question critical issues facing. you're ready to join the movement then walk up to the. fighting in eastern ukraine leave the city of slovyansk with no water or electricity and almost all its hospitals closed meanwhile the president's repeated powers of a cease fire yet to be fulfilled. also a cry for help iraq's asking the u.s. to carry out air strikes against sunni insurgents as jihad this to taking control at a faster pace than even the american troops managed during the two thousand and three invasion. plus the belorussian president left red faced after alexander lukashenko falls victim to a phone prankster pretending to be the son of ukraine's ousted president.

welcome my name is the harvey and you're watching r.t. international we are getting reports of renewed fire on the outskirts of the eastern ukrainian city of slavyansk weeks of intense attacks by the army have left paralyzed continued combat on army artillery fire of knocked out water and electricity supplies officials say almost all the hospitals have been closed while ambulances run out of petrol and it is all making life very difficult for the locals. here although you. know you could then you would not. let the detroit. news in you do in new. york where you're going to go you're going to to go.

and it all comes as ukraine's president petro poroshenko promised a unilateral cease fire he said it will be brief but it's enough time to allow anti government forces to lay down their arms so the first time the president 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 would be to the rest of it and yet screecher all that didn't happen he went instead to poland to meet barack obama and his pledge to bring peace and put an end to the fighting many times and promised to bring about a cease fire at least twice now let's take a look back now at what has happened in the volatile regions in the last three weeks ago was elected. dozens of civilians were caught up in the violence with residential areas frequently becoming the target of artillery fire you number of civilian deaths

since the start of the military operation two months ago has surged 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 army airstrikes europe's top security watchdog confirmed the explosion in the center of lugansk was the result of an aerial assault. and allegations have been made that clear views banned weapons in its air assault on slavyansk locals there claim that they were attacked by incendiary bombs which included white phosphorus broadcaster neil clark believes the violence will continue with the president using 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 so weeks

ago it has a lot to 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 to casualties on the crazy 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. and clearly launch this offensive and so i see it we could be very cynical we've got to wait to see the actual details ukrainian investigators are refusing to confirm the deaths of two russian journalists near the city of lugansk earlier this week the country's general prosecutor's office says that there was just one reporter killed and blamed his death on government forces well that is not the picture outlined by the only survivor of the attack the cruise cameraman. he said it was a targeted attack by ukraine's national guard because they triggered an

international response reporters without borders confirmed the two deaths saying that they have put the total number of journalists killed while covering cares military operation to five ukraine's envoy to the u.n. said the russian journalist killed were standing near the self-defense forces and had no press markings and therefore are to blame for the tragedy themselves. iraq has urged the united states to launch air strikes against isis militants who sees large parts of the country they are marked here in red washington's already carrying out airborne surveillance of the region hardest they've been closing in on baghdad since taking the country's second largest city more than a week ago the close they've come so far to the capital though that was on monday and it came in an attack on the city of baquba here which is pretty close to baghdad just sixty kilometers away in fact and other soldiers there have managed to repel the offensive and what we can see now is recent footage from the northern

city of baiji or insurgents trying to seize iraq's biggest oil refinery however given forces to fight them off as well and in between taking one major city after another lysis is put together a glowing report outlining the group's achievements if you go to spin off. fifteen thousand fighters ten thousand operations in iraq one thousand assassinations and all last year alone these state of iraq and syria and now nor no 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 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 to as isis fighters have almost to reach the iraqi capital killing scores of people along the way in just around seven b. while during the u.s. led invasion of the country it took the air. forces twenty two days to reach baghdad the alternate goal of isis is to create a new islamic 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 chaos 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 the country with the

biggest muslim population on earth and would following the arrest of high profile jihad it's there it's 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 in order 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 budget. but providing more weapons to the iraqi military i think would be a nightmare they have the weapons of already ended up in the isis hands a least a lot of weapons have so then you have the other thing is a good be a ground campaign or it could be a full fledged air campaign and the economic consequences of course all 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 already. not he had to all web site you can follow the law of updates on the launch towards by downed by isis as well as the international reaction to the insurgency. we'll. explain his crowning of a new king today we take a look at what the change of the throne really means for spanish people and whether the new moment comes in a strength to withstand the challenges he faces in the cash strapped country. of the bleep bleep bleep was there a little very hard to take out a little while to get on the air well you better act with the earthquake there's

