it's nine pm here in moscow tonight russia's gazprom accuses ukraine of resorting to absurdity and blackmail saying kiev calls the breakdown of gas price talks by insisting any deal had to be on its terms. the time you quote the reporter the drops band in century forms in the dissenting east of the country no kiev did nice those claims well moscow says it plans to appeal to the un security council to end the violence as well. as a ruthless jihadist group in iraq reportedly captures the best u.s. military hardware left behind after the invasion sweeping across the country's north and successful offensive and with baghdad now in its sights you've got the latest on that developing story tonight. plus as well a resulting no to g.m.o.

is heard across the e.u. where member states could soon get the right to decide for themselves whether or not to allow biotech farming despite u.s. pressure on brussels to ramp up global trade. and this is r.t. international from moscow first in this hour ukraine's interim prime minister's deliberately scuppered gas talks with russia that's according to the head of gazprom moscow says kiev's on compromising insistence on massive gas discounts effectively killed off the negotiations with the e.u. declaring support for russia's position. has been watching the deadlock. get a better idea of where these talks are going or rather not going to listen to

a rather critical comment from the c.e.o. of gazprom alexei miller on the ukrainian actions in these talks he's who can insist on the strategy of the ukrainian side is outright blackmail them when they choose from the stock they took new constructive steps made new compromises and apparently want to be maximally aggravates gas relationship so judging by that it seems it's not going anywhere the stumbling block is quite simple ukraine is asking for a discount the price of two hundred eighty five dollars to one thousand pieces of gas russia is offering what it calls a discount price of three hundred eighty five which would be much colder lights with the average price europe is playing full of the russian gas and that is no not the only problem also we know that grains jeff assume russia for its natural gas stands at four point five billion dollars already and in these times the prime minister of ukraine i say needs and you've made statements which are jeopardizing the process according to alexey miller to go i don't solution that according to

a deal can be reached only and exclusively on ukrainian terms even the european union said such a declaration has no place in the goshi asians and we agree in effect the talks with two paedo divide prime minister said he yet snoop's statement it's interesting that in this particular dispute europe is siding with the gas problem european energy commission a misstatement there said that the price that gazprom is offering is completely fair compared to what europe is paying hold of russian natural gas and that any company has the legal right to demand that its debts to it must be paid in full of course europe has all the rights to be concerned a third of its natural gas it's consuming comes from russia and half of it is being transmitted through the ukrainian territory the interesting question is why ukraine has been unhappy with the price offered by russia it wants to sit on both chairs at the same time wants the best of both worlds the preferential price which russia reserves to its closest by. those particular members of the customs union and at

the same time be close with europe at the same time we do know that some countries in europe are paying a lot more than that we cannot say anything for sure when it comes to gas prices this is commercial confidentiality but estimates are suggesting that countries like macedonia and slovenia are paying in excess of five hundred dollars per one thousand cubic meters of gas yet there has been no complaint from any european country about the price they have been paying and none of them have described the price as politicized and ukraine now says it won't pay any of its four point five billion dollars gas debt until a gas price deal is reached but international law exposed legs on the mccurry told me all else fails careful doubtless play in moscow i suspect that there is a legal dynamic to this in that it's difficult at the ukrainians present time to negotiate with the russians about anything because there's many people in kiev who don't like that and also an expectation these things deteriorate in the ukraine they can actually blame it on the russian the only thing that might. is if the you

. tell the ukrainians in no uncertain terms that they must pay. you to the russians everybody by the way except that they do all this money to the russians and the ukrainians. gas aside on the ground residents around skinny's to crane were woken overnight to see the sky lit by what they claim were incendiary bombs dropped on a city that's a weapon was banned by the un and care has denied its use here's what local residents told r.t. international. well we all saw what happened here yesterday they used rocket launchers as well as incendiary bombs against us the ground was on fire how can the ground burn by itself it burned for about forty minutes. well starting from ten am everyone every man has a sore throat and scotland all the time i think this is because it will burn i think will feel the consequences later there are still people here and

a lot of children we haven't managed to get out yet. because an industrial city with a population of over hundred thousand people it's been a focal point of the government's crackdown on dissent it's been under regular artillery fire for weeks now russia says its plan to submit a resolution to the u.n. security council calling for an end to the violence in east ukraine for mr sergei lavrov has also demanded an immediate investigation into the alleged use of banned weapons there. are especially concerned about the use of been stenger e bombs that other prohibited and indiscriminate weapons those reports need to be very fired immediately we will call on the zero is c e which has its own monitors to establish the facts. well as try and piece together bit more about the alleged use of print what may have been prohibited i mean issued here in ukraine's east can bring in chelsea bridges for me he's a former army officer scotland yard to take different counterterrorism intelligence officer thanks for being with us and with you heard the testimony from the

residents of slavyansk overnight from what you've seen from what you've heard what do you think was dropped on their heads. yes they are absolutely right to be concerned it does appear that there's at least a case to be argued that something similar if not itself white phosphorus was used overnight i've seen the video of looked at it closely it does indeed tally with what one might say. the hallmarks of white phosphorous use for example a very bright light burned in and multiple burns coming down from the sky it's an episode weapon it's been years such as a mortar or perhaps from an aircraft and then of course again but. still burning in videos i've seen i don't know if you just show. in the daytime showing actually this very. white or gray smoke so white phosphorus peonies it's an alarming development of course it needn't necessarily be legal but it depends on the consent

