first trip. and i think the trip. on our reporters were very. careful resumes as a ground offensive in eastern ukraine a day after the president promised his troops would soon lay down arms. no law to water all medical supplies in the besieged city of slovyansk the city says on the verge of a humanitarian catastrophe thanks to the nonstop government offensive. barack obama says u.s. troops will not be fighting again in iraq however he doesn't rule out so-called targeted emphasize military action if the need arises.

and i says militants meanwhile are locked in fierce battles with government forces for control over the country's oil reserves. so golden no useful from ukraine in exchange for refuge that's a promise made to a red phrase below luzhin president during a prank phone call. this is r.t. international well live from moscow you're with me to say it's good to have you company with us this evening. the ukraine self-defense forces in eastern ukraine have announced that the city of slovyansk is now under an almost complete blockade by government troops that's after the army went back into action with airstrikes

and artillery bombardments despite present better poroshenko is promising a cease fire on cheese day and so got a closer look at the latest gains made by a big crackdown on this map forces have captured the strategic transit to tons of us vs ball and now pro autonomy forces in slovyansk go which has been a target of the military offensive for over two months now say they're going to be cut off from the regions key cities not too long from now one major consequence of the ongoing chaos is that people in flood bianka have been left with with the re a shortage of water and power hundreds of civilians have been forced to flee the city and those who remain are struggling to find food and medical supplies among reports that are it's already 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 existence of life or even the 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 they're finding refuge somewhere else plus ambulances have no fuel. health centers have been set up in the 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 left family behind as parents try to get their children to safety first the russian emergency ministry says some twenty thousand people

have already crossed the border in search of shelter. and in other developments russian journalist covering events in is ukraine have been labeled as terrorists by officials in kiev a leaked internal memo from the country's security service apparently contains a list of russian reporters some of whom have been working in the rest of eastern regions the document list eighty seven names it accuses the journalist of being involved in illegal paramilitary groups and resisting the so-called anti terrorist operation we caught up with one of the journalists on the list he says he has no idea why his name is the. third there were those when i saw the list and 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 and all i do is

write a column in a newspaper i don't support anyone i'm simply expressing my own opinion. so the two russian journalists killed by shell explosions while in east ukraine earlier this week 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 purely wearing press signs as they attempted to film and to his forces trying to evacuate refugees self-defense troops accompanying the journalists were also killed in the shelling you've just seen at the blasts and this is the immediate aftermath but kiffin investigators claim now it was anti 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 and ambassador despite. having made headlines for his less than diplomatic language joke the over. the brightness of the three. but the country where you'll be heading up to ukraine's diplomatic mission so far remains a mystery learn all about the former top diplomat strong statements on our website also online a full timeline and minute to minute updates of the ongoing crisis all at r.t. dot com. to iraq now where isis militants have seized huge assaults of the country's north in less than two weeks the areas are marked in red on this map that we're showing you behind me now they are now closing in on baghdad which is being torn apart by bomb blasts another priority for the insurgency is taking control over oil infrastructure in the northern city of baiji

jihad is trying to capture the nation's largest oil refinery iraqi military officials say soldiers were able to repel the onslaught workers reports militants are still inside the facility sporadic clashes ongoing. now by igi is a key oil outpost in iraq it accounts for more than a quarter of the country's entire refining capacity the facility processes about three hundred thousand barrels a day and all this goes to petrol stations across the nation as well as 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 has a 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 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 too as isis fighters have almost to reach the iraqi capital killing scores of people along the way in just around seven days while 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 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 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 is there it said extremists are now turning their attention to the conflicts in iraq and syria. they want a conflict is based on religious lines the sunni dominated north west has historically been at odds with the shias living in the sultan regions but the recent raise also about strategic interests militants have been zeroing in on the biggest oil fields still in the hands of a government the industry that accounts of for ninety five percent of the country's economy is and threat the isis insurgency is not just iraq's problem now

if you have a car you could be affected by this says militants make new gains the end certainty is pushing up oil prices braining crude has gained almost five percent since choosey last week when jihad is seized the city of mosul and it's currently trading at more than one hundred fourteen dollars per barrel that's the highest in almost a year since last august and they are predictions it will grow further by fifteen to twenty dollars per barrel in the next couple of months or experts should eliot says the situation could 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 disruption to southern 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 spare capacity that saudi has is about the same as what iraq exports so if we were to use 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 that will market we're going to see people having to stop using their cars it was a really would be kind of endgame scenario if iraq were to lose its oil and then we could even see another economic recession across the whole world. but u.s. president has stressed that to the crisis in iraq can only be solved through political means how about in a white house briefing he said some form of military action could be taken if there's a need for it for details i'm joined now by marine a partner in new york worried and we've seen obama stand up for i mean it's been

