mission to teach me creation why you should care about humans. this is why you should care only. in iraq to capture economically vital energy sites while planning to hold a referendum on finally getting their own independent state. president extends the truce with anti-government forces for three more days both sides to uphold the ceasefire but stray shells from sporadic fighting keep hitting the russian border. police brutally put down another world cup workers protests which have been demonstrating against the labor conditions rights groups described as nothing short of her effect. and also this hour the u.n. is calling a cut off in the u.s. city of detroit a violation of human rights while authorities are still trying to wring out money

from the poorest. live from our new center here in moscow twenty four hours a day you're watching international unit only welcome the iraqi army has launched an offensive on the city of to crete that is currently in the hands of islamist radicals the town is less than two hundred kilometers from baghdad the eventual target of the extremist comes as the u.s. secretary of state john kerry urged the courage to reinforce the defenses of the iraqi capital and it seems the group has other priorities and after capturing the oil rich city of kirkuk kurdish authorities are planning to hold an independence referendum. looks at the prospect of vote.

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 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. so this whole area. 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 for. the peshmerga is controlling the code.

because a group in the other side there's no 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 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 were spiked 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 three. but most had its share and more people means more

programs if it was a plant 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 so we're taking 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 count 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 splitting up 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. still to come this hour nato reacts with stony silence on the wiki leaks documents that detail what nato's i'd going chief traded to the job in the first place we report on how the then prime minister of denmark reportedly took turkey on

an offer to buy his under the sea in return for immediate crunch time. plus death row inmates in oklahoma sued the state to stop lethal injections after concerns doctors are using on test drugs. the shaky truce in east ukraine has been extended with both the army and 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 say they're exhausted by constant fighting and the fled in their tens of thousands. but the problem is. if you do you can get there you want. if you see you don't have my eyes even if you today yeah you're with the boys you know they may shake you know should think that given that nash is a national player he just didn't think you can use them. he had to lie that i was

going to be just a lot less that is just so they can. always do like. to see if i get it in. the night after the truce was extended appeared mostly calm however. in the region with russia's border control service stating one of its checkpoints had been had. were going to. continue to fall in russian territory one read a checkpoint building them exploded inside there were no injuries two more shells landed in a nearby village of folks who were going to work working on our teams maria phenomena saw firsthand what eastern ukraine is like amid the cease fire. the truce remains in place here in eastern ukraine but so does the tension in the weeks since the ceasefire came into effect sporadic clashes. local defense issues have carried on regardless sometimes resulted in fatalities including civilians on friday and woman and her son were reportedly killed in the army shalyn in the town of

slovyansk in donetsk region which is the epicenter of what key of calls its anti terror operation and here in the guns overnight there was little sign of calm either on the return from filming at the ukrainian russian border at a checkpoint we heard a conversation between local fighters why we're talking in which they described shooting happening right then next to a nearby railway bridge as well as wrong the local hospital at this checkpoint had recently been taken by self-defense forces and the ukrainian military was trying to regain control of this strategic location we were forced to take another turn a tube route along a wild path through the forest all the time we had to coordinate we saw the french soldiers patrolling that area but even than we were told that it was still very dangerous. as you were.

just on. the floor. of the lobby of the rush to all the details of the one hour the still the others to go to the top the charts were dropped it was also the battle for the stopped since. the raid so obvious that the street was full of surprises. because. they extended a truce a supposed to pave the way to. a long piece in the country but so far we can see a lack of trust between both sides and it's fair to say whatever peace the reason right now in this part of the country remains fragile at best we have nationality from lugansk in ukraine now what you're seeing here are reinforcements for the national guard right after taking their oath in western ukraine right sector

members decided to pay a visit to a local police station the c.c.t.v. footage shows a crowd of men breaking in some with molotov cocktails the gang demanded the deputy police chief resign within twenty four hours or that would burn down the building they're angry with the officials for prosecuting activists involved in february two in kiev ukraine's interior ministry says one officer was severely beaten throngs of people are fleeing the er tillery attacks in eastern ukraine the un says the number has hit a hundred thousand but for the us the source doesn't seem credible enough. 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 collaborate at but this is the u.n. this isn't the russians this is

a united nations and there's this is an agency telling you guys give millions and millions of dollars to and they're now long we don't have anything to back up that number. whipped denied breaks food and even water migrant workers in qatar say their treatment has reached a new low in the latest episode at a hotel complex construction crews clashed with guards on the site now these are rare pictures coming out of qatar showing the situation tens of thousands of migrants are working on various faithful old world health and use an infrastructure laboring under what are described as deplorable conditions a german filmmaker who was arrested by kotori police for exposing the country's poor working conditions 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 both sides. you know meeting 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. rights groups worldwide have condemned the treatment of migrant workers in guitar time and time again statistically say the vis one worker dies every day as the country prepares to host the twenty twenty two world cup on top of harsh conditions workers are left without pay for months with their documents taken away by the companies that hire them coming up turning off the tops leads to an increased flow of anger. i don't know how you can get your children to you go to the water department if they help my children but they don't hear the u.s.

