well you just received zero the resale value of j.p. morgan is zero the resale value of georgia bank is zero ga greg is the biggest fraud in the world it's worth. a ruthless jihad his group and iraq reportedly captures the best u.s. military hardware left behind after the invasion sweeping across the country's north in a successful offensive and with baghdad now and sides. ukrainian army reportedly drops band in syria bombs on the dissenting east of the country he denies those claims while moscow plans to appeal to the un security council to end the violence. and their resoundingly no to g.m.o. is heard across the e.u. where member states could soon get the right to decide for themselves whether to allow finds out for me that despite u.s. pressure on brussels to ramp up global trade.

it is four pm the russian capital you watching our team with me or even josh. radical militant group that has been denounced even by al qaida for being too violent is reportedly preparing to take the iraqi capital baghdad fighters from the islamic state in iraq and syria have already successfully advanced in the north they have captured the entire province of nevaeh which you can see right here on the map including its regional capital in pushing south extremist to the city of tikrit ports just the army managed to drive the jihad is down it's thought the government's resorted to asking the u.s. to hit militants with drone strikes are just worried about not explains how that might mean washington and gauging against it so 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 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 of 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 they've 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 the cracky 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 flight 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 us 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 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 not have our teeth. in the past ten days more than five hundred people have been killed in the wave of violence in iraq and that number is expected to grow as the army has met severe difficulties in fighting the jihadists well let's take a look now at why first lame the extremists have captured iraq's second largest

city and its warehouses giving them cash arms and ammunition the country's largest oil refinery area is also at peril of being captured by islamists which could endanger the country's already weak economy and the number of militants is growing as a group is said to have released hundreds of prisoners from jail and some of them have joined the ranks islamic state in iraq and syria organizations exploiting and fueling sectarian tensions in society gathering public support among radicalized sunni muslims and finally another branch of the group operates in restless syria just over the border guaranteeing a flow of reinforcements and a permanent threat to iraq investigative journalist robert perry who's a middle east specialist leaves iraq is collapsing and the u.s. should take responsibility. well it suggests that the iraqi military is indicate 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 have any age sunni section a shiite section and a kurdish section and it seems to be moving in that direction. and keep across what's developing in iraq by heading here argue dot com where you'll find expert analysis on the key causes and players in a troubled country. now residents of slovyansk in east ukraine where woken overnight to see the sky lit by what they claim were and centering bombs and dropped on their city and that is a weapon ban by the u.n. and key it denies its use from an industrial city with a population of over one hundred thousand people has been

a focal point of the government's crackdown on dissent it's been under regular artillery fire for weeks now forcing residents into basements and bomb shelters local activists say they are struggling to get women and children out of the city schools hospitals and government buildings have been damaged and water and power supplies are faltering ukraine's health ministry says more than two hundred people including nine hundred children have been killed in the east as the government began its military operation. together with the army the crimean government has been sending the national guard east as well they formed a bad bone of the military assault there but entire units are now heading back to camp saying they are on paid and have been abandoned by the government. or someone . what they're going to focus on is that i'm a man who's according to official papers we don't exist we're 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 well all the generals and commanders were sitting pretty in the warm tents guarded by the u.s. they p.c.'s who were sent to fight like cannon for their. fish. so to show us we haven't been paid we're going to ruin six hundred or so of rubble 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 which we are tired of waiting. moscow plans to submit a draft resolution on ukraine to the un security council the paper calls for a halt to the violence in the east of the country and for a return to the road map for settling the conflict proposed by the o.s.c. eat a month ago the russian foreign minister says the anti-government forces are ready to compromise but it's clear that must take the first step and there is a closer look at the crisis in today's edition of work world apart here on r.t.

her national. 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 that 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. while america wants to feed the world with genetically modified food the e.u. has its reservations its environmental committee has just approved giving member states the right to limit or completely ban the production of g.m. crops the move still has to be given the green light by the european parliament but as peter all over reports the public's answer to g m o is a firm no. like here in germany we've seen

a massive outcry against genetically modified foods people preferring to show that it's all gone extols like the one behind me now the reasons they've given for they saw several most notably health reasons people who grew up against g.m.o. foods are saying that there's not enough research on the fact the research hasn't even been done one other concern revolves around trade in genetically modified foods at the end of june we're going to see the negotiations on the new transatlantic trade and investment policy really getting into full swing at t. t. as it's known well its critics say this could allow american companies to pass off g.m.o. food stuffs with adult having to let europeans know 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 bought pools from the united states so they weren't going to be allowed to be imported into europe so it does seem that when it comes to the general public in europe they've given g.m.o. a resoundingly no. now the greatest concern over genetically modified food is its impact on people's health possible consequences have been a subject of manny studies for a long time and research shows that leverage work crops can do harm to a number of internal organs cost cancer allergies and also childhood learning disorders but while you are has just realized the danger china has already taken a much more robust stands as i hear cesky discussed with artie's neil 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 the chinese consumers actually getting more sophisticated they're getting more quality consumers so they're looking for value and for emotional value actually in products if you buy

a strawberry drupal in china and it mimics the taste of 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 the programmer wants to buy. 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. well brazilian airport workers strike on the first day of the twenty fourteen football world cup by the spine transfer close world cup fever is

