pleasure to have you with us here on t.v. today i'm sure. a tentative peace is extended in the east of ukraine as both the army and government fighters' value to uphold the cease fire with reports of violations surfacing throughout the week. obama gives in to pressure from washington hawks asking the senate to approve five hundred million dollars worth of aid to syrian rebels the spite extremists taking advantage of previous deliveries. in a leaked recording poland's foreign ministry equates his own country to a submissive sex partner on a more solid alliance with the u.s. . on home.

with the 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 mean o'neill. a true sprawled relative calm to crane this week has both the army and government fighting in the east agreed to hold fire until monday sporadic attacks whoever is still breaking out the cease fire plan involved a lot of diplomatic effort and was supported by key countries including russia just to remind you the week long truce was declared in the east last friday now that was followed by talks between the self-proclaimed republics for the first time since the conflict started their public five to recognize the ceasefire in the presence of international monitors on whedon stay meanwhile the president of ukraine and russia as well as the french and german leaders discuss 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 a request this friday the truce was extended for three more days with government forces promising to abide by it the peace effort also so the monitors released after they were detained in the dinette region while civilians tired of the military operation clearly support the political drive for stability the good senator could only give but neither. was nice let us know that but i don't need to . begin. with the bad news when you know we don't actually do although you could with. my eyes in the bush if i do yeah you lose them or it's no good they made. her think that given that national is a national pretty consistent. what. do you do you can get there you

want. this is the latest footage from the eastern ukrainian city of slavyansk where the truce doesn't seem to be holding locals say shelling went on during the night and morning and came from the ukrainian army's positions at least three people are said to have been killed as are tillery runs has a local market as a potential areas. this cease fire was breached by both sides several times throughout the week people in the city of hama torched claim their city was shelled on numerous occasions the village of preval noya saw a spike of violence with one woman reportedly killed there. a woman and her twenty six year old song perished in army shelling side the embattled city self-defense forces took control of a military controlled checkpoint on confirm reports claim the army then launched a counterattack but lost twenty of its own soldiers while shouting close to the russian border saw a checkpoint hit by a mortar shell. hit hardest by the conflict are those who can't

fend for themselves as artie's miria for national find diet or french caught in the conflicts all. these care home for abandoned special needs children on the outskirts of the ganske aims to be an oasis of calm and tranquility. children here have food toys displaced importantly love. there are eighty six children they scare house all younger than three years old it's been a home and cosy home you have who are all of them that once war reached its walls it's no longer safe. mines and shells blend 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 lordship but honestly it's so hard actually more than half our kids cannot move

they're either too small or they have motor problems some have cerebral palsy they need special care and even if we want to evacuate and we need a very special place just like ours it's very hard to do. she was in atlanta as the mother herself tries to remain positive but it's no easy matter no one can say how dangerous it becomes when they start firing here an internet compelling saved in boss kids was launched to draw attention to this particular case as well as many all the orphanages 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. the funeral of a russian journalist killed in a military attack in eastern ukraine two weeks ago has been held in moscow the crew was filming the evacuation of civilians by self-defense fighters from

a dangerous area when a mortar shell hit them friends family and colleagues said their final farewells to twenty six year old. who is assigned to engineer for the receipt one t.v. channel he was killed instantly reporter look died later in hospital. this is the video of the attack filmed by the sole survivor the crew's camera man russian prosecutors say a leader of ukraine's national guard squad was involved the visions were for him to assist the regular army and the senior lecturer in international relations at most schools state universities they largely operate on their own. the government such as it is in kiev has very limited control it depends to a large extent still on the ultra 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 have attacked by an armed right sector mob and with complete impunity we have seen this repeatedly that they act they have individuals groups building 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 demand an end to the truce and the resumption of the military operation and these are they leave his pictures from ukraine's capital the crowd is currently on independence square which saw bloody government protests earlier this year nationalist flags can also be seen we'll be following a story that 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.

