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scotland's independence referendum now less than one hundred days away r.t. is the hopes and fears from both sides. could have a company you're watching international. i rush is embassy in ukraine has been vandalized by crowds of young people who threw stones and molotov cocktails andrey nazi symbols on the walls interim foreign minister turned up to you siding with the rioters and making some decidedly undiplomatic comments let's go live now to our paul scott who in is in kiev for us paul do we know exactly what was said. we do what despite the fact that there was no police presence to stop events unfolding on saturday which is in breach of the vienna convention incidentally

which says that all embassy should be protected from attack by the host nation despite this lack of police presence one official did turn up and as you say that was ukraine's interim foreign minister he was there siding with the them but he expressed his concern for the safety of the ukrainian star inside the embassy and he also called for the closure of the border between russia and ukraine but the diplomat was caught on camera using less than diplomatic language when talking about russian president vladimir putin. if you're going to have a good start because it was zero zero but i think that the through you know all about. well what this means for diplomatic relations between russia and ukraine remains to be seen russia have taken their concerns over saturday's events to the united nations they're calling for

a resolution condemning the attack on their embassy which has apparently been blocked by western nations now police say it all started on saturday when around one hundred demonstrators arrived outside the embassy carrying anti russia placards and shouting anti putin slogans but the mood soon turned sour and the atmosphere deteriorated when masked men believed to be from the right sector turned up they started pelting the building with paint and with eggs and they smashed windows as well they overturned vehicles and smashed cars to pieces now it's believed that many of them are memoire from the right sector because they were red and black right set to ban has given their identity away and the russian flag flying outside the russian embassy here in kiev is also now being replaced by the ukrainian flag the order to get more ok thank you paul that's our tease paul scott live from kiev . well kevin authorities say they have arrested several people who provoked the unrest outside the russian embassy but investigative journalist danny shet kept

suspect some in kiev purposely trying to bait russia into a harsh response there's an urgency to it now i think from a cranium point of your original viewpoint of ukrainian government suddenly with the events in iraq american radio is shifting its attention away from ukraine to iraq that results 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 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 to refuse to accept compromises on the russian part hopefully to get the u.s. more involved in their situation i think that's will be the game here it's being

played meanwhile antisense of the army has carried out an artillery attack hitting two hospitals one of them a maternity unit all the patients though had been moved and of the buildings the day before but a group of russian journalists were filming inside when the assault began his some of the video they sent. the journalists were interviewing hospital staff when the military allegedly started firing they then rushed into the basement and waited until it was say. well slavyansk has enjoyed days of artillery attacks nearly this week video allegedly showing fire bombs being dropped on the city we spoke to a former british army intelligence officer who's recently returned from ukraine he told us that the attacks bad hallmarks of banned phosphorous weapons i've seen the video i've 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 to 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 tell tale white a gray smoke so white phosphorus being used it's an alarming development of course it needn't necessarily be legal but it depends on the usage concern and that's exactly why of course a lot of 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 and in the neighboring against 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. as visited one of their training camps to find out more. we are with the anti government

fighters we're on the way to a training camp here in the city of no guns they're not telling us exactly where this camp is because of security reasons bettman how much time going to take us to get there. is. it's a question that 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 to which people are very scared the city is preparing for war we're evacuating women and children from the city bettman says that ukrainian military static is to attack from behind so he's had his main 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'll 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 hit from the bombing with. slovyansk 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 society 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 is enough is enough force the r.t.e. outside to guns eastern ukraine. another development ukrainian authorities in the east have detained two journalists from a russian t.v. channel who were on route to an airport to return to russia is the latest in the series of incidents where russian reporters have been apprehended r.t.

dot com has got more details on this the. united states has sent 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 fierce fighting has now reached the provinces of salah ad din and close to the capital as the army struggles to hold back the advance of the islamic state of iraq and syria militant group the groups already installing its own islamist leadership in the second largest city mosul which it occupied doing this week isis has also managed to see some american army hardware that was supplied earlier to iraq to help fight the insurgency. has more on that. 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 around half a million people have already escaped from iraq's second city mosul after the i.s.i. all forced the army to retreat reports say government have also seized 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 would be left behind many of the abandoned weapons and military hardware now in the hands of hardline terrorists were imported into iraq from gas where i

think you all are aware of the shipments that we've provided that include the delivery of three hundred hellfire missiles millions of rounds of small arms fire thousands of rounds of tank ammunition helicopter fired rockets that iraqi security forces and don't forget about the u.s. supplied humvees here you can see isis insurgents riding and inspecting the vehicles driving them across the border into war torn syria critics call it an unintended consequence of the u.s. war in iraq coming home to roost there weren't any real sizable organized militant groups in iraq until 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 arena portnoy r.t. . this week's business news is coming up next with katie colby malvo. be back with more we'll be speaking. to gen x. c.j. next vulgarize ation of darwin science and punishment for an uncommitted crying i was never the least to learn from believing in eighty feebleminded still today for the few i don't know why not a lot but i still don't know why genetic improvement through forced sterilization

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