local officials to flee. ukraine's army faces dissent inside its ranks as dozens of soldiers refused to take part in the deadly crackdown against pro-war tanami regions in the east of the country. live from moscow it's r.t. international for me and the whole crew welcome to the program peace talks between the syrian government and the opposition could take place as early as this week this comes after the rebels were forced out of their last stronghold of homs left in tatters why years of war. she did manage to get inside the city now struggling to return to normal and maria metformin militants who are tired of fighting against their own people. these

a new sound the tank over the city of holmes the place in the shallow end of bombing have to dialogue with the government the rebels left what they considered their capital and clashes stopped holmes's old town the militants last stronghold it's from here that they withdrew following they groom and with their sources and this is what's left after months of fierce clashes after months of their resistance and more sc shop someone's home everything is destroyed everything in the ruins but those who were forced to flee and no slowly returning for the first time in years is relatively safe here and people want to be in the place they still class as their find here i just came back from the market where good thing god does become possible after high ranking military and civil figures accepted the advances from the very people who have been targeting them. desperate is the best word to describe the situation in which the rebels initiated talks the syrian police major

was among the negotiators but just a year ago he was hit by a bullet fired from the rebel side it left him disabled and doctors say he may never fully recover but he still calls for forgiveness. most of them are young people who get influenced by fanatic shakes and islamic clerics who have the extremist ideology that is alien to syrian society they motivated them by money that came from gulf countries mostly and all this was supported by western and israeli intelligence we need to help our guys who became victims of all this we speak with a major in what's become a kind of rehab center for x. militants around twelve hundred of them were brought to the school after they surrendered university teachers and religious leaders whose families suffered in war now talk to former militants helping them reintegrate. most of them saying they were forced to take up arms all of them deny ever killing anyone but their words

are impossible to verify. they used to give us lessons to explain to us that the regime is in for jobs that the regime is attacking muslims and we have to fight them. who visit homs just days after syria's first presidential elections in decades this man tells us he voted for son the person who he was fighting against just weeks ago. syrian reconciliation is assets initiative he was to rebuild peace and the city. hamza who may have once targeted people in syrian army uniform could soon be wearing it himself as part of the rehab program the twenty two year old could be sent to serve in the country's army and there is no way that i will kill any of my brothers by religion i won't kill my former brothers in arms i do not want to kill or hurt anybody it's. those behind this reconsideration initiative

say the important thing is to encourage other militants still resisting and there are many of them to lay down their arms and what remains the only district in the city of holmes is still held by the rebels there fishel say they are not less than three thousand and the army is here nearby and also surrounding the area and they are ready for an operation any moment but the rest of violence there are two. in three villages around homes and in some other syrian provinces the situation is similar to a long way to go before peace is returned here but hope so high today that syria is a clique just how do you down the right track. from homes in syria. to iraq where thousands of people are fleeing its second largest city after it fell to islamic extremists on tuesday most school is in the north of the country the population there of almost two million it's all now under the control of al qaeda

linked militants soldiers in fact were very quick to drop their guns and abandoned their posts and the radicals have reportedly overrun the local airfield seizing military helicopters and several humvee vehicles they've also released prisoners from the local prisons we spoke to the u.s. congress and terrorism advisor he says the takeover of more subtle a serious game changer. this battle is an important one before that dive the islamic state in iraq and the levant would be engaged in getting a warfare attacking convoys suicide bombing and now if it can control the city and the government within the next days weeks cannot take it back this is a very serious matter not only this organization will see is the resources of the city but will recruit more and will conduct attacks from the city into other areas of iraq so the moment is very dramatic in iraq at this point in time and the international community should have a stand at least if not politically but even more on the ground with the iraqi

government at this point in time but also giving advice to the iraqi government this is not the time for sectarian reaction this is a time for national unity in iraq it's already international the city all in eastern ukraine the main hub of pro autonomy forces has been utterly devastated by the ongoing army assault in the meantime at least two children have died from shrapnel wounds during the weeks long shelling residential areas in the city center are severely damaged and locals are suffering from water power outages. little. bit struck in the morning always hit by the blast wave i ran away to call or to the . shooting but i can't leave i have nowhere to go. are you chremes newly elected president petro poroshenko has given orders for humanitarian corridors to be set up to get civilians to safety but a self-proclaimed leaders of the rest of region say they doubt the government will

go through with this plan meanwhile around fifty national guard soldiers who took part in attacks on slavyansk have now refused to fight voicing their anger over the way the operation has been run a growing number of soldiers are laying down their arms as artie's for the smear investigations. six weeks on and with more than forty soldiers did military operation continues the army is in a pitched battle with anti-government activists but it's also struggling to keep itself together. that. they're sending me to war calling on me to kill people in song just like me more and more soldiers are refusing to obey orders and despite cuba's full military mobilization in march and has all but dried up whereas once they used to before drafting offices into gonski today there's only one and it's quiet and they won't let us inside with the cameras i spoke with

