why you're crying don't cry i know i'm tired of crying too don't. cry for help iraq in the u.s. to carry out airstrikes against sunni insurgents as jihadists are taking control at a faster pace than even the american troops managed during the two thousand and three invasion. the fighting in eastern ukraine leaves the city of slovyansk with no war to relate to this city and almost all its hospitals closed meanwhile the president's repeated vows of a cease fire are yet to be fulfilled. plus the belorussian president's left red faced after alexander lukashenko falls victim to a phone prankster pretending to be the son of ukraine's ousted president.

welcome once again my name is bill harvey you're watching r.t. international. first for you this hour iraq has urged the u.s. to launch air strikes against isis militants who have seized large parts of the country you're hardest have been closing in on baghdad since taking the country's second largest city more than a week ago and now in control of the areas that you can see marked in red here the closest they've actually come so far to the capital was on monday that was when militants attacked the city of baquba which you can see down here very close to sixty kilometers in fact away from baghdad soldiers though they managed to repel that offensive and what you see now is recent footage from the northern city of baiji where insurgents trying to seize iraq's biggest all refinery. government

forces pull them off as well and in between taking one major city after another isis also managed to put together a glowing report outlining the kitties. fifteen thousand fighters ten thousand operations in iraq one thousand assassinations and all last year alone the state of iraq and syria now known more notoriously as isis has been slicing through iraq moving closer and closer to baghdad and they're running a slick modern p.r. campaign to even publishing an official report of their activities using computer generated graphics it paints a clear picture of the terror organization including the types in amounts of weapons they use their strategy details of operations and targets former intelligence officers claim it produces its press releases like a giant corporation trying to create an image of a wall structured disciplined and effective organization or to attract funding but

their actions speak loudly to as isis fighters have almost reached the iraqi capital killing scores of people along the way in just around seven b. well during the u.s. led invasion of the country it took the allied forces twenty two days to reach baghdad the alternate goal of isis is to create a new slavic state merging parts of iraq and syria into one now it's believed that the movement grew out of al qaeda in iraq emerging from the cast of the two thousand and three invasion today it has fifteen thousand fighters most of whom are thought to be from neighboring middle eastern countries but around two thousand are believed to have come from europe including britain isis has also become known for extreme brutality including widespread beheadings and crucifixions most of its funding is traced to southeast asia particularly indonesia the country with the biggest muslim population on earth and would following the arrest of high profile jihad is there it said extremists are now turning their attention to the conflicts in iraq and syria. well moshing to may have an official request from baghdad to act

but u.s. defense officials are reportedly lacking intelligence information in order to carry out precise strikes american defense analyst ivan eland says that getting involved in iraq again would be a major blow to the federal budget but providing more weapons to the iraqi military i think would be a nightmare of a half of the weapons of already ended up in the isis hands or least a lot of weapons have so then you have the other thing is a good be a drone campaign or it could be a full fledged air campaign and the economic consequences of course all that costs money and the united states is already has a seventeen trillion dollar debt and i think we're already overextended around the world and to get back into iraq is going to cost more money and more billions and i think as i say the american people are tired of not only the lives lost american lives overseas in these places but also the money spent you know they've spent

trillions in iraq already. and if you had a website you can follow live updates on the march of isis towards buying down as well as the international reaction to the insurgency. in other news weeks of intense attacks by the ukrainian army have left the eastern city of slovyansk power lines continued. to refine have left it without both water and electricity officials say that almost all the hospitals have been closed while ambulances have run out of petrol and it is all making life very difficult for the locals. here let you. know you could then you would not doesn't even you know let the detroit. news it need to deal with love and. we're going to go you're going to go to.

