thank you. i'm. here for resumes its air and ground offensive in eastern ukraine a day after the president promised his troops would soon lay down arms. no lied to water or medical supplies in the besieged city of slovyansk the city sits on the verge of a humanitarian catastrophe thanks to the nonstop government offensive. across for how the iraq also you was she uses air power against isis militants who are locked in fields battled the country's vital i'll reserve. lots of gold and loan fell from ukraine in exchange for refuge that's the promise made to read phrase by the region president during

a prank phone call. there's a large international when live from moscow you are with me tom would say it's good to have your company with us the ukrainian army has confirmed its troops have restarted the offensive this morning across the country's east it follows reports of renewed strikes and artillery bombardments of towns and cities and to government forces came new areas are now being targeted by kids crackdown locals are left with little choice but to learn to live with the day to day bloodshed. you know that you . you could then you would not doesn't mean you know the flood to be sure do you know from where you are all of the news or need to deal or slogans are you sure

where you're going to where you want to go. despite the promise of a cease fire by ukraine's president and the army has renewed fire on that the outskirts of. the city troops for more than two months suffering severe shortages of water and electricity hundreds of civilians have already been forced to flee the city and those who remain struggling to find food or medical supplies artie's them on coursera reports that are thirty fire resumed this morning and one man actually died as a result that fire he was 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 to shelling for the last few weeks have left to the

citizens without water supply without access to supply or even food in some instances self proclaimed that's 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 there finding refuge somewhere else plus ambulances have no fuel help centers have been set up in the city of sevastopol they're 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 left family behind parents trying to get their children to safety first the russian emergency ministry says a some twenty thousand people have already crossed the border in search of shelter . in other developments russian journalists covering events in east ukraine have

been labeled as terrorists by officials in kiev a leaked internal memo from the country's a security service apparently contains a list of russian reporters some of whom have been working in the rest of eastern regions the document lists eighty seven and named it accuses the journalist of being involved in illegal paramilitary groups and resisting the so-called antiterrorist operation we caught up with one of the journalist on the list he says he had no idea why his name is the. third there were those days when i saw the list in my name on it i laughed it's very amusing because there are people who are in fact working in east ukraine and covering events on the ground there as for me i haven't set foot in ukraine for the past few months i'm in moscow when all i do is write a column in a newspaper i don't support anyone i'm simply expressing my own opinion so the true russian journalists killed by shell explosions while in east ukraine earlier this week of the only surviving member of the three men crew filmed the moment his

teammates were hit here's what he captured. the camera man says they were clearly wearing press signs as they attempted to film activist forces trying to evacuate refugees self defense troops accompanying the journalists were also killed in the shelling you've just seen the blasts and this is the immediate aftermath but kiffin vesa gaiters claim now it was empty government forces behind the deaths and ukraine's representative to the u.n. has more or less implied the dead journalists had only themselves to blame for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. ukraine's president is considering making his a recently said foreign minister ambassador to spider and the right to chad syria

having made headlines for less than the diplomatic language take a listen to this joke going over the top because of. the brightness of the group but you know. for the country where he will be heading up the great diplomatic mission so far remains a mystery learn all about the former top diplomat strong statement on our web site if you would just the book. was online a full timeline and 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 a strike the game's on says strongholds the group sees huge swaths of the country's north in less than two weeks areas are marked in rage the now they're now closing in on baghdad which is being torn apart by a bomb blast another priority for the insurgents is taking control over all

infrastructure in the northern city of by the hardest are trying to capture the nation's largest oil refinery iraqi military officials say the soldiers were able to repel the onslaught but workers report militants are still inside the facility with sporadic clashes ongoing. by g. is a key oil outpost in iraq it accounts for more than a quarter of the country's entire refinery capacity the facility processes about three hundred thousand barrels a day and all this goes to petrol stations across the nations 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 a slick social media campaign you got a piece going off as 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 and 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 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. well during the u.s. led invasion of the country it took the allied forces twenty two days to reach baghdad also a 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 cast of the two thousand and three invasion today 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 said extremists are now turning their attention to the conflicts in iraq and syria. well baghdad seek support there are doubts over whether the u.s. has the military intelligence needed to carry out precision a strike pentagon analyst michael maloof believes the lushington should be very careful if you decide to take on one thing. there's some indication that if they can sweep through iraq they're going to go into jordan and they're going to have

