as isis insurgents continue their deadly advance across iraq of the kurdish minority push ahead with plans for an autonomous state in the oil rich and north saying that they're ready to hold a referendum. a cease fire in eastern ukraine has extended until monday night kiev and the anti-government forces both say they are observing the truce but shells fired from ukraine fall on russian territory. police in qatar brutally crushed another rally of migrant workers preparing the nation for the twenty twenty two world cup protesting against conditions that rights groups describe as nothing short of a horrific. broadcasting

live direct from our studios in moscow this is r t i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us now the death toll from a three week insurgent onslaught in iraq continues to rise after seizing several key cities rebels from the islamist group isis have been advancing into the central and southern provinces the latest clashes erupted just fifty kilometers outside baghdad leaving at least twenty government troops dead meanwhile the kurdish regional government says it is not giving up oil rich territories in the north of the country retaken from the islamist kurdish authorities have placed a tight restrictions on the border crossings and are planning to hold an independence referendum of their own. looks at the prospects of the vote. less than two kilometers away a stronghold of east la makes 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 the militant offensive sweeping across a rock is redrawing the country's borders but so too are the kurds as a rocky forces crumbled in the wake of that the harvest onslaught kurdish soldiers moved in to fill the void nearly doubling their territory in the process in just a matter of hours the kurds seized militarily what they failed to secure politically for decades the oil rich province of cure cooled and its main city spofforth. the code on the

ticket group and the other side there's dosh on the other groups but of course the peshmerga which three a year ago i couldn't really walk around here without the help of an armed escort it was just too dangerous there are suicide bombings frequent clashes between rival groups but controlling here 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 cook'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. as the winners in this. some of them are living the euphoria of pretty much total tree. tenets people. means more programs if it wasn't time to. 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 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's former pentagon and l analyst michael maloof says 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 split enough iraq is going to be inevitable the only thing that is working in anybody's favor is that isis has the has a military capability but the question is will they be able to govern all that territory they're taking over and already they're fighting from within some of the units and some of the other islamist groups and even x. about this that they that 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. meanwhile a kurdish t.v. channel broadcasting from copenhagen has been taken off air after denmark's supreme court suspended its license it's a case that goes back several years later in the program we report on newly leaked

information suggesting that the head of nato played a direct role in the decision during his time as denmark's prime minister and we look into what he stood to gain that's coming up on our team international. a cease fire between a pro and anti-government forces in eastern ukraine has been extended until monday night but the president petro poroshenko says he could end of the truce earlier if activists build or upgrade their barricades maine meanwhile civilians in the region are simply exhausted from weeks of relentless of fighting. one. of the bullets. do you contribute. to the experience in your day to my eyes in the bush to you today yeah you're with the boys you know your day michigan should look back into that notion is that mash up and he would think you can use them. he had to lie you

that i was going to be just a lot less that is just. too much on usenet you do more here than in let's. see if i get to. mortar shells fired from ukraine have exploded across the border in russia even causing some damage. shells continue to fall in russian territory one due to checkpoint building unexploded inside there were no injuries two more shells landed in nearby villages. the proton m e forces meanwhile have released a four zero s c e observers who were detained late last month russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov says moscow's calls for peace may have prompted about move but he believes russia's influence with those anti-government activists is limited he added to that certain powers could be undermining kids' own plans for a peaceful resolution of. ukraine's president poroshenko would like to ease the tension and prolong the seas fun but there are other forces within the ukrainian

authorities radicals who still control or have close contact with the nationalists there is the right sector the battalions of the tycoon ski and other powerful groups that don't obey ukraine's central command or the commander in chief there are also partners overseas our american colleagues who judging by multiple evidence still prefer to push the ukrainian authorities along a path to confrontation. apart from the border incident that we previously mentioned things have been mostly calm in eastern ukraine since of the truce was extended maria from is there far to. 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 poor to be 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 gun 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 and the turn to two 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. as you were. just on. the drive in from the rush to pull

the crowd into a triple one now ready to go to the others to go to the town of cards or drive the results of the battle for local stop that says that the road so obvious that the street the splits process. that. is the club for. such. an extended tour say supposed to pave the way to prove. long peace in the country but so far we can see trust between both sides and it's fair to say whatever peace the reason right now in this part of the country remains fred jolly at best we have nationality from lugansk in ukraine. now you're looking at right sector members who plan on heading east to fight alongside gives forces but first they stopped by

