russia warns brussels gas supplies could be disrupted if kiev starts siphoning off the fuel that comes after the gas problem turned off the tap to ukraine due to massive debts. back in baghdad the u.s. is sending troops to iraq where the sunni insurgents have seized several key cities across the country. and hackers in britain may be facing a lifetime behind bars if a proposed new bill is passed but experts warn it could potentially see those working to improve internet safety sent to prison as well.

and welcome my name's neil harvey and you're watching r.t. international. and first this hour europeans could face seeing bag gas applies disrupted kiev's failed to pay its gas bills and is therefore being cut off by russia has warned brussels that ukraine may start siphoning off the fuel from transit pipes running to europe let's get more on this story now from marty's piece all of it he joins us live from berlin peter good morning to you russia's energy giant has lowered the pressure in the pipelines to ukraine what's the reaction been in europe. world europe is now being braced to buy gas problem for potential disruptions to supply that they'll be receiving now this comes after ukraine's continual failure to pay off their multi-billion dollar gas bill that

they have ongoing. in speaking to europe alexey miller the head of gazprom accused ukraine of dirty when it came to negotiations over a new price. but in the public interest the position of the ukrainian side can be described as open blackmail the ukrainian government has with the prime minister wanted gazprom to allow ukraine to pay an ultra low price of gas when needed it also said it would take our gas without any payment and in volumes it leads of course such demands are unacceptable for the russian side where ukraine has essentially paid almost nothing for any gas for the best part of the last six months now if i did that if you did that we'd all expect to be cut off by the supplier and not what's happened. what we are concerned about now is that ukraine is the main transit point for russian gas getting here to europe in a lot of european nations rely very heavily on russian gas and if those supplies

are siphoned off well it can have an effect as it has in the past when ukraine's being cut off and they start to take that gas the last time was in two thousand and nine seventeen countries here in europe reported shortages ates were completely without any gas amongst those the most worst affected countries like bulgaria and slovakia we saw real. problems there when it came to two heating to the industry that was pretty much shut down so it is a big deal if you crane starts to take this gas that is destined for europe since it's being cut off for the failure to pay its bills. ok or the latest efforts or all of it reporting live from berlin thank you pete well a ukrainian delegation is heading to brussels today to discuss the possibility of buying gas from european companies and here is how these so-called reverse flow

deliveries which gazprom says are actually illegal this is how they work so there are pipes which are normally used to carry russian supplies to europe via ukraine but in reverse flows the e.u. would send that gas back down the same pipeline a gas pump says that ukraine has no right to control the flow of russian gas moscow has therefore warned european companies to think twice before undertaking such measures as the head of the european geopolitical for america to tear off explained in the legal gray zone a lot of this gas is gas prob gasoline to the e.u. maybe outside of the legal abilities of e.u. partners to actually export that back to ukraine there's not really any you know european level or brussels level legislation about reverse flows to ukraine so that brussels would actually say on this that it is up to the contract

agreement between gazprom and the particular recipient of its gas inside the e.u. and if the clause of that contract does not allow that gas to be exported let's say to a third party such as ukraine then gazprom would have a legitimate right to raise this. in an international legal context or at a political you know diplomacy level. well apart from the gas around with moscow kids also busy waging a military operation in its own back yard later on we meet some of these separated by violence with children forced to leave their parents and flee to safety. american troops are going back to iraq the u.s. is sending up to two hundred seventy five personnel to protect citizens and property. as large parts of the country have fallen to the hands of al qaeda linked

militants known as isis these red areas that you can see here they are the jihadists the areas where the jihadists have full or partial control president obama said that the troops will remain in iraq until the situation improves and see it should have as more the announced goals of these new u.s. troops are to protect u.s. embassy personnel and other american interests this is according to a statement from barack obama to congress made on monday this comes as the islamist militants al qaeda affiliated group isis increasingly spreads its wings on the ground now the statement released by the white house on monday says the troops would stay in iraq until the security situation gets better additionally a separate special forces mission which is yet to be officially approved by washington would focus on training iraqi troops on the ground this comes as last friday of course barack obama had reiterated the commitment to not send u.s. troops back into combat into iraq we will not be sending u.s.

