now. what if. like. the top story this hour radicals in kiev attacked the russian embassy damaging cars and vandalizing the building while the ukrainian police reportedly stand by and watch. and to government forces in eastern ukraine meantime of downed a military transport plane carrying weapons and troops all forty nine on board the plane were killed. elsewhere terrorists are now in control of iraq's north reportedly plan to form a new government in the region on sunday but says the country resorts to call the all volunteer fighters now to drive at the ready. and from surveillance to nuclear warheads this hour we look at fears that britain's ever closer ties with the u.s. are all given no take and could be in danger in u.k.

national security. worldwide for moscow this is r.t. international it's kevin owen he was at this hour just after midnight in the russian capital now and the top story than is mentioned in the ukrainian capital protesters have surrounded the russian embassy a few hours ago a group of demonstrators have been allowed into the building to voice their demands they're accusing russia of supplying anti-government activists with weapons pulled scott is a force. protesters are currently outside the russian embassy not far from here in kiev police say it began with out with around one hundred demonstrators carrying anti russian placards and shouting loudly slogans but the numbers then soon began

to swell and the atmosphere in the room began to turn sour as well masked men arrived and they began to pelt the building with eggs and with paint they overturned a number of diplomatic big vehicles and smashed the windows of nearby cars as well now the russian flag outside the embassy has been taken down replaced with a ukrainian one and with a right sector flag as well some of the protesters outside the russian embassy at the moment are carrying right sector banners nellie's could be saying pretty much standing idly by not doing anything as events there are unfolding all the exits and all the entrances are currently blocked but despite this r.t. has managed to speak to one of the diplomats inside. the situation this gets more tense protesters have to move the embassy cars parked outside the perimeter is blocked with tires driveways a block with the protesters own cars they've torn down the russian flag from the

pole ukrainian police are supposed to guard the embassy they on preventing the harm being done to russian property. so it seems with hundreds of protesters outside the russian embassy here in kiev tensions remain very very high. the ukrainian army says all forty nine people on board the plane shot down on friday night in lugansk were killed videos emerge showing the moment of the attack and its aftermath the plane was coming in to land at lugansk airport carrying troops weapons and supplies officials say they consider it a terror attack crude soldiers aboard the plane of the biggest single loss the ukrainian army suffered since the start of the crackdown. foreign policy on the subject of each told us it might he thinks actually make the kiev government see reason that people would actually contribute to the calming of the waters the from expense because the way in which the ukrainian of particles. over the recent weeks has been and will be extremely they obviously you. know guided weapons

wherever school or a hospital was here and i think it became a no fly zone in ukraine is not warranted then he was in a league. but political honestly kind of public believes kevin its allies will just use this incident to further denounce russia they're just going to blame russia what they've been blaming of for the past several weeks you know this is supposed to be you know this collision on the part of russia how these people managed to down a play i mean you must come from russia i mean you crane has its own military industry but they're going to pin the blame on russia because the real target is russia it's not even the southeast or the east of ukraine so i expect escalation from early and otherwise from nato from washington or london brussels fortunately.

you know the developments ukraine's authorities have detained two russian journalists again it's just the latest incident in a series for all different reasons the russian channel the souse journalist has been arrested before say they were at the necessary paperwork in order nearly a russian border guards detained a ukrainian journalist on their territory for crossing the border illegally she since being fined and sent back to you crazy. the diplomatic and military front sparkling ukraine's economic affairs are also on the brink of faith with just one day to go to settle at least part of its gas bill or face being moved to a painted van system a potential gas cutoff. of two thousand people reportedly killed many of them civilians in the tight budget how does militants on the iraqi city of mosul the city's one of several seized by the group known as isis since the insurgency campaign started earlier this week

more victims of feared as the fighters and i believe to be closing in on baghdad hundreds of iraqi men have responded to a call to arms issued on friday by the country's top shia cleric who were the nation to join the fight against the radicals a government airstrike on the areas surrounding the country's biggest all refineries reportedly killed some two hundred terrorists but says the u.s. deliberate so what kind of assistance to provide is artie's got it if you can explaining a bit more about why. president obama's message to iraq is the u.s. will help it fight the militants but 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'll something decayed it is 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 the militants with the islamic state of iraq and syria again to gain momentum and. the fight against assad in syria is further bolstered 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 mosul heavily armed radicals overran police stations freed more than a thousand prisoners from the city jail and to go over the international airport

