today's top stories and a review of the week's headlines ukrainian military and anti-government fighters accuse each other but ignoring it declared ceasefire while moscow says president poroshenko his peace plan looks more like an ultimatum. fierce 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 planes new king is sworn in we look at some of the highlights of his predecessor's rule and ask whether the era of charismatic european royals has ended.

you watching a weekly here on r.t. international. now the ukrainian army an anti-government protesters in the pointing the finger at each other for violating a cease fire imposed by president poroshenko as part of his pace plan on friday the follows a terrible week for local civilians who lost over a dozen loved ones as a result of army shelling. that is what they would. do we. need to deal with. this then you would not. let detroit. go where you're going to go you're going to go.

and this gruesome footage was apparently shot in coma toscan shows the aftermath of an artillery attack on tuesday ten people are believed to have been killed then and as you can see buildings are full of bullet holes and bodies scattered outside in a similar attack on the neighboring sloviansk a young mother and her five year old son were killed when a mortar shell landed in their backyard. did so. it's a guess what self-esteem. that has led to just that. much. further to go mother was alive but didn't let's see if she were. to be sure. while 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. russian journalists were killed in the ukrainian army shelling near the city but again this week the u.n. 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 you would you quiz 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 in ukraine's representative at the un has implied the 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. 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 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 journalists stayed further away at the chance and i turned my head and saw that the second and the third shots 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 mortar shells exploding all the time they both had press written on their clothes but that didn't save them now in an attempt to ease the tension in the u.s. ukraine's president came up with a peace plan that includes an amnesty for those who agreed to lay down their arms and haven't committed severe crimes the creation also 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 the document also to g.s.t. centralization of power to be eastern regions in early local and parliamentary elections and one of the plans top points is to guarantee safety for all negotiating thighs although him self is refusing to hold talks with leaders of the self-proclaimed republics russia has supported the plan but said it's unlikely to work without dialogue. the peace plan has a number of old to meet unlike 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 who's coming to care 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 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 sarah 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 gas 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 day senator john mccain talking to me in kiev in december need to make it clear. to the russian government that i'm here 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 continual procession of u.s. officials in amounts 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 did that bring so what they supported is more really instability and our grass so this wanted to add a thing their support really means nothing to the internal card for. it's going to continue as we see it so against the backdrop of unrest in the east the 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 and support interference carty. meanwhile the winter in europe could be colder than usual visioneer the main gas transit party ukraine gets cut off from russian gas is moscow put on a pre-payment jeju for failing to page energy bill we've got more on this story a bit later on. and other news around continues its struggle against radical institutions that are sweeping across the north of the country that

the militants from the so-called islamic state of iraq and syria group known as isis are within one hundred kilometers of baghdad this week that you had is managed to continue their advance occupying several iraqi cities even though the army did manage to push them back from the capital they just report say they've managed to capture a town on the iraqi syrian border where another branch of the same group is fighting the fight against isis is forced around one million people from their homes distressing reports from the islamist occupied territories tell of the mass execution of captured soldiers and civilians in itis does take pride in its pilot methods and even uses it to promote itself as r.t. going off reports fifteen thousand fighters ten thousand operations in iraq one thousand assassinations all last year alone these state of iraq and syria now known more notoriously as isis has been slicing through iraq or being 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 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 following the arrest of high profile jihad is there it said extremists are now turning their attention to the conflicts in iraq and syria meanwhile washington is considering getting involved in the conflict by sending in the air force to bomb the militants it's already deployed three hundred military advisers to help the iraqi army but defense analysts event even says going back to iraq is not something the american people would like to see . but 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 it could be a drone campaign or it could be

a full fledged air campaign and 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. we're going to take a quick break now be back in a couple minutes. i cannot. for. now i. want.

to sign. up to all european views on any for all what they're going to do budget israelis think the european union's a job they don't listen to it i'm sure they're a needs to we welcome we do mean if if the european union upset what can you do about the ukraine for example i'll do anything. for the. science technology innovation all the least developed from around russia we've got the future covered.

hello welcome back now e.u. energy commissioner here gunther or has warned that the e.u. should get ready for a cold winter but 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 for some of them is the only source of gas and the main fear now is ukraine could start siphoning off the gas as it's done before the first time in two thousand and six and then in two thousand and nine because of the crisis at that time survey he 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 ben-ari 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 then 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's simply siphons of gas that was headed to the west now what russia will do if they do stop supplying ukraine 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 some of the transit gas from russia has already been switched to reserve pipeline after an alleged terrorist attack in ukraine earlier this week to find out what happened online at r.t. dot com also there you can read human rights watch bahrain for cracking down on those who use cameras to expose police violence against anti-government protests.

