tunes mission to teach creation why you should care about humans and world this is why you should care only on the dot com. it's nine peer choose to not hear a moscow headlining tonight russia's president asked parliament to withdraw permission for the use of force in ukraine in a bid to deescalate tension in the country's east. but self-defense forces the report mounting casualties renewed artillery fire raising doubts that over kim's commitment to stopping the violence. also ahead getting gas to europe without the troublesome detours austria and russia strike a deal today on a new branch of the south stream pipeline despite pressure from brussels to freeze the project. at british how this reportedly faking death to return to the u.k. undetected as fears growth potential new terror attacks at home.

good evening i'm kevin zero in our top story then president putin's asked russian lawmakers to withdraw all permission to use the military in ukraine it was granted unanimously in march ahead of the referendum in crimea to provide security at the time for russian citizens and the naval fleet stationed in the region but it also sparked outrage in the west which suspected russia of plotting an intervention the move came in a bid to deescalate the tension in ukraine's east where the shaky cease fire agreed by ukraine's government of self-defense forces in the east continues to friday but it doesn't seem to have lasted even forty eight hours. this video here was filmed by a crew from russia's first t.v.

channel where they got caught up in artillery fire near the city is live and activists also say a woman has been killed another wounded in the continued army shelling in the town of providing air in the lugansk region meantime anti-government forces in the nearby donetsk region shot down a military helicopter killing all nine servicemen on board according to ukrainian defense officials and the seven day truce is not enough to solve ukraine's crisis that was the mutual message from the russian and austrian presidents they've been holding a media q. and a in vienna following a busy day of diplomacy in the last couple of hours artie's pull scott was there. the continuing conflict in the east of ukraine was very much top of the agenda was russian president vladimir putin and his austrian counterpart hinesville faced the media after an afternoon of meetings now the leaders were you know in a mess in suggesting that ukrainian president. could be doing more to engage. to

engage the population of the rest of southeast by assuring that the rights and aspirations of the population were realized. just declaring a cease fire 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. studios to leave. is primarily aimed at finding a peaceful peaceful solution for the crisis in ukraine to bring it into some constructive stage of negotiations where some substantive arrangements could be made the most important thing is for russia and ukraine to have dialogue on all the relevant levels and mr president has just did that.

the austrian president was also king to praise about him a putin's decision earlier on tuesday to ask lawmakers to withdraw permission to use force in ukraine fisher says that is an important step towards deescalation well austrian and a russian energy giant put pen to paper on the agreement which will see construction work begin on the austrian section of the south stream now 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 australia is kayne to say the work started and completed despite deep divisions within the european union divisions that have seen. halted in bulgaria 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 whole 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 for scott may well as you just heard there's a step forward in getting the russian gas directly into europe with an agreement signed for an austrian branch of the south stream pipeline that would mean fuel supplies could be pumped directly bypassing ukraine the project was earlier partly frozen by brussels for possibly violating the blocks regulations and stephen o'sullivan says austria coming on board is a major success today. this certainly a step forward without a doubt it's yet another consumer is central and eastern europe that is interested in buying us through this new supply source there are of course many other issues that have to be resolved austria starting up 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 away to building a pipeline on the planet and sell these to get exemption from what's called the e.u. third package which basically means that gazprom if they build a pipeline have to allow other companies to use up to half the capacity he should there be then maybe you know all the companies that would ever want to use that city so it would have to last for exemption to only use of five coming in and through the european union. the first branch of the pipeline could be operational soon as twenty fifteen current enough energy to fuel thirty eight million european households a year by twenty twenty supplies are said to be increased by thirty percent and a decade after that it could reach a whopping one hundred forty billion cubic meters per year that would meet a quarter of europe's needs we'll bring you all the latest developments of course in the progress and the political hurdles ongoing as well surrounding the south stream pipeline on air and online at r.t. dot com. the.

the u.k. is on alert after the government's warders 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 comes back one former top m i six chief claims it's completely impossible in fact to look at every subsurface pect in depth and it's been reported that british jihadists have found ways to slip back into the u.k. under the radar as mina cosgrove 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 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 avoids

a later arrested trying to reenter the country from a dover and also now we know that he's 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 posted an article where they're quoting a one such writer 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 that in fact this with the islamic state in iraq and isis are planning attacks on british soil and considering the fact that there are various reports estimating that there are three two hundred fifty to five hundred persons fighting in countries like syria experts say not only is the threats that 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 playin that perhaps and what

