well welcome to our tease newsroom i am i need to now it's good to have you with us tonight chris sankoh promises a ceasefire after pressure from putin although what's pressures they're businessmen not to deal with russia only they're not listening we'll look at why and how the iraq crisis worsens we ask a former u.s. ambassador to the country what's next in the fight against isis and will they make it to baghdad last short lives of the king of spain juan carlos has abdicated your in the not.

ukraine's new president petro poroshenko says his forces will halt their offensive in the east of the country after speaking to vladimir putin that residential areas in the conflict zone are scarred by weeks of shelling are about to show you graphic footage of the aftermath in the city of crime on taurus that suffered surface rather online within the last few hours take a look a witness filmed this damage and several victims shortly after an attack on tuesday at least ten locals will kill as you can see the buildings there full of bullet pose horrific images of body parts scattered on the ground one woman we're hearing coming home from the market was reportedly among the victims there's a constant stream of footage coming in devastated residential areas including churches schools and hospitals all left in ruins. the un has claimed that three

hundred and fifty six people have died since mid april more than two thirds of them civilians there's little pressure on the ukrainian government coming from the west instead the u.s. and e.u. want to slap russia with more sanctions victoria nuland says the measures will target economic sectors including the banking and energy ones sounds very vague so far but it's certainly a signal for western businesses energy firms in particular watch your lucrative projects in russia they might be in danger were number one the white house was literally calling us business leaders not to attend the st petersburg forum some of them didn't including the head of america's largest corporation exxon mobil white look we spotted at the latest petroleum congress in moscow just weeks later that's right i spy rex tillerson from exxon mobil we saw you european c.e.o.'s were also present mr bob paid a visit and he's of course the head of britain's b.p.

and the head of norway's oil giant and one of the biggest energy firms in the e.u. stat oil was also caught on camera so guys screw sanctions business as usual but this is really a very good. relationship it's developing. according to the conference we don't believe this kind of problem we want these all the u.s. and its allies look like jealous wives calling on their business husbands to stay at home as they cheat on them with russia instead james rickards an american economist and author of the new york times best seller the death of money joins us live from the states to give us some analysis on this jim the big politics in business are they supposed to act as a team. superficially yes but behind the scenes no and i don't really find a lot of respect for u.s. sanctions around the world the white house really elevates substance. elevates form over substance they're going through the motions of putting on the signaling

sanctions but behind the scenes certainly european political leaders business leaders around the world the question is just too important to marginalize it's you know it's partly to chile and our economy is the world's largest oil exporter one of the world's largest coal producers. massive opportunity massive massive natural resources available it's just too important so the idea of somehow russia is going to be marginalized is a bit of a joke but the white house has to go through the motions because they obviously don't like what's happening in crimea no one thinks it's going to be a military confrontation between russian the united states' interest in the through the entire life of the cold war then the soviet union but really russia russia the united states never fired a shot at each other they for proxy wars and vietnam afghanistan their confrontations in cuban berlin but never never any direct conflict i think that's the same today but they are fighting these financial wars but the u.s. cannot escalate because russia can fight back the rhetoric is pretty strong though it seems that you think that that's exactly what it is just rhetoric at these

economic threats. how likely is it though that they could roll out some severe sanctions in terms of the economy even if it doesn't have much effect on russia. well it may actually have an effect on russia but the real problem is what is the blowback you know there was let's say we escalate sanctions on russia the united states is perfectly capable of doing this we care kate our spare bonk and village to be out of the dollar payment system we could order master card visa to stop processing transactions in the soviet union we could expand the freeze is we could we have to putin's assets his personal assets not just you know we were such and so forth so there's a lot the united states can do but the problem is there's a lot that russia can do russia could dump its u.s. treasury holdings drive up u.s. interest rates you know sink the u.s. stock market which is in bubble territory right now freeze u.s. assets in russia suspend party so there's a lot that both sides can do the question for both sides is do you want to go there i mean is that a smart policy is that the best way to handle this or are there other channels

