the un condemns the killing of two russian journalists in eastern ukraine calling for a full investigation the die during the shelling while filming refugees fleeing from the area. elsewhere iraqi forces are struggling to push back sunni rebels who are closing in on the capital while also launching an attack on the country's biggest all refinery. plus the king's farewell speech the spanish monarch one colace officially leaves the throne after the senate approves his abdication we recall some of the royal pearls from him and his noble

colleague. names the harvey you're watching international. first this hour the u.n. security council is urging an investigation into violence against journalists in eastern ukraine and that's after a crew from a russian t.v. channel were killed by army shelling near the city of lugansk the cameraman who is the only survivor from his team says the attack targeted a group of refugees and he believes it was not accidental fire. the crew was filming the evacuation of refugees when a shell hit their group and these are images of civilians leaving the same just

seconds before the explosion sound engineer anton died immediately reporter eager corner luke was taken to hospital with a severe injury but he died on the operating table just thirty minutes later here's how the cameraman described what happened. to you clearly when those. four months we went to the place where according to information we got there were refugees self-defense 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 in a film from that spot this self-defense activist raised his hand to show the refugees the safe path and at this moment the first more time exploded and damaged his hand our journalists stayed further away at the checkpoint and i turned my head and i saw that the second and third more towers 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 drag it 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 some witnesses say that the shell exploded right at the fate of the sound engineer and the last and he was twenty seven years old reporter in good corn a look he leaves behind his wife and a seven year old daughter. now in the wake of the tragedy the russian president vladimir putin urged his ukrainian counterpart petro poroshenko to bring about a cease fire with saying that he would investigate the deaths of the journalists and guaranteed safety for the media in the future the killings have triggered an international outcry the organization for security and cooperation in europe called on kiev to find those responsible and hold them accountable and here's the reaction from the new york based committee to protect journalists it also condemned the

killing and safety for journalists working in ukraine reporters without borders called on a probe into the deaths as well and said the violence against journalists has reached unprecedented levels you are russia's and void to the un vitaly churkin said that right now the conditions for reporters in ukraine are worse than even words during the iraqi invasion but are journalists with a lot of experience in other conflict areas over this for the first time the few. 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 good could operate them. no physical problems arose for them from the government this is not the case a bit until now. military offensive in eastern ukraine is showing no sign of letting up the three civilians an elderly woman and

a married couple were killed on the outskirts of slovyansk on tuesday weeks of continued shelling have devastated that city with four churches also coming under fire since you have launched this operation in april put it for you now from the neighboring city from a tosk where local militia say ninety people were seriously injured when shells hit self defense checkpoints and a residential area. well you go as the. terms of thousands of civilians are fleeing the fighting on the worsening humanitarian conditions in eastern ukraine but while russia is sounding the alarm over a looming refugee crisis here of is denying that there is a flood of people leaving the region here's what some ukrainian refugees who've arrived in russia had to say along with some of the people helping to accommodate them. in class the man there were threatening those who were seen at self-defense checkpoints or attended an independence referendum they said they'll come to their

homes and shoot them very grateful to russia for accepting outs of the was there when you or your if you jews were given a place to stay and live with nutrition for them and are now working on getting them jobs. and if you are watching r.t. in ukraine be ready to switch to our online content here is planning to ban four more russian channels including ours head to r.t. dot com for minute by minute updates on the volatile situation in the country. in other news isis militants have launched an attack on iraq's largest oil refinery in the north of the country taking control of a seventy five percent of the site meanwhile by downed remains in a state of high alert with the hardest closing in on the capital many employees have also been evacuated from the u.s. embassy which is believed to be a likely target for the radicals it comes in a week which has seen militants taking one major city after another artist lisa

catherine off reports. armed to the teeth determined to carry 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 jihad is 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's anbar 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 its camp 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. lucy catherine of r t well the u.s. has already sent a hundred soldiers with almost twice as many said to arrive later but those are not combat troops and 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 where as we can see in a moment middle east is a mixture of various religious groups and if we take a look at our mouth this will just clear things are marked in red for you other countries where sunni muslims make up the majority those include cattle and america's closest ally in the region saudi arabia iraq meanwhile is currently under a shiite rule isis obviously want that to change washington is even now considering

teaming up with iran in order to prevent it from happening in the 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 are you know those. who are on the scenes who are suited so. we're very. much gold states who. it's very ironic because not just only a few weeks ago. congressman you know never talked to your army runs a terrorist. never. knowing that some of them have to go in trying to grease the so-called terrorist nation because they're more. memory or are of iran this week it's been around very confused everybody isn't

terrorists. difficult picking out which terrorists there were. still to come for you to sow the dark secrets of one talum over rise to the surface as a group of american students and their professor dig into the mysterious deaths of three detainees at the infamous facility back in two thousand and six we'll have the details for you just ahead. 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 mts republican protests are expected later today in madrid ahead of his son prince philippe's and throw meant ceremony let's get more next story now and cross live to the artes alexia chef who is in the spanish capital thanks for joining us alexei now a change of monaco of course is about to take place but it seems that there are

plenty of people who want to more change than just that. well you know the fact itself that seven thousand policemen and national guard have been dispatched essential madrid to provide security for the coronation ceremony it speaks volumes for itself because the government is expecting mass protests with not today but definitely tomorrow despite the officials slapping a ban on all public gatherings on thursday when the coronation ceremony is due to take place still we've heard from the pro republican supporters that they will still take people into the streets particularly the president sold the one of the central squares of madrid and we expecting tens of thousands of there now the reason for this discontent is quite simple the economy of spain has not been doing quite well over the past several years in fact almost a third of the country's population is out of job that's more than six million people officially unemployed people are generally unhappy with the current government with the austerity measures implemented by europe but still the royal

