unfortunately it doesn't. do anything. to teach me the creation of why you should care about humans. this is why you should care only. ukraine's president signs up for closer ties with the e.u. but it was his predecessor's failure to join the club which ignited the deadly february revolution on the ongoing armed conflict in ukraine's define. just hours before it's set to expire ukraine's president extends a cease fire in the east for another three days but it's a truce spots already seen both civilians and national guard fighters killed in the latest confrontation. syria's embattled rebels are now in line for a five hundred million dollar military aid package from the u.s. but there are a few years the weapons could end up on the wrong side of the barricades. also in the latest setback to blight berlin's already notorious it's revealed that engineer

was hired to design the fire safety system causing the opening to be delayed yet again. live from the new center here in moscow twenty four hours a day you're tuned into r t international i mean and. our top story ukraine's president has a trade agreement with the you to feel your to sign the deal that's what triggered the toppling of his predecessor while the terms of the agreement ultimately led to the ongoing bloody standoff in the country's east where petro poroshenko says he's carrying out the will of the nation the people demanding a utopian future very clear every single region of ukraine. support one candidate demonstrating we have

a different form we have traded for europe we have to be for peace while a financially challenged europe still doesn't appear to be quite ready for ukraine the e.u. commissioner for an enlargement has said kiev still needs to prove its european credentials the block's energy commissioner has warned that be like for greece is peanuts compared to the billions brussels would have to cough up to see if ealing economy the president of the european commission meanwhile sees the u.s. not ready to integrate a country like ukraine up this stage and that sentiment is also echoed by the foreign minister of europe's powerhouse germany which well comes as no surprise to financial expert patrick young ukraine which last year was in a catastrophic position how that signed a free trade association this year is going to associate with the european union out the point when it's on the brink already of economic disaster this is a capo strong move for the ukrainian economy the only winners either this or

a few sadly deluded egos whether they are in brussels whether they are in washington who believe some horror of that they've achieved a great deal of political victory for the people of ukraine there are no jobs to be hired here there's only going to be job losses there is no economic growth to be had by suddenly having western european goods dumped little coals all into your marketplace this is a disaster it's a very very tragic day for the people of ukraine who want to improve their economic outlook now ukraine's president has extended the cease fire in the country's restive east until monday just hours before it was set to expire meanwhile overnight exchanges of fire near the city of slovyansk have left casualties on both sides of the conflict a woman on her twenty six year old son were killed in army shelling on the outskirts of sloppy ounce they died after their heist was hit by one of the rockets . i'm nuts not the only time when the shaky truce has been broken residents of the

defined city of trauma tourists claim their city was shelled continuously throughout the week there was only going artillery fire in the village of sami on which was almost razed to the ground on the city of slovyansk also came onto artillery fire numerous times during the week long truce the village of preval neuer saw one of the worst spikes of violence with one woman reportedly killed there are casualties are also mounting in the pro-government count more than twenty national guard fighters have reportedly been killed near the city all of slovyansk in an overnight. has more for us battle took place last night and according to reports at least so when t. soldiers the twenty fighters of ukraine's national guard were hurt were killed as a result of that the national guard well it's mercenary called back division formed specifically to aid the ukrainian army and its military operation

against a defiant east all think country now the we also learned that the anti government forces have destroyed two armored personnel carriers belonging to the national guard. the timeline of ukraine's ongoing crisis and more expert analysis is available for you right now online r.t. dot com is the address. the syrian rebels are losing the war against president assad's forces but their look could soon turn thanks to washington president obama wants congress to decide how for a billion dollars to train and equip syria's moderate opposition but there are fears the move will flood the region with weapons that could fall into the wrong hands as marine airport nine now explains. the obama administration is requesting for lawmakers to approve five hundred million dollars in spending for the purpose of arming the syrian opposition the white house claims that only appropriate vetted

elements of the moderate opposition would receive direct training from the u.s. military and be equipped with american weapons and ammunition u.s. officials insist that the weapons would serve to help empower the syrian people and help them push back against the government as well as the militant extremist group isis which actually has been fighting to topple bashar al assad since the civil war began more than three years ago however as recent events have shown american weapons may very well end up in its enemies hands just two weeks ago isis an all out assault on iraq's second largest city mosul causing a reported thirty thousand iraqi soldiers who were trained by the u.s. military to turn around and run as a result sunni extremists have seized stockpiles of american weapons and ammunition as well as u.s. humvees the bloodshed being unleashed in iraq by isis has arguably been strengthened by the fact that militants are fighting with u.s. weapons in afghanistan the taliban is now armed with u.s.