a local police station in western ukraine the crowd threatened to burn the building down unless the deputy police chief resigns within twenty four hours they are angry with officials who are prosecuting those involved in february's coup in here authorities say one officer was severely beaten now the u.n. says over one hundred thousand people have fled ukraine this year most of them ending up in russia but the u.s. state department doubts that that number is legitimate 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 that this is the u.n. this isn't the russians saying you know not being there is this is an agency you guys give millions and millions of dollars to in there now. we don't have anything to back up that number matt margaret workers in qatar say that their treatment at

the hands of employers has reached a new low with staff breaks food and water and even subjugated to whippings and the latest episode at a hotel complex construction crews clashed with guards these are rare pictures from qatar showing how bad the situation is tens of thousands of my vehicle when i'm on the phone while. the news that infrastructure often in deplorable conditions and german filmmaker who was arrested by qatari police for exposing the situation believes the latest case is just a drop in the ocean. it was initiated by the workers. to take proper break bear in mind we are in the middle for ramadan and obviously has for workers and there are quite a few of them on the right. you know i mean i think it's really right now as

these things come. with higher frequency i think it's time to leave 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 laborers in qatar time and time again according to activists one foreign worker dies there every day on top of the harsh conditions workers are left without pay for months and are prevented from leaving the country well still to come in the program a neo nazi attack sparks street protests just north of london r t v two the activists who are willing to take drastic action in their stand against extremism this is more after a short break you're watching our international. this

is a medium leave us so we leave the media privacy potions to cure the play your part of the musical. push use that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from it's all on politicking only on r t. choose your language. fully recovered though if they still come out. of the pits the consensus can. choose the opinions that invigorating to.

choose the stories but in particular. choose the access to often. we welcome back you're watching our team international now an annual of family festival in britain this week turned into an all out brawl after a gang of neo nazis attacked party goers stabbing one man now perhaps surprisingly the mob was not even made up of locals but rather it was a polish immigrants witnesses say the assailants who shouted profanities and fought and threw bottles at the crowds before police arrived since then there have been nearly daily protests against me oh nancy activities are teaser firth followed one of the marches. over here just walking outside monks still parked at the name into north london and that was where nancy fascist demonstration had taken place and i

guess some of the demonstrators have left the park and then marching out onto the streets of london peaceful demonstration today the president announces come there would be no peace is that the best way to fight new naziism violently rather sure sure. the only way to far north is to fight and not to stand there and say we don't like you know we don't like you they know we don't like this you know thing that's the danger of provoking move. provoking more violent for you to be violent in office about time the course in action which is the reaction to an action we quickly would have the peace nazis last month we were you know we would have british nazis polish north of the john you nazis wouldn't it was if your national list and your resist in a fascist then yes of course because look what happens when he gets out of control or distort the bullet or distort and say that's what today's protest is about the not technically allowed to be on the streets here marching like this police say at this point it's actually going to be more hassle. break them up essentially now

there have been a number of arrests that have taken place today already the demonstration itself incredibly well police those a strong police presence there you can still see the police are monitoring. basically what's going on as if we take to the streets of london. british race relations activist lead jasper believes politicians are partly to blame up for the rise of ultra nationalism in europe one always has to be vigilant and concerned and particularly when one looks across the european union after the european elections and the drift to extreme want right i mean some cases openly neo nazi party i think what's happening is that austerity is acting as a magnifying glass when people get anxious and concerned for their future the future of their children and of course they get angry the issue is that at the moment politicians are directing their anger not to the bankers and the rich

institutions of europe that lead to the economic crisis but to the vulnerable in society those on welfare those unemployed those who are migrants those who are elderly and other minority communities and this is an extraordinarily dangerous fine. there's a. term as nato chief may be almost up but now questions are being asked about how he got the job in the first place and freshly in the spotlight wiki leaks documents suggest rasmussen abused his powers during his time as it denmark's prime minister to secure 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 hit back rasmussen as the future nato chief so why was turkey worried about these broadcasts in the first place on carra long