city of detroit harbors close to a humanitarian crisis with the u.n. accusing local authorities of rights violations for cutting off water supplies to the poor details after a short break. the media leave also we leave that maybe. by the same motions your. play your part of the physical. issues that no one is asking with to get that you deserve answers from. politics. please speak your language. programs in documentaries in arabic in school here on the t.v. reporting from the we'll talk spoke skiffy ip interviews intriguing story for you.

then try. to find out more visit our big. dog called. edging fifteen minutes into the hour welcome unders fogh rasmussen is term as nato chief maybe almost but not questions are being asked about how he got the job in the first place freshly in the spotlight wiki leaks documents suggest rasmussen abused his powers as prime minister to guarnteed himself his future job

specifically denmark reportedly agreed to start legal action against a kurdish separatist channel that was broadcasting from copenhagen in two thousand and nine in return turkey said it would news in the future nato chief so why was turkey worried about these broadcasts while on prolonged claimed raj t.v. was a mighty piece for the kurdistan workers party which fights for the rights of the kurdish minority and is considered a terrorist organization in turkey on the west and the channel started broadcasting in two thousand and four in twenty ten it was officially accused in denmark of promoting terrorist activities and then this year twenty fourteen the channels license was finally revoked and we spoke to their lawyer we have a special it to media or some of these should be dead bark which would issue the certificates to the turks the turkish government had at three different locations complained to this committee and each time they concluded that the

coverage was just like the coverage you would fired at the big d. students 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 did occur. in fact we asked nato to comment on the leaks about the deal to appoint rasmus in their press office told us to talk to danish judicial authorities insisting that the courts were fully independent however journalist lawyer and former m.p. bjorn almqvist questions that very claim there were some conflicts of political character between. turkey. states and because they like very broad strokes they describe it is to be called the six to zero there was a big pressure from us. to think.

creative bad or how to die how to prove morning that the rustle of a should was permitted to terrorists. but what there was within hours after that it died it was announced that there was agreement between the turkish government and the other to decide the previously described this as a second surgery a kurdish activist tailored to wreak tells us that when it comes to turkey minority rights are the least of europe's concerns i think there kurdish issue isn't one of the most on result issues of the century and the war between the p.k. k. in turkey benefits civil institutions in countries so on one hand while the west close the eyes to human rights violations in turkey and actively contributed to

these human rights violations by either providing tree or intelligence on the other hand the kurds the kurdish diaspora in europe was completely criminalized and we see the similar thing happening with kurds in syria for example even though the people have established a very progressive self governance structures in the north of syria. online dot com christian orthodox activist threw eggs in holy water and members of more than mountains rock band have their concert in moscow big never took place however due to a bomb threat so all the details of the story available for you online also while you're there. changing developments technologies are proved in the u.s. to help those parts take a huge step towards walking again find out all the details of this new robotics much much more. the corrupt u.s.

city of detroit is on the brink of a water crisis thousands of people have been left with no supplies at all the authorities say they are only protecting the city's budget from paid bills the situation for several activist groups to the united nations step in and help well the u.n. experts looked into the matter said the shot offs are a violation 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 little pressure being put on them are to make a little takes up the story 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 cuts 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 house is 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 that 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 if 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 voters. first which now raises a human rights question it raises a moral question what if people do want to water. out of the take their medicine if you see the shot of they 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 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 r t we spoke a little earlier to an international water come painter for the blue plum a project to tallest on employment and poverty what's fuelling 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

a 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 those detroit residents is also the focus of the mortons breaking a set coming up a little later today. death row inmates in oklahoma are protesting against the use of lethal injection to execute them this it's akin to experimenting on humans there are lawsuits filed against this 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 this body while administering a controversial cocktail of drugs now there was a similar incident back in january in ohio where an inmate was reportedly in conventions for around twenty five minutes in both cases concerns were raised that

doctors use previously on test the drugs. so even though the investigation into both cases continues prison authorities are going ahead with the method three executions hoping carved out in june so far the first since you brought in total three thousand prisoners await the death penalty in u.s. jails human rights advocates are concerned the authorities are unwilling to take heat of past failures every time one more say 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 on the other hand the state is 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 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 take a look at some more news stories from around the globe where across this hour two palestinians have been killed and one seriously injured after israeli fighter jets launched airstrikes in the gal's a strip the man allegedly belonged to the popular resistance committee an armed group accused of firing rockets into israeli territory the attack came as really troops continue a large scale search for three missing teenage boys believed to have been abducted by hamas. activists in syria says there are dozens of casualties after a car bomb explosion in the town of duma that last just northeast of the capital of damascus reportedly occurred on a busy marketplace there are no exact number of either dead or injured people this

point the incident comes just days after syria finished over eight thousand tons of chemical arms completing a western brokered peace deal. that's the news for now but stay with r.t. international for a look at some of the world's most cutting edge technology coming up shortly but if you were in the u.k. well you're going underground. 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 picture of the l.a. kings noticed that they were not alone what was believed to be a police drone was 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 a 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 troll would they try to lock up the entire crowd for breaking it no they wouldn't and they could and for some reason if one person commits an act of civil disobedience they are in ford 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. live live.

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