a nervous piece is extended in the east of ukraine with both army and kiev fighters following to abide by a cease fire until monday. a recorded conversation catches on them boris polish foreign minister dismissing his country's time with the u.s. in less than diplomatic language. syria's embattled rebels lined up for a five hundred million dollar handout of u.s. military aid despite some american hardware already ending up in the hands of jobless.

big stories from the past seven days and right up to the minute developments as well you're watching the weekly here on r t international i'm you know neal. a true sprawl relative calm to ukraine this week is both the army self-defense fighters in the east agreed to hold fire until monday the cease fire plan involved a lot of diplomatic effort on the us supported by key countries including russia last friday the week long truce was declared in the east followed by talks between kiev the self-proclaimed republics for the first time since the conflict started now the republics fired to recognize the ceasefire in the presence of russian and international monitors on wednesday meanwhile the president of ukraine and russia as well as the french and german leaders the scuffs the peace process over the phone the same day the legal permission for the use of military force in ukraine if needed was cancelled a putin's request this friday the truce was extended for three more days with

government forces promising to abide by it the peace effort also saw the monitors who were detained in the region released while civilians tired of the military operation clearly support the political drive for stability the good many give them but neither. was just let us know that but i don't know because they're. thinking. about names and you know we don't we you know you. don't we were. why didn't they push you to do yeah you're with them or it's no good day in michigan who should think that given that national is a national prayer the kids that think you're going to. do you can do it then you want. to spike the tree sporadic fire is still happening in the region this is the latest footage from sloviansk at least one person has reportedly been killed by

shelling on sunday residential areas were partly targeted. since being declared the ceasefire has been broken by both sides people in the city of kramatorsk claim their city was shelled several times throughout the week the village of preval noirs saw a spike of violence with one woman reportedly killed there in slobby a woman and her twenty six year old son were killed in army shelling in battle city self defense forces took control of a military controlled checkpoint on confirm reports claim the army then launched an attack to take back the seize position on the last twenty of its own soldiers while shelling close to the russian border so a checkpoint hit with a mortar shell the arm standoff has affected the most vulnerable the hardest those artes marie phenomena find died at an orphanage caught right in the conflict zone. these came home for abandoned special needs children on the outskirts of the guns

aims to be and 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 cozy home you have who are all of them that once war reached its walls it's no longer safe. mines and shells lend just a couple of kilometers away. and while the youngster had no concept of the danger for the adults it's a different story now surrounded it as a lot but the most it's so hard to actually see more than half of our kids cannot move there either it's a 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 is. just

atlanta a mother herself and tries to remain positive but it's no easy matter no i can see how dangerous it becomes when they start firing here and internet compelling saved in boss kids was launched to draw attention to this particular case as well as many are there often in tears 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. lugansk in eastern ukraine the funeral of a russian journalist killed in a military attack in eastern ukraine two weeks ago has been held here in moscow the crew were filming the evacuation of civilians by self-defense fighters from a dangerous area when a mortar shell landed next to them friends farming colleagues said their final farewells to twenty six roll onto involution who was assigned engineer for the

receiver one t.v. charm he died instantly while reporter igor corner work died later in hospital. this is the last video filmed by the camera man who was the sole survivor of the attack russian prosecutors say the leader of a national guard squad was involved the divisions were formed to assist the regular army in the east but senior lecturer in international relations at moscow state university marks the bow to say as they largely operate on the road the government such as it is in kiev has very limited control it depends to a large extent still on these 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 members of the national guard squad on their supporters have traveled to kiev from eastern ukraine to the mom the truce is ended and the military operation resumed a crowd is currently on my down square which saw bloody government protests earlier this year nationalist flags can also be seen there we will be following this story as it develops. fleeing from the conflict in the star 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. says once again expressed by those 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 cooperate but this is the u.n. this isn't the russians this is not united not being there is this is an agency thing you guys give millions and millions of dollars to in there now while we don't have anything to back up that number match. coming up this hour ukraine and the e.u. signed a deal in brussels to bring them closer together it is the same agreement that ignited the ongoing armed conflict in the east of the country we've thought story a little later in the program. secretly recorded comments were released this week in which poland's foreign minister condemned his country's subservience to washington in vulgar sexual language according to a leaked by a polish online magazine sikorsky described poland's alliance with america as

