knowledge that we've got the future average. was. my. lack of resumes its air and ground offensive in eastern ukraine a day off the president promises his troops would soon. no light water or medical supplies in the besieged city of slovyansk the city is on the verge of a cometary house defeat thanks to the nonstop government offensive. a cry for help iraq asked the u.s. to use its air power against isis militants who are locked in fierce battles for the country's vital oil reserves. also this hour in a golden low from ukraine in exchange for refuge in the red faced by the russian president during a prank phone call. to

r.t. international i'm going on a funk for joining us our top story the ukrainian army has. it follows reports of renewed an artillery but little choice but to learn to live with the day. you're going to be ok. now we're getting reports of renewed fire on the outskirts of slavyansk the city besieged by government troops. situation as it stands in sloviansk. you know just now you mentioned that the fire resumed this morning and one man

actually results off that fire he was near a christian orthodox church which was destroyed by that fire and he died as a result of the. food in some instances cell self proclaimed the next republican officials are claiming that so we are they are heading for humanitarian catastrophe as shelves in stores you can see people are going up for. hospitals nearly all the hospitals are closed and the reason for that because most of the people have left most of them please or simply i'm going to lead to that and . it's ninety thousand refugees who crossed the border and they are now situated in various refugee camps in real solve region as well as they neared region is already filled up to capacity and cannot say except anymore refugees because for the. promise of an airfield instead of. rushing.

it's not because of what you. call it by the former top diplomat strong statements trying to counter the. thousand assassinations and all isis has been slicing through iraq claiming it produces its press releases. its fighters have almost to reach. space to reach baghdad the alternate goal of isis is to create a new out of fighters most of whom are thought to be from neighboring middle eastern countries but about 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 following the arrest of high profile jihad as their it said extremists are now turning their attention to the conflict in iraq and syria while baghdad

seek support their advice over whether the u.s. has the military intelligence needed for persuasion earth difference on list even ellen says getting involved in iraq again would be an unwelcome blow to the. to the iraqi military i think would be a nightmare they have the weapons. isis hands that weapons have so then you have the other thing is. overseas but also the ice is still very crude has. to have a major major impact if you so if we were to go. it would be the tightest we've had for a long long time and even then the barrels we're going to see change and then we could even see another still ahead in the program with the late kitty comes on run the clock surveillance and.

economic down in the final. day. sang i and the rest of life a living every week. welcome back to the program the president of belarus alexander lukashenko the conversation itself was recorded on no one source guy nature counts were it wasn't her. a russian prankster who goes by the name of vaughan rang up the administration of the president of bellows and introduced himself as the son of victor young a call which the ousted president of ukraine he got to talk to the bell russian

president alexander look at the himself during a conversation the princess suggested that his father may have to move to belize because there's a chance they could be handed over to fellow russian president who never shies away from using colloquial language in public with more can. when you moved over when you put water ashore. then present ukrainian president and his family to stay in the garage which i'm just to. thank him pranks have on offer the president the gift but they hope to look to the issue a. little bit. but. we do know there could be good i believe most of the. issue. 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 elles he said he would send ahead 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 we feel the truth about one suspects that it could be the ukrainian intelligence service it's no secret intelligence service is spying on 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 crank like this. well the russian leader is not the first prominent figure to fall victim to a phone hoax here some of the most notorious incidents back in two thousand and twelve during the un jim yes a lot of our you find our you know the line that make believe the media and from

your cited would be to hold his her with superglue that's the reason the. cuban revolutionary leader fidel castro dodge numerous attempts on his life but even he feels to avoid being duped a decade ago. but i'm big oh whatever. she you know not going for i'm not going to be going to and i. know. president alongside john mccain. six minutes she was. careful to watch that he was capital base so as not to. mark the demonstration is still scheduled to take place in the capitol later today about on. the host of in the now and he said no way this goes with sponsor it's really think about the

royals to people in spain care well definitely people in spain on the streets i mean 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 well it's definitely these house these royal house is going to cost these three or 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 thought leg 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 so terkel magazines in spain it depicted king juan carlos passing the crown crown and they actually to prince felipe but this was imprinted i assume on the internet there was a lot of oh yeah. and also several cartoonist all of these magazines resign and they just released today a book against a mourner keep. you'll keep stepping on four hundred seventy two olympics following a military coup back in the eighty's he went on t.v. in full army uniform as well and ordered troops back to their bases not many royals would pose in a controversial photo having shot dead an elephant whilst on a safari in africa either. being a keen motorcyclist did nothing to harm his image among his people but what many will no doubt remember most is the time he told the late venezuelan president hugo chavez to shut up. but i don't think i