and it all comes as ukraine's president petro poroshenko has promised a unilateral ceasefire by the army he said it will be brief but enough time to allow anti government forces to lay down their arms it's not the first time poroshenko has promised to put an end to the bloodshed since he was elected back in may on the very day of the vote he said his first presidential visit will be to the restive don't yet screeching well that didn't happen he went to poland instead to meet barack obama he pledged to bring peace and put an end to the fighting many times and promised to bring about a ceasefire at least twice let's look back at what has happened in the volatile regions in the last three weeks since perishing co was elected. and dozens of civilians were caught up in the violence with residential areas frequently becoming the target of artillery fire the number of civilian deaths

since the start of the military operation two months ago has surged to two hundred fifty seven according to a un estimate. the city of lugansk saw one of the worst attacks when its central square came under enemy airstrikes euro's top security watchdog confirmed the explosion in the center of lugansk was the result of an aerial assault. the violence against journalists in eastern ukraine has reached unprecedented levels that's according to reporters without borders to russian t.v. crew members were killed by army shelling earlier this week. allegations have been made that kids have used boned weapons in its air assault on the defiant city of slovyansk locals that claim that they were attacked by incendiary bombs which included white phosphorous broadcaster neil clark believes

the violence will continue with president poroshenko planning to use the truce to buy time so he can press on with the offensive later. things haven't gone to plan for the ukrainian authorities here they launched their offensive against the so-called terrorists in the east several weeks ago it has launched a plan the fact is they haven't been able to regain control of parts of the country as we know the people in the east are still there they're fighting back even to casualties on the crazy forces and i should fear that what we could be seeing here is playing for time he might be calling for the cease fire to kind of low people into a false sense of security. and then of relaunch this offensive and so i think we could be very cynical we've got to wait to see the actual details. still to come for you this spade will be crowned a new king today later on we will take a look at what a change of throne really made sport the people of spite and whether the new monarch has enough strength to with stone the challenges he faces in the cash

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political. outlook. thanks to an all too international it seems that even president a nazi immune to prank phone calls leader balor east received a call from someone he believed was the son of ukraine's ousted president viktor yushchenko bitch the conversation featured promises of political asylum under extravagant treats it's unclear who leaks the embarrassing phone call auntie's gone

each account explains a russian prankster who goes by the name of one rang up the administration of the president of bellows and introduced himself as the son of victor young accomplish the ousted president of ukraine he got to talk to the bell russian president alexander location to himself during the conversation the princess suggested that his father may have to move to bellows because there's a chance he could be handed over to kiev the man pretended to be worried that the current authorities in kiev may not treat the ousted president well the belo russian president who never shies away from using colloquial language in public was even more candid doing what he thought was a private conversation. quarter of problem that you know which an important unusual push push if we will start restoring order when you put two other shows. then the president of bellows showed a great deal of hospitality inviting the ousted ukrainian president and his family to stay in bellows yes or courtship for

a year could globalist broke the reporter over him a third term universal. which i'm just. reporting for start but to search is. you going to shoot you know to pour over even though to the court over to mr bush sr to go over to turn the whole process you know for sure. to thank him prankster van offered the president the gift but they hope to look at but on the move to the issue. but. if you do the work could you could i believe most of you who. they're talking about the golden loaf that was found in the residence of the ousted ukrainian president many treasures were found there well anyway the president of bellows seems to have bought every bit of that prank and he's now angry alexander lukashenko gave his security service

a week to track down the russian trying to start or else he said he would send the head of his security service to prepare quote feed for cattle. but the prankster duped not just the belorussian president and his administration but also those who had apparently hacked into the phone call decided it was the real thing and leaked it before the prankster himself revealed the truth about one suspects that it could be the ukrainian intelligence service it's no secret intelligence service is by on the world leaders we remember who tapped the angle of merkel's phone they may have some interesting bits of leaders private chat in their collection but probably not a prank like this. do stay with us here on r.t. international still to come for you julian assange two years in and the sea in limbo we will take a look back at the achievements of the chief of the wiki leak is and reveal why british authorities are spend thousands of pounds on round the clock surveillance

of the tiny building where he's holed up. next security in spain's capital madrid is on the very highest alert in years with a new moniker to be crowned later today the incoming king philippe will inherit the throne from his father one carlos ortiz election takes a look at the challenges the new world is facing. almost four decades since one carlos took the throne in spain being treated almost as a hero he has left the palace with a better reputation his family's biographer says he's san felipe faces an uphill battle for. congress and a totally different they have different who he is i'm a different mentality they formalise under franco's dictatorship the latter was brought up in democracy the question whether this could a new king or turn him into a brussels style bureaucrat at a time when the royal family's reputation has hit an all time low one of spain's

