live from the r.t. news center at midnight this is the weekly or rather for the big stories to change the last seven days and headlining the smalling the ukrainian military and anti government fighters accuse each other of ignoring a declared ceasefire as more civilian lives are lost in army attacks. billion payments ukraine go to gas cut off this last week making you. could revert to its old ways and siphon from the transit lines. coming up to islamic radicals closer to the iraqi capital reportedly no capturing three more cities on the way. and israeli troops. in the west bank including r.t.s.

seizing hard drives and destroying equipment admitted the tense ongoing crackdown against palestinian authority. for a good morning she's thanks for watching r.t. international. it's been a week of grief and trauma for civilians in east ukraine again. you need to. go where you're going to go you're going to go to hear what they would . do we. have before we carry on just wanted to make you aware we've got some graphic video coming up but the images which we've blurred are key to what we're going to explain next. you see here bodies lying on the streets indeed body parts scattered around at least ten

civilians were killed many more wounded in choose days shelling in crime or tosk in the east the residential areas were left devastated with buildings in ruins the walls as you can see riddled with holes and window shattered. khaled took up mother was alive by the lists of jeeves two of his letter. if he is still it which. is real life to real people a mortar shell hit this family's backyard instantly killing a thirty year old mother her five year old son died just a few hours later as doctors battle to save him there on the operating theatre they say they found dozens of shell fragments in his head. you know where you. get then you would not go then leaving your lot to be destroyed you know then you could get lost or would be stuck with a. nagy abilities to support or to see these ideas to what has been be

you was more than you see it then you had the neediness and you know boy things you were up so you know when his mansion and deal it knowing that you hear from him if you see if you're. watching us thank you. that was a snapshot of life by day this is what it's like at night these are the air raid alarm sounding over the city lugansk people they're being forced to spend night still in bomb shelters and basements the army keeps on hitting the city suburbs where the residents keep on trying to flee. i don't know either snapshot of life or here death this particular attack killed two russian journalists the video was filmed over cameraman is the crew's only survivor in fact they were covering the ongoing evacuation of civilians from a particularly dangerous area at the time. supporters of progress 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 are journalists further away at the checkpoint and i turned my head and saw that the second in the first mortar shells went off exactly where they were six there was a road between us 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 journalists simply doing their job but let me name them thirty seven year old reporter eager cornea look he was laid to rest here in moscow with military honors he survived by his wife and seven year old daughter and here you're seeing sound operator and he's going to be buried next week after further tests have been carried on his body for his part ukraine's president has promised an investigation into the deaths of those russian journalists and also in an attempt to try to ease the tension in the east petro poroshenko announced a week ceasefire and came up with a peace plan that peace plan included an amnesty for those who agreed to lay down their arms and haven't committed serious crimes also the creation of

a ten kilometer wide buffer zone along the border with russia it also proposed changes to the constitution to guarantee the use of the russian language and it suggested devolving power to eastern regions along with that also early local and parliamentary elections and one of the plans top points was to guarantee safety for all negotiating sides so much needed right now poroshenko him self those refusing to hold talks with leaders in those self proclaimed republics russia says that before any such plan can work fighting must stop but that doesn't seem to be kiev as intention. unfortunately what we're seeing by way of objective observation was that suggests combat hasn't really struggled or we saw the active use of artillery or ukrainian side i can't say whether it was the army or the armed groups of some right wing for sixty were but it is happening all military action must be stopped. these are supposedly the observations that president putin was referring to it's

aerial footage apparently showing an artillery attack on saturday said to taken place in east ukraine donetsk region less than a kilometer from the russian border fighting is driving many from their homes in east ukraine tens of thousands of civilians been forced to leave the area most of them seeking shelter in russia a lot of the refugees or their families behind as parents of course try to get the children to safety first. but the ball of. steel now as it was in the primary a enough told us. did have to listen. but it. was when you showed us those but. with the. real life stories from real people here while the crisis unfolds in east the country the capitalism carmi that

