ukraine shells of russian border checkpoint starts as president poroshenko announces a seven day cease fire in the east as part of his peace plan. as the u.s. increases spending on what's already the most expensive war plane in history yet another technical glitch plagues the project. and the u.s. jump starts a campaign offering cash for ideas to help grow its transatlantic partnership with the e.u. but the views being seen by critics as an attempt to push through a corporate agenda.

welcome and thanks for joining us my name is the harvey and you're watching r.t. international first this hour a russian checkpoint on the border with ukraine has come under shelling as a result a border guard has been injured with shrapnel the attack occurred as self-defense forces in eastern ukraine clash with the army the military is said to have used mortar fire which then hit the checkpoint it happened when refugees were crossing the border as we heard from a witness. who wanted to help people who are crossing from ukraine so i went to the border to offer my sister there were lots of children in the refugee camp and i brought them sweets to cheer them up i heard the gunfire as i was coming up to the border people were screaming and running machine there were several gunshots it was very scary to see women and children crying for some time and when i came back to the checkpoint was on fire. a bus carrying ukrainian refugees most of them children also came under fire at another crossing your mind cos you have has more on the

growing tension along the russia ukraine border moscow has demanded an explanation and investigation from the authorities in kiev over the shelling of the russian border point overnight meanwhile the key of defense ministry denies any such thing has ever taken place but we have the russian border guard their representative who gave us this information going until sort of the deal we were inside the building when this horrific shelling began we started moving everyone at the checkpoint to safety one of the officers suffered a head injury and the time of the incident around two hundred refugees were crossing the border also russian border control service says that a bus carrying thirty six ukrainian children was also shot at while it was crossing the russian border thankfully the kids are safe and sound there already in their role stall for a region in one of their refugee camps also on friday night in a separate incident

a ukrainian border control points was also shot at and soldiers who were there they sought refuge and shelter on the russian territory where they crossed meanwhile moscow is now strengthening its borders along with ukraine. well the military crackdown in eastern ukraine has caused hundreds of deaths and displaced thousands more but now president bush and co has imposed a seven day ceasefire under a new peace plan and take a look at the details that includes an amnesty for those who agreed to lay down their arms and who haven't committed grievous crimes the creation of a ten kilometer wide buffer zone along the border with russia also included changes to the constitution to guarantee the free and safe use of the russian language the decentralization of power to the eastern regions are also early local and parliamentary elections but one of the plans top points is to guarantee safety for all negotiating parties or the self is refusing to hold talks with leaders of the

self-proclaimed republics. but before the ceasefire was actually implemented the army had been targeting cities across the east and often with fatal results. but they would. do we have to do this why. do you think it was selfish to. have. all this family see was left devastated when a mortar shell hit their backyard a young mother was killed on the spot a five year old son was taken to hospital with multiple head wounds and their doctors fought for five hours to save his life but he died of his injuries on the operating table moxley boder a senior lecturer in international relations and security studies at moscow state university believes president poroshenko peace plan is actually an ultimatum. peace by definition is negotiated and poor shango has already declared that there will be

no negotiation with the political and militant leaders on the ground in the eastern ukraine so this is not a peace plan this is an ultimatum a demand for the unconditional surrender under promise of extermination as well this decentralization is not clearly defined but what we have seen so far is that only includes local executive committees big governors would still have the right to be overruled and appointed by kiev this declaration of a cease fire is merely a p.r. move by the poor janko regime in the run up it's not a surprise that the declared ceasefire ends on the very day that poroshenko was supposed to sign the e.u. association agreement. moscow's warned some points in his plan could lead to greater bloodshed rather than actually resolve the crisis and we report more on

that online. what you can see right here is the f. thirty five stealth fighter jet it's america's most advanced and most expensive war plane and it's just been given yet another boost in a new defense spending bill but that's despite the pentagon having already shelled out nearly four hundred billion dollars on its development and to cover the costs the plane is now being touted to foreign buyers is artie's marina porton are explains. the f. thirty five stealth fighter jet is the crandell a crime of military planes. and the pentagon's most expensive conventional weapons program it's a game changer the world's only fifth generation fighter jet is manufactured by lockheed martin combining state of the art technology with highly advanced avionics and maneuverability the pentagon plans to buy nearly twenty five hundred f. thirty five but delays and cost increases have left u.s. lawmakers frustrated over the three hundred eighty five billion dollar price tag

