intriguing story for you. to find out more visit arabic t.v. dot com. back in the baghdad the u.s. is sending troops to iraq where the sunni insurgents have seized several key cities across the country. russia warns brussels and gas supplies could be disrupted if kiev starts siphoning off the fuel becomes of the gas turned off the tap to ukraine due to massive debts. and hackers in britain may be facing a lifetime behind bars if proposed a new bill is passed but experts warn it could potentially see those working to improve internet safety sent to prison as well.

welcome our names the new 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 that says large parts of the country are fall into the hands of al qaida linked militants known as isis if you take a look at these red areas here prominent areas they are where the hardest have full or partial control president obama said the troops will remain in iraq until the situation improves churkin reports. 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. on a monday isis released these photos to show the mass executions of iraqi soldiers

the country's chief military spokesman said that the pictures were indeed authentic and sure around hundred seventy soldiers killed however the group itself claims it executed ten times that amount and it's going to cheat you can report the growing 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 signal 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 terrorising people the sectarian component video walks crises is already trained traditional alliances iran wants to cooperate with the u.s. 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 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

a most ruling 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 shiite arabs and they were kurds they were a tapestry they were around the multination. multicultural communities have a record their 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 the. bridge to this day officials. say they don't own iraq's problems and they don't want to become the government they're pushing the militants out however many experts agree it is their return now only a matter of time. are like. who are isis well

they emerged in iraq right after the u.s. led invasion and pledged allegiance to al qaida and the group's been fueling the sectarian violence in the country claiming an independent state too in the territory of iraq syria lebanon palestine and jordan with the u.s. now sending troops back to the country washington is looking to play a major role in diffusing tensions there that is the view of political analyst. i think part of this is also as was said to protect u.s. facilities the u.s. embassy 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 us unilaterally uses or they are forced to attack the forces of islamic state in syria and iraq also uses the drones to attack these forces in opposite ends 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 the governments that were put in charge i think have ought to bear 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 a propaganda video apparently aiming to bring more people to their cause so the video is called the clanging of the sword four and it's an hour long film featuring some extremely graphic scenes that shows soldiers being executed cars and passers by being gunned down and tanks being blown up the footage has been removed from you tube multiple times but it is a bloated over and over from different accounts it's glamorous chris bambery believes that brutal videos like this and shivers not just across iraq but the

entire middle east. one they were brutalized secondly of course as well they were used to social media and terms of projects and cells but the fact that in addition to the view you know talking about the poor staying up which really the executions and seeing have killed the dog you know that is going to backfire in terms of across the region as i say the neighboring governments or road will be very nervous about what is happening you know a very key whatever the past the fences will be have been the maliki government baghdad to buttress the maliki government against this against isis because it's called leadership repercussions potentially for turkey for around every other country in the region. meanwhile whistleblower chelsea manning has accused the u.s. of lying about iraq 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 and you can catch the details later today breaking this. sunday manning release the new york times op ed and titled the fog machine of war in which 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 to 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 is 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 while under military protection manning notes that quote 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 as journalists whom military contractors rate as a likely to produce quote favorable coverage based on their past reporting also get preference. europeans potentially face a cold winter had that is if russian gas destined for consumers gets lost on its way by ukraine gas promise warmly care of may start siphoning off the fuel from transit pipes that run to europe is being cut off by russia after failing to pay its bills and now europe has been has to be prepared for gas shortages artie's peta oliver explains from berlin well what we've been hearing from the e.u. energy commission. is this well get ready for potentially a cold winter ahead now this comes after ukraine had its gas cut off by russia

after it failed to pay billions if us dollars an outstanding bills ukraine is the main point of transit at the moment the getting gas into europe in 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 heating to industry that was pretty much shut down so it is a big deal if ukraine 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. just to remind you of those similar situations going back first of all to two thousand and six when half of europe was left out in the cold when ukraine siphoned off five hundred fifty million cubic meters of russian gas there was another so-called gas war that was three years later when ukrainian supplies were cut off altogether 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 this is how they would 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 actually send that gas back down the same pipeline a gas problem says ukraine has no right to control the flow of russian gas moscow

has therefore warned european companies to think twice before undertaking such measures and as the head of the european geo political forum are up to tariff explains legal gray area. a lot of this gas is gas crawled gas to leave it to the e.u. and baby outside all the legal abilities all of those to actually export that back to ukraine there's not really any you know european level 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 cause 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. well apart from the gas route with moscow key is also busy waging a military operation in its own back yards later on we meet the families separated by violence with children forced to leave that parents unfairly for cycling. on marriage in the financial world. it's. only taken from the demand. in life. and there. is a leader so we leave that maybe. i can see bush and secure the. party there's a goal. that no one is asking with to get they deserve answers from.

