russia's embassy in kiev was attacked by rioters ukraine's top diplomat is seen siding with the vandals and directing some of his own foul language at the russian president. less than half a day remain snowfield craned want to all be put on a pre-pay system and europe's worried with its own gas supply virtually held hostage on kiev when. the u.s. prepares a military launchpad for possible help for iraq as a country teeters on the brink of collapse terrorists dominate the north keeping baghdad in the crosshairs still. on the scotland's historic independence referendum

no less than one hundred days away r.t. here is this some of the hopes and fears fueling the yes and no campaign. or. hello it's midnight here in moscow when i was kevin zero in this is r.t. international you're watching our weekly or rather the big stories that help shape the last seven days from us and first one dominating russia's embassy in ukraine has been vandalized by crowds of young people who threw stones and petrol bombs and do not see symbols on the walls ukraine's interim foreign minister also showed up he was shouting obscene slogans together with a vandals or scott reports from kiev despite the fact that there was no work 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 where he. pressed 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 you are going to have a good start because we will see what i think it looks very good. for the. world 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 has given their identity away. for further all this it turns out that swearing at another country's president in front of their embassy is an indication of diplomatic skill at least that's what the american ambassador to kiev appears to think is a post from his twitter feed where he praises the ukrainian foreign ministers behavior. one ukrainian m.p. also arrived at the scene of the rioting it's thought he went there to try and ease the situation. but instead

as you can use a guy who's had a stolen urge to throw it at the embassy he tried to protest but that was in vain and a daily dippy should come to the pressure. from the rioting as he did though he learned a hard lesson in how crowds click turn very quickly just admitted to me later that he has been pelted with greens dana by a protest that. took a dislike to him turning up in a luxury car the deputy was then sent home on a bus after the crowd punctured the tires of his vehicle the russian foreign minister has now filed an official complaint with kiev overall is demanding compensation for the damage he says the rioters were trying to storm the embassy and could have been intending to shed blood he also had a word for his ukrainian counterpart to. forcible i was particularly offended that the so-called protesters were joined by the interim parliament appointed foreign

minister of ukraine he took the liberty of making statements that transgress the bounds of decency i realize he's learned from someone else those in washington who support the current ukrainian authorities aren't shy of using strong language but it diplomat has to moderate his language nevertheless i don't know how he's going to communicate or work with us now i've got no reason to believe that the attack on the embassy was organized by the ukrainian authorities but i have no doubt that this is a sign of the impunity they feel because of the way our western partners support them for his part ukraine's president hasn't commented on the attack on the russian embassy and 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 backers. he's caught between a rock and a hard place his main strongest actors want to open conflict with russia but

he's not a stupid man and he must know that such conflict would put an end to presidency if i were in is. as. he does now have a lot of time to make his mind up the sitting on top of the heaving. also reporting this morning another town in eastern ukraine seven heavy damage from shelling this is what the town looks like go for a night of bombardment said to be artillery and rocket launch if i hit the central market there on the bus station paralyzing public transport and you can see several houses took the brunt to the anti-government forces say the army with the people firing while the military officials claim it was the activists. now focusing on the city of slavyansk that's in jus days of artillery attacks earlier this week video emerged allegedly showing fire bombs being dropped on the city i spoke to a former british army intelligence officer who's recently returned from ukraine he told me the attack he thinks bears the hallmarks of banned phosphorus weapons. i've

seen the video i've looked at it closely it does indeed tallow is we 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 telltale still burning in 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 illegal but it depends on the usage of 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 pop in for investigation of this incident to prevent escalating another news line to ukrainian authorities in the eastern med attained to journalists from a russian t.v. channel who were on route to an airport to return home it's the latest of

a series of incidents where russian reporters have been apprehended can find out more about their plight of r.t. dot com. at least fifteen people have been killed in iraq in a string of bombings across baghdad on sunday the violence comes at the backdrop of intense fighting across the nation driven by sectarian tensions jihadist militants from the group known as isis overrun several cities in the country's north know the threat to close in on baghdad the country's leadership has called on volunteers to take up arms to quash the militants onslaught according to reports the iraqi army has managed to stop the advancing militants some fifty kilometers away from the nation's capital concerned over the developments in the country know the u.s. stated that it's sending an aircraft carrier to the persian gulf artie's report has the details but 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 force 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 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 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 their to fight 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 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 kompany 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 we're in a point now where r.t. . and that's no overstatement 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 jihadists and indeed the situation's no better for the troops either royce's boasted circs executed around seventeen hundred captured iraqi soldiers gruesome pictures have been released earlier sunday let's take a look there for a minute why the army appears to be so powerless here against these incoming islam

is fighters are a number of strings of this pope firstly when the extremists seized mosul it opened up access to cash arms and ammunition all vitally important another key asset eisegesis isis is trying to capture is a rocks the largest oil refining area for a while actually the militants did briefly going control over it before being pushed back out again by the army the number of militants is growing to the group said to have helped hundreds of prisoners escaped from jail that swell the ranks in the process of some of them joined up on top of all that it's exploiting and fueling sectarian tension in the community gathering support among radicalized sunni muslims and yet another strand to this the group operates just over the border in syria too that's been providing a steady flow of reinforcements back into iraq in the week has put a piece of our bureau in who's serving with the u.s. foreign service for more than twenty years he thinks the world just beginning now 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 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 lives that you're seeing right now is the inevitable settling of the mess the united states kicked over. tons almost up of him crying to pay off half of its massive gas bill the russian ago sessions of broken down talks it's all continuing we take a closer look at the deadlock and its potential for. this

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