headlines this hour kurds use the security chaos in iraq to capture economically vital energy sites while planning to hold a referendum on finally having their own independence day. ukraine's president extends the truce with anti-government forces for three more days both sides vowed to all pull the ceasefire but stray shells from sporadic fighting keep hitting the russian border. police brutally put down another world cup workers protests which had been demonstrating against labor conditions that rights groups describe as nothing short of horrific. on the u.n. this calling of water cut offs in the u.s. city of detroit a violation of human rights while authorities are still trying to wring money from

the birth of the. hour you're watching from in the world welcome to moscow and to our international i'm you know neal our top story the iraqi army has launched an offensive on the city of to create that is currently in the hands of islamist radicals the town is less than two hundred kilometers from the eventual target of the extremists comes as the u.s. secretary of state john kerry urged the courage to reinforce the defenses of the iraqi capital but it seems the ethnic group has other priorities on its mind after capturing the oil rich city of kirkuk kurdish authorities are planning to hold an independence referendum. looks at the prospects of the vote. 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. so this whole area. isis fighters with snipers of the militant offensive sweeping across a rock is redrawing the country's borders but so too are the kurds as a rocky forces crumbled in the wake of that the harvest onslaught kurdish soldiers moved in to fill the void nearly doubling their territory in the process in just a matter of hours the kurds seized militarily what they failed to secure politically for decades the oil rich province of cure cool and its main city spofforth for. the peshmerga is controlling their.

own because group 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 by controlling care cool the kurds hope to prove that they can do a better job than the central government maybe safer so far but with neighbors like isis it's unclear for how long. it didn't take long that evening we witnessed care cooke's temporary or spike from violence shattered a suicide bomber tried to enter a market in a kurdish part of town at least six people killed dozens wounded the kurds may seem as the winners in this. some of them are living in the euphoria of total tree. but more tentative and more people. means more

programs if it wasn't planned. 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 that. we don't trust any government or any group to protect us so we're taking on to defend ourselves lucy caffein of kook iraq former pentagon on the list 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. 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 of iraq is going to be inevitable the only thing that is working in anybody's favor is that isis has the has a military capability but the question is will they be able to govern all that territory they're taking over and already they're fighting from within some of the units and some of the other islamist groups and even x. about this that they that join them temporarily to take the territory over but now there's actually been gunfire and and opposition each will want their own little chunk in each little piece it's a mess. coming up this news hour nato reacts with stony silence on the wiki leaks documents detail what nato's i going chief traded to the job in the first place we

reported on how the then prime minister of denmark reportedly took turkey on an offer to buy come to the sea in return for a media crackdown. plus death row inmates in oklahoma city the state the stop lethal injection after concerns doctors are using untested 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 on the flayed in their tens of thousands. what. do you can do for you. if you see in your my eyes in the bush. today yeah you listen more than a good day in the shade getting. back in the national is a national pretty consistent think you can use them. that i was.

less than just do it so they can. always do like. the night after the truce was extended appeared mostly calm or over there were reports of sporadic fire in the region with russia's border control service stating one of its checkpoints had been hit are going to. continue to fall in russian territory one british checkpoint building them exploded inside there were no injuries to her shells landed in the nearby village of the folks who were going to look for someone artie's maria phenomena saw firsthand what eastern ukraine is like amid the cease fire. the truce remains in place here in eastern ukraine but so just attention in the weeks since the ceasefire came into effect sporadic clashes between the army and local defense forces have carried on regardless sometimes resulted in fatalities including civilians on friday and woman and her son very

pointedly killed in the army shelling 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 and to of 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 then we were told that it was still very dangerous.

just. based on. some. of the driving from the russian to the quantitative for one hour but still for the others to go to the top the cards were dropped it was also the battle for local sop that says that the road so obvious that the tree is full of surprises that. they cannot. stop what. they extend a truce is supposed to pave the way to prolong. peace 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 no shouty from lugansk in ukraine what you're seeing are reinforcements for the national

guard right after taking their oath in western ukraine the right sector members decided to pay a visit to a local police station the c.c.t.v. footage shows a crowd of mosman breaking in some with molotov cocktails the gang demanded the deputy police chief resign within twenty four hours or they would burn down the building they're angry with the officials for prosecuting activists involved in february in kiev ukraine's interior ministry says one officer was severely beaten throngs of people are fleeing the artillery attacks in eastern ukraine the un says the number is one hundred thousand people but for the us the source does not 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 cooperate but this is the u.n. this isn't the russians this is not you know not being there is this is an agency thing 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. whipped denied breaks food and even water migrant workers in qatar say their treatment has reached a new low in the latest episode out 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 football world cup and use the infrastructure you bring water described as the political conditions a german filmmaker who was arrested by qatari police for exposing the country's poor working conditions at least 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 a ramadan and ramadan obviously has four islamic workers and there are quite

a few of them on the both sides. 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 the 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 qatar time and time again statistically say activist 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 taps leads to an increased flow of anger. you tell someone i don't have water in my home you can get your children will you

go to the war department if they help get my children back they don't care the u.s. city of detroit harvest 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. i'm happy martin the stories we cover here and here in iraq other big story that have struck headlines and talk there's a reason they don't want you to know. now let's break the set. dramas to be ignored. stories others refuse to notice. places changing the world.

