover its

massive overdue bills for gas other supplies could be halted to soon as wednesday that deadlock has been turning heads in europe which remains heavily reliant on russian gas pump fire ukraine russia's energy giant gas promise stressed that the supplies would not suffer unless kiev starts siphoning gas from the pipelines which it has done before despite the been pushing for a freeze in the south stream pipeline project designed to provide an alternative supply routes or brussels has demanded that bulgaria hold 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 former u.s. treasury official paul craig roberts believes that europe is jeopardizing its energy interest due to pressure from washington. question the pipeline is really up to europe it's not up to watch it's the europeans say well look we don't want to

take this risk with our energy supply lines just so washington can beat up on russia then the pipeline will continue the problem with the existing pipeline joining through ukraine is ukraine is broke and russia faces the prospect that trying to supply europe can route a pipeline through ukraine would result and share it with gas ukraine which can pay its gas but my point is washington doesn't share anything like you do hurt russia it wipes out their allies they could care less well the east there were allies 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 the coal consumption has been steadily rising as compared to the use of

natural gas and it's also despite massive environmental campaigns to reduce carbon emissions and cut back on highly polluting fields even germany known for its commitment to alternative energy the no exception as our correspondent peter all of the 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 crude debility 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 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 its 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 on. 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 this point the countries 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 r.t. germany that of spikes installed to deter homeless people from sleeping by the from doors of a luxury apartment block in london of course outrage after the pitches went viral 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 quite a dialogue so if earth takes up the story. well these small spikes of calls for all 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 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 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 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 had been documenting the rising number of homeless in london

say this simply isn't the way to deal with the issue well the. this 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 does never spend more than one evening on the story the reality of what we're told by homeless charities and promote the biggest thing to indicate is that homelessness and rust leaping is an old going and growing problem and this latest controversial anti home is like that of the period perhaps a sad indication of just how far a person still has to go in tackling this issue he served reporting for us from london. to stay with us here at all she still to come this hour. a chinese american electric car maker that went bankrupt but this sprawling receiving millions of dollars of taxpayers rescue money more not story after this short break

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welcome back you're watching r.t. international the united states expanding its military presence in europe sending a pair of b. two stealth bombers to the baltic region it's part of the second major nato exercise in the area in the space of just two months defense analysts illand believes it's a show of strength in order to intimidate russia. well it's just symbolic presence i mean those b. two bombers can hit the hit russia from their base in reserve but they're they've been transferred to england and there's also their nuclear ball 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. looking online and 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 more on the recent report go to a website called. also the news of a horror from the past find out what tests were carried out on irish orphans in the nineteenth the. chinese companies are on a shopping spree in the u.s. investment that doubled in two thousand and thirteen reaching

a record high of fourteen billion dollars over the past decade the chinese have been buying up firms in sectors that range from energy and food all the way through to entertainment the biggest deal yet was last year's purchase the america's largest pork producers smithfield and in the most recent case a taxpayer back to electric car company was sold to a chinese manufacturer. as 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 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 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 would speed into this curve in a 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 . thank you all for you where it's production in the future imagine a scenario where china is bringing manufacturing. bring from new york marina for now i am pretty. gun battle has broken out outside karrar chief international airport in pakistan pakistan and taliban militants stormed a security training camp by two different entrances local forces repelled that attack after almost an hour just two days ago the airport was stormed that resulted in at least thirty eight deaths journalists said big explains what is fueling this

unrest the war in afghanistan the bombing of tribal areas the use of u.s. drones has radicalized been. meant to that on society and so you know that. without the need to 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 done an excellent start so i don't think that the terrorism and these attacks will stop anytime soon until we see a complete stop of foreign coach in those areas. through the capsized south korean ferry have faced a preliminary trial with a 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 captain 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 the search is still ongoing to recover all the bodies. handed nigeria twenty women have been abducted by gunmen who are to be islamist militants from a remote settlement in the north east the women were reportedly ordered into vehicles at gunpoint and driven away is just 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 but celebrations around the tournament have been marred by protests for the past few days brazil's biggest city sao paolo has been in traffic chaos a subway workers there went on strike demanding a hike in salaries police used tear gas and stun grenades to disperse the protests

union leaders have temporarily halted the strike but warned it could resume on the opening day of the footballing showcase as thousands of fans streamed into the city . and 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 for r.t. . 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 the host of the world cup should be a celebration for any nation to take you want to stay mostly football obsessed is personal to brazilian 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 fallacy of rising inflation what are the

conditions which have 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 a resilient early this month feeling negatively about the world cup we haven't seen it which is the sentiments of the time for this mark to pass but not with the world cup imminent 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 our teeth. so they have been plenty of said backs in the preparations for such a big event but that hasn't led to a lack of enthusiasm financial correspondent joy silva says just days before the first match most brazilians are thinking of nothing but the sport in the past two weeks the mood had changed. based on some part of that and last week there was also a real these and you know the data that i got from just use it is is that people

are starting to get really sort of already used in the celebrations i think for now . we can expect. people to be more in a positive mood because from. i think from now on this far this august will be less for the brazilians are saying well we will see there is nothing more akin to against the worst cup so let's go and read and. love next this breaking the set with abby martin as for me that's all for now wherever you're watching is in the world hope you have a great day and r.c.c. . 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 this 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 artillery 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 the k.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. society. people are going to be. the sort of thing everybody. oh well. a lot like that. it's. just like. this and it's. just it's not

just stupid you'll be shocked if you see the stage if you look at the. speech no other than. what's happened in folks i'm abby 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 and it turns out that the wildlife services exterminated over four million living creatures just in the last year but surprisingly a court of the u.s.d.a. is only reporting nearly half of the animals killed were classified not as invasive species but native species is including animals from gray wolves to be verbs 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 bow. old eagles yes a bald eagle america's national treasure that was just taken off the national danger danger 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 park to the.