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a referendum now less than a hundred days away r.t. here is some of the hopes and fears fueling that yes and no campaigns. which aren't international coming to you live from moscow i'm marina joshing the russian embassy in ukraine has been vandalized by crowds of young people who threw stones and pavel bombs and drew nazi symbols on the walls ukraine's interim foreign minister turned out to end his diplomacy consisted of shouting obscene slogans to gather with the vandals scott 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 the other point of a good start because it was so good i think that the three didn't know. 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 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 eggs 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 right sector ban is giving their identity away. when ukrainian m.p. also arrived at the scene of the rioting is that he went there to try and ease the situation. but instead he was handed a stone and urged to throw it at the embassy can see here he tried to the task but that was the japanese succumb to pressure and cheering from the rioters although he did learn a hard lesson in how crowds can turn just

a few minutes later he was pelted. by a protester who apparently took 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. it's now get more analysis of the attack on the russian embassy from michael j. carley is a professor of history and twentieth century international relations focusing his studies on soviet and russian relations with the west and his most recent book is silent conflict a hidden history of early saw western relations thank you so much michael for joining us here are international to discuss the recent events in ukraine well you know the attack is on the russian amber c. . caused russia's resolution the u.n. but it was blocked by western nations there. what does it mean essentially i mean does it mean that the drive against russia is so strong that no western nations can

even condemn a blatant act of vandalism that took place in a capital. well i'd have to say it certainly looks. courting to. the press this morning both the united states you know kingdom and france. blocked or are going to block the russian. opposition. in fact they may block they seem to block all of russia's propositions on the ukraine and i don't really know why. why must bother to go through the motions it's clear the u.s. is pursuing an antagonistic provocative toward russia the european states are following if somewhat reluctantly u.s. borders as it were well you know ukraine's acting foreign minister came to the embassy and what we heard from him is that he was shouting some sand is there he

was saying russians go home and to some of these apps and his were aimed at porton what sort of diplomacy is that. that's a very good question it's not diplomacy at all it's i call it adolescent as perhaps in the midst of a great great danger it's like a kid playing with. dynamite i noticed that lavrov was quoted today as saying is this guy this so-called minister of foreign affairs i think they need to get somebody who's a little bit more. more diplomatic to deal with to deal with the russians but what about the president ukrainian president himself i mean he has made a statement yet why. well. i don't know the present ukrainian president personally but i'm guessing that he needs to consult

his american brokers and perhaps also his private sector backers. he's caught between a rock and a hard place his main strongest backers want open got inflicted with russia but he's not a stupid man and he must know that such a conflict would put an end to his presidency if i were in his boots as. he. doesn't have a lot of time to make his mind up are you sitting on top of the heaving. well let's now speculate assume how russia and ukraine relations may develop in the future i mean is this incident going to put an end to the diplomatic relationship between the two countries in your opinion. my guess is no because moscow will want to keep open lines of communication to.

even if the crisis worsens. i would say however that the crisis can't go on escalating indefinitely because. there's going to be some reaction from russia. michael thanks so much for sharing your thoughts with us there was professor michael j. harley a professor of history in the twentieth century international relations talking to our senior national. another town in eastern ukraine has suffered heavy damage from shelling and here's what the town looks like after a night of bombardment what is said to be artillery and rocket launcher a fire hit the central market a bus station paralyzing public transport several houses have also been leveled the anti-government forces say the army was the one firing while military officials blame the activist in return. terrified by what's

happening on their land hundreds of east ukrainians are fleeing their country in families were the adults have to stay just the children are being sent across the border is the euro followed some of the refugees on their difficult way. because even if i do so still it's not safe for them to stay here after everything that is happening. very unusual in them to stay alive of this week for the world families leaving for an uncertain future it's really scary went to sleep at night because the bomb will fall or everything. so it's really scary we're making our way to the russian border no one's quite sure how safe this journey is but people here desperate to leave they've been on a waiting list for days the phone call came in the morning giving these women less than four hours to pack up all their belongings and leave again the big money and we don't know what will happen there and for how long the situation will continue

we want to return as quickly as possible but they say they have no choice they simply have to go see one of the airplanes in the bombing said the scariest because you don't know where they're going to fall and when we can't always stay in a basement because of the small children victoria is traveling with her two daughters and like all the women here she's left behind a husband and family and my grandfather grandmother and my father stayed behind. i told my father and grandmother that i want to come home to them it's a three hour drive to the russian border and in every organizer has asked us not to interview him on camera because he says he's getting indebted for its supporting this trip together and many feel torn about taking the decision to leave bellaver worries about the father he left behind. it's really hard to the girls are you probably won't see him for

