it's ten pm here in moscow this is the way clear under the big stories of the last seven days and the ukrainian military fighters accuse each other of ignoring a declared ceasefire as more civilian lives are lost in army attacks. gas cut off this last week making euro banksias the could revert to its old ways and siphon from the transit pipeline. headlining to islamic radicals edged closer to the iraqi capital reportedly capturing three more cities on the way. and israeli troops will pull media offices in the west bank including r t's office seizing hard drives and destroying equipment amid a tense crackdown against palestinian authorities right now.

hello i'm kevin zero in very good to have you with us first that it's been a week of grief and trauma for civilians in east ukraine. you know. losing it to a new zealand. girl who we're going to go you're going to go. please be aware what you're about to see in the coming minutes includes some graphic video but images which we've blurred and the key to what we're trying to explain to you here is here it comes bodies lying in the streets body parts scattered around is what you're looking at there at least ten civilians were killed many more were wounded in choose the shelling residential areas were left devastated with

buildings in ruins the walls riddled with holes and shattered windows. in the lists. to be sure. this is real life for real people here mortar shell hit this family's backyard instantly killing a thirty year old mother a five year old son died just a few hours later doctors battle to try to save him there is on the operating table where they say they found dozens of shell fragments in his head. then you would not cause the million year flood to be destroyed you know when you could get most would be. these. he was more than you see it then you heard the need. to upset you when his mansion and. that you hear it you see if you are.

watching. this hearing the air raids sounding over the city like girls people there are being for still to spread like say bob shelters and basements the army keeps on hitting the city suburbs while residents keep on trying to flee. another snapshot of real life or rather death fear this particular attack killed two russian journalists the video was filmed by the cameraman the crew's only survivor they were covering the ongoing evacuation of civilians for a particularly dangerous area supports use of goodness this self defense activist raised his hands to show refugees a safe path at this moment the first mortar shell exploded and damaged his hand i journalist stayed further away at the checkpoint and i turned my head and saw that

the second the third mortar shells went off exactly where they were since there was a road between it's between our journalists and me i could hear shells exploding all the time so they both had press written on their clothes but that didn't save them. but we can put a name to them thirty seven year old reporter eagle cornell york was laid to rest in moscow with military honors he survived by his wife and his seven year old daughter and here this is sound operator and he's going to be buried next week after further tests are carried out on his body. ukraine's president has promised an investigation into the deaths of those russian journalists but also in an attempt to ease the tension in the east petro poroshenko announced a week cease fire and came up with a peace plan of the week that peace plan includes an amnesty for those who agreed to lay down their arms and haven't committed any severe cripes also the creation of a ten kilometer wide buffer zone along the border with russia it proposes to changes to the constitution to guarantee use of the russian language it also

suggests devolving power to eastern regions and early local and parliamentary elections while the plans top points is to guarantee safety for all negotiating sides solve those refusing to hold talks with leaders of the self-proclaimed republics now russia supports the plan but it says it's unlikely to work without dialogue. it goes to prison but i should go buel the fact that president poroshenko declared a truce is a vital part resolving the crisis and you see the most important number it's crucial that this truce of the week for a dialogue between the fighting sides that's the key to success. president putin went on to say that the big more artillery fire in ukraine near the russian border friday night a russian checkpoint was shelled by the ukrainian military that injured a customs officer it happened while around two hundred refugees were trying to cross into russia so it could potentially have been much worse maybe their fighting is driving many from their homes in the ship crane as we've been saying tens of

thousands of civilians have been forced to leave the area most of them trying to seek shelter in russia a lot of refugees or their families behind as parents were trying to get the children out first to safety of course. they did to the for the ball of. steel. and probably i mean after all this likes to have to listen ok let's put it that. that was just one you sort of those but. with the. while the crisis unfolds in the east of the country the capitalism me the at least fifty people gathered near the russian embassy in kiev today sunday showing anti moscow slogans and throwing objects of police it's not the first time it's happened though but it is a much milder protest this time he saw last week then paint stones and smoke bombs

were thrown at the embassy did the russian flag was torn down by radical you they accuse moscow of getting involved in the country's crisis. and this is a snapshot from elsewhere in kiev a group of masked individuals here clashing with police their flag suggests they belong. and for an ultra nationalist movement they were seen vandalizing a branch of spare back there which is a russian bank. but it's not all doom and gloom few crane after all is still got powerful friends u.s. vice president joe biden is coming together today no doubt he get it checked out on his son who coincidentally landed a top job at ukraine's top private gas company who got more on the family's ties with ukraine than later in the program. but next this week's washington some some three hundred military advisors as it was described to help iraq push back advancing radicals from the islamic state in iraq