has once again expressed about those numbers 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 the united nations and there's this is an agency that you guys give millions and millions of dollars to and they're now well we don't have anything to back up that number matt. coming up a look at the deal that's firmly ukraine towards europe but other calls while western ukraine celebrates in the east people are dying in a civil conflict partly sparked by the very same thing and we've got about story later in the. polings to foreign minister has been secretly taped comparing his country's relationship with the u.s.

to a sexual act according to a leaked by a polish online magazine writer sikorsky believes his country is essentially pleasing america with little in return which according to him makes warsaw a loser in fact he says it gets worse not only is the alliance with america worthless but as alienated poland's biggest neighbors russia and germany moscow meanwhile was somewhat sympathetic to those comments saying the cross language was most likely response to similar hurtful comments made by the us deputy secretary of state so that would be great i think to help glue this thing and have the u.n. help glue it and you know be you but it's not just the u.s. the polish foreign minister is less than satisfied with sikorsky pulled no punches when speaking about the u.k. prime minister's dealings with euro skeptics suggesting david cameron bowed to pressure and went software and should have stayed strong. as if it wasn't enough

sikorsky went on to remember other times he believes cameron messed up saying he's not likely to change needless to say the embarrassingly frank diplomatic conversation has caused quite a stir this is just some of the commentators we've talked to this what they're seeing. let me start which is obvious far for everyone here in poland for most of the analysts as does the voice. by most of the population here actually it raises other troubling questions about the judgment of a man who is after all his country's chief diplomatic representative who aspires to be the chief diplomatic representative of the entire european union and the governments he has been so scathing about the governments of britain and the united states the very countries which have supported him throughout his career into which he owes so much i think it shows that there is a real awareness among the circles of power in poland as to what the relationship with the united states has really brought them which is nothing new or used for you

coming right up an hour to international including base hidden danger i saw a sense of migrants trying to reach israel through the sinai desert or unaware of the kidnapping gangs lying in wait. so as fears persist in the u.k. over an influx of romanian and bulgarian migrants some briton saab chosen to buck the trend unsettlingly east. syrian rebels could soon benefit from some half a billion dollars from the u.s. which runs the splash on their equipment and training following months of pressure from washington war hawks president obama asked congress to approve months of aid to the assad fighters just a year ago washington give a green light to non lethal aid to the so-called moderate rebels but the leader ended up in the hands of jihad this anyway and america was forced to suspend the aid for earlier this year american minute it's been covertly sending actual weapons

to the opposition and experts warn the u.s. has not learned by its own mistakes. let me start which is obvious far for everyone here in poland for most of the analysts as does the voice. by most of the population here actually it raises other troubling questions about the judgment of a man who is after all his country's chief diplomatic representative who aspires to be the chief diplomatic representative of the entire european union and the governments he has been so scathing about the governments of britain and the united states are the very countries which have supported him throughout his career is what you feel so much i think it shows that there is a real awareness among the circles of power in poland as to what the relationship with the united states has really brought them which is nothing iraq has learnt the hard way how u.s. aid can be used for all the wrong reasons some american hardware including several humvees are being used by extremists there the equipment was captured after the how

this took control of iraqi army to pose the extremists are continuing their advance in baghdad with fierce fighting around fifty kilometers from the capital. there's also the stirring evidence as to who is being forced to join the militants ranks as you can see in this video a boy used automatic rifles are traveling in an isis convoy some children are also reportedly being used as snipers the only going violence in iraq is pushing the country to the brink as lucy coffee off reports. despite the chaos spreading across the country and eerily calm in the kurdish capital the city is just sixty kilometers from the isis front line but a 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 moments now with the current crisis stretching 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 harvest would dare march on them. but i have full faith in the forces the one lets anything happen. for some the prospect of a divided iraq was a welcome one do you think that iraq will remain one country as we know it's after this crisis maybe we should maybe that iraq will have to be divided will have area and the sunnis and shias will have there is no one in kurdistan is more and we have oil we have a strong army. they may have 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.