eight pm tuesday night here in moscow tonight russia's president asked 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 or tillery fire today raising doubts over kiev's commitment to stopping the violence. getting gas to europe without the troublesome deed to is austria and russia strike a deal on a new branch of the south stream pipeline despite pressure from brussels to freeze the project. and poland's foreign minister is caught on tape using vulgar

language to describe his country's alliance with washington this hour we look at how such leaks are causing cracks than in transplanting telly. for a good evening for me kevin great to have you with us this hour president putin to ask russian lawmakers to withdraw permission to use the military in ukraine it was granted you know mostly in march as head of the referendum in crimea to provide security for russian citizens of the naval fleet stationed in the region but it sparked outrage in the west which suspected russia of planning an intervention. it's expected to be discussed at the next separation council session which is to take place on wednesday so we're literally could be less than one day away from actually seeing this or measure being cancelled 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 at naval base on crimea against possible provocations and knew of the situation in ukraine but now russian president has asked for that matter to be withdrawn because he believes that it could contribute to a stabilization in the south east of ukraine and of course it is right ahead of the three party talks on that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 various for a short period of time now there has already been a response from korean officials that is the korean president poroshenko has already said that this is the first practical step towards actually brings the stability to the south east of ukraine. to government forces in eastern ukraine internets regional military helicopter killing all nine servicemen on board according to create the defense officials meantime activists say a woman's big killed the other wounded in the continued army shelling of the turn

of provoke in the lugansk region both sides agreed to observe a cease fire until friday morning but are accusing each other of failing to observe it this indeed is the latest video from showing the devastation left by the continued by pro-government forces local militias also been reporting remove gunfire on the outskirts of two which is seeing some of the heaviest military attacks of course in recent weeks it also suffered the worst humanitarian crisis among cities and towns besieged by the ukrainian army locals say this week water supplies have been seriously disrupted donetsk which is the region's main city times also been hit by severe water shortages local officials say they have now just twelve days of water left hoping to repair a local public station was damaged by the shelling during what's supposed to have been a truce. and a seven day truce is not enough to solve ukraine's crisis that was a mutual message from the russian and austrian presidents they've just been in fact

of not not sure if you just sort of not but just a few minutes ago it ended all the media q. and a in vienna following a busy day of diplomacy live to our tease paul scott who was also there hi paul what else was said. the continuing conflict in the east of ukraine was very much top of the agenda as russian president vladimir putin met with his austrian counterpart heinz fish share the joy face to press conference after an afternoon of meetings and as i say ukraine was very much top of the agenda now the leaders were unanimous in suggesting that the ukrainian president petro poroshenko could be doing more to engage the restive south east fleisher and the right and the aspirations of the population are respected and also the austrian president. came to point out as well he praised so i may have putin's decision early on and choose day to ask lawmakers to

withdraw as you just asked permission to use forces in ukraine as an important step towards deescalation that's the view of fischer let's hear what the two leaders had to say. just declaring a ceasefire is not enough there should be substantial talks on the core problems of keep saying here you are seven days and you must disarm within this period if there are no efforts made to reach any substantial agreements with eastern ukraine there won't be any results. of attitude conflict. is premier league to lose. in finding a peaceful it's peaceable solution for the crisis in ukraine if you bring it into. some constructive stage of negotiations between where some

substantive. could be make. the most important things is for russia and ukraine to have dialogue on all the relevant levels and mr president mr putin has just returned eight of the actual course called the other big headline aside from ukraine was that the next step forward for south stream has been agreed such a big project has now been set in stone during president putin's visit what more do we know about. eight hours well austrian and the russian energy giants put pen to paper on the agreement which will see construction work begin on the austrian section of the south stream how the south stream will pipe gas from russia to europe bypassing ukraine of course is seen as a more reliable and stable source as tensions between russia and ukraine continue to rise now austria is came to see the work started and completed despite deep divisions within the european union divisions that have seen work halted in bulk

area earlier this month people kerry and prime minister announced that work on the south stream on the pipeline in his country is going to be halted following meeting with three u.s. senators including john mccain now the official reason being given was that they needed to hole work in order to iron out concerns that e.u. competition rules had been breached however many within russia feel that the decision was politically motivated so there are some divisions over that south stream within the with the signing of the agreement here in vienna on tuesday the idea of the south rim is one step closer to becoming reality it's called a vienna thanks for the some the appreciated let's talk more about cell street as we've been saying it's a big step forward in getting russian gas directly into europe with an agreement signed for an austrian branch now the south stream. msec. fuel supplies can be pumped directly bypassing ukraine the project was earlier partly frozen by brussels for possibly violating the bloke's regulations as paul was saying it's got some

thoughts from this from inside as dawn felt least from the berlin center for caspian region studies at the free university of berlin thanks for being on the program you live on r.t. international big a deal is this today that austria is very firmly on board. i think this is a step forward for a secure supply for south east europe best of all us for europe since. projects where not have not been realized and. austria realized that the link with russia is tremendous importance in times when we have. troubles in ukraine and ukraine is not a ready to pay their bills to grasp or are meant this cautious and security i think that. the amount we are getting into austria a tremendous importance for austria as energy hop in europe and austria will. in hands of their position on the european gas market