and that's where america's allies come in. lockheed martin has turned to international partners including britain australia and canada collectively the countries have invested more than twenty billion dollars buying up the war craft a weapon that many experts view as a global gamble there's never been anything anywhere near as expensive and the entire process is one in which the costs can only go up. the other problem is that the more they spend in the more the united states in the manufacture and now a whole bunch of other countries become invested in it more they have to go ahead in any of these countries that want to because i feel that they have no choice boosting demand from foreign investors is believed to be essential for the pentagon and lockheed martin why because the more f. thirty five are produced the cheaper each jet is to build and maintain her in

accord naya party. the f. thirty five has been suffering one setback after another in the most recent case the entire fleet was grounded in testing suspended after one of the planes suffered an oil leak but the engines are not the only part where this aircraft is experiencing problems in fact as we can see right now the plane has been suffering well documented hotspots and cracks head to tail the pentagon even behavior did it from flying within forty kilometers of a thunderstorm and that was out of fears its fuel tank could actually explode if it was struck by lightning we spoke to an aircraft designer who says on top of the technical glitches the f. thirty five program is also plagued by bureaucracy. it's one of the worst airplanes we've ever designed. for a lot of reasons but the most important reason is that it was compromised by having to do three different jobs you can never make a good airplane if you don't focus on

a single single mission and then they made it even worse by saying that we'd save money by giving it up among three services so now you have three missions pulling the airplane in different directions now you have three services three bureaucracies adding their parochial point of view the airplane is a complete mess and mind you this is the most expensive single project that the defense department has ever undertaken to. do stay with us here on r.t. still to come for you this hour solving the ugly side of the beautiful game russia is facing a tough task to contain football hooliganism as it prepares to take over from brazil but some people think that this issue has been overblown. and also learn how an online technology used as evidence of criminality against one u.s. hacker is now being permitted for a giant corporation. an online push by the

u.s. to promote a transatlantic partnership deal with europe has been met with criticism on both sides of the ocean twenty thousand dollars is being offered to anybody who comes up with lucrative trade ideas but opponents say that that figure is tiny compared to the potential damage the massive cooperation agreement could be auntie's peeta all of the details. the united states has been accused of a cynical propaganda campaign after a tweet originated from its embassy just behind me here. this tweet was with regard to the transatlantic trade and investment partnership between europe and the united states now the tweet was offering up to twenty thousand u.s. dollars for any projects people could come up that would protect the treat deal in a good light though it has come in for some scathing criticism from people here in europe mostly because of worries over a decrease in standards the standards for products in europe are far higher than

they are in the united states also on workers' rights as well though this is seen environmentalist environmentalists trade unions and health campaign is all railing against this trade deal to put that into perspective of the public opinion here in europe when it comes to the environment ninety six percent of germans say they have faith in european environmental regulation well only two percent believe in regulations inforced in the united states there's also been controversy surrounding genetically modified foods not liked here in europe people have demonstrated against them however there is concern that because of u.s. labeling laws they could inadvertently become into the european markets so all of these things the same criticism all of this well it's kind of backfired they have

come in for far more criticism online because of this. well the transatlantic trade deal does look good on paper the partnership would allow the removal of trade barriers and a regulator the difference is hindering growth of the u.s. or e.u. economies would be washed away plus america and europe's collective g.d.p. could be boosted by around two hundred fifty billion dollars but critics believe that some pieces of the puzzled. just fits the corporations would and the ruling governments and taxpayers therefore would have to foot the bill for anything that goes wrong and it would be almost impossible to hold any corporation to account because of the sheer size of that structure and the lack of transparency american michael shank of the friends committee of national legislation believes all that is an opportunity for the us and the e.u. to flex their muscles while it's good for investors it's bad for health it's bad for the environment it's bad for labor and it's bad for regulations that countries and states have worked for decades to institute so those are some of the biggest

concerns and what it says to russia or what it says to china with the t p p is that we don't want you a part of this conversation and in this very globalized interconnected world particular in trade because we don't have many barriers between us and e.u. already so when we're doing t.j. it's not really about removing trade barriers because the tariffs are quite low it's about saying to the rest of the world we have this partnership it's exclusive and you're not going to be a part of it if you all very fast now could be a good time to go grab yourself a cup of tea don't be too long though it will be back with more international news after this very short break. on marriage and the finance on their own. it's. only taken. in life there.