most vocal opposition figures is skeptical claiming the change of face inside the palace would not change anything is pending. they talk about continued of the king the queen of the president but it's the system that needs to be changed not particular persons people are demanding changes and the latest election to the year of parliament. the two biggest party has lost it and it's not difficult to see where such resentment stems from almost a third of spain's working population is jobless and the government is increasing social cuts the educated king may not have been directly involved in this but is still associated to have played a role in causing the difficult conditions ordinary spaniards are experiencing. even after juan carlos announced his abdication people were in the streets paralyzing the spanish capital they say the country needs a total political revamp and are pushing for a referendum but according to those initiating it the government is not so keen on

holding it. there is not going to be a referendum as their primary threat and that's why we are going to have him a referendum done by the people and for the people of spain brace itself for another string of anti-monarchy protests it seems many especially young people have lost trust in the next generation of rulers. r.t. reporting from madrid in spain. well as one of europe's most colorful royals the outgoing king juan carlos was also a good sailor and even shown in the one nine hundred seventy two olympics israel was threatened back in the eighty's by a military coup which she survived by going on t.v. and calling for the public support of democracy the public weren't quite so happy about this costly elephant hunting trip to botswana though also is a keen motorcyclist and they did warn though to the legend about him being an incognito rider helping people on lonely roads the king hit the headlines again

when he famously asked the late venezuelan president hugo chavez to literally shut up spanish correspondent bruce years ago via and the host of in the now and he said now he talked more about what spaniards really think about their royals. do people in spain care well definitely people in spain or in spain care and that's why thousands of people took on the streets to the streets recently i mean people actually wanted to have a referendum they really wanted to decide whether they wanted a king stealing in spain or they just wanted the team to beat out for ever so that was the main concern is they in a monarchy kind of state or going back to a republic because it's inexpensive and it's to hold up oh yes definitely this 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 some people who appreciate the royal family 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 in spain on the other side you have the press recently there was a case of censorship even in one of the most popular satirical magazines in spain it depicted king juan carlos passing the crown crown and it's really to prince philip it but this wasn't printed i assume on the internet there is a lot of oh yeah. and also several cartoonist of these magazine resign and they just released today a book again the morning. well there are plenty of old stories for you to discover on our website including and foreign mentalists in new zealand who have been left outraged a lot suffer the government license oil and gas drilling in the wills rarest

dolphin sanctuary the full story for you just a click away. and while you're there check this out double trouble on the french roads it's not just being caught on speed cameras that could land you a fine but also sharing the location of the devices via social networks the full details of the controversial legislation you can get them on our web site. right to see. first for you and i think that your. orders would. be in the. wiki leaks chief julian assange a second time diversionary holed up inside the ecuadorian embassy in london despite

his self-imposed incarceration there is no sign of the whistleblower raising the white flag yet instead he has promised in fact another massive leak of information . has been. step out of one of the world's most famous department stores and there's always a policeman nearby they're not worried about shoplifters but the perpetual presence of one man inside that building it's two years since julian a son sought refuge in london's ecuadorian embassy inside a bottom floor flat in this red brick mansion in that time the wiki leaks editor in chief has still managed to run for the australian senate and become the subject of a hollywood film he's also had to share the title of the world's most famous whistleblower after n.s.a. contractor edward snowden revealed details of mass government surveillance programs last year two years inside the building for a son also means two years camped outside for the london's metropolitan police the

bill for guarding that door in case a son should ever emerge is something like eleven thousand pounds a day the ecuadorian ambassador admits his nonpaying tenant is suffering but sweden won't give assurances the whistleblower won't be extradited to the u.s. if he travels to stockholm for questioning over allegations of sexual assault which means the ecuadorian ambassador isn't ruling out the possibility his unlikely houseguest could be rattling around inside that building for the rest of his life reporting from london i'm probably boy came. during a conference call to use of confinement to soldier going against the u.s. will forward to swell expressing support for fellow whistleblower edward snowden wiki leaks editor in chief still has a lot of supporters you can count on at all to talk to one of them. previously gave refuge to the australian. course it occurred to me there may be one day