worthless although he resorted to somewhat simpler sexual metaphors to explain exactly how he felt about relations between the two but it's not just the us he's less than satisfied with sikorsky pulling no punches when talking about the u.k. prime minister's dealing with euro skeptics suggesting david cameron should have you stronger tactics as i thought was an off the course you're going to want to remember other times he believes cameron mess stop saying the prime minister is not likely to change the course of the european central geo political analysis ses it's not just his course he who feels this way. let me star in which is obvious far for everyone here in poland for most of the analysts as does the voiced the opinion which is shared by most of the population here i would like also to add to that cause can also work a stocking cap on because for a long time he has been. american had enough influence so i hope that

the park myself volunteered that francine dramani and i will at least know that the polish politicians understand the real natural relations between us and poland russia meanwhile said it believes the polish minister's comments were grounded in political realism on the form the comments took was most likely response to an earlier statement by a u.s. official so that would be great i think to help blew this thing and have the u.n. help glue it and you know the. putting the terror of human trafficking on the big screen later in the program we meet a rights activist behind a film exposing the wave of refugee kidnappings in sinai and. also going against the trend as fears persist in the u.k. over an influx of romania and bulgaria and migrants some brits are hoping sticks and heading he says the. rebels fighting the

syrian president are in line for a half billion dollar windfall from the u.s. president obama has asked congress to approve the money which will be used to equip and train. 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 to harvest for earlier this month washington admitted it's being covertly sending actual weapons to the opposition antiwar campaigner brian becker says that pouring arms into a conflict is just 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 and fueling a civil war using proxy forces like turkey or saudi arabia or got our or 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 are isa's 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. so many u.s. hardware including several humvees are being used by extremists in neighboring iraq and they were captured after the how this took control of iraqi army storehouses extremists continue their advance in baghdad with fierce fighting around one hundred fifty kilometers from the capital. but there's also the strobing evidence as to who is being forced to join the militants ranks as you can see in this video boys armed with automatic rifles are traveling in an isis convoy some children are also reportedly being used by just how this a sniper's the ongoing violence in iraq is pushing the country to the brink of

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 in downtown air bill 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 but the current crisis treading 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 will let anything happen for some the prospect of a divided over iraq was a welcome one do you think that the iraq war made of one country as we know it to happen this crisis may be that may be that iraq will have to be divided will have

and the sunnis and shias will have there is no one in. 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 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 the ring of the fear is that it'll 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 and getting ready to fight one another all they see in the future is bloodshed and violence if something doesn't change iraq will be a country of orphans and widows caffein of erbil iraq. lots more news stories coming up here in our to international after a short break. there's the media leave us so we leave that maybe. by the same motion suit your. play your party there's a bill. for shoes that no one is asking with to get that you deserve answers from.

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welcome back ukraine this week signed a trade agreement with the e.u. the feel here to ratify the same deal back in november is what triggered protests and bloody conflict in the country for president poroshenko says this is only the first step towards even closer ties with europe. we see in the. ukraine. european under the forty nine article will have an opportunity. for the membership perspective this is a very important character for ukraine to work up. well a financially challenged europe still doesn't appear to be quite ready for ukraine the use commissioner for enlargement has said kiev still needs to prove its european credentials the block's energy commissioner has warned the be allowed for greece is peanuts compared to the billions brussels would have to cough up to save

kiev's economy the president of the european commission says the e.u. is not ready to integrate a country like ukraine at this stage and that sentiment is also echoed by the foreign minister of europe's power high speed germany which indeed comes as no surprise to financial experts patrick young ukraine which last year was in a catastrophic position how that signed a free trade association this year is going to associate with the european union out the point when it's on the brink already of economic disaster this is it kept a strong move for the ukrainian economy the only winners i do this are a few sadly deluded egos whether they're in brussels whether they are in washington who believe some horror of their they've achieved a great deal of political victory for the people of ukraine there are no jobs to be hired here there's only going to be job losses there is no economic growth to be had by suddenly having western european goods dumped coals all into your

marketplace this deal is a disaster it's a very very tragic day for the people of ukraine who want to improve their economic outlook. i think he calls for a new package of economic measures targeting russia have come up against big business across the atlantic ocean the chamber of commerce on the national association of manufacturers have launched an odd campaign to explain just why new sanctions will backfire they say it'll leave u.s. companies scrambling to keep up with firms from other countries or we spoke to the president of the franco russian chamber of commerce and industry about the situation it should have been because they actually. put it you could see why no. talking about economy could sanctions so we need two ways over them that they should not do it again they should use diplomacy to do so do you put me in the place he's using you know taking him to host. companies with a u.s.

