fortunately doesn't give a darn about anything mission to teach creation why you should care about humans and. this is why you should care only. today's top stories are under review of the week's headlines ukrainian military ninety government fighters accuse each other of ignoring a declared ceasefire while moscow says president poroshenko peace plan looks more like an ultimatum. is fighting continues in iraq with islamists taking control of new territories and forcing millions to flee the violence while washington considers airstrikes to stop the militants and the 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 and the cash strapped country.

are you watching a weekly here on r.t. international. the ukrainian army an anti-government protesters in the east of pointing the finger at each other for violating a cease fire imposed by president bush and co as part of his peace plan on friday it follows a terrible week for local civilians who lost over a dozen loved ones as a result of army shelling. do we. need to. know where you are. then you would not. let these. girls are going to where you want to go.

and this gruesome footage was apparently shot in calmer toscan shows the aftermath of an artillery attack on tuesday ten people are believed to have been killed then as you can see buildings are full of bullet hole bullet holes and bodies scattered out side in a similar attack on the neighboring slovyansk a young mother and her five year old son were killed when a mortar shell landed in their backyard. again so. it's a good sort of. that's going to change that. much. harder to go along was a lot but then let's see if sure his letter. is still. well the military crackdown in eastern ukraine has turned cities across the region into ghost towns tens of thousands of people have fled remaining residents are struggling to find food or medical supplies and long queues for water and empty shelves in grocery stores are

a common seen in large cities like slavyansk. meanwhile two russian journalists were killed in the ukrainian army shelling near the city of against this week the un has already demanded an investigation into the deaths this is the moment when the tragedy occurred. the crew from the receiver one channel were filming a report about this group of refugees when a mortar shell exploded next to them correspondent hugo can no york was severely injured and taken to hospital but died on the operating table his sound engineer was also killed in the shelling ukrainian authorities claim it was anti government forces behind the deaths and ukraine's representative at the u.n. has implied that journalists had only themselves to blame for being in the wrong place at the wrong time the only surviving member of the three man crew shot this video and described the moment the shell struck. we you who knows we went to the

place where according to the information we got there were refugees self-defense groups were helping the refugees to flee the areas under attack and when i reached the forefront of the self defense activist told me to hide behind a big car and i film from that spot this self-defense activist raised his hand showed the refugees the safe path and at this moment the first shell exploded and damaged his hand how a journalist stayed further away at the check and i turned my head and saw that the second and the third shells went up exactly where they were only managed to film people dragging away of self-defense activists who had no legs there was a brute between us between our journalists and me i could hear mortar shells exploding all the time they both had press written on their clothes but that didn't save them while in an attempt to ease the tension in the east ukraine's president poroshenko has come up with a peace plan and that includes an amnesty for those who agree to lay down their arms and haven't committed severe crimes also 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 also that the centralization of power to the eastern regions and early local and parliamentary elections are one of the plans top points is to guarantee safety for all negotiating sides russia has supported the plan but says it's unlikely to work without dialogue. with just the peace plan has a number of all to meet him like demands it lacks the most important thing those negotiations and that's a radical step away from the geneva agreement which is supported in their rhetorical at least by all our western partners including the us the e.u. and the ukrainian authorities. showing america's firm support for the ukrainian leader is the u.s. vice president is coming to kiev for a second time in as many months in their latest phone conversation joe biden

assured petro poroshenko that the u.s. will not abandon ukraine artie's pour 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 circuit is with you i think 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 gas interests are secured for for his son washington officials arrived full of praise for the new kiev government despite its crackdown in the east saying

represents the will of the people america claims it's keen for the people to be heard and the no country should interfere with the affairs of another he sen john mccain talking to me in kiev in december need to make it clear. to the russian government that in their putin. 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 continual procession of u.s. officials in and out of kiev and 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 over its cover of it and what that that were so what they supported is

more really instability and our grass so this was a thing their support really means nothing to the internal cod for. it's going to 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 the winter in europe could be colder than usual this year coming up the use main gas transit part of ukraine gets cut off from russia's gas as moscow puts on a pre-payment show jewel of failing to pay huge energy bill this story in a few minutes time. now iraq continues its struggle against radical insurgents that are sweeping across the north of the country they are within one hundred kilometers of baghdad and plan to form a new islamist state this week the jihad has 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 group known as isis has forced around one million people from their homes crushing report in the islamist occupied territories tell of the mass execution of captured soldiers and civilians isis actually takes pride in its violent methods and even uses it to promote itself as r.t.g. peace going off 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 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 b. well during the u.s. led invasion of the country it took the allied forces twenty two days to reach baghdad the alternate goal of isis is to create a new slavic state merging parts of iraq and syria into one now it's believed that the movement grew out of al qaeda in iraq emerging from the cast of the two thousand and three invasion 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 fall in 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 there and has been launching regular terrorist attacks on the country in two thousand and thirteen alone the greek carried out more than four hundred strikes not as washington considers getting involved in the cold feet by sending in the air force for precise bombings of militants defense analyst 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 to the weapons of already ended up in the isis hands or least a lot of weapons have so then you have the other thing is a good be a drone campaign or it could be a full fledged air campaign 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 thanks for being with you today we're going to take a quick break now but i'll be back in a couple of. ok beaming from plug into what you meant it's not something to be paid to be used to try to buy the cloak which will come you know that's right. suppose you miss it you. get to the school see that.

