unfortunately he doesn't give a darn about anything james mission to teach you reason why you should care about humans in. this is why you should care only. russia's embassy in kiev is attacked by rioters ukraine's top diplomat a seen siding with the vandals and directing some of his own foul language at the russian president. and just today remains for ukraine to honor its gas dad else or else be put on a pre-pay system and europe's worried with its own gas supply virtually held hostage on gives when. and that the u.s. prepares a military launchpad for possible help for iraq as a country teeters on the brink of collapse terror is dominated north keeping baghdad in the crosshairs plus. scotland's historic and

a panacea for referendum now less than a hundred days away r.t. here is some of the hopes and fears fueling the yes and no campaigns. certina national live from moscow with me marina josh now russia's amber see any a crane has been vandalized by crowds of young people who threw stones and petrol bombs and drew nazi symbols on the walls ukraine's interim foreign minister turned up to and his diplomacy consisted of shouting obscene slogans together with mantles postcard has the details from kiev. despite the fact 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 that was

ukraine's interim foreign minister he was there siding with the demonstrate is now what he expressed his concern for the safety of the ukrainian stuff inside the embassy and he also called for the closure of the border between russia and ukraine but the diplomats was caught on camera using less than diplomatic language when talking about russian president vladimir putin if you have a good home a good start because they received so good right is it good for you i didn't know who i. know well what this comment 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 that calling for a resolution condemning the attack on their embassy which is apparently being 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 aids and they smashed windows as well they overturned vehicles and smashed cars to pieces the demonstrators are angry accusing russia of supplying arms to anti-government forces in the east of ukraine it's believed that many of the masked men were from the right sector because they were red and black like sexual partners giving their identity away. now when you training in p.r. also arrived at the scene of the rioting it started he went there to try and ease the situation i know i was. but instead he was handed a stone arch just really add the embassy as you can see here and try to test but now he was using it to devotees succumbing to the pressure in minute cheering from

the rioters although he didn't want a hard lesson in how crowds can turn out looking like just a few minutes later he was pelted with green stained by protesters who apparently to exception to the deputy turning up in a luxury car the deputy was then sent home on a bus after the crowd punctured the tires of his vehicle journalist and filmmaker danish after police gave police were instructed not to protect the russian embassy from the aggression. i think that the government of the ukraine asked to try to position itself as independent of certainly extremist groups i don't think they want to be in alliance rico's or express in reality they are in a situation where they have to respond to facts on the ground what happens actually it's out there in the streets police always follow orders they follow orders from above still no orders are being given to defend the embassy from above obviously there's a higher level of involvement in this potentially the mainstream media also supported

the wave of anger against russia with the growing opposition in ukraine a newspaper and media reports danny schachter explains why there are so insistent in their accusations. suddenly with the events in iraq american media is shifting its attention away from ukraine to iraq ukrainians who support the current government want to bring it back to ukraine the way to do that is with charges that russia is somehow either invading sent big tanks there or other ways or representing a threat to ukraine and so there's a game being played here clearly a geopolitical game staging events that could lead to a over response by russians which they could then use to justify calls for intervention or more support from the united states and other town in eastern ukraine has suffered having damage from shelling and here's what the town looks like after and night of bombardment of what is said to be artillery and rocket

launcher fire hit the central market and bus station paralyzing public transport several houses have also been leveled the anti-government forces say the army was the one firing a wild military officials blame the activist in return to the slansky has endured days of artillery attacks earlier this week video emerged allegedly showing fire bombs being dropped on the city we spoke to former british army and intelligence officer who was recently returned from ukraine and he told us the attack there is the hallmarks of band phosphorus weapons. i've seen the video of looked at it closely it does indeed. what one might say. the hallmarks of white phosphorous use for example a very bright light burned in and multiple burns coming down from the sky it's an after one hundred one use such as a multiplier. and then of course again the telltale still burning the videos i've

seen in the daytime showing actually this very. 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 the church consent 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 pop in for an investigation of this incident to prevent the escalating. ukrainian authorities have declared sunday a day of mourning after anti-government forces shot down a military plane in lookout's region killing all forty nine aboard local activists have become increasingly weaponized as the army's operation against them intensifies archies policy or visited an anti-government training camp 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. it's a good it's a question but we'll 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 main sprawled 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 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. 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. and you want to match it with the training is the most important better and keeps trying to control over his command maybe still have families inside ukraine and we constantly about them. need to it's

not becoming a war it's already a war. most of the guys all citizens of new guns to city they're highly motivated they're between the ages of twenty and fifty five when i asked one of them whether there are enough people here to take on the ukrainian military his answer was there is another. but how many more need to die before the kiev government itself to clear is enough is enough to stay on the team outside two guns eastern ukraine. 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 it's the latest in a series of incidents where russian reformers have been ever handed and you can find out more about their plight r.t. dot com. a u.s. aircraft carrier is heading for the persian gulf as washington prepares a foothold in case military options are required in iraq this week extremists from

the islamic state in iraq and syria group at vannes to within fifty kilometers of baghdad driven by the goal of creating a radical bad. in that the second the largest city of my soul of this goal may already be a reality as militants are reportedly planning to create a new government there on sunday the army has resorted to growing volunteers in a struggle to hold back the offensive of the terrorists but the radical group has turned the u.s. military campaign in iraq to its advantage seizing american army hardware that was earlier supplied to the wrong. one leaving behind a sober stable and self-reliant iraq two and a half years later the people america left behind are running away. fleeing for their lives on hoth a million people have already escaped from iraq's second city mosul off the i.s.i. al forced the army to retreat reports a gunman have 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 lead based 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 cracky

