doesn't sound anything. to teach creation why you should care about humans. this is why you should care only on the dot com. washington launches its drones in the skies over baghdad as western diplomats try to persuade kurds to remain part of iraq and fight the jihad this device this. truce is extended in eastern ukraine with both the military and self-defense fighters vowing to cease fire for the next three days. the us city of detroit close to a humanitarian crisis with the u.n. accusing local authorities there of human rights violations for cutting off water supplies to the poor. and as nato secretary general anders fogh rasmussen prepares to leave his post we report on the shady deals which allowed him to get the job in the first place.

thanks for joining us this hour my name is the harvey you're watching r.t. international. now it's been confirmed that armed american drones are patrolling the airspace over the iraqi capital while the country fights an army of jihad ists advancing from the north the u.s. official said that the drones primary task is to defend american diplomats u.s. secretary of state john kerry's also asking the kurds to stand by baghdad but they've already taken control of oil centers in the city of could cook and kurdish authorities are now planning a referendum on independence you see catherine 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 all are the only defense that's keeping the insurgents from marching north. to this whole area and osh isis fighters with snipers and 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 cooled and its main city spofforth. the peshmerga is controlling their.

own because groups in the other side on the other groups but of course the peshmerga which three 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 care coolpix the kurds hope to prove that they can do a better job than the central government maybe say first 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 a 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 though when there's been this. some of them are living the euphoria. toiletry. brought more tentative people. means more programs if it wasn't time to. already divisions are emerging

a minority arab and turkmen residents are worried about their rights in the new kirkuk 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 so that. we don't trust any government or any group to protect us so we're taking on to defend ourselves lucy caffein of kooks iraq. and all former pentagon analyst michael maloof says that the kurds are going to use the instability in iraq to snatch as much authority is 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 they do have a choice they can either do that or. 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 without moloch you stand on board i think this 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 joined 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 will update you as the situation there develops you can also log on to our website for more r.t. dot com plenty more information there including analysis and expert opinion.

next the shaky truce in east ukraine is being extended with both the army and anti-government fighters promising to recognize that the ceasefire which is already been in place for a week is part of attempts to bring peace to the region people there are exhausted from artillery attacks for tens of thousands to flee. if you think it would. if you see you don't my eyes in the bush you really are you with the border now your day michigan should look back into the notion that masha for eight years is that if you can use them. the other way or that i was ready to start. to work on usenet to do more here than what they said they'd see if i get. a correspondent wrong cos of reports now on the

expectations from the new ceasefire. presence of a little but i shall call extended the ceasefire by another seventy two hours and this was confirmed by anti-government forces as well but i shan't go added that the slightest violation of the cease fire this time around if people start building barricades then he will recall this truce now dialogue and countries consultations can see between both sides as they're searching for an adequate compromise on all these efforts and initiatives are welcomed and supported by russia and the european union fortunately the initial week long cease fire was broken several times by both sides of the conflict ukrainian military continues shelling the east of the country a mother and her one to six year old son had been killed after shelling near slavyansk a missile hit

a residential building where they were and killed them instantly there and government forces attacked the crane and military posts positions as well defense forces to control over a checkpoint controlled by the national guard and according to unverified information they create in military later shelled that checkpoint killing twenty fighters all of the national guard but once again this information is yet to be verified. this scene is from western ukraine where radicals from the nationalist right sect to threaten to burn the local police headquarters the c.c.t.v. footage shows a crowd of must men and sharing some of them carrying taz a mullet of coke tells the gang burst into the office of a deputy chief demanding that he quit within twenty four hours all they would burn down the building ukraine's interior ministry says that one officer was severely beaten. in other news construction workers in cancer say 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 saw several people injured during the brawl with the guards builders say weren't letting them take a break and these are rare pictures to come out of can't are showing the situation the guards allegedly struck the workers with still roams to prevent them leaving. the german filmmaker who was arrested by qatari police for exposing the country's poor working conditions with evil is this is case is just a drop in the ocean the 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 for. workers and there are quite

a few of them on the building sites. 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're heading for possibly international human rights organizations have condemned the dire conditions for construction workers in cattle a number of times says the country prepares for the world cup in twenty twenty two according to reports and more than one worker is dying each day in the attempt to build stadiums and infrastructure many don't get paid for months but a force to stay is their documents are taken away by the companies that hire them. do stay with us here on r.t. still to come divide and rule the french government is pushing for

a regional shake up but while some are unhappy with the immediate effects is there also the threat of the nation getting splitter. plus death row prisoners in oklahoma sued the state to stop lethal injections but the authorities are reluctant to put the controversial executions on. activists are demanding that 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 there are cutting water supplies to thousands of households saying that they're protecting the city's budget from unpaid bills un experts have called the actions a violation of human rights and close inspection reveals it's not just the hard up who are paying their bills some corporations tens of millions of dollars in the red as well but there is very little pressure being put on them on these meghan lopez

as 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 side now they've 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 did 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 that 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 as they help get my children back they don't care don't just dance and she isn't alone no you're shutting out all the water all the most voters. first which 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 baby 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 will want 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. mira town an international water campaigner for the blue planet project told those that unemployment and poverty are what is fueling the crisis there are thousands of residents who have been cut who've 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 and we're talking about a city where forty 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 cut 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. and the plight of those thousands of detroit residents is also the focus of the mountains of breaking the set which is coming up for you'd like to today. stay with us here on r.t. international i will be back with more news right after this short break.