troops back into combat in iraq but i have asked my national security team to prepare a range of other options that could help support iraq security forces according to the pentagon over the weekend around one hundred seventy u.s. personnel began arriving in baghdad all of this of course comes amid growing concerns that a decade after the u.s. invasion iraq is continually spinning out of control and the question is what steps are yet to be taken by the u.s. . and on monday isis released these photos seeming to show the mass executions of iraqi soldiers the country's chief military spokesman said that these pictures were in fact authentic he said they appear to show around one hundred seventy soldiers who were killed and is going to charge account reports now the growing might of jihadists in iraq is provoking some strong reactions from the u.s. . washington is now pondering over how to bomb iraq in such a way as to not provoke a backlash after all the crisis there has

a strong sic tarion background with the militants being sunni muslims so what's your response to airstrikes just aren't the answer here well look the whole answer but they may well be one of the options that are important to be able to stem the tide and stop the movement of people who are moving around in open convoys and trucks and terrorism people the sick caring component video walks crises already train traditional alliances iran wants to get cooperate with the west to assist the bronx shia government grows washington's ally saudi arabia on the other hand warns against any foreign interference and made reports that wealthy sunni donors in saudi arabia kuwait and carter have been funding militants from the islamic state of iraq and syria the us is allied with all the gulf countries that are supporting the sunni rebels in syria that are supporting them in iraq this is an old problem with the isis militants grew out of the six carrying boy in iraq which started

after the u.s. and u.k. invasion in two thousand and three today some of the politicians who made the decision to invade are anxious to wash their hands of blame the u. case tony blair wrote we have to liberate ourselves from the notion that we have caused this we haven't the sunni extremists now control vast areas in iraq including the cities of fallujah and to create as well as mosul the second largest these cities which have been battered by the decade long war looked very different before the u.s. and u.k. invasion. in two thousand and two i was in mosul in the northern city that has been now seized by the rebels the sunni revolt at that time in two thousand and two most soon and i was greeted by people in mosul they were christians they were sunni arabs shiite arabs and they were kurds they were a tapestry they were around the multi. multicultural communities of iraq at that time and they were living in peace today they are divided along sectarian lines

because of an outside invasion washington is now divided between those who oppose any u.s. military intervention in iraq and those who say something has to be done because there. are breaks to this day officials. say they don't own iraq's problems and they don't want to become the government there the militants out. their return only a matter of time. rash. in iraq right after the u.s. led invasion and pledged allegiance to al qaida it's been fueling the sectarian violence in the country proclaiming an independent states within the territory of iraq syria lebanon palestine jordan with the u.s. now sending troops back to the country washington is looking to play a major role in diffusing tensions that balance the view political analyst at. the

think part of this is also. to protect u.s. facilities that. but also to send a clear signal the united states could play a role in helping the iraqi government but the kind of help that we have been hearing about there is a little bit different this would be for you as unilaterally uses for strike. forces of. in syria and iraq also uses the drones to attack these forces and opposition opponents of the iraqi government and i think to a large extent you have to go back to the two thousand and three war and i suddenly saw. their governments that were put in charge i think ought to be a huge responsibility for the disaster that we have seen in new york since. all right before the fighters from isis launched an offensive manner in iraq's

north it released a propaganda video apparently aiming to bring more people to their cause and this video is called the playing of the swords four and it's an hour long film featuring some very graphic scenes show soldiers exit. passers by gunned down tanks blown up for just being removed from you tube multiple times but is uploaded over and over again from different accounts political analyst chris brown . believes that brutal videos like this one send shivers not just across iraq but also throughout the entire middle east one there are brutalized secondly of course as well they're well used to social media in terms of projecting themselves but the fact that in addition to the view you know talking about their posting up witchery executions and saying i've killed the dog you know that is going to backfire in terms of across the region as i say. the neighboring governments all road will be very nervous about what is happening you know very key whatever the past

differences will be have been with the maliki government baghdad to buttress the maliki government against this against isis because it's going major repercussions potentially for talking for around and every other country in the region. still to come your way this hour as the prospect of work sees rumanians heading abroad for better opportunities we report on the impact it's having on families torn apart by the need for employment and money and more after the short break. i told you my language as well but i will only react to situations i have read the reports. but no i will leave them to the state department to comment on your plate . yeah because i'm going to talk you know. when you need a direct question and he prepared for

a change when you should be ready for a. pretty long skate. down the freedom to. be interviewed.

