i. don't cry i know i'm tired of crying to. the fighting in eastern ukraine leaves the city of slovyansk with no water or electricity and almost all its hospitals closed all while the president's repeated values of a cease fire are yet to be fulfilled. a cry for help iraq's asking the u.s. to carry out earth strikes against sunni insurgents as to how this are taking control at a faster pace than even the american troops mommas during the two thousand and three invasion. also this hour the ballad russian president left red faced after alexander lukashenko falls victim to a phone prankster pretending to be the son of ukraine's ice the president i.

watching from in the world at the moment welcome to moscow and to r.t. international i mean in o'neill our top story weeks of intense attacks by the ukrainian army have left the eastern city of slovyansk a part allies continued combat an army or to refire water and electricity supplies it's all making life very difficult for locals you know that you. know you could then you would not does that mean being you know let the detroit. news or need to. go where you're going to go you're going to go to hitler. we're also getting reports of renewed fire on the outskirts of sloviansk get more on this let's cross to our team on cost of he's following the situation in eastern ukraine for us what do we know about the situation inside. like you

said after weeks of continued shelling our mayors hillary all the necessary infrastructure places like a water supplies and interest supplies have been cut off to the entire city of slovyansk and nearby regions as well but local officials self-proclaimed officials are also claiming that their head in for a famine as people are lining up for to get some water from dispensaries and as they go to stores sell they see nothing but empty shelves so we are certainly headed for a humanitarian crisis. not only that said people in desperate need of help people who are well they cannot be cared for as nearly all the hospitals are now is shut down or the ambulances that are trying to get to those those who need care they simply cannot do that because they're out of fuel they cannot get to their patients

meanwhile nearly half the residents of the city have already fled the violence almost twenty thousand have crossed in to cross the border with russia not being cared for on that territory most of the refugees are naturally women and children the figures i just gave you there according to an emergency ministry of the people who have ended up in the city all for all salt in their stalls but it's now filled up secure passage c. and other regions of russia such as of iraq as shi'a are now accepting a more. from on caution promised a unilateral ceasefire he said it will be brief but enough of the bloodshed since he was told he said his first presidential visit would be to the rest that did not happen he went to poland to meet barack obama instead he's to bring peace and put an end to fighting many times on promise to bring about a ceasefire at least twice clark believe you can trust the buying time so he can press the offensive later. that he has so groups irish so weeks ago he has launched

. plan still take casualties will be pretty. iffy about what we could be seeing here is playing for time he might be calling for the ceasefire to kind of low people into a false sense of security. and then if we lost this offensive and so i see we could be right we've got to wait to see the actual details now ukrainian investigators are claiming one russian journalist instead of two was killed near the city of lookouts curlier it this week the members of a t.v. crew died when they came under artillery shelling their bodies arrived back in moscow earlier today ukrainian investigators blame the attack and government forces but that's not the picture of line by the only survivor of the assault the cruise camera. he said it was a targeted attack by ukraine's national guard the killings triggered an international response reporters without borders confirmed that today saying they

have put the total number of journalist killed while covering kiev's military operation to five ukraine's envoy to the u.n. said the russian journalist killed were standing near the self-defense forces had no press markings on are there for to blame for the tragedy themselves. let's move on because iraq has urged the u.s. to launch air strikes against isis militants who have seized large parts of the country marked in red here washington's already carrying out surveillance jihadists have 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 to the capital was on monday in an attack on the city of baquba just sixty kilometers from baghdad however soldiers managed to repel the offensive you're now seeing recent footage from the northern city of where insurgents try to seize iraq's biggest oil but government forces for them off there as well and in between taking one major city after another isis has put

together a glowing report outlining the group's achievements artie's you're pissed off has been following their story. 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 to attract funding but their actions speak loudly too as isis fighters have almost to reach the iraqi

