i. think. iraq descends again into world war zone as al qaida three miss weep across the north while the government reportedly asked the u.s. to launch air strikes against the insurgents. president's least ukraine claim their city was fire bombed overnight by the military is already in ruins as a result of ongoing artillery attacks. yes or no to g.m. the e.u. countries could soon decide independently whether to ban the cultivation of genetically altered crops despite the u.s. pushing brussels to expand a global trade. i

welcome you watching r.t. international with me andrew farmer now in iraq radical islamist militants linked to al qaida are reportedly planning to take baghdad after successfully advancing in the northeast so-called islamic state in iraq and syria group has already captured the entire province of nineveh including its regional capital here and the extremists to move south capturing the city of baiji and to create well their advance has halted just one hundred kilometers from baghdad it's thought the government's asked the u.s. to carry out drone strikes against the insurgents were an important explains how that might mean washington gauging against its own military hardware. one leaving behind a sovereign stable and self-reliant iraq two and a half years later. the people america left behind are running away fleeing for

their lives on hold a million people have already escaped from iraq's second city mosul off the i.s.i. al forced the army to retreat reports a gunman have also sees a nearby oil refinery town iraq's prime minister calling for a state of emergency after hundreds of gunman took control of strategic parts of the northern city of mosul by wednesday militants had seized the turkish consulate in mussel kidnapping the head of diplomatic mission and two dozen staff members some thirty thousand iraqi soldiers reportedly turned and ran as militants from the islamic state of iraq and syria known as isis moved in unleashing an all out assault on the city they've taken control of hospitals police stations they have taken control of ammunition dumps and weapons stores that the fleeing government forces of would be left behind many of the abandoned weapons and military hardware

now in the hands of hardline terrorists who are imported into iraq from gas where i think you all are aware of the shipments that we've provided that include the delivery of three hundred hellfire missiles millions of rounds of small arms fire thousands of rounds of tank ammunition helicopter fired rockets to the cracky security forces and don't forget about the u.s. supplied humvees here you can see isis insurgents arriving and inspecting the vehicles driving them across the border into war torn syria critics call it an unintended consequence of the u.s. war in iraq coming home to roost there weren't any real sizable organized militant groups in iraq until al qaeda of the mesopotamia rose during the flight back to the u.s. invasion to help the army we've trained them for eight years and that didn't seem to work bush dismantled the original iraqi army after the u.s. invasion and that's the root of the problem the u.s.

war in iraq. cost washington close to one trillion dollars and the lives of more than forty five hundred soldiers hundreds of thousands of iraqis have reportedly been killed while the u.s. was looking for w m d's and spreading democracy. the unified and competent iraqi military that was allegedly a stablished has buckled weapons that were made in the usa are now in the hands of america's enemies and the country left to fend for itself in a state of crisis during a fortnight party. well at least two million people have been displaced by the violence and there are also reports of mass beheadings being carried out by the extremists investigative journalist robert perry who's a middle east specialist believes iraq is collapsing in the us is to blame well it suggests that the iraqi military is indicating that it's beginning to collapse the clearly this is a very divided country in terms of the question of stability or instability the

u.s. invasion in two thousand and three was the force that shattered this nation and it's been hard to imagine how it's going to be put back together in any meaningful way since then you had even someone like then senator joe biden now the vice president suggesting some years ago that the country should be divided in three that you have a sunni section a shiite section and a kurdish section and it seems to be moving in that direction. and you can keep across the developments in iraq by heading to r.t. dot com where you will find expert analysis on the key causes and players in the troubled country. female residents and surveillance can east ukraine where woken overnight to see the sky lit by what they claim are military fire bombs being dropped on their city so events is a focal point in the conflict and locals say artillery fire has been ongoing for

days stores hospitals and government buildings have been partially destroyed war from power supplies are regularly cut off ukraine's health ministry says more than two hundred people including nine hundred children have been killed in the since the government began its military operation well as well as the regular army the ukrainian government has also been using national guard conscripts they were the main force behind the military selves in release but entire units have since headed back to kiev claiming their unpaid and have been abandoned by the government. should not be put back on the purchase orders are met. according to official papers we don't exist where in the allusion it's like we haven't been deployed for years we haven't got any ammunition nothing we were sleeping on the ground because we didn't even have camps they just sent us there and forgot about us today and while all the generals and commanders were sitting pretty near when one can't be guarded by the u.s. they p.c.'s who were sent to fight like cannon fodder which fish. to