want to know what they new head of state has many challenges ahead of him for some insight on this i'm joined by author political analyst. thank you indeed for joining us just first of all one card as he was highly popular for much of his reon and yet he fell out of favor didn't he with the public in recent years what's the reason for that. well he was very popular in the past to be said that he was. from criticism in the media there was so to speak a tacit call for an end to the spanish media never to criticize them or there was a lot about you les should and has in the long term proved to be because once stories began to appear about him in the press of the match the idea let's say was so different from the rich that people were more disappointed that they would have died is the recent off his fall of popularity in the recent years and do you think

philippe then will be able to establish public trust in the royal family. all. well let's say that he's the right man to do that in the sense that he's very different from his father he's very much his mother's song very discreet he's not very talkative not a populist like his father but that is precisely what the spineless need now or want now understeer king the problem is for him is that the circumstances are not the right circumstances for the spanish morning it has lost a lot of christie she is not clear whether it is retrievable that christie and then let's say the debate about the form of the state more likely or republic is already out in the street and the figures are not do not look very well for the morning thirty six percent of the spaniards support them or not you that's a huge amount of people support so sort of support the republic only fifty percent of the people support the morning that it's maybe

a majority but that's not an often a monarchy or monarchy has to be overwhelmingly popular to survive yet just all not because polls do show that most people in spain want a referendum on whether to keep the monarchy in your opinion could it actually happen. and i don't think show a referendum in would mean that the legitimacy of the institution of the morning would be subject to public decision that is something i don't think they will ever accept and not on top of that there is that territorial problem whatever the result in a referendum and i think it could be favorable to the morning maybe but it would not be favorable in regions such as catalonia or the basque country so that would show a split in the country that could be very dangerous from the point of view of the conscious unit so no i don't think that is happening very soon. yeah and it would removing the spanish marcie and creating this republic would it even make a practical difference do you believe.

well earth of course you know. the no. the the previous respondents republic was indeed a huge difference from the regime that existed previously. but in this case yes the spanish markets very democratic state of massachusetts are in. as well one of the humbling of a team known as the red fury pick your favorite from a selection or two dot com. also on our website a chinese tycoon through the gatsby style party in new york but instead of inviting the big rich powerful to be welcoming a group american. right with think about your. own army corps which i. am.

a hero to some on an enemy of the state to others wiki leaks founder julian assange just marking his second year in the ecuadorian embassy in london and still the whistleblower refuses to back down even stack they're not worried about shoplifters but the perpetual presence inside not believe that it's too high the 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 on the subject of a hollywood film he's also had to share the title of the world's most famous whistle blowing off the 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 pumped outside for the london's metropolitan police the bill for god being 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 start calling for questioning allegations of sexual assault which means the i could dorian ambassador isn't ruling out the possibility his on likely houseguest could be. rattling around inside that building for the rest of his life reporting from london i'm plenty boy came. during a conference call marking his two years of confinement the songe again spoke out against the us authorities he warned barak obama to consider his legacy as he risks being remembered as the us president the most strongly oppressed journalism the whistleblowers laura jennifer robinson says the u.k. government is wasting taxpayer money on twenty four hour surveillance there is no more than six million passengers almost ten million dollars so final last two years it's only policing when i go to be seen in the embassy to see at least six to eight

police offices every single entrance and you wonder well for somebody who hasn't got the crime yet why why do you why assume such a heavy police presence so obviously there are a number of different legal issues that come into my mind that keep him inside the embassy and of course his main concern is and has always been the risk of all men extradition to the united states and the ongoing us grand jury and criminal investigation into we can exist that we know is ongoing and we know that because of court documents of a relation the last few months so that is our main concern and i think it's important to remember this story is as a result of the us in relation to the persecution and rason of wiki leaks that julian and so that it's. i think so you've been from tel aviv getting wounded in a car blast and they just had one person to stay tales from israel as and then we got it all of the united states and how it's affecting russian.

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