russia's president asks parliament to withdraw permission for the use of force in ukraine the move is praised by the ukrainian president as a step towards deescalating tension in the country's east. but self-defense forces in east ukraine report mounting casualties and renewed or tillery fire raising doubts over teves commitment to stopping the violence. poland's foreign minister is caught on tape using vulgar language to describe his country's alliance with washington will look at how such leaks are causing cracks in transatlantic ties. and getting gas to europe without the trouble some detours austria and russia strike a deal on a new branch of the south stream pipeline despite pressure from brussels to freeze

the project. which is coming to you live from moscow seven pm here on marina joshie. president putin has asked russian lawmakers to withdraw permission to use the military in ukraine it was granted unanimously in march of the referendum in crimea to provide security for russian citizens and a naval fleet stationed in the region but it sparked outrage in the west which suspected russia of planning an intervention. explains it's expected to be discussed at the next. session which is to take place on wednesday so we literally could be less than one day away from actually seeing this or measure it being counseled now it was adopted in the beginning of march in order to protect russian

nationals particularly of course the concern was about the contingent of the russian navy who are stationed a naval base on crimea against possible provocations and knew of the situation in ukraine but now russian president has asked for that measure to be withdrawn because he believes that it could contribute to stipulation in the southeast of ukraine and of course it is right ahead of the three party talks on that very subject matter which are to take place in very short a short period of time now there has already been a response from green officials that is the president poroshenko has already said that this is the first practical step towards actually brings the stability to the south east of ukraine anti-government forces in eastern ukraine say continued army shelling of the town of preval now in the rest of and has left one woman dead and another wounded both sides agreed to observe the cease fire until friday morning but are already accusing each other of breaking it cost of has more. here on the

ground there is no letup in the fighting reports of civilian casualties are mounting and the renewed his city's calm on the heels of the ukrainian president split over a cease fire now than initiative was also supported by the ends of government forces who promised to stick to the deal but said they're now claiming that the ukrainian army violated the peace plan by opening fire in the gun screeching ends we know that at least one woman was killed there when you fighting clearly shows that the president's plan is failing and he seemingly has little control over what's happening here on the ground you know while just a couple of days ago an explosion derailed a russian cargo train in the donetsk region and all of this adds to the situation of the year a lotus notes that ukraine is currently living in. and one of the devastating consequences of king of snow and stop offensive is that it's creating a shortage of basic supplies including of drinking water long queues have been seen in the worst hit areas such as the cities of slovyansk and kramatorsk desperate

locals are trying to find a lifeline online requests have been posted on social networks for those who have private wells to make them available to the wider public. online we have more details about the shaky cease fire in the volatile eastern regions at a full timeline of the crisis is also just a click away at r.t. dot com. relations between american and polish top brass have always appeared to be in rude health at least for the cameras but a leaked conversation involving poland's foreign minister has revealed some rudeness of another kind of work now looks at how that's left the establishment in warsaw red faced. anding love affair america and its atlantic partners consistently proclaim their rock solid loyalty and mutual admiration as friends and allies we stand united together. warsaw has reciprocated the affinity always leaving the door open for a u.s.

footprint within its borders. very glad to be able to say the american friendship and alliance is a strong behind the camera friendly facade of solidarity western partners are singing a much different tune the same polish officials seen here reportedly calls his nation's alliance with the u.s. worthless insisting it creates a false sense of security in a secretly recorded conversation up tamed by w magazine foreign minister wratislaw sikorsky is purportedly heard comparing warsaw and washington's relationship to that of someone who's always performing sexual favors and receiving nothing in return preceeding poland's vulgar tone one of america's top diplomats has exhibited her penchant for profanity dropping the f. bomb when referencing european partners so that would be great i think to help glue this thing and have the u.n. help glue it and you know the washington refused to confirm the authenticity of

this new lens leaked comments instead the last thing anonymous leakers for hacking a private conversation that's all part of america's rocky behind the scenes relationship with many of its allies german chancellor angela merkel for example had stinging words over the u.s. approach to privacy after she was targeted in washington's global surveillance operation this is in the interest of german citizens it is not about me specifically but a bottle citizens we need trust among foreigners and this trust needs to be restored critics say mounting frustration on both sides of the atlantic is making it harder for the western alliance to camouflage a steady. erosion of loyalty and cooperation they don't want to publicly acknowledge that there is a risk but i think of july in this strong alliance there is a rift every country should automatically be thinking about itself if there is a drift between the e.u.