assure us we haven't been paid we have around six hundred dorsal arrival here two months ago and sit when you have any food instead they've been fifteen hours with promises that it's going to happen tomorrow which we are tired of waiting. and there is a closer look at the crisis that is spitting ukraine in today's edition of worlds apart here on r.t. international. now i know you've just returned from ukraine does it feel like a whole new country compared to the previous times you visited it. that's a great question. no i think that would be overstating the fact it is true that there is a great deal of hope among some but this is a fresh start but equally people's memories are longer than seven or eight years and for many it's just the same old thing one oligarchy has effectively replaced

another. when america's hunger to dominate the genetically modified food market could get curbed on the other side of the atlantic is the e.u. molds whether individual countries should have the right to ban such crops brussels as long push for greater international trade in g.m.o. as even though more than a half of member nations are against them our europe correspondent peter oliver has a look. the meeting of environment ministers in brussels on thursday could be an important step toward seeing genetically modified foods found in some countries now in countries like here in germany we've seen a massive outcry against genetically modified foods people preferring to show that it's all gonna extols like the one behind me now the reasons they've given for they saw several most notably health reasons people who grew up against g.m.o.

foods are saying that there's not enough research on the fact the research hasn't even been done one other concern revolves around trade in genetically modified foods at the end of june we're going to see the negotiations on the new transatlantic trade and investment policy really getting into full swing at t. t. as it's known well its critics say this could allow american companies to pass off g.m.o. food stamps without having to let europeans know they say that they well the standards of food in the united states just up to scratch with days in europe now we have seen bombs in the past just recently apples from the united states so they weren't going to be allowed to be imported into here so whatever the results of the environment ministers meeting in brussels it does seem that when it comes to the general public in europe they didn't g.m.o.

a resoundingly no. well the effects on people's health of dogs perceptions of genetically modified food for years and have a look at this graphic in that time there have been many studies on just what the board crops might do to the human body and researches link them to potentially causing diseases such as cancer allergies and also childhood learning disorders g m o's may be divisive in europe but china has taken a much more robust stance as alexia share of ski discussed with r.t. the harvey. seem to be proud of putting their own corn into the market and the reason for that is because the chinese no longer want to buy the american corn in fact if we put it into numbers and we can see that the sales and the import has dropped significantly this year china already rejected one twenty five million tons of corn the wall street journal put it into money and said that american trading companies lost more than half

a billion dollars already we need to mention that china has been the one of the biggest buyers of american corn over the years five million tons per year and the third largest importer and this year the sales of american corn to china dropped by eighty five percent and this is all over the fact they don't want g.m. food now presumably this is because the public are demanding this is well i mean they are the consumers of the rule indeed the main reason cited is that the corn has been genetically modified the chinese government revealed it by what we spoke to an expert from tokyo research on agriculture and he told us that this may be a very very good move for china china is actually. producing its own cross they want to be. independent. from too much imports or foreign crops and as you know china rising middle class in china is very conscious of the program wants to buy if you buy a strawberry job or in china and it mimics the fragrance and. but

there's no strong evidence that it has no ethical emotional value to the consumers there could be a great spin to that we recently heard a statement from the russian prime minister that russia also wants to sort of abstain from buying genetically modified products and it has enough soil and enough capacities and enough capabilities of growing its own natural food so in the north of china where i was i heard an opinion that this may be a good sort of point in time for russia and china to trade particularly in corn and other grain production as well so we knows maybe it will be russian corn in the chinese markets. you without international just ahead we'll tell you how america's intelligence community is fighting to win back people's trust off the the edward snowden. country history of yugoslavia information as

a prosperous and peaceful country was considerate to be a success story of market socialism and in many regards it was the most developed on. whom was this teacher of democracy and market economy if any republic in yugoslavia wanted for the us a it would have to break away from yugoslavia and declared its independence ok it's not a conspiracy theory it's not my speculation it's not my analysis it's a public. opinion. and punish it harshly for every slight let some unlearnt the serbs start a business war the serbs are legal riginal cause of the war they are the complete aggressors and wrongdoers. bomb confident.

