the tickle issues these. are ready to join the movement then walk away with. a cry for help iraq is asking the u.s. to carry out airstrikes against sunni insurgents as jihad is the taking control at a faster pace than even the american troops mounties during the two thousand and three invasion. the fighting in eastern ukraine leaves the city of slovyansk with no water or electricity and almost all its hospitals closed meanwhile the president's repeated vows of a cease fire are yet to be fulfilled. plus the russian president's left red face that alexander lukashenko falls victim to a phone prankster pretending to be the son of ukraine's ousted president.

welcome my name's neil harvey and you're watching r.t. international. iraq has urged the u.s. to launch air strikes against isis militants who seized large parts of the country you can see them here marked in red for washington's already carrying out airborne surveillance the hardest they've been closing in on baghdad since taking the country's second largest city more than a week ago the closest they've come so far though to the capital was on monday that was in an attack on the city of baquba as you can see clearly marked and it's pretty close as well just sixty kilometers away from baghdad however soldiers did manage to repel the offensive and what we can see now is recent footage from the northern city of by gee where insurgents trying to seize iraq's biggest all refinery however government forces fought them off there as well. and in between

taking one major city after another isis's managed to put together a glowing report outlining the group's achievements to go to school as more. 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 and amounts of weapons they use their strategy details of operations and targets and former intelligence officers claim it produces its press releases like a giant corporation trying to create an image of a world structured disciplined and effective organization or to attract funding but their actions speak loudly too as isis fighters have almost to reach the iraqi

capital killing scores of people along the way in just around seven days while 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 to day 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 because she would the biggest muslim population on earth would fall in the arrest of high profile jihad is there it said extremists are now turning their attention to the conflicts in iraq and syria. while baghdad may have officially asked for help u.s.

defense officials are reportedly lacking intelligence information to carry out precise strikes defense analyst ivan eland says that getting involved in iraq again would be a major blow to america's federal budgets 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 of that cost 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 are ready. to our website you can follow live updates on the

moment you towards baghdad by isis as well as the international reaction to the insurgency. weeks of intense attacks by the ukrainian army have left the eastern city of slovyansk power life's continued call mountain artillery fire have both water and electricity supplies officials say almost all the hospitals have been closed as well while. i've 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 cause them leaving you know let the detroit do you know lay it in the puzzle of the news it need to deal let's live in school did well you know if we're going to go you're going to go to hitler. on the small comes as ukraine's president petro poroshenko promises

a unilateral ceasefire he said it will be brief but will be enough time in order to allow anti government forces to lay down their arms for the first time poroshenko has promised to put an end to the bloodshed since he was elected i can may on the very day of the vote he said his first presidential visit would be to the rest of donetsk region that didn't happen though he went instead to poland to meet barack obama he's pledged to bring peace to put an end to the fighting many times and promised to bring about a ceasefire at least twice let's take a look back now what has happened in the volatile regions in the last three weeks since parachinar was elected. 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 a surge to two hundred fifty seven according to u.n. estimates. the city of lugansk saw one of the worst attacks when its central

square came under enemy fire and army airstrikes europe's top security watchdog confirmed the explosion in the center of lugansk was the result of an aerial assault. the violence against journalists covering the conflict has reached unprecedented levels that's according to reporters without borders two russian t.v. crew members were killed in army shelling earlier this week. and allegations have been made that kiev used banned weapons in its air assault on slavyansk locals claimed they were attacked by incendiary bombs which included white phosphorous broadcaster neil clark believes that the violence will continue with the president just using the choose to buy time so he can press on the defensive later. things haven't gone to plan for the ukrainian authorities here they launched their offensive against the so-called terrorists in the east and

several weeks ago it has launched a plan the fact is they haven't been able to regain control of parts of the country and as we know the people in the east are still there they're fighting back and to take casualties on the free forces and i sort of 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 in the east and then if we launch this offensive and so i think we've got to be very cynical we've got to wait to see the actual details. well you stay with us here on out say yes we tell you more about the new king golf spy later on we'll take a look at what the change of throne really means pull the spanish people and whether the pneumonic has enough strength to withstand the challenges he faces in the cash strapped country. but. they would like to know that you know the price is the only industry

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well the bank you're watching internationally now it seems that even presidents are not immune to prank phone calls the leader of the roots received a call from somebody he believed was the son of ukraine's ousted president viktor young the coverts and the conversation featured promises of political asylum and extravagant treats it is unclear though who leaked the embarrassing phone call what is going on should you count as more of a russian prankster who goes by the name of one rang up the administration of the president of bello's and introduced himself as the son of victor which the ousted president of ukraine he got to talk to the bell russian president alexander

lukashenko himself during the conversation the princess suggested that his father may have to move to bellows because there is a chance he could be handed over to key the man pretended to be worried that the current authorities in kiev may not treat the ousted president well the belorussian president who never shies away from using colloquial language in public was even more candid doing what he thought was a private conversation. problem that you know which an important unusual push push it where it will start the story well but when you put to our show we'll see you 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 three year could go lower sport wrote the report over universal. wish him just thank him pranks the van offered the president a gift but they. don't. but

