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

that well for watching r.t. international back 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 moved south and took the city of to clete although recently the reports say the ja me has since managed to push the jihadists and is thought the government asked the u.s. to carry out drone strikes against the insurgents but as marino portnoy explains that now that might mean washington engaging against its own military hardware. when leaving behind a sovereign stable and self-reliant iraq two and a half years later the people america left behind are running away clean. for their

lives on hoth 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 seized 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 their to fight back at 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.

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 during a point r t. what at least two million people have been displaced by the violence and the 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 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 they 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 balance in iraq by heading to our to call my you also find expert analysis on the king causes and the players in the troubled country. in east ukraine mobo can overnight to see the sky lit by what they claim were military fire bombs being dropped on their city slavyansk is a focal point in the conflict and 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 in the east since the government began its military operation as well as the regular army the training government has also been using national guard conscripts and they were the main force behind the military yourselves in the east but entire units have since headed back to kiev claiming that paid and have been abandoned by the government. of the muscle but by going up our soldiers out of the man you know you're 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'd. just sent us there and forgot about us and well all the generals and commanders were sitting pretty in their warm pants guarded by the use the p.c.'s who were simplified like cannon fodder. so to show us we haven't been paid we're going

around six hundred or so rebel q two months ago and sit so we didn't have any food instead we've been feeding us 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 splitting ukraine 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 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 curved

on the other side of the atlantic is the e.u. molds where their 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 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 and 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 are 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 stuffs without having to let europeans know they say that they well the standards of food in the united states just up to scratch with the case in europe now we have seen in the past just recently pulls 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 shown here on this graphic is link them to potentially causing diseases such as cancer allergies and also childhood learning disorders and she may be divisive in europe but china has taken a more robust stance as alexia share of ski discussed with artie's neil harvey. it 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 after all 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 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 drew or in china and it mimics the fragrance and the looks of strobridge or what but there's no strawberry in it and it has no ethical emotional value to the consumer and as you know china rising middle class in china is very conscious of. wants to buy. it could be a great spin to that we recently had

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 for 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 but to clean corn and other grain production as well so when i was maybe it will be russian corn in the chinese markets then. being with us international today coming up right the cabbies taking a stand against technology i were not which they claim lose them passengers among. the resale value received zero the resale value of j.p. morgan is zero do we still don't get back to zero don't you think is the biggest fraud in the world it's worth. this is the media

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protests over the huge cost of course stuff and reducing nero all wrong twenty four hour strike at the moment jeopardizing fans trying to get to cities and the stadiums in the spiraling costs have left almost a brazilian skeptical about holding the tournament at school but this graham phillips found that the die hard fans the gang is all that much it's. how we should be having these also children of times i wanted to do because of all the teams competing in the world cup with the seed you thought it was how to fix it just two games. now these hundreds of those two children who volunteered to take the phones in the opening ceremony and some today as we can see the one for the for the phonograph for us so we could really came crashing down not to disrupt proceedings they continue on that kind of got that for us was that with

the flow. of the world cup the twenty twelve companies to your image 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 book cover the atmosphere with the fans from around the world the to the city so it took all the focal span maybe i was somehow a 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 i should let you know. really. so the world cup i took a call from brazil was the feeling from the fan this is great for those who don't see. and it all begins tonight when host brazil take on croatia in paolo well woke up favre is even reached and to space this is the crew onboard the international space station who've been having

a kicking back some three hundred kilometers overhead u.s. astronauts in the colleague he's national team face each other in grief she also wished good luck to all the players taking part back on. but the president has even bigger plans saying the tournament might involve other planets strongly comments but you can read about those at r.t. dot com. and another story getting our web site london's mayor wants to be blasted by water cannon it's his attempt to prove they are safe and made public anger over his plans to buy one for the capital's crime control.

pleasure to have you with us here on t.v. today i'm wrong researcher. 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 artie's party boyko explains why cabbies in london think it is 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 to newbury my driver all i'm 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 summer is. therefore should be regulated by. the car he's one for as you can people do for the diary or the form or paid for the cab for more pay for the profit. is for as pale. as 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 they can try

those protesting head don't want to be in london they're not happy with the capital's transposer thirty first allowing the app to operate now several thousand of them have gathered in central london and they brought traffic to a standstill by google goldman sachs and a lot of our mission become police they believe is this kid over. there scared of the big louie's of the press one must only reason really would love to know you can lead to them this is still gets diluted and ends up money we work hard we don't all use all the knowledge and blood comes along parts of forty. that's about the why you got tripped up there richard lugar isn't the first threat to the hackney carriage the fact treat that builds it went bust and was only saved by chinese investment it is you know the quintessential kind of iconic work you toss everyone started around the globe. but the irony is that by demonstrating

against a new smartphone app the beleaguered london taxi has generated some priceless publicist say for the very company they say is driving away their customers. r.t. london 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 three soldiers and two civilians were among the wounded these thought that the troops were targeted the clarins for reform or general a military campaign against islamist in may. the united states is reviewing the use of drones in pakistan after suspending the program last december to allow talks between islamic bad government and the taliban at least sixteen militants were killed in airstrikes on their hideouts in the northern waziristan of ins a few days ago taliban fighters launched

a brazen attack on the country's largest airport in karachi killing a dozen or so 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 he was then killed but rwanda insists 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 here to try and reach chanting give the agency a more human face his artie's. on what came up at the conference. cia director john brennan was upset with the media with 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 globally 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 who have been dismissed. the narrative seems to be skewed. the narrative may have been skewed. 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 were 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. while the image conscious intelligence community tries to defend its ways in mainz activists have launched a new campaign to support whistleblowers being hounded by the authorities it is bank 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 streets of 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 treece 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. now up next max and stacey hayes to give the dodgy place in the financial world a good kicking you're watching tonight.

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. 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'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 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. i've had to found marriage chase and she's had one your simulation changed how i to teach what's been a chemist marriage have decided to find a man to marry as. we want to know women you could say you kids together the

gas. stove your money just to have let's say thirty to forty kids was going to do that with only one wife so it's impossible. welcome to the kaiser report max kaiser the survey there der yellen draggy carney bernanke a big kuroda the dirt heard around the world and they are reserved i take it this is all leading somewhere max it's all about their phnom ics really is what 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 deflation well on this show i've been saying this for two years at least two years that quantitative easing and keeping interest rates near zero or zero 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 pritchard ambrose ambrose evans pritchard i 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 no.