. french company. something which isn't acceptable for us what the sanctions are doing is isolating the united states' economy and instead of isolating russia they were meant to isolate russia but given the trend of world trade for all of the exports that russia has and for diplomacy there isis they're actually going in isolating the united states it's a very strange business logic it doesn't make sense logically so it has to be. also speaking out against further sanctions aimed at russia where political and business figures in austria the russian leader visited vienna this week on the issue of ukraine came up during a light hearted exchange i don't know internal don't feel tend to put it in poutine . just.

tell us that you have nothing. to hold at the. table and. those that are going to and out cold they may. find out more about the visit at r.t. dot com also there are still think you're the boss of your own social media kind of think again it has been revealed facebook has been playing with the minds of the users without their knowledge get the full story online. your product mistake sees hundreds of prisoners walking free find out what happened how officials want to get them back and dollars. for thousands of israel refugees from africa the search for a better life ends up in torture camps they fall into the hands of ruthless smuggling guns and then simply vanish in egypt's sinai desert more than three

thousand migrants per month from the east african state of eritrea alone many of them are kidnapped for ransom and tortured until their families pay if they do not human traffickers reportedly execute the hostages more than four thousand people are estimated to have been killed since two thousand and eight and run the thaws and are thought to be captivity right the spy territory in president calling for investigation the international community has remained largely silent israel's prime minister wants to even describe the refugees as infiltrators estefan us is a swedish eritrean activists trying to raise awareness about victims of torture by putting their plight on the big screen. so let's. go. there were melting plastic bags and dropping it in there max this is a. bush

on sodium. shot chairmanships. the finest chilled artesian east and now as she believes there's a big difference in the way captors are treated depending on their nationality i have seen kids children that are two years old being tortured. there were some kids that have to watch their mother being burned alive and they survived so i decide to kind of people that i talk to the torture is it's not any as or tortured like we see a horror movie or something it's where people are tortured twenty four hours a day deprived deprived of food deprived we have seen americans getting kidnapped in the sinai. it took only twenty four hours to release them last year norwegian

woman was kidnapped in the same area and it took about a week for her to be released so this happens all quite often to westerners as well but they're out with a base and they don't get to experience the torture as a free country. it has to do with was race. time for some more headlines from around the world now our anger over the huge amount spent on the football world cup has led to yet more protestors on the streets of brazil were two hundred tried to march to the stadium in rio de janeiro but were stopped by police several demonstrators were wrestled to the ground and detained the world cup rallies began last year with being held more or less daily ever since i up to twenty people have been killed in two separate building collapses in india most of the victims were in new delhi where dilapidated residential house fell leaving at least eleven day dozens and just hours later a twelve story building on the construction came down in southern india officials say heavy rain is to blame along with for maintenance on low quality construction

materials. the public in britain has long expressed fears about a tide of immigrants from romania and bulgaria especially after e.u. employment restrictions were lifted earlier this year it's not all one way traffic though you're pissing off explains why a sizeable number of britons are going in the opposite direction. you know michael is british but spent most of his life outside the u.k. his father works in the military and the family is done its fair share of globetrotting but it's in romania where mike decided to settle down and open a book or he's been running for five years now i like the opportunities have my life in my test the nightlife and i like to party and it's one of the reasons why i went into this business i love the people the clients the culture. you know and the media you see more than welcome me since the beginning of this year they have been

able to travel and work all over the e.u. some british deputies worried immigrants could start flooding in even suggested running a scare campaign to put them off coming to the u.k. there are many and press saw the letter side of the situation and started campaigning for british citizens to move here and work instead since romania's accession to the e.u. one thousand and seven brits no longer have to register when they move here so it's hard to say the exact number of them living here but according to the british embassy it's somewhere between three and four thousand and some have even made a business out of helping other newcomers to get started in this country like dean edgar another british ex-pat who left the u.k. eight years ago after his eighty company went bankrupt he makes a living here by helping other ex-pats register firms find staff buy property and offers other help of foreign businessmen may need when setting up shop rumania has a long long way to go before it could be perceived as let's say a western european type country but for

a guy like myself yes i would recommend anyone to come here romania is far from the wealthiest of the e.u. states in fact with the average salary of less than four hundred euros per month it's one of the poorest but to the surprise of many word of a mass exodus of romanians to the rest of the e.u. this country has actually given thousands of westerners opportunities they couldn't find at home you got to spin off r t the rest. coming up next going to a bach stage pa starts he in the latest episode of newsroom on if you're watching us from the u.k. we examine some myths of goebbels nazi propaganda campaigns. will go to the policeman show thirty four countries spend over thirteen billion euros on culture he says should each one hundred fifty million degrees become talk a must know to sell from st petersburg to france we travel in search of the song.

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