iraqi forces apparently read 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. a washington correspondent. program discussed iraq's descent into chaos with the former u.s. ambassador to the country christopher hill he explained how isis could be a menace to any country across the globe that shows on at ten thirty g.m.t. sunday is i see these people you know they are not interested in just iraq they are interested in the rest of us as well and so i think we as a civilization if you will need to be prepared to deal with organizations such as i sees the criticism of maliki for not having enough sunni outreach that may be true

but i think one can apportion some of the criticism on the sunni's who have made it very clear they're not interested in living under a shia prime minister that has a prime minister represent shia political power and so i think it's a very fundamental problem. britain is increasingly collaborating with the u.s. when it comes to nuclear weaponry raising fears it could lose its deterrent independence did the two countries already work very closely sharing intelligence and enjoy exchanging prisoners was pretty boy reports nic such far reaching cooperation might not be benefiting britain's. america and britain already shared nuclear know how in 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 nuclear 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 us the cold war may be over but there are still nearly ten thousand u.s. military personnel stationed in britain at dozens of our a.f. bases under u.s. control still five north of five us your pieces in britain wires all you have to ask is how many of you to go over the united states and you know you're going to go where america is very rich 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 mass surveillance revelations about. the n.s.a. 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 world it's led

some voices in the u.k. to question whether american and british interests always overlap britain is now a fairly small in some. powerful country as we were in the days when we had an empire but we have a national interest we still have a national interest we're still a very big economy we're still an important country but we should exercise that national interest in our interest we shouldn't just slavish we hand 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 lot sided actual relationship for a u.k. citizen to be sent to face trial in the u. . less 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 doesn't. go that extra length for the americans object to commentators have. to many an american the american

step instruments britain is that fifty first states of america. after the break story of selective morality. in the one hundred talk about you know the the sexual violence and you talk about war crimes and weapons to the government . talks to us to find out why the anti sexual violence chose to ignore all cases of abuse in sri lanka. to refugees fleeing the crisis the army won't let the country we spoke to some of the ukrainian families then split by the conflict just a few of the stories straight ahead. debating american foreign policy is there one any more traditionally the political left and right and clearly different positions on how washington should exert power in the

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forty minutes past midnight here in moscow now ukraine's prime minister has ordered the government to prepare for a halt in gas supplies this coming monday kiev is more than four billion dollars in debt right now it's just days left to to pay at least half of what it owes if the deadline is not met russia will start only delivering gas that's been paid for up front and talk to r.t. correspondent really about the deadlock. 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 who 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 plus a huge here though it's still to be purty then we'll talk about what kind of strong position ukraine is in a moment but their economy is so bad that 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 he votes and if they do there is 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 discover 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 is 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 where the market prices go up and as a matter of fact even europe's energy chief has 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 ok so we've heard what russia is prepared to do what you crane prepared to do we're going to compromise well it doesn't seem like ukraine is going to compromise almost anywhere in fact it has offered. price of three hundred twenty six dollars until a permanent one is agreed upon and that is of course much less than what russia wants on top of that ukraine is refusing to pay back its existing debt until it gets the prize that it once. we touched on this just now why does ukraine feel it's in such a strong position he was of interest and that is a very big question here and according to gas from c.e.o. ukraine may be listening to third party advisors let's have

a listen. can perhaps the ukrainians of 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. so who's alexey miller talking over there rather cryptically who are these advisors may be well it's still a bit of a speculation but we've asked that question to a number of experts and there seems to be a predominant view let's have a listen crane these are 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 and if russia quite rightly stops delivering gas which isn't paid for of course like last time like the previous two times ukraine will simply siphon off that 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 gas as well that's all part of the business well any rift