and that's exactly why of course and indeed other people even from the west should be even if they haven't so far should be calling for a proper and full investigation of this incident to prevent escalating but the un does badly sneers civilian population of the way it is pretty much no that's not that's that's absolutely right if it's being used as an incendiary weapon in civilian areas against civilians or even in a way that is reckless towards civilians then there's a strong case to argue that she is unlawful it can also be used of course i mean just to say what white phosphorous is normally used to produce massive amounts of smoke normally it can be used for illumination which may have been the purpose of it overnight but having said that there is much more effective elimination rounds that can be used that for example use power sheets to let magnesium flares drop and so on the video i've seen doesn't suggest there is any power attached to these items of burning chemical which again is

a sign that they're probably quite probably anyway white phosphorus again a fearsome incendiary weapon and if used in civilian air. reckless immoral and contrary in many conditions and circumstances to the rules of war as you say it bodes incredibly hot doesn't it this stuff one of the long term implications of it we've heard of the long term implications of depleted uranium weapons used in fluid or etc any long term implications of this if indeed it was used but from the horror the happens immediately what long term effects. well as you say there has been for example right through somebody's body to the bone and white phosphorus cannot be put out by use of water it needs sand or some other. material to actually suffocate from burning to cut off the oxygen supply there is a problem as well if there was going to be large amounts years it is also a poison for example it can be used. or large amounts of it might be said to

contaminate water supplies and so on but it would take quite a lot of it being used in this circumstance and it's mainly a question that this is if it's indiscriminate use in urban areas as appeared to be the case last night and it needs proper investigation then this may well be unlawful but in any case it's a startling development of a fearsome weapon whether it's strictly banned or not in these circumstances and there were similar arguments over the israelis use of it in gaza for example that is an escalation of this war in a war that's involving civilian casualties and it's also worth saying here on this point kevin actually when israel was severely criticized for using similar i mean nation in two thousand and nine against gaza which again resulted in civilian casualties again. even israel actually see to that criticism and announced that it would no longer be using white phosphorous on remission even producing smoke because you don't really need to use this particular fearsome incendiary device to produce smoke or even to produce elimination anymore. how

quickly should investigators get in there to prove whether it was all was not used on unlike with nerve gas that quickly dissipates what sort of time window where they go. i think i've got i'm looking at the video that i've seen particularly that there are evidence actually on the ground it looks like probably mortar rounds were used incidentally there are specific rules banning the use of this kind of incentive device if it's used in incendiary in urban areas if it's used by at croft it may well have been dropped by a cough last night but it looks to me more like mortar rounds but nonetheless the evidence is that it needs to be investigated not really before it dissipates but before it can be contaminated with all interfered with and before it can be alleged that this was perhaps planted in some way although of course it's very difficult to fabricate the kind of video we saw combined with the evidence and ground which i think does point. very highly likely i think

a probability that it is in fact white phosphorous the question is whether it can be argued that its use was unlawful in the circumstances given that. it depends on what the intended use was and how reasonable that was chelsea were trying to eliminate a bottle see if they're producing smoke it may well be illegal but still of course in mall and an escalation bridge munitions expert thank you for being on the program. the regular army is the only force government's been using against dissent in the east the backbone of the military assault was for national guard conscripts but entire units now heading back to kiev they say they've been paid and indeed have been abandoned by the government. the most but they're going about it is that there is 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 can't they just sent us there and forgot about us and while all the generals and commanders were sitting pretty

in the implants guarded by the u.s. the a.p.c.'s who were sent to fired lay cannon for the. fish. to show us we haven't been paid we're going around six hundred door sort of rebel here two months ago and sit with you have any food instead they've been giving us with promises that it's going to happen tomorrow which we are tired of waiting. for its part ukraine's health ministry says more than two hundred people now including nineteen children have been killed in the east since the government began its military operation tens of thousands of fled the country across the border to russia the organization for cooperation and security in europe has visited a crowded refugee camp in southern russia he saw for himself the plight of those who fled the conflict in behind most of what they had in life he pledged to do all those organizations power to stop the conflict of those claim that ukraine's new president wants the country to prosper was booed by the refugees.