made stinger missiles which according to reports were originally sent to libya when the obama administration was arming the opposition rising up against former leader moammar gadhafi for more than a decade the u.s. has been drowning the arab world in weapons arming locals to help them overthrow governments not only how is it created absolute chaos and bloodshed it is arguably help to strengthen terrorist organizations because the weapons at least some of them are ending up in the hands of the enemy as for syria the devastating civil war has killed some one hundred fifty thousand people and the international community does agree that something should be done question is is sending weapons to one side of the conflict which includes terrorists the best solution reporting from washington d.c. marina. artane. the bipartisan tug of war in washington has seen the white house change its mind several times over intervention in syria direct non lethal aid to

the rebels was given the green light more than a year ago we pull twenty thirteen but in the center supplies were suspended after a lion's share of the u.s. equipment was seized by its wherever earlier this month washington admitted it's been covertly sending lethal aid to the opposition and to work in painter brian becker sees america's middle east policy is simply inconsistent shows the united states appears to have a schizo phrenic foreign policy there they're saying they demand unity in iraq behind the central government which is fighting what they call islamic extremist from. and at the same time they're funding these same armed groups in syria to take down an independent nationalist and sovereign government in syria what the u.s. is doing and has been doing this finally in money guns and more occupation tools in a region that it considers to be vital because it's resource rich that's about it. meanwhile the u.n. is pleading for auction over what's been called the human suffering of the syrian people the world bodies

a chief sees almost eleven million syrians need to humanitarian help out his half of the country's population but some are now at least being able to return to their homes as maria phenomena reports. police raids in central syria used to be beset by snipers and anyone driving here could be kidnapped thus when the smallest western area known as the moon was controlled by armed drug that's all you have proved next to the syrian lebanese border is just eighty kilometers from the capital damascus but it is like a state within a state that has its own security forces police and even the army can seize symbols are new authorities here everywhere graffiti or three stars that means free syrian army is controlling this area a syrian military cannot enter six months later return to the main well because if. you feed the syrian army expect town after months of

fierce battles a numerous offensives. officers say i can take off my flak jacket my dear for if. it's friday today and the officers tell us that all the shops are closed the restaurants a closed i roll out so a lot of people on the streets but there is another reason actually many residents fled this town and entire area of color more than time to escape from atrocities. at the city's mosque the heart of this predominantly muslim town friday prayers have just finished. most of these people who only returned to their town recently and heard outside. my home was hit and destroyed thank god the army is now back to boot is also home to a big christian community a different face he used to live in harmony here for years until islamic rule was imposed by the rebels many being religious zealots some link to al qaida or free

syrian mostly officially they were religious groups jihadi but in fact it was no religion or anything else their religion was money. for this young man shows us what used to be a jewelry shop it was looted and then set on fire. made all bouyeri they were on motorbikes they call themselves the free syrian army they used to also take food coming to town from damascus they were also kidnapping people locals hope the dog days a gun just a week after we left the town fighters attacked the army positions in the region again several other areas across syria still remain held by rebels or jihadists it seems that despite the army's recent success it's still too early to say when there's devastating war will be over rich nationality from syria.

still yet to come this news hour the world turns a blind eye to thousands of african refugees held captive in egypt's sinai peninsula. that you're not. going to show them as much as. we report shortly on one israeli activist who is trying to drum up support for her campaign by putting the terror of human trafficking on torture on the silver screen down south for short break. on marriage in the financial world. talked to moments having not stopped the advance only take you know demand credit not going to get any economic benefit in life there are and there are but. do we speak your language i mean some of the will not advance. news programs and

documentaries in spanish what matters to you breaking news a little tune to angles to these stories. for you here. in troy altie spanish to find out more visit. tito it's comb. i think that the pakistani military does realize that the ballot on have become a problem for bucks on but it is just too late the taliban have sunk deep roots in pakistan and now it's very difficult to beat the enemy. when it was previously your friend and your ph. welcome back to the program and i'm intending a royal family doesn't usually come cheap with palaces elaborate world tours and

high level security arrangements it's not surprising the price tag is high but do commoners really know what they're paying for artie's marina cost read the ticks look at whether britons are getting good value for money or not. over eighty percent of brits believe the royal family brings in a significant amount of revenue for the country each year some five hundred million pounds according to the case national tourism agency but those have been campaigning for the abolition of the monarchy believe that figure is incorrect and they're ready to show british taxpayers just how much of their money really goes towards funding liver oil is there a public group claims the estimated annual cost of the monarchy is almost three hundred million pounds which is around nine times the official figure published by the of oil household why this disparity apparently the official figure excludes a number of costs including security royal visits and lost revenue from the dutch cheese of line castor and cornwall if they were public figures are to be believed

