washington launches its drones in the skies over baghdad as western diplomats try to persuade kurds to remain part of iraq and fight the jihadists devise. a truce is extended in eastern ukraine with both the military and self-defense fighters vying to cease fire for the next three days. the city of detroit close to a humanitarian crisis with the u.n. accusing local authorities of human rights violations causing off water supplies for the poor. nato secretary general anders fogh rasmussen prepares to leave his post report on the shady deals which allowed him to get the job in the first place

. my name is the harvey and you are watching and. now it's been confirmed that american drones are patrolling the airspace over the iraqi capital while the country finds an army of jihad ists advancing from the north and u.s. official said the drones primary task is to defend american diplomats u.s. secretary of state john kerry is also asking the kurds to stand by baghdad while kurdish authorities want a referendum on independence he was followed by the british foreign secretary who traveled to meet kurdish leaders in northern iraq on friday to discuss their role in the conflict you see caffein off looks at the prospects for iraqi kurdistan in the ongoing conflict. less than two kilometers away

a stronghold of the islamic state in iraq and syria fighters from isis or as they're called in arabic have taken over the neighboring village these kurdish soldiers known as the peshmerga are the only defense that's keeping the insurgents from marching north. so this whole area. isis fighters with snipers of the militant offensive sweeping across a rock is redrawing the country's borders but so too are the kurds as a rocky forces crumbled in the wake of that the harvest onslaught kurdish soldiers moved in to fill the void nearly doubling their territory in the process in just a matter of hours the kurds seized militarily what they failed to secure politically for decades the oil rich province of cure cool and its main city as part of the court. the.

because group and the other side on the other groups but of course the peshmerga which thirty four years one of the most dangerous cities in iraq cook has become a refuge in kurdish hands hundreds of cars lined the road leading to the city as desperate iraqis flee for their lives. the city is home to a mix of arabs kurds chirk ben and christians all lay claim to this land a year ago i couldn't really walk around here without the help of an armed escort it was just too dangerous there are suicide bombings frequent clashes between rival groups but controlling here cool the kurds hope to prove that they can do a better job than the central government maybe safer so far but with neighbors like isis it's unclear for how long. it didn't take long that evening we witnessed care cooke's temporary or spike from violence shattered

a suicide bomber tried to enter a market in a kurdish part of town at least six people killed dozens wounded the kurds may seem as the winners in this. some of them are living in the euphoria of total tree. but more tentative and more people. means more problems if it wasn't planned. already divisions are emerging minority arab and turkmen residents are worried about their rights in the new care cook kurdish authorities promised a referendum but in a worrying sign of what could be ahead these shiite turkmen are taking matters into their own hands. we don't trust any government or any group to protect us so we're taking our arms to defend ourselves lucy caffein of kirkuk iraq

former pentagon analyst michael maloof says that the kurds are going to use the instability in iraq to snatch as much or thirty as they can. the kurds see a golden opportunity to basically declare their independence they've already announced that they're going to have a referendum now they do have a choice they can either do that or. would do what. kerry wants and work with the government in baghdad i think that while they listen politely to to secretary kerry i think they have their own interests in mind and unless something miraculous happens in the parliament with our molecules stand on board i think this is the split enough iraq is going to be inevitable the only thing that is working in anybody's favor is that isis has the has a military capability but the question is will they be able to govern all that territory they're taking over and already they're fighting from within some of the

units and some of the other islamist groups and even x. about this that they that join them temporarily to take the territory over but now there's actually been gunfire and and opposition each will want their own little chunk in each little piece it's a mess. rest assured we are closely following events in iraq and we'll update you as soon as the situation develops you can also log on to our website dot com for more information including analysis and. the shaky truce in east ukraine has been extended week but the army and anti government find as promising to recognize it the cease fire which has been in place for a week now is part of attempts to bring peace to the region people there are exhausted from artillery attacks that have forced tens of thousands to flee. put the ball up . if you think you're playing it would. if you see