weeks as anybody has said anything from his the side of things what more do we know from that speech. well as the crisis in iraq is deepening the u.s. is being drawn back into the war torn country whether it likes it or not u.s. president barack obama is sending up to three hundred what he calls military advisers to iraq to retrain iraqi troops and gather intelligence now the new deployment is in addition to the some two hundred seventy five u.s. troops already sent to iraq to protect u.s. personnel and the embassy in baghdad which president obama said has been secured now the u.s. leader says that. american troops will be increasing their diplomatic and surveillance efforts in iraq but forces will not be returning to combat he says the crisis must be solved by the iraqis. we have to devise ors in iraq through our embassy and we're prepared to send a small number of additional american military advisers up to three hundred to

assess how we can best train at vies and support iraqi security forces going forward american forces will not be returning to combat in iraq assessing and training i mean will the u.s. just stop the excuse me i didn't hear that well the u.s. stopped to where president said they're only going to be there for the training for the assisting they we're just going to stop it right bay they're not going to go further into another war with iraq not necessarily president obama is leaving the door open for further action saying that the u.s. is prepared to take targeted military action if the violence in iraq spirals further out of control. because of our increased intelligence resources we're developing more information about potential targets associated with

. him going forward we will be prepared to take targeted and precise military action if and when we determine that the situation on the ground requires. now that's a complicated gamble because u.s. intelligence agencies are having a difficult time identifying possible targets including insurgent encampments training camps weapons caches and other stationary supplies president obama also while he was addressing the media urged iran not to intervene in iraq but the irony here is that in recent days several u.s. leaders including republicans have publicly stated that the u.s. needs iran's help to hold baghdad and keep it from falling to the islamic insurgent group isis now the u.s. president says allow iraq to turn into a safe haven for isis poses great dangers to the u.s. and its european allies which is why some action needs to be taken of course the criticism is that iraq might not even be on the brink of a civil war if it was not for the u.s.

invasion while addressing the press even president obama said quote recent days have reminded us of the deep scars left behind of america's war in iraq. in new york she was following the presidential briefing from president obama on iraq thank you but let's not get more perspective on this from political analysts caleb maupin who joins us live mr obama's visit troops won't be going back to combat do you think you'll be able to keep that promise. well many u.s. military adventures have begun with so-called military advisors you know i mean the classic example is vietnam but other cases as well and in recent history we've seen an example many examples of the united states using so-called military advisors to advise local officials who actually do the fighting on behalf of the united states and what's very clear in the iraq situation right now is that the united states is

attempting to foment a sectarian war not just in iraq but in the entire middle east isis isis is an organization that received support from saudi arabia and the gulf states that are aligned with united states have worked up from and kind of fund these kind of extremist terrorist organizations and sent them to syria to engage in in civil war and now they're in iraq and this fighting is very helpful to united states because it removes it make sure that there's no stable opposition to the u.s. and there's no stable competitors in the world market the u.s. wants chaos in the middle east and this latest episode with isis and the sending of advisors is an example of the us achieving its aim of chaos inviting an instability in the middle east in order to remove up those military advisers there's about three hundred of them that are being sent either way to decide by the the ad and what's the total number of personnel i think capable of making any real impact well you know interesting lee and you know military advisors in africa different parts

of the world at the u.s. census they generally play the role of kind organizing proxy forces or is that do what the united states wants to be done they kind of play a central role directing them telling them where to go so if three hundred military advisors could get quite a bit done in order to achieve the games that the the pentagon would like to achieve i i think you know they work with local forces and give them direction that's generally what military advisors do the u.s. president also stress the fact that that they walk crisis should be solved politically i'll have that situation already in pos that point. absolutely like i said before the united states is attempting to foment sectarian civil war throughout the middle east and it's achieving it very effectively the support for isis from saudi arabia the the fighting now between isis and a military government this is exactly what the united states wants it wants no stable force in the middle east no opposition no no basis for anything that could become a stable economy exporting oil and competing with the united states on the world

markets this is this is the united states getting exactly what it wants political analyst to caleb maupin joining us here giving us some of his tolls on that speech from president obama thank you. i had in the program we can make that agenda. up to an embassy find out what the whistleblower had been up enjoying that time and why british authorities spending vasanth on round the clock the way infallible building is hold up and we'll be right back. there a. very hard to take a. look again. at that back with that here right here.