. if you do they could begin to believe most of you sure. 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 prankster or else he said he would send the head of his security service to prepare a 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 this guy on world leaders we remember

who tapped 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 if you stay with us here in our international still to come remember this man is julian assange and he's marking two years in embassy limbo we'll take a look back at the achievements of the chief of the wiki leaks under the law so reveal why british or thirty's and thousands of pounds on round the clock surveillance of the small building even see in the hold up and. but first let's head to spain and security there in the capital madrid is on the highest alert it's been for years with the new moniker set to be crowned later today incoming king philippe will inherit the throne from his father one call us artie's alexy oshinsky takes a look now at the challenges the new girl will be 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 son philippe faces an uphill battle for. the last one carlos and a totally different they have different who is in a different mentality they formally found a friend whose dictatorship the latter was brought up in democracy the question whether this could aid the new king or turn him into a brussels style bureaucrat at a time when the world 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 standing. they talk about continued of the king queen of the president but it's the system that needs to be changed not particularly her since people are demanding changes and the latest election to the youth of parliament. 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 abdicated 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 organizing 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. reporting from one. in spain. well as one of europe's most colorful royals the outgoing king 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 he survived by going on t.v. and calling for the public's support of democracy although bud probably wasn't quite so supportive of this costly elephant hunting trip to botswana but as a keen motorcyclists they did warm to the legend of him being an incognito rider helping people on remote roads the king hit the headlines again when he famously asked the late venezuelan president hugo chavez to literally shut up on the spanish correspondent bruce years ago via and the host of in the now and eastern hour he talked more about what spain is really think about their royals. do people in spain care well definitely people in spain 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 keen to be out for ever so that was the main concern is 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 operate 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 they actually to prince philip it but this was in print in i assume on the internet there was

a lot of oh yeah. and also several cartoonist of these magazine resign and they just released today a book again the morning. well if you are still hungry for more stories you can find them on our website including the outrage of environmentalists in new zealand and that is after the government there licensed oil and gas drilling in the world's rarest don't fit sanctuary the full story just the click away for. all you that want to check this out double trouble on 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 full details of the controversial legislation available on a website. right see. first rate. and i think you're.

going to. be in the. wiki leaks chief julian assange is marking his second anniversary holed up inside the ecuadorian embassy in london and despite his self-imposed incarceration there is no sign of the whistleblower raising the white flag instead he has promised another massive leak of information that has more. 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 the 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 non-paid. 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 agro dorian 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 on polly boy. and his two years of confinement to songs that are going spoke out against the u.s. will forward to it while also expressing support for fellow whistleblower edward snowden. in chief still has a lot of supporters you can count on and talk to one of the. previously gave refuge to the australian. of course it's 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 and i'm a journalist and i think that you have to take some risks for what you believe in that has been a very well funded attempts to discredit and and make life difficult for whistleblowers and to innocent and we can leaks and there's in this sort of dark marketing campaign against them that's been absent massive t.v. this needs resolution i mean genus of 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. three conflicts of now being put to death using lethal injections and that is despite the continued control to see over the effectiveness of the drugs being used and a recent botched execution back in 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've ever been tested will those nuggets of information of being kept secret professor austin sarratt believes that lethal injections have so far proven unreliable. 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 combination of broad broad historical context so if you look over the course of the twentieth century new united 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 we'll start with libya where the country's authorities have condemned the u.s. for snatching 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 there is salt in september two thousand and twelve killed the u.s. ambassador along with three other american citizens. i do security forces arrested

a senior member of the islamist group boko haram the military discovered the militants among five hundred other travellers who'd been detained in the country south than one thousand in our thirties of ramping up their efforts to combat the islamist group which has admitted to carrying out many recent killings and kidnappings. elsewhere the israeli army has arrested at least thirty members of hamas in the west bank as part of the ongoing large scale operation searching for three israeli teenagers the i.d.f. claims that they were kidnapped by the islamist group near the city of hebron a week ago more than two hundred fifty suspects have been arrested so far during night raids across syria solution in the let's. don't forget the very latest news at the top of the hour that's every hour here on our take up next for you though oksana boyko will discuss with a professor of governments whether russia or any other state should cooperate with the united states and why.

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alone welcome to worlds apart a few months ago western observers were predicting that crimea would cost lodging reports in the kremlin and so far did the russian president's approval ratings at an all time high that forecast seems more like wishful thinking than anything else at the same time barack obama's polling numbers i had in south could the ukrainian crisis coupled with other foreign policy disasters cost him and he's party the white house well to discuss that i'm now joined by peter rutland professor of government at the western university professor rutland thank you very much for being here thank you for inviting me now as far as i know foreign policy has rarely ease ever of been a deciding factor in the us elections but i don't recall a time when it had backfired so spectacular man on so many fronts it seems that everything that barack obama has touched so far turned to ashes i mean in a reset with russia and you started with the middle east winding down the war in

iraq democratization of ukraine democratization of syria. i wonder if those policy blunders a big enough and numerous enough to have an effect on the two thousand and sixteen presidential vote well of course two thousand and sixteen is quite a long way off so it's speculation to say how foreign policy could play into that election but given that hillary clinton who seems to be the main standard bearer for the democrats strength is her foreign policy experience so it doesn't look very good for her to be going into that election with this track record now one of the reasons why i think two thousand and eight proved so easy for the democrats was the so-called bush fatigue many people believe that it couldn't possibly get worse than that and i think many of them were in for quite a big surprise this.