between russia and the e.u. is really good for america because it is desperate to start selling its own gas if you look at this map right there you can see that europe gets thirty percent of its gas from russian federation and to you and ukraine is actually a major hub on that transport route from russia to europe and what america is desperate to do is to start selling its own gas but the problem is gas prices in europe right now are too low and i'm going to bed if you took all this out of the equation all the transit through ukraine. how's that going to affect the price of gas it would go up wouldn't sure how absolutely and that is exactly what would make shipping all that gas for america to europe actually profitable and at the same time it would hit russia's economy to boot so america stands everything to gain and very little to lose. we'll keep you posted on those negotiations no online from a source a relevant and diverse range of stories at r.t. dot com this these days a sex change it seems no longer requires any surgery denmark's now become the first

country in europe to make it possible to change gender legally without doing so physically can read it was online from us and also to the pentagon shows that millions of dollars to find white people take to the streets to vent their anger at the political system what was the result from all that well you can find from us. but to our continuing coverage of ukraine crisis now over nine thousand people have fled from the east of the country to russia in the past couple of days as kiev as military lays waste to towns your its continuing crackdown on the uprising families are being split men are no being prevented from leaving ukraine where women and children are allowed to get out what is roman koester of them visited 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 other three summer camps which have been partly converted to refugee camps that are visited is 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 look at those as they do which is 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 of the country this is the kind com cheer and we're very scared for them. he has now asked to move with your mobile to receive afterwards we

were ready for anything someone could have easily thrown environment side by us during our bus ride we were told not to talk on the phone because someone could be listening and ready to drop bombs on. 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 are trying to make the children stay here as carefree as a possible however the kids emotional state is far from 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 costs are of artsy south in russia . and julie has been made an honorary dame by the u.k.

queen for her humanitarian work she hosted the global summit to end sexual violence together you can see it with the u.k.'s foreign secretary it was called to address cases of using rape as a weapon in war zones like syria congo and other places too but the conference it seems has turned a blind eye to violations in sri lanka where the experts estimate thousands were raped during almost thirty years of civil war human rights groups say sexual violation is still used there to this day is a torture method against the suspected criminals but civilians are also at risk in sri lanka didn't cording to this every ninety minutes a woman suffers a rape indeed every day up to five children are abused too and often there's little or no punishment mosco free. arties going on the ground host afshin rattansi spoke to human rights advocate bianca jagger she's convinced the u.k. ignores sri lanka's violations because it fuelled the civil war by selling millions

of dollars worth of weapons to the country but i did some research and i found reports about how the u.k. send weapons that probably were used in the mass killing of the tamil at the end of the war and even before and it is believed the between seven between fifty to seventy thousand innocent civilians were killed among the time and it is a real pesky issue 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. bianca jagger talking to r.t. international told a bit now she just three days into the world cup already the tournament's already

threw up a few surprises too no more so that's why she went through the netherlands against world champions spain five one but it's not just the football on the pitch that's provided you determine plenty of other treats on the sidelines too as graeme phillips has been finding out for. the prime minister's speech specially constructed on the edge of the city but for the slow two thousand feet now stretches over several they can get of course a big scream but let me let me take the tens of thousands of. kids to the atmosphere was me speaking to some of these crimes the beauty of the fundies here this come two thousand and fourteen is it possible this holy place and. you know i think it was me saying he was not going to say. god it was you know you know i'm going to say to those we might still want if we want to do so as we see my time and he saw i was

a policeman. was . i. was. a movement in the coming days and weeks now if i had to off the brake next not him today actually had the tradition of ignore the one wife is driving a wedge into days kazakhstan they got that story if in the u.k. we've got the cause report for you. recent events in ukraine definitely have a wide range of interpretation both russia and the west accuse the other of doing a lot of meddling some people call those who are fighting out east separatists or

terrorists but others call them a people's militia fighting the kiev and this sort of situation everyone has their bias and it's hard to tell what is going on but i can tell you one thing in the sea of opinion the kiev side is using artillery and fact there have been numerous. ports of artillery strikes like the one that just a few days ago hit the sales of hope orphanage which was thankfully empty at the time why is our tour such a big deal well if you send guys with guns in the fight they're going to see their target try to kill it but artillery shoots targets they can't even see they just throw shells at a general location and interestingly enough many locations seem to be in populated areas of the breakaway republics so who is the actual target of randomly shelling populated areas well if we turn on our brains for a second we can see that artillery is one of the worst ways to take out a specific threat in a local population but it sure is a good way to eliminate the entire local population because maybe that's who the quote threat actually is but that's just my opinion.

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