of course the austrian stretch is a relatively short compared to the whole south stream projects only about fifty kilometers or so isn't it further along our pipeline is paul gary the but a lot of question marks about that lately a lot of question marks about the timing about why there are question marks as well couldn't pull gary of feel more reassured maybe with the pressure be off there know that austria is well and truly in on the deal. i think the question of paul garia was highly politicized time when we had you know the developments in ukraine and since the commission was clearly stating that the evil progressing visit talks on south stream when russia is giving concessions on ukraine is pretty clear that it was for the first time linked to this

a political indication by the commission. my opinion is that when we have a new government in bulgaria after the elections will go we will continue with the project and i think people also find a solution with the commission and the russian side due to the point that all the countries in this else east if europe needs. a reliable supply of gas i mean prime minister viktor orban on hunger in prime minister stated in may in a on a conference in part to slobber that all the european projects supported by the commission the interconnected to create the dakota to rimini are not working yet and there is no progress at all coming also to the l. and g. terminal on island kirk and he said yes to make sure that his country gets the natural gas for a for the national economy it's tremendous importance so so south stream is in this

context not only important as i mentioned hungary but also for serbia for bulgaria and. pretty sure that you rather take the spare in the hands of the pitching on the roof and realize a project which is probably not the first priority of the commission but we saw what happened in a book of us from the early beginning clear clearly only viable gas and the art was what the commission thought we stopped being in guards and with. iran. mark off from from from egypt so what we have as a result we have now tied up in top of the guard is going from azerbaijan through another pipeline to europe to eat only but still this in need of additional and secure garces in southeast europe and austria as well after you you see what we had in two thousand and six and especially in two thousand and nine when the countries like bulgaria and slovakia where you know i'll cut off from gas and head bent into

dire straits exactly what size think you have being on the problem much appreciated . for the berlin sent of a caspian region studies in the free university of berlin we appreciate your time or your development of course in the progress and ongoing political hurdles surrounding the south stream part line on air and online at r.t. dot com. the. u.k. is on alert after the government warned it's expecting terror attacks at home by british radicals returning from fighting in syria and iraq official says extremely difficult to track a monitor every single islamist who comes back one former top my six rather chief claims it's completely impossible to look at every suspect in depth and it's been reported that british jihadists have found ways to slip back into the u.k. under the radar as marina cost explains next. 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 the twenty six year old british jihad this who was reported dead in syria where the various groups expressing their condolences online and this very same man of those 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 the one thing in fact when they return from a country like syria and we know that the sunday times has recently posts or an article where they're quoting a one such a fighter 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 of that and frag this with the islamic state in iraq and isis are

planning attacks on british soil and considering the fact that so there are various reports estimating that there are from two hundred fifty to five hundred persons fighting in countries like syria experts say not only is the threat larger than they think but also a good number all those people saying that it's really down to british intelligence not only to figure out who has returned but also who's playing the dead perhaps and what threat they pose. when it calls for in london in iraq sunni militants from isis have reportedly seize the country's largest oil refinery in the turn of two weeks ago they launched a ruthless insurgency campaign capturing key cities large swathes of land but still they have baghdad in this sights isis radicals have been carrying out attacks from the refinery for the past ten days there were intense clashes with the army but troops have managed to repel the fighters until now though see why this area's so crucial for what it sure is why it's important but she accounts for more than a quarter of iraq's entire refining capacity the facility process around three

hundred thousand barrels a day supplying petrol stations nationwide as well as power plants now battles over the budgie refinery of already led to petrol rationing but it's seizure could mean massive queues now at gas stations and lengthy electricity outages to at its heart this conflict is deep rooted along religious lines the sunni dominated north west as a store a clean bin of odds with the shiites living in the southern regions but it's also about strategic interests to militants or increase an existing in on the biggest oil fields that are controlled by the government being one of them just talked about the industry makes up ninety five percent of iraq's economy and it's now on the serious threat journalist anabel vanderburgh brings us more. 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 beijing by capturing the refinery that is already a big step could see already at the at the gas stations along the lines are piled

up people themselves are getting afraid so they are trying to get their cars filled before isis is getting here the government has proven already to be too weak you can see in the north already that it was very easy to capture several cities and that is of course because other groups besides isis have helped isis to capture the cities and towns because of most of it is sunni people are fed up with the rule of maliki and the second one in baghdad people are very divided of course because here you have a majority of shia 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 but i'm talking to the people here on the street what i feel is that they really want the intervention of america what do they also want is they want the u.s. to urge maliki to step down because maliki is for them the basis order to start point of this display. off the break details of the illegal sterilization of women inmates in america.