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thanks for joining us here on our team next this hour nato's chief anders fogh rasmussen will soon leave his post and it's just this questions are raised over exactly how he got that job back in two thousand and nine well 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 now that took place in two thousand and nine at exactly the time when rasmussen was prime minister of the country in exchange to give reportedly promised to back him for the position of nato secretary general so why was turkey worried about these broadcasts

well our anchor claims that raj 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 in the west at the channel started broadcasting in two thousand and four and in two thousand and ten it was officially used in denmark of promoting terrorist activities and then earlier this year the channels license was finally revoked we spoke to their lawyer. we have a special independent committee or terribly should be dead mark which would issue the search if occurrence the turks the turkish government had at three different occasions complained to this committee and each time they concluded that the coverage of the fights the clashes the conflict between the p.k. k. the kurdish guerrillas at the turkish and security forces was just like the

coverage you would fired at the big day the 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 we asked nato to comment on the leaks about the deal to appoint rasmus and we got no answer instead the press office which is to the danish judicial oath already saying that courts there are fully independent however build on quest questions that plane . there were some conflicts of political character between the bar and turkey argued by the states. because they like very broad strokes they describe it is to become the six zero therefore they felt. there was a big pressure from us forces. to think.

creative bad guy how to a diet and how to prove morning that russell of his should was permitted to saracens. the guy with 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. side. previously described this as a second surgery. and remember we're not just a t.v. channel or online as well more stories therefore you include german or thirties acting the killjoy for football fans threatening to punish loud cheery vising against any face painting find out all about it on our website and while you are there if you move to our invasion section you'll see some breath taking pictures like this waiting for you and include the human tower it's in spain and it's made up of more than

a hundred people. but in other news 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 in a lawsuit filed against the state follows the bungled execution of oklahoma in make clayton lockett in april he died of a heart attack some forty minutes after being injected doctors had burst a very in in his body while administering a controversial cocktail of drugs there was a similar incident back in january and ohio where an inmate was reportedly convulsing for around twenty five minutes in both cases concerns were raised that the doc to use previously untested drugs. now even though the investigation into both cases continues prison or thirty's are going ahead with the method three executions have been carried out in june so far the first to take place since april in total three thousand prisoners await the death penalty in u.s.

jails human rights advocates a concern that 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 have sued what they're basically saying is that we're not ready to do more executions for you know the status saying it thinks we will be ready within a couple of months and of course without the four findings there and what went wrong in clayton markets execution 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. ok let's bring you a quick world update now israeli fighter jets have launched airstrikes in the gaza

strip leaving two palestinians dead and critically wounding another and then allegedly belong to the popular resistance committee an armed group accused of firing rockets into israeli territory. as israeli troops continue a large scale search for three missing teenage boys believed to have been abducted by hamas. the mexican government has apologized for a shooting on u.s. territory a military helicopter accidentally opened fire on u.s. border guards during a search for drug smugglers just north of the frontier in arizona nobody was injured in the incident. venezuela's capital several of the cities have been hit by a temporary power blackout incident disrupted subway service is and caused traffic chaos the blackout was caused by an outage at a power station in central venezuela which falls well the generators to go offline in march this year similar problems in the country's power grid left caracas without power for twelve hours. and now in

a bid to ease of bureaucratic burden and to save money the french government is redrawing its in a borders to reduce the number of regions the plans have been met with anger with richer regions i'm willing to pay for their poor neighbors but that is mean a cost of a reports now the e.u. might have his 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 regional model germany porting to moving the part if this reform gets the green light in the region of what we are now. the problem is. 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. about hypothetical advantages it's

a booby trap the real goal of those who pull the strings is in this integration of nation states. deal directly with the regions. were facing a dictatorship to impose a model which were grounds would be to integrate a regionalized europe with the your atlantic blog 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 ten lies 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. of 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 r.t. . if you would stick around there will be more news for you at the top of the hour could see of myself on the way for you next though it's a look at the ups and downs of the financial world could see that i mean aids in been busted. some people say freedom isn't free and they're right in fact freedom may 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 police traumas 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 the 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 for it 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.

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