threat they pose. or tied in with all this in iraq sunni militants from isis have reportedly seized the country's largest oil refinery in the town of baiji at two weeks ago they launched a ruthless insurgency campaign of course capturing key cities and large swathes of land relatively quickly they still have baghdad in their sights to isis radicals have been carrying out attacks on the refinery for the past ten days of intense clashes with the army the troops had till now managed to repel the fighters let's see why this area is so crucial in the news or here's why it's important to cancel more than a quarter of iraq's entire refining capacity the facility processes around three hundred thousand barrels a day supplying petrol stations nationwide as well as power plants to battles over this refinery in baiji have already led to petrol rationing but it seizure now could mean massive queues 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 storage we've been at odds with a shared living in the southern regions but it's also by the strategic interest to militancy are increasingly zeroing in on the biggest oil fields one of which i talked about now that are controlled by the government the industry makes up to ninety five percent of iraq's economy is extremely important and now it's under serious threat journeys other bell and the burj brings us more. 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 a second hand in but 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 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. so much more ahead to bring you in the next few minutes america's also made another european allies blood boil this time for studying the french will tell you about that is trying to find france's biggest no and almost. president called the punishment bit late to look at what washington a would. i

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with. science technology innovation all the developments from around russia we've. covered. though again relations between american and polish top brass have always appeared to be in rude health at least on the face of it for the cameras but no leaks conversation involving poland's foreign minister is a field some rudeness of another kind miniport nynex 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. washington refused to confirm the authenticity of miss

newlands leaked comments instead blasting anonymous leakers for hocking 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 trust needs to do a 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 that right but i think lying this strong alliance there is a free country should ultimately itself there is that bridge between the e.u.

and. the united states but this time around it's really very serious marina r.t. washington ok let's discuss the league remarks would you political analyst eric draitser out sherrick it's going to be and top level repercussions zeros are going to blow over do you think. well i think that most likely we're not going to see any significant repercussions that is to say there might be some personal repercussions for mr sikorski or for other individuals within his within his office or within the bureaucracy there but in terms of geo politically there's not going to be a significant change in polish u.s. relations that's for sure remember that poland has worked very hard in the last decade and a half to make itself an indispensable partner of the nato spear of influence in eastern europe remember that poland has positioned itself as the u.s. ally with regard to the so-called missile shield the aggressive military posture of the united states in eastern europe poland has spearheaded that effort poland has

spearheaded the destabilization in ukraine remember that poland has very close ties to a lot of those individuals who are significant in the euro my don protest in particular some of the n.g.o.s and so it's the relationship on the broadest level between the two countries is not going to change but i think what is significant is what it reveals about the nature of the intimate relationship between these two countries and between the ruling establishment in each country especially when the foreign minister is saying it had representative or his comments. why i think they're quite representative but they're not necessarily representative of the political posture of poland they're more representative of the scorned feeling that many of the ruling elites in poland have towards the united states when you make yourself into a an extension of u.s. nato military power projection you expect that there will be some kind of return

benefits from that and the polish people rather the leadership in poland feel that they're not getting those benefits they're not seeing the militant aggressiveness from obama that they would like to see they're not seeing an outright confrontation with russia they're not seeing the dividing lines being drawn geopolitically and politically in eastern europe that they were hoping for the polish leadership wants to be a leader wants to be in a leadership capacity in europe remember that sikorsky is presumed to be one of the leading candidates for taking over the leadership of the new foreign policy from catherine ashton so again there's a lot of political and geopolitical and diplomatic ties that really go into this this this current flap the controversy itself is secondary to the much more deeply frayed relationship. the broader picture about new technology spying on new technology etc etc we've all said things privately to other people that maybe don't

actually make just a need to the moment blowing off steam maybe we should give the guy a break here know and what does it say about the wider implications of diplomatic conversations being blown wide open. well nobody is suggesting that everything that one says in private is necessarily one hundred percent representative of one's personal feelings but i think that the leaked recording of a private conversation one in which you have finally an unguarded moment from the foreign minister of poland i think this is quite revealing and i think as the russians have said in recent days that it reveals at a very deep level what the political and geo political and diplomatic mentality is within poland day understand perfectly well that the united states wants to use them as a puppet in eastern europe to use them as a wedge against russia but they thought that they would be getting something heavier in return and because they haven't there is a

a deep feeling of indignation and i think that we could all understand this but as far as the leaked phone calls i'm sorry but at that level of power your responsibility is to represent the best interests of your country and if you're working against the best interests of your country it seems to me the people of that country have a right to know it eric thanks for your thoughts stupid analysts as you are eric draitser on the line from new york city. diplomats the way ok now from says largest but paper above 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 what the french president's already called unfair and disproportionate is what's he's peter all of a. french banking giant b.m. people 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 sit down 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 bomber's 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. but otoh our top story president putin's asked russian lawmakers to withdraw permission

