cross 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 al qaeda of the mesopotamia rose during the flight back to the us invasion to help the army we've trained them for eight years and that didn't seem to work bush dismantled the original rocky army after the us invasion and that's the root of the problem the us war in iraq cost washington close to one trillion dollars in the lives of more than forty five hundred soldiers hundreds of thousands of iraqis have reportedly been killed while the us 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 point i have r t. now the u.n. says more than a thousand civilians have been killed this month alone eight hundred thousand people have been forced to flee their homes to escape the advancing jihadist the situation is no better for troops either isis boasts that it's executed around seventeen hundred captured iraqi soldiers now let's now have a look at why the army appears to be so powerless against the islamist fighters well firstly one of the extremists who will opened up access to cash arms and ammunition 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 it ranks in the process on top of that it's exploiting and fueling so. terry in tension in the community gathering 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 bryant who was a u.s. defense department contractor in iraq discussed the worsening security situation there on artie's in the now iraqi government's incompetent it's inept but you know that the job is impossible you know saddam was it was a bad actor he was a bad guy but he kept a lid on everything through force it's a lousy way to live but you know on his horse day things like this never happened 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 the lid on a wall of this maliki doesn't have a prayer of the iraqi the iraqi government can't can't and i don't know if any iraqi government could do this unless it was a dictatorship like it was under saddam and more news coming your way after the

break including the looming deadline for ukraine's gas debt. well dreams with. thirty four countries been building billion euro zone says of each one million degrees with some token much fuel to sell from st petersburg to france the trouble in situ the sun. we've got the future covered. choose your language. please make it with zero if you're going to kill innocent children the. right to choose the kids the concentric. choose to get to use the great. choose the stories that impact the.

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involved in this really ongoing dispute only stand to lose and russia including as the country is losing billions in raffa news and we're talking about an enormous sum of money that the state budget is quite depended on and of course there is the country's reputation as a reliable allergy supplier now that refutation is currently at stake you mentioned russia presumably kiev is going to lose the most it's true while however while the row has rumbled on at the same time ukraine has been secretly stockpiling gas reserves and just recently the country's government announced that they do have enough to last app until i am and that's even without pain now apart from that ukrainian people do stand to lose out shafts simply dance are piling up and russia has already offered any lower gas price but more and the longer

a key of refuses to compromise and negotiate the the higher the eventual bill will be many people want to show you the rest of europe is a bystander in all of this but actually europe could suffer to it's true because europe is not at all a bystander actually the european supplies are most triscuit we're just looking simply at this graphic soup can see how much you are is the patent on gas from supplies and there's actually more than that for some european nations gas from is the only an energy source so if this continues to be the case when ukraine refuses to compromise which it does at the moment then you are likely faces being cut off in the near future and we've been in that situation before when ukraine feel to me that it's a gas obligations and that's led to only one thing ukraine was siphoning off gas

that was a. tended for european customers so just recently the borel bank asked a maid at that such as the naira could see a massive prize hike for gas for european nations in some cases up to fifty per cent and actually i try to sell mum some of the factors there are styling this negotiations still no deal despite concession after compromise after concession. you see on the sort of we were numb pickles is 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 a year now refereeing the e.u. found the offer fair. i believe three hundred eighty five dollars is

a reduction and it can be considered 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 but when mr crane had a good you know i have been offered a very generous discount on this and yet they still want all of that it's really is quite incredible that the butt of the ukrainian government is i don't think any amount of this got ready will satisfy you crank their support and forthright however give stubbornness may not be rooted in what it needs but what it wants which could well be profits. of 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 debt to russia. ukraine's naftogaz is not going to pay its debt to gasp from until we reach a package agreement by its occurrence because that on 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 operate to save the day or at least offered 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 cracklin no waffling the market price as another country does. so far the quarreling sides have failed to reach an amicable solution if the teachers practically ukraine's acting prime

minister has scuppered 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 ing well with a european pardonnez the ukrainian government is being intransigent and also putting the people of europe at risk that's why the e.u. is actually cautiously supporting russia's position at this time by with monday's deadline taking average closer helps for a breakthrough or a slowly fading away lines in the question r.t. moscow. while some countries keep on snooping on their citizens there is one which has finally stood up for its internet users had a stop court insists law enforcers must get permission from internet providers before the crime party dot com tells you how that ruling came about. plus from outer space to underwater deaths on our website and find out why nasa

sands its teams to live on the ocean floor. scotland's historic in a palace referendum is inching ever closer passing the one hundred days to go mark this week both sides are busy trying to sway undecided scots the no camp has a clear lead in the polls a bot their opponents have been steadily gaining ground increasing their support by four percent in the last four months for some the choice is not between independence or not but between two radically different visions of scotland our he's been listening to opinions from both sides. and. he'll money and bill to get a good deal a deal of money out we have a lot of pages in scotland we've got to worry about having to pay off our pension bell the oil is is basically to get taxes were altered from what. you know the all prices dropping through the floor you can be sure. you know if you're tired call me

on oil with me together through war and peace. people as fanatics but for what it's worth this is a vast states. 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 invests in is being 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. now take a look at some other stories from around the world and seventy thousand bodhi has fled from ireland this week amid fears that the new military leadership will crack down on migrant workers international organization for migration says hundreds of trucks buses and trains are being used to take workers back to their homes local broadcaster showed hundreds of people amassing at border crossings since the army seized power last month there have been reports of camborne and workers being forced from their jobs ties ortiz denied as the. israeli army

says it has arrested some eighty palestinians suspected of being behind the abduction of three missing teenagers from the west bank many of those arrested are reportedly members of the hamas movement israeli soldiers also blocked roads and shot three border crossings to gaza the youngsters were abducted on thursday night as he returned home from a religious lesson. at the week's business news is coming up with katie pilbeam after break marty international and in the u.k. our new documentary. comes. the book the last series of mixed school basis try to clear up

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