welcome back you're watching. new laws on cyber terrorism in the u.k. would see hackers jailed for life but some in the security industry claim that the well designed to protect people from cyber crime could ironically make the internet less safe. reports. in today's digital age committing a serious cyber crime could land you a mega sentence under the serious crime bill proposed in the queen's speech computer hackers who launched devastating attacks on u.k. infrastructure could soon face life behind bars a single attack can have such a dramatic effect let's just imagine a scenario where we go in there electricity for a week and the impact that would have had no lights no power to do engineering on manufacturing business or to you know for people to boil water you know to sterilize baby feeding a quick but that actually has a tangible effect on people's daily existence and actually worse case scenario on

people's very very lives at the moment impairing a computer as it's written in law carries a maximum ten year sentence according to ministers that's disproportionate to the potential damage a malicious hacker could wreak but computer security experts have questioned what cyber terrorism really means and whether the term could be used to prosecute citizens who try to whistle blow on the government or a company i honestly think if you will if you're hacking in order to harm life then there will be sentences already available differently computers are more central to us. that might mean that people can do more harmful things but things that we have to publish them for all of the results you know if you killed people have you attempted to don't damage property or disrupt the capital's transport those are concrete eric becomes the the trying to do those things are actually doing that that's what people should be sentenced for benevolence security researchers are

also concerned their work often involves behaving like hackers with the intention of finding vulnerabilities on a website and exposing cyber risk but according to this proposed law even those working for the common. good of the ensign that could end up behind us safe in the major threat here is somebody simply trying to reverse engineer or sight maybe see that show that it isn't properly secure and that people shouldn't trust it and that the operators need to sort themselves act those are the kinds of problems where people can to face computer misuse challenges without really having done anything wrong. online for you tanisha image green pace may no longer be seen as a global do gooder and that is after it emerged as an employee from the organization flew a record five million dollars in

a currency gamble for more on this scandal and greenpeace says comments on it had to a website aussie calm. while you well there are a group of mobile app developers have come up with an inventive solution but pirates for straight to the children can't take their eyes off that phones during meal times find out how it works i'm sure you will be interested in this one on our website. right on the seat. first for you and i think that you're. on our reporters' twitter. instagram. to be in the.

kiev is pressing on with its military operation against the defiant regions in eastern ukraine self-defense forces in the city of kramatorsk one of the main targets of the crackdown say ten civilians were killed in an artillery attack on monday and these are the pictures emerging from the scene locals say residential areas have come under shelling thousands of left eastern ukraine driven away from their homes by the ongoing fighting many families have also been divided on this call are slim at some of those forced apart from their loved ones. all the time i think about him all the time and he also thinks about me all the time only because he's my only son. i worry for my mother because she's alone and nobody can support for her own safety russians who come here mother and son separated by

a hundred and fifty kilometers and with kids military offensive showing no sign of ending no just a separation that i've got son i don't know when i can come i love you and send kisses to you yeah there are i love you very much and i really miss you please come as soon as possible i love you so thank the thousands of other ukrainian mothers have given you decided to send your son out of the country she now mourns an empty house with only her fears to keep her company spoken when you hi dear you didn't want to leave alone he wanted me to stay with him was about what i came about in order not to take up space that could go to mothers with small children and in order to help evacuate people from here. hopes victorian and other mothers hussein to only child denis to russian twelve days ago their phones when constantly other terrified mothers in the same position. because i think about him all day and all