and syria group one hundred u.s. soldiers have been deployed in baghdad to guard the american embassy as well the isis advance has been swift and deadly they reportedly captured three cities on sunday alone yet some sources say this was the result of the army's tactical withdrawal anyway on this map you can see two main routes the terrorists have chosen to get to their eventual target which is baghdad extremist fighters have left a trail of blood as they march through the water and country they've not shied away from boasting about their atrocities big news in the wake these pictures from the al qaeda offshoot showing what purported to be and it's been confirmed a mass execution of iraqi soldiers go to camp looks at what's stopping the international community then from lending a helping hand to the stricken government. washington is now pondering over how to bomb iraq in such a way as to not provoke a backlash after all the crisis there has a strong signal tarion background with the militants being sunni muslims so what's

your response to airstrikes just aren't the answer here well look the whole answer but they may well be one of the options that are important to be able to stem the tide and stop the movement of people who are moving around in open convoys and trucks and terrorising people the sectarian component video walks crises already train traditional alliances iran wants to cooperate with the u.s. to assist iraq's shia government washington's ally saudi arabia on the other hand warns against any foreign interference and made reports that wealthy sunni donors in saudi arabia kuwait and carter have been funding militants from the islamic state of iraq and syria the us is allied with all the gulf countries that are supporting the sunni rebels in syria that are supporting them in iraq this is an old problem see isis militants move out of the six carrying boy iraq which started after the u.s. the u.k. invasion in two thousand and three today some of the politicians who made the

decision to invade are anxious to wash their hands of blame the u. case tony blair wrote we have to liberate ourselves from the notion that we have caused this we haven't the sunni extremists now control vast areas in iraq including the cities of fallujah and to create as well as mosul the second largest these cities which have been battered by the decade long war looked very different before the u.s. and u.k. invasion. in two thousand and two i was in most surely in the northern city that has been now seized by the rebels the sunni revolt at that time in two thousand to mosul and i was greeted by people in mosul they were christians they were sunni arabs shiite arabs and they were kurds they were a tapestry they were around the multination. multicultural communities other record their time in they were living in peace today they are divided along sectarian lines because of an outside invasion washington is now divided between those who

oppose any u.s. military intervention in iraq and those who say something has to be done because the. great to this day officials from the outside say they don't own iraq's problems and they don't want to pump the government they're pushing the militants out however many experts agree with their return only a matter of time. just take a minute to take a closer look at how iraqi sectarian bloodshed could reshape geopolitical interests in the region martir in green are the countries where shia muslims make up the majority of the other ones include catherine of course america's closest muslim ally in the region saudi arabia iraq is current on the shiite rule and isis is hell bent on changing that right now another influence which all sides have to take into account of the kurds they pose a major threat to isis indeed kurdish forces repelled the islamist advance and

force them out of the city of kirkuk taking control of a vital oil center defense consultant moonroof believes the kurds have spotted a chance to create their own independent state you know but the country has been broken away as it is except it's not officially broken we wanted to separate oil rich a kurdish region in the north away from the main iraq it's been set up from the beginning from the ninety's the americans gave them the possibility of a semi autonomous region now all it's. been running the kurds have been running their own kurdish region since the ninety's. and now all they're going to do is break away from iraq once and for all and declare independence. more the week's news to come including spain's call. coronation is philippe the six is crowned protests across a show how austerities lot of people mulling whether or not the monarchy is worth having. israeli defense forces are swept through artie's

office in the west bank destroying equipment and confiscated records it comes as part of a series of similar i.d.f. raids on media centers a bit of military campaign that's ongoing against the palestinian authorities who israel is accusing of kidnapping those three israeli students a correspondent is in the office when it was attacked a large group of israeli military broke into the office of the firm which provides services for a number of satellite companies including r.t. as you can see several rooms have been damaged by the troops including editing studios the internet went off because of their action we lost our video archive and some other material completely office furniture and computers are broken doors are smashed computer equipment and hard drives have been seized well for its part the i.d.f. says r.t. was never a target of its raid that the operation was carried out for good reasons problem is there some facts in the israeli statement just don't add up the targets of

tonight's raid was the powell media company mainly because it organizes the broadcast of the propagandist and program us al aksa t.v. channel r.t. finds the israeli argument irrelevant because the al aqsa channel uses the services of another company which has its office in a different building r.t. believes the raid was unacceptable as it was carried out under a false pretext or try to get a bit more information about what went on here spoke to the deputy head of r.t. arabic mohammed her son he explains we were made no sense for the i.d.f. to get heavy handed with our office. we've received another commands through different media that says that i was not the target was the target ok fine let's say all kids in the in the same building but r.t. has a bright bright logo and moreover alkaloids was the only office that they didn't confiscate their hard disks. this weeks or three hundred palestinian suspects arrested two in

connection with the students a duck should get in lady is leaving as reporter for the israeli newspaper ha'aretz he told me believes that the i.d.f. have we had an operation has gone far beyond its aim of finding the missing teenagers i think that this operation went out of proportion long time ago in your office the raid on your office is just an example of a very very wide scale operation which has nothing to do with the fate of this three kidnapped youngsters israel takes advantage. in the strike again not the first time to smash the hamas and anything which smells hamas or looks like hamas or is connected directly or indirectly was commerce is becoming a victim for brutal searching and confiscating. even your own feces one of those victims they were coming up after the biggest russian