knows the u.s. can escalate but russia can retaliate that's why i don't think the u.s. was beyond a certain point is they understand this do you think it's fair that russia is being punished or at least the attempt to punish russia economically is certainly being built up. well you know you might ask the crimea it's in the craniums of a think it's fair what's going on look there's a struggle going on and i think putin vladimir putin shown himself not only a very good chess player but also a good judo practitioner in terms of martial arts he was aggressive in ukraine in crimea some of these sanctions were put on the middle east they were fairly tame he's backed off you know the true true style down the tensions but here now rock close to the united states is distracted by iraq i think putin understands that the white house has difficulty sort of handling mobile crisis that's an opportunity for him to. perhaps get more aggressive in eastern ukraine but this is not going to be over said look from the russian perspective they say hey united states you know you

invaded afghanistan you invaded iraq will of a crime a this is just how large power a big powers operate if you don't like it try to be a big power so i'm not saying the u.s. should approve this summit not saying the u.s. likes it i'm sure they don't but in pursuing your policy in your relations with russia your bilateral relations using diplomacy and other tools you have to choose very carefully i think the biggest problem the white house is they don't look ahead . they are constantly caught by surprise you could have seen it washes started dumping u.s. treasury securities in october they didn't wait until march or april when the crisis came to the fore they start dumping them in october i think better analysis could have seen that as a sign that maybe something is coming up maybe the united states could engage more so i think u.s. foreign policy is very reactive very shortsighted russian foreign policy is made aliya grasso but i'm not saying the u.s. should do nothing but you just you have to be careful in your choice of weapons or tools because economic warfare can easily spin out of control not to mention

accidental things or you know how her shutting down stock exchanges there's a lot of danger in syria money talks american economist and author of the new york times best seller the death of money james records in the now tonight thanks so much thank you. sunni militants have attacked iraq's largest oil refinery in the north baghdad is on high alert with isis jihad is closing in on the capital and well the pentagon is beefing up security so far the u.s. has stopped short of said begin combat troops. but few were debating the power of isis and that the syria conflict gave them force here's a few facts you might not know about the radical group and now rival of al qaeda the islamic state in iraq and syria splintered off of al qaida but even for them

isis tactics were too violent and isolated local populations the kurds matter in this fight and have taken advantage of the chaos in iraq to occupy kirkuk and may prove to be a serious military threat to the militant group it's clear iraq's army isn't coping but the size of its forces is much larger than isis and just proves how organized the extremists are talking seven thousand militants or at least an estimated first a quarter of a million iraqi troops unlike some other islamist groups fighting in syria isis doesn't depend on foreign aid to survive some say it's created a mini state that's been built collecting the equivalent of taxes and selling electricity to fund its activities and finally isis thrives off the rise of tension between iraq's two largest religious groups by boosting recruits. well cotter has warned the u.s.

that any military intervention to prop up the iraqi government would be seen as an act of war against the entire sunni arab world the middle east is of course a melting pot of diverse religious groups take a look at this market here in yellow we have contraries where sunni muslims make up the majority those include qatar and one of the u.s. closest allies saudi arabia iraq is currently under shiite rule and i is this obviously wants that to change washington is now considering teaming up with iran to prevent an overthrow joining us in the now tonight is former u.s. ambassador to iraq david newton from washington what do you make of the recent developments in iraq well the developments are very dangerous for the world and of course particularly for iraq iraq is in danger of civil war and break up in the worst case i think the advances were

were shocked everyone although we knew there was a serious problem in the north i don't think there's a great deal of risk of the isis forces the radicals are moving much further south now the task of the government is to stop them and eventually i would hope to regain the territory for a longer term task is to try to read you know three unite the country which is now split along religious lines many critics. attach what's happening in the country directly to the u.s. invasion of two thousand and three how do you respond to that. well there is some truth certainly would admit that i think most americans now think that war was ill advised and certainly we were twelve fully unprepared for the peace and in doing so i'm afraid we helped to increase the. religious divisions

we eventually got it right at the cost of many americans the lives of many more iraqi lives but we are trying our best to to agree we have influence to keep this country from tearing itself apart to use our influence with prime minister maliki and with others to try to reduce the. religious why once but it's very difficult in these current circumstances how much blame do you think lies with moloch and his government for this. well unfortunately i think you know the shia are not united in a single party so he has had to devote a lot of attention to to his home front and to staying in power in doing so perhaps he has really missed the opportunity to reach out to the to the sunni

