but you also say. you're on the sands again into a war zone is all coddling to extremists we've across the north armed with hardware left behind by american troops. residents in east ukraine claim their city was firebombed overnight by the military is 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 props despite the u.s. pushing brussels to expand their global trade.

has to be watching our teacher national with me or even josh welcome to the program 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 the novel which you can see right here on the map including its regional capital extremist them moved south and took the city to crete although recent local media reports say the army has since managed to push the hardest out and it's thought the government asked the u.s. to carry out drone strikes against insurgents were in a fortnight explains how 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 of america. left behind are running away fleeing 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 say gunmen 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 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 we're in a point now where our team. at least two million people have been displaced by the violence and there are also reports of mass beheadings being carried out by the extremist 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 into three that you have a sunni section a shiite section and a kurdish section and it seems to be moving in that direction. now keep across what's developing in iraq by having to r.t. dot com where you also find expert analysis on the key causes of players in the troubled country. presidents and slovyansk in east ukraine were woken overnight to see the sky led by what they claimed were military fire bombs being dropped on their city slow downs because a focal point of the conflict and 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 people including one thousand children have been killed in the east since the government began its military operation. as well the regular army in the ukraine government has also been using national guard conscripts and they were the main force behind a military assault in the east but entire units have since had a back to key of claiming their unpaid and have it abandoned by the government. that is 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 can't they just sent us there and forgot about us and about. all the generals and commanders were sitting pretty . guarded by the p.c.'s who were sent to fight like cannon fodder. so we haven't been paid good around six hundred dollars to rival here two months

ago and sit we didn't have any food instead they've been feeding us with promises that it's going to happen tomorrow but we are tired of waiting. now there is a closer look at the crisis that splitting ukraine in today's edition of world apart here on r.t. international now i know that you've 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 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 as the malls where their individual countries

should have the right to ban such crops brussels has long pushed for greater international trade and even though more than a half of member nations are against down our europe correspondent peter oliver reports. 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 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 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 be 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 with out having to let you with the ns no they say that they will the standards of food in the united states just fall into the scrunch with days in europe now we have seen bombs in the past just recently pools from the united states so they would go 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. now the effect on people's house have donned perceptions of genetically modified food for years and in that time there have been many studies on just what laboratory crops my due to the human body well

research has lain down to potentially causing diseases such as cancer allergies and also childhood learning disorders and may be divisive in you are a by china has taken a much more robust stands as likes here chefs get discussed with artie's new 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 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 and chinese consumers actually getting more sophisticated they're getting more qualities consumers so they're looking for value and for emotional value actually in products 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 consumers and that's you know china rising middle class in china is very conscious of the programmer 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 half

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. now football fans around the globe are counting the final few hours until the starting whistle blows for the first match of the twenty fourteen world cup and as we reported later football fever has even reached the international space station. plus smartphone app that's sparking road rage among the london cabbies a quaint little loses them passengers and money. to genetics but eugenics vulgarized darwin science and punishment for an uncommitted

crying i was never in all these two months of being 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 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. do we speak your language anything about the will not advance. music programs and documentaries and spanish more matters to you breaking news a little too much of anglos stories. you hear. detroit all teach spanish find out more visit.

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around russia we've got the future covered. welcome back to watching r.t. have a national 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 viewers will watch the country put on a full bowling spectacle while the lead up to the event was marred by near daily protest over the huge cost airport staff in rio de janeiro are in a twenty four hour strike jeopardizing fans trying to get to cities and stadia the spiraling costs have left almost half of brazilians skeptical about holding the tournament at all but as graham phillips found out or die hard fans that game is all that matters. how you should be ok thanks he's ok children it's

time to educate you because if he's competing in the world because he did your job which was comforting just to get. these hundreds of the children who volunteered to take the phones and you being seventy and some today as we can see the ball was gone for the phonograph rehearsal with the rain came crashing down not to disrupt proceedings they continued and they kind of got that for us was that with the flow. of the world cup the twenty twelve companies to deal 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 both of you know this week with the fans from around the world the to see the success that took over the football spanish maybe ok i was. good good good so how do you feel about this world cup they are so much thank you to me years ago.