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you're watching r t internets thanks for joining us this hour and next for you it seems that even presidents are not immune to prank phone calls so they do better received a call from somebody he believed was the son of ukraine's ousted president viktor yushchenko bitch and the conversation featured promises of political asylum and extravagance garnishes you can explain. 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 lukashenko himself during the conversation the prince of suggested that his father may have to move to bellows because there's

a chance he could be handed over to key the one 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 will start restoring order when you put. 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 your version. which i'm sure to thank him pranks have on offer the president a gift but they. don't. but . if you do. could you get a bill in the city. sure. they're talking about the golden loaf that was found in

the residence of the ousted ukrainian president many treasures were found there find a way 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 els 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 this fire and world leaders we remember who tap the angle of merkel's phone they may have some interesting bits of leader's private chat in their collection but probably not

a prank like this. to say with a syrian r.t. international still to come julian assange two years it embassy limbo to take a look back at the achievements of the chief of the wiki leak years and reveal why british authorities spent thousands of pounds on round the clock surveillance of the small building where he's holed up. next security in spain's capital is on the highest alert it's been for years with the new monitor being crowned today and what we can see right now live pictures of the first of it is taking place in madrid people been pouring into the streets there to view the military parade as we can see now the royal family being driven through the city center in a rolls royce coming king felipe a takes over the throne from his father juan carlos ortiz alexy takes a look now at the challenges the new royal will face. almost four decades since one catalyst to 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. congress and a totally different they have different who he's in a different mentality the formal leave under franco's 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 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 if. they talk about continued of the king of 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 youth 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 abdicating 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 on as their prime minister said 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.

one of europe's most colorful royals the outgoing king was also a good sailor even shown in the nine hundred seventy two olympics says rule was threatened back in the eighty's though by a military coup which she survived by going on t.v. and calling for the public support of democracy although the same probably wasn't quite so supporters are supportive of this costly elephant hunting trip to botswana however i think he motorcyclists they did warm to the legend of him being in incognito rider helping people on remote roads making it headlines again many famously asked the late venezuelan president hugo chavez to literally shut up the spanish correspondent go via and the host of in the now and he said now a lot more about what spaniards really think about the royals the people in spain care well they're fairly 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 still in spain or they just wanted the keen 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 these house these royal house is going to cost these three are tiny 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. literally

true prince philip but this wasn't printed i assume on the internet there was a lot of oh yeah a lot of buzz about that and also several cartoonist of these magazine resign and they just released today a book against mourner keep. well if you are hungry for more stories you can find them on our website including the outrage of environmentalist in new zealand and that is after the government licensed oil and gas drilling in the world's rarest dolphin sanctuary the full story for you just a click away. while you're there why not check this story out double chug along french roads not just being caught on speed cameras that could land you a following but also sharing the location of the devices via social networks full details of the controversial legislation can be found on a website. right on the scene. first for you and i think you're.

on our reporters' twitter. instagram. we haven't seen much of him lately and that's because wiki leaks chief julian assange is marking his second anniversary holed up inside the ecuadorian embassy in london despite his self-imposed incarceration though there is no sign of the whistleblower raising the white flag instead he's actually promised another massive leak of information. 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 saw 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 songe also means two years camped outside it 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 that whistleblower won't be extradited to the us if he travels to stockholm for questioning over allegations of sexual assault which means the i.q. 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

and i'm probably boy here. doing a. fine job again count against the us show for a truce while expressing support for fellow whistleblower edward snowden wiki leaks editor in chief still has a lot of supporters you can count on and you spoke to one of them. previously gave refuge to be australian. of 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 attempt to discredit and and make life difficult for whistleblowers and julian assange and wiki leaks and there's in the sort of dark marketing campaign against them that's been i've seen massive clearly this needs

resolution i mean germans 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. three conflicts of now being put to death using lethal injections and that's the spy the continued control of the sea over the effectiveness of the drugs being used and the recent boxed 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'd ever been tested are being kept secret for so often surround believe the lethal injections of proven unreliable for 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 in united states about three percent of all american executions were but. in most recent we saw injection as proven to be the least reliable technology of execution in the united states about seven percent of all the four injections have been botched. a time to bring you some of the world news now more starts with libya where the countries or thirtieth of 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 souls in september two thousand and twelve killed the u.s. ambassador along with three other american citizens. elsewhere nigerian security forces have arrested a senior member of the islamist group boko haram the military discovered the militants among five hundred other travelers that have been detained in the country south the nigerian authorities are ramping up their efforts to combat the islamist group which has admitted carrying out many recent killings and kidnappings. and the israeli army has arrested at least thirty members of hamas in the west bank as part of the ongoing law and scale operation searching for three israeli teenagers that the i.d.f. claims that they with kidnapped by the islamist group near the city of hebron and we could go into didn't fifty suspects have been arrested so. it's cities in the west. but it works ok and i'll be getting my popcorn ready coming up it's time to go behind the scenes to see how exactly an artsy brings with the news latest

episode of the new state on the way. 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 their forty seven's 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 aspartame 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 us 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 is. but that's just my opinion. len one of the wonderful sean harmon olenka new knowledge base this time peter limone. legler.

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