and. united states but this time around is really very serious marina r.t. washington now there's a step forward in getting a russian gas directly into europe and agreements in place for an austrian branch of the south stream by applying it would mean fuel supplies bypassing ukraine the project was earlier partly frozen by brussels for possibly violating the blocks regulations scotus in the ana with more. austria cane for the work to go ahead despite deep divisions within the european union divisions that have halted construction work on the pipeline in bulk area earlier this month the boat carrying prime minister decided to suspend work on the pipeline on the rate after a meeting with three u.s. senators including john mckay who was quoted off the woods as saying that the project should have as little russian involvement as possible now the official reason given for a bold area deciding to suspend the walk was in order to iron out can sons of the

e.u. competition rules had been breached however many within russia feel that the decision was politically motivated gary's decision to do that has had a knock on effect serbia for example might have to do likewise and put plans on the back burner however they are cane for the project to go ahead their president has been quoted as saying that the south stream will guarantee the long term energy security and create conditions for boosting the domestic economy while in italy officials are also kaine for the project to go ahead. one official saying that he will continue to support the south stream which is among the most strategically important infrastructure projects for the continent so there are clear divisions between western powers but the signing of the agreement here in austria brings the idea of the south stream one step closer to reality now the first branch of the pipeline could be operational as soon as twenty fifteen caring enough energy to fuel thirty eight million european households

a year by twenty twenty supplies are to be increased by thirty percent and and in another decade they could reach a whopping one hundred forty billion cubic meters per year and that would mean a quarter of europe's needs and jack sprat stephen o'sullivan says austria coming aboard is a major success. but certainly a step forward without a doubt it's yet another consumer central and eastern europe that is interested in buying us through this new supply souls' there are calls many other issues that have to be resolved ostracizing off is just one of the things that has to happen there are many other issues for example that all carriers need to decide to go to building the bike on the planet and sell these to get exemption from what's called the e.u. package which basically means that it's just wrong to build a life i don't have to allow other companies to use up hoffa capacity he said that the that they don't know all the companies that would ever want to use that off the

fasti so they would have to offer exemption to only use of the five thousand coming in and through the european union well we bring you all the developments in the progress and political hurdles surrounding the south stream pipeline on air and online at r.t. to come to states. the in the. on line. now the u.k. is a little worried after the government warned it's expecting terror attacks at home by british radicals returning from fighting in syria and iraq officials say it's extremely difficult to track and monitor every single islamist who come back one former top m i six chief claims it's completely impossible to look at every suspect in death and it's been reported that british jihad is have found ways to slip back in to the u.k. under the radar as marine across from an absence. some of the fighters have been put on alert by authorities and find their british intelligence services have

actually blacklists that some of the fighters that they believe pose a threat believe in them no other option but to play dead and this is one of the fears that was exacerbated the specially after the case of a twenty six year old british this who was reported that in syria where the various groups expressing their condolences online and this very same man was a later arrested trying to reenter the country from a dover and also now we know that he has been charged with attending a terror training camp as well as all the terrorism offenses and this is one of the main concerns right now because authorities here have no idea who is in fact when they return from a country like syria and we know about the sunday times has recently posts or an article where they're quoting the one such flights are allegedly who says that he wants to see the british prime minister as well as the home secretary taken hostage and beheaded david cameron himself has already warned that. this would be islamic states in iraq and isis are planning attacks on british soil and considering the

fact that so there are various reports estimating that there from two hundred fifty to five hundred persons in countries like syria experts say not only is the threats a larger than they think but also a good number over those people saying that it's really down to british intelligence not only to figure out who has returned but also who is playing the dead perhaps and what threat they pose. now to iraq where a sunni militants from isis have reportedly seize the country's largest oil refinery in the town of baiji two weeks ago they launched a ruthless insurgency campaign capturing key cities and large swathes of land they still have baghdad in their sights isis radicals have been carrying out attacks on the refinery for the past ten days and there were intense clashes with the army but troops had managed to repel the fighters until now. let's see. why this area is so crucial and here's why it's important baiji accounts for more than