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you can jump in anytime you want. your. pleasure to have you with us here on t.v. today i'm sure.

that again welcome back now america's intelligence agencies on a drive to improve its image by holding its first ever public conferences reputations taking a battering in recent years which the cia chiefs blame the media for a washington correspondent. visit to the event. cia director john brennan was upset with the media was how as he said. the narrative is with regard to the work that the cia is doing all these reports about drone strikes edward snowden's revelations about the u.s. government trampling on civil liberties all of this is not to john brennan's liking his mission is to restore the public's trust and not only of the american public but also of the public globally foreign governments are becoming embarrassed of their cooperation with the. because of the bad perceptions that are out there and that worries john brennan they have been dismissed. the narrative seems to be skewed. the narrative may have been skewed

in the uk after nine eleven a lot of trust was put in the cia then as the director said it wasn't the other way he obviously did not focus on how the agency managed to squander that trust either by providing flawed intelligence on weapons of mass destruction in iraq or maybe due to the drone operations which reportedly kill more civilians than terrorists or due to how the agency managed to miss the boston marathon bombers even though they had the warnings john brennan was not there to talk specifics but he did want to create an impression that the agency listens to the public and here's what he said about the balance between secrecy and openness. the president has taken a number of steps to provide greater accountability and insight into the work community. these measures largely address the operations of our colleagues at the national security agency but the clear direction for all of us intelligence community cia is committed to charting

a way forward that in the president's words secures the life of our nation or preserving the liberties that make our nation worth fighting for journalists were not allowed to ask questions only the participants of the conference and those were scholars for a service to its intelligence professionals the questions that. where very general territory and this was the first cia conference on national security by the way they were not allowed to film anybody in the audience the cia has just launched this twitter account and all of this is a result of john brennan deciding to engage in more public appearances to fix that tarnished image of the agency. the image conscious intelligence community tries to defend its ways mains and service have launched a new campaign to support whistleblowers being handed by the authorities it's backed by the so-called courage group in berlin that runs edward snowden is defense fund so you some of the organizers the reality of the situation is that we don't

live in an ideal world and we need to support people who bring out seriously uncomfortable truths tell we have the reforms in the united states that allow people to come and talk about real serious abuses of power about fraud waste and abuse we need organizations like courage to be able to support people where the state has fallen short and unfortunately in the united states those united states have really fallen short for edward snowden i think anyone that speaks truth to power whether it's a whistleblower a journalist or a publisher. that those are heroic acts and they should be supported there are many with supplies that are examples of how the united states treats trees teles and it is they basically prosecute them and that is what they have done with that with snowden you could see it last year when they tout the president's plane trying to find him so i think that the united states has a long way to go in protecting treaty tell us as they should not just

a few hours until football's world cup kicks off from brazil but faces present is already having those about the tournament involving other planets i'm not kidding i will tell you about that online plus the story of how an online chat with a video game is protected a woman in arizona from being groped. dramas they're trying to be ignored. stories others who refuse to notice. the faces changing the world right now. on the picture of today's. from around the globe. taxi drivers have brought major european cities to a whole because of an increasingly popular smartphone app which they say puts their

jobs at risk artie's poorly boyko explains why cabbies in london think it's just not fair. it's a species that's rode the british capital for well over a century but is london's iconic black cabs about to become extinct says another beast encroaching on the taxi stuff a smartphone app called. well the up works by tracking your location and showing you the nearest cars available so i'm just booked a neighbor my driver olim john will pick me up in seven minutes. once i arrived at my destination the apple tell me how much i owe and it will be charged straight to my bank card but london taxi drivers say it's been legal for any vehicle other than a license taxi to be fitted with a meter that can calculate your fat it's wrong and the next on the phone is