to picture focus days. from around the globe. this is a media lead us so we leave them to be. the same motions secure. your party isn't the. issue is that no one is asking with again that you deserve answers from. politicking only on our team. you're welcome back to the program under me since 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 spot like wiki leaks documents suggest for us mission abused his

powers as prime minister to guarantee himself his future job specifically denmark reportedly agreed to start legal action against the kurdish separatist channel of us broadcasting from copenhagen in two thousand and nine in return turkey said it would block resolution of the future nato chief so why was turkey worried up by these broadcasts and long claimed rowley's t.v. was a mighty beast for the kurdistan workers party which fights for the rights of the kurdish minority and is considered a terrorist organization in turkey the west now the challenge started broadcasting here in twenty two thousand and four and twenty ten it was officially accused in denmark of promoting terrorist activities and this year the channel's license was finally revoked now we spoke to the lawyer take a listen. we have a special independent committee on television they did mark which would issue the certificate to the turks the turkish government had at three different occasions

complained to this committee and each time they concluded that the coverage was just like the coverage you would fired at the big day the students television stations so we thought that also the courts would would respect press should the freedom of press the freedom of information but it did occur and we asked nato to comment on the leaks about the deal to appoint rasmus and their press office while they told us to talk to danish judicial authorities insisting that the courts were fully independent wherever journalist lawyer and former m.p. bjorn elam quest questions about very claim there were some conflicts of political character between denmark and turkey joe di the states intervened because a light very broad stroke of the danish prime minister to become the six zero there

was a big pressure from u.s. forces they thought and says to think even creative bad guy how to a diet and how to prove that ross television was promoting terrorism but had in the end they died but what there was there within hours after that he died with it was announced that there wasn't any but between the turkish government and the other bates who promises to decide the previous stage privatised as a second surgery a. kurdish activist diller direct tells us that when it comes to turkey minority rights are the least of europe's concerns. i think their kurdish issue isn't one of the most on result issues of the century and this war between the p.k. k. in turkey benefits civil institutions in countries so on one hand while the west close the i think human rights violations in turkey and actively contributed to

these human rights violations by either providing military or intelligence on the other hand the kurds the kurdish in europe was completely criminalized and we see the similar thing happening with kurds in syria for example even though the people have established. very progressive self governance structures in the north of syria meanwhile online at r.t. dot com christian orthodox activists threw eggs and holy water of members of marlin munson's rock the head of their culture in moscow the gig never took place however due to a bomb threat all the details of this story available for you right now online also . life changing developments technologies approved in the u.s. to help those power lines take a huge step towards walking again find out all the details about this new robotic suit much much more in our teeth called. the bankrupt us city of

detroit is on the brink of a water crisis thought of people there have been left with no supplies at all the authorities say they were only protecting the city's budget from paid bills the situation for several activist groups to them on the united nations step in and help well the u.n. experts looked into the matter and said the should offs are a violation of human rights and close 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 or to make a little takes up 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 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 if they help get my children back they don't care don't just days and she isn't alone no being 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 once the waters go. out of the take their medicine if you see the shot of they 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 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 earlier to an international water competitor for the blue plum a project he told us on employment of poverty or what's fuelling the crisis there are thousands 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 all of those detroit residents is also the focus of bobby martin's breaking the set coming up in around ten minutes time. 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 there are lawsuits filed against the state follows the bungled execution of oklahoma in mclean lockett in april he died of a heart attack some forty minutes after being injected doctors had a burst of vein in his body while administering a controversial cocktail of drugs another was a similar incident back in january ohio where an inmate was reportedly in control chins for around twenty five minutes in both cases concern to raise that doctors use previously on tested drugs. now even though the investigation into both cases

continues prison authorities are going ahead with the method three executions helping out in june so far the first since it 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 heed of pos 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 and 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 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. aren't it time for some headlines from around the world two palestinians have been killed and one seriously injured after israeli fighter jets launched airstrikes in the gases strip the man allegedly belong to the popular resistance committee an armed group accused of firing rockets into israeli territory the attack came as this real troops continue a large scale search for three missing teenage boys believed to have been abducted by hamas. activists in syria say at least two people have been killed and dozens wounded after a car bomb blast near damascus the explosion apparently occurred on a busy market in a rebel held suburb the instant comes just days after syria finished hunting over a thousand tons of chemical arms completing a western brokered peace deal. worth of tourists including seven children are

missing after two days of heavy rain caused severe flooding and rushes to a region two thousand people are being a fuck you waited from a town there the rain has now stopped on the water level is slowly returning to normal. and also an explosion in northern nigeria has killed at least ten people and left fourteen injured the blast took place overnight in the red light district of bochy authorities suspect the islamist sect boko haram is behind the attack the group has targeted several cities across the country in the past few months. it is the news for coming right up it's time for breaking the set with host mark do stay with us.

the federal migration service of russia has recently received more than five thousand requests for political asylum from ukraine its 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 above the face of the existing goda to big a well run democracy is impossible it just won't happen because the act of the revolution is so father there are the off the sharks a. that there is a period of chaos. we speak your language as i think about the will not advance. news programs and documentaries and spanish what matters to you. a little eternity of angola's stories. here. call

to the spanish to find out more visit i too am a dad. what's poppin everyone i might be martin and this is breaking the set so today the u.s. announced that it plans on reducing its stockpile of anti-personnel land mines with the goal of eliminating them an ounce but came during a conference taking place in mozambique to discuss the progress of the one thousand nine hundred seven land mine ban treaty which has been signed by one hundred sixty one countries so far great well except the fact that the us still remains one of the noteworthy countries that has refused to ratify the treaty including china russia india and pakistan so while this announcement is worthy of praise the u.s. is not legally bound to set any.