arabs many of whom were already disaffected because they had supported him but whatever opportunities have i don't think he's taken very good. very good. made a very good effort to to reach out to these people and many many more are just so. consequently they have no desire particularly to oppose these radicals some of these who are coming in thinking that they may benefit in the long run the u.s. is criticized for supporting radicals in syria while condemning them in iraq some call it the greatest paradigm in modern politics what do you think i'm not sure why they would think so if anything we've tried to support the free syrian army and the moderate opposition elements in syria if we hear criticism in this country is that we haven't done enough to support them and

therefore that they have been weakened in the face of the radicals yes i do it's clear that i didn't anybody would know that i was as he has power within syria and that also is trying to fight isis in the country as well as other radical groups. he tried but we're not supporting either side we're supporting the moderate opposition side which unfortunately is rather weak they have had some success. in opposing the radicals on the ground but we certainly have no desire to support isis or any of the fundamentalist muslims in syria and i don't see any evidence that we have ever done so i think a lot of people would agree some of the the humvees that we're seeing are used by isis in iraq as some of the weapons that we're seeing there seems to be few people that are debating that those weapons are coming in from syria weapons that some of

the rebels that washington at least has supported have gotten into the hands of isis. they may well have got into their hands but we certainly didn't give give the weapons to where they were not weapons but equipment to them some of it they have managed to capture and battle with the forces we have supported and many of these weapons are available on the open market is certainly a feeling that at least on the private level. people in the in the gulf and saudi arabia in the gulf states are providing money for these people to buy the weapons on the open market but we are not supplying any equipment to isis that's for sure maybe not directly but i think many would agree that inadvertently some u.s. weapons are getting into their hands through the violence that has been supported or at least lightly supported by the u.s. in syria i just want to finally ask you what would be your eyes your advice to

president obama about how to deal with the situation in the country if we do see isis get closer to baghdad. well we've had to be careful that we understand the situation and and act accordingly should they. did i think the desire to use their power would become very strong and i don't mean drones i mean attack aircraft or even bombers but it's not easy to find these people on the ground from the civilians and to give whatever political support is possible international support to the government in iraq whatever its failings to reach out to the sunnies it's still the internationally recognized government and the first thing we need to do is to prevent any further incursions but i think an advance by the ice is into into predominantly shia territory is

is is unlikely former u.s. ambassador to iraq under president ronald reagan david newton in the now tonight from washington thanks so much sure. coming up give no cover ups in the latest us to max think executions are in the stay with us. eugenics but eugenics vulgarize ation of darwin science punishment for an on committed crying i was so there are things to learn from believing in eighty feebleminded still today for the few i don't know why enough to live by still the i don't know why genetic improvement through forced sterilization the basis for nazi ideology they don't stop at just sterilising the goons and now go to the point

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prison has long been accused of cover ups but a recent report suggests three captives were in fact killed there in two thousand and six that's despite the official version that they killed themselves and suicides the u.s. military still refuses to release updates on the ongoing detainee hunger strikes at the facility language is an important part of the president's p.r. attempts in two thousand and two the u.s. department of defense stopped reporting suicide attempts calling them acts of self harm the word torture has been replaced with the enhanced interrogation techniques hunger strikes autonomy fishel is now labeled them a long term non-religious fast painful force treating procedure on those hunger strikers as being called internal feeding or medical management of prisoners with weight loss but what's more after all of this softening of reality professor markdown bo who investigated deaths at the facility in two thousand and six told us it's virtually impossible to commit suicide there. what we have is compelling

evidence that however of the men they didn't appear to have done 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 and all times including several walking the short little corridor president lee and videos and if you read through the n.c.i. as investigators try. 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 as the

military failed to comply with their obligation. here as human rights concerns are not just international a prisoner convicted of rape and murder was executed in georgia the first death row inmate to be put out since the botched killing of a prisoner in april it raised serious questions about capital punishment in methods used to carry out death sentences. things in the now is more important i r t's correspondent in new york marina reports suggest that this latest execution was carried out without incident. that's right prison officials in georgia say the execution of marcus well and seemed to go smoothly with no noticeable complications a few minutes into the procedure whelan's reportedly took a couple of heavy breaths and within five minutes there were was no visible movement now while the state does acknowledge that it used a single drug pentobarbital to execute the fifty nine year old most of the other procedures surrounding his death were kept secret now that's because

