self-defense units in eastern ukraine confirm they shot down a military transport plane in lugansk all forty nine on board are dead. ukraine's prime minister orders the country to gear up for gas cards from monday day one k. of must pay its energy debt to russia. armies surveillance even nuclear weapons we examine whether the u.k. is closer collaboration with america serves britain's best interests and mid worries the friendship has grown too close. branagh it al qaida jihadist here or through iraq towards baghdad capturing two more cities while the u.s. wakes up military help for the crumbling country. which

martin national we start with breaking news and government fighters in the guns going east ukraine have now confirmed that they shot down a military transport plane the ukrainian army says all forty nine people on board were killed and video has now emerged showing the aftermath of the attack the plane going down going to the airport. is the latest from. the plane that was shot down in the early hours of saturday morning as it approached the guns at ports here confirming that on board troops equipment machinery and food at all claiming responsibility for the attack saying they brought the jet down with. our forces look at the airport which is a strategic point to look and demand that their old. cranium troops larry also

warns that any military jet flying over trying to land there will be considered an aggressor at their own to the evolution seventy six jet attempted to land it was hit with a rocket that exploded inside the plane bank to one side started losing height and crashed at the airport lugansk has been bombarded by the ukrainian military and air force in recent weeks it's really been one of the centers of the ukrainian army's all the anti terror operation is they're calling it in fact earlier this month eight civilians were killed when a ukrainian military asteroid hit the city center well in terms of what else is happening in the region the ukrainian army says it has regained control of the port city of mariupol following intense fighting there the ukrainian military have targeted the city as well as part of this anti terror operation is they're calling it following intense battles they say that they have reclaimed matter you told five activists were killed in the ukrainian flag is now flying above the administrative

building there meanwhile moscow is calling for an investigation into reports that white phosphorus bombs have been dropped on the city of slavyansk the city is also saying this fighting of course in recent weeks between pro and anti-government forces but videos have emerged showing what appears to be fire bombs being dropped on the city despite the video footage and i witness reports kiev is denying such weapons have been used. refugees fleeing the crisis in eastern grain claim the army won't let men leave the country later in the program we visited refugee camp over the border in russia to hear from the wives and children sheltering from the conflict. ukraine's prime minister has ordered the country's ministries to get ready for gas cuts from monday and that's the line moscow has given can't have to pay half of its energy debt if not gastro will introduce a prepayment system meaning only getting exactly as much gas as

a pace for upfront given no one talk to your spawn of the real about why isn't paying out. so are these latest gas price talks of collapse we seem to be back to square one who's holding it up is ukraine or is it russia was the picture all depends on whom you ask for example ukraine says that russia's price is too high and moscow says that kiev demands are simply absurd so let's have a look at the facts first starters ukraine admittedly owes billions of dollars to russia and gazprom has actually moved the deadline for payment back four times and now it's seven rounds of negotiations but their economy is so at the moment how are they going to pay that all that is true but remember that i.m.f. loan that ukraine has already gotten and that is actually enough to cover part of their debt and that the fact is russia is not even asking them to pay back in full at least half of what heroes and if they do there's a deal for that moscow well actually throw in a retroactive discount on what ukraine owes and that will save the country millions

of desperately needs if war but to the present ukraine is this latest disco the result for the one that was on the table is just too hard it's not enough so when we go from here well here's a perspective on the gas price russia is offering three hundred eighty five dollars per thousand cubic meters which is already eight hundred dollars less than the current running price what's more is that russia has actually guaranteed that rate for a year regardless of whether market prices go up and as a matter of fact even europe's energy chief house called the offer very reasonable . i believe that three hundred eighty five dollars is a reduction that could be considered a reasonable depending on the volume and length of the contract it could even be less than three hundred eighty five and that will then be the final price so really what's at stake for europe in all of this well look at the map and you can see that ukraine is actually a major transit hub for european gas and of key of miss is

