the rock descends again into a war zone as al-qaeda linked extremists across the north armed with hardware left behind by american troops. presence in east ukraine claim their city was firebombed overnight by the military with youngsters already in ruins as a result of ongoing artillery attacks and yes or no. e.u. countries could soon decide independently whether to ban the cultivation of genetically altered crops despite the u.s. fish and brussels to expand their global trade.

hello they watching r.t. international with me andrey farm now in iraq radical islamist militants linked to al qaida are reportedly planning to take baghdad after successfully advancing in the north the so-called islamic state in iraq and syria group has already captured the entire province of which you can see here including its regional capital the extremists then move south and took the cities of by she and clete and their advance was halted just a hundred kilometers from baghdad it's thought the government has now asked the u.s. to carry out drone strikes against the insurgents portnoy explains how that might mean washington engaging against its own military hardware. for 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 what if 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 fight back to the u.s. invasion to help the army we train 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. willian 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 established 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 in a port r.t. . two million people have been displaced by the fall 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 iraqis 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 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 bellamy's in iraq by heading to r.t. dot com where you'll also find expert analysis on the key causes and plays in the troubled country. can east ukraine where you can overnight to see the sky lit by what they claim with military fire bombs being dropped on their city is a focal point in the conflict and like oh say artillery fire has been ongoing for days schools hospitals and government buildings have been partially destroyed and

water and power supplies are regularly cut off ukraine's health ministry says more than two hundred people including nineteen children have been killed indeed since the government began its military operation where as well as the regular army the ukrainian government has also been using national guard conscripts and they were the main force behind the military assault in relieved but entire units have since headed back to kiev claiming they are unpaid and have been abandoned by the government. or more from mosul but are going to better sort this out i'm a man. 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 a chance to. just sent us there and forgot about us today and while all the generals and commanders were sitting pretty near we weren't guarded by the p.c.'s google simplified like cannon fodder. so to show us we

haven't been paid we're going around six hundred dollars of robel q. two months to go and sit with you have any food instead we've been getting promises that it's going to happen tomorrow which we are tired of with you. and there is a closer look at the crisis that is splitting ukraine in today's edition of worlds apart here at r.t. international. now that you've just returned from ukraine does it 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 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. even though more than half of member nations are against them or europe correspondent peter oliver has this report. the meeting of the e.u. 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 its old gun 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 trades in genetically modified foods at the end of june we're going to see the negotiations on the new transatlantic trade and investment policy being 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 me repeat and no 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 up 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've given g.m.o. a resoundingly no. well the effects on people's health

have dogged the perceptions of genetically modified food for years and in that time there have been many studies on just what the crops might do to the human body is this graphic shows researchers 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 is alexia shared ski discussed with artie's the a half. 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 point 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 and chinese consumers actually getting more sophisticated they're getting more quality consumers so they're looking for value and for emotional value actually in progress if you buy a strawberry jew or in china and it mimics the tastes of fragrance and. that it has no ethical emotional value to the curse illness and that's you know rising middle class in china is rather conscious of. wants to buy. it

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. coming up after a quick break a cabbie taking a stand against a technology i've grown up which they claim will lose them passengers and money that's coming up. next what's your next vulgarized darwin science and punishment for an uncommitted crying i was never in all these two months of being in eighty feeble minded stills

a day 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 they don't stop at just sterilizing and now go to the point of death. for years rarely discussed. till now i'd really rather not talk about that right. the resale value received zero the resale value of j.p. morgan is zero the resale value of deutsche bank is zero ga greg is the biggest fraud in the world it's worth nothing. the interview.

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video to also speak to the children's father. my has then became a controllable that he couldn't do anything. while you're crying don't cry i know i'm tired of crying to downgrade the. taxi drivers have brought major european cities to hold 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 fair. 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 says 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 to newbury 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 in legal for any vehicle other than a license taxi to be fitted with a meter they can calculate your fare 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 for the diary or the form or paid for the cab for more pay for the profit. is for a pale. says competition is healthy the capital's mass says the black cab is part of the fabric of the city but there needs to be real technology that can 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 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 rush one must only reason really london i believe to them the system gets diluted and the winds up my