a state law allows authorities in georgia to withhold information about the people and companies involved in executions are those who claim that there's too much secrecy surrounding markets and many executions are they going to let this go. well the secrecy was the reason for many of mr whelan's federal and state court appeals his defense attorneys argue that the confidentiality exposed mr whelan's to the threat of cruel and unusual punishment because they could not evaluate the qualifications of the execution team the people on it or the safety record of the loosely regulated pharmacy where the execution drug was obtained because the state did not have to disclose where the drug came from how the botched execution of clayton lockett in april changed anything in capital punishment the process in the u.s. i mean it certainly brought more attention to it. it certainly has and nine

executions in the u.s. have been stayed or postponed since late april when oklahoma prison prisoner was you know suffered a botched execution suffering for more than a half hour after officials administered a lethal injection into his vein improperly however i would not bank on big changes in terms of capital punishment the u.s. because roughly one hour following mr whelan's execution in georgia tuesday evening another prisoner in missouri was executed and in less than four hours a third execution is scheduled to take place in florida and all three states that i mentioned refused to say where their lethal injection drugs have come from do come from or whether those drugs have been tested before being used to kill prisoners that many critics believe that the drugs aren't being tested beforehand leaving the prisoners to serve as lab rats in humane execution experiment. with

us in the now from new york. it's official now spanish king juan carlos abdicated. paid him all and a couple of signatures and then bravo. spain will soon now a new king of course son of juan carlos forty six year old for the the six well see how well the neumark will do with his duties although it's not clear what to do in fact these days the good old kate ingo certainly had his quirks he was a sportsman forty years ago he competed in the dragon class sailing of at the olympic games and finished fifty he's a hero once he was motorcycling and sort of stranded cyclists you helped him and kept his visor down to his true identity would be revealed. there's also a hunter he killed an elephant in botswana and took

a picture of it right in front of the prize there is also a rumor that a siberian bear fell victim to the king's brutal hobby and he's a fan of good manners especially when it comes to political dialogue. good thing for a little not one. but as well as late president chavez was caught by surprise by that no doubt i want to get more insight on what the spanish people think about their monarchs and the abdication artie's spanish correspondent joins us now in the studio tonight thanks for that he's a native of barcelona barcelona as well as a good portion fighting for independence but let's focus on the king he's abdicated to people in spain care well definitely people in spain in spain care and that's why thousands of people on the streets to the streets recently right after he announced that he was going to abdicate people do care but people do care about

what's going to happen with the royal house in spain is it going to stay there partly it is that main concerns well i mean people actually wanted to have a referendum they really wanted to decide whether they wanted a king still in spain or they just wanted the team to be out for ever so that was the main concern in a monarchy kind of state or going back to a republic because it's an expensive image to hold up oh yes definitely is certainly is. spanish taxpayers there are going to actually these house these royal house is going to cost these two year twenty fourteen almost eight million euros that's what's going to coast to maintain all the royal family so of course it's expensive what about the people in terms of how they relate to the monarchy i mean there are some conservative people that appreciate the tradition what about the press i mean do they make fun of them what do they have to say well of course there are some people who appreciate the royal family mostly is all

those people who are very conservative. so basically very religious very catholic that's a profile of people who support the monarchy right now nowadays and. on the other side you have the press and the the the i mean the more right now it plays an important role in the process well because recently there was a case of censorship even in one of the most popular so terkel magazines in spain and i think we can bring up a cover actually of one of those it was a magazine cover tell us more that we're seeing now that's actually the cover that god censured it was it depicted king juan carlos passing the crown crown of shit literally to prince philip it what's your i know this does obviously have some of the people feel but this wasn't printed i assume on the internet there

was a lot of oh yeah. and also several cartoonist all of these magazines resigned and they just released today a book again the morning so very interesting and we'll be watching closely of course i understand becomes king tomorrow we'll see how the details of the fall but protests certainly are. going in country and actually they are very concerned about security as well for tomorrow's ceremony about some seven thousand police are going to be around and it will certainly be watching closely match up there to go far to the spanish correspondent talking to us about king wants abdication thanks so much thank you for having me. well that does it for me tonight great to have you with us stay in touch with us on line i'll see you tomorrow.

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