today's top stories and a review of the week a nervous peace is extended to the east of ukraine with both on the and. fighters vowing to abide by until monday. a recorded conversation catches unembarrassed polish foreign minister dismissing his country's ties with the u.s. as worthless and using explicit language to describe it subservient to washington. syria's embattled rebels line up for a five hundred million dollars out of u.s. military aid despite some american hardware already ending up in the hands of jihad .

and you're watching. a true sport relative calm to ukraine this week as both the army and self-defense fighters in the east agreed to hold fire until monday sporadic attacks however are still happening the cease fire plan involved a lot of diplomatic effort and was supported by key countries including russia last friday the week long truce was declared in the east and that was followed by talks with me in kiev and the self-proclaimed republics for the first time since the conflict began the republic's vowed to recognize the ceasefire in the presence of russian and international monitors on wednesday the presidents of ukraine and russia as well as the french and german leaders discussed the peace process over the phone the same day the legal permission for the use of russia's military force

in ukraine if needed was cancelled at putin's request and this friday the truce was extended for three more days with anti government forces promising to abide by civilians too are becoming increasingly supportive of the political drive for peace but anger continues to simmer in the east and west of the country as fighters from both sides continue to die. at any given but might the. last there's no doubt that i don't have. all the privileges of a rating and better start. to see were. not short on we were. it begins to look for you the bad news when you haven't you know you've got. coverage. if you do you think. of the declared ceasefire however has occasionally been broken by both sides people in the city of kramatorsk claim their city was shelled several times throughout the

week and there was ongoing artillery fire on the village of the mural of care which was previously destroyed the village of provide a source spike of violence with one woman reportedly killed there and in sloviansk a woman and twenty six year old son were killed in army shelling outside the embattled city self-defense forces took control of a military control checkpoint unconfirmed reports claim that the army then launched an attack to take back the seize position and lost twenty of its own soldiers the armed standoff has affected the most vulnerable of people the hardest artie's rif and often the reports now from an orphanage where newborn babies and children up to three years old are being cared for. these came home for abandoned special needs children on the outskirts of the ganske aims to be. calm and to include. children here have food toys but most importantly

love. there are eight to six children they scare house all younger than three years old it's been a home and coal is a home you have who are all of them that once war reached its walls it's no longer safe. mines and shells land just a couple of kilometers away. and while the youngster had no concept of the danger for the adults it's a different story my son did it as a lordship but honestly did it's so hard to actually see more than half of our kids cannot get that they're either to small they have moral problems some have cerebral palsy they need special care and even if we want to have a q a them the a very special place just like ours it's very hard to do that. she was in atlanta as a mother herself and tries to remain positive but it's no easy matter no one can say how dangerous it becomes when they start firing here and internet compelling

saved in bass kids was launched to draw attention to this particular case as well as many are there often edges and care homes that have suddenly found themselves on the front line and where the sounds of shelling and firing have increasingly replaced gentle lullabies mission ocean r.t. lugansk in eastern ukraine a funeral for a russian journalist killed in a military attack in eastern ukraine has been held in moscow the crew is filming the evacuation of civilians by self-defense fighters from a dangerous area when a mortar shell landed next to them friends family and colleagues said their final farewells to twenty six year old anton voloshin who was a sound engineer for the rest c a one t.v. channel he died instantly a reporter eager cornell york died later on in hospital. this

is the very last video filmed by the cameraman who was the sole survivor of that attack russian possibly to say that the leader of a national guard squad was involved divisions were formed to assist the regular army in the east the senior lecturer in international relations at moscow state university marks the border says that they lost the operates on their own. the government such as it is in kiev has very limited control it depends to a large extent still on these alter nationalist paramilitary groups for its survival its hold on power in kiev and it has been afraid to challenge them we saw a trade union meeting in kiev attacked by an arm the right sector mob with complete impunity and we have seen this repeatedly that they act they attack individuals groups buildings churches throughout the country and the government

does nothing to rein them in and this holds true on the battlefield as well. fleeing from the conflict in the east are 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 military operation but the u.s. has once again expressed doubt about those numbers saying that the source isn't 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 cooperate but this is the this isn't the russians saying you know national team there is this is an agency you guys give billions and billions of danger in there now. we don't have anything to back up that number for. ukraine in the e.u. head for closer ties as they signed the deal in brussels but it's the same

