doesn't sound anything. to teach me creation why you should care about humans. this is why you should care only. i. question the nations block a russian resolution in the u.n. security council to condemn the assault on it and. it's the last chance of ukraine to settle its gas agreement with russia the head of gazprom accuses kiev of deliberately disrupting the talks. of a country at stake iraq backed by a ruthless al-qaeda splinter group that's spreading through the country. and create a new islamic caliphate. like when we look at the week's top stories. as independent referendum now less than one hundred days away our take is the hope

sam faiers so. good to have you company with r.t. international. now let's start with our top story involves ukraine again russia's russia's resolution condemning the attack on its training capital has been blocked in the u.n. security council by western nations vandalized the building throwing stones molotov cocktails and drawing nazi symbols on the wards they accused russia of supplying weapons to anti-government protesters in the east scott was at the scene of the right. but you can see the irony is just some of the damage that's been caused over the last few hours and what we're seeing outside the russian embassy could be

a police able to stop such mail to me around one hundred four intestines were brought up they had to russian black cars and they were shouting this to russia and i take her to the slide but the other speed time not the swell actually i was picked up became a bit more sour when the masked men turned up the many some of the sort of police cars right sector had a black flags i think bottles of the right sector here i doubt they started to help the russian embassy building with the eggs and the thing to consider is you know i truly smash now so that i got to tell it it was such. that it is the situation is getting more tense protesters have turned over embassy cars parked outside the perimeter is blocked with tires in the driveways of block with the protesters own cars they've torn down the russian flag from the pole the ukrainian police are supposed to guard the embassy they are preventing the harm being done to russian

property here and that's a culture of the times i want to stay to the days in the us south it around a school that was going to be the protesters and demonstrators are going to set fire to the vehicles but in the end if i could see selves instead of computers the cost of a car so that some so there was five thousand things here at the moment a somewhat peaceful kind can cling to what we see here in the last few hours of the things that the anti russian sentiment within here is now much more visible. while kiev authorities say they have arrested several people who provoked the unrest that side the russian embassy but investigative journalist danny schechter suspects some in kiev purposely trying to bait russia into a harsh response. there's an urgency to it now i think from a kook cranium point of you're always from a viewpoint of ukrainian government suddenly with the events in iraq american media is shifting its attention away from ukraine to iraq that results in 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 united states they could provoke a intensification or an escalation of the crisis there that gives them a pretext to refuse to pay for gas they refuse to accept compromises on the russian part hopefully to get the u.s. more involved in their situation i think actually beat the game here that's being played out a sense of the army has carried out an artillery attack hitting two hospitals one a maternity unit all the patients had been moved out of the buildings the day before a group of russian journalists they were filming inside when the assault began and his some of the video they sent.

the journalists were interviewing hospital staff when the military allegedly started to fire they then rushed into the basement i'm waiting there until it was safe. for slavyansk has enjoyed days of artillery attacks early this week video emerged allegedly showing fire bombs being dropped on the city we spoke to a former british army and intelligence officer who's recently returned from ukraine and he told us the attack bears the hallmarks of banned phosphorus weapons. i've seen the video of looked at it closely it does indeed tallow is what one might say . the hallmarks of white phosphorous use for example a very bright light burning and multiple burns coming down from the sky it's an air person could use such as a mortar or perhaps from an aircraft and then of course again the telltale still burning the videos i've seen in the daytime showing actually this very territorial

white or gray smoke so white phosphorus being used as an alarming development of course it needn't necessarily be illegal but it depends on the use a church concert 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 the marlin the neighboring the ganske region activists shot down a ukrainian military plane early on saturday morning killing all forty nine people on board local self-defense units have become increasingly weaponized artie's poorest ear as visited one of their training camps to find out more. we are what the anti government fighters were on the way to a training camp here in the city of no guns they are not telling us exactly where this camp is because of security reasons bad men how much time going to take us to get their. cigarettes if cigarettes but we all know when