night i walk into his room and see that the bed is empty and no one is at the computer i walk to the shop thinking i need to buy ice cream but then i realize that i have nobody to buy ice cream for dick twenty years biggest fear is that she would see her son again and he fears to save a lot more but i'm afraid that something could happen to her she got. really of the children into here in russia where children's playground gives temporary relief but the laughter doesn't last long this can. it is procope families and although organizers are doing their best to make it fun there's one thing if they climb to organize to in the pricing more and more families are going to eat from ukraine's waste of east and while they are believed and grateful for having been given a place of safety away from the night me back home all they really want to do is go

home paula see r t rostov on don russia. ukraine the new president petro poroshenko vowed to bring about a cease fire by the end of this week he made a similar promise last week as well heads who are to dot com to follow up minute by minute updates on the situation in ukraine. let's go to syria now where up to thirty people have been killed in a barrel bomb attack in the northern city of aleppo the strikes in a neighborhood which has been under the control of foreign backed militants at least two children and one woman were among the victims syria's largest city of aleppo has been split between rebel and government controlled areas since twenty twelve when the opposition launched an offensive in the country's no. least one person has died and sixteen more have been critically injured as twin tornadoes ripped through northeast the brass in the u.s.

emergency crews were sent to search for further victims who could be trapped under rubble one town took a direct hit from the twisters with almost every house there damaged including several storage facilities for fuel grain and corps. in brazil to riot police officers have been suspended after live rounds were fired at protesters in rio de janeiro two days ago the shooting need the american our stadium where people were voicing their anger over the high cost of state. the world cup was captured on camera and you can see the pictures right now thousands of heavily armed officers were deployed to the city as it hosted its first match of the world cup. next a childhood without a parent's care or guidance has become the reality for tens of thousands of

youngsters in rumania and it's not war but the grave economic situation that's driving many adults to leave their families behind and seek opportunities abroad r.t. as you go off went to see those whose lives have been affected. it's become very rare that ten year old girl into the u.s. to see her mother she left romania to work in italy a year ago leaving a daughter with her grandparents there was a it's very sad because i have no one to talk about my problems to this andree is younger and much more introverted he prefers to spend more time alone both of his parents work in germany he's also being raised by his grandmother. they sent me toys and clothes but i don't remember when was the last time i saw them. unfortunately nowadays in the media cases such as when c.n.n. and greece are far from one usual so this here is called the heart of wishers it's filled with notes from the children where they wrote their wishes and they were

told that they would come true next year so all these notes are about parents for instance this one says i wish my mom would come back from london bring toys and then i would go together to another countries another one here says i wish my mom would come back from italy and i wish my dad would find a job sure these kids haven't been abandoned by their parents in fact one of the main reasons they want to work abroad is to ensure a better life for them but the long distance relationship can be much harder own children than he she they feel isolated. might feel depressed their feelings. and they may be not having so much friends like those according to official figures eighty thousand remaining children have their parents working abroad but n.g.o.s are reporting much higher numbers between three hundred and fifty thousand since most parents used to head off without notifying authorities the situation is they see here especially when the mother is.

leaving. mainly for the smaller kids because they're very attached to their mothers. and also when and especially when the girls started dollar cents and they need some guidance and support recently the government passed a law all parents not only to notify the state when we head off to work abroad but to point someone to be responsible for their children in court while they're gone but frankly with the average salary in romania believe me she four hundred euros per month it's own likely change will stop looking for work abroad anytime soon. r.t. bucharest romy. well i will be back with the very latest news headlines at the top of the hour hope to see then stay with us though here on r.t. international coming up after the break it's boom bust with host erin eight.

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no there i'm aaron a that this is boom bust and these are some of the stories that we're tracking for you today. first up the e.c.b. announced some drastic measures today what are they and how effective will they be we look into a coming right up then we have dr thomas sally live and in studio today dr polly is sitting down with me to discuss the e.c.b. as announcement as well as keynesianism in the context of world of monetary policy domination of who and in honor of the one year anniversary of edward snowden the n.s.a. revelations we have lived our lives and on the show today i sat down with the dark really are today to discuss how the government bullied him into installing surveillance to play.