at least fifty people gathered near the russian consulate in kiev sunday showed an anti moscow slogans and throwing objects at police it's not the first time it's happened it's a much milder protest at least than the one that was witnessed last week when paint stones and smoke bombs were thrown at the russian embassy in flags that were torn down by radical view that they cues moscow of getting involved in the country's crisis. and this is a scene from elsewhere in kiev now a group of masked individuals clashing with police their flags suggests that they belong to an alter nationalist movement they're also seen vandalizing a branch of sport but there is one of russia's main banks. and news just coming in as well from the region a freight train we're hearing has derailed in the eastern ukrainian region of dinette scuffed of the track was blown up this is just coming through to us now no injuries reported there at least at the moment we'll have more as soon as we get

that of course. it's not all doom and gloom for ukraine though after all it still got powerful friends u.s. vice president joe biden is coming to kiev and they've been there no doubt eager to check on his son who's gently landed a job with ukraine's top private gas company more on the family's ties with ukraine then later in the program also head to judas sarge passes two years of being holed up at the ecuadorian embassy in london in a legal limbo we hear why he's not giving up. more alarming reports from iraq which you had just militants have killed twenty one tribal leaders in the west of the country after they captured three more cities on sunday there the latest games in their rapid advance towards the capital but it's left a trail of blood and death as they march through the war torn country i'm a proud of it too and these are pictures that came through in the week from the al qaeda offshoot they posted these showing mass executions that were verified of iraqi soldiers are these loosely caffein off as more the merciless offensive than

of isis. armed to the teeth determined to conquer on the march across iraq the islamic state involved in syria also known as isis is quickly emerging as one of the world's most powerful jihad is groups the groups goal just what the name implies and islamic sunny caliphate stretching across the middle east isis already controlled large swaths of land in syria and iraq and barr province last week they moved on iraq's north. seemingly overnight isis captured the second largest city of mosul more than half a million residents were forced to flee. we were afraid of isis and escaped because they have norm or see the people they kill they have no conscience that. it

was just the start after mosul a lightning speed advance towards baghdad with cities and towns falling to isis along the way as iraqi soldiers fled their posts they left behind tanks humvees trucks and weapons paid for by the americans and now in the hands of isis the militants have their supporters to the shiite dominated government of prime minister nouri al maliki has alienated iraq's sunni population isis is also believed to receive financial support from sympathetic gulf monarchies and with iran backing the iraqi government there's fear the internal conflict could become a regional one all sides are bracing for the worst in the capital shiite militia men are responding to a call to arms from their religious leaders ready to defend their capital and their faith the iraqi army is also fighting back but this means airstrikes against sunni

cities and that could make the already sick terry and conflict go from bad to worse sitting out the fight at least for now are the americans with the hottest determined to press on the question is for how long lucy caffein of r.t. . iraq's sectarian divide runs deep the sunni dominated north west is historically been involved with the shiites living in the southern regions but i says this has got a much broader economic strategy now two militants have been besieging their biggest oil fields which is still in government hands but iraq is on the verge of losing control of this vital industry which accounts for indeed ninety five percent of the economy and if you get a car it's your problem too as the militants make new games the uncertainty is setting all prices skyrocketing let's check it out on the news wall here brant crude gained almost five percent this week when you had to seize the city of mosul trading close friday where a mormon hundred fourteen dollars per barrel the price is edging closer to

a twelve month record forecast predicts further growth up to twenty dollars per barrel in the next couple of months if things go as they think they will all industry expert stuart elliott says the situation could become catastrophic iraq exports about two point five million barrels a day to the global market his production is about four percent of the global total so any disruption to sudden exports would have a major major impact if we were to lose that oil from the market it would be the tightest market with we've had for a long long long time and even then it's not clear that saudi arabia would be able to replace the lost iraqi barrels we're going to see a lot of change on the oil market we're going to see people having to stop using their cars it will really would be kind of end game scenario if iraq were to lose its oil and then we could even see another economic recession across the whole world. but the background to this isis submerged in iraq right after the u.s. led invasion of pledged its allegiance then to al qaida which mr at least later

denounced the group for being too brutal now isis is filled iraq's sectarian bloodshed and proclaimed an independent islamic state spawning iraq syria lebanon palestine and jordan it's thrived during the ongoing war a neighboring syria gaining access to money and weapons of and fall into the hands of the rebels their former pentagon pentagon analyst michael maloof told us the fate of the whole region is at stake if terrorists gain a foothold in iraq they can sweep through iraq they're going to go into jordan and you're going to have spinoffs. that would be created isis in iraq right now is just foreign fighters and what have you a lot of what are some old saddam hussein's groups certainly people who work for him who are all sudanese and and who joined on to isis there a lot of a. lot of elements a lot of islamic groups that are joining isis inside iraq of course. the prime

minister who is shia is resisting any efforts to change his government to try to. make the bring in this bring in more sunni's into the into the got.

