washington drones in the skies over baghdad as western diplomats try to persuade kurds to remain part of iraq and fight the jihad of isis. the truce is extended in eastern ukraine with both the military and self-defense fighters vowing to cease fire for the next three days. and the u.s. 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. 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 once again for joining us my name is neil harvey you're watching international. first this hour it has been confirmed that armed american drones are patrolling the airspace over the iraqi capital while the country finds an army of jihadists advancing from the north a u.s. official said 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 he said catherine offloads that the prospects for iraqi kurdistan in the ongoing conflict. less than two kilometers away

a stronghold of these lawmakers state in iraq and syria fighters from isis or as they're called in arabic taking 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 thus isis fighters with snipers in the militant offensive sweeping will cross 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 was thirty 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 by controlling care coolpix the kurds hope to prove that they can do a better job than the central government maybe safer so far but what neighbors like isis it's unclear for how long. it didn't take long that evening we witnessed care cooks 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 i was there when there's this. some of them are living the euphoria could turn three. more ten it's people. leaves more

problems if it wasn't time to. already divisions are emerging and 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 well former pentagon analyst michael maloof says that the kurds are going to use the instability in iraq to snatch as much wealth or it 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 is the split enough iraq is going to be inevitable and 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 to each will want their own little chunk in each little piece it's a mess. we're keeping the cross events in iraq and we'll update you as the situation there develops you can also logon to our website though that's r.t.

dot com for more information which includes analysis and expert opinion. thanks the shaky truce in eastern ukraine has been extended with both the army and anti government fighters promising to recognize it the cease fire which has been in place for a week now as part of attempts to bring peace to the region people there are exhausted from artillery attacks that have forced tens of thousands to flee. if you do you can do it. if you see my eyes in the bush you really are you with the boys you know your day michigan should look back in the national their national play e.q. three think you can use them they didn't say that owns the other way or that i was ready to start let's just take it which would have always made me sick on usenet to do more here than what they said they'd see if i get

a little. of the night after the truce was prolonged appeared mostly carm but self-defense forces now claim the ukrainian military renewed sporadic fire in the donya region something that the army denies artie's remind culture of reports now on the expectations from the new ceasefire. president develop but i shan't call extended the ceasefire by another seventy two hours and this was confirmed by anti-government forces as well but i shan't go at it that the slightest violation of a cease fire this time around if people start building barricades then he will recall this truce now dialogue and countries consultations can see you 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 of 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 twenty 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 at the crania military posts positions as well defense forces to control over a checkpoint controlled by the national guard and according to unverified information the crane 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 why radicals from the ultra nationalist right sect agree threaten to burn the local police headquarters the c.c.t.v. footage shows a crowd of massed men entering some of them carrying tongs and most of cocktails

the gang burst into the office of a deputy chief demanding that he quit within twenty four hours or they would burn down the building ukraine's interior ministry says that one officer was severely beaten. construction workers in count are 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 so several people injured during the brawl with the guard see builders say we're letting them take a shed jeweled break now these are rare pictures to come out of can't are showing the situation the guards allegedly struck the workers with steel rods to prevent them from leaving the to gaze away german filmmaker who was arrested by qatari police for exposing of the country's poor working conditions where he believes that this case is just a drop in the ocean. 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 right. you know meeting and i think it's really right now as these things come up more and more 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 count our number of times starts as the country prepares for the world cup 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 but a force to stay is their documents are taken away by the companies that hire them.

i do stay with us still to come on r.t. 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 splitting up. plus death row prisoners in oklahoma sued the states to stop lethal injections but the authorities are reluctant to put the controversial executions on hold. now activists are demanding that the u.n. step in to help thousands of people left without water whether 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 u.n. experts have called the actions a violation of human rights and close inspection reveals that it's not just the

hard up who are not paying their bills some corporations even are tens of millions of dollars in the red but there is little pressure being put on them artes megan 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 time 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 the detroit water brigade headquarters groups like the way fun in the detroit water brigade are working with residents to get them the water they need in the short term and the funding in the long term to sustain themselves we have donations the water people 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 vulnerable for. first it was now raises a human rights question it raises a moral question what people do once the water is. out of the 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 the 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 going 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. karuna and i'm town an international water campaign for the

blue planet project told unemployment poverty are just 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 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 and it is a violation of the human right to water and sanitation when people are being cut being forced to pay very high rates for their water and sanitation services and when they're not able to meet those those demands they are being cut off. and the plight of those thousands of detroit residents it's also the focus of breaking the set coming up for you later today.

