today's top stories in a review of the week's headlines ukrainian military and opposition blame each other for ignoring a declared cease fire bomb moscow says poroshenko is paid to plan looks more like an ultimatum. based fighting goes on in iraq with islam is taking control of new territories and forcing millions to flee the violence while washington considers airstrikes to stop the militants. under spain's new king is sworn in we look at some of the highlights of his predecessor's rule and the challenges facing the monarchy in the cash strapped country.

well it's nice to have you company you're watching the weekly here on r.t. international. now the ukrainian army and anti-government protesters in the east are pointing the finger at each other for violating a cease fire imposed by president poroshenko as part of his pace plan but this week has been particularly tragic for locals who lost their loved ones in the army shelling. but. need to. go where you. could then you would not cause the. flood to be destroyed. by the lists he is sure. to be if he is still untouched. that is what we would. do we. are going to go.

while cities across eastern ukraine have been shelled by the ukrainian army in the latest attack in slavyansk a young mother and her five year old son were killed when a mortar shell landed in their backyard and this is the footage from neighboring become a tourist apparently showing the aftermath of an artillery attack on tuesday when at least ten were reported to have been killed and as you can see buildings are full of bullet holes from body parts are scattered at the house side. of the military crackdown in eastern ukraine has turned cities across the region into ghost towns half of the population has fled remaining residents of struggling to find food or medical supplies long queues for water and then to shelves in grocery stores are common common seen in large cities like savan tsk and in attempt to solve the crisis president poroshenko has come up with a peace plan it includes an amnesty for those who agree to lay down their arms and haven't committed severe crimes the creation of

a ten kilometer wide buffer zone along the border with russia and changes to the constitution to guarantee the free and safe use of the russian language that is centralization of power to the eastern regions and early local parliamentary elections and one of the plan's top points is to guarantee safety for all negotiating sides russia has supported the plan but says it's unlikely to work without dialogue. is that the peace plan has a number of automate unlike demands it lacks the most important thing those negotiations and that's a radical step away from the geneva agreement which is supporters in their rhetorical at least by all our western partners including the us the e.u. and the ukrainian authorities. the un has called for an investigation into the death of two russian journalists who were killed in the ukrainian army shelling near the city of lugansk this is the last forty shot by the crew.

the crew for the receipt or one channel worth more than a mortar shell landed right next to them and exploded correspondent you go canoeing you were severely injured and taken to hospital but died on the operating table his sound engineer was also killed in the shelling the camera man managed to survive he shot this video minutes after the deadly incident the man in the khaki uniform is a self defense activists who along with his fellow comrades was trying to get a group of refugees out of the war zone while the russian t.v. crew was filming. two of the russian journalists were apprehended by ukraine's national guard and spent two days in captivity they say they were beaten and threatened with execution mass. we were stopped at a national guard checkpoint and asked to get out of a car and show our i.d.'s when they saw our russian passports and found out that we were members of the t.v.

channels they changed their faces they started joking that they caught a goldfish or won the jackpot they forced us into a car and we were taken away our eyes were covered in eventually we were pushed into some basement at gunpoint different armed people were coming to us threatening us they promised to shoot us and buried us in the field they said they hated russia and would do everything not to let us go alive then we were dragged out of the cell and force into a car we were beaten by rifle butts while showing america's firm support for the ukrainian leader is the us vice president who's coming to kiev for a second time in his many months in their latest phone conversation joe biden assured petro poroshenko that the u.s. will not abandon ukraine artie's pull scott looks at the long trail of american politicians backing ukraine's new government. whether it's secretary of state john kerry laying flowers his assistant victoria nuland handing out cookies.

senator john mccain offering support from a down protest at circa is what you i mean america's presence in ukraine has been visible since the crisis began late last year and that presence is only growing as u.s. vice president joe biden again visits kiev his son hunter is settling into his new job on the board of ukraine's largest private gas provider certainly one of the reasons provides president biden might be going personally would be to ensure that these cast interests are secured for for his son washington officials arrived full of praise for the new kiev government despite its crackdown against saying represents the will of the people america claims it's keen for the people to be heard and the new country should interfere with the affairs of another he senator john mccain talking to me in kiev in december need to make it clear. to the russian government anywhere near putin that interference in the affairs of ukraine is not

acceptable to the united states of america or to any other free country in the world ok the message is clear but critics argue the presence of the vice president's son on the board of a prominent gas company the continuing for session of u.s. officials in an ounce of kiev on the promise of financial and military aid represents its own form of interference which only prolongs the conflict in the country and let us not forget that the western leaders also supported the overthrow of the attic of its government and what that that were and so what they supported is more really instability and i would read so this was a thing their support really means nothing to the internal conflict that scarred. we continue as we see it so against the backdrop of unrest in the east and continuing talk of sanctions and threats against russia vice president joe biden

becomes the latest u.s. official to touch down carefully making sure he doesn't cross the line from support to interference carty. meanwhile ukraine pins its hopes of gas supplies on europe as we report later for other gas supplies after moscow cut ukraine off on monday and put it on a pre-payment system for failing to page energy bill. now the news iraq continues its struggle against radical insurgents that are sweeping across the north of the country they are now within one hundred kilometers of baghdad and plan to form a new islamic state this week that you had this managed to continue their advance occupying several iraqi cities even though the army did manage to push them back from the capital they've also managed to capture a key town on the syria and iraq border the fight against the islamic state of iraq and syria greek known as isis has forced around one million people for now homes destruction reports from the islamist occupied territories tell of the mass

execution of captured soldiers and civilians isis takes pride in its violent methods and even uses it to promote itself as r.t. pieces of reports. 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 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 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 fall into the arrest of high profile jihad is there it said extremists are now turning their attention to the conflicts in iraq and syria. well isis and in iraq after the u.s.