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this is archie international the leader of better moves has offered political asylum to the ousted ukrainian president. but at least that's what alexander lukashenko fourteen was doing during a full moon chat with a man posing as a sign of the lead up to the prank so even offered an extravagant reward in return has gone and she can 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 princes suggested that his father may have to move to bellows because there's a chance he could be handed over to key one pretended to be worried that the current authorities in ca have 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 and your cute quote of problem that you know which. are news reports or ship where it was good the story well but when you put a lot of actual shit. 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 free you could global sport broke the record over universal. wish him just. to thank him pranks have on offered the president a gift but they hope to look at but. if you do they could begin to believe most of you who 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 ahead of his security service to prepare quote feed for cattle. but the products are 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 services spy 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. going sleep or the sixth as been sworn in as spain's head of state at a ceremony in madrid people gathered on the streets of the capital to watch the military parade held to greet the new level of drive by in

a rolls royce new king later appeared before his subjects' on the one of the indeed shia on the balcony of the royal palace the crowning ceremony was kept no keys so as not to angus pena standing with austerity and into mourning kingdom. station is still scheduled to take place in the capital later today despite a ban. so when the spanish king bidding farewell should the coach of the nation's football team step down to reigning champions the spain's humiliating world cup exit has triggered a social media storm with means poking fun at the humbling of the team and known as the red few repeat your favorites among selection at archie dot com. also on our website as a chinese tycoon who throws a gatsby style party in new york but instead of inviting the big apple's rich and powerful will be welcoming a thousand broke americans. a

heritage of some and an enemy of the state we can expound on julian assange is marking his second confined inside the dorian embassy in london and still the whistleblower refuses to back down and we've been a fresh batch of documents to the world is outside the embassy. well i'm standing just beside the entrance to the ecuadorian embassy in central london and as you can see behind me a crowd has gathered they say that they're holding a vigil in solidarity with judy an astonished they want to find ecuador for protecting his human rights and granting him political asylum we can hear music playing leave listing handed out. speeches in support of julius anjan in general an atmosphere in in support of the whistleblower who's about to start his

year holed up in the embassy here in central london now his critics will ask why doesn't he simply travel to sweden in order to answer questions over allegations of sexual assault bots julian the sonship has maintained and reiterated today that sweden won't give guarantees that he wouldn't be extradited though are you bitch to the u.s. where he says he'd be facing a politically motivated trial so two years on that's come at a cost to the u.k. taxpayer because you can see this quite a police presence behind me as well the metropolitan police to spend over six million pounds guarding the door of the embassy should julian assange ever emerge but the whistleblower and sell said in a press conference a little bit earlier on that he says and he believes that the u.k. government has launched a full blown terror investigation into edward snowden and wiki leaks role in the affair so it's not likely that we're going to be seeing him emerging on to the

streets of london any time soon. journalists and filmmaker john pilger who supported julian assange by contributing bail money in december two thousand and ten brings the case against the whistleblower is entirely political. whole thing is phosphoric old and that's what the whole swedish episode is the main crime julie in the song has committed is that wiki leaks reveal 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 the whole idea that he's a very big. being questioned by the swedish authorities is just absurd he's made every offer possible the british government or to respect international law and give him safe passage out of that embassy to ecuador if he believes what he faces

is the prospect of the kind of sentence the chelsea manning goes had thirty five years in an american. kaiser report. eugenics was eugenics vulgarize ation of darwin science punishment for an uncommitted crying i was sterilized instrumental in eighty feebleminded still today for the few i don't know why. but i still don't know why genetic improvement through forced sterilization the basis for nazi ideology they don't stop at just sterilizing yet again and now go to the point of death. for years rarely discussed . till now really rather than talk about that right.

some people say that when it happens support someone in time not a very nice one the curtain falls down. on fit some point i could no longer stand it i decided to kill myself. all the even i was scared of what i'd done but i punched him but i didn't understand where i didn't want a man rises hand the woman should. run run from him. everyone who sees this video to also speak to the children's father. my has then became a controllable people that he can do anything. why you're crying don't cry i know i'm tired of crying too don't cry a bad. dramas

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