spin offs. that would be created so it's a major policy decision now on whether or not there's going to be any u.s. intervention at this point and try to stymie their their forward progress which is basically a blitzkrieg the intelligence is got to be pinpoint accurate and you've got to find them isis in iraq right now is just foreign fighters and what have you a lot of what are some old saddam hussein's groups certainly people who work for him who are all sudanese and and who joined on to isis there a lot of a. lot of elements a lot of islamic groups that are joining i says inside iraq of course. the prime minister who is shia is resisting any efforts to change his government to try to. make the bring in this bring in more sunni's into the into the government and make it more representative but it may be too little too late already. spain is

welcoming the new king today still it seems in the capital and full swing later on we take a look at what the change of the way really means the spanish people. at hero to some and an enemy of the state to wiki leaks founder julian assange is marking his second yet confined to inside beckon dorian embassy in london and still the whistleblower refuses to back down even promising to reveal a fresh batch of documents to the world our chief political reports 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 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 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 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 i could 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 i'm told the boy came. during

a conference call marking his two years of confinement again but he got i gave you a full florrie to you he want barack obama to consider his legacy as he risked being remembered as a u.s. president that most strongly oppressed journalism i'm now joined by journalist and filmmaker john pilger who supported you in the fungi by pledging to bail in december for him two thousand and ten thank you very much for being with us earlier are two three two songes a lawyer and here's what he said about his predicament before we follow up with a question. his main concern eason has always been the risk of aman extradition to the united states and the ongoing us grand jury and current destination to me he thinks that we know is ongoing and we know that because of court documents released in the last few months so that is our main concern and i think it's important to remember the street that it is as a result of the u.s. action in relation to ricky lake's and the persecution and harassment we keep makes

that julian remains inside that embassy. it's been two years now he's been holed up at that ecuadorian embassy how much longer do you think assad will remain in that diplomatic limbo. well i don't know as long as the british government continues to ignore its obligations under international law to do with political asylum i mean britain last month i think it was in march amended the law but meant that julian assange would be extradited to sweden so if he went to the court now he wouldn't be extradited the whole thing is phosphoric old and that's what the whole swedish episode is it's like a red herring it's rather grotesque actually because the really the main game of this is all the main crime. committed is that wiki leaks revealed to the world the extent of united states war crimes in iraq and

afghanistan and it revealed numerous conspiracies by the us against governments throughout the world they didn't lie face i didn't like that obviously and this is this this this siege of a sound in the embassy and that's what it is is is is his punishment and it shouldn't be so there are he's been given political asylum to international law or the british government or to respect international law and give him safe passage out of that embassy to ecuador that's what this is really about if that doesn't happen what he faces if he leaves what he faces is the prospect of the kind of sentence that chills the manning has had thirty five years in an american hell. do you believe that the u.k.

is trying to do more than just double hold the lol when he comes to was songes them all to this story of not letting him have that that that safe passage out as you've just said. i didn't hear the question is very well i'm afraid is that i did a story that could repeat that as them all to the story of the u.k. not letting him come out is them all to just him just being a son to whistle blow is that most of this. is there more to it i think he said well yes of course there's more to it that i've said join in the song is effectively imprisoned in that embassy because of wiki leaks disclosure historic disclosure all the way our world has been run. with war crimes by major powers with conspiracies against governments the whole situation in sweden. is is almost

a farce right at the beginning of that the swedish prosecutor in in stockholm threw out the case against the sounds there was no case to answer he waited around in stockholm. because to answer any allegations in this country he's told his lawyers have told the swedish authorities that he will answer any questions first as they say he offered to do it at scotland yard then in the embassy and swedish embassy now in the ecuadorian embassy he's made every off of possible the whole idea that he's of aiding. being questioned by the swedish authorities is just absurd it's absurd because that has really nothing to do with this this is about wiki leaks and it's about the threat that has sunk and that someone that he helped in wiki leaks helped to escape to get to russia and that's

