washington launches its drones in the skies over baghdad as western diplomats try to persuade courage to remain part of iraq and fight the jihad of isis. truce is extended in eastern ukraine by both military and self-defense fighters but sporadic clashes are continuing with mortar shells hitting russian territory. us city of detroit close to a humanitarian crisis with the u.n. accusing local authorities 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. live from our new center here in moscow twenty four hours a day welcome to our international i mean i know you it's been confirmed that armed american drones are patrolling the airspace over the iraqi capital while the country fights normie 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 is also asking the courage to stand by baghdad but they have already taken control of oil centers in the city of kirkuk and kurdish authorities are now expanding to hold a referendum on independence and. looks at the prospects for iraqi kurdistan in the ongoing conflict. less than two kilometers away

a stronghold but here it is lawmakers 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 iraqi 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 as part of the course. of the peshmerga is controlling the.

ticket group and 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 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 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 or. already divisions are emerging minority arab and turkmen residents are worried about their rights in the new kirkuk kurdish authorities promised a referendum but in a warning 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 to defend ourselves lucy caffein of kook iraq former pentagon analyst michael maloof sees the kurds are going to use the instability in iraq to snatch as much authority 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 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 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. and some of the other islamist groups and even acts 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 and each little piece it's a mess. now we're closely following events in iraq and we'll update you as the situation there develops you can also log onto our website r t v dot com for more

information including analysis and expert on. the shaky truce in east ukraine has been extended but both the army an anti government fighters promising to recognize that the cease fire which has been in place for a week 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. one hundred you . do you can get there you want. the experience in your day to my eyes in the bush to you today yeah you're with the boys you know good day in michigan should think that given the notion that mash up and he just didn't think you can use them wish they hadn't said that and they had to mail that i was going to be just a lot less that just do it so they would have always made like this on usenet you'll hear that a lot they said they'd see if i get it and. now the night after the truce was

extended appeared mostly calm whoever there were reports of sporadic fire in the region russia's border control service sees one of its checkpoints has been hit. you continue to fall in russian territory one really checkpoint building them exploded inside there were no injuries if you were shells landed in the nearby village of folks who were going to work or you want all right our teacher he reports now on the expectations from the new cease fire. president said little 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 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 new between both sides as they are searching for an adequate compromise on all these efforts and initiatives are welcomed and supported by

a russia and the european union of fortunately the initial week long ceasefire was broken several times by both sides of the conflict ukrainian military continues shutting 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 their anti-government forces at sac the crane and military posts positions as well tell 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. fleeing from mayor to retire or tens of thousands of

ukrainian refugees the u.n. estimates over one hundred thousand people have crossed the border with russia since the beginning of the conflict in the east but the u.s. has once again guarded the number saying the source is not credible. since the start of two thousand and fourteen one hundred and ten thousand ukrainians have arrived in russia we just have seen no evidence to support that we don't believe they're credible we're watching we just don't think that the hundreds of thousands number is credible we don't have anything to corroborate it but this is the u.n. this isn't the russians this is not united not being there is this is an agency that you guys give millions and millions of dollars to and there are now long we don't have anything to back up that number matt now this scene is from western ukraine where radicals from the ultra nationalist right sector group threaten to burn the local police headquarters the c.c.t.v. footage shows a crowd of mosques men entering some of them carrying tires and molotov cocktails

the gang burst into the office of the deputy chief demanding he quit within twenty four hours or they would burn down the building ukraine's interior ministry ses one officer was severely beaten. living on construction workers in qatar 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 of a hotel complex saw several people injured during a brawl with the guards who builders say we're not letting them take a scheduled break these are rare pictures to come off guitar showing the situation guards allegedly struck the workers with steel rods to prevent anything a german filmmaker who is arrested by qatari police for exposing the country's poor working conditions believes 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. meaning 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 the 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 qatar a number of times 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 are forced to stay as their documents are taken away by the companies that hire them. still to come here in r.t.e. international 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 a threat of the nation splitting off. death row prisoners in oklahoma sued the state to stop lethal injections but the authorities are reluctant to put the controversial executions on hold. 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 the bankrupt us city of detroit authorities are cutting water supplies to thousands of high school saying they're protecting the city's budget from paid bills human experts have called the actions a violations of human rights on closer inspection reveals it's not just the hard up not paying their bills some corporations are tens of millions of dollars in the red as well but there's a little pressure being put on the martys make a lopez has the details for us. 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 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 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 days and she isn't alone no you're shutting out all the water all the most votes. first which now raises

a human rights question that 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 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 will point 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 one international water campaigner for the blue plum a project list and poverty are 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. the plight of thousands of those detroit residents is also the focus of bobbi martin's breaking the set that's coming up later this hour. and much more news coming up after a very short break do stay with us. there's a media leave us so we leave that may be. the same motion security. for your party

there's a bill. for shoes that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from it's all on politics only on our team. on the air and in the financial world. to see these developments cannot stop because the dems only take no demand to credit not going to get any economic benefit in life there are and there are but. economic pressure. because you know. what if the.