a payment and the supplies are cut off then they have a history of siphoning gas intended for europe and that could force russia to cut that off to is exactly what europe is so worried about in this circumstances. well guess what chairman alexey miller has his own suspicions about why there's no progress from the ukrainian side i'm going to have to the ukrainians and outside advisors it's just that we've observed from the very beginning of the talks that the ukrainian side never really wanted any compromise or any deal to go. well former british diplomat william allison goes even further naming who he sings directly stands to benefit of russia caught supplies. crane these on the instructions from the united states of america very very large industrial companies this is also another subtle way of controlling the europeans remember because when. russia quite rightly stops delivering gas which isn't paid for

of course like last time like the previous two times the ukraine will simply siphon off the gas which will cause some problems in europe which will further encourage the europeans to be forced to eventually start buying american very expensive american merely gas as well that's all part of the business. energy dot com right now details of one solution to the gas route put a bid on e bay the price though has rocketed to a level anyone that would balk at the spoof auction even guarantees delivery. iraq right now is verging on collapse as the army struggles to stop the advance of a brutal jihad as offshoot of al qaida has rampage through the north of the country the fear now is that the capital itself could fall next local media says the army has managed to hold back a jihad is offensive in the north western province of diaw and is preparing a counter attack against militants in the north as well deadly sectarian tensions

within the country are at their worst in years sunni tribal leaders are reportedly joining the highest ranks to fight against a weekend shia led government and that as the u.s. considers sending out military help to the beleaguered iraqi army including the possibility of airstrikes and drone attacks here's our he's going to check out. president obama's message to iraq is the u.s. will help fight the militants but it will not put boots on the ground he said he would be reviewing the range of options in the coming days this could mean air strikes but the president has not made a decision yet he also indicated that it's not up to the u.s. to solve iraq's problems we will not be sending u.s. troops back into combat in iraq but i have asked my national security team to prepare a range of other options that could help support iraq security forces and i'll be reviewing those options in the days ahead we can't do it for them in the absence of this type of political effort short term military action including any assistance

we might provide won't succeed the sectarian war in iraq broke out after the u.s. invasion in two thousand and three and has been a source of constant violence ever since it has allowed to the militants with the islamic state of iraq and syria again to gain momentum and recruits the fight against assad in syria further these militants and gave them new resources they are now in control of large parts of iraq including iraq's second largest city of mosul the goal of this militant group is to create a caliphate or an islamic state across a vast area that includes syria and iraq when taking over heavily armed radical overran police stations freed more than a thousand prisoners from the city jail and to go over the international airport iraqi forces apparently red in the face of leaving behind uniforms weapons and armored vehicles those could be weapons that the u.s. provided to the iraqi security forces that are now in the hands of these militants

more than half a million people have fled seeking refuge the situation for most iraqis is dire and it has been so for years they were promised democracy but all they've seen is violence with no end in sight. the united states spent millions of dollars to train and equip the iraqi army but politico. analysts say they were caught says current events show this huge sum has gone to waste you have to go to the root of the problem the wood of the problem it was the u.s. invasion and occupation of iraq when the second largest city and iraq mosul they fall into their hands. all this training. equipping the iraqi army and the iraqi security forces the united states has done spending honey five billion dollars of taxpayers' money has really gone way back with me there has to be a way to put the country back on track and that the key to that track is really the

national reconciliation which is something that the united states when it was occupying bar a party iraq did not really think very seriously also how this our ignoring sexual violence for the sake of making military money a summit tackling the use of rape as a weapon of war seems hoes britain keep quiet about abuses in sri lanka it sold millions of dollars worth of bombs also meet the russian the painter giving a grandmaster as a run for their money his brother is reproduce arts finest works with pinpoint accuracy counting even yes we joined him in berlin after the break. we'll talk about language as well but i will only react to situations i have read the reports so i'm like. no i will leave that to the state department to comment on

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welcome back you're watching our theatre national britain may lose some of its independence over its nuclear the turned as it steps up collaboration with the u.s. over war has its another stab in the already widespread cooperation between the two which includes sharing intelligence and prisoner exchanges as billy boy reports such ties don't always serve britain well america and britain already shared know how and hardware and according to a guardian newspaper scoop that cooperation is to be stepped up even further prompting fresh questions about the independence of the u.k.'s new kid to terror and if we don't have an independent deterrent which means an independent threat then we moderns well just if we want to be protected by nuclear weapons pay the americans a fee and allow them to do it for the cold war may be over but there are still nearly ten thousand u.s. military personnel stationed in britain and dozens of our a.f. bases under u.s.

