killed in action new details revealed that two russian journalists who died during army shelling in eastern ukraine were filming fleeing refugees at the time we hear from the only member of the t.v. crew to survive. meanwhile iraqi forces are struggling to push back sunni rebels who are closing in on the capital baghdad. plus the king's farewell speech the spanish monarch one cos officially leaves the throne after the senate approved his abdication we recall some of the royal pearls from him and his noble colleagues.

welcome thanks for joining us once again my name is neil harvey you're watching r.t. international. new details are emerging on the killing of two russian journalists in eastern ukraine the crew from the rest see a t.v. channel were caught up in army shelling near the city of lugansk the cameraman who's the only survivor of the attack managed to film the bombing and he believes it was a targeted assault. the crew was filming the evacuation of refugees when a shell hit bear group and these are images of civilians leaving the scene seconds before the explosion sound engineer anton voloshin died immediately reporter eager kaurna luke was taken to hospital with severe injury but died on the operating

table thirty minutes later and here is how the cameraman describes what happened. we you clearly. for months we went to the police where according to information we got there were refugees some of the first groups were helping the refugees to flee the areas under attack and when i reached the forefront the self-defense activists told me to hide behind a big car you know film from that spot this self-defense activist raised his hand to show the refugees the safe path of this moment the first more time exploded in damages hand our journalists stayed further away at the checkpoint and i turned my head and i saw that the second and third more tires went off exactly where they were i didn't see my colleagues as my view of them was blocked by trees i only managed to film people dragged away a self-defense activist he had no legs there was a roll between us between our journalists and me i could hear more tires exploding all the time they both had press written on their colds but that didn't save them.

the president of ukraine has been urged by his russian counterpart vladimir putin to bring about a cease fire in eastern ukraine in the wake of the tragedy petro poroshenko promised he'd investigate the deaths of the journalists and guarantee safety for the media in the future witnesses say the shell exploded right at the fate of sound engineer and on the last in he was twenty seven years old reporter eager to corner luke leaves behind his wife and seven year old daughter the u.n. security council condemned the attack and urged an investigation russia's envoy to the un bitterly churkin said right now the conditions for reporters in ukraine a worse than they were even during the iraq invasion. but. with a lot of experience in other conflict areas of this for the first time the few there they are being targeted by government forces never before in various i mean if they

were pointing out that even during saddam hussein times when baghdad was being. invaded by the u.s. troops of the journalists could could operate them but no physical problems arose for them from the government this is not the case a bit until now. the marquis has military offensive in eastern ukraine shows no sign of letting up three civilians an elderly woman and a married couple were killed on the outskirts of slavyansk on choose day weeks of continued shelling of devastated the city with four churches also coming under fire since kiev launched its operation in april and now footage from the neighboring city of kramatorsk local militia there say nine people were seriously injured when shells it self defense checkpoints and a residential area. tens of thousands of civilians are fleeing the fighting and worsening humanitarian conditions anything ukraine but while russia is sounding

the alarm over a looming refugee crisis kiev didn't eyes that there is a flood of people leaving the region is what some ukrainian refugees e fled to russia had to say along with some of the people helping to accommodate them. they were threatening those who were seen at self defense checkpoints or attended an independence referendum they said they would come to their homes and shoot them very clear in russia accepting a little wish to bring you more here if you jews were given a place to stay and live as we've organized nutritions for them and now working on getting them jobs or the. ukrainian legislators are calling for martial law to be imposed in southeastern ukraine had dot com to get the full details as well as our minute by minute updates on the volatile situation. elsewhere baghdad is on high alert with isis militants approaching the iraqi

capital comes after a week which saw the militants taking one major city after another the sunni jihadists are reportedly been conducting mass executions releasing thousands of prisoners and taking over military hardware. and off reports. armed to the teeth determined to conquer on the march across iraq the islamic state in iraq and syria also known as isis is quickly emerging as one of the world's most powerful jo hottest groups the groups goal just what the name implies an islamic sunni caliphate stretching across the middle east isis already controlled large swaths of land in syria and iraq and barre province last week they moved on iraq's north. seemingly overnight isis captured the second largest city of mosul more than half

a million residents were forced to flee. we were afraid of isis and escaped more soon because they have no mercy there are people they killed they have no conscience that was just the start after mosul a lightning speed advance towards baghdad with cities and towns falling to isis along the way as iraqi soldiers fled their posts they left behind tanks humvees trucks and weapons paid for by the americans and now in the hands of isis the militants have their supporters to the shiite dominated government of prime minister nouri al maliki has alienated iraq's sunni population isis is also believed to receive financial support from sympathetic gulf monarchies and with iran backing the iraqi government there's fear the internal conflict could become a regional one all sides are bracing for the worst in the capital shiite militia