politic. i think right. now like. what if. like. you're watching r.t. international next for you this hour new laws on cyber terrorism in the u.k. would see hackers jailed for life but some in the security industry claim the move

while designed to protect people from cyber crime could ironically make the internet less safe parties police reports. in today's digital age committing a serious cyber crime could land you a mega sentence and a 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 as a single attack can have such a dramatic effect let's just imagine a scenario where we go in our 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 equipment 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 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 hakas with the intention of

finding vulnerabilities on a website and exposing cyber risk but according to this proposed law even those working for the calmer. good of the ensign that could end up behind us safely a major threat here is if somebody simply trying to reverse engineer a site 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 charges without really having done anything wrong. online for you tarnished image peace may no longer be seen as a global do gooder class after it emerged an employee from the organization blew a record five million dollars in a currency gamble for more on this scandal angry paces comments on it had to r.t. dot com. while you're there you can check out this story as well

a group of mobile app developers have come up with an inventive solution for parents for straighted that children can take their eyes off the phones during meal times find out how it works on a website. right to see. first rate. and i think the teacher. on our reporter's twitter. instagram. could be in the. let's head back to ukraine and the news that kiev is pressing on with its military operation against the defiant regions in the east the suburbs of lugansk city have come under artillery fire over night.

the air raid sirens were sounded and locals reported hearing the noise of shelling in the city center as well the city of kramatorsk another target appears crackdown also came under attack the defense forces say that ten civilians were killed there on monday locals say residential areas of come on the shelling. while. in other news two russian journalists released from detention in ukraine have shared the details of their ordeal the pair were abducted from one of the checkpoints in the country's east and accused of spying here's how they described their arrest. last. year we were stopped at a national guard checkpoint and asked to get out of the car and show our i.d.'s when they saw our russian passports and found out that we were members of the t.v. channel they changed their faces they started joking that they'd caught a goldfish or won the jackpot they forced us into

a car and we were taken away our eyes were covered in eventually we were pushed into some basement at gun point different armed people were coming to us threatening us they promised to shoot us and bury us in the field they said they hated russia and would do everything not to let us go alive then we were dragged out of the cell and force into a car we were beaten by rifle but. the violence in eastern ukraine has driven thousands away from their homes many families have been left divided artie's porous limit some of those forced the part from their loved ones. all the time i think about him 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 her for her own safety she should come here mother and son separated by

a hundred and fifty kilometers and with kiev's military offensive showing no sign of ending nor is there separation that i've got son i don't know when i can come i love you and send kisses to you were i love you very much and i really miss you please come as soon as possible i love you. like thousands of other ukrainian mothers give me i decided to send his son out of the country she now mourns an empty house with only her fears to keep her company. and when 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 you've given your hopes victoria another mother who sent a only child denis to russia twelve days ago the phones when constantly either 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 twelve years biggest fear is that she won't see her son again and he fears the same person has a lot more 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 can be. it is procope families and although organizers are doing their best to make it fun there's one thing they can't organize in the pricing more and more families are going 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. must get a world update now starting in 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 up to thirty people these two children and the woman are among the victims to 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 north. else where at least one person has died and sixty more have been critically injured as twin tornadoes ripped through the northeast the brown skin 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 and damaged including several storage facilities for fuel grain and corn.

isn't as gunmen of killed at least ten people mostly police in a fresh raid on a coastal town in kenya. comes just twenty four hours after another attack on hotels and a police station left at least fifty dead the somalia based militant group al-shabaab has claimed responsibility for the attack along with a string of deadly assaults in the country said turly sixty seven people were killed in a siege at a shopping center in nairobi. from a for now i'll see with more news in half an hour after the break find out how the european central bank is trying to stimulate the eurozone economy safe it'll be enough to drag europe out of its crisis but in buses coming your way. recently four hundred high level russian officials including duma members were

summoned for a three day military training event that would include the use of various different weapons and lectures about steve the russian military the stated objective of all of this was to make the average soldier 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 heck all the duma deputies have these thanks leather chairs and they have gold watches and assistants and all that stuff i think that if the duma deputies had to suffer through a military health 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. crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want.

no there are 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.v. is 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 those our earlier today to discuss how the government bullied him into installing surveillance equipment on his servers which ultimately forced of the shutdown is company not cool you don't want to miss a moment and it all starts right down. we've

been anticipating this all week and it's now finally happened the european central bank has introduced a number of different measures aimed at stimulating the eurozone economy measures like negative interest rates and cheap long term loans to banks now these to be credits deposit rate for banks from zero to negative zero point one percent all in an effort to encourage banks to lend to households and businesses european policymakers are trying to counter the chance of deflation in the eurozone the negative deposit rate makes the e.c.b. the first major central bank to use a negative rate so it's pretty dramatic stuff.