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from our new center here in moscow twenty four hours a day you're very welcome to r.t. international i mean o'neill the ukrainian army has confirmed its troops have restarted their offensive this morning across the country's east it follows reports of renewed strikes and artillery bombardment of times on cities government forces claim are not being targeted by kiev's crackdown on locals are left with little choice but to learn to live with the day to day bloodshed if. you could then you would not doesn't need to. let the detroit. news or need to let. go when you're going to do what you want to.

we're getting reports of renewed fire on the outskirts of slob because well the city besieged by government troops for more than two months is suffering severe shortages of water on electricity hundreds of civilians have already been forced to flee the city and those who remain are struggling to find food or medical supplies or teach them on cost rove has more on the story. fire resumed this morning and one man actually died as a result of that fire he was in near a christian orthodox church which was partially destroyed now in terms of us live ask itself while the city is slowly but surely turning into somewhat all fagged ghost town and continued says shelling for the last few weeks have left to the citizens without water supply without existence of life or even food in some instances self proclaimed donetsk republican officials are claiming that they are

heading for humanitarian catastrophe you can see empty shelves in stores you can see people lining up for water that nearly all the hospitals are closed most of them please are simply not they're finding refuge somewhere else plus ambulances have no fuel help centers meanwhile have been set up in a city of sevastopol they are providing aid to people who have fled east ukraine many say their homes came under fire during the shelling of residential areas a lot of the refugees have been left being leaving family behind as well as parents trying to get their children to safety first the russian emergencies ministry says some twenty thousand people have already crossed the border in search of shelter. now the fighting follows a promise from president poroshenko of a unilateral ceasefire he said it will be brief but long enough to allow the government forces to lay down their arms but this is not the first time pushing has promised to put an end to the bloodshed since he was elected bokken may all on

election day he said his first presidential visit would be to the rest of donetsk region well that did not happen he went to poland to meet barak obama instead he's pledged to bring peace and put an end to the fighting many times and promised to bring about a ceasefire i can least twice. in other developments russian journalists covering events in east ukraine have been labeled as terrorists by officials in kiev and leaked internal memo from the country's security service apparently contains a list of russian reporters who have been working in the rest of eastern regions the document list eighty seven names it accuses the journalist of being involved in illegal part of military groups and resisting the so-called terrorist operation. is considering making his recently signed foreign minister. despite. having made headlines for his less than diplomatic language. if you have a good book because it was so good i think that the crew you didn't know.

about the country where he will be heading up ukraine's diplomatic mission so far remains a mystery to learn all about the former top diplomat strong statements on our website. also online a full timeline on minute to minute updates of the ongoing crisis all at r.t. dot com. the u.s. is considering a request from the iraqi government to launch earth strikes against isis strongholds the group sees large swaths of the country's north in less than two weeks in fact the areas on the map in red where those they're not closing in on baghdad which is being torn apart by bomb blasts another priority for the insurgents is taking control over oil infrastructure in the northern city of hamas are trying to counter the nation's largest oil refinery iraqi military officials say soldiers were able to repel the onslaught but workers report militants are still inside the facility with sporadic clashes on. is

a key oil i post in iraq at a concert for more than a quarter of the country's entire refining capacity and now the facility protest is well run three hundred thousand barrels a day and all this goes to petrol stations across the nation as well as to power stations seizing the area would be a huge victory for isis which is complementing its assault on the ground with the slick social media campaign you corpus can off takes up the 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 and former

intelligence officers claim it produces its press releases like a giant corporation trying to create an image of a well 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. 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 to date 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's that extremists are now turning their attention to the conflicts in iraq and syria. you corpus going off with the interesting insight there while indeed does seek support over whether the u.s. has the military intelligence needed for precision air strikes defense honest even getting involved in iraq again would be an unwelcome 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 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 already in the iraqi conflict is based on religious lines they sunni dominated northwest has historically been at odds with the she is living in southern regions but the recent raids are also about strategic interests militants have been zeroing in on the biggest oil field still in the all of the government the industry that accounts for ninety five percent of the country's economy is on threat the isis insurgency is not just iraq's problem in fact if you are a car owner you could feel it as well as militants make new gains the uncertainty is pushing up oil prices brant crude percent since choose this last week when just how to seize the city of mosul and it is currently trading at more than one hundred

fifty one hundred fourteen excuse me dollars per is the highest in almost a year since last august there are predictions it will grow further indeed by fifteen to twenty dollars per barrel in the next couple of months as well oil exports to elliott says the situation could indeed become catastrophic. 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 certain exports which let's remember we haven't seen yet would have a major major impact 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 asti 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 iraq were to lose its oil and then we could even see another economic recession across the whole world. still ahead in the program wiki leaks editor julian assange marks two years trapped in an embassy find out what the whistleblower has been up to during the time and why british authorities are spending vast sums on round the clock surveillance of the building the school. the. place it was a little very hard to make out. once again a little longer here is a place that had sex with her make her number. one.