agreement that ignited be ongoing armed conflict in the east of the country we've got the story coming up later in the program. secretly recorded comments were released this week in which poland's foreign minister condemned the country's subservience to washington involved a sexual language according to a leak by a polish online magazine writers love sikorsky described poland's alliance with america as worthless or he resorted to somewhat simpler sexual metaphors to explain exactly how he felt about relations between the two but it's not just the u.s. he's not satisfied with he pulled no punches when talking about the u.k. prime minister's dealing with euro skeptics sikorsky suggested david cameron should have used stronger tactics and as if that wasn't enough sikorsky went on to remember other times that he believes cameron messed up saying that the prime minster isn't likely to change not just the score scheme of the european central

geo political analysis says it's not just sikorsky who feels this way. the minister in which is obvious far for everyone here in poland for most of the analysts as does voiced the opinion which is shared by most of the population here i would like also to add to that. what he's talking about because for a long time has been the fear in poland and american hatred of influence so i hope that the progress of talent in russia in france in germany and i will at least now that the polish politicians understand the real natural relations between us and poland or russia said he believes the polish minister's comments were grounded in political realism and the form the comments took was most likely a response to earlier statements by a u.s. official so that would be great i think to help glue this thing and have the u.n. help glue it and you know. putting the terror of human trafficking on

the big screen later in the program we need the rights activist behind a movie that exposes the wave of refugees kidnappings in sinai. also going against the trend is fierce persist in the u.k. over an influx every maybe in a bulgarian migrants some brits are upping sticks and heading east. next rebels fighting the syrian president are in line for a half billion dollar wouldn't fall from the u.s. president obama is ask congress to approve the money which will be used to equip and train anti bashar al assad forces just a year ago washington approved non-lethal aid to rebels although it was later suspended after some u.s. equipment was seized by jihadists however earlier this month washington admitted it's been covertly sending actual weapons to the opposition and he was campaigning brownback it says that poor in arms in the conflict has only one outcome. i think

congress has been demanding a greater and greater military intervention by the obama administration into syria as if they haven't done enough after spending the last three years funding in only a civil war using proxy forces like turkey or saudi arabia or garth are or is the cia coordinating the same missions through jordan it shows the united states appears to have a schizo front of foreign policy there they're saying they demand unity in iraq behind the central government which is fighting what they call islamic extremists from i still work isas and at the same time they're funding these same armed groups in syria to take down an independent nationalist and sovereign government in syria what the us is doing and has been doing this finally in money guns and more occupation tools in a region that it considers to be vital because it's resource rich that's about it and some u.s. hardware including several hundred days are being used by extremists in neighboring iraq they were captured after jihadists took control of iraqi army depots the

extremists continued their advance on baghdad with fierce fighting around one hundred fifty kilometers from the capital. is also disturbing evidence as to who is being forced to join the militants ranks as you can see in this video boys all do automatic rifles are traveling in an isis convoy some children are also reportedly being used by jihadists the snipers the ongoing violence in iraq is pushing the country to the brink as our correspondent lisa catherine off now reports. despite the chaos spreading across the country and eerie calm in the kurdish capital the city is just sixty kilometers from the isis front line but it downtown erbil it was business as usual kurdistan has often felt like a separate country altogether even at the height of iraq's most violence and bloodiest moments now with the current crisis threading the country to pieces it's closer than ever to becoming one kurdish soldiers are now in control of territory

that used to be disputed but no one here seems to think that just harvest would dare march on them. but i have full faith in the forces we won let anything happen. for some the prospect of a divided or rock was a welcome one do you think that iraq war made of one country as we know what's after this crisis may be this it may be that iraq will have to be divided we'll have an area and the sunnis and shias will have there is no one in kurdistan is worried we have oil we have a strong army. they may help or oil but fuel is running scarce for days now iraqi forces battled with isis for control of the country's largest oil refinery this is one of the first things you notice here in our build these massive gas lines some of the cars have been here for hours since the morning many people in fact camped out overnight to try to get online so they can get gas

frustrated residents line up to get their share authorities have limited each individual to thirty leaders that's less than what it takes to fill two tanks the people we've spoken to said there haven't been lines like this for fuel since the outbreak of the u.s. led invasion back in two thousand and three and although there are shortages here in erbil parts of northern iraq have run out of gas even on the black market and so people are stocking up they say that they don't know what will bring the fear is that if we get a lot worse before it gets better that's a sentiment we heard from many here and it's not just a nice fleeing the violence we encountered shia refugees to octo gonzi job or came here six days ago from baghdad in baghdad the situation has gone from bad to worse and people are arming themselves in getting ready to fight one another are all they see in the future is bloodshed and violence if something doesn't change iraq will be a country of orphans.