family has found itself in the middle of several large profile high profile scandals particularly the daughter of the abdicating king juan carlos is under investigation in a major embezzlement days he also went to a book from one of four elephant which did not go down well with the six million unemployed and with animal lovers in spain as well so this is basically the reason for the people to be unhappy but according to the recent polls conducted by the newspaper more than sixty percent of the spanish would welcome the idea of a referendum whether spain should stay with monarchy or revert back to the republican form of governance and. the prime minister of the country said that this referendum would not take place because it's not in accordance with the country's constitution still the appropriate public and supporters are not giving up they're saying that first of all they will hit the streets despite the ban and they will hold the referendum of their own to see whether the large part of the population

would want spain to be a republic once again certainly following all the developments here in madrid and we'll see whether the coronation ceremony with the six will lead to mass protests here because we've seen those protests before. ok thank you or talk or respond like sierra's give reporting live for us from madrid. well many cast doubt on whether the crown prince will restore the image of the royal family which was tarnished during his father's later years on the throne but despite all the controversies all one color says rain according to one editor specializing in the spanish monarchy he'll still be remembered for the good he brought to the country. came after a long dictatorship by frank or. it's true that he how to open a contrary to. the war no better how spain is that card tree he played

a political role. with the arrival of democracy i don't think philippe will have this strong political role. let's find out a bit more about the outgoing king who is one of europe's most colorful royals among many famous slip ups in two thousand and seven he asked the venezuelan president hugo chavez to literally shut up good company though the u.k.'s duke of edinburgh famously told british students in china that they like the locals if they stayed too long there and the current king of sweden criticised by some media outlets for being a party go well he defended himself to the press saying that there is a broader definition to sex and strip clubs. with the old rules been consigned to the history books questions are being asked as to whether the next generation will help europe's to read a tree monarchy survive in the twenty first century to get more analysis on that

it's just a click away on our website. and america is trying hard to convince the world that it's g.m. products not as bad as everybody thinks they are new genetically enhanced bits of enrich bananas have been designed to improve the nutrition of people in east africa later on in the program find out if the motives behind them are as good as the golden but on the. on air and in the financial world. to go out and start. a new life there are and there are but.

now i. want to. sign. welcome back you're watching r.t. international next and made continuous vallance in the past to close school in tandem obey 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 the cells in an apparent suicide but the latest independent report provides evidence the deaths were in fact the result of torture and an apparent mass ology of languages making it rather 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 itself has been replaced with and interrogation techniques that's when it comes to the notorious practice of waterboarding not to mention hunger strikes that going ton of officials now named long term religious fasts meanwhile the painful force feeding procedure on those hunger strikers is being labeled as internal feeding all the medical management of prisoners with weight loss we spoke to professor mark denbeaux whose probe into the two thousand and six deaths is casts doubt on the official story of events what we

have compelling evidence however of them and they didn't appear 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 there were five guards watching twenty four cells not all of which were occupied. and there were five guards and alternatives including several walking the short little corridor costly and videos and if you read through the the n.c.a.a.'s investigators. you would read that the men were have been dead more than two hours when they were brought to their clothing and. you know if you have five girls security or eighteen to twenty people and three of them. are flirting in their cells for hours people should go to jail because the military failed to comply with their

obligation. in the u.s. state of georgia an inmate on death row has been executed despite the continued controversy over the effectiveness of the drugs used in lethal injections an appeals court rejected marcus whelan's request for a stay of execution months after the state refused to disclose details about the lethal injections being used follows a boss the execution in april when it took an oklahoma inmate more than forty minutes to die in agony after he was administered a new court sale of drugs let's take a look at what stories we're covering on our website now when it comes to the internet the f.b.i. striving hard not to be lost in translation the agencies put together a glossary of online slang had to r.t. dot com to check out extracts from the f.b.i. so-called twitter a shorthand some entries may appear quite surprised. and while you're there how about this story misbehaving mound at. sending streams of lava and reminding people

that it is not going to fall asleep check out the fire breathing footage for yourself on our. scripts in the us are about to take a bite from a so-called super banana by going on a six week human trial genetically enhanced the vitamin rich it's claimed that these bananas will improve the nutrition of people in east africa 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. john's. 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 that you know not only to animals before they're given to humans because in other countries this would not be allowed. for the will the headlines will start with the boat that capsized malaysia's western coast forty two people are feared to have drowned in the incident one rescue boat was quick to the scene two more on the way the sunken wooden vessel wasn't designed open say it was carrying ninety seven indonesians including women

and children officials say the passengers were illegal migrant workers trying to return home ahead of the muslim holy month of ramadan. in other news 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 fired shots and tear gas but supporters of the cleric who fused to remove barricades around the scholar's complex account of the base creatures announced plans to return to pakistan next week to lead rallies against the government. i. look around the world cup protest in rio de janeiro has ended in scuffles with police demonstrators were heading to the planned protest site in copacabana when police raided the bus as they were being escorted away the violence flared and more than fifteen arrests were made the people there angry at the high cost of staging the competition.

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over there i marinate it this is boom bust and these are some of the stories that we're tracking for you today. first up 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 sells in about free banking now sullivan says that the best way to create stability in a banking system is to deregulate that kind of counterintuitive but by the way yesterday 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. with. 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 bankers at morgan stanley who wound up in the crosshairs true story allergan released e-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 you said that now the big conflict of interest in all of this is that morgan stanley is currently working for valiant's. but 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 about.