you don't need my eyes in the push if i really are you with the board no good danish a game no should think that given the national is a national player he gives a shit and i never seen a can use them with the little said that ends the i do my all that i was ready to start lester just would take you would have always made to make you sick on usenet would you more hear that a lot i said they've got to go see if i get to. ok to stall now to alter your own culture of who is reporting for us in the day and yet screw region the previous ceasefires one might say kind of mixed results at best how much confidence that this is the latest cease fire will actually hold. well the situation continues to be very unstable despite the fact that president develop what i shall call extended the ceasefire by another seventy two hours and this was a confirmed by anti-government forces as well but i shall go added that the slightest violation of the cease fire this time around if people start building

barricades and other things. of that sort then he will recall this truce now dialogue and come to the consultations can see you between both sides as they are searching for an adequate compromise on all these efforts and the initiatives are all welcomed and supported by a russia and the european union unfortunately the initial week long ceasefire was broken several times by both sides of the conflict and according to the latest reports ukrainian military and the national guard continue shelling the east of the country and anti-government forces attacked the crane in military police positions as well now according to the latest report at least twenty soldiers twenty fighters all of the national guard had been killed near slavyansk and according to unconfirmed information it was the ukrainian military that shelled this checkpoint

saying here is like downtown so they received word that anti-government fighters to control over this checkpoint now military and resistance casualties are not the only ones as civilian deaths continue to mount as well in the latest round of violence a mother and her twenty six year old son had been killed after shelling and near slavyansk as well the missile hit a residential building where they were and killed them instantly there in the southeastern mine culture of reporting for us from the region. next activists are demanding the u.n. step in to help thousands of people left without water however those suffering are not in a remote african or asian village but in fact in the bankrupt us city of detroit authorities are cutting water supplies to thousands of households saying that

they're protecting the city's budget from unpaid bills u.n. experts have called the actions of violation of human rights and close inspection reveals it's not just the hard up who aren't paying their bills some corporations are tens of millions of dollars in the red as well but there is little pressure being put on then artes make and lopez has the story. it is one of the most essential elements of life. americans enjoy some of the cleanest and most abundant water in the world but what happens when the pipes are turned off and the tap runs dry how am i supposed to wash my child heilman i supposed to shower must fill in the largest american city to ever filed for bankruptcy residents are falling behind on their water bills now facing five billion dollars in bad debt the water department is taking drastic measures to plug holes and that means cutting water this is one of those houses that has had its water shut off and you can tell that because the detroit water and sewer department

went ahead and painted on the porch that water cut slime now they have been doing this more and more frequently to abandoned houses and they are they say going after abandoned houses first in order to kind of avoid it wasting water for houses that people simply don't live in however more often these days the houses facing shut off have residents living inside this is the detroit water brigade headquarters groups like the way fun in the detroit water brigade are working with residents to get on the water they need in the short term and the funding in the long term to sustain themselves we have donations the water people have say we also have water filtration devices as well as aqua tablets so that people could you know access to clean drinking water these groups are now calling for help from the federal government and even the united nations to address what they describe as a humanitarian crisis nikita rally is one detroit resident who is afraid of the

consequences of missing even a single payment if you tell someone i don't have water in my home that's the first strike you can get your children removed or you go to the war department if they help get my children back they don't care don't just dance and she isn't alone no being you're shutting out all the water all the most vulnerable. first it was now raises a human rights question it raises a moral question what if people do was to water. out of the take their medicine if you see the shot of the make the formula for the babies however the water department argues we have the the burden of being heavy to be realistic in a lot of folks the activists for example don't have that they have what they feel are simple solutions. which really don't really hold water if anybody can come up with a way that we can make the detroit drinking water is good as it is right now for pennies on the dollar was to listen unfortunately this is not the case leaving some residents salivating for a solution to this water crisis and others just plain thirsty reporting in detroit

michigan meghan lopez r t well miracle in an on time an international water campaign for the blue planet project told us unemployment and poverty are what's fueling the crisis there are thousands of residents who have been cut. been cut off from their water and sewerage services since march and what that means is that people basically don't have access to water in their homes we're talking about a city where point eight percent of the people are living below the poverty line so many of these people cannot afford to be there to pay the bills it is a violation of the human rights water and sanitation when people are being forced to pay a very high rates for their water and sanitation services and when they're not able to meet those demands they are being cut off or the plight of thousands of detroit residents is also the focus of i'll be martyrs breaking the search which is coming

up for you in the next hour. so there may have an r.t. after the break slave labor construction workers in can. fight security guards they say are depriving them of their rights and freedom. the french government is pushing for a regional shake up but some are unhappy with the immediate effects is there also the threat of national disintegration and more stories coming up very shortly.

