these become talk among. themselves from st petersburg to france we travel in search of the song. knowledge we've got the future covered. radicals vandalized the russian embassy in kiev and overturning cars and pelting the building with eggs and molotov cocktails. and the government fighters in ukraine's east down a military transport plane killing all forty nine people aboard. in iraq up to a thousand people dead in an insurgency campaign launched by jihadi fighters earlier this week and bid to halt advancing militants the country's leadership resorts to calling on volunteers to take up arms. and actually have from the previous season page it's. a country which is supposed to be the closest ally surveillance to nuclear warheads we hear from some experts who worry britain's closer ties with the u.s.

are all give and no take and could compromise national security. five am in moscow good to have you with us our first story tonight an update on what's happening in crimea tourist eastern ukraine a spokesperson for kiev's military operation there says they killed fifty anti-government fighters in kramatorsk and wounded another hundred fifty his facebook posting indicates that the activists were killed in an airstrike that also destroyed their ammunition warehouse earlier in the ukrainian middle pardon me you create a military said all forty nine people aboard a plane shot down friday night in lugansk were killed is video reportedly shows the moment of the explosion before being shot down the plane was attempting to land at logan airport bringing troops weapons and supplies give officials say they consider

this a terror attack the crew and soldiers aboard the plane are the single largest loss of life the ukrainian military has suffered since the start of the operation in eastern ukraine. foreign policy analysts are jittery thinks the incident justifies a no fly zone over areas affected by the conflict. there actually contributes to the calming of the wall just to some extent because the way in which the ukrainian of these kids used their air power over the recent weeks has been irresponsible in big screen they obviously use no smile guided weapons within the school or a cluster of the skids and i think if occasion of the no fly zones in eastern ukraine is much more warranted then it was in say libya that apparently you have to put it all as alexander pavlovitch thinks kiev and its allies will point the finger at russia over the attack they're just going to blame russia what they've been blaming it for the past several weeks you know this is supposed to be

a momentous collation on the part of russia i mean how do these people manage to down a plane i mean equipment must come from russia i mean ukraine has its own military industry but they're going to pin the blame on russia because the real target is russia not even the saudis or the east of ukraine so i expect escalation. and otherwise from nato from washington london brussels girly fortunately. western security council members blocked russia's move into a statement condemning the attack on the russian embassy in kiev according to a diplomatic source radical demonstrators have been vandalizing the building in the ukrainian capital for hours while accusing russia of arming anti-government activists in the east and south artie's paul scott has been. you can see behind me the russian embassy building here in kiev and as you can point clearly make out it's being pelted with eggs and we take to the windows but behind us that's the

smashed now the police said that this protest originally began with around one hundred demonstrators who were hit with anti russian plot cards and they were shouting on t.v. a lot of maybe two slogans as well but as night falls has descended upon us the numbers have increased and the atmosphere is quite tense around here as well a few moments ago i saw a number of men in military uniform make their way towards the gates of the russian embassy here in kiev and you can also make out as well that the ukrainian flag is now flying high outside the embassy has replaced the russian flag which was taken down by the protesters kiev says they've arrested several people who had been provoking tension at the embassy they reiterated that they're doing everything possible to restore and maintain security of the diplomatic staff investigative journalist and filmmaker danny schechter though speculates the embassy attack could be purposely staged by kiev trying to bait russia into a harsh response this is an urgency to it now i think from

a commuter cranium point of view a recent viewpoint of the ukrainian government suddenly with the events in iraq american media is shifting its attention away from ukraine to a rocket that would result in a i think indeed on the part of some in the ukraine to try to get back into the media i by staging incidents that could lead to over response by russians which they could then use to justify calls for intervention or more support from the. knighted states they could provoke a intensification or an escalation of the crisis there that gives them a pretext to refuse to pay for gas to refuse to accept compromises on the russian part hopefully to get the u.s. more involved in their situation i think that's the game here that's being played a group of russian journalists filming inside a maternity hospital in the eastern ukrainian city of slovyansk when the shelling

began on the building footage from the inside. journalists were interviewing hospital staff when the military allegedly started firing they rushed to the basement and waited until the shelling cease we talk with one journalist who was at the hospital. when we the group of journalists got information that a maternity hospital in the town center has been damaged we headed there started recording interviews in the hospitals yard then entered the building in that moment the new attack started we ran into the basement and stayed there for twenty minutes then we left the building but heard new showing quite close in had to hide again the building is quite seriously damaged nearly all the windows are broken. while in the city of ny proper trucks can create in authorities apprehended two russian journalist working for his visit to a t.v. which had already had employees detained in the country a correspondent in the sound technician were held as they were heading to the

airport they were supposed to fly to moscow after their assignment in the country was over the channel says their documents were in order and are reportedly held in the city's justice ministry we spoke with the wife of one of the men herself an r.t. journalist. and i just reached him by phone i could only hear unknown voices and then in the house going to the beach of my time to call him and it was all i could understand and then i called to kim joan now answer it and she only answer to my question which she did taking is safe and she won't come back home today and some time ago she called me concerned according to me and i wanted to go to so i'm sort of shingles and if you want to dance she doesn't know going she and then can also change. as the ukrainian crisis continues the country's economic affairs are also on dangerous ground one day left for kiev the least part of its gas bill or face being moved to a paid in advance system and potentially