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welcome back and thanks for staying with us here on r.t. international let's talk sports now because russian football fans may cause their national team to be deducted points in the world cup for reportedly displaying near nazi banners during their side's first match in brazil if proven it would be another blot on already a very full copybook of russian football hooliganism that also features picture tanks mass street rallies and nationalist clashes but as the country prepares to take over as the host nation in four years it's having to work very hard on finding solutions artie's alexy explains. showing support for your team in russia could mean this this. or this. your first book whether in one thousand nine hundred eighty when spotlight was

playing cisco in moscow we had a huge fight blue warriors came up against us there was more than eight hundred people involved in a brawl but you know and that is just one of the fights very silly described now a retired hooligan he says fan culture has changed massively in russia so you know if you put a stereotype of an english football hooligan or an italian ultras is no longer applied to us we went our own way now there are no loud criminal cases against you lagoons compared to the ninety's back in the soviet days football was considered one of the nation's brights histories best goalkeeper left the team which won the first ever european championship and the police of revolutionary managers with the break up of the soviet union football just as many other spheres of life suffered a major setback it may be a coincidence but along with these problems came calling in isn't. it's still unclear what caused this surge in violence but in recent years russian hooligans have remained visible from violent pitch invasions to mass street rallies and

racist incidents involving swastikas in the stands near nazi views and phobia are among the most debate issues back in twenty one a fan was killed during fighting in moscow that escalated into ethnic violence thousands of ultras made themselves heard right outside the walls of the kremlin. politically motivated people have always been close to find groups not only have a propaganda is the culture of violence but they explained why this violence was needed that's why i know c.v.s. a popular there because force and violence are the bases of naziism and fascism but form a whole again and found over russia's largest planned movement their market and i have believes the issue is often blown up in the press and problems are usually solved even before they appear. who spearheaded events at the my down in ukraine some of them are in the national guard now so potentially this is a very dangerous part of society but are all forages are pursuing a very clever strategy with who live in communities so there's no danger from them

in russia these fights happen every weekend but no one knows if they happen out of town in forests and strictly upon agreement on. the twenty thirteen movie okola footballer tells the story of a firm of hooligans consisting partially of white collar workers where death and destruction rubbed shoulders with love and friendship one of its characters keeps asking the question why do you fight this in the days when the. the movie slogan is we can not change real life has proven they can insist of a sealy it's just a matter of whether the rest of the world will be happy with this evolution of the russian fan culture when the country holds the next world cup in twenty eight. let's see moscow. other news that we have for you at r.t. dot com the mass panic caused by a visitor in the skies head online to learn while google balloons sent shivers down

the spines of locals and emergency services in new zealand. this lucky biker was left in a spin after he somersaulted in the air and even landed on his feet on a collision with a car we've got there's another amazing videos on you tube channel. thirty five years in prison the complication of assets and a million dollar find that was the punishment a young u.s. programmer was facing before he committed suicide and he'd been accused of using tracking technology online but wasn't allowed one individual has been green lets for computer giant our pool which is now installing the very same system into its products he's going at it you can't reports. apple is taking a step toward preventing mobile devices from broadcasting information about their users whereabouts the company announced that he will spoof the mac addresses emitted by its wireless devices as an anti tracking measure the meca dresses of

course the unique number that identifies you on a network tech experts also point out the said i would be when an individual namely internet pioneer late aaron swartz spoofed his mac address the government held it out as evidence of criminality in his indictment aaron swartz was arrested in two thousand and eleven for downloading academic articles from a subscription based research website it can seem averse to be with the intention to make them available to the public although none of what he has downloaded was classified prosecutors wanted to put him in jail for thirty five years various words has had earlier drawn the f.b.i. as attention in two thousand and eight twenty he downloaded and released about three million federal court documents from a restricted service the government did not press charges then because the documents were in fact public aaron swartz became an internet freedom activist calling for others to join we interviewed him a number of times here in our team. and it's the foundation of our constitution the

government is constrained by having someone else check off to make sure they're not abusing their power aaron swartz committed suicide at the age of twenty six his family and friends believe the government's relentless persecution was a major factor it's interesting how tech giant apple is now developing its privacy protecting measure when aaron swartz did it the government thought it was a crime anyway tech experts say there are still other ways to track you down via your smartphone and spoofing your mac address alone will not make you untraceable the electronic frontier foundation described apple's initiative as opening an umbrella in the middle of a hurricane but privacy advocates welcomed the step they hope more companies will rise to the challenge of protecting their you. there's. and staying with that story journalist and civil rights activist david seaman told me that technology will not protect users from being spied on or number of other hardware identifiers aside