street. come back nato chief unders fogh rasmussen will soon leave his post just as 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 the same time when resolution was prime minister of the country in exchange turkey reportedly promised to box him for the position of nato secretary general so just why was turkey worried these broadcasts unkrich claims raj t.v. was a mouthpiece for the kurdistan workers party which fights for the rights of the kurdish

minority on this considered a terrorist organization in turkey and indeed the west of the channel started broadcasting in two thousand and four in two thousand and ten it was officially cues in denmark of promoting terrorist activities and earlier this year the channels license was finally revoked we spoke to their lawyer. we have a special independent committee on television denmark which would issue the certificates to 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 and the turkish security forces was just like the coverage you would fired at the big danish news television stations so we thought that also the courts would would respect the freedom of expression the freedom of press

the freedom of information but it didn't occur. we have asked nato to comment on the leaks about the deal to appoint rasmussen we got no answer instead their press office referred us to the danish traditional authority saying that courts there are fully independent whoever you want to quest questions that plain there were some conflicts of political character between the bar and turkey joe di the states intervened because a light very broad stroke they describe it is to become the six zero therefore they felt comfy with him as the secretary general there was a big pressure from us. and says to think. of a creative bad guy how to a diet and how to prove that rusts elevation was promoting

terrorism we had in the end they died but what there was there within hours after that it died with it was announced that there wasn't any but between the turkish government and the other base who promises to decide the previous stage probably just as a second surgery. let's take a look at what we've got on line few right now german authorities are they kill joy for football fans threatening to punish large cheering advising against any face painting we'll tell you why online. also on our dot com our invasion section is some breathtaking pictures waiting for you including a human tower in spain over one hundred people. death row inmates in oklahoma are protesting against the use of lethal injection to execute them they say it's akin to experimenting on humans their lawsuit filed against the state follows the bungled execution of oklahoma inmate clayton lockett

in april he died of a heart attack some forty minutes after being injected doctors had burst a vein in his body while administering a controversial cocktail of drugs that was a similar incident back in january in ohio or an inmate was reportedly in convulsions for around twenty five minutes in both cases concerns were raised but the doctors use previously on tested drugs. even though the investigation into both cases continues prison authorities are going ahead with the method three executions up and 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 on what went wrong in clayton lockett sex accused and 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. time for some more news from around the globe israeli fighter jets have launched airstrikes in the gaza strip leaving two palestinians dead and critically wounding another one a man allegedly belong to the popular resistance committee an armed group accused of firing rockets into israeli territory the attack came us israeli troops continue a large scale search for three missing teenage boys believed to have been abducted

by hamas. a group of tourists into things seven children are missing after two days of heavy rain close if you're floating in russia's region two thousand people are being evacuated from aaton there the rain has now stopped on the water level is slowly returning to normal. venezuela's capital and several other cities in the country have been hit by a temporary power blackout the incident disrupted subway services and cause traffic chaos the blackout was caused by an out of power station in central venezuela which forced other generators offline in march this year a similar problems in the country's par grid left caracas without power for half a day. a blast in a suburb of egypt's capital cairo was killed a ten year old girl her parents were injured have been taken to a nearby hospital preliminary reports suggest a remote controlled explosive device caused the explosion but no group has claimed

responsibility as yet earlier this week for homemade bombs went off on the hieromonk. in a bid to ease the bureaucratic burden and save money the french government is redrawing its in our borders to reduce the number of regions the plans have been met with with richer regions and willing to pay for their per neighbors but as our marina cost river 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 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 a dictatorships will to impose a model which we're friends would be to integrate a regionalized europe with the your atlantic bloc and our food holds the world governance. period 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 c. map of regionalized 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 supports in the countries identity at risk and opening the door to something which could not only reshape france but make it disappear marina koester of our reporting from france for artsy. coming up as promised abi martin looks at how water shortages are driving the people of detroit to despair to stay with us. 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 in 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.

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