broken promises and failed expectations in about twenty minutes time artie's exam the boy care and a guest discuss what's changed for the aquarium people now that they have a new president it worlds apart. 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. be overstating the fact it is true that there is a great deal of hope among some 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. next a radical militant group that's been denounced by al qaeda for being too violent is reportedly preparing to take the iraqi capital baghdad fighters from the islamic state of iraq in iraq or in the levant have already successfully advance to the

north has trumped what they've been doing it they've captured the entire province of nina which you can see here including its regional capital. then they push south the extremist took the city of to create although recent local media reports suggest the army managed to drive the jihad is out of there you thought the government resorted now to asking the u.s. to hit militants with drone strikes r.t. is more important explains how that might therefore mean washington a gauge against its own military hardware. what we're 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 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 parts of the northern

city of mosul by wednesday militants had seized the turkish consulate in mussel kidnapping the head of diplomatic mission and two dozen staff members some thirty thousand iraqi soldiers reportedly turned and ran as militants from the islamic state of iraq and syria known as isis moved in unleashing an all out assault on the city they've taken control of hospitals police stations they have taken control of ammunition dumps and weapons stores that the fleeing government forces of would be left behind many of the abandoned weapons and military hardware now in the hands of hardline terrorists were imported into iraq from gas where i think you all are aware of the shipments that we've provided that include the delivery of three hundred hellfire missiles millions of rounds of small arms fire thousands of rounds of tank ammunition helicopter fired rockets that iraqi security forces and don't forget about the u.s. supplied humvees here you can see isis insurgents riding and inspecting the

vehicles driving them across the border into war torn syria critics call it an unintended consequence of the u.s. war in iraq coming home to roost there weren't any real sizable organized militant groups in iraq until al qaeda of the mesopotamia rose during the 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 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 during a point now r.t. . heard about the human toll that indeed in the past ten days alone five hundred people have been killed in this latest wave of violence in iraq and the numbers expected to grow as well as the army's most severe difficulties in fighting the jihadists let's take a look at why that is the sure way firstly the extremists have captured ranks second largest city and its warehouses giving them cash giving them arms and ammunition the country's largest oil refinery is also at peril of being captured by islamists too which could endanger the country's already weak economy and the number of militants is growing is the group is said to have released hundreds of prisoners from jail and some of them are going to go on and join the ranks of the islamic state in iraq and the levant 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 to just over the border providing a steady flow of reinforcements into iraq 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 is 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 was going to be put back together in any meaningful way since then you had even someone like then 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. you can keep across what's happening in iraq by heading to call me also find a breakdown of the k.

plays in the troubled country. more today's news stories including the battle against g.m.o. foods in the e.u. . take that as a sign that the united states would be more last ok we always are still calling the shots in ukraine. undemocratic fashion as long as they are in line to be u.s. national interests the united states i think its influence over ukraine. of course i know. 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 does indeed if you like to american overtures.

this immediately though shall we leave that may be. one of the see through the play your part of the musical. issues that no one is there. you deserve answers from. politic. are today. while america wants to feed the world with genetically modified foods the e.u. has got its reservations its environment council has just approved giving member states the right to limit or indeed completely ban the production of g.m. crops but the move will now lead them to be given final approval by the european parliament opinions about biotech farming differ among e.u. members pro g.m.o. britain believes the initial good thing saying it will enable countries that want

to grow such crops to get on with it without having to wait for consent from brussels france though a very anti g.m.o. picture there hence also happy to be hounded by a decision making powers germany for its part is sitting on the fence but as artie's peter all of the reports the public is unanimous in saying no to g.m.o. . countries like here in germany we've seen a massive outcry against didn't ethically modified foods people preferring to shop it organic stores 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 internet equally 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

a t tip as it's known well its critics say this could allow american companies to pass off g.m.o. food stuffs with felt having to let me repeat in snow they say that they well the standards of food in the united states just aren't up to scratch with days in europe now we have seen in the past just recently apples from the united states were sold 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 didn't g.m.o. a resoundingly no. the greatest concern over genetically modified food is impact of course on public health possible consequences have been actively study for a long time research shows that lab crops can do harm to a number of internal organs g.m.o. is blamed for causing cancer allergies and childhood learning disorders and activists say they worry more unpleasant discoveries are yet to come.

israel's parliament has given issue approval to a law enabling the force feeding of palestinian prisoners on hunger strike but medics are refusing to comply with the practice deemed as torture by the un the c.e.o. of physicians for human rights hopes that israeli doctors will continue to to oppose the government on the issue. reading it we did not necessarily save anyone's life and it could lead to in peril no damages. and other different health complications to only today. the family didn't mind being head of that you really made the confusion you won't. get the practice and. he stated that he could believe even not only civil damages but all also death of fuel that he thinks he's even they will be forced to believe that even if the

law we pass and he's. eaten my to be already going to second and third he'd hearing it next week because he's really government be interested in passing the law as soon as possible. p.c. shands relief use and obey to the medical ethics and not to the israeli law in this case and physicians we do not take part in cold chill. you know interactive for the nisser in half an hour here and in the now before this break will is a pub with exxon a boy. 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 the jobs 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 are decent paying jobs at his factory so listen up you liberal loony bin if you want to get those evil yucky print for people off the streets just put them to work it will read your city of its homeless problem

a lot faster than spikes will but that's just my opinion. pieces try to scare. people. you know. it's hard to get everybody to. know the law oh well. you know a lot like that. sometimes for nothing. it's not

just the story you will be shocked if you see the state. t.v. . but the feel of the. hello and welcome to worlds apart it's only been a few days since patrol person was sworn into office but then now for the west 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 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 oligarch 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 a new country and for others it's more of a sane and a general pessimism but another my down situation will repeat itself in the years to come while i remember watching one of your earlier interviews on the russian presidential election and you describe that both asprey but not fair i wonder how you would characterize.