everywhere and ended toxic ating as we reported just a few minutes. what does it mean to be a spy in the twenty first century the cia calls a public conference to the band its ways and means meanwhile activists launch a new whistle blowing defense campaign. to take that as a sign that the united states would be more last ok we are still calling the shots in ukraine inside undemocratic fashion as long as they are in line to be u.s. national interests the united states i think its influence over ukraine. i know by even the head of the cia has been welcomed with open arms in ukraine in recent times so of course with ukraine which is western leaning. if you like

to american overtures. she did lumbered tour. was to build on the most sophisticated. fortunately doesn't sound anything to nj mission to teach me reason why you should care about humans and. this is why you should want only. welcome back you're watching our future national in just hours from now the first match of the twenty fourteen world cup kicks. sa starting a four week footballing bonanza hundreds of millions of fans will either be there or tuning in to watch the spectacle of the lead up though was and it's

a bloody easy going the government had to contend with near daily protests over the huge cost of posting leave that even now airport staff at rio de janeiro are in a twenty four hour strike playing havoc with transportation spiraling costs have left manny brazilian skeptical about folding the tournaments at all but as graham phillips found out from diehard fans the game is all that. thanks he's ok children it's time to help you do because if he's competing in the world cup with a secure job which was fixed in just two games. these hundreds of those who choose to volunteer to take on some new big city and some today must be conceivable one don't really put the phone right for us so when the rain came crashing down not to disrupt proceedings they continued on the content of

that first row so with the flow. of the world cup to twenty twelve companies to feel famous they would focus on the first in south america 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 boat cover this week with the fans from around the world because of the city so full the football spanish maybe. a. 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 so this was. really be i was so welcome back to kickoff in brazil was the feeling from the finals this is crime for those who don't see. and it all begins thursday nights when host. we'll take on gratian some power a match that's going to be watched as far away as space and it this is the crew

onboard the international space station who've been having a kickabout some three hundred kilometers overhead u.s. astronauts and their german colleague who's national teams face each other in regina also wish good luck to all the players taking part back on earth. now the word there in german can be translated as super but that's not how london cabbies would rate the smartphone taxi app going by that name and they feel that this competitor is driving away their business on unfair terms are these boys who explains why. 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 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 back 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 that 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 all of the you know for the diary or the form or paid for the cab form or pay for the profit. is for pay on 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 they can try this protesting head don't want to

be in london they're not happy with the capital's transpose authority for allowing the app to operate now several thousand of them have gathered in central london and they've brought traffic to a standstill google goldman sachs in and out of amazon become police there billionaires this kid over. this kid of the big louise of the rush one must only reason really london i believe to them this is still kids going looting the winds up night we work we did for years on the knowledge and blood comes along was a fool to. that's about i don't know why you go that's not set to go but at the ritz it. 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 secret sensual kind of icon of london and it's good exhausts everyone starting around the

. 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 that custom of. london and more news for you on r.t. dot com including catalyst plans to protect web users from cyber buoying as privacy advocates raising the alarm. and police would be allowed full remote access to any computer or cell phone to intercept information without having to get a warrant also. the weapons might be virtual but the effect is very real find out owner took on how and online game how to an arizona woman stop a robbery. finding a balance between transparency and national security of ours the stated aim of the cia's first ever

a public conference garnish to count reports now on how the agencies trying to rebuild trust. 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 time playing 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 very complex 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 to have been dismissed. seems to be skewed. in. the middle of the narrative maybe. after nine eleven a lot of trust was put in the cia then as the director said one the other way 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 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 of 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 whistleblowers being hounded by the authorities and it's

backed by berlin's courage group which provides legal aid to edward snowden are he 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 to power whether it's a whistleblower a generalist or a publisher. those are all heroic acts and they should be supported so there are many with supplies that are examples of how the united states treats trees teles and it is they basically persecute them and that is what they have done with that it would snow and 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 and announce some other stories from around the world suicide bombing near a military checkpoint in libya's second largest city of benghazi has injured several people three soldiers and two civilians are among the wounded and it's bad the troops were targeted for declaring support for a former general who on leash to military campaign against islamist in may. yana state has resumed its drone program in pakistan after suspending it last december to allow talks between the government and the taliban at least sixteen suspected militants have been killed in two air strikes the targeted i doubt in the northern it was eerie stone problems the drone attacks come after taliban fighters launched a brazen attacks on the country's largest airport in karachi killing dozens. what you national next world market.

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 homeless people off the streets at night so that they provide these desperate people with a jobs 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'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 reduce your city of its homeless problem a lot faster than spikes will but that's just my opinion. pieces right. people are going to. get. the same thing everybody. oh it. was like.

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to throw all of its diplomatic support behind him is here really a new beginning for ukraine or rather a continuation of the same old policies that plagued become trees for the last twenty plus years well to discuss that i'm now joined by james nixey head of the russia and eurasia program at chatham house mr nixon thank you very much for being here on the show thank you very much now i know that you've just returned from ukraine does it feel like a whole new country compared to the previous times you visited it. that's a great question. no i think that would be overstating the fact it is true but 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 so it's a mixture quite frankly this is after all a in some ways a divided country and so for some yes it's a fresh start and.