gas cut off kiev is now looking for new ways of getting energy supplies more but in a couple of 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 dragged their feet they did declare early on in the uprising that al qaeda was a terrorist organization. and others were terrorist organizations and prescribe them but it did very little to carry through with that and to force its allies to equally prescribe those groups. we speak your language i mean some of the will or not of the. use programs and

documentaries in spanish matters to you breaking news a little too negative angles to the stories. so you hear. the spanish find out more visit. again for a fusing to pay its energy bills for six months the kids natural gas supply was finally turned off this last week to the background the long running but ground there let's take a brief resume may have the facts ukraine currently still russia in excess of four billion dollars after it stopped making any payments in november what russia wanted what it said its final deadline was that at least standing that was paid it was ukraine's problem apparently is the price he has happy neither with the current

price although one that was offered by moscow in fact it is says on a price that it calls a market one but which actually would be one of the lowest in europe as you can say . coming up in a minute demanding to pay only half of what european nations pay there you can see how it stacks up in that graph even the e.u. is called russia's final offer of three hundred eighty five dollars per thousand cubic meters a reasonable one not so ukraine though it's refused to budge we asked a number of experts than what kids really playing for here. who. would stand on their hands and spit one little stole the cows come home and it wouldn't change the situation and i think the negotiating tactics of the ukrainian government. are simply designed to make someone crazy in moscow your peer to compromise you could be reasonable and suddenly everything collapses this isn't going to help ordinary ukrainian people it's creating enormous economic instability and uncertainty a deal would have signaled

a step towards normalization of relations with russia which of course is ukraine's by far the largest trading partner so really a deal was in the ordinary ukrainian people's interest and i don't really understand why hasn't gone through what happens now is you know that makes the choice and it's not the choice between you know more losing more money or being the bad guy switch off the gas go to sleep eat system in summer is respected much more than in the starting to do that in autumn the winter. some of the experts thoughts there so that as of this week the only gas that russia is sending through ukraine pipes is that which is already bought by europe but given past experience the e.u. is nervous for a very good reason to remind you back in two thousand and six after of europe was left out in the cold you may recall when ukraine began siphoning gas from the pipes that was being sent now there was another so-called gas war three years later two thousand and nine as well when ukraine supplies again reduced and it began tapping

those pipes wreaking havoc on the economies of eastern europe especially russia promises to keep the e.u.'s gas flowing there's been no confusion over that despite his differences with ukraine kev's ability to guarantee transit though is what's being doubted a day after its gas was cut off an explosion hit a segment of a pipeline to europe got those pictures this is video footage of the instant coming up ukraine's interior minister says the explosion was most likely a result of a terrorist attack for sure the blast happened in a secluded area away from any people can be sure those pictures are there for now all fuel trance it's been switched from this damaged pipeline to a reserve pipeline in europe is getting its gas in full russia has assured. bit of a mess there now when all else fails care who's got family ties it can rely on apparently coming up the son of the american vice president serves on the board of directors of ukraine's largest private gas corporation is father joe biden we know

that name calling to care for a second term is many months paul scott the looks of 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 presence is only growing but 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 he's 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 its came for the people to be heard on the no country should interfere with the affairs of another case senator john mccain talking to me in kiev in december need to make it clear. to the russian government and let him there 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 but continuing for a session of u.s. officials in and out of kiev and the promise of financial and military aid represents its own forward 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 reality why they their support really means nothing to the internal codd for. it's going to continue as we see it so against the backdrop of on rest 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 pushcarts r.t. . our website showing a special section dedicated to the whole all longer ukrainian crisis so many elements see it with months worth of archives if you're the mood to catch up with it or find out more may be mind up here expectations for the future head over to our t.v. or com so much that. spain's new king was crowned on thursday philippe the six therefore takes over from his father carlos the first who's abdicated to make way but not all spaniards are celebrating their warranty

monarchy protests nationwide even the center of the capital was secure it was heightened for the relatively low key coronation three police officers were injured during clashes in madrid seven activists were arrested they were quickly released again to protest moods been heightened by years of austerity and soaring unemployment but the monarchy was seen perpetuating a lavish lifestyle and seeing its reputation buttered by fraud allegations world watches say the new king therefore it's got a tough job on his hands now juan carlos was very charismatic and funny he was close to the people however if you leave is more of a function they're in and this might be a problem for them or there are too many expectations that he's a going to arrange a number a man cries because of the problems of. his not according to show his earlier king but without a political role we do not expect the third phillipe or actually or for any of the boy family our we need to understand that that we as we talk that scots alliance

their one cardross is a king that has constantly denying that the spanish has been imposing catalonia all we want and now a majority in parts are only out to vote in the night of november about didn't happen that's up at our own now. you know without international i'm kevin but with more live news in thirty five minutes next the world. 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 haeckel 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.

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hello and welcome to worlds apart 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 watch some government 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 joshua landis 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 offense if 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 that on july 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. 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 were certain medias framing of the events in iraq it is very predictable they're sort of putting all the blame on the government he felt to build a functioning democracy here ali and they did the sunni's 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.