led invasion than has been launching regular terrorist attacks on the country in twenty thirteen alone the group carried out more than four hundred strong not as washington considers getting involved in the cold by sending in the air force for precise bombing of militants defense analyst eland says going back to iraq is not something the american people would like to see providing more weapons to the iraqi military i think would be a nightmare they have the weapons of already ended up in the isis hands a 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 on the economic consequences of course all that costs 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 up ahead why the mounting for missing israeli teens in the west bank might put the region security in jeopardy you don't see in a couple minutes. what about washington getting tougher on its allies like saudi arabia because it's no secret that saudi money was a crucial factor in the rise of the extremist can bomb or to take on the united states drag their feet they did declare early on in the uprising. it was a terrorist organization that. and others were terrorist organizations and proscribed them but it did very little to carry through with that and to force its allies to equally prescribe those groups.

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hearing from the e.u. energy commission. is this well get ready for potentially a cold winter ahead now this comes after ukraine had it gas cut off by russia after it failed to pay billions if us dollars an outstanding bills ukraine is the main point of transit at the moment for getting gas into europe or many european nations rely on russian gas as either their main or in some cases their only source of energy if those supplies are siphoned off well it can have an effect as it has in the past when ukraine's being cut off and they start to take that gas they did it in two thousand and six last time was in two thousand and nine seventeen countries here in europe reported shortages eight were completely without any gas amongst those the most worst affected were countries like bulgaria and slovakia we saw real problems there when it came to heating to industry that was pretty much shut down

so it is a big deal if ukraine starts to take this gas that is destined for europe since it's being cut off for the failure to pay its bills does take this gas it could have huge repercussions for those who have paid their bills in europe. editor in chief of the business new europe magazine believes the e.u. should hold ukraine responsible for any shortages. russia has always been a reliable supplier of gas to europe even in the cold war when we really were enemies with then the soviet union that the soviet union continued to deliver gas the problem here with you know the insecurity and russian gas supplies it's not russia it's the fact that it has to go through ukraine and ukraine is more or less bankrupt has been unable to pay for its gas and so when it needs gas it simply siphons off gas that was headed to the west now what russia will do if they do stop supplying ukraine gas they will continue to supply what they're contractually

obliged to send to western europe the question here is whether ukraine will simply send that gas and not take any for itself and that question remains open. well the gas route has gone up in flames quite literally a powerful blast of the pipeline transporting gas to europe through ukraine is triggered a major blaze and that follows direct threats from the country's radicals to target the transit route you can read about this at r.t. dot com also then human rights watch bahrain for cracking down on those who use cameras to expose police violence against anti-government protesters those stories and more on line. spain's new king has been sworn in but the mood in the country is far from celebrate three hundred seventy monocacy rallied in madrid shortly after king philippe took to the throne the protest spirit is strong in the stereotype plate nation with millions of span is being pushed deeper into poverty and the sentiment is also aggravated by the royal family's perceived lavish

lifestyle and as a result the crowning ceremony was kept in a cage. well stepping down signaled an end of in a row because he was a gifted sailor he competed in the nine hundred seventy two olympics and following a military coup in the eighty's he went on t.v. in full army uniform and ordered troops back to their bases not many royals would pose in a controversial photo either having shot dead an elephant whilst on safari in africa and being a king motorcyclist did nothing to harm his image among his people but what many will my doubt remember most is the time he told the late venezuelan president hugo chavez to shut up. the thing was yellow. the outgoing king is not the only european leader famous for his catch phrases that. famously told british students in china that they risk looking like

the locals if they stay too long in the country and the current king of sweden criticised by some media outlets for being a party goer defended himself to the press one saying there is a broad definition to sex and strip clubs destroying felix more or told r.t. that the area the era of charismatic royals is over when we generally used to have very charismatic kings these days they're used by the government and people don't trust so much in them juan carlos was very charismatic and funny she was close to the people however if you leave is more functionary and this might be a problem for the more acute system and in other news a palestinian teenager has been killed by israeli troops during a military raid in the west bank following last week's abduction of three israeli children locals say the military replied with live ammunition to stones being hurled at them during a protest against the crackdown for an explanation we spoke to an official from the hamas group which television hold responsible for the kidnapping and an israeli