capital killing scores of people during the u.s. led invasion of the country it took the allied forces twenty two days says is to create a new slavic state emerging parts of iraq and syria 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 around two thousand are believed to have come from europe including britain isis has also become known for extreme and widespread beheadings and crucifixions most of its funding is traced to se. it said extremists are now turning their attention to the conflicts in iraq and syria the irish could feel the ripples too while filling their tanks as militants certainty is pushing up oil prices brant has gained almost five percent since last tuesday when he how to seize the city of mosul and it's currently trading at more than one hundred fourteen dollars per barrel that is actually the highest price in

almost a year since last august and there are predictions it will go further by fifteen to twenty dollars per barrel in the next couple of months for more on that let's get more indeed from europe to europe africa oil expert a plus industry group welcome to you do you agree with the forecast that the price will increase further in the next few months. well i think these events show how fragile the global oil supply demand balance really is of the moment the price certainly has risen to nine months in the last week and there's no real end to how high it could go some people are saying as you said rightly fifteen twenty dollars i've seen predictions of as high as two hundred dollars a barrel if that kind of price were hit we're going to see a major major oil supply shock and my major spike in the price and a demand impact would follow almost certainly iraq exports about two point five

million barrels a day to the global market its production is about four percent of the global total so any any disruption to sudden exports which let's remember we haven't seen yet would have a major major impact. just how to start really controlling major oil cities in iraq and are fighting to seize its biggest oil refinery as i talked about a little earlier if they gain control of all the country's oil would it be disastrous. i think that's a fair word catastrophic certainly if you look at the spare capacity in the world for oil production saudi arabia really is the only country out there with any saudi arabia can produce twelve point five million barrels a day at the moment it's about nine and a half so the spec of pasty the saudi has is about the same as what iraq exports so if we were to lose that oil from the market it would be the tightest market we've we've had for a long long long time and even then it's not clear that saudi arabia would be able

to replace the lost iraqi barrels we're going to see a lot of change on the oil market we're going to see people having to stop using their cars it will really would be kind of end game scenario if if iraq will lose it's producing countries elsewhere would benefit from a higher oil price but as we saw in two thousand and eight when the price hit a hundred forty seven dollars a barrel it triggered a global recession more or less so that would likely be the same outcome again you would see demand for oil plummet in which case you know everyone loses really is no there are no winners in this situation the oil producers in the short term would enjoy higher prices but you can't sustain the high price when people can't afford it so there's going to be a big hit on demand if that happens and then we could even see another economic recession across the whole world should really have to europe and africa or let's put a plot industry group we appreciate your insight today. and on our website

you can follow the live updates on the march towards baghdad by isis as well as the international reaction to the insurgency. spain is crowning a new king today festivities in the capital while they're in full swing later on we take a look at what they change of throne really means for some amish. live. play games or take a look very hard to take a look at once again there is a place that had sex with her right there knowing. that one.

little place. politically a. little bit of a. cut . welcome back to the program now the leader of bella russo's promised political asylum to the us to ukrainian president and family well that's what he thought when

talking to the ex leader song by phone he was even promised some extravagant treats in return too bad it was all just a prank artie's con got to the bottom of it a russian prankster who goes by the name of von braun rang up the administration of the president of bellows and introduced himself as the son of victor young accomplished 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's a chance he could be handed over to kiev the month pretended to be worried that this 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 quarter of problem that you know which an emotion i knew should push push it where it was good the story well but when you put you out of the show soon 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 no courtship three year could go lower broke the record over universal. wish him just to thank him pranks divonne offered the president a gift but they hope to look at but doing the move the piece of filthy shoes. but. if you do the work could you could i believe 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 prime minister or elles 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. well the president of belarus is not the first among the world's movers and shakers to fall victim to a phone prank your some of the most successful notorious jokes back in two thousand and twelve during the u.n. general assembly secretary-general ban ki moon was too busy to tell right away the person calling him was not the actual canadian prime minister yes hello.

hello yes hello stephen harper speaking how are you mr secretary general how are you are you i find how do you find. the conversation well it was pretty or crude with the fake canadian prime minister citing the need to comb his hair with superglue that's the reason why i couldn't attend the u.n. on prince. even the cuban revolutionary leader fidel castro feel to escape the chokers who pretended to be his friend fenice whelan president hugo chavez. but man oh. he did not. going to be going to label. me. as i see you know and like i thought those who don't but all of them i am going slow i think up until he had the guy if they wanted to which i always. go by. and we're not finished their radio host targeted sarah palin back into. the times.