consequences for me and my family but. i haven't actually i'm not a whistleblower i have supported whistleblowers but i haven't actually whistleblower i'm a journalist and i think that you have to take some risks for what you believe in there has been a very well funded attempts to discredit and and make life difficult for whistleblowers and julian assange and wiki leaks and there's in this sort of dark marketing campaign against them this means that massive t.v. this needs resolution i mean jews are being you know hasn't had any sunlight or fresh air for two years and i think it's cruel it's hard to see how any change can happen because the british government seem determined to continue spending all this money to sort of maintain a guard on the acronyms in the u.s. to convicts have been put to death using lethal injections and that's despite the

continued control of the sea over the effectiveness of the drugs being used and a botched execution like an april it took an oklahoma convict almost an hour to die in agony after he was injected with a new experimental cocktail of drugs the details including the composition of the drugs and if they'd ever been tested before being used on people being kept secret professor austen siren to police the lethal injections of proven unreliable over the years. there are questions which are now being raised which will be litigated in the united states about whether or not it is constitutional for states to go forward with these executions under the veil of secrecy we're not exactly sure with where they got the drugs from and we're not exactly sure what combinations or dosages they actually they actually use you need to put this in a broad broad historical context so if you look over the course of the twentieth century knight states. about three percent of all american executions were botched

and most recently we thought injection has proven to be the least reliable technology of execution in the united states about seven percent of all the flu injections have been botched there's been some other world news now starting with libya where the country's authorities have condemned the u.s. force nach ing the suspected leader of a deadly attack on the american embassy in benghazi tripoli described the arrest as a violation of its sovereignty it also demanded that the captured man be returned to libya and tried their assault in september twenty twelve killed the u.s. ambassador along with three other american citizens. another use nigerian security forces have arrested a senior member of the islamist group boko haram the military discovered the militant among five hundred other travelers who had been detained in the country's

south nigerian authorities are ramping up their efforts to combat the islamist group which is admitted carrying out many recent killings and kidnappings. ok get to join me at the top of the hour the very latest news for you here on ati do stick around though because after the break we will have breaking the set it out in muncie. so are we going back to iraq recently violence has flared up as insurgents are taking cities from the current iraqi government and response to this chaos obama declared that his administration is prepared to take military action whenever our

national security is threatened oh well since the weapons of mass destruction were never found in iraq and the current militants can't shoot a key forty seven over the ocean i don't see how us national security is at risk now or before the iraq war even started but on the other hand the flow of oil from us but tamia well that might be at risk but sometimes i forget that obama is a politician and just a day later he was quoted as saying quite the opposite about the same situation declaring that we will not be sending u.s. troops back into combat in iraq which sounds great to my ears until you wait yet another few days and now he is saying that they want to send at least two hundred seventy five troops to provide support and security for u.s. personnel and the u.s. embassy in baghdad i think this orwellian attitude towards the truth comes from two factors one lying works and obama gets away with it and to the fear of looking weak presidents have to act confident like they were total control with an awesome plan even when they have no idea what they're going to do i think this is the case with

this iraq issue but that's just my opinion. well it's good guys i mean martin and this is a break in the set so perhaps no other mascot professional u.s. forces more overtly racist than the football team in the nation's capital washington d.c. and that's only because the hook nosed angry arab is a high school mascot in california i'm of course talking about the extremely

offensive name the washington redskins but in a rare symbolic win for the native american community today the u.s. patent and trademark office actually cancelled six trademark registrations for the team's name so under federal law offensive derogatory language cannot be trademarked and for eight years plaintiff amanda black corps petitioned the office to drop its protection of the team's name citing a long history of the term being used as a racial slur for native americans but the team's owner dan snyder so the name is steeped in tradition and won't be changed to some other things steeped in tradition slavery the k.k.k. and black face but i guess i can see snyder's point so i'm hoping to bait over this name is merely a microcosm of the long and horrendous oppression of native americans in this country for today this decision marks the bare minimum amount of respect that first nations peoples deserve now let's break this up. the success of the look it was terrible to take

another look very hard to take out early the club have you ever had sex with that hurt their little little. gold. little little little little little. little little little. it's been ten long years since the cia carried out its first drone strike in pakistan the bombing which took place on june seventeenth two thousand and four in waziristan province allegedly.