crying don't cry i know i'm tired of crying too don't cry than. iraq descends again into a war zone as al-qaeda linked extremists sweep across the north while the government reportedly asked the u.s. to launch airstrikes against the insurgents. residents in east ukraine claim their city was firebombed overnight by the military advance is already in ruins as a result of ongoing artillery attacks and yes or no. new countries could soon decide independently whether to ban the cultivation of genetically old crops despite the u.s. push in brussels to expand their global trade.

where the welcome it's nice to have your company you're watching r.t. international. 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 which you can see here including its regional capital the extremists then move captured the cities of baiji and to crete and their advance was halted just one hundred kilometers from baghdad it's thought the government's now asked the u.s. to carry out drone strikes against the insurgents during a port in our explains how that might mean washington engaging against its own military hardware. while 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 put 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 were 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 that iraqi security forces and don't forget about the u.s. supplied humvees here you can see isis insurgents riding 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 night to fight 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 us invasion and that's the root of the the problem. u.s.

war in iraq cost washington close to one trillion dollars in 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. r t. what at least two million people have been displaced by the violence and there are also reports of mass beheadings being carried out by the stream ists investigative journalist robert perry who's a middle east specialist believes iraq is collapsing and the u.s. should take responsibility. 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 senator joe biden now the vice president suggesting some years ago that the country should be divided in three 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 what is developing in iraq by heading to a party dot com where you will find expert analysis on the key causes and plays in the troubled country. meanwhile residents and civilians in east ukraine were woken i've an eye to see the sky lit by what they claimed were military fire bombs being dropped on their city slavyansk is a focal point in the conflict locals say artillery fire has been ongoing for days

schools hospitals and government buildings have been partially destroyed water and power supplies are regularly cut off ukraine's health ministry says more than two hundred paypal including nine hundred children have been killed in the east since the government began its military operation but as well as the regular on the ukrainian government is also being in the national guard conscripts they were the main force behind them in a true selves in the east but entire units have since headed back to kiev planing their unpaid and have been abandoned by the government. in motion mostly by going about a sort of settlement he's made according to official papers we don't exist where in the allusion it's like we haven't been deployed here 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 and while all the generals and commanders were

sitting pretty in their warm pants guarded by the us they'd be sees who were sent to fight like cannon for their. fish. so to cheer us we haven't been paid we're going around six hundred dollars to rival here two months ago and sit when you have any food instead they've been feeding us with promises that it's going to happen tomorrow but we are tired of waiting. and there is a closer look at the crisis that is splitting ukraine today's edition of worlds apart here on r.t. international. now you just returned from ukraine doesn't feel like a whole new country compared to the previous times you visited it 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. america's hunger to dominate the genetically modified food market could get curbed on the other side of the atlantic is the new molds where the individual countries should have the right to ban such crops brussels as long push for greater international trade in g.m.o. use even though more than a half of member nations are against them or europe correspondent peter oliver has this report. the meeting of the 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 shelf it 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 being 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 won't go to be allowed to be imported into europe 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 have dog perceptions of genetically modified food for years in that time there have been many studies on just what the crops might do to the human body and here is some of them researches link them to potentially causing diseases such as cancer allergies and also childhood learning disorders g.m.o. these may be divisive in europe but china has taken a much more robust stances ski discuss 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 we're in china and it mimics the fragrance and looks. good

but 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 know without the international just ahead we'll tell you how america's intelligence community is fighting to win back people's trust after the edward snowden. the syrian opposition initiate thread talks with the government as rebel forces

continue to lose ground also surrounding the area iraqi government loses control of a vase probate suggests forcing the army and local officials to flee. ukraine's army faces dissent as soldiers refused to take part in the government's crackdown. plus other media turns a blind eye to u.k. it's on oxy. to genetics but eugenics vulgarize ation of darwin science punishment for an uncommitted crying i was sterilised to learn to believe in eighty feebleminded still today for the few i don't know why. but i still don't know why genetic improvement through forced sterilization the basis for nazi ideology don't stop at just sterilizing yet not going to now go to the point of death. for years rarely discussed. till now i'd

really rather not talk about that right. put it on your cultural phenomena why should be communally face i think you're right peter bone. a pleasure to have you with us here on t.v. today i'm sure. i think nothing takes.

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zero again welcome back my taxi drivers have brought major european cities to a halt because of an increasingly popular smartphone app which they say puts their jobs at risk. boyko explains why cabbies in london think it's just not fat. it's a species that's rode the british capital for well over a century but is london's iconic black cab about to become extinct as another beast encroaching on the taxi's turf 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 arrive at my destination the app will tell me how much i owe and it will be charged straight to my bank card but london taxi drivers say it's in legal for any

vehicle other than a license taxi to be fitted with a meter that can calculate your fare is wrong in the case on the phone is a meter and therefore should be regulated by transferring. the car he's one for if you can people do volunteer for the diary or the form or paid for the cab for more pay for the profit. is for pay on says competition is healthy the capital's man says the black cab is part of the fabric of the city but there needs to be real technology they can try those protesting head don't want to be in london they're not happy with the capital's transport or thirty first 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 our mission become police they believe that this kid over. this kid of the big louise of the brush one must only

