back in baghdad the u.s. is sending troops to iraq where the sunni insurgents have seize several key cities across the country. russia warns brussels gas supplies could be disrupted if kiev starts siphoning off the fuel becomes after gazprom turned off the tap to ukraine due to massive debts. 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.

welcome i'm neil harvey and you're watching r.t. international. american troops are going back to iraq the u.s. is sending up to two hundred seventy five personnel to protect its citizens and property there and that says large parts of the country have fall'n into the hands of al qaida linked militants known as isis the red areas prominent areas. hardest where they are in full or partial control president obama said the troops will remain in iraq until the situation improves a correspondent and to see a chicken has 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 the 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 his 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. . on a monday isis released these photos seeming to show the mass executions of iraqi soldiers the country's chief military spokesman said the pictures were authentic

and that they show around one hundred seventy soldiers killed and it's going to just count reports the growing mind of jihadists in iraq is provoking a strong reaction 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 with a 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 sectarian component video walks crises is already traditional alliances iran wants to get cooperate with the west to assist iraq's shia government 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 see isis militants move out of the city 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 there 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. in. came beijing. in two thousand and two i was in los you're in the northern city that has been now seized by the rebels the sunni revolt at that time in two

thousand to mosul and i was greeted by people in mosul they were christians they were sunni arabs. and they were kurds they were a tapestry they were around the multinational multicultural communities of a wreck 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. iraq breaks to this day officials. say they don't own iraq's problems and they don't want to pump the government they're pushing the militants out however. their return only a matter of time. launches emerged in iraq right after the u.s. led invasion and pledged allegiance to al qaida has been fueling the sectarian

violence in the country proclaiming an independent state within the territory of iraq syria lebanon palestine and jordan with the u.s. now sending troops back into the country washington is looking to play a major role in diffusing tensions that is the view of political analyst. i think part of this is also as was said to protect u.s. facilities that you are. but also to send a clear signal that 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 who they are forced to attack the forces of. state in syria and iraq also uses the drones to attack these forces on opposite or points 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 said an assertion that ran iraq for governments that were put in charge i think sure ought

to be a huge responsibility for the disaster that we have seen in iraq since that time. well just before isis launched its offensive in iraq's north it released the propaganda video apparently aiming to bring more people today because the video is called the clanging of the sword four and it's an hour long film featuring some very graphic scenes of soldiers being executed fast and passers by being gunned down and tanks blown up the footage has been removed from meucci multiple times but it's unloaded over and over from different accounts this glamorous chris bambery believes that brutal videos like this censure this is not just across iraq the entire middle east. one brutalized secondly of course as well they're well used to social media and terms of projects and cells but the fact that in addition to the view you know talking about putting up which rapist executions and saying i've

killed the shia dold you know that is going to backfire in terms of across the region as i say in the neighboring governments all road will be very nervous about what is happening here and be very keen whatever the past the fences will be have been the maliki government to buttress the maliki government against this against isis because it's going to lead to repercussions potentially for turkey for around and every other country in the region. whistleblower chelsea manning has accused the u.s. of lying about to rank the former us intelligence analyst and wiki leaks informant says the american military has been controlling the media's coverage of the war in the country you can catch the details later this hour in breaking this it. sunday morning release in new york times op ed and titled the fog machine of war and what she lays out all the ways that the military's control of the american media led to vastly different public portrayals of iraq and the reality on the ground manning starts by writing quote i believe that the current limits on press freedom and

excessive government secrecy make it impossible for americans to grasp fully what's happening in the wars we finance she goes on to point out how nearly all the american news coming out of iraq in two thousand and ten focused on how the election signaled a new era of stability and peace in the country except as an intelligence analyst manning saw firsthand classified reports outlining prime minister nuri all the luckies crackdown against political dissidents including torture and murder under elected government but these types of stories weren't being reported largely because the military's imbedded reporter system and which journalists are carefully vetted for the opportunity to write stories wander military protection manning notes that this system is far from unbiased and surprisingly reporters who have established relationships with the military are more likely to be granted access less well known is that journalists whom military contractors rate as likely to

produce quote favorable coverage based on their past reporting also get preference . though the news europeans potentially face a cold winter ahead if russian gas destined for consumers gets lost on its way crane gazprom was warned that kiev may start siphoning off the fuel from transit pipes running to europe being cut off by russia after failing to pay its bills and now you're a pass to be prepared for gas shortages it's all to speak to all of the reports from berlin. well what we've been hearing from the e.u. energy commission. is this it's well get ready for potentially a cold winter ahead now this comes after ukraine had it gas cut off by russia after it failed to pay billions if u.s. dollars an outstanding bills ukraine is the main point of transit at the moment the getting gas into europe or many european nations rely on russian gas as either

their main or in some cases their only source of energy if those supplies are siphoned off well it can have voted fecht as it has in the past when ukraine's being cut off and they start to take that gas they did it in two thousand and six 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 keating to 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 to create does take this gas it could have huge repercussions for those who have paid their bills in europe or as peter mentioned there we have seen situations like this before just to remind you in two thousand and six half of europe was left in the cold when ukraine siphoned

off five hundred fifty million cubic meters of russian gas there was another so-called gas water three years later as well when ukrainian supplies were cut off the country made up the shortfall though by withholding eighty six million cubic meters of gas it was supposed to transfer to europe meanwhile a ukrainian delegation is heading to brussels today to discuss the possibility of buying gas from european companies and here is how the so-called reverse flow deliveries which gazprom says are actually legal would work. so there are pipes which are normally used to carry russian supplies to europe via ukraine but in reverse flows the we actually send that gas back down the same pipeline gazprom says ukraine has no right to control the flow of russian gas moscow is therefore warned european companies to think twice before taking such measures as the head of the european geopolitical forum are at the tariff explains it's in a legal gray zone a lot of this gas is gas probably gas to leave it to the e.u.