it would mean the british head of state is one of the most expensive government institutions in the world the important point is that they want to close a lot more than many people think. but even if those figures were made public there's every chance that the majority of the british public would agree that the budget he was still with was in fact a poll last year found at forty five percent of the british public shelters strong support for the monarchy up from twenty seven percent in two thousand and six a survey released this month showed that prince william has grandmother and his father are all more popular than the country's top rates of politicians remember the crowds falwell's wedding but more people are now saying not having the option to choose who benefits from taxpayers money is also important so there's also a principle of democracy about whether it's right that the head of state should be . ready to treat position rather than one's chosen by the people and it's also

a question of the message it sends to the young people growing up in this country i would rather that the young people growing up in this country were told that no matter who you are too much away you're born much of who your parents are you can rise to the highest office in the land and that would be the case is going to have a really true moment even though my. the spirits love their queen there's a growing number of those who would like to see their money go towards improving the country rather than the country's palaces marina acosta reports are from london forty. over eighteen million pounds goes in keeping the royals fade and dressed to impress that's equal to two thousand pensions more than thirteen million pounds is spent on the upkeep of royal residences that could provide four hundred forty students with scholarships and the money spent on the family's travel could feed more than three million homeless people were holding grim smith believes the royals are quite simply an insult to people suffering from a stereotype whether the spending by the world family is going up even by their own official figures it's going up you know they spend four million pounds on.

renovating a house for prince william. no the public does not owe these people a living it doesn't owe them a house and they need to start cutting by tens of millions not increasing their income and their wealth whilst we are cutting public services and public jobs government simply hands over millions of pounds to the world's and the world's then get to choose how they spend it and then report on how they've spent to themselves counting it in a lot of spin. and misinformation of course if you look to other countries in europe they have similar heads of state fraction of the price so the republic of ireland for example they get to choose their head of state does a similar ceremonial job and it costs less than ten million pounds every year so clearly you know having had to stay for three hundred million pounds it's a bit of a nonsense. moving on for thousands of israel bomb refugees from africa the search

for a better life ends up in torture camps they fall into the hands of ruthless smuggling gangs and then simply famished in egypt's sinai desert more than three thousand migrants per month come from the east african state of eritrea alone many of them are kidnapped for ransom and tortured until their families pay if they don't human traffickers reportedly execute the hostages more than four thousand people are estimated to have been killed since two thousand and eight and around the thought and are thought to be in captivity right now indeed last month the president of demanded an investigation but the international community has remained largely silent with israel in particular ignoring the problem on its own doorstep its prime minister wants even described their refugees as infiltrators in our own estefan off is a swedish eritrean activist who tried to raise awareness about the victims of torture by putting their plight on the big screen this is just

a snippet all but. listen to. the american plastic bags dropping it in their bags this is. a mission. on s. the finest spoke to a need to know in our program in the now as she believes there's a big difference in the way captives are treated. i have seen kids children that are two years old being tortured there were some kids that have to watch their mother being burned alive they survived so these are the kind of people that i talk to the torture is it's not any as are tortured like we see horror movie or something it's where people are tortured twenty four hours

a day deprived deprived of food deprived how is there not more international weirdness about what's happening in finite the amount of gaffes the type of torture and the millions of dollars that have been made by these hostage takers who. also have to do is race you know we we have seen americans getting kidnapped in the sinai. it took only twenty four hours to release them last year norwegian woman was kidnapped in the same area and it took about a week for her to be released. we've seen last year also israeli man being kidnapped and also it took a few days for him to be released so this happens all quite often to westerners as well but they're out with the base and they don't get to experience the torture as a free country. it has to do with race. and down to some other news from around the world are some fifteen thousand people protest over what they say was mass fraud during afghanistan's presidential election crowds gathered outside the

presidential palace in kabul voicing support for one of the convents. he dropped out of the race after a vote rigging allegations during this month's runoff final results are due in july amid a taliban insurgency that's still raging on the pulling out of nato forces. a gas pipeline blast in southern india has killed at least fourteen people and left two dozen injured the flames rose high up into the sky and golfing buildings and forcing people to flee to safety the pipeline belongs to india's largest state owned gas company authorities have ordered a probe into what caused the explosion. long queues stretched the capital of iraq's oil rich kurdish region that's because the ongoing security crisis in the country has led to severe fuel shortages in several cities the largest oil refinery was shut down last week amid severe clashes with isis militants who've already taken control of huge areas across iraq the army is now in

