i. think you have to tackle roy it's his ukraine's top diplomat is seeing siding with the rebels and directing some of his own foul language at the russian president. as they remains for ukraine to honor its gas debt or else be put on a pre-pay system and europe's worried gas supply virtually held hostage on kiev when. elsewhere the u.s. prepares a military launchpad for possible help for iraq as the country teeters on the brink of collapse terrorist dominate the north keeping baghdad in the crosshairs. of scotland's historic independence referendum now less than one hundred days away r.t.

here is some of the hopes and fears fueling the yes and no come. this is the weekly our top stories of the last seven days here from r.t. starting first of all with a story very much in the news right now russia's embassy in ukraine has been vandalized by crowds of young people who threw stones and petrol bombs and drew nazi symbols on the walls the russian foreign ministers filed an official protest with kiev he also said members of the national guard were at the forefront of the assault and that ukraine must compensate the damage done is ukrainian counterpart was one of those in the crowd outside the embassy shown to have seen slogans together with the vandals all scots got 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 demonstrators now 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 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 that we're going to see that but i think that the three. 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 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 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 banners giving their identity away well in time for that all that it turns the swearing in of the country's president it seems in front of their embassy is an indication of diplomatic skills at least that's what the american ambassador to kiev thinks is a post from his twitter feed where he praises the ukrainian foreign ministers behavior. when ukrainian m.p. also arrived at the scene of the rioting it's thought he went there to try and ease

the situation was but instead use out of a stone age to throw it at the embassy as you can see we tried to protest but that was in vain attempt to be the invention should come to the pressure. from the riots is the only thing i thought of as you can see that there are many. learning a lesson in how crowds can turn the next if you can see just a few minutes later he was held to be green staying a protest apparently took exception to the deputy tearing up a luxury car account when the deputy was then sent home on a bus out of the crowd punctured the tires of his vehicle cranes president hasn't commented on the attack on the russian embassy in according to michael carley is an expert on russian relations with the west he's been cautious and rightly so. i'm guessing that he needs to consult his american brokers and perhaps also as private sector actors. he's caught between

a rock and a hard place his main strongest backers want to open with russia but he's not a stupid man and he must know that such conflict would put an end to it is presidency if i were in his boots as. he does now have a lot of time to make its mind up sitting on top of the heaving. mainstream media also support a wave of anger against russia with growing opposition in ukrainian newspaper and media reports danny schechter explain to me why they 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 sending tanks clear or other ways or representing

a threat to ukraine and so there's a game being played here clearly a geopolitical game 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 danny schechter there will meantime news of another turn in eastern ukraine that suffered heavy damage from shelling here's what the turn looks like after a night of bombardment what's said to be artillery and rocket launch of the central market bus station paralyzing public transport that several houses also level the anti government forces so the army was the one firing woman a tree officials blame the activists in return. because in two days of artillery attacks earlier this week video emerged allegedly showing fire bombs being dropped on the city i spoke to former british army intelligence officer who's recently returned from ukraine he told me the typos the hallmarks of banned phosphorus

weapons. i've seen the video i've looked at it closely it does indeed tallow what one might say are the hallmarks of white phosphorous use for example a very bright light burning and multiple burns coming down from the sky it's an aircraft weapon that's been used such as a mortar or perhaps from an aircraft and then of course again the tail 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 legal but it depends on the use to check 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. ukraine to the forty's in the east of detailed meantime to journalists who are russian t.v. channel who were on route to an airport to return home it is the latest in

a series of incidents where russian reporters have been apprehended you can find out more about their current plight in r.t. dot com. other news u.s. aircraft carriers heading for the persian gulf as washington propose a foothold in case military operations are required in iraq this week extremists from the islamic state in iraq and syria group advance to within fifty kilometers of baghdad driven by the goal of creating a radical hope that in the region in the second largest city mosul meantime this gold medal ready have been brought to reality is militants are reportedly planning to create a new government today sunday the army's resorted to rolling volunteers in the struggle to hold back the offensive of the terrorists the radical groups and the u.s. military campaign in iraq to its advantage seizing american army hardware that was supplied to iraq is going to put myers but the story. while leaving behind a sovereign stable and self-reliant iraq two and a half years later. the people america left behind are running away cleaning 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 say gunmen 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 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 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 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 train 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 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 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 u.n. says more than a thousand civilians have been killed this month alone eight hundred thousand people be forced to flee their homes to escape the advancing the situation's no but if a troop see the icy spots that it's execute. in hundreds captured iraqi soldiers let's now take a look at why the army appears to be so powerless at the moment against the advancing islamist fighters firstly when the extremists seized mosul it opened up

access to cash arms and ammunition all vitally important another key asset isis is striving to capture is a rags largest all refining area for the militants did briefly gain control over it before being pushed by the army and the number of militants is growing the group said to have helped hundreds of prisoners escaped from jail swelling its ranks in the process on top of all that it's exploiting in fueling sectarian tension in the community gathering support among radicalized sunni muslims while another branch of the group operates over the border in syria and that's providing a steady flow stream of reinforcements over to iraq so you can see the background here peter van buren who served with the u.s. foreign service for more than twenty years told me he thinks the world's 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 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 is made inevitable by the two thousand and three invasion the united states never understood that iraq was three separate states the sunni the shia and the kurds state held together by a strong man 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 international news off the brain with me kevin owen including a lot of analysis of the ongoing playing game right now between the israeli government and hamas so with three teenagers kidnapped in the west bank.

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