now like. what if. like. obama pushes congress for half a billion to try to clear up the syrian opposition to the u.s. military and to play with american weapons ukraine signs up to a controversial you free trade deal along with georgia. a creed agreement. failure to finish a multi-billion dollar air force is blamed. for all the media turns a blind eye to you jets.

watching our next nato chief and his photographs will soon leave his post and that's just this questions are raised over exactly how he got the job back in two thousand and nine. leaked documents posted on wiki leaks suggest that denmark agreed to start proceedings to close an international kurdish channel that had been broadcasting from copenhagen and that took place in two thousand and nine at the time when rasmussen was prime minister of the country in exchange turkey reportedly promised to back him for the position of nato secretary general so why was turkey worried about these broadcasts well andrea claims that roche t.v. was a mouthpiece for the kurdistan workers party which fights for the rights of the kurdish minority and is considered a terrorist organization in turkey and the west the channel started broadcasting in two thousand and four in two thousand and ten it was officially accused in denmark

of promoting terrorist activities and earlier she had a chance of license was finally revoked we spoke to the lawyer we have a special independent committee or terribly should be denmark which would issue the search if occurred since the turks the turkish government had at three different occasions complained to this committee each time they concluded that the coverage of the fights the clashes the conflict between the p.k. k. the kurdish guerrillas and the turkish security forces was just like the coverage you would fired at the big d. students television stations so we thought that also the courts. would respect the freedom of expression the freedom of press the freedom of information but it did occur well we asked nato to comment on the leaks

about the deal to appoint rasmus and we got no answer it said their press office referred us to the danish judicial authority saying that courts there are fully independent however you want questions that plane. there were some conflicts of political character between denmark and turkey. states. because a very broad stroke they describe it is to become the six zero therefore they felt . there was a big pressure from us. to think in a creative bandar how to a diet and how to prove that russell of his should was promoting terrorism but had in the end they died but what there was there within hours after that he died with it was announced that there was agreement between the turkish

government and the other data to decide the previous stage privatised as a second surgery. to kill it now with stories we're covering online for you a german or thirty to kill joy football fans threatening to punish cheering and advising against any face painting we will tell you why a website plus our invision section has some breath taking pictures waiting for you including this human tower in spain made up of more than one hundred people. next for you construction workers in cattle say that their basic rights are being breached by security guards at one of the biggest building sites in the country's capital the latest episode at a hotel complex or several people injured during a brutal with the gods who build a say we're not letting them take a shed you'll break god's allegedly struck the workers with steel rods to vent them

from a living creature gazillion german filmmaker who was arrested by qatar a place for exposing the country's or working conditions really believes this case is just a drop in the the over. level of violence displayed in that video just shows the level of despair those workers are in it was initiated by the workers not being allowed to take proper lunch break bear in mind we are in the middle of ramadan ramadan obviously has four islamic workers and there are quite a few of them on the building sites. you know meaning and i think it's really right now as these things come up more and more you know with higher frequency i think it's time to really face a possible rerun of the vote for the world cup in qatar that's something that you know comes into reality with all human rights issues with all the corruption issues

coming up on a daily basis right now i think this is what we had in front possibly international human rights organizations have condemned the dire conditions for construction workers in can't tell a number of times as the country prepares for the world in twenty twenty two according to reports more than one worker is dying each day in the attempt to build stadiums and infrastructure many don't get paid for months for the force to stay as their documents are taken away by the companies that. bring you a quick will that they now israeli fighter jets have launched air strikes in the gaza strip leaving two dead and critically wounding another the men allegedly belong to the popular resistance committee an armed group accused of firing rockets into israeli territory it tanks came as israeli troops continue a large scale search for three missing teenage boys believed to been abducted by a man it's. the more the mexican government has apologized for a shooting on u.s.