from the mac address that your cell phone is still emitting so this definitely doesn't restore total privacy to the user but there's also a larger theme here which is that governments are spying on us and these cell phones are not designed to be all that secure from day one clearly there is a double standard out there if you're a large tech company the government will turn the other way but aaron schwartz this is one of the things they used against him was that he spoofed mac addresses apparently and it just goes to show you that there are people within this government who use some of these outdated laws and use an incomplete understanding of internet technology to pretty much go after whoever they don't like and to make that person's life a lot more difficult with hard to fight charges. a report by the u.n. says that more than a million people have been displaced by the raging sectarian violence in iraq the numbers it's only expected to rise as well as the country's army tries to push back the advance of an al qaeda offshoot namely isis which is signed the takeover of

baghdad and establishing an islamic state it's already in control of vast parts of iraq including the second largest city of mosul meanwhile the first of the three hundred u.s. military advisers promised by washington to aid iraqi security forces will they argue in iraq later today but international studies professor joshua landis believes that washington is reluctant to take any decisive steps to resolve the crisis because of the problems the two thousand and three invasion calls you can watch the full version of the upcoming interview it'll be an ox on a because worlds apart right here on r.t. tomorrow for now though is a quick preview. this entire crisis episode shows the incredible strategic blunder of president george w. bush in attacking iraq and casting down the sinews from the top of society to the bottom destroying the state of iraq which kindled this sectarian struggle the

united states is debating today about how much support to give to maliki many people believe that he is too sectarian that if america supports him it will offend sunny's turn sunni world against the united states and alienate our support in the gulf therefore they're very reluctant to get in with direct military support they would like to get diplomats on the ground to begin negotiating as they did during the occupation. last round of world news for you now starting with the doctors without borders who say the outbreak of the deadly ebola virus is out of control as it continues to sweep across africa called into the world health organization more than three hundred thirty people have been confirmed dead so far cases have been reported in sierra leone liberia and guinea the virus kills almost ninety percent of infected patients. security forces in china's restive west repelled

an assault on a police station killing thirteen of their attackers three officers have been injured as attackers drove a vehicle laden with explosives into the building officials blame local militants for the assaults china has seen a rise in insurgency in recent months with deadly bombings and knife attacks targeting civilians. now what do you do when your perch hundreds of kilometers above the earth in open space trying to install a piece of equipment when suddenly you discover you don't have the right tools well it would certainly prove very taxing for most people thankfully too quick thinking russian cosmonauts solved the space walk crisis. and the path found that they had wrongly connected a high tech fastening clip for a communications and turned it looked like the mission was in jeopardy that was until one of them came up with the idea of simply using a spare piece of wire and twisted it into place and it is said to have worked like

a true. what isn't a dream is that i will be back at the top of the hour with more news hope you'll join me then stay with us here on r.t. international boom bust on the global financial rollercoaster up next and if you're watching is in the u.k. it's our shows but. recently four hundred high level russian officials including duma members were summoned for a three day military training event that would include the use of various different weapons or lectures about steve the russian military the stated objective of all of this was to make the average soldier in the army aware of the patriotic attitudes of those who can order them off to fight in theory this is a good idea but the reality is this can't reach that sweet stench of an empty. p.r.

stunt this is not nearly enough to convince the average grunt that the guys in power care about him as far as i understand it in the military they want to push people to break down their psychology and boot camp so they can make new better tougher more patriotic people and obedient ones as well the sort of cutesy who we can camp will not have any psychological effect these politicians and to be honest i think bureaucrats the world over have it too easy their lives are too comfortable heck all the duma deputies have these nice leather chairs and they have gold watches and assistants and all that stuff i think that if the duma deputies had to suffer through a military health for one month out of the year the corrupt comfort obsessed weaklings might get squeezed out of the system this training for the elite is a good idea but it needs to be done right and brutal but that's just my opinion. from you to me even from playing into what you meant. to be

a good musician trying to play your little ritual coming to me like a suitable human security just because the old school see that. state. that we have been forced to respond. to we want to see. taken control of brazil. we. receive. hello hello and welcome i marinate this is boom bust and these are some of the stories that we're tracking for you today now first up scandalous behavior begets is shameful and i mean very shameful i was to the american apparel c.e.o. we're bringing you the full full frontal details coming right up and. disclaimer

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