and 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 really 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. from the gas route with moscow

kids also busy waging a military operation in its own but later on we will link the families separated by violence with children forced to leave their parents and flee to say. it's a. very hard to take. that back would that hurt their look.

at the people. watching the international now new to the terrorism in the u.k. would see jailed for life but some in the security industry claim the well designed to protect people from signed a 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 into a lecture city 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 done damage property would 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 comma. good of the internet could end up behind bars so feel

a major threat here is if somebody is simply trying to reverse engineer a site maybe see that show that he didn't properly secure and that people shouldn't trust it and that the operators need to sort themselves and those are the kinds of problems where people can to face computer misuse charges without really having done anything wrong. london. on line for you will be talking tanishq image green pace may no longer be seen as a global do gooder that is after it emerged an employee from the organization blew a record five million dollars on a currency gamble for more on the scandal and greenpeace his comments on it had to call. and. they said group of mobile app developers have come up with an inventive solution for parents for straighted their children can't take their eyes off the phones during meal times and parents might be interested in this i think

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welcome back to r.t. international next for you kier this 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 these are pictures emerging from the scene locals say that residential areas of common the shelling thousands of left eastern ukraine driven away from their homes by the ongoing fighting in fact many families have been divided on these polis limit some of those forced apart from their loved ones . you know. all the time i think about human all the time and he also thinks about me all the time because he's my only son. i worry for my mother because she's alone that nobody can support for her own safety she should come here mother and son separated by

a hundred and fifty kilometers and with kids military offensive showing no sign of ending. no there's this 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 come to soon as possible i love you so don't 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 spoke and when you do you didn't want to leave alone he wanted me to stay with him but i came back in order not to take up space that could go to mothers with small children and in order to help evacuate people from here. helps victoria another mother hussein to only child denis to russia twelve days ago the phones when constantly other troops fired 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 twelve years biggest fear is that she won't see her son again and he fears the same. but i'm afraid that something could happen to her she got all the kids out of state herself. many of the children end up here in russia where children's playground gives temporary relief but the laughter doesn't last long this cabinet is full of protocol families and although organizers are doing their best to make it fun there's one thing they can't organize so in the fighting more and more families are winding from ukraine's west of east and while they are all believed and grateful for having been given a place of safety away from the night i mean back home all they really want to do

is go home paula see r.t. rostov on don russia. well ukraine's new president petro poroshenko valid to bring about a cease fire by the end of this week he made a similar promise last week as well head to r.t. dot com to follow a minute by minute updates on the situation in eastern ukraine. time for will the day let's head to syria where barrel bombs have gone off in a rebel held neighborhood in the northern city of aleppo explosions blew off the fronts of apartment buildings and killed the thirty people at least two children and a woman are among the victims syria's largest city of aleppo has been split between rebel and government controlled areas since two thousand and twelve when the opposition launched an offensive in the country's new. elsewhere at least one person has died and sixty more have been critically injured as twin tornadoes ripped through northeast nebraska 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 a few grain and corn. and in brazil two riot police officers have been suspended after live rounds were fired at protesters in rio de janeiro two days ago the shooting near the american our stadium where people were voicing their anger over the high cost of staging the world cup but it was captured on camera and you can see the pictures right now thousands of heavily armed police officers were deployed to the city as it hosted its first match of the tournament. of course the very latest news and headlines for you at the top of the hour after the break there you can find out how the american military has been controlling the media's coverage of the war in iraq coming up and breaking.

recently four hundred high level russian officials including duma members were someone for a three day military training event that would include the use of various different weapons and lectures about the state of the russian military the stated objective of all of this was to make the average soldiers in the army aware of the patriotic attitudes of those who can order them off to fight in theory this is a good idea but the reality is this kind of reeks that sweet stench of an empty p.r. stunt this is not nearly enough to convince the average grunt that the guys in power care about him as far as i understand it in the military they want to push people to break down their psychology and boot camp so they can make new better tougher more patriotic people and obedient ones as well the sort of cutesy who we can camp

will not have any psychological effect these politicians and to be honest i think bureaucrats the world over have it too easy their lives are too comfortable haeckel the duma deputies have these nice leather chairs and they have gold watches and assistants and all that stuff i think that the duma deputies had to suffer through a military hell for one month out of the year the corrupt comfort obsessed weaklings might get squeezed out of the system this training for the elite is a good idea but it needs to be done right and brutal but that's just my opinion. polls are my language as well but i will only react to situations i have read the reports for not pushing the know i will leave them to the state department to comment on your latter point. secure yet a car is on the docket no. thank you no more weasel.

when you need a direct question the proof for a change when you are you should be ready for a. pretty speech a little different to my. the . economic down in the final. day. and the rest i. believe is really.

days so i may get you to martina's those brick in the set so you know you often see people like karl rove dick cheney and bill kristol making the rounds on the corporate media to weigh in about what countries were next well usually these people are getting paid lavish amounts of money to be regular m.s.m. contributors in order to add their faces of pseudo credibility to the dumbed down news consumers but you know out of all the days i'm sitting in this news room working on the show i have never ever seen chelsea clinton's face to grace the silver screens of corporate news which is why i was so surprised to read over the weekend that bill and hillary's daughters apparently a special correspondent for n.b.c. now since november two thousand and eleven chelsea has been on contract with n.b.c. earning a cool six hundred thousand dollars every year for doing virtually nothing in c. according to business insider clinton is only appeared on n.b.c. a total of fourteen times and signing on two of which were her being interviewed about her own parents and.