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relations between american and polish top brass of always appeared previously to being rude health at least for the cameras but no leaks conversation involving poland's foreign minister has revealed some rudeness of a different kind. of how that's left the establishment in warsaw with red faces. 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. washington refused to confirm the authenticity of miss

nuland leaked comments instead blasting 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 to trust and this needs to her story and 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 right but i think. why this strong alliance there is a rift if we can't you should automatically start there is that between you and.

the united states but this time around it's really very serious. r.t. washington france is largest. could end up paying nine billion dollars to the u.s. for covering up transactions that violate american sanctions it would be a record settlement if it happens when the french president's already called unfair and disproportionate is ati's peter all over french banking giant b.m.p. put in the u.s. regulators seem to be closing in on the deal which could see france's largest bank having to pay up to nine billion dollars in fines for directly violating u.s. sanctions now this relates back to around thirty billion dollars worth of trades that were done with countries such as iran cuba and most of all saddam that all appear on the sanctions list it's being discussed at the highest levels french president francois hollande is warned of the potential fallout for the french and

even the wider european economy if this company faces such a stiff fine barack obama has said well he isn't going to poke his nose into an ongoing investigation by the attorney general so he's not provided going to try and interfere in this case but with the french economy well still very wobbly at best the pessimists are suggesting that this type of fine meted out on to france's biggest bank could be potentially catastrophic so we're waiting to see what deal is met between the french bank and the u.s. banking regulators we're expecting that decision at the beginning of july. well in present it's size of the finds love someone who why be should have to pay so much the biggest ever penalty paid by a bank so far was a fine of almost two billion dollars handed out britain's h.s.b.c. but the french giant could eclipse that amount paying almost five terms as much we asked you a little bit earlier why france is facing such tough measures he thinks washington's

actually punishing paris for refusing to cancel its contract to sell mr warships to russia. my only conclusion i have no proof of this but my ear. to with the sale of warships to russia this is a sharp rap over the knuckles for the french government for insisting on continuing of the sale of the beast warships to russia or i'm right i look at the sequence of events might draw their conclusion it just goes to show that it's a very expensive defying uncle sam the bank has accepted it because they want to go on doing business in america but i think when people have time to think they're not going to be very impressed by this behavior by the american government which is a sort of blackmail because basically the system is you say well if you don't plead guilty don't be a trial if you plead guilty and give us a load of money and that see it seems that european politicians are capable relives wallowing any humiliation from the americans. a suicide bombing in the lebanese

capital beirut to be killed a security officer an injured nineteen the attack was carried out near a checkpoint in a busy cafe where people gather to watch world cup games last friday another suicide attack near the syrian border left one person dead and almost forty injured . the trials we got of the crew that south korean ferry which sank in april killing nearly three hundred people most of the victims of the time were teenagers many more passengers are still missing evidence includes video showing the crew abandoning the ship while the youngsters were told to stay and wait for instructions captain and three senior crew members and charged with murder eleven others charged with negligence. british prime minister david cameron's former spin doctors been found guilty of phone hacking while he was the editor of the news of the world newspaper and of course and now faces a jail sentence is free to says from the job rebecca brooks was acquitted of the same charges both denied the accusations throughout the eight month trial this was initiated made

a barrel of allegations that newspaper's been illegally listening in to the phone calls of a large number of celebrities and politicians. the damning report on prisons in california has revealed schools of female inmates of victims of illegal sterilization one hundred forty four women underwent the procedure between two thousand and five and two thousand and eleven and all except one were conducted with some kind of violation in five thirty nine cases the surgery was carried out without the woman's consent and dozens more instances the necessary documentation and doctors signatures were missing human rights groups are calling for a ban on what they say is a cruel practice and they want those behind it to be named now publicly where short by legislators and the like at the sterilizations were happening and then found out that overseas. that were happening and being offered at. prisons in california a couple of years later so we made it very clear that they were illegal but

received claims that people want to wear or that they didn't know that the surgeries were happening across the board there is a sense of sadness around having a human rights fully respected not being treated like a human feeling feeling taken advantage. of. sadness around. the way to get that child to give life to a child in the future and that's something that individuals are wanting and also discussing the after effects of some of these surgeries. paula newton so much more your fingertips altie dot com twenty four seven coming home for the break here artist financial for. certain brands of capitalism he sees as nothing less than terrorism the man with us just a few minutes. for

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welcome to the kaiser report max kaiser you know fredric new cheek once said that the best weapon against an enemy is another enemy but when your enemy is expensive oil well welcome to america's middle east policy where everyone is either an enemy or a friend i mean seriously max the first headline i think isn't and we not a friend to me and that is isis stonor terrorist organizations annual reports unveiled reveal full investment highlights since two thousand and twelve the islamic state of iraq and the levant known as isis has issued annual reports outlining

a numerical india graphical detail its operations the number of bombings assassinations checkpoints suicide missions cities taken over and even a pos states converted to the isis car. well i mean this is a perfect example of what we've been talking about capitalism has become terrorism and the so called terrorists don't see themselves as any different than goldman sachs or j.p. morgan or monsanto or exxon they issued their annual reports a complete with info graphics they talk about various metrics and big data and they're in the same business as halliburton or chevron and they're competing with each other in this region of iraq that they they are become the equivalent of goldman sachs in the area and we were saying this for quite some time that there really is the difference or come from the same cloth the terrorists and the bankers there they have the same mindset they're both the jihadi yes one follows out of smith's one follows the qur'an.