you were there actually this was. i'm. ready for you to do so well couple i took a call from brazil what is the feeling from the fans this is great for those who don't see. and it all begins tonight when host were a zero zero take on gracious and sound and world cup fever has reached even the outer space and this is the crew aboard the international space station they have been having indicate about some three hundred kilometers overhead the u.s. astronauts and their german colleague has national teams face each other and also wish good luck to all the players taking part back on earth. but the first president has even bigger plans saying the tournaments might involve other planets some day we'll tell you about that at our home. another story getting hits on our website london's mayor wants to be blasted by a water cannon it's his attempt to prove they're safe and that public anger over

his plans to buy one for the capital's crowd control. the new market like the. face i think you. should have you with us here on t.v. today i roll researchers. now taxi drivers have brought major european cities to hold because of an increasingly popular smartphone app which they say puts their jobs at risk or at least boy boy explains why cabbies in london think it's just not fair. it's

a species that she 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 back to newbury 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 licensed taxi to be fitted with a meter that can calculate your fare it's running the show must follow you is a meter and therefore should be regulated by. the car he's won so if you can

people do it for the diary or the former page for the cab pay for the profit. before it's paid on. 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 real technology that can drive as 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 google go in search of damage and become police they believe is just get over. this kid of the big louise of the rush one must only reason really london i moved to them this is still gets diluted in the winds up my we work we did for years all the knowledge and blood comes along books for the. that's about i don't

know why you got such a blow but up there which. isn't the first threat to the hackney carriage the fact treat that builds it went bust and was any saved by chinese investment it is you know the quintessential kind of iconic london if you will it's also everyone started around the state fair enough but the irony is that by demonstrating against the new smartphone app the beleaguered london taxi has generated some priceless publicists for the very company they say is driving away their custom it. london and to some international news right now in a suicide bombing in libya's second largest city has injured several people it happened near a military checkpoint in benghazi when the explosive devices hidden in a car. soldiers and two civilians were among the wounded it's thought that the troops were targeted for declaring support for a former general with

a military campaign against islamist and may. the united states has resumed the use of drones in pakistan after suspending the program last december to allow talks between the government and the taliban at least sixteen militants were killed in airstrikes in their hideouts in the northern was they were east on province and a few days ago taliban fighters launched brazen attacks on the country's largest airport in karachi killing dozens of. troops from rhonda and the democratic republic of congo have clashed on their shared border congolese officials accused wrong than soldiers of crossing the border and kidnapping a congo his army corporal who was then killed with rhonda insists congress 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 the cia has already got

a presence on twitter to try and reach out to give the agency a more human face or here's or he's going to check out 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 had been disputing. the narrative seems to be skewed. in. the narrative maybe. 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 killed 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. now while the image conscious intelligence community tries to the fan its ways and means activist have launched a new campaign to support whistleblowers being hounded by the authorities it's bad

by the so called courage group ron's edward snowden's defense fund argue 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 until 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 generalist or a publisher. that those are 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

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 and coming up at the margins breaking this out over why oil giant b.p. has secured the first ever some a license to fly drones over the u.s. . 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 could 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.

take that as a sign that the united states would be more last ok we'd be only guards still calling the shots in ukraine in such undemocratic fashion as long as they are in line to be here as national interests the united states i think its influence over ukraine east coast of the. a good. cause i know by even the head of the cia has been welcomed with open arms in ukraine in recent times so of course the ukraine which is western leaning does indeed if you like to american overtures. happy ones a day 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 unmanned 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 per ho bay some of those persisting wilderness on the planet you know just the type of place that b.p. loves to cover and leak petroleum to help b.p. out its third oil spill in the alaskan tundra 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 planned 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 aircrafts which is a real concern considering how it's happened on several occasions i'm so.