we work we don't all use all the knowledge and blood comes along parts of forty. that's about about i don't know why you got that stuff set to go but not going to accept it over isn't the first threat to the hackney carriage the fact treat that builds it went bust and was only saved by china's investment it is you know the quintessential kind of icon of london and if it works it's awesome everyone's time around here love affair said fair enough but the irony is that by demonstrating against the new smartphone app the beleaguered london taxi has generated some priceless publicity for the very company they say is driving away their customers. artsy london. anti-c. trouble isn't the only cause of anger on the streets of london at the moment there's also growing resentment over plans to buy britain's first ever war take on the crowd control method packs a punch but london's mayor has brushed off public concerns and is even offering to

be blasted by the water cannon himself you can learn more about this story and. also that the story of how an online chat with fellow video game is protected a woman in our zone or from being rolled. out of your cultural phenomena like these policies i think you know. pleasure to have you with us here on our t.v. today i roll researcher. now all eyes will be on brazil over the next full week starting in just

a few hours time when the world cup kicks off hundreds of thousands of fans will be there are millions of us will watch the country put on a footballing spectacle the lead up to the event though has been marred by need daily pride tests over the huge cost airport staff in rio de janeiro are on a twenty four hour drive jeopardising fans trying to get to cities and the stadiums and the spiraling costs have left almost half the brazilian skeptical about holding the tournament at all but as graham phillips found that the die hard fans the game is all. from here. thanks he's also chosen to turn to the to do because of all the teams competing in the world how to see if you thought it was context just to get. these hundreds of those children who volunteered to take on some new thing certainly in science today as we can see the ball one don't really for the fun

right for us so we could really came crashing down not to disrupt proceedings continue and that kind of got that dress rehearsal with the floor. so the world cup the twenty four companies keep your emitters they 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 with the city so it took all the focus of the spanish maybe i was. good good good so how do you feel about this world cup they are so much was it to me years ago you were there so this was not how you really view was the world cup but to kickoff in brazil what's the feeling from the fans this is great for those who don't see and it all gets underway tonight when host brazil take on croatia in sat padda. some international news in brief now

a suicide bombing in libya's second largest city has injured several people it happened near a military checkpoint in benghazi when an explosive device hidden in a car was detonated the three soldiers and two civilians were among the wounded it is thought that the troops were targeted for declaring support for a former general we don't need a military campaign against islam is. the united states is regime the use of drones in pakistan after suspending the program last december to allow talks between the islamabad government and the taliban at least sixteen militants were killed in airstrikes on their hideouts in the northern was due to stand province a few days ago taliban fighters launched brazen attacks on the country's largest airport and correctional killing a dozen that we're seeing the troops from rwanda and the democratic republic of congo have clashed on their shared border congolese officials accuse rwandan soldiers of crossing the border and kidnapping

a congolese army corporal who was then killed but their land name says congo's troops attacked first triggering the exchange of fire america's intelligence agency is on a mission to improve its public image and has been holding its first ever public conference where the cia has already got a presence on twitter to try and reach out and give the agency a more human face is artie's gani on what came up at the conference. cia director john brennan was upset with the media was how as he said 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 cia because of the bad perceptions that are out there and that

worries john brennan to have been dismissed. the narrative seems to be skewed. the narrative may have been. 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 john brennan was not there to talk specifics journalists were not allowed to ask questions only the participants of the conference and those were scholars georgetown foreign service students 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. well while the image conscious intelligence community tries to defend its ways and means activists have launched a new campaign to support whistle blows being handed by the authorities is bunk by the so-called courage group in berlin that runs edward snowden's defense fund r.t. 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 those are heroic acts and they should be supported there are many with supplies that are examples of how the united states treats truth tellers and it is they basically prosecute them and that is what they have done with that would 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 truth tell us as they should. more behind the scenes inside to get the news.

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 earn a few pounds and have some human dignity of course not they put down spikes everywhere on the ground so that the hobos have nowhere to sleep yes that is right they are 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

a 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. is that you i'm a group and i've got a polygamous family i'm looking for a woman who understands me anyway and i want her to share my goal which of saving our people from extinction of those who. i've had to found marriage chase and she's had one you know some change how i to teach what's been a chemist marriage have decided to find a man to marry as. seems we want to know women who could say you kids together the gas. stove your my dream is to have let's say thirty to forty kids this was going to do that with only one wife so it's

impossible to. eugenics but you just vulgarize ation of darwin science. punishment for an uncommitted crying i was sterilized to learn from 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 they don't stop at just sterilizing and now go to the point of death. for years rarely discussed on till now really rather not talk about that right. today and find that mantra far worse as a secret police.