a clock and he said there hasn't been any kind of recruitment here for weeks i asked to speak with a person in charge but was told that he's taken only by time and. last month then acting president turchynov signed a decree calling on all men aged eighteen to twenty five to enroll those who did not list in jail but this young man is prepared to risk even more he's not only ignored his call up he's now fighting against the very army in which he's meant to serve they want to. go to draft lesser on the third of march that said i should go to the army i refused i didn't even go to the drafting center i'm not going to fight against my own people we have spirit ideals patriots. ism they don't have that they're only good orders and money but others did on said the court to serve a decision they now regret maria's son is twenty years old he was drafted a year ago and disserving in western ukraine she's worried that because he comes

from the east he himself will be seen as the enemy of the here pretty or. i want him home as soon as possible we are missing him we are really missing him. the army is sitting like food and ammunition and a sense of purpose and as the casualty count climbs it will become harder than honda to convince young men they should put their lives on the line for a cause many don't believe in point to see on t.v. eastern ukraine and you can follow paul on twitter to get all the latest updates out of eastern ukraine she's reporting on the situation also at lugansk airport one of the main flashpoints in the conflict between the army and the pro autonomy militia groups. in the. are still to come on the program one hour to international a lucrative military deal on the table for japan and all. of the u.s.

allies align themselves to china's growing influence in the asia pacific region that story and many more after the break. ray of hope or merely a low in what is rapidly turning into the ukrainian civil war killed claims it has an understanding with moscow designed to deescalate tensions and the violence there are a few details known about this understanding can deliver this is the media leave us so we leave that maybe. by the same motions your. or your party there's a goal. is that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from. politic only of our.

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and australia are looking to forge a close military alliance with a brand new multibillion dollar submarine deal with the first major transfer of tokyo's military technology to australia is seen as a step towards countering china's growing dominance in the region but also comes as prime minister pushes of a greater japanese involvement in settling international disputes now since coming to power in twenty twelve the japanese prime minister has taken moves to change his country's. post-war pacifist stance step by step in early twenty thirteen for the first time in over a decade japan raised his defense budget during an island dispute with china then in april of that of that year tokyo relaxed its self-imposed ban on arms exports saying it needs to expand the domestic defense industry it was then the following month in a televised address the prime minister said article nine of the constitution which outlaws war to settle disputes should be revised and in late twenty thirteen

a five year defense plan was adopted including the purchase of drones and fifty s. assault vehicles artie's gaia nature can now having a much closer look at the regional shifts in me military power. after japan together with the nazi germany lost in the second world war it adopted a constitution which says the japanese people for every now swore as a sovereign right of the nation in the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes to accomplish the aim of the preceding paragraph lend air forces as well as other war potential will never be maintained throughout these years though japan has maintained armed forces but strictly for the purpose of self defense well japan's current prime minister. wants to rewrite that constitution and expend japan's military power in the region laying out a vision of tokyo as a counterweight to china but without naming any country prime minister be offered

japan's help to regional allies quote to ensure security of the seas and skies the japanese government has already relaxed arms export rules in april china is in the center of a number of territorial disputes in south china sea with the philippines vietnam and. the east china sea with japan over same cockle and do all you islands the u.s. is very much in broiled in all of this claiming that the disputes demand a larger u.s. military presence in asia pacific sixty percent of the u.s. is fleet is there for us as a large military presence in australia japan and the philippines and guam and the u.s. doesn't mind its ally japan becoming more militarized the united states welcomes japan's efforts to play a more proactive role in contributing to global regional peace and stability

including reexamining the interpretation of which constitution chuck hagel has left out of china for what he called destabilizing unilateral actions asserting its claims in the south china sea china hit back. i personally think the speech by mr hague was full of had germany full of threats and intimidation china is accusing the west of using the disputes and exacerbating them to gain a strategic advantage in the region if you were in indonesia is you're looking at this and what you're seeing is is that japan is piling on along with the united states japan may say that its plan is to secure peace but critics argue any military expansion would lead to more tension in washington i'm going to check out our team and prime minister shinzo as moved to try and militarized japan have certainly been met with a lot of fierce opposition in fact japan's international broadcaster has been

gauging public opinion on this issue let's bring up some of the polls for you here on r.t. international according to them just over thirty percent of those interviewed support the idea of japan's militarization whereas forty one percent are against tokyo's plans for a constitutional reversion allowing the use of war in international disputes we talked to one asian expert who believes that the u.s. has a direct interest in seeing a stronger japanese military blues' a very formidable military power and it's also a threshold are in. nuclear technology and has rocket taking on three hundred not technology so if decisions are taken. and. then very quickly become a major nuclear nuclear weapons state for the moment the americans