claimed 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 the west now the channel started broadcasting in two thousand and four in two thousand and ten it was officially accused in denmark of promoting terrorist activities and this year the channels license was finally revoked we spoke to the channel's lawyer we have a special in the media or some of these should be dead dark 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 a lie to cover it she would fired at the big day the stews 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. now we ask nato to comment on the leaks about the deal to appoint rasmussen 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 elam quist questions that claim there were some conflicts of political character between denmark and turkey your guide states intervened because a light very broad stroke they describe it is to become six and zero there was a big pressure from u.s. forces 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 renewed between the turkish government and the other base who comes first to decide the previous stage privatise as a second surgery. as always plenty more stories for you online including psychological tests conducted on six hundred thousand facebook users without their knowledge a new study reveals that the social media company has been manipulating the content of users of news feeds to assess how they react to uplifting or depressing posts you can find out more on our t.v. dot com. also there for you now astronauts are to show their devotion to the usa soccer team to i.s.a.'s crew members shaved their heads after losing a bad their team would beat germany in the world cup all of the details of course online for you. death row inmates in oklahoma are protesting against the use of the lethal injection method they say that it is akin to

experiment on humans now their lawsuit filed against the state follows the bungled execution of oklahoma inmate clayton lockett in april of this year he died of a heart attack forty three minutes after being injected doctors had burst one of his veins while administering an unusual cocktail of drugs now there was a similar incident back in january in ohio when an inmate was reportedly in convulsions for twenty six minutes or thereabouts in both cases concerns were raised over the doctors' failure to tested the drugs before using them now even though the investigation in both cases continues persian authorities are going ahead with the method now three and executions have been carried out in june so far the first to since april in total three thousand prisoners await to the death penalty in the united states human rights advocates are concerned that the authorities are unwilling to take heed of past failures every time one more state

changes a protocol or changes the lethal drug cocktail in a sense we have the potential for human experimentation to be trying something on a human being that's never been tried but. or 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 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. now take a look at some other headlines making news around the world this hour two rockets fired from gaza have hit a factory in southern israel causing

a massive fire according to officials there are no serious injuries the blaze has been brought under control israeli tanks fired shells across the border in retaliation reportedly injuring several people and israeli troops are continuing a large scale search for three missing teenage boys believed to have been abducted by hamas. at least two people have been killed by twin bomb blasts on the outskirts of cairo according to local reports homemade explosives were placed in a building under construction nobody has claimed responsibility for the attack as of yet militant groups have been waging a year long campaign against the egyptian government since the ousting of islamist president mohamed morsi last july. and that new delhi a dilapidated residential building has collapsed killing eleven people and trapping dozens more hours later nearby twelve story structure which was still being built came down killing four there over three hundred emergency workers are at the scene scouring

the debris force of vipers official say that the collapses were caused by heavy rains along with poor maintenance and low quality construction materials. in northeastern nigeria ten people have been killed and over a dozen injured in a red light district in the city of bochy nigerian officials suspect the terrorist group boko haram is a behind the attack this adds to the growing number of dead that nigeria has seen in the past few weeks boko haram has targeted similar establishments in the north east that were deemed on islamic. and it rushes belgorod region a truck has collided with a bus killing at least two people and leaving another eleven injured the bus reportedly carrying fourteen people was heading for the region's main a city injured among them two young boys are being treated in hospital according to preliminary reports of the truck driver fell asleep behind the wheel.

in a few minutes on our to international it is a technology update for our u.k. viewers though will examine a controversial statement on the middle east made by britain's former prime minister 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 odds what 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.

oh well can start old your dates is the end of all it's all but not so closing in moscow but luckily for us the someone hasn't finished everywhere so we thought we pop culture go in search of a song winter is knocking at moscow's door between normally sit on a long johns just yet so we travel to europe to soak up some rays imbibe the culture and see what's going on in the world of technology france was europe's largest exporter of electricity last year but despite this abundance in power the country is still looking for new energy sources and even has to bring the power that drives the song down so we're. there's a lot of energy in france and i'm not just talking about the street dunces the country ranks second in the world in terms of nuclear power stations but with

a growing environmental and safety concerns the sun may be setting on nuclear energy as we know it so ministers from around the world have come to discourse of possible shift away from nuclear fission. there are currently one hundred eighty five nuclear power plants in europe and another seventeen on the way france has almost a third of the total with fifty eight plants producing seventy eight percent of the country's energy needs all the stations have produced well over one million cubic meters of radioactive waste ninety percent of which is stored in three facilities this is where nuclear fusion comes in almost the difference. nuclear fission isn't normally found in nature it's the process by which heavy elements split to form lighter elements and has been created by mankind to make poa stations and nuclear bombs. do typical reaction a neutron hits isotope which caused it to destabilize and splits into small elements and neutrons giving off energy unfortunately it's also the.