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to find out more visit our big. dog called. israeli defense forces have rated r t's office in the west bank destroying equipment and compass cutting records it comes as a series of similar i.d.f. raids on media centers amid a military campaign against the palestinian authorities that continues who russia is accusing of kidnapping those three israeli students still not found is ati's policy. artie's offices that are situated in the building of the service provided pile media in the west bank city of ramallah have been raided in that raid r.t. studio was damaged our internet signal was lost the archives of both video and audio material have disappeared in the same time or furniture has been destroyed the doors have been ruined computers and disks have been confiscated all of this has resulted in a conversation between us and the i.d.f.

where we are asked them what was all of this about now they responded initially by saying nothing the raid was against the al aksa channel now we then pointed out that that was actually housed in another building to which the idea for spawn did well in that case the raid was against our could stevie our follow up question then was so why have you confiscated r t arabic equipment which the idea for sponsor that they had to since the operation targeted the whole complex now these confiscations form part of what is being called operation brothers keeper it is an operation that is intended to risk youth three israeli teenagers who were kidnapped some ten days ago by him us the dip he hid of r.t. arabic has said that the i.d.f. never acts without any kind of documentation that proves that whoever it is raiding is in fact affiliated with terrorists but when he asked where there was proof that r.t. in fact was affiliated with any party that proof was very short in coming the spokesman

of israel defense force was claiming that israeli forces never. never acting without any documents without any exact specific intelligence well i can tell him now where is the intelligence that you've got to prove that r.t. was somehow related to any political. the i.d.f. has said that if after the examination of the discs and equipment that it has confiscated it is clear that there is no terror related content in the equipment will be returned to r.t. arabic we'll keep you posted now paul was talking there about the ongoing hunt for those three teenagers all this week saw three hundred palestinian suspects arrested in connection with a student's abduction gideon levy is a reporter for the israeli newspaper ha'aretz he believes that the i.d.f. heavy handed operation has gone far beyond its aim of finding the missing teenagers has more of what he had to say to me 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 these trying again not the first time to smell 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 and it's even your office is one of those victims. it seems some friendships are made to last even in politics despite a coup trials and changes of regimes washington support yet another of egypt's leaders will tell you more about the shifting allegiances there than a bit later this hour coming up as well you know the scandal at guantanamo now

horrifying details of a merge have three detainees died that's ahead as well. after refusing to pay its energy bills them for six months kids natural gas supply was finally turned off in the week as to how it all came about let's take a look at it briefly the background you craig kearney still owes russia in excess of four billion dollars it's a huge amount after stopping payments in november and what russia said it wanted the negotiating last week at that final deadline was at least half of the money owed ukraine's problem apparently is the price keeps happy neither with the current price nor the one being offered by moscow in fact it insists on a price that it calls a market one but it would also be one of the lowest in europe if you take a look at this graph here is demanding to pay only half of what some european nations pay even the e.u. scored russia's final offer of three hundred eighty five dollars per thousand cubic meters reasonable offer not so ukraine it's refused to budge we asked

a number of experts the kids really after here. election mellower could stand on their hands and the liberals till the cows come home and it wouldn't change the situation and i think the negotiating tactics the ukrainian government. are simply designed to make someone crazy in moscow your period of 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 deal with. a step towards normalization of relations with russia which of course is ukraine's by far the largest trading partner so really a deal within the ordinary ukrainian people's interest and i don't really understand why hasn't gone through what happens now is you know that russia makes the choice and it's not a choice between you know more losing more money or being the bad guy switch off the gas go to a prepaid system in some. respects much more than in this starting to do that an