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and the rest. will be everything. now nato chief founders 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 leaked documents posted on wiki leaks suggest that does mark agreed to start proceedings to close an international kurdish channel for the been broadcasting from copenhagen 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 so worried about these broadcasts well ankara 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 the channel started broadcasting in two thousand and four and in two thousand and ten it was officially accused in denmark of promoting terrorist activities and then early this year the channels license was finally revote we spoke to the lawyer we have a special independent committee or terribly should be dead bark which would issue the. to turkey 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 kurdish guerrillas and the

turkish security forces was just like the coverage you would fired at the big they just used 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 when we asked nato to comment on the leaks about the deal to appoint rasmussen we got no answer instead the press office referred us to the danish judicial authority saying that courts they're awfully independent however be on elm quest questions that plane. there were some conflicts of political character between the bar 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 u.s.

forces. to think. creative bad guy how to a diet out how to prove morning that russell of his should was permitted to saracens. their diet 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 beta to decide the previous stage probably just as a second surgery. here's a look at some of the stories we're covering on line for you german authorities act the killjoy football fans they threaten to punish loud cheering and advise against any face painting we'll tell you why on our website and while you're there you can check this out in the invision section some breathtaking pitches including this human tower in spain which is made up of more than one hundred people.

next 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 the 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 and doctors a burst of vein in his body while administering a controversial cocktail of drugs there was a similar incident back in january in ohio where an inmate was reportedly in convulsions for around twenty five minutes in both those cases concerns were raised that the doctors use previously untested drugs or even. the investigation into both cases continues prison or thirty's saw going ahead with the method three executions of being carried out in june so far they're the first to take place since april in total three thousand prisoners are awaiting the death penalty in u.s.

jails and human rights advocates so they are concerned that the authorities are unwilling to take heed of past alias 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 you know 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. ok let's get a quick world update now starting with venezuela's capital and several other cities

which have been hit by a temporary power blackout and the incident disrupted subway service is in cause traffic chaos the blackout was caused by an outage at a power station in central venezuela which with other generators to go offline in march this year similar problems in the country's power grid left caracas without power for twelve hours. where a blast in a suburb of egypt's capital cairo is killed a ten year old girl her parents who were injured have been taken to a nearby hospital preliminary reports suggest a remote controlled explosive device caused the explosion but no group as yet claimed responsibility earlier this week for homemade bombs went off on the cairo show. israeli fighter jets have lost their strikes in the garza strip leaving two palestinians dead and critically wounding another woman allegedly belong to the popular resistance committee that's an armed group accused of foreign rockets into israeli territory the attack came as israeli troops continue

a large scale search for three missing teenage boys believed to have been abducted by amounts. now in a bid to ease the bureaucratic burden and save money the french government is redrawing its in the 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 artie's marina culture of a reports the e.u. might have its own vested interests to. this is what it could look like swansea to become fourteen eliminating bureaucracy and supposedly saving france fifteen billion euros this is francois lawns regional shake up plan for two thousand and fifteen or a copy of the decentralized regional model of germany according to moving the time 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 decline 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 a dictatorship 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 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. there 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 marina koester of all reports in from france for artsy. coming up next on c international it's the kaiser put always makes me smile and if you're watching is in the u.k. it's going underground enjoying. 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 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. for evolution to go straight from being a violent side of the existing lodha to being

a well run democracy is impossible it just won't happen because the fact of the revolution is so father there on the off the shoulder a so great that there is a fear of. right. now i. want to.

welcome the kaiser report i-max kaiser in the words of the great philosopher jones chopra's who was of course an inspiration for the french revolution in truth laws are always a useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing from which it follows that the social state is advantageous to men only when all possess something and none has too much end quote today we're going to look at some of the headlines from a very unsocial state can revolution be far behind and we mention revolution stacy i think you've got include also brant russell brand is the revolutionary he's a man of the revolution russell welcome because report very grateful that you have me here on the kaiser for your program thank you very much i think he absolutely say see what is actually.