a quarter of iraq's entire refining capacity the facility processes about three hundred thousand barrels a day supplying petrol stations nationwide as well as power plants battles over of the baidu refinery have already led to petrol rationing but it sees or could mean massive queues at gas stations and lengthy alex recently outages at its heart this conflict is deep rooted along religious lines the sunni dominated north west has a story quite a bit at odds with the shiites living in southern regions but it's also about strategic interest militants are increasingly zeroing in on the biggest oil fields that are controlled by the government and the industry makes up ninety five percent of iraq's economy and it's now under serious threat we've got more on this now from journalist and middle east expert and a bowl of under a barrel thanks so much annabelle for joining us here on our to international well my first question is i mean what is the game plan here for isis and going after the

oil. well of course the main aim for isis is capturing baghdad because that is what they want to get they want to have the capital they want to have the entire country under their control and of course by capturing the city of budget capturing the refinery that is already a big step because the refinery as you said before is a very crucial very important and a very strategic point and it can baghdad protect its oil resources by itself. well there are some stocks so there is some reserve that they can use still so baghdad for this moment is not feeling very very very unsafe but you could see already at the at the gas stations along the lines are piled up people themselves are getting afraid because they hear rumors that they can they hear that the rebels are coming closer and closer so they are trying to get their cars filled before isis is getting here while the worst case scenario for the heart is do get their

hands on the oil resources there how much of a blow would have be economically speaking for the government. before the government it will be a disaster of course because the government has proven already to be too weak to keep actually to control over the second biggest city of iraq so if isis is getting further and further up to baghdad then of course that will mean that the government the mill the military the militants of the government are not strong enough and they will need support from from external well you know at this point there is suggestion that it's not just isis but there are other groups there are fed up of mali i mean is there any chance of them joining up. definitely you can see in the north already that it was very easy to capture several cities and that is of course because other groups the sides isis have helped isis to capture the cities and towns because of most of it a sunni people are fed up with the rule of maliki but the sector is my rule

actually of maliki so de want to support isis they rather have isis ruling their towns than maliki ruling the country that is in the first place on the second hand in but people are very divided of course because here you have a majority of people which are as maliki of course from from the tribe so that is a different case in a lot of people are standing up are voluntary voluntarily willing to fight isis so here you see a very very big division. well i don't know you know the u.s. has a vested interest in iraq and you have this cautious to send in troops i mean what sort of action can we expect from the u.s. in the near future i mean will continue to wait in the wings so to speak or will it sort of you know be ready for an action there briefly if you could. well if i'm talking to people here under street what i feel is that they really want the intervention of america they feel that the united states are the only one strong enough to support the iraqi government and to support the iraqi army against these

extremist against isis so that is in the first place what they want what do they also want is they want america to americans or do you as rather. to step down because maliki is for them the bases or to start point of this this problem right middle east expert. thank you so much for talking to us here on our to international. and more world news from our team moscow after the break to stay with us. mum. led. the pledge it was terrible to say the i'm very hard to take

a plunge again the longer the club has never had sex with the perfect their lives let's eliminate. the i'm. just so i'm lists lists about. the. maggie watching out international israel seems to be resorting to its all ways of

dealing with those dames terrorist demolishing their homes prime minister netanyahu has given orders to do just that to the house of one man who was imprisoned for killings and then freed in twenty one at the same time the i.d.f. continuing to search frantically for the three a missing jewish teenagers in an operation that seen over three hundred and sixty palestinians detained all right let's talk about all this to our guy our human rights activist and executive director of one of israel's top rights groups and thank you so much for joining us here on our team israel demolished over six hundred palestinian homes in the early two thousand now it started again are you concerned this practice may become the norm absolutely we've never accepted the usage of this measure is it doesn't even target the person that is being charged not that that would make it ok but

just to demonstrate the cruelty of the measure that is no being suggested to people that's going to live in the home there are thirteen. living in that this home eight of them children so they are the ones that are going to suffer as it is up to this this action it's a measure that was into used almost entirely in the past decade only in one instance so the thought that this will again be implemented is horrifying well you know what's the likelihood that this is just a temporary show of brute force against the palestinians during the search operation. it's a difficult to say at this point though certainly is a public atmosphere that gives legitimacy to a broad array of actions that is difficult to see the connection between them and