control the meter still five and all for five u.s. your pieces in britain wires all you have to ask is how many pieces are there in the united states and europe doesn't take over america very which we were in this border last month the independent on sunday revealed that washington is to spend two hundred million pounds want to revamp of the r.a.f. crouton one of the u.k. bases allegedly involved in my surveillance revelations about g.c. h.q. and the n.s.a. and they are what we could be saying that british citizens are actually having their privacy in paid it's a by a country which is supposed to be our closest ally and friend in the boat it said some voices in the u.k. to question whether american and british interests always overlap britain is now a fairly small in. not. powerful country and as we were in the days when we had an

empire but we have a national interest we still have a national interest was still a very big economy was still an important country but we should exercise that national interest in our interest we shouldn't just slavish lee handed over to the americans anything that they want and yes a succession of british leaders have done little to remedy what many see as a low pressure relationship under the current extradition treaty between britain and america it's much easier for a u.k. citizen to be sent to face trial in the us than the other way around over recent years twice as many people have been extradited from the u.k. to the us. which british prime minister thousands. go that extra length for the americans object to commentators have. to many an american the american stuff which means britain is the fifty first states of america. london

well remember marty mcfly is whole board in back to the future will get ready for the reality a year before the blockbuster movie predicted date exist a french company has unveiled and why board and out of the. box why soon supply rockets to the ice age when the crew could bring their own spare parts online read how scientists have given the green light to installing a three d. printer on the space station. now over nine thousand people have come to russia from eastern ukraine in the past couple of days as keeps military lays waste to towns during its crackdown on the uprising families are being split as man are being prevented from leaving ukraine while women and children are being allowed to get out argues ramon costa revisited one refugee camp to hear some of their stories. this typical russian summer camp for children is usually filled with joy however the mood here and in the you. the

three summer camps which have been partly converted to repeat camps that are visited he's far from cherry meant you to me is meaningless to ever think has changed for me i used to have a great job at home my husband and i were living great and then one day i had to leave everything behind me is here with her son and she's due to give birth in less than a month to another child and like everyone else she has fled the shelling in the east of ukraine. but when you leave home for a while he usually want to come back but at some point you realize that you don't have anything to come back to there's no returning to a government which is trying to kill you and destroy all your belongings lisa tries her best to look brave and says she's not scared for her life anymore but her worries are far from over i'm very worried about my father and brother they haven't led them out as a country they say they can come here and we're very scared for them. you know.

we were ready for anything someone could have easily thrown a bomb inside a bus during a bus ride we were told not to talk on the phone because someone could be listening and ready to drop bombs on us. nearly nine thousand refugees cross the border with russia in the last couple of days alone most have only one thought in mind the safety of their children organizers volunteers authorities and everybody else involved trying to make the children stay here as carefree as a possible however the kids emotional state is far from the camp like sound of a plane or any other loud noise for that matter still shocks them as they search for the nearest bomb shelter people here are grateful for the aid and shelter some are preparing to head on to stay with relatives or friends in russia while for others these refugee camps are all they have now cost of artsy southern russia

of a global summit in london to and sexual violence and conflict saw one controversy a minute which could otherwise have proved uncomfortable for the british host the gathering was to address both using rape as a weapon or torture in war zones like syria congo and others but abuses in true langham have been left out by the organizers the u.k.'s foreign secretary and the actress and u.n. special envoy angelina jolie has been made an ornery dame today by the queen on this very subject britain has been selling millions of dollars worth of weapons to sri lanka which has long been on the radar of human rights organizations for allegations of rape and extrajudicial killings she discussed this with human rights advocate bianca jagger on r.t. is going underground which you can watch online. but i did some research and they found reports about how the u.k. said weapons that probably were used in the mass killing of the terminal at the end of the war and even before and he does believe that between seven hundred fifty to

seventy thousand innocent civilians were killed among the turmel and that is a real persecution of the tamil even today and why is the u.k. government silent and of course they have something to answer because of the sale of weapons to that country and because sri lanka holds the presidency of the commonwealth in the one hand you talk about you know the sexual violence and you talk about war crimes and then you sell weapons to this government. which. i will get more of the world's news now security has been stepped up across afghanistan during voting in the second round of the presidential election the taliban had issued further threats to disrupt polling last saturday a presidential front runner abdullah dollars skate and assassination attempt when a suicide bomber attacked his convoy in the capital kabul.