in other news spain's new king has been sworn in but the mood in the country is far from celebrate three hundred seventy mana kids have rallied in madrid shortly after king philippe took to the throne the protests spirit is strong in the austerity plate nation with millions of spaniards being pushed deeper into poverty the sentiment is also aggravated by the royal family to see lavish lifestyle as a result the crowning ceremony this. all one color stepping down did signal an end of an era as a gifted sailor he competed in the nine hundred seventy two olympics 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 at an elephant whilst on safari in africa and being a keen motorcyclist did no harm to him at all. his image to the people of his country but what many will no doubt remember most is what he once told the late venezuelan president hugo chavez this. good

thing was you know the outgoing king is not the only european leader famous for his catchphrases the case you can read in referring to british students in china had that they risk looking like low cost if they stayed too long in the country and the current king of sweden here criticised by some major outlets for being a party go it defended himself to the press saying there's a broad definition to sex and strip clubs historian felix mora told r.t. that the era of charismatic royals is over. when arnold 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 he was close to the people however if you leave is more for function the reason and this might be a problem for the mortgagees. this week marks the second anniversary of julius sanj 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 a songes lawyers explain it's not sweden that he's particularly scared off. his main concern eason has always been the risk of our money extradition to the united states and the ongoing us grand jury and criminal investigation into we can exist that we know is ongoing and we know that because of court documents released in the last few months so that is our main concern and i think it's important to remember this straight that it is as a result of the u.s. action in relation to ricki lake and the prosecution and rastan it would be thinks that julian remains inside that embassy. hackers in the u.k. who threaten national security might face life sentences according to legislation proposed by the government but activists fear that whistle blowers could end up in the same category with cyber terrorist party boycott expect. in today's digital age committing a serious cyber crime could land you a mega sentence and

a serious crime bill proposed in the queen's speech computer hackers who launched devastating attacks on u.k. infrastructure could soon face life behind bars as a single attack can have such a dramatic effect let's just imagine a scenario where we go in our electricity for a week and the impact that would have had no lights no power to do engineering on manufacturing business or to you know for people to boil water you know to sterilize baby feeding a quick but that actually has a tangible effect on people's daily existence and actually worse case scenario on people's very very lives at the moment impairing a computer as it's written in law carries a maximum ten year sentence according to ministers that's disproportionate to the potential damage a malicious hacker could wreak but computer security experts have questioned what cyber terrorism really means and whether the term could be used to prosecute

citizens who try to whistle blow on the government or a company i honestly think if you if you're hacking in order to harm life then there will be sentences already available but frankly computers are more central to us. that might mean that people can do more harmful things but things that we have to publish them for all of the results you know if you killed people have you attempted to done damage property would disrupt the capital's transport those are concrete eric comes and either trying to do those things are actually doing that that's what people should be sentenced for benevolent security researchers are also concerned their work often involves behaving like hackers with the intention of finding vulnerabilities on a website and exposing cyber risk but according to this proposed law even those working for the coma. good of the internet could end up behind bars so feel

a major threat here is if somebody is simply trying to reverse engineer a site maybe see that showed that it isn't properly secure and that people shouldn't trust it and that operators need to sort themselves out those are the kinds of problems where people can to face computer misuse charges without really having done anything wrong playboy kayo r.t. london. international news in brief now a south korean soldier who earlier went on a rampage at a military checkpoint has been surrounded by security forces a school in a nearby town reports say he's exchanging fire with the army twenty two year old sergeant killed five of his comrades and injured seven more either border post with north korea the motives for the shooting are 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 forced to seek refuge the dam pours also cause major power outages i'm

blocked roads. and a suicide bomb attack in afghanistan's eastern provinces killed a police officer and three civilians the explosive device went off as the officer was passing on his motorbike attacks on civilians and security forces are happening on a nearly daily basis in afghanistan after the taliban launched an offensive over a month ago. for years jewish people have often found themselves the target of hatred and physical intimidation but it seems the bullied have become the bullies at least for one extremist group the jewish defense league their members are being accused of making death threats towards a journalist who is investigating their actions. as this report i. think they have a strong following i'm actually going to ask as only we are here present we are jews no really cruel. we are well trained well equipped we're not afraid and we should be more afraid of us than we are them the jewish defense league claims its

goal is to protect the jewish community from hatred and anti-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 mahler doppler claims he felt the wrath of the league when he started researching them in paris i exposed to with my friends some. fellow in the book crazy for doing this job 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 beaten me 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 protest and i told them there were many of them on the place so i

told them why don't you a resident oh you do anything you can 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. caprice is present of course but it's not everywhere so we have to do what they are capable of doing correctly from attacking left wing students protesting 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. is pretty strong and in the police we know there are some people the will to do their job but at some point you have people in here that are blocking the fight and when those people. 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.p.l. training in an official building that was being leased by the police if the police thought quoting them while they were training with their resume really had no desire to talk to us when we contacted them but their complicity speaks for itself . you know it gets in a way because will hurt you very very very badly various local movements an answer rices and 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 greenock all survive reports in from paris for artsy. coming up after a short break and saw a documentary goebbels the master of the race.

so are we going back to iraq recently violence has flared up as insurgents are taking cities from the current iraqi government and response to this chaos obama declared that his administration is prepared to take military action whenever our national security is threatened oh well since the weapons of mass destruction were never found a rock and the current militants can't shoot a key forty seven over the ocean i don't see how us national security is at risk now or before the iraq war even started but on the other hand the flow of oil from us but tamia well that might be at risk but sometimes i forget that obama is a politician and just a day later he was quoted as saying quite the opposite about the same situation declaring that we will not be sending u.s. troops back into combat in iraq which sounds great to my ears and do you wait yet another few days and now he is saying that they want to send at least two hundred seventy five troops to provide support and security for u.s. personnel and the us embassy in baghdad i think this or will. the attitude towards the truth comes from two factors one lying works and obama gets away with it and to

the fear of looking weak presidents have to act confident like they were total control of that awesome plan even when they have no idea what they're going to do i think this is the case with this iraq issue but that's just my opinion. crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want.

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