see removed rise japan as a very strong. element in payment of china and to a lesser extent to russia. oh i talk for a global snapshot here on the program some of the international headlines in brief to the chilean capital santiago now where riot police fired tear gas on thousands of students and teachers who had packed out the streets demanding education reforms the protesters fought back holding rocks and other devices at the riot squads dozens injured arrests were made ultimately improving the education system that was a key campaign pledge for president who took power in march this year. to haiti where security forces fired live protesters protesters voicing anger over the cost of living government corruption and demanding the president's resignation again and it's say at least three people collapsed amid the tear gas as police tried to break up the crowds it is the second mass rally in the capital port au

prince in less than a week. and the police one student has died in a high school shooting near portland oregon the attack with a rifle was found dead at the scene there have been ten fatal school shootings in america since the beginning of this year. and to nigeria now where twenty women have been abducted by gunmen thought to be local islamist militants this from a remote settlement in the country's northeast women were reportedly ordered into vehicles or gunpoint and driven away it's the latest in a series of attacks in the country including mass kidnappings slayings and bombings and still the fate of two hundred seventy two schoolgirls abducted two months ago that's still unknown. there is just a day to go before the world's eyes zero in on brazil for the ground launch of the world cup the country's been getting a lot of bad press coverage or certainly during the build up we asked journalist

graham phillips who's in rio de janiero right now how much of the press has found. that there's a bit of a purposeful kind of a degree up of this negativity of this sentiment is kind of along the lines that it's bad it's obviously you know we've had the extensive coverage of strikes. you know. there's been a cost overruns of in this world cup is now going to be the most expensive in history it's costing eleven and a half billion dollars we do have a strike going on and so all are mostly real at the moment we would protest we've got things like the clearly the bellows which is the slum areas millions of brazilians live in and in the last year we've really seen us all state escalation exams of the stories that we've been getting up about brazil is not going to be ready for the mood with the survey saying that you know seventy two percent of people are against the war cup but i have to say that now it starts to belong because the mood of history here is that there was a time to process that was a time to make these valid points ok this money could have been

a portion elsewhere but there is a feeling now that it's here this is a true once in a lifetime is the first time that the world cup is going to brazil the sixty four years this is right in the first of the world cup is going to south america for thirty six years and this is a football country and now we the western media almost just don't want to let it go they're almost like a dog with a road you can't let it go the kind of a do mongering and the mood in the streets is that look that's passed and really people want to have the opportunity to host what is a magical a truly you know remarkable a truly outstanding celebration of the international community of world football here in brazil you know let's make the most of this as well as a sporting extravaganza the world cup has also become a political battleground this between the israelis and palestinians israel's sports . has been forced to defend countries. all palestinians including athletes from traveling abroad and old. spelled. out full story on our

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it's about international law from moscow when news reporters can get to the heart of political intrigues then it's only time to talk to the cartoonists are all of a now reporting from germany on the time on how to ridicule being polled on lawmakers and crowds politicians they've always been good for a giggle on t.v. poking fun at all political elites is a read on a fine tradition stage back hundreds of years what goes into making a great political caricature. you can often find that you can exaggerate a part of their physical appearance with the policies they stand for the finish

drawing may not look exactly like this object but it will be instantly recognizable as those in the top jobs in europe settle into their new term they too have found themselves the subject of parody meet the bath as he leaves his home in the woods in hades off with the intention of doing good in brussels he ends up working as a lobbyist for a bank alongside rocky the chimp has been often do you call me i was inspired to use the chimpanzee after a test in london to see who could pick the best stock chimps or professional traders the chimps one i thought if our only option in germany is to listen to i'm going to merkel when i give the chimp a chance to. in this tale the nefarious rockey leads broom all into a murky world of behind closed door deals and political intrigue that bears a resemblance to what many opposed to lobbyists in brussels stand for. you but a day's regime with the e.u.

commission is to centralized this people were not elected but they have sway over policies many which aren't endorsed by people in the commission in turn are swayed by the law because citizens have no voice that all very complicated issues that many in europe can find difficult to fully grasp that's where the cartoon can become a useful tool to fill people in on what's going on with their politics you know not in the mind but. you can draw people in this way and get them looking at a real issue we consult with an economist while writing the script to make sure it's correct i see this as a gateway to understanding laughing and learning political satire isn't going anywhere even if some of the lump figures may not be best pleased with the way the cartoonists i views them piece are all over arty girl in. thanks for joining us up next pay to leavelle and his guests are debating the future of ukraine and ultimately whether the country's new president petro poroshenko can make good on

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hello and welcome to crossfire all things considered i'm peter lavelle a ray of hope or merely a low in what is rapidly turning into the ukrainian civil war claims it has an understanding with moscow designed to deescalate tensions and the violence there are a few details known about this understanding can deliver. to cross-talk the crisis in ukraine i'm joined by my guest lindsey german in london she is with the stop the war coalition also in london we have alexander me curious he is a legal writer and analyst and in washington we cross to. hear.