control of the site put pressure on supplies is growing. between police and protesters over the eviction of refugees continue in early hundreds of people form blockades to prevent people being forced out of their squat only forty asylum seekers remain there has been occupied for more than eighteen months. the construction of one of the largest airports in germany is turning into a fiasco corruption claims per planning on a budget that's gone through the roof meant berlin's new terminal is not four years behind schedule peter all of our reports on the latest scandal to grow in the facility. at this time of year an airport should be bustling with holiday makers jetting off for their summer vacations not here though at berlin brandenburg the airport's two years behind schedule and the only people the construction work is still working on the project with costs spiraling out of control it's really become

a comedy of errors the latest scandal involves the fire safety system moreover the man that designed it it's a merge they didn't have any qualifications to be in a position to do so what he did have though was a business card that said that he was an engineer turns out that wasn't worth the paper that it was written on but how does a man with no qualifications find himself in a very important position on a multibillion euro project to find out more on this i'm joined by steve from the party of reason safe if i had a business card that said i was an astronaut would but that mean i got to go into space quite likely for it was the space agency was run by the same people that are running this airport wouldn't surprise me at all what's going on here what's happening with this project right now cost overruns without end technical disasters and political decisions being made and in my opinion it's probably due to the fact that government agencies bureaucrats are trying to make a huge project which should have been better left off to

a private consortium to build as it was initially intended to be i mean we don't even know when this airports could open next year no sixteen seventeen maybe eighteen maybe never who knows thank you very much there we go we don't know when it's going to open some estimates of put a final cost of around ten billion euro on finally getting this airport brandenburg open it certainly hasn't gone smoothly here. brings you up to date with the news this hour but after the break here in r t international aaron aid talks money it's been post time.

the federal migration service of russia has recently received more than five thousand requests for political silence from ukraine its citizens these requests come from refugees who are fleeing the conflict in the eastern part of ukraine in fact i personally know people who are from the ukraine who are now essentially trapped in russia because their native regions are at war with the kiev government there is a classic mainstream media talking point about russian aggression and russian imperialism which gets repeated constantly in fact so often that is not even a question but if you stop to think about it if you were trapped in a region at war and you were going to escape odd thought where would you go into the heart of the aggressors and imperialists no you go in the direct opposite direction interestingly enough in both this conflict and the two thousand and eight war in georgia the overwhelming majority of refugees flee towards russia excluding some sort of bizarre stockholm syndrome it seems that for people in break we republics in ukraine and georgia russia is a safe haven they often say that people vote with their feet and in the case of the most recent wars in european history it is clear whose feet are voting for whom and

no mainstream media talking points can deny that but that's just my opinion. right. i think it's now a. one thing if the public sign. says ukraine struggles with the ceasefire the regime in kiev says it is committed to an association agreement with the u. the impact of which could be truly painful for the ukrainian people dividing ukraine continue.

their i marinated this is boom bust and these are some of the stories that we're tracking for you today. first up our team correspondent megan lopez is on the show now meghan is joining us from detroit where she brings us a full report on the city's water situation now detroit's water and sewage department has shut off water to its residents who haven't paid their bill it's pretty big and pretty important stuff and both the city and its citizens are facing tough economic times and we'll bring you the latest from the ground in detroit and john moulden is on the program as well my colleague edward harrison sat down with the man behind moulton economics to discuss what the latest economic data says about the u.s. economy today and in today's big deal edward harris and i are discussing net neutrality the supreme court and the future of the technology industry that's a lot to get in there you want to miss a moment and it all starts right now. our

lead story today detroit now the latest sign of the city's. did decline comes from detroit's water department many residents in detroit have stopped paying their water utility bill and the city is combat in the issue by shutting off water to more than three thousand homes and businesses per week in an effort to stop utilities from sliding even further into debt this however has sparked outrage and i mean outrage among activist groups including the united nations a u.n. team of experts says that detroit's decision to shut off water is an affront to human rights those are pretty tough words now detroit's water and sewage department

is accused of charging exorbitantly high rates to local residents and placing the burden of the city's fleeing tax base upon the shoulders of its poorest citizens now as detroit struggles to shed some of its eight hundred billion dollars in debt a partial privatization of the department is now being considered reporting for us from detroit today as artie's megane locos. i'm standing here in detroit right outside of the detroit water and sewer department and this is a building in a department that is really coming under a lot of scrutiny lately and that is because it's starting in march it started shutting off the water of people who are two months or more delinquent on their water bills so far ninety thousand residents or more oh money to the city forty five thousand notices were sent out in may alone saying that people need to pay their water bills or the city would in fact to shut the water off. the water of forty five hundred residents within twenty four hours a sixty.