automobile which now as of this week we started the moment the only gas rush resetting through ukrainian pipes is that it's been bought by europe but given past experience is the e.u. is still nervous a good reason maybe to you might think to remind you back in two thousand and six half of europe was left out in the cold because ukraine began siphoning off gas not meant for it through those transit pipes there was another so-called gas war there three years later in two thousand and nine when ukrainian supplies were reduced again it began tapping into those pipes and siphoning off gas wreaking havoc on the economies of eastern europe especially this time gazprom says it hopes ukraine will honor its obligations. goes a bit of the amount of gas for european consumers is being supplied in full compliance with those contracts and ukraine's nafta gatt is obliged to guarantee deliveries without disruption according to the transit contract. gives ability to

guarantee transit those already in just a day after the gas was cut off an explosion hit a segment of a pipeline by which gas from siberia travels to heat european homes in fact it goes down to italy and the continent's economic powerhouse germany which buys almost forty percent of its natural gas from russia we got picture of that big fire this is the video footage of it ukraine's interior ministry says the explosion was most likely the result of a terrorist attack fortunately the blast happened in a secluded area so no one was hurt it was away from people and immediately afterwards all fuel transit was switched to a reserve a parallel pipeline with europe suffering no disruption in supplies as a result there had been earlier threats though to attack and destroy gas pipelines transporting russian gas to europe well such call came from this guy dimitry yarosh the leader of ukraine's neo fascist right sector group political scientist with tears briscoe told us at the very least the explosion here is a blow to the country's trance it reputation if you look at their countrymen it's

not a modern norm or a state it's rather a kind of failed state where does the control its territory which is unable to guarantee not only the lives of its citizens about also our economic safety of their. their their physical safety of their business going on there so this is one of the very many examples. when all else fails care of family ties can surely still be relied on the son of the american vice president serves on the board of directors of ukraine's largest private gas corporation his father joe biden came to kiev on sunday for a second time in as many months artie's paul scott the next looks at the long trail of american politicians backing ukraine's new government. whether it's secretary of state john kerry laying flowers. this is student victoria nuland handing out cookies. senator john mccain offering support from a down protest sarah is with you i mean the american presence in ukraine has been

visible since the crisis began late last year and 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 its came for the people to be heard and the no country should interfere with the affairs of another ok senator john mccain talking to me in kiev in december need to make it clear. to the russian government anywhere in 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 can tin you in for a session 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 of its government and what they that were so what they supported is more really instability and i would read so this reality why they saying their support really means nothing to the internal caught. 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 pushcarts r.t. the website's running a special section dedicated to the ukrainian crisis so layered as well so much is going on those months worth of archives if you're in the mood to catch up all your expert expectations for the future you got it and r.t. the home. grown talent obeys notorious reputation and another black mark this week when details emerged about three detainees who reportedly died while being tortured the fischel zur accused of covering up their deaths insisting the inmates were found hanged in this cells an apparent suicide in two thousand and six prison authorities there have been known to recategorize uncomfortable episodes in the past in two thousand and two the u.s. defense department stopped reporting suicide attempts categorizing them instead as acts of self harm also guards don't torture people instead they conduct enhanced interrogation techniques when it comes to the notorious practice of waterboarding

for instance hunger strikes are now long term nonreligious fast and force feeding is called the medical management of prisoners with weight loss we talked to professor mark denby oh who's the probe into the two thousand and six deaths cast doubt on the official version of events here. what we have is compelling evidence however of them and they didn't appear in the manner that the government claims the government claims they own themselves in their cells by committing suicide and if you read through that the n.c.i. as investigators. you would read that the men were have been dead more than two hours when they were brought to the clinic and there are more you know if you have five girls guarding or eighteen to twenty people and three of them. are flipped in their cells for hours people should go to jail because the military

failed to comply with their obligation. there's a group that says it's there to protect persecuted jewish people but it darkseid speed revealed stay with them to learn about the jewish defense league sixteen tactics against the people who try to expose their methods as coming up a few minutes from now. spades a new king was crowned on thursday philippe the six takes over from his father lost the first he's abdicated to make way for his son but all spaniards as celebrates him there and he want to keep protests nationwide even in the center of the capital where security was heightened for the relatively low key coronation three police officers were injured during clashes in madrid seven activists were arrested quickly released again the protest moods been heightened by years of austerity and soaring unemployment on the monarchy was seen perpetuating a lavish lifestyle and seen its reputation to.