a gas cut off more on that still to come. but first in iraq up to one thousand people reportedly killed many of them civilians after a group known as isis started an insurgency campaign earlier this week jihadi fighters seize several major cities including the country's second largest city mosul more victims feared as the fighters are now believed to be closing in on baghdad hundreds of iraqi men are responding to a call to arms though issued on friday by the country's top shia cleric urging them to join the fight against the radicals and the government airstrike on the area surrounding the biggest oil refinery in the country reportedly killed some two hundred militants this as the u.s. deliberates what kind of assistance to provide or he's got h.t. on has more. president obama's message to iraq is the u.s. will help it 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'll something dictated 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 us 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 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 ran in the face of on a slot 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 parties world apart discussed iraq's sectarian strife with former u.s. ambassador to the country christopher hill will explain why isis could be a threat to any nation watch the show at ten thirty g.m.t. here's a preview these i.c.'s 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 that. 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 increasing collaboration with the us when it comes to nuclear weaponry worrying some that the country could lose its deterrent independence two countries are already working side by side sharing intelligence and exchanging prisoners artie's polly boyko reports that critics fear 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 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 us control that we are still five are north of us your pieces in britain wires all you have to ask is how many of you see that over the united states and you know where 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 r.a.f. crouton one of the u.k. bases allegedly involved in mass surveillance revelations about g c h q and the n.s.a. they are what we could be saying that british citizens are actually having their

privacy in paid it's a boy 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 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 lot of sided relationship under the current extradition treaty between. and in america it's much easier for a u.k. citizen to be sent to face trial in the u.s. than the other way around over recent years twice as many people have been

extradited from the u.k. to the u.s. . which british promises dozens. go that extra limb for the americans object to compensate says have. to many an american the american stop insurance rates in these the fifty first states of america. still to come in the program selective morality. in the one hundred talk about you know the. six mins and you talk about war crimes and the use of weapons to this government we look at claims that a london summit on sexual violence ignored numerous cases of assaults in sri lanka . but first ukraine's prime minister ordered the government to prepare for a halt in gas supplies monday more than four billion dollars in debt in just one day left to bare least half of what it owes if the deadline isn't met russia will only deliver gas that's been paid for up front earlier my colleague discussed the matter with r.t.

correspondent. 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 hit here though that's still to be purged and we'll talk about what kind of strong position ukraine is in a moment but their economy is so bad that the moment we're going to pay them 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'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 that was off 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 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 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. parry 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 price that it wants. when we touched on this just now why does ukraine feel it's in such a strong position he wanted to be just 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. perhaps the ukrainians have 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 is 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 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 plan well any richer in 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 mean if you took all this equation

all these transit through ukraine. how does that go to affect the price of gas it would go up what it should knock salute me and that is exactly what would make shipping all that gas from 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. when archie dot com won enthusiasm's come up with a novel solution to the gas dispute auctioning the russian blue fuel on e bay click on a website for the details. why are there take a look at footage of a demonstration by the aerobatic team of the russian air force doing the vertical loops barrel rolls and more. and we can already observe distant celestial bodies but now research by nasa and soon we'll be able to smell other planets find out what that's about on our website r t v dot com. britain's queen elizabeth has made actress angelina jolie an honorary dame for her humanitarian work she hosted the global summit and sexual violence together with the u.k. foreign secretary and it was called to address instances of rape in war zones like

syria the congo and others but the conference failed to cite violations in sri lanka where experts say thousands were raped during almost three decades of civil war human rights groups say sexual assault is still used there as a way to torture suspected criminals civilians also at risk in sri lanka according to a un survey every ninety minutes their woman is raped and every day up to five children are abused most of the suspects allegedly end up walking free host of arties going underground after a time as he spoke with human rights advocate bianca jagger who is convinced the u.k. ignore history along those violations because it fueled civil war selling weapons to the country. but i did some research and found reports about how the u.k. send weapons that probably were used in the mass killing of the terminal at the end of the war and even before and it is believed between seven between fifty to seventy thousand innocent civilians were killed among the turmel and it 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 the sexual violence and you talk about war crimes and then you sell weapons to this government. some three days into the future world cup the tournament has already thrown up a few surprises none more so than the huge upset victory of the netherlands against world champions spain trouncing them five to one and the game between elite in italy has wrapped up with italians coming up on top to no one but it's not just football on the pitch that's providing entertainment there's plenty of other distractions on the sidelines graham phillips reports. specially constructed only and you can see it doesn't look this is it now it stretches over several like bit

of course the big screen is that every day tens of thousands of. kids are going to be the atmosphere. you can see some of these signs. here in this country and it. was simply. this and you know it's been said she was going to drop you know the biggest problem is you know you know. it was you know as we see the early right time it was. not everyone though as excited about the world cup as dozens of n.t.t. for protesters gathered for new york in ization its headquarters in zurich switzerland demonstrators marched in solidarity with brazil's anti world cup protests that criticize management of the ongoing tournament and huge cost of the

world cup is caused large clashes in several cities in brazil over the last few months. israel's army stepped up its search for three teenagers one of them an american citizen kidnapped in the west bank thursday night militants linked to the islamic state of iraq and syria admitted to being behind the abduction and say it's in retaliation for the i.d.f. killing three of their members earlier several rockets were fired from gaza into israel israeli air force has reportedly launched attacks on militant checkpoints in response. most of us can't afford to hang on to an original monet or a picasso on our walls but perhaps we could settle for the next best thing a group of russian artists making a splash in german art circles with their incredibly detailed reproductions of these masterpieces are berlin correspondent peter oliver takes a look. 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 golf's

are the work of three russian brothers which is a typical if 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 me and semi on being masterminds behind the masterworks that have drawn high praise from some of the most respected and revered names in the german art world this in real life to be my bill last 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 had they not started in leningrad they wouldn't be able to paint 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

william turner's 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 the 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 everything girl 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 masters 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 at the louvre 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. germany. oh i want to my wall well coming up at r.t. international the tradition of having more than one wife is driving a wedge into today's kazakhstan and we've got more on that just ahead. i marinate join me. for impartial and financial reporting terry contribute and much much. only on the bus and on.

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