we get there bettman was a former officer with the ukrainian elite police before switching sides only a month ago he commanded a team of just twelve men today they numbered more than one hundred and are growing by the day all of them volunteers each with a code name to hide his identity how is the situation on the ground at the moment. people are very scared the city is preparing for war we're evacuating women and children from the city bettman says that ukrainian military's tactic is to attack from behind so he's had his men spall out across the city were about to approach the cap and balance on steps to switch off the camera deep in the forests it's easy to see why they've set up base here everything is camouflaged making it difficult for the ukrainian army to find them where now at the military training camp and we're also to see them do training with knives this is training for close combat

but a whole which ones comes with the marines not planning on close combat fighting the heat from the bombing with heavy artillery like in sloviansk in donetsk the guys here come from just about every background you have former students you have form of businessmen you have former drivers and you also have ex-military and police so you have people with a lot of military experience but you also have some for whom this is the first time that they're picking up a knife or a gun and so the sharing of skills and experience is vital and the guys have told me to put two of these in my ears because there's going to be a hell of a noise. the automatic weapon training is the most important bettman keeps trying to control over his men many still have families inside ukraine and while we constantly about them. it's not becoming a war it's already a war. most of the guys are citizens of lugansk city they're highly motivated

they're between the ages of twenty and sixty five when i asked one of them whether there are enough people here to take on the ukrainian military his answer was there's enough. but how many more need to die before the kiev government itself to clear enough is enough force the r.t. outside to guns eastern ukraine. or ukrainian authorities in the east have detained two journalists from the russian t.v. channel who were on route to an airport to return to russia it is the latest in a series of incidents where russian reporters have been apprehended r.t. dot com has got more details on that from. the mall the clock is ticking for ukraine to decide what it's going to do about its gas deal with russia otherwise it faces being put on a pre-payment system and only getting supplied with the gas it's already paid for

talks have been regularly scuppered over kids insistence that it gets a massive discount which the head of energy provider gazprom directly blames on the interim prime minister will artie's medina has been looking into this story in more detail for us. but what are the chances of this whole thing being sorted out in the next twenty four hours well it is possible of course but chances are very slim average single ported party involved and this ongoing dispute as really digging their heels in and i mean might seem all that they can't resolve this because everybody stands to lose out it's true as your average single party. only stand even russia because russia is missing out on billions when you were talking about an enormous sum of money that of course the state budget is absolutely massive the dependence now it is also also the reputation of the country is at stake

a reputation over you. every lie and you just supplier and that particular reputation is being strained at the moment but ukraine does stand to lose the most of its true especially if we think about the countries people with and most certainly now what we have at the moment is that dads are piling up and they have to be cleared sound way sooner or later that's for sure and the main ravin ustream is of course the public the public is going to be the one person coming up taxes in that particular situation and of course we know that lately russia has offered a lower price for gas but still the longer kiev refuses to compromise really the higher of the event shell bill will be we've mentioned russia ukraine true europe appeared to be a bystander in all of this but it too would suffer it would suffer and now it's.

arguably the ones that are most the trysts now if we have a look at this graphic for instance while this graphic clearly shows you were up is dependent on russian gas now if you crane really refuses to compromise then you are could face eventually being cut off and we had that situation before when ukraine failed to meet its gas obligations its gas bills and russia had to turn its pipes off and that only led to ukraine siphoning off that was intended for euro and there is another thing that's pretty import. that russia for some countries of the european union is in fact the only source. if we think about some reserves that true europe does have some of the reserves but it's really unclear and it's hard to asked a mate whether it's going to be enough for it to last for

a long time yes so in summary a bad situation for rule some are going to lose more than others it's true as usual in conflicts like this there are parties that suffer alas and the other is that. well they saw through more than the others and if we think about ukraine well while ukraine refused to compromise and was ready criticizing russia every at every single corner at the same time because he was has been secretly stockpiling its reserves and now we know that the government has recently and now is that they do have and now have to lust until and that even without paying so now you can well it is really clear why europe is so panicking over what's happening in ukraine at the moment and just to find out more on what is behind what stalling this negotiations let's listen to this report. still no deal