edward snowden we know last month under a freedom of information that the f.b.i. has opened a full prosecution case a massive case with probably fifty thousand pages of of files in us. by which they intend if they can get his hands on him to prosecute. this and prosecute him under under under a law of nine hundred seventeen that doesn't even apply he's committed no crime in the united states and what they're trying to do is a crime actually against the american constitution and the thing that scientists say is putting whistleblower was awful from speaking out. yes well i mean whistle blowing has always been a very dangerous occupation. but often you're very unloved for telling the truth.

but journalism the best of journalism has always relied on whistleblowers that's been i know in my own career that's been the main source of truth telling whistleblowers the public have a right to hear on this voices telling us how governments are really run what they really say in private when they say something very different in public the kind of life and death conspiracies that mean great danger and death to many people around the world we have a right to know these things. and i think what we see in enjoying the sound as we sort of edward snowden as we sort in chelsea manning extraordinary courage. and instead of the kind of ridiculous vilification that comes from the media which we can release of shame for not doing his job properly

there should be extraordinary praise for somebody like us on journalist and filmmaker john pilger thank you very much for being with us here on our team to national sharing your thoughts about joining us on just ongoing holden at the embassy i love news stories after the short break we're back. big bucks but. i would like to go did you know the price is the only industry specifically mentioned in the constitution and. that's because a free and open press is critical to our democracy albus. role. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of our government and our crime several we've been hijacked why a handful of transnational corporations they will profit by destroying what our

founding fathers once told just my job market and on this show we reveal the big picture of what's actually going on in the world we go beyond identifying the problem. rational debate and real discussion critical issues facing the camera ready to join the movement then welcome back.

thanks for being with us the leader of delegates has offered political asylum to the ousted ukrainian president and his family well at least that's what alexander lukashenko fourteen was doing during a full moon chat with a man posing as the son of ukraine's former leader the prankster even offered an extravagant reward in return i was gonna change again 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 key if 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 was cover story well but 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 three years could globalist broke the record over universal. which i'm just. saying camp ranks have on offered the president a gift but they. do move. but . if you do. could you get a billionaire to 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 els he said he would send the head of his security service to prepare quote feed for cattle. but the projects are duped not just about the russian 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 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 prank like this. king fully packed with six to have been sworn in as spain's head of state in madrid people gathered on the streets of the capital to watch the

military parade hell to greet the new ruler by in a rolls royce the new king laid a period before his subjects' with his helmet no why. on the balcony of the royal. harmony with he so as not to and of dealing with austerity and to want to get demonstrations is still scheduled to take place in the capital later today despite a bad on t.v. spanish correspondent basis i go here and the host of in the now and he said now is that what you really think about their 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 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 and it's to hold up oh it's definitely this 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 catholic that's a profile of people who support the monarchy right now nowadays in spain on the other side if 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 kong karmas passing the crown crown of it surely to prince philip but this was imprinted i assume on the internet there was a lot of oh yeah. and also several cartoonist of these magazine

resigned and they just released today a book against a mourner keep. after the break aaron a digs deeper on how the current turmoil in the middle east is playing opposite in the oil market stay with us. technology innovation all the developments from around russia we've got the future covered. right. first. on our reporters with.

the. pan over there i marinate this is boom bust and these are some of the stories that we're tracking for you today. first up fed officials a reason forecast say that four times fast for target interest rates over the next two years but lower long term forecast we're bringing you a full wrap of what janet yellen had to say at wednesday's about what i'm seeing meeting and then we have boom bust favorite jim rickards on the program today jim sat down with me to talk about financial warfare 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 it's all coming up so let's get to. this day today on bust with two lead stories we're giving it to the first is the federal open market committee is vision for the future of the u.s. economy the second is amazon's swank swanking a new mobile phone now we'll start off with the fed stuff it's pretty important to the f o m c has decided to continue to taper its quantitative easing.