to use the military in ukraine it was granted unanimously in march you may recall ahead of the referendum in crimea to then provide security for russian citizens and the naval fleet stationed in the region if it all kicked off it sparked outrage at the time the west suspected russia of planning an intervention the move came in a bid to deescalate the tension in ukraine's east where the shaky cease fire agreed by ukraine's government and self-defense forces in the east is set last until friday but it doesn't actually seem to have lasted even forty eight hours sleep. while this video was filmed by the crew from russia's first t.v. channel when they got caught up in artillery fire in the city of slavyansk activists also say a woman. has been killed in another wounded in the continued army shelling in the town of volnay in the lugansk region meantime and government forces in the nearby donetsk region of shot down a military helicopter that news through today killing all nine servicemen on board

it's coming from ukrainian defense officials that piece of information let's go live to alexander in across off knows a political analyst is joining us from london hi there let's talk about the south stream a project first of all the austrian president praised medina putin's peacemaking efforts a jew in that talks about south stream. do you think they make any difference though with regard ukraine well of course it does. you know with the situation currently so confusing you just yourself noticed in all the ceasefires not holding. you know nobody really knows what is going on and i think you know all in all this confusion there has to be some sort of a you know emotionality coming in and i think president putin the starting to do that and i think he's called for comments made in austria today. they introduced some sense of order into this crisis because at the moment i don't think neither

the government in kiev from the western countries they don't really know how to proceed and what to do so i think in a sense it's for russia now to have to start sort of streamlining the whole process and i think any anything to do with some so some sort of certainty will probably help everyone to think these positive moves that will be acknowledged by the west mean russia's always been the one who's been criticized for stoking this for kicking it off in the first place etc etc well these positive moves now are they had some accord with the austrian president bush while others in the west praised it as well. well i think we've heard already that president poroshenko has already welcome to this decision by president putin i think on the face of it some at least in public or cold in some western officials will be praising that those well unfortunately this sort of propaganda bandwagon in the

media i think it's sort of going out of control most of the time and i think that what we're seeing now for example you know this w of the helicopter i think that we will hear again the same sort of accusations coming from certain western media outlets that it was russian that have been supplied you know to to fight and that this was one of the russian systems used to down this helicopter although everybody knows that this system of comics and from the ukraine itself so on the one hand yes there will be positive responses already scummy on the other hand we will see people doubting the real intentions of russia and even maybe saying that it's all the game and that pushing this playing a game so it will be unfortunately a different response and some of it will be very much biased because every single day that goes by more and more people are being injured or killed what can be done

about this cease fire well what i'm hearing from my sources is that the well basically this cease fire was announced because a as you know president prussian explaining to the cannot make part of the free association agreement with the european. so it would sort of gives him a sort of a peace initiative to to show to europe and quieten down some of his critics but unfortunately what some people are saying that it might be a prelude to a new much bigger ration against the government forces in the east now this is obviously we don't know yet but unfortunately some signs say telling us that this might be the case because according to some of the sources that the there is a through of movement of troops ukrainian government troops there are enforcement

on their way to the eastern part so we might accept them as might assume that there will be more of the fighting causing up after the ceremony of mission across nicknack russell we got to leave it there we got out to a break unfortunately political analyst and someone across of in london thank you. thank you for being with us as well up next boom bust after the break. some people say freedom isn't free and they're right in fact freedom a only cost the price of a bottle of water or an old t. shirt fans celebrating the recent victory of the l.a. kings noticed that they were not alone what was believed to be a police drone was flying over them filming them i thought of moral contempt for drones or just for the hell of it the crowd began to throw random objects out until it was brought down i think this event makes two very big points firstly

a lot of the surveillance state is not that hard to stop i mean there are satellite photos being taken of us all the time and n.s.a. spying on a communications but any camera or other device than throwing distance of a brick is at the mercy of us ninety nine percent and secondly generally if a crowd of people does something few ever get punished i mean if this drone was actually a police drone would they try to lock up the entire crowd for breaking it no they wouldn't and they couldn't for some reason if one person commits an act of civil disobedience they are in ford but if a crowd does that they generally get away with it so if you're going to defend your right to privacy from drones bring fifty guys with you and everything will work out just fine but that's just my opinion. well it all over my language but i will only react to situations i have read the reports and like to please you know i will leave them to the state department to

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