despite concession after compromise after concession. the c.r. is a we were numb proposes the russians offered to reduce the gas price by one hundred dollars a so-called discount on those cute and so they did a lowering the price to three hundred eighty five dollars per thousand cubic meters which is roughly what european countries pay for russian gas what's more moscow is ready to guarantee that trade for increase in year and refereeing the e.u. found the offer fair. i believe that three hundred eighty five dollars is a reduction and it can be considered a reasonable but with some people you give an inch and they take a mile and we support the we pay the price that we consider is the market rate and that is two hundred sixty eight dollars for a thousand cubic metres or so it's about a woman mr crane had

a you know i have been offered a very generous discount on this and yet they still want hole and it really is quite incredible that the butt of the ukrainian government is i don't think any amount of this got ready will satisfy ukraine best forty four fight it however key of stubbornness may not be rooted in what it needs but what it wants which could well be profits. if ukraine wants to receive cheap gas and resell it basically making money using russia it's a very odd positions. another stumbling block what to do with ukraine's foreign a half billion dollar gas dad to russia. ukraine that the gas is not going to pay is there to get from until we reach a package agreement by its occurrence because that the strategy of the ukrainian side is outright blackmail according to kiev a deal can be reached only and exclusively on ukrainian terms russia's gas from.

for to save the day or at least offer it a huge saving pay half of the debts and get a twenty percent discount on the rest otherwise ukraine would be switched to a pay in advance system russia needs to make sure that ukraine is paying the market price no ifs no buts no can't claim to know what flynn the market price as an upper country does. so far the quarreling sides have failed to reach an amicable solution if like teachers practically ukraine's acting prime minister has operated the talks from the start ukraine took no constructive steps made no compromises and apparently wants to maximally aggravate our gas relations which may not be says well with a european pardonnez the ukrainian government is being intransigent and also putting the people of europe at risk that's why they do is actually cautiously

supporting russia's position at this point by with monday's deadline taking average close at hopes for a breakthrough a slowly fading away and in the question r.t. moscow. you're watching and we're going to take a quick break now but when we come back. in iraq you've got the capitol. 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 world today it appears everyone in the establishment is a hawk. choose your language. make it with zero if you're going to. choose to use the consensus you.

choose the opinions that you. choose the stories that impact your life choose the access to. i marinate join me. in that impartial and financial report commentary interview and much. only on bombast and on and on. and i welcome back now the united states and an aircraft carrier to the shores of iraq as washington ponders military help for the country where radical militants

are conducting a ruthless onslaught and edging worryingly close to baghdad the face fighting is not a bad one hundred kilometers from the capital as the army struggles to hold back the advance of the islamic state of iraq and syria militant group the group's already installing its own is on its leadership in the second largest city mosul that you don't need this way isis has also managed to seize some american army hardware that was supplied earlier to a rat to help fight the insurgency report not as more i but one 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 hold a million people have already escaped from iraq's second city mosul off the i.s.i. al force the army to retreat reports a government of also sees a nearby oil refinery town iraq's prime minister calling for a state of emergency after hundreds of gunman took control of strategic parts of

the northern city of mosul by wednesday militants had seized the turkish consulate in muscle kidnapping the head of diplomatic mission and two dozen staff members some. thirty thousand iraqi soldiers reportedly turned and ran as militants from the islamic state of iraq and syria known as isis moved in unleashing an all out assault on the city they've taken control of hospitals police stations they have taken control of ammunition dumps and weapons stores that the fleeing government forces of what if 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 to the 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 sizeable organized militant groups in iraq until the mesopotamia rose during that to fight back at the u.s. invasion to help the army we've trained 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

a stablished 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 port r.t. . the u.n. says more than a thousand civilians have been killed since the fighting started the ongoing violence is also forced eight hundred thousand people to flee their homes to escape the advancing jihadists the situation is no better for troops either i suppose that it has executed around seventeen hundred captured iraqi soldiers hundreds of iraqis have responded to a call to arms to defend their towns but the army still remains at flank at almost every turn in fighting isis so let's take a look at why firstly when the extremists seize most of the opened up access to the cash arms and ammunition stored iraq's largest oil refining area is also at peril of being captured by isis which could endanger the country's already weak economy