territory the military had a helicopter accidentally opened fire on u.s. border guards during a search the drug smugglers just north of the frontier in arizona nobody was injured in the incident. venezuela's capital and several other cities have been hit by a temporary power blackout the incident disrupted subway service isn't cause traffic chaos blackout was caused by an outage at a power station in central venezuela which forced other generators off line in march of this year similar problems in the country's power grid a caracas without power for twelve hours. now death row inmates in oklahoma are protesting against the use of lethal injections to execute them they say it's akin to experimenting on humans and the lawsuit filed against the state follows the bungled execution of oklahoma in make clayton lockett in april and he

died of a heart attack some forty minutes after being injected doctors have burst a vein in his body while administering a controversial cocktail of drugs it was a similar incident back in january and in ohio where an inmate was reportedly convulsing for around twenty five minutes in both those cases concerns were raised that the doctor used previously untested drugs well even though the investigation into both cases continues and the authorities are going ahead with this method three executions have been carried out in june so far the first since april in total three thousand prisoners await the death penalty in u.s. jails human rights advocates are concerned the authorities are unwilling to take heed of past failures. every time one more state changes a protocol or changes the lethal drug cocktail in a sense we have the potential for human experimentation to be trying something on a human being that's never been tried before and that's being repeated in state

after state here in the united states oklahoma has not done another execution yet now we've set some dates out several months into the future and that's exactly why these inmates of sued what they're basically saying is that we're not ready to do more executions on the other hand the status saying it thinks we will be ready within a couple of months and of course without the full findings there and what went wrong in clayton lockett sex a-q. should i think it's very hard for the state's argument to be taken seriously that we're ready to actually start more executions when we don't fully know what happened. in a bid to ease the bureaucratic burden and save money the french government is redrawing its in a borders to reduce the number of regions the plan to be met with anger with the rich of regions and willing to pay for the poor neighbor is theirs and he's marrying a culture of reports now the e.u. might have its own vested interests as well. this is what it could look like

swansea to become fourteen eliminating bureaucracy and supposedly saving france fifteen billion euros this is francois lawn's regional shake up plan for two thousand and fifteen or a copy of the decentralized functional model of germany according to marine the time if this reform gets the green light in the region of what we are now will merge with the problem is that considered relatively rich its neighbor is a mining and steel region in the pipeline and people here don't want to end up paying for it so. they're talking about hypothetical economic advantages it's a booby trap the real goal of those who pull the strings is that this integration of nation states the e.u. would deal directly with the regions. that are facing the dictatorships will to impose a model which were friends would be to integrate a regionalized europe with the your atlantic bloc and a food hole which the world governance. appear large claims these documents dated

back to nine hundred ninety seven by the association of european border regions as well as the two thousand and see my regional allies in europe by the assembly of european regions is proof that the union has long been planning to regionalize the countries to gain more control. we will be part of something that does not even have a name for now and now there is a growing number of french politicians who are also speaking out against this regional shake up saying that sports and the countries identity at risk and opening the door to something which could not only reshape france but make it disappear during a coster of our reporting from france for artsy. do stay with us a bit but with the very latest news headlines at the top of the hour next we'll take a look at europe's shift away from nuclear power technology updates. the

federal migration service of russia has recently received more than five thousand requests for political asylum from ukrainian 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 foot where would you go into the heart of the aggressors 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're 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 who's feet are voting for whom and no mainstream media talking points can deny that but that's just my opinion. i don't think the united states i'm for ousting in a coach neither did russia i think fine for taking control of our crimea and he added and we have a major crisis is on our hands. do you think that is likely to be resolved in some sort of constructive way now is. this is the last change in borders that happens this way that i'm not saying will be forgotten but you know people conduct themselves to new realities in the turns out though this is the first step in that this is going to go on indefinitely. and threaten the very existence of between the

state and we're kind of in a different game. alone well can set goals you know dates is the end of all it's all but not supposing in moscow but locally for us the sun hasn't been east everywhere so it's only pop culture going to solve winters knocking at moscow's door between nobody's done alone jones just yet so we travel to europe to soak up some rays imbibes a culture and see what's going on in the world of technology fronts with europe's largest exporter of electricity last year but this.