men are responding to a call to arms from their religious leaders ready to defend their capital and their faith the iraqi army is also fighting back but this means airstrikes against sunni cities and that could make the already sick terry and conflict go from bad to worse sitting out the fight at least for now are the americans with the hottest determined to press on the question is for how long. you see captain r.t. . well the u.s. has already sent a hundred soldiers with almost twice as many set to arrive later but those are not combat troops washington's also received a warning from cattle that any military intervention to prop up the iraqi government would effectively mean war on the entire sunni arab world as we can see now the middle east is a mixture of various religious groups take

a look at the map marked here in red they are the countries where sunni muslims make up the majority those include cattle and america's closest ally in the region saudi arabia iraq which can see slightly to the left of center those coming into shiite rule isis obviously want that to change washington is now considering teaming up with iran to prevent that military affairs expert eric margolis says that the current turmoil in iraq is breaking up traditional alliances and creating some rather strange partnerships you have more interests. she whom scenes who are students so. we're very. much goes through a group. that's very ironic because not just only a few weeks ago. congressman you'll never guess what we were army runs

a terrorist nation nearly. no more. grease than so-called terrorists because they're more. memory or are of iran this week it's been around very. everybody isn't terrorists. you know which terrorists they were. do stay with us here on r.t. still to come for you this hour the dark secrets of guantanamo come to the surface and that is a group of american students with their professor dig into the mysterious deaths of three detainees at the infamous facility back in two thousand and six i would bring you the details or shortly. before the hour though the spanish parliament has given its approval to the abdication of king juan carlos who is stepping down after almost four decades on the throne his son crown prince felipe a is to take over with many casting doubt on whether he will manage

to restore the tarnished image of the monarchy despite all the controversies of one colors his reign according to one editor specializing in the spanish monarchy he'll still be remembered for the goods he brought to the country one catalyst came after a long dictatorship by frank or. it's true that he how to open. to. the war know better how spain is tree can he play the political role. with the arrival of democracy i don't think philippe will have this strong political role. well the outgoing king is one of europe's most colorful royals after asking venezuela's president hugo chavez to literally shut up back in two thousand and seven is in good company though the u.k.

is duke of edinburgh famously told british students in china they risk looking like the locals if they stayed too long in the country and the current king of sweden criticised by some media outlets for being a party goer nightclub all he defended himself to the press saying that there's a broader definition to sex and strip clubs. with the old rules being consigned to the history books questions are being asked as to whether the next generation will help europe's read a tree moment. in the twenty first century more analysis all not just a click away for you. america is trying hard to convince the world that it's g.m. products all not as bad as everybody thinks new genetically enhanced a vitamin have been designed to improve the nutrition of people in east africa in the program find out of the motives behind them are as good as the gold.

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all here on. reporting from the world talks of p.r.p. interview intriguing story for you. to. visit. every. welcome back you're watching r.t. international now amid continuous vows in the past to close the guantanamo bay prison it seems that the us administration has been covering up atrocities at the camp in june two thousand and six three detainees were found hanged in their cells in an apparent suicide but the latest independent report provides evidence that the deaths were in fact the result of torture and an apparent mass of languages making it difficult to find the truth in two thousand and two the u.s. department of defense stopped reporting suicide attempts categorizing them instead

as acts of self harm the word torture has been replaced with and hants interrogation techniques when it comes to the notorious practice of waterboarding not to mention hunger strikes that guantanamo officials now name long term nonreligious fasts newmar the painful force feeding procedure on those hunger strikers is being labeled as internal feeding of the medical all the medical management of prisoners with weight loss we spoke to professor mark denbeaux whose probe into the two thousand and six deaths casts doubt on the official story of events. what we have found is compelling evidence that however the men died they didn't appear to have died in the manner that the government claims that the government claims they own themselves in their cells by committing suicide and the problem with that is that there were five guards watching twenty four cells not all

of which were occupied and there were five guards in all times including several walking the short little corridor because the plea and videos and if you read through the the n.c.i. as investigators. you would read that the men were have been did more than two hours when they were brought to the clinic and then rigor mortis you know if you have five guards guarding or eighteen to twenty people and three of them die and are flipped hanging in their cells for hours people should go to jail because the military failed to comply with their obligation. let's go to our web site now and when it comes to the internet the f.b.i. struggling not to be lost in translation the agencies together a glossary of all the law and slang head. to check out extracts from the f.b.i.

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when you have a direct question the prepared for a change when you do you should be ready for a. freedom of speech later down the freedom to. welcome back you're watching r.t. international next for you this hour test groups in the u.s. are about to take a bite from a so-called super banana by going on a six week human trial they're genetically enhanced the vitamin rich it's claimed that these bananas will improve the new tradition of people in east africa but michael hansen senior staff scientist at consumer union thinks the initiative is nothing more than a publicity stunt simply designed to improve the reputation of g.m. giants. things like golden rice or golden bananas are attempts to say oh we can use this technology for a useful purpose that will help the poor so i see it more as propaganda purposes