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costs. thirteen minutes into the program welcome back the leader of belarus has offered political asylum to the ice the ukrainian president and his family well at least that's what alexander lukashenko thought he was doing during a phone chat with a man posing as the son of ukraine's former leader the prankster even offered an extravagant reward in return a guy named reports. 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 a call which the ousted president of ukraine 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 one pretended to be worried that the

current authorities and see if 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 new motion unusual push push it was good the story well but when you put for a show. 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 globalist broke the record over the full disclosure which i'm just. saying camp ranks have on offered the president a gift but they hope to look at the piece of. but . if you do the right can you get a big enough for the two 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 services 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 this by 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 prank like this. well the book about a russian leader is not the first prominent figure to fall victim to

a phone hoax or a few of the most notorious incidents back in two thousand and twelve during the un general assembly general ban ki moon apparently wanted a phone call from the canadian prime minister yes hello hello yes hello stephen harper speaking how are you mr secretary general how are you are you i find out how are you. but in fact it was actually a cute back comedy jew on the other end of the line the make believe comedian premier cited the need to comb his hair with superglue is the reason he couldn't attend the un called. cuban revolutionary leader fidel castro dodged numerous attempts on his life but even he feels to avoid being duped a decade ago. but man oh forgive me she didn't know that going forward i'm going to actually go for me.

as i say you know and he gets on those who don't vote at all is that my only concern the way they seem to want to see it the guy if they want to which i always gave. american review comedians also targeted sort of pale in back in two thousand and eight when she was running for vice president alongside john mccain. he said no mrs go to hell no nurturance there on our new fun in you decision you could be speaking oh well you know most so good it's so good to hear you helen was convinced she was speaking to the french president in a conversation i went on for six minutes she even failed to sense something was all when the impostor mentioned his love of killing animals and his wife's preferences in the bedroom. king philippe of the six thousand sworn in spain's head of state of the service money in madrid people gathered on the streets of the capital to watch the military parade hell to create the new ruler who drove

by in a rules royce and you king later appeared before his subjects with this commoner wife on the balcony of the royal palace the crowning ceremony was kept located so as not to anger spawn huge dealing with a star and a. monarchy demonstration if those scheduled to take place in the capital later today the spiked party spanish correspondent but if he was to go via host of in the knob and he said now at the scots what's funny is really think about the royals. to 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 still in spain or they just wanted the king 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 it's definitely this these house these royal house almost eight years that's what's going to cost 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. people who support the market right now now when they're using this name 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 literally to prince philip it but this wasn't printed i assume on the internet there was a lot of oh yeah a lot of that and also several cartoonist all of these magazines resigned and they just released today a book against a mourner keep the old king stepping down marks the end of an era of extraordinary

people on the throne as a gifted sealer he competed in the one nine hundred seventy two olympics following a military coup back in the eighty's he went on t.v. in full army uniform in order troops back to their bases not many royals would pose in a controversial photo having shot at an elephant either whilst on safari in africa and 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 show up. for a good thing or not only have a look now a little earlier i spoke to author and political analyst miguel about the challenges that lies ahead for spain's and you marc. it's very different from his father he's very much his mother's son very discreet but that is precisely what the spineless need now 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 eighty's retrieve all 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 a referendum in would mean that the legitimacy of the institution of the morning he 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 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 country's unit so no i don't think that is happening very soon. and with the spanish king bidding farewell should the coach of the nation's football team step down as well reigning champion spain's humiliating world cup exit has triggered a social media storm with means poking fun at the humbling of the team you want to

read greek pick your favorite from our selection at our teeth dot com. also on our website a chinese tycoon throws a gatsby style party in new york but instead of inviting the big apple's rich and powerful if you love me it isn't broken marriage. right from the scene. of. the first strike. and i think that you're. on a reporter's twitter. and instagram. today in the. on. a hero to some an enemy of the state to others wiki leaks founder julian assange is marking his second year confined inside the ecuadorian embassy in london unstable the whistleblower refuses to back down even promising to reveal

a fresh batch of documents to the world sorties polyploid are reports for us from london. 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 june in a sun so 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 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 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 u.s. if he travels to stop home for questioning over allegations of sexual assault which means the eye 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 on polyploid home. during a conference call marking his two years of confinement the songe again spoke out against the u.s. authorities he warned barack obama to consider his legacy the risks being remember that it was the u.s. president that strongly press journalism the whistleblowers laura jennifer robinson sees the u.k. government is wasting taxpayer money and twenty four hour surveillance. they've sent more than six thousand pounds of some

a ten million dollars so far in the last two years it's the policing when i go to be seen in the embassy you see at least six to eight police officers every single entrance and you wonder well for somebody who hasn't got the crime yet why why do you buy such a heavy police presence obviously there are a number of different legal issues that come into play that are keeping inside the embassy and of course his main concern is and has always been the risk and i'm an extradition to the united states and the ongoing u.s. grand jury and criminal investigation to make you takes that we know is ongoing and we know that because of court documents of the race in the last few months so that is our main concern and i think it's important to remember it's this theory that it is as a result of the u.s. action in relation to accumulate in the prosecution and harassment of wiki thinks that julian remains inside that embassy. up next here on our to international reporting from the frontline of finance its marks and his kaiser reports they with us.

so are we going back to iraq recently violence has flared up as insurgents are taking cities from the current iraqi government in 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 photo iraq and the current militants can't shoot a key 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 dick. during 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 issue but that's just my opinion. to gen x. but you vulgarized darwin science punishment for an uncommitted crying i was staring. in eighty feebleminded still today. but still the. genetic improvement through forced sterilization the

basin's and now go to the point of death. for years rarely discussed. until now. really rather than talk about that right. welcome to the kaiser report i'm max kaiser atack i may it's going to me it's not going to may. yeah well so it's arkansas are going to. start for a moment there i thought i was janet traverse bickel yellen thinking the rising

markets were talking to me when attract she is the markets stacey yes well max of course the central bankers are supposed to be the regulators cleaning up the scum off the wall street but in fact they are the crazy people looking in the mirror shouting at themselves and this has come into full light this past week cluster of central banks have secretly invested twenty nine trillion dollars in the market another conspiracy because conspiracy fact is the f.t. reports a cluster of central bank king investors have become major players in world equity markets the report to be published this week by the official monetary financial institutions form confirms twenty nine point one trillion dollars in market investments held by four hundred public sector institutions one hundred sixty.