reason really london i believe to them this is still a good start you see the winds up night we were called we did four years on the knowledge and blood comes along parts of forty. that's about i don't know why you got that's got to go by not going to accept if there isn't the first threat to the hackney carriage the fact treat that builds it went bust and was a really saved by china's investment it is you know the quintessential kind of icon of london and if you work exhausts everyone starting around your local fire station fair enough but the irony is that by demonstrating against a new smartphone app the beleaguered london taxi has generated some priceless publicists say for the very company they say is driving away their customers. pretty boy k. artsy london and taxi trouble isn't the only cause of anger on the streets of

london there's also a growing resentment over plans to buy britain's first ever water cannon the crowd control method packs a punch but london's mayor has brushed off public concerns and is even offering to be blasted by a water cannon himself you can learn more about this story at r.t. dot com also there the story of how an online chat with fellow video game is protected a woman in the amazon from being rolled. right to see. her street. and i think you're. on our reporters. and.

all eyes will be on brazil over the next four weeks starting in just a few hours when the world cup kicks off hundreds of thousands of fans will be there and millions of views will watch the country put on a footballing spectacle. the lead up to the event was marred by need daily process that cost with sub white stripes jeopardizing fans trying to get to cities and stadiums the spiraling costs have left the most half of the brazilian skeptical about holding the tournament but as graham phillips fan that the die hard fans the game is all that has. come here i. think he's also chosen to turn to the thank you because of all the teams competing in the world how to secure top of its first was coming up in just two games. and now these hundreds of the two children who volunteered to take part in the opening ceremony and some today as we can see drew one don't really for the fun for

it for us so what really came crashing down not to disrupt proceedings to continue on the coming out of that bridge was with the flow. of the world cup the twenty four companies to your image would focus on 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 world cup the atmosphere with the fans from around the world was the same sort of talk all the football spanish maybe ok. but it was. good good good so how do you feel about this world cup here so how was it to me years so you. should be thinking about how it. really bothered me was the world cup i want to kick off in brazil what's the feeling from the fans this is great for those who don't

see. and i prizes for guessing which team graeme support said it all gets underway tonight when host brazil take on croatia inside out. let's have a quick look now at some other news. a suicide bombing in libya's second largest city has injured several people that happened near a military checkpoint in baghdad in benghazi when an explosive device hidden in a car was detonated the soldiers and two civilians are among the wounded the still the troops were targeted for declaring support for a former general who didn't leached a military campaign against islamist imagine. an israeli air strike in northern gaza has killed one person and two others wounded the i.d.f. says the dead man was a hamas police officer with ties to you had his troops accused of carrying out attacks against israel yes strike followed a rocket assault on israel's southern territories no casualties were reported.

america's intelligence agency is on a mission to improve its public image in has been holding its first ever public conference the cia has already got a presence on twitter to try and reach out and give the agency a more human face his party's gani cheeky and what came up and what came up at the conference. cia director john brennan was upset with the media with how. distorted 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 global 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 dismayed at the narrative seems to be skewed.

in. 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 went 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 but it 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 the cia is committed to charting a way forward 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 service to intelligence professionals the questions that john brennan received where a very general character 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 the tarnished image of the agency. the image conscious intelligence community tries to defend its ways and means activists have launched a new campaign support whistle blows being hounded by the authorities it is backed by the so called courage group in berlin that runs edward snowden's defense fund

spoke to 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 so 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 heroic acts and they should be supported there are many whistle blows that are examples of how the united states treats trieste teles and it is they basically persecute them and that is what they have done with that with snow 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 truth tell us as they should it is coming up to half past nine in the morning here in moscow next is. in london in one of the caring hearts of one of the capitals of loving liberal e.u. they've implemented a plan to finally get almost people off the streets at night so that they provide these desperate people with a job so they can at least on a few pounds and have some human dignity of course not they put down spikes everywhere on the ground so that the whole boats have nowhere to sleep yes that is . they're laying down spikes to keep up the homeless just like dragon's teeth keep out tanks now if this happened somewhere in say bangladesh on a bad day i might say well that is their business but all the liberals in the e.u.

just constantly cry from their ivory tower to the whole world about how we all need to be tolerant and be taxed to death to help people but as a guy who grew up in a bad neighborhood i can tell you that liberals never want to live near the people they claim to want to help you know henry ford was one of those guys who said that you should never give anybody any handouts so what he did was give the disabled and the poor are decent paying jobs at his factory so listen up you liberal loony bin if you want to get those evil yucky print for people off the streets just put them to work it will read your city of its homeless problem a lot faster than spikes will but that's just my opinion. to try to. people. like.

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happy wednesday world i'm abby martin and this is breaking the set heads up everyone the f.a.a. has just announced the very first commercial drone license for a manned flights over american soil so what lucky corporation was granted such an unprecedented license none other than my favorite oil giant an earth polluter the p s b p's unmanned flights will be taking place over alaska's pretty obeys some of those prestigious a wilderness on the planet you know just the type of place that the people who loves to cover and leak petroleum to help b.p. had its third oil spill in the alaskan hundred just last month and now it's flying drones over the area to monitor the pipeline see congress and the f.a.a. didn't even plan to issue commercial drone licenses to private entities until september of two thousand and fifteen in order to ensure safety rules of the industry but i guess that just wasn't soon enough for b.p. and now congress will be forced to rush regulations to prevent midair collisions with regular eric.