a meter and therefore should be regulated by. the car he's one for if you can people do volunteer work for the diary or the form or paid for the cab form or pay for the profit. is for a pale. says competition is healthy the capitol's man says the black cab is part of the fabric of the city but there needs to be a technology that can't drive as protesting head don't want to be in london they're not happy with the capital's transpose authority for allowing the app to operate now several thousand of them have gathered in central london and they've brought traffic to a standstill google goldman sachs in and out of amazon become police they believe is to scared of a rush right out of the big louise of the brushwork just only reason really london i believe to them this is still

a good start looting the winds up night we were called we did four years on the knowledge and blood comes along books afforded. that's about by the why you got stopped stretchable by dr richard lugar isn't the first threat to the happy carriage the fact treat that builds it went bust and was only saved by china's best mint it is you know to create sensual kind of iconic london work exhausts everyone starting around the. fair enough but the irony is that by demonstrating against a new smartphone app the beleaguered london taxi has generated some priceless publicist for the very company they say is driving away their customers. twenty point you are seen in london a quick look at some other news now a suicide bombing in libya's second largest city has injured several people it happen in a military checkpoint in benghazi when an explosive device hidden in

a car just detonated three soldiers and two civilians are among the wounded it's thought that the troops were targeted for declaring support for former general who'd unleashed a military campaign against islam is in may. an israeli airstrike in northern gaza has killed one person in the sea where this wounded the i.d.f. says the dead man was a mass police officer with ties to jihadist groups the kings of carrying out attacks against israel yes strike followed a rocket assault on israel seven territories no casualties in the polls. troops from the democratic republic of congo have clashed on their shared border congolese officials accused rwandan soldiers of crossing the border and kidnapping a congolese army corporal who was then killed when the insist congo's troops attacked first triggering the exchange of fire

now all eyes will be on brazil over the next four weeks starting in just a few as when the world cup kicks off hundreds of thousands of fans will be there and millions of viewers will watch the country. it's graeme phillips has been gauging the mood ahead of tonight's opening match. from here on i should have these local children of time done to help you to call home teams competing in the world cup of the secure to host its first world cup fixture in just two games. these problems abou children who volunteered to take on the moving ceremony and some today let's be conceivable one don't really put the phone right for us so when the rain came crashing down not to disrupt proceedings they continued on the content of that first row so with the flow.

of the boat come the twenty twelve compass to your image of a good father son is the first in south america for thirty six years i'm here asking people how they feel about it oh it's so exciting to be here in brazil just to enjoy the both of you have a suite with the fans from around the world because of the support to follow the football. so i wonder who graeme supports now up next it's imax and stops it and the colors of. the fifty's with the economic up down to the final months they belong to the old

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our central bank policies around the world are now i want to turn to headline quickly here from the telegraph ambrose evans pritchard he is kind of like an austrian economics guy but he was one of the first to call for zero percent interest rates and quantitative easing and blah blah blah well the nagging fear that q.e. itself may be causing d. flee well on this show i've been saying this for two years down at least two years that quantitative easing and keeping interest rates there zero or reserve the stated policy goals of the central bankers is to fight play ssion. i've been saying that a causes deflation i told danny blanchflower this on this show he balks because he's an academic he doesn't understand how markets work evans evans pritchard evans evans richard ambrose i have to add bros evans pritchard explained it to him i think through an email exchange at one point and he didn't get it now

people understand what i'm trying to say this zero percent interest rate policy or negative interest rate prophecy. is causing the deflation doesn't fight deflation because it keeps the zombie banks alive and the zombie banks are the biggest impediment to economic growth it's not that there's no demand for loans there's plenty of demand for loans but the banks are making loans because they're keeping all the money that the government gives them to quantitative easing to sustain their huge on balance sheet and off balance sheet bomb portfolios that they say are worth one hundred cents of a dollar but are really worth maybe one cent on the dollar because they're lying about their true position they use mark to fantasy when they tell the government what they own not mark to market the resale value of a just received zero the resale value of j.p. morgan is zero the resale value of deutsche bank is zero dollars your back is the biggest fraud in the world it's worth nothing well let's look around the world where these dirty like policies of newer pav fail.