a long time. due to it's game on him being. even here so thousands of women and children have already made this journey thousands more on waiting lists trying to leave the crossing through the ukrainian border may have. to fullness a little bit discreetly as there are border guards everywhere the people on the bus stop preparing the documents and russia is the final destination is just a few minutes away. gradually the repassed in general with crossing the border to russia. tears of relief but for many here this is just the first difficult step towards an uncertain future. on the ukrainian russian border. plane authorities in the east have detained two journalists from a russian t.v. channel who were on route to airports and returned to russia it's the latest in a series of incidents where russian reporters have been apprehended we can find out more about their plight on our to 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 extremist from the islamic state in iraq and syria group advance to within fifty kilometers of baghdad driven by the goal of creating a radical hard that in region in the second largest city a muscle this goal may already be a reality as militants are reportedly planning to create a new government there and sunday the army has resorted to growing volunteers in the 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 iraq arches marina barco reports. 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 from whole thing

a million people have already escaped from iraq's second city mosul off the i.s.i. force the army to retreat reports a gunman they've also seized a nearby oil refinery town iraq's prime minister calling for a state of the moon. sea off the hundreds of gunman took control of strategic parts of the northern city of mosul by wednesday militants had seized the turkish consulate in mussel 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 distract the security forces and don't forget about the u.s. supplied humvees here you can see isis insurgents are bribing 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 night to fight 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 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 a lie. the 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. r t. the un 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 jihad is while the situation is no better for troops either isis boast at its executed around seven hundred captured iraqi soldiers less now have a look at why the army appears to be so powerless against the islamist fighters well firstly when the extremists so it open up access to the cash arms and ammunition and another key asset isis is striving to capture is iraq's largest oil

refining area the militants did briefly gain control over it before being pushed out by the army and the number of militants is growing and the group is said to have helped hundreds of prisoners escaped from jail swelling its ranks in the process well on top of that it's exploiting and fueling sectarian tension in a 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 peter bergen who served with the u.s. foreign service for more than twenty years thinks the world is just beginning to feel the consequences of the u.s. led war in iraq. when you deliver weapons to the battlefield you really have no control over what happens to them the united states has made a number of terrible mistakes in iraq and supplying all these weapons including air to ground missiles and things that could easily leak out of iraq and threaten us elsewhere everything that we're seeing today it was made in negligible by the two

thousand and three invasion the united states never understood that iraq was three separate states the sunni the shia and the purge state held together by a strongman saddam and a very powerful security apparatus when all of that was done away with it was inevitable that some kind of settling was going to be necessary for these three groups to live what you're seeing right now is the inevitable settling of the mess the united states kicked over. more news coming up after the break including the scottish way out of a not so united kingdom. 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. is the media leave us so we leave the media. by the same

motions security for your party visible. issues that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from it's all politics only of our team. i cannot think red tape. i think it's not like. if the cop was like.

welcome back to watching our kids 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 a doesn't pay off it'll be transferred to prepay system meaning they'll get exactly as much gas as a pays for in advance and farmer talk to our tease me to caution 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 us the country is losing billions in revenues 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 pain now apart from that ukrainian people do stand to lose out simply dance are piling up and russia has already offered a 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 but just looking simply at this graphic suit can see how much you are is the patent on gas from supplies and there is 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. ended 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 mother some of the factors there are styling this negotiations still no deal despite concession after compromise after concession. to see others of we were numb pickles is the russians offered to reduce the gas price spike one hundred dollars a so-called discount on those 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 increased year and refereeing the e.u. found the offer fayer. 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 meters or so it's about what one mr ukraine as a you know has been offered a very generous discount on this and yet they still what role and it really is quite incredible that the host of the ukrainian government is i don't think any amount of this got ready will satisfy you crank their support and forthright however

a key of 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 position. 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 offering 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 if a teacher's 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 well with european partners 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 of this poem by with monday's deadline taking average closer hopes for a breakthrough or a slowly fading away and in the question of moscow.

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a deal money and they also get a good deal a deal of money out we have a lot of potential skulls and we're going to worry about we're going to pay off our pension bell the oil is his base can get taxes and roll to us from it. you know the all prices dropping through the floor you can be sure. you know you're tired call me on oil with be together through war and peace basically people just fanatics. for what it's worth there's as a vasu states for the for the united states and we want to break with that and everything 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 done just know that is leading towards massive inequality on a historic skew and i think that the new question is can we afford not to vote yes in september and i had to get a backstage pass to r.t. in that latest episode of news team but if you're watching us in the u.k. people are more about nader's role in the break up obviously the statements.

in london in one of the caring hearts of one of the capitals of loving liberal e.u. they've implemented a plan to finally get almost people off the streets at night so that they provide these desperate people with a jobs they can 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 you liberal loony bin if you want to get those yucky critical people off the streets just put them to work it will renew your city of its homeless problem a lot faster than spikes will but that's just my opinion.

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