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now the e.u. energy commission a gunther often go here has warned that the e.u. should get ready for a cold winter that after ukraine was cut off from russian gas after it failed to pay billions of dollars of debt ukraine is a major transit partner delivering gas to europe where business and households rely on russian fuel and for some of them it's the only source of gas and the main fear now is ukraine could start siphoning the gas off as it's done so before for the first time in two thousand and six and then in two thousand and nine because of the crisis at that time slovakia declared a state of emergency and bulgaria had to shut down some of its industrial operations and as moscow guarantees it will meet its contract obligations barry said it or in chief of the business new europe magazine believes it's kiev who might break the deal. russia has always been a reliable supplier to europe even in the cold war when we really were enemies with

them the soviet union. the soviet union continued to deliver gas the problem here with the insecurity and russian gas supplies is 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 meets gas it simply siphoned off gas that was headed to the west now what russia will do if they do stop supplying ukraine they will continue to supply what their contractual we 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. for some of the transit gas from russia has already been switched to reserve pipeline after an alleged terrorist attack in ukraine earlier this week and find out what happened online at r.t. dot com also our web site at the moment human rights watch slams bahrain for cracking down on those who use cameras to expose police violence against

anti-government protests and you can read about that at r.t. dot com. spain's new king has been sworn in but the mood in the country is far from celebrator eight hundred seventy one a kids have rallied in madrid shortly after king philippe took to the throne of the protest spirit is strong in the stereotype plagued nation millions of spaniards being pushed into poverty the sentiment is also rag of eighty by the royal family to see a lavish lifestyle and as a result the crowning ceremony. i wore on college stepping down signaled the end of an era as a gifted sailor he competed in the one 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 who also would pose in a controversial photo having shot dead an elephant whilst on safari. in africa and being a motorcyclist did nothing to harm his image among his people but what many will no

doubt remember most is what he wants told the late venezuelan president hugo chavez . was yellow while the outgoing king is not the only european leader famous for his catchphrases the u.k.'s juke of edinburgh here famously told british students in china that they risk looking like the locals if they stay too long in the country the current king of sweden criticised by some media outlets for being a party goer defended himself to the press saying there's a broad definition to sex and strip clubs well historian felix moore told r.t. that the era of charismatic royals is. generally used to have a very charismatic kings these days they're used by the government and people don't trust so much and juan carlos was very charismatic and funny she was close to the people. is more functionary and this might be

a problem for the monarchy system and. the founder of whistle blowing web site wiki leaks is still in great demand this week marks the second year of being holed up in the ecuadorian embassy in london coming up in the program we find out why he still fears stepping out of his self-imposed prison. also be on the side of the beautiful game later we investigate the origins of russian football hooliganism and what it's like now. members of a right wing vigilante group of gone on trial in france charged with making death threats against a journalist but they're not nationalists or near an arch he's there from the jewish defense league which claims to be battling anti semitism. reports. never know what they have a strong following and a clear message as only we are here present we are jews noble and cruel we are well

trained well equipped we're not afraid and we should be more afraid of us than we are of them the jewish defense league claims his goal was to protect the jewish community from hatred and semitism but some jews accuse it of doing the very same thing it's meant to be fighting against and these people say the organization is not protecting anyone but it's liking those who don't share the same views and opinions jonathan mol adopted claims he felt the raft of the late when he started researching them in paris i exposed my friends some zionist felony crazy for doing this in september two thousand and twelve my car of been bombed by a. bomb i received death threats and a couple months ago i went to cover a protest against anti-semitism. me and there were like fifteen people jumping on me break a my camera and. beating me up on the ground what is being done to prevent this from happening again what is the police doing at one point intervened and took me

out of the protests and i told them there were many of them on the place so i told them why don't you a resident oh you would do anything you would create a riot the jewish defense league is an international right wing organization even though it's considered a terrorist group by the f.b.i. it's completely legal and countries like canada and france where it has around three hundred members. at the crease is present of course but it's not everywhere so we have to do what they are incapable of doing correctly from attacking left wing students in the in groups and even writers at their own book launches the league has been accused of being behind a string of violence but the victims say the police have no interest in investigating and accuse them of willful and action. pretty strong and in the police we know there are some people that will to do their job but at some point you have people in here that are blocking the fires when those people go on trial

the judges most of the time they're being they're being lenient in two thousand and four a documentary actually filmed members of the j d l training in an official building that was being leased by the police if the police are calling them they are training them really had no desire to talk to us when we contacted them but their publicity speaks for itself do not get in our way because will hurt you very very very badly various local movements an answer racism activists have called for the group to be banned the french authorities have ignored those calls and those who feel victimized by the group are left looking over their shoulder during a cost of reporting from paris forty. to the u.s. now where surplus military equipment from foreign war zones is being handed out to the police the government has been stuffing local stations with an arsenal of heavy equipment including armored vehicles aircraft and machine guns are to. find 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 the new paradigm is it's 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 u.s. 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 her annoy about veterans i don't like it usually excuse the armed police

like they're intimate 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. for mufon adelphia police commissioner ray lewis believes the government is trying 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 can state. where they shot so many 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 all for this equipment you heard of the prison industrial complex you heard of the military industrial complex corporate america now wants to make a lease industrial complex well they'll make billions off the police departments a shooting rampage at a south korean border post and other news that just ahead. recently four hundred high level russian officials including duma members were someone for a three day military training event that would include the use of various different weapons and lectures about state of 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 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 haeckel the duma deputies have these nice leather chairs and they have gold watches and assistance 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.

economic right. now i. want to get through. the side street. 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 extremists cannot afford to take on the united states dragged their feet they did declare early on the uprising. was a terrorist organization. and others were terrorist organizations and proscribed

but it did very little to carry through with that and to force its allies to equally prescribe those groups. welcome back this week marks the second anniversary of being holed up in the ecuadorian embassy in london the founder of the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks still faces an arrest warrant issued by the swedish government but as the sun just lawyer explains it's not sweden that he's particularly scared off he's.