defense representative. we have forces on the ground trying to locate the people on the other hand we have our intelligence capabilities which we are putting a huge amount of efforts in that our primary concern is the safety of the boys so we can't. expose everything that we know at this time when we need you course when the situation permits so we'll of course bring the information forward at this time i can say with full confidence that hamas is behind that and for that reason we are operating against hamas at all levels all day that i eighty intelligence information doesn't improve. any solid. proof so they have these what they call a massive database they could act and that's something like a connective punishment something inconceivable more than seven hundred thousand people and that and the now under siege and nobody actually from the community trying to do anything this is that good is that international law should

be condemned by the international community. it's coming up to twenty past ten here in moscow let's have a quick look now at some other world a south korean soldiers killed five of his comrades and injured seven more at a border post with north korea the twenty two year old sergeant is armed and has fled the scene the motives for the rampage is still unclear. heavy rain storms that triggered massive floods in east and south china have left over a dozen people dead officials say some three million people have been affected and thousands have been forced to seek refuge down polls also calls major power outages and brought roads. hundreds of afghans have rallied in kabul over alleged fraud during presidential runoff elections held last week earlier front runner and former foreign minister abdullah abdullah said he would refuse to recognize poll results he also promised to appeal to the united nations to deal with the case a move has been supported by the current president karzai.

to the u.s. now where surplus military equipment will be used to be used even after troops pull out of foreign war zones the american government has been stuffing police departments with an arsenal of heavy equipment including armored vehicles aircraft machine guns artesian report finds out why. well as america continues winding down its longest streak of war soldiers are returning home and so is their military arsenal a used armored vehicle that will be used during swat calls and other emergency situations nine foot tall mine resistant trucks specifically designed to survive roadside bomb attacks are parked all throughout the u.s. local and state police departments have acquired more than four hundred m. wraps and silencers and tens of thousands of m. sixteen machine guns and night vision equipment is

a new paradigm is the military paradigm militarized police and the problem with that is when they look at american citizens often they see only combatants this is all made possible through america's military transfer program created in the ninety's when violence and drug gangs plagued major cities today crime in the us has fallen to its lowest in a generation and the special response team in richland county south carolina looks like this ready to take on the taliban should it invade the self this year the thing that it's doing is basically just making it more and more obvious there are they are being launched her eyes are police forces are being turned into soldiers iraq war veteran emily yates says her country's law enforcement is being trained to fight against the public instead of serving to protect it they should be trained to deescalate any violence or aggression that's happening but instead the

police are showing up and causing violence and aggression people are just afraid all the time and for no reason our country has never been invaded we have no foreign armies at our doorstep however a sheriff in indiana claims his county needs m. wraps to protect against possible attacks by veterans returning from home i see a lot of paranoia about that here that i don't like it usually excuse the armed police like they're going to you know. like the people of afghanistan and we got a problem using that as a way to militarize the police for whatever they think might be coming in the future a future where america's local police forces will be prepared for war but who will they be warring against marina port r.t. and form a philadelphia police commissioner ray lewis believes the government is trading public safety for corporate greed high caliber weapons are extremely dangerous they have a very high ricocheting velocity and that means that innocent people are going to

get killed and injured they will be shot they can go through doors they can go through cinder block they can go through metal car doors and this type of velocity is not necessary think of ten states. where they shot someone and killed so many innocent people and they were not high caliber weapons can you imagine a massacre that would take place if officers had high caliber weapons they will sell this high equipment the repair the maintenance for this will come from taxpayers' money corporate america will make billions off its office equipment you heard of the prison industrial complex you heard of the military industrial complex corporate america now wants to make a paula lease industrial complex well they'll make billions off of police departments you're watching on the way wilson politics the advance of business in iraq and how washington has boosted sectarian tension in the country.

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 and lectures about the state of the russian military the stated objective of all of this was to make the average soldiers 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 kind of reeks 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 hell 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. right. now. one.

night. there's a media leave us so we leave the media. by the scene push the security play your party musical. questions that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from it's all on politicking only on our t.v. . hello and welcome to worlds apart of the western policy on syria has been backfiring for quite some time but the rapid advance of isis militants in iraq blew a really big hole in what was already an old strategy can western governments deal

with the radicals without hearing to some of the same tactics they learned bastid the syrians for to discuss that i'm now joined by joe shalonda is director of the university of oklahoma center for middle east studies professor landis thank you very much for being here well thank you for inviting me on oksana now the isis the found safe is a very significant game changer on the ground but the question is can it really change anything in the minds of decision makers in washington and london can't force them to reconsider its some of the. assumptions and perhaps even some of their objectives in syria and in iraq i believe it will already there is a lively debate in washington about whether the u.s. should start to work with iran and the policy makers and pundits in washington are separating to two camps and they're fighting bitterly about this some do not of course want the united states to begin cooperating with iran they are fearful that

this will have a very bad effect on israel and saudi arabia others believe that counterterrorism is of the utmost importance and that iran can help the united states beat back isis and al qaeda in the region professor landis i would have to discuss that iranian angle a little bit later but before we go there there was the media's framing of the events in iraq it is very predictable they're sort of putting all the blame on the gun. him and he fell to build a functioning democracy here ali and they did the sudanese and i think we can admit that some of that criticism is valid but the question is could it different person have done a better job is it fair to put all of the blame on and instead of looking somewhere else let's put it this way well a lot of this is domestic politics president obama is down the polls.