that do take a listen to this you say no mrs good don't. worry you know. what . good it was great to hear your own country yeah it was sure it was the french president on the line blissfully unaware she was falling prey to a hoax during the six minutes long conversation even though the fake nicolas sarkozy was talking about his love of killing animals wife's bedroom activities. all right coming up here on r t international julian assange marks two years in embassy limbo. we take a look back at the cheapness of the chief of the would be leaders and reveal why british authorities to bend valuations of pollens on round the clock surveillance of the building he's holed up in. security in spain's capital is on the highest alert in years with the new monarch having been sworn in today you're about to see live pictures from the royal palace

in madrid where the new king philippe the sixth is hosting an afternoon reception for many honored guests the incoming king takes over the throne from his father juan carlos the application marks the end of a new era of colorful people at the helm and juan carlos was one of those to represent it to its fullest this is the reason why a gifted c.l.r. he enjoyed his moment of glory in the one nine hundred seventy two olympics where he's shown in the mix three person keelboat also to survive a military coup back in the eighty's he went on t.v. in full army uniform and ordered troops back to their bases as well not many royals would pose for a photo having shot dead an elephant whilst on safari in africa while as a keen motorcyclists people were said to like imagining their king as a must ride or helping those stranded on removed roads but what many will no doubt remember most is the time he had the guts to hush up the late venezuelan president hugo chavez. good thing

we're not only. spawn it but it seems to go via the host of in the nominees to talk more about what's really think about the royals do people in spain care well 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 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 inexpensive and it's to hold up oh yes definitely this these house these royal house these are some. very religious. people who support right now not when these stain on the recently the.

censorship even in one of the most popular satirical magazine is depicted king juan carlos the clown. and it's really to prince philip oh yeah. and today again the mourner. casting in the dolphin century with double trouble in french roads it's not. his self-imposed incarceration. of information or has more. stagg they're not worried about it but the perpetual pride of one man inside that building. is janice own so. inside a bottom floor. and become the hollywood he's also had to share the title

of the world's most famous whistleblower off the n.s.a. contractor edward snowden revealed details of mass government surveillance programs last two years inside the building has come. police the gun that door in case. but sweden. isn't. building the rest of my reporting from london i'm plenty. of confinement again spoke out against the u.s. a florida bomb a should start to consider his leg spoke to the whistleblowers lawyer jennifer robinson she. said more than six thousand pounds of something was fine. when i go to the entrance and you wonder well for somebody who hasn't got the crime yet why why do some people even legal issues that come into my. inside the embassy and of course his main concern eason has always the. week you takes that we know

he's on that is our main concern and i think it's important. that the u.s. action in relation to accuse the prosecution rests on it with you thanks. jennifer robinson speaking right to all. this hour starting with the attack in eastern afghanistan taliban suicide bombers have blown off thirty seven a fuel tanker police on the militants and all three of you talk were killed. plies being sent to u.s. troops and. libya's authorities have condemned u.s. personnel cheating the suspected leader of a deadly. it also demand. there the assault in september twenty fifth u.s. ambassador. after the break stay with us.

went 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 it a rock and the curtain. a 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 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 to current troops back which i was great lawyer two days and now he is provide support and security for u.s. personnel. week for. that more times past. the long term for.

today jim sat down with me to talk about financial war fare and how the current turmoil in the middle east is playing out in the markets pretty interesting stuff and in today's big deal i'm joined by the brilliant and the beautiful abby martin now miss martin is sitting down with me to discuss modern women in the workplace like ourselves can we have it all or like to think that it's all coming off so let's get to. the bonus day today on the bus with two lead stories we're giving it to the first is the federal open market committee vision for the future of the u.s. economy the second is amazon's swank. new mobile phone now we'll start off with the

bad stuff that's pretty important to the f o m c has decided to continue to taper.