and i think the reason that they were trying so desperately with the genetic engineering is it does have a bad name eighty five percent of the global acreage in engineered crops are all herbicide tolerant they're designed to be sprayed with herbicides they're doing they're designed to have you spray more pesticides on them part of the problem is in the in the united states for example we don't require safety assessments or feeding studies before these products are allowed on the market before these are even fed to people they should go through a safety assessment. and be fed you know not only to animals before they're given to humans because in other countries this would not be allowed in this round of some of the willed headlines for you now starting with a buzz that is scum sized the malaysians western coast forty two people are feared to have drowned in the incident one rescue boat was quick to the scene and two more

are on the way the sunken wooden vessel wasn't designed for open seas it was carrying ninety seven indonesians including women and children officials say that the passengers were illegal migrant workers trying to return home ahead of the muslim holy month of ramadan. elsewhere clashes between police and followers of an anti taliban preacher in eastern pakistan have left at least eight people dead another eighty five have been injured police fire shots and tear gas when supporters of the cleric refused to remove barricades from around the scholar's complex canada based creature has announced plans to return to pakistan next week to lead rallies against the government. a world cup protest in rio de janeiro ended in scuffles with police demonstrators were heading to the planned protest site in copacabana when police raided the bus as they were being

a schoolteacher way violence flared and more than fifteen arrests were made people are angry at the high cost of staging the competition. despite the street anger over the world cup showing no signs of carving brazil is still very much in the party spirit with hundreds of thousands of fans flooding the country obsessively just one thing namely the beautiful game artie's graham phillips is there and brings up to date with the russian team's progress. but draw again some real russian exposing themselves here below this world famous a stone to devour a can all. not to be seven weeks until too late to the stadium punches chance against it makes the posts belgium the world two teams last minute world cup final in two thousand and two the shoot was going so well good morning since that missing out in two thousand and six two thousand and ten as much as one building week two

would be to just one of the surprise packages of this to me pushing pushing for. that central should finish top of that was one group who cheated would you go in the manager telling you they have a mind a mission to tell the true story his words which he takes you by disappointing last world cup i think that the russian twenty three times which is interesting distinction one of the twenty three players playing in the domestic league because mostly for experience in the season a player story conflicts and example just looks the company twelve years ago after the all the much told this is kate bush was in the future when they seek to cool my front page here with the mouse wheel this is great because we don't see. after the break it's boom bust with host every night here on t. international and if you're watching is in the u.k. it's time to break the set with a big marketing. i

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the movement then walk a bit. lower there i marinated this is boom bust and these are some of the stories that we're tracking for you today. first of bryan caplan a professor of economics at george mason university is talking to us about kids pacifically went to have them how many and the effect that they had on one professional life not good i would assume but we'll find out he's got some pretty provocative thoughts on the subject as a whole and you definitely don't want to miss my interview with him and then we're talking to george themselves and about free banking now sulligent says that the best way to create stability in the banking system is to deregulate it kind of counterintuitive but we'll find out what he has to say and in today's big deal i'm joined by our chief political correspondent mr sam sachs sam is sitting down with

me and i have to discuss the rise of the stove and separate servant economists who don't want to miss a moment that it all starts right now. our lead story today never put something in e-mail that you wouldn't want the whole wide world to read i'm talking to you morgan stanley now the mudslinging between allergan and valley and pharmaceutical got more intense this week but it was actually backers of morgan stanley who wound up in the crosshairs true story allergan released in mails sent by a senior morgan stanley banker which outwardly denigrated valiant in its business strategy now allergan the maker of botox is currently fending off

a fifty three billion dollars takeover bid by valley and the man behind the lead e-mails is david horner a senior healthcare banker at morgan stanley now on may eighteenth horn sent an e-mail to allergens chief financial officer jeff edwards saying that his firm morgan stanley would help persuade shareholders and the media that valiant is quote a house of cards. now the big conflict of interest in all of this is that morgan stanley is currently working for valiant's. that awkward but not only is the position awkward it's also unusual mainly because most companies don't publicize such private communications however the row between allergan and delhi into being so heated it's clear that allergen is ready and willing to use all tools at its disposal now according to the wall street journal allergen the company behind the massively popular anti-wrinkle treatment botox like i mentioned before released the contents of the e-mails as part of a larger package of documents which it used to show why shareholders should reject

a valiance offer and while wall street is no stranger to the use of tough tactics to win deals senior investment bankers such as horn should know better even to. boss robert robert taylor had some thoughts on the subject of dalliance saying quote my takeaway is that allergen is not being nearly aggressive enough and going after the valiant business model in currency the valiant allergan deal would be among one of the year's biggest and would no doubt yield a windfall of seeds for the bankers involved many in the business of m. and a would argue that morgan only did what any good bank would do in order to get the job done and furthermore morgan stanley isn't the only bank on the block to pay both sides of the deal in order to get one side to get something else it all happens at one point or another this is just basics to the m. and a business and this basically is par for the course in the world of hostile wall street takeovers the forget these bankers are pretty much financial mercenaries hired to get the job done bottom line the dirty biz.