and the number of militants is growing the group is said to have helped hundreds of prisoners escaped from jail swelling its ranks in the process and on top of that is exploiting and fueling sectarian tensions in the community gathering public support among radicalized sunni muslims while another branch of the group operates in syria just over the border providing a steady flow of reinforcements to iraq michael o'brien he was a u.s. defense department contractor in iraq discussed this in the disintegrating security they're an r.t.s. in that you now hear of instead of suicide bombers and all that and people getting killed now it's gone of the next step. instead of people just being people getting murdered now they're taking actually they're actually they've got for all practical purposes running in burra province they're taking over the country now how much responsibility should put on the iraqi government here. well you are actually

governments and carpet and it's inept but you know that the job is impossible you know saddam was that was a bad actor he was a bad guy but he kept a lid on everything through force the maliki you know is a shiite and the sunni's are upset because they were in charge and they want to take over again and saddam kept a lid on all of this maliki doesn't have a prayer of the iraqis the iraqi government can't and i don't know if any iraqi government could do this unless it was a dictatorship like it was under saddam now there is one country that's finally tell government intelligence that it can't have an access all areas pass to people's private online date canada supreme court insists lower and forces must get permission to pry from internet providers r.t. dot com tell jeanne what made the ruling possible. plus ever wondered what far off planets smell like well masses been sniffing around saturn we tell you on the.

countdown to scotland's historic independence referendum past the hundred day mark this week both sides have the ante to winnow wavering sculpts for now though polls show the new camp is leading but separatist campaign is have been steadily gaining supporters with a four percent rise in the last four months but there's much more to it than just flag waving and national identity at stake is the cost of breaking from britain and whether it could be an independent member of either the u. and knight artie's been listening to opinions from both sides. scotland. will give you your money and also get a good deal of your money out we have a lot of scots and we've got to worry about are we going to pay off our pension bill the oil is is basically we get taxes role she's from it. you know the oil

prices dropping through the floor you can be sure tar. you know your tire color me on oil with be together through war and peace basically is people just fanatics. for what it's worth this is a vassal states for the for the united states and we want to break with that and everything that that means but we all we want to say that we want to have influence we want to have influence with partners the way the economy in britain has been run just know is leading towards massive inequality on a historic skew and i think the real question is can we afford not to vote yes in september let's have a look at some international news the pakistani fighter jets have bombed the high that of taliban linked militants in the restive northwest killing over one hundred people some reports they say that civilians might be among the casualties an indefinite curfew has been imposed in the area strike a member sponsor of a taliban attack on the iraqi airport where you can go which killed dozens of israeli soldiers have arrested over twenty palestinians they believe are connected

with the abduction of three teenagers in the west bank youngsters including an american went missing on the night as they were returning home from a religious lesson in hebron on saturday militants from a ruthless offshoot of al qaeda said they were behind the kidnappings but offered no proof. of starvation and disease in south sudan could kill fifty thousand children that is the warning from the u.n. which says infections such as cholera are spreading during the country's ferocious civil war zones of people have already died and an estimated million and a half have been displaced the unrest began last december when the army turned on troops loyal to. the vice president he was accused of attempting. to head learn more about nato role in the breakup of yugoslavia but if you're watching us in the u.k. get a backstage pass to the latest episode of. in

one of the caring hearts of one of the capitals of loving liberal e.u. they've implemented a plan to finally get homeless people off the streets at night so did 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're laying down spikes to keep up the homeless just like dragon's teeth keep out tanks now if this happened somewhere in say bangladesh on a bad day i might say well that is their business but all the liberals in the e.u. just constantly cry from their ivory tower to the whole world about how we all need to be tolerant and be taxed to death to help people but as a guy who grew up in a bad neighborhood i can tell you that liberals never want to live near the people they claim to want to help you know henry ford was one of those guys who said that

you should never give anybody any handouts so what he did was give the disabled and the poor are decent paying jobs at his factory so listen up e.u. liberal loony bin if you want to get those yucky critical people off the streets just put them to work it will reduce your city of its homeless problem a lot faster than spikes will but that's just my opinion.