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 al qaeda of the mesopotamia rose during the flight back to 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 u.s. invasion and that's the root of the problem the u.s. war in iraq cost washington close to one trillion dollars and a lot. 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 established 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 no i have our team. the un says more than a thousand civilians have been killed this month alone and eight hundred thousand people have been forced to flee their homes to escape the advancing jihad as the situation is no better for troops either isis boast at its executed around seventeen hundred captured iraqi soldiers now let's have a look at why the army appears to be so powerless against the islamist fighters firstly when the extremists seasons so with open 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 be have helped hundreds of prisoners escaped from jail swelling its ranks in the process and on top of that it's exploiting and fueling sectarian 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 o'brien who was a u.s. defense department contractor in iraq discussed the worsening security situation there are 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 iraq that 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 up after the break including a scottish way out of a not so united kingdom. well told you my language as well but i will only react to situations i haven't read the reports so i'm like a put the no i will leave them to the state department to comment on your latter point like i'm going to say to secure a car as i'm going to talk you know gonna. take you no more weasel. when you made a direct question be prepared for a chase when you know you should be ready for

a. pretty skinny little down to freedom to cross. dramas that can't be ignored to. stories others refuse to know. places change the world right now. to picture. from around the globe. looking. welcome back you're watching r.t. if now has less than twenty four hours to pay at least half of its gas bills to russia the total of which now exceeds four billion dollars if it doesn't pay up it'll be transferred to pre-pay system eating it will get exactly as much gas as

a pays for in advance and his farmer talk to artie's medina caution of a about why a deal seems so far off even at this late stage. average single party that is 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 until i am and that even without paying now apart from that ukrainian people do stand to lose out chad simply debts are piling up and

russia has already offered a lower gas price but you more and the longer 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 but just looking simply at this graphic suit 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 face is 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 that it's led to only one thing ukraine was siphoning off gas that wasn't. tended for european customers so just recently the borel bank asked a maid at that such a scenario could see a massive price hike for gas for european nations in some cases up to fifty per cent and actually i try to sell mother some of the factors there are styling this negotiations still no deal despite concession after compromise after concession. for c. on a sort of we were numb pickles is the russians offered to reduce the gas price by one hundred dollars a so-called discount for wrongly was cute and so they did 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 it's a book deal 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 been 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 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 use. another stumbling block what to do with ukraine's four and 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 his acquaintance to run it 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 power 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 not if snipe bought like a claim no waffling pay the market price as another country does.

so far the quarreling sides have failed to reach an amicable solution effect teaches 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 them though. which may not be says well with european partners 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 time by with monday's deadline taking average closer hopes for a breakthrough or a slowly fading away and in the question of moscow. while some countries keep on snooping on their citizens there is one which has finally stood up for its internet users canada's top court insists law enforcers must get permission from internet providers before the pride party dot com tells

you how that ruling came about plus. from our space to our water depths on our website find out why nasa sans esteem is still 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 now the no camp has a clear lead in the polls but their opponents have been steadily gaining ground increasing their support by four percent in the last four months for some of the choice is not between the panels or not but between two radically different visions of scotland artie's been listening to opinions from both sides. and scoff and. feel money and also get a good deal a deal of money out we have a lot of pensioners in scotland we've got to worry about i were going to pay off our our pension bell the oil is as base can get taxes and roll tears from it. you

know the all prices dropping through the four you can base your entire. you know your tire caught me on oil with been together through war and peace basically these people are just fanatics britain for what it's worth this is a vast 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 there with the economy in britain is being run just know is leading towards massive inequality on a historic scale and i think the real question is can we afford not to vote yes in september. and coming up it's worlds apart. 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 separatists or terrorists but others call them a people's militia fighting the kiev and this sort of situation everyone has their bias and is hard to tell what is going on but i can tell you one thing in this sea of opinion the kiev side is using artillery and fact there have been numerous reports 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 the k.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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hello and welcome to worlds apart a week ago the ukrainian crisis seemed one of the greatest challenges to global peace and security yet but thousands of extremists overtaking iraq's second largest city helped put things into perspective will the advance of isis in iraq change washington political calculus well to discuss that i'm now joined by christopher hill a former u.s. ambassador to iraq and the current dean of the joseph horrible school of international studies at the university of denver ambassador hill thank you very much for being on the show my pleasure now the ukrainian crisis if i could start with that was about security both for russia and the west and i think both sides want very far in defending their security interests and here somehow despite the continuing blotches in ukraine you know the events in the rack really seem to

preserve a security danger a security challenge of a totally different magnitude i wonder if they can be a sort of reality check for some of the decision makers in washington as far as what the real danger really is ok well let me first say that i think the ukrainian crisis is still with us and i think it's in every one interest that ukraine emerge from this crisis with its sovereignty intact with its territorial integrity intact so my hope is that there's an understanding that it's necessary to work with the. new ukrainian government and to encourage positive trends in ukraine so i think that's an issue that is still very much open but now let me turn if i could and i just wanted to mention that may i most american t.v. networks are leaving north with ukraine today but with iraq so that sort of shows if they can if they can solve that issue at least for the american public.