iran's president says the country has reached agreements with international mediators for ford to start enriching uranium and that the west will lift some sanctions imposed over the country's nuclear program the deal is expected to be finalized before the twenty eighth of june last november world powers and iran reached a temporary agreement under which iran's uranium enrichment program was limited in exchange for partial easing of sanctions. israel's army has reinforced its search for three teenagers who were kidnapped in the west bank on thursday night earlier militants linked to the islamic state of iraq and syria admitted being behind. me it's in retaliation for the israeli defense forces killing of three of the group's members israel is also investigating whether any palestinians are linked to the kidnappings. now we're only a couple of days into the world cup in brazil but it's already thrown up

a few surprises none more so than five one defeat of reigning champion spain by the netherlands last night but it's not just the football on the pitch that fans are enjoying there's plenty of entertainment on the sidelines to graham phillips has been finding out. so the were the prime minister's speech specially constructed on the edge of the city but was for the slow two thousand feet high stretches over several they cause bit of course a big scream and the same place over seventy days to tens of thousands the fines did a good many of them a spirit i was. speaking to some of these finds the will be the pundits here in this book come two thousand and fourteen is that sort of possibly silly play and. you know i think it was they said she was going to run you tell said so you thought it was you was younger i said no don't go he said you are going to fight show what it was was lead c.b.c.

or me my time like this i was using these minutes was was. the city. was. well most of us can't afford to hang an original monet or a picasso on our walls but perhaps we could settle for the next best thing a group of russian artists are making a splash in german art circles well they are incredibly detailed reproductions our berlin correspondent peter oliver has been for viewing. a who's who of art stares back at you from the walls of this small salon in berlin but this priceless collection including rembrandt's morning is an vanguard's of the work of three russian brothers into this because you know this is

a good example of what we do the original of this painting was lost during world war two we were able to recreate it from an old photograph. guinea mihail and semi on pause in our being masterminds behind the masterworks that have drawn high praise from some of the most respected and revered names in the german art world but this in the myth they might be a lost people who represent conservative traditional russian art schools in the west europe and then you see the synonymously costly and complex education gave way to more than art but in russia it was preserved have been not started in leningrad they wouldn't be able to pay in those wonderful pictures for them to sell a painting the artist must have been dead for at least seventy years and the paintings all have to be signed by the brothers this hasn't stopped some chances trying to make a killing off their work though back in two thousand we did some reproductions of wm turners the originals were stolen back in one thousand nine hundred six these

guys then tried to sell them to an art dealer in antwerp as the legit works for ten million ago those guys went to jail another rule is they can't be exactly the same size as the originals in fact many people actually want much larger reproductions but it's the beauty and attention to detail taken that gets customers to pay up to ten thousand euro for the pictures. for this we have to work with gold leaf it's very delicate difficult to apply what you see here has taken around a hundred hours. that is seeing collectors keen to obtain the paintings a little way outside of burley is a hotel that set up a museum dedicated to the brothers' work. it's a small sensation for this region in berlin there's plenty of our galleries but here you can see all the masterworks from the louvre or the prado just ours are reproductions they might not be the real deal but it's certainly

a great collection that they have here you can see rubens you can see vermeer all of them on the show here during the great artist alongside holbein every single one of them has been lovingly recreated by the three brothers and they've spent around as much time on each one of these as it's believed the great master spent on creating the original the love that goes into their painting is clear when you hear them talk about their favorite creation one day i was of the louve very early it was raining so there weren't many tourists i was able to get really close to the mona lisa and spend time with it i think we made about seventeen trips to paris to look at it in order to make this we would never sell this piece it's very special to us whether it's the time consuming layers of the classical artists or the pacey bold strokes of the expressionists when it comes to the art world the poison brothers have got it covered peter oliver r.t.

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