a search for the missing teenagers. so the fact that what we're seeing are measures that target. broadly travel restrictions suggested legislation to force feed hunger strikers and i know this they say the dramatic increase in the number of administrative palestinian detainees all these are extremely worrying and should not be accepted all right human rights activists have guile and thank you so much for sharing your thoughts with us here on our team international. now russia's president lot of reported is in austria after a busy day of diplomacy that's already seen major progress with south korean project both countries have signed an agreement for a new branch of the pipeline the leaders are holding a q. and a session with the media and live there. following these meetings in vienna there will be new impetus for supporting

a peaceful solution in ukraine that is our purpose we've also discussed issues of energy supplies we know that info and gas from. have concluded a contract. regarding south stream. this was. an official part of this. but this. coincided with mr putin. as far as timing goes i subscribe to the point of view that. south stream would be expedient and also advisable and if anyone wants to criticize austria for being involved in this project then you should also blame. and serbia. as well as a number of european companies that are also engaged in this project. there is

a philosophy also that member states that she's hungry and bulgaria. fully participate in the south stream may not. even though he's only fifty kilometers an hour out of the hundred kilometers of the country will be go into syria and so we do not share that that. any. government in my own attitude it will give us and we've also discussed issues of human rights with mr putin. to him. but human rights are very important for us we are strongly against the death penalty we have reforms. provide for nondiscrimination of same sex relationships. those were decisions taken by the austrian parliament. i made up by the russian parliament and we are also interested in. issues like

those coming therefore i have suggested to mr putin that i want to suggest this together with the legal experts could get together. in a comprehensive discussion on this issue of anything international has approached me requesting that i bring up this issue in my deliberations with president putin more than forty years ago i was one of the founding members. of a national austria by the way so i'm always open. relations with russia and have progress to have advanced successfully our trade over. is about seven billion euros between austrian russia. that is a reasonable feel that there is a reasonable stance because germany's. trade turnover with russia is always exactly ten times greater and that also goes for german. population figures and their

g.d.p. figures. so you need ten times greater than austria and i know that germany's trade turnover with russia is seventy three million up so that means that we are keeping up this correlation between germany and austria as far as our relative sizes are concerned you've just seen the signing any agreements. in preventing and mediating natural and manmade disasters between russia and. we also . had numerous other issues discussed today we discussed the issue of russia's negotiations with iran about the peaceful use of its nuclear technologies and we try to be realistic when looking at this issue and it is what's important for me is that you need to engage in dialogue even when the time is

difficult you need to have open channels for deliberation and to keep them alive for future exchange opinions in the hope that this open discussion open exchange today will be a signal to europe that we need peaceful solutions and violence cannot be foreign policy instruments we need to promote the rule of law. and. that should also include international law and we can spare is my point of view thank you. ladies and gentlemen mr president we had a dear substantive constructive discussion in both the nearer group and the broader format machine this is a special year for russia. today give me five hundred twenty five years will sit for this the exchange of diplomatic missions between russia and austria to

go in also ninety years since the official diplomatic relations were established between our two countries because we discussed on the. radio the events of the world war it is important for us that you know. there is a lot of attention and respect for the cemeteries of. servicemen. i would like to think i will the government of austria government organizations. as well as you organize you can actually. sixty who is published a memorable first use for the force of its citizens guide. contains over sixty thousand names in of course this is a very useful work which will be highly. academic community we also discuss the issues of bilateral cooperation during this

visit we've been happy to note successful developments of trade and economic. looking at some very good and what's more important is that we're looking. for further increase in improvements in trade as well as investment. in. a large scale projects of. energy takes up a special place in ours economic cooperation we all remember that starting in nineteen sixty eight austria has been the first. nation must. supply contract for natural gas. and the soviet union and then russia delivered meticulously on that contract ever since. the

austrian. gas is now discussing. another leg of. the stream construction which we believe this project to be. for providing gas supplies for the e.u. you know actually i guess permanent signed. which will be an important step toward implementing things so the south stream project. will continue to go. discuss. you can trade issues so during my meeting with mr chancellor today as well as doing my meeting with the asian group interests of the austrian business community where we have a lot of. tradition we have robust. with austria in the area of culture today we discussed our opinions if you should.