lash out at the russian embassy in kiev with police doing little to stop the mass radicals ukraine's top diplomat in attendance rallying the crowd by swearing at russia's president. less than ten hours to go to ukraine has to pay at least half its debt to russia or face switching to a pre-pay system is another round of last minute talks wraps up in kiev without an agreement. the u.s. sends an aircraft carrier group to the persian gulf as iraq's government struggles to deter a jihad its fighters are threatening to advance on baghdad after seizing control of several major cities in the country's north.

korea and in moscow were bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news masked men attacked the russian embassy in the ukrainian capital with stones and petrol bombs authorities did little to stop them ukraine's interim foreign minister also showed up and drew cheers from the crowd after shouting an obscenity about russia's president putin artie's paul scott has the details. despite the fact that 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 where 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. because it was so good i think it looks like you know. 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 has given their identity away u.s. ambassador and he didn't seem to mind ukraine's denouncing another country's president here is we were he praises ukraine's top diplomat or one ukrainian official was able to rally protesters by swearing at by the mere putin another try to a more hands on approach with less success. i . and the nickel i review all ski was being encouraged by protesters to hurl a stone at the embassy like they've been doing when he finally did people at the scene cheering him on then he saw how quickly the crowd can turn someone called him out for driving a luxury vehicle the deputy was then pelted in the face with green and decepticon and protesters also punctured his car was tires after this he had to take the bus

back home russia filed an official complaint in kiev over the embassy attack and wants compensation for the damage russia's foreign minister also weighed in on the colorful comment of his ukrainian counterpart. so bill because i was particularly offended that the so-called protesters would join but 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 diplomats has to moderate his language nevertheless i don't know how he's going to communicate with us now a good movie 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 ukraine's president hasn't said anything about the attack on the embassy in kiev yet michael corleone former professor an expert on russian relations thinks the pres thinks president poroshenko is rightly playing it safe i'm guessing that

he needs to consult his american brokers and perhaps sort of his private sector backers. 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. would put an end to his presidency if i were him is. that. he doesn't have a lot of time to make his mind up the sitting on top of the evening again no. military operation against activists in eastern ukraine continues to more places are coming under a barrage of shelling recently one town in donetsk region here's what it looks like after a night's bombardment apparently artillery and rocket launcher projectiles had a central market and a bus station bringing public transportation to a halt there anti government forces and the army blaming each other for this

there's another video from the village near the flashpoint city of slovyansk apparently showing the aftermath of shelling attacks and what seems to be projectiles falling from the sky and government activists say between the. military is accusing phosphorous bombs which are banned internationally earlier in the week a video surfaced allegedly showing fire bombs dropping on the city of slovyansk which as we've said is one of the main targets of the military's campaign a former british army intelligence officer whose return from the country told us that the evidence in his view points to the use of banned phosphorus weapons. i've seen the video of looks at it closely it does indeed tally with what one might hope signs the hallmarks of white phosphorous use for example a very bright light but in and multiple burns coming down from the sky it's an f. weapon it's been used such as a multitude of props and craft and then of course again the talent still burning the videos i've seen in the daytime showing actually this very. white

a gray smoke white phosphorus being used as an alarming development of course it needn't necessarily be legal but it depends on the usage of consent and that's exactly why of course and indeed other people even from the west should be even if i haven't should be calling for pumping for an investigation of this incident to prevent a escalating. meanwhile two employees of a russian t.v. channel currently being held by ukrainian authorities in the city of night there operated saturday in the most recent incident in a string of detentions of russian journalists in the country find out more about their plight on r.t. dot com. at least five people reported killed another thirty five wounded in fighting between jihadi militants and government troops in the iraqi city of tal afar sectarian tensions spiked across the nation after a group known as isis launched an insurgent campaign in the north of the country militants overran several key cities in the region and now threaten to close in on the capital baghdad iraq's government claimed to have quassia the militant

onslaught and is said to be readying a counterattack struggling to deter the extremists the country's leadership also calls on volunteers to join the fight and hundreds are believed to have responded concerned over developments in the country the u.s. says it's sending a carrier battle group to the persian gulf or he's a marine important i 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 clean for their lives put on hold. 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 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 that to fight back at 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 in the lives of more than forty five hundred soldiers. there's 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 un says more of

a thousand civilians have been killed this month alone numerous kidnappings and summary executions on the basis of religion also reported eight hundred thousand people forced to flee their homes to escape the advancing jihad as situation not better for troops either isis claims it's executed around seven hundred captured iraqi soldiers stake a look at why the army appears so powerless against the islamists the islamist fighters first when extremists seize mosul and open access to cash arms and ammunition another key asset i use is the striving to capture is iraq's largest oil refinery area militants did briefly gain control over it before being pushed out by the army the number of militants is growing the group is said to have helped hundreds of prisoners escaped from jail swelling its ranks there exploiting and fueling sectarian tension in the city gathering support among radicalized sunni muslims also chey hardass are believed to be enjoying support of sunni tribal leaders influential in some parts of the country while another breach of branch of the group operates across the border in syria providing

a steady flow of reinforcements peter van buren who served with the u.s. foreign service for more than two decades thinks the world is beginning to feel the consequences of the 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